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None of these numbers really seem to add up to what’s in the meme.

Edit: although, what if we killed one billionaire for every school kid that got shot, whether the child died or not. That might work?

if billionaires got shot as often as school children

^the meme beat you to it lol

Though good job trying to find those numbers (genuinely)

I didn’t dig too deep on the stats for school shootings (because oof), but thankfully we’re not there.

The post says "shot" not "killed". I've only done a superficial search, but looks like

Each day 12 children die from gun violence in America. Another 32 are shot and injured.

aource

So the post is only off by what, a week or two?

E: assuming that the 12 killed are also counted in the 32 shot, otherwise the meme is underestimating it. (E2: which, reading again, is an assumption I shouldn't be making because it clearly says that another 32 are injured, so yeah, we're there)

Be the change you want to see in the world ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah, I figured from the context that wasn't your intent, but thought you should be aware so you can avoid any misunderstanding in future..

This gave me a good chuckle, thanks 😂

He ends that last reply with "no more spending taxpayer dollars, that era is over!" which is a pretty good indication that there very much is politics to it (so I agree with you, but also he isn't even trying to hide it, so I don't see him trying to defend himself by pretending he doesn't support their politics)

Technically, and in theory maybe, and even then only if the majority of business are actually owned by the state, but not in reality, and definitely not in China (or NK, or the USSR, or anywhere else claiming to be socialist, never mind communist) lol

Yup.

I've had piles of tankies try to convince me that the workers in China are in fact the ones in control of the government (no mention of the means of production though 🤔), and that shit like there being over 90 million members of the party is evidence of that (rather than of oh, I donno, a dictatorship?)..

It's the oldest trick in the fascist book, hell, the father of fascism himself made the exact same move - started on the left, then co-opted and distorted its ideas to gain power for himself and his in group, and it's their favourite trick because it fucking works, because as a society we have been indoctrinated by those in power for a good couple of thousands of years that we NEED someone in power to survive, which again, is completely antithetical to actual leftist ideas (and human nature).

It would be funny if it wasn't so dangerously effective.

Na, this shit annoys me so much..

Tankies AREN'T communists.

The core of communism is having a stateless, classless, moneyless society.

None of them want that, nor did any of the states they support achieve it.

What they are is authoritarian bootlickers (which by definition is a concept that cannot coexist with communism) LARPING as communists to try and gain support and with it power for themselves and their authoritarian ways.

Tankies love to whine about how calling them that gives communism a bad name, but it isn't us calling them what they are which does that, it's their insistence of co-opting and hiding behind communism in the same way Xi does, and in the same way Hitler did with socialism (and even in the same way western nations co-opt the idea of democracy, or worse socialised democracy, to hide the fact that they are oligarchies) that is what gives communism its bad name (along with McCarthyism of course, but at least they're not trying to claim they are the thing they behave antithetically to)

Perhaps instead of insisting society continue to repeat the same mistake over and over and over and over and over again by playing by the rules and within the framework set out and created for us by our oppressors to maintain their own power, try thinking outside of the box they've indoctrinated you in to?

Doesn't seem like you meant anything by it in this context, but fyi:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses

Train them to what? Retroactively scrub their presence off the internet? Off of the government records? Impossible.

Really not sure what point you're trying to make with Nazis and ice cream, but either way, laws don't exist to protect citizens, and going forward, they are being written to actively harm them.

Expecting the law to protect you is a huge privilige.