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Freedom of what? Freedom from public healthcare? Freedom to harass minorities? Freedom to exploit the working class?

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[–] aidnic@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Freedom to be oppressed, duh. You tankies are so dumb lol, true freedom is being oppressed by your bosses who float in the spoils of your labour. Stupid tankies, you can't understand this concept of "freedom" so imagined by our greatest founding father who brought upon it heaven on earth, as chosen messiahs of God, with such revolutionary ideas of freedom unlike those stinky brown and yellow people who think freedom is not being subjugated by foreign powers, and their own bosses, while they continue to practice their wicked ideology of "Communism". /s (Although it's not unreasonable to believe that libs will think this way)

[–] pyska@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 years ago

Nonono, not freedom to be oppressed. It's the freedom TO oppress! The freedom of oppression. That's how they see things. They don't like being oppressed as well, but they don't care about that so long as they're not the ones drawing the short end of the stick. Even if they knew of better ways to live, they still prefer the stick to be there, in a rigged way, so they can not only practice their freedom to oppress others, but prevent you from taking this freedom away from them.

However, bootlickers are different, because they have no power. So they are also oppressed. But the bootlicker, he wants to be oppressed because if nobody were there to be oppressed, in the rare occasion he finds himself with power, he will have nobody to freely oppress with it! So he will try to convince others that suffering is good actually. He needs others to suffer with him, otherwise he would be a fool, suffering alone and with no hope of ever becoming the oppressor.

I don't know that all of them think this way, but this would be the only way for it to make sense. Of course, they won't give the game away. They will try to rope you in with them.

Freedom, to oppress.

[–] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 2 years ago

Pick one:

  • Freedom of speech for fascists, freedom for businesses to exploit workers, freedom for reactionaries to flout the law
  • Freedom from homelessness, freedom from hunger, freedom from crushing medical bills
[–] EuthanatosMurderhobo@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Freedom of what? Freedom from public healthcare? Freedom to harass minorities? Freedom to exploit the working class?

That reminds me of how the 90-s in Russia were once described on r/AskARussian. Freedom to kill, steal, think of what you're gonna feed your kids tomorrow and freedom to attack border towns for certain ~~FREEDOM fighters~~ terrorists.

It is a frustratingly persistent illusion. Thanks, philosophical idealism. People are too caught up in thinking how they might have whatever if they just try hard enough to notice that the game is rigged and that the game presupposes someone is gonna get robbed. And that someone is most people.

[–] nemesis@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 2 years ago

Capitalists love to use floating signifiers to galvanize reactionaries of different stripes

[–] Raul@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 years ago

🐍 Gadsden flags everywhere. Its a settler 🐷 country.

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