Lmao

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    25 days ago

    Hussein. 😪

    They just love saying Obama’s middle name like it’s some kind of gotcha. What they don’t seem to get is it doesn’t mean anything unless you’re a racist piece of shit.

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        They love pretending loke Hitler, the universal symbol for evil, was a socialist. They fuckin’ love fascism and everything he did but they have to pretend like what they’re doing is different.

        They also have no idea what “liberal” means, but that’s the case with most words exceeding six letters.

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          Similar to socialists being in denial over how antisemitism can get them to go along with fascists. People on the fringes of politics tend not to be able to see themselves for what they are. Communists and Fascists are both authoritarian just with a slightly different grift. But when the fascists play up the greedy capitalist jew angle, the socialists jump on board with fascism along it with the rest of the useful idiots.

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            Are we playing the “socialism and communism are different things” game today? Because that’snnever fun.

            Authoritarians aren’t communists. They’re just appropriating the term.

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              Are we playing the anarchists and communists are the same thing game today? Communists absolutely can be authoritarian, anarchists can’t anarcho-communists aren’t but not all communists are true Scotsman anarcho-communists

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    25 days ago

    Hahah - I thought this was a joke, I can’t believe it’s a real thing. It reads like an angry fundie 14yo wrote it.

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      24 days ago

      Largely written by and for right wing angry fundie home schoolers. You’re not wrong.

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    25 days ago

    Stalin was totally a lib tho

    “We can’t do communism, we have to keep the state and enact a series of slow reforms. Also jail all the gays”

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      Eh, I dunno that I’d actually characterize him as a liberal so much as him being an authoritarian that just pushed whatever happened to serve him at any point. Kinda in the same vein of fascists not having any economic ideology, just whatever serves their ideal of the state at any given moment. So yeah, I certainly agree with your sentiment that Stalin certainly was not a communist, but more because he only cared about gaining/maintaining power rather than actually subscribing to any economic theory.

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        Stalin was by most accounts a true believer in Marxism-Leninism. There are simply too many unforced ideological-caused errors for it to be anything else, like Lysenkoism rejecting Mendelian genetics because the fascists loved it and it raised questions of eugenics.

        The Stalinist economic plans were thoroughly Marxist. The problem there (as far as Stalin’s true believer status is concerned) was not ideological.

        He was just a drunk, paranoid, murderous asshole. Socialists simply don’t like admitting that they’re as vulnerable to hypocrisy and corruption as anyone else.

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    Conservapedia, like the incel wiki, are windows into parallel universes and both are proof, that ours isn’t the worst timeline after all.

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    24 days ago

    Why do they list Hitler as their enemy, when their own selected Führer obviously idols him?

  • RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world
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    “Hitler was a socialist! It was in the name!” “China is communist! It’s in the name!” “North korea is communist! It’s in the name!”

    “Kamala harris is a communist! She is with the democratic party, but that does not mean she is one. 🤡” “Trumps wouldbe-assassin was not a republican. He might be registered as such, but that does not suit my agenda 🤡.” “Everything i read or hear, i see as fact or not based on what helps me most 🤡”

    These people are absolute fucking clowns and it’s impossible to talk or argue with them because they are not grounded in reality. It is exhausting.

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      I can’t imagine being a voting-age adult and not immediately understanding that these people are full of shit? You don’t even need to know what specific words mean to see what they’re doing. It’s so fucking dumb and childish.

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        I can’t imagine being a voting-age adult and not immediately understanding that these people are full of shit?

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead–crime_hypothesis

        Try huffing leaded car fumes for 20 years first. Then immerse yourself in Reagan-Era propaganda for the next 20. Finally, miss out on the biggest bull market in history because you put all your retirement savings in canned tuna and collectible gold coins like all your very wealthy online friends told you to.

        Now you’re in your late 60s, your kids and grandkids never talk to you, you’re scrapping by on Social Security after five years of killer inflation, and all you can do every day is sit in a dingy suburban ranch house watching “Mexican Muslims Have Caravaned The Border And Stolen Our Jobs” every waking hour.

        There’s a Trump rally in town. All your friends are going. And the booze is free. Who are you voting for in November?

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      Could you imagine of Adolf Hitler named and said thjngs that were lies with the purpose of manipulating people and getting in power? Thankfully, we live in a timeline where he cant lie

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      Always create an in group and an out group, these labels aren’t meant to be accurate for them, they don’t care, they just want to have a word for those people there who we don’t like and dehumanize them, if they could they’d just use the N word for everyone

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    Every single republican is also a liberal. It’s the dominant ideology of capitalism and its state.

    The difference is that the liberalism of republicans is more “classic” in that it’s heavily mixed with racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, classism, etc.

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          Free market Capitalists dislike the population being able to make/recognize the distinction. Because there’s a certain kind of “Liberal” who are only Liberals when Liberalism economically benefits them, but become Conservatives (and even radically right wing Conservatives) when Socially Democratic policies, or talk of taxing wealth becomes popular.

          Donald Trump, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and others have all worn the mask of a “Liberalism” that refuses to to make this distinction (between social and economic liberalism).

          A Liberal who is an economic liberal but doesn’t seek progressive improvements to society, isn’t a liberal at all. They’re a conservative in waiting for the moment things progress too far.

          Thus leftists are served by keeping this distinction in mind. Learn it. Recognize who will kick up a fuss and change teams, and remember that they have a limited use, and will eventually go no further (or worse, become a major hindrance). You need an exit strategy for those people.

          Otherwise progress gets maligned in the name of maintaining the ‘status quo’.

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          Historically it used to be used like: “I’m socially liberal but a fiscal conservative”

          The reality is that translated to: “I want to fund everything I want but never give money or resources to people that aren’t like me”… good old institutional racism and bigotry with a nice facade

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      Modern socialism is made up of people that get hard over the thought of leading a worker’s revolution while being completely incapable of having a conversation with anyone in the working class.

      Like what’s the goal in redefining terminology to be different from common usage? It’s not enticing anyone in the working class to join your movement, that’s for sure. Most people don’t even understand what the hell the average socialist is even talking about at this point.

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        I agree we can get up our own asses with the terminology, but in this case just skimming the Wikipedia page will reveal that the concept of liberalism encompasses almost all dominant political parties’ philosophies.

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      No no no. This is Adolf Hitler [bad, because National Socialism Volkswagon Bailout Lost The War].

      You’re thinking of Adolf Hitler [good, because Based Chad Hates Immigrants Retvrn To Tradition].

      Two totally different guys.

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      Their opinions on reality are not consistent. They will warp their minds into whatever twisted shape is required if they get to hurt the “other” (whoever that happens to be this cycle)

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        Their opinions on reality are not consistent.

        I’m constantly reminded of that 90s (I think) country song. “You’ve Got to Stand for Something or You’ll Fall for Anything.”

        Many of them just keep falling for the next lie, even while the previous lies are being corrected. They never stop for a minute and think the place they are getting their info from is bad.

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        When it comes to their opinion of Hitler, their mind is shaped like an unbalanced dumbbell. He’s a hero and a villain at the same time, but he’s really only going to stay a villain to them for as long as it is necessary.

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    You just gotta love how Richard Dawkins comes before Hitler, Stalin, and Mao…

    “Yeah the guy brings facts to the table, can’t have that, that’s the worst, that’s like worse than Hitler, man!”

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    If you call yourself a “conservative” you’re either a fascist or a liberal that just isn’t quite there yet.