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[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Troop Exploder is such a banger username

[–] Quaxamilliom@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

It really is. Every time I see it I get pissed off that I didn't think of it first.

[–] 4zi@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

i now understand why stalin wanted to just kill all the reactionaries

[–] Socialcreditscorr@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Better for who?":honk:

"BETTER FOR WHO?" MOTHERFUCKER?

:funny-clown-hammer: :big-honk:

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

why do you even consider yourself a socialist at that point? like, you look around at the immense suffering capitalism necessitates and you think "hm, we should stop that," but then you look at the empire built by and for the class that the whole system is designed to keep in power and you think that somehow they accidentally created a good, progressive global hegemon?

fuck i'm actually reading it and their reasoning is "yes, the US might not be perfect, but at least it crushed any possibility for international communism with brutal efficiency!" you're just a liberal man. you're just a normal liberal. your politics are not significantly different from those of your lib parents. you would knock on doors for kirsten gillibrand's campaign if she said please.

A single mom working at a bar contributes to drunk driving accidents, alcoholism, and domestic violence, but you'd never call out the workers as being the problem there, right?

Die

Because they're slightly annoyed by capitalism cutting into their own lives, usually just healthcare and education. Maybe violence/crime and homeless being visibly part of their communities/media, too. Maybe social depression and consumer goods becoming increasingly junk.

They have a handful of really specific issues (you know which ones) and they will not budge an inch left of that. They pick up the socialist rhetoric because that's where the energy's at for tackling social injustices on social media, but it's just tidbits of rhetoric, they not going to actually study marxism or take anything to heart.

[–] Zodiark@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're just Keynesian chauvinists in DSA clothing.

[–] Vncredleader@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Keynes and his consequences have been a disaster for the human race

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Keynes was the OG "I can fix her" dude but it was for capitalism instead of a problematic partner

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Vaush fans are conservatives who think wanting universal healthcare makes them a communist revolutionary.

[–] GenXen@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"But a line worker installing high voltage lines, is also responsible for bankrolling the rich factory owners that mistreat their workers."

"bankrolling"

[–] robinn@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Umm guys the proletariat kinda bankrolls the bourgeoisie so it's really their fault.