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It's all about the phrasing (infosec.pub)

submitted 3 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/tankiejerk@lemmy.world

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[–] workerONE@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

Throw a MAGA hat on him and flip it around so he's happy about Musk and Bezos

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Jokes on them, the commies worked their asses off and still didn't eat.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

It's really all about the intent of the leader, whatever the system.

[+] PotatoLibre@feddit.it -26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There was a time when being a communist or an eroin addicted was still acceptable and people didn't know about the consequences.

If you still play with those things in 2025 you must be terminally stupid (ex Italian commie here).

That said, in murica communism is often a really overstreched word

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

We hate tankies here. Many of us are communists or communist-sympathetic, just not the kind of bastardized bullshit that the Soviets and PRC spread.

[+] PotatoLibre@feddit.it -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You don’t have a minimal idea what you are talking about.

I think we're on the same page, here. This place is against the "Soviets good, China good" mindset. I voted for Bernie, twice, and I admire the man.

[–] PotatoLibre@feddit.it -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Exactly.

Routing for real communism is stuff for frustrated people, in 2025 we're living not that bad, that kind of frustration is just for wannabes and posers.

Routing for real communism means taking away the keys from a motherfucker and give them to another.

Difference?

The capitalists mf has a vague idea the businesses is ruling, the communist hasn't.

Look at Mao's history, is the most savage display of ineptitide in the humans history.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Lol ok because what you know is the only information that exists about communism and literally no one else on earth has had any other experience than yours.

For someone that's 45 you have a very narrow and immature view of things. You sound like this guy I know from Chile who always complains about socialism. Turns out, his family was able to own and operate one of the country's only car dealerships after Pinochet took over. Did their lives get better? Sure, but that doesn't mean Pinoche and capitalism was better for the rest of the country than Allende and socialism.