EDIT: no, I don’t sympathize with nazis (neither I sympathize with those who call everyone nazi when they’re losing an argument ;)

  • @[email protected]
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    251 year ago

    Here’s a comment thread where a Hexbear user said “I hope to kill people like you” because I simply said I supported democratic socialism.

    Going on any Hexbear instance people froth over telling anyone right of Karl Marx to “get up against the wall”. You guys are, and will always be, a joke.

    • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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      261 year ago

      If course you would, like a good little authoritarian.

      In my ideal society I’d give people like you the freedom you deserve.

      This you?

    • AlpineSteakHouse [any]
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      251 year ago

      You said you supported Social Democracy not Democratic Socialism. Dem Socs are well-meaning but idealistic, not optimistic but the political philosophy of idealism. Soc Dems are supporters of a kinder capitalism for the Imperial core but keeping the child slaves mining cobalt in the Congo.

      The fact that you think these are the same proves the original posters point that you should read theory. They were harsh but you were implying that keeping exploitation of the third world is preferable to socialism.

      Dude you still don’t stop worker exploitation, don’t solve the contradiction of working and capitalist classes, don’t end imperialism or colonialism (social democracy outsources exploitation to the third world)

      Ok let me know how your method works out

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        You said you supported Social Democracy not Democratic Socialism.

        What a terrible mistake to make! Perhaps you should have assumed it was the correct orientation of the two words that are spelled exactly the same.

        The fact that you think these are the same proves the original posters point that you should read theory.

        I have, but thanks for the suggestion.

        • CarbonScored [any]
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          Assuming people are using words in the way they are widely and commonly accepted to mean (I mean, just look at Wikipedia for an easy starting point) is not a bad thing?

            • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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              121 year ago

              I’m innudated with endless notifications from you dweebs, mistakes happen.

              People keep telling me that I shit my pants based off the way I smell and the growing brown stain on my pants but they’re all tankies because they’re all wrong

          • @[email protected]
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            01 year ago

            Maybe we can assume people got terminology wrong and not immediately jump to death wishes?

          • @[email protected]
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            41 year ago

            What incredible insight. The word ‘social’ is referring to ‘socialism’ and so is the relation between ‘democracy’ and ‘democratic’.

            It would take an idiot to mix these up, right?

            • AlpineSteakHouse [any]
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              21 year ago

              The word ‘social’ is referring to ‘socialism’ and so is the relation between ‘democracy’ and ‘democratic’.

              I guess social security = socialism security in your world? Social welfare programs are not socialism and if your political education included anything beyond Elizabeth Warren’s policy page you’d know that.

              • @[email protected]
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                41 year ago

                No, social policies are not socialism, however, they do generally benefit the working class.

                You guys are so worried about centrists that you are ignoring the fact that the US had a far right coup attempt less than three years ago.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    21 year ago

                    No it has not been far right since 1776. I guess when you make up facts it’s easy to prove your point though.

                    By the way, when’s the glorious peoples revolution supposed to begin? More importantly, where are the people???

        • AlpineSteakHouse [any]
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          81 year ago

          What a terrible mistake to make! Perhaps you should have assumed it was the correct orientation of the two words that are spelled exactly the same.

          Your beef is with the English Language not me. How is it my fault that you misidentified yourself? Funnily enough, you still don’t identify your actual political position. It’s clear that the only political position you’d take is what gives you an advantage in the argument. Fucking debatebros lol.

          I have, but thanks for the suggestion.

          Reading so much theory that you confuse two different political ideologies. Sometimes I read so much theory that that I claim to be a monarchist when I really mean to say I’m an anti-monarchist. Obviously the other person should have understood what I meant. Your literally on a communication medium that allows you to plan and edit your comments. You have no excuse for making this grade school mistake.

          • @[email protected]
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            Debatebro? That’s what Hexbear does best.

            I would actually love to engage in good faith discussions, but Hexbear users only operate in bad faith, particularly by sealioning. Like clockwork, you don’t engage in ideas but rather give reading assignments.

            I’ve read Das Kapital and agree with virtually all the premises about how society is unfair to those who actually generate the surplus value and think that we need to fix a system that breaks cyclically, as Karl Marx correctly predicted in volume I. The only solutions I’ve seen presented are a total revolution a la 1917, which occured before globalization. Anything close to this in the current globalized world will kill at minimum hundreds of millions globally due to interdependence on products that Marx would consider “needs”, such as medications and medical equipment like dialysis machines.

            The difference between you and me is that I’d rather work to reestablish democracy away from capital interests. I don’t want a dictatorship, I want a functional democracy. Propaganda is often used to disillusion the working class from democracy, and if you don’t vote in elections then you are clearly part of the problem.

            Edit: Lmao. Citing"theory" gets crickets from the people who endlessly say “you just haven’t read theory”. It’s like they don’t know what to do with someone who reads to understand, rather than “reading” just to virtue signal.

            • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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              31 year ago

              reading" just to virtue signal.

              Lmao peak angry chud solipsism. “I would never read except to lord it over others, so that must be what these commies are doing.”

            • DPRK_Chopra [comrade/them]
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              11 year ago

              This is a childish understanding of the theory you purport to have studied. What’s your concrete proposal to “reestablish democracy away from capital interests” that has actually worked?

              I don’t want a dictatorship

              We do. It’s called a dictatorship of the proletariat and it’s actually worked.

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                  Cuba, China, USSR all saw massive gains in just about every measurable metric post revolution because they adhere to the theory that says you have to work to actively suppress the worst urges of the ownership class, aka the people who destroyed the biosphere and possibly life on earth for short term gains. The liberal rely your probably already wanting to type is to whinge about how these systems still had their flaws, arent perfect utopias, are authoritarian (yes, against capital) etc, but at least they get results and aren’t idealism, but actual application of a rigorous program.

    • Mindfury [he/him]
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      161 year ago

      because I simply said I supported democratic socialism.

      so you promoted violence first?
      i’m failing to see your complaint here

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        I support what are realistic policies actually will push the status quo in the direction you want.

        Larping on the internet waiting for a revolution to occur seems like a nice fantasy.

          • @[email protected]
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            There are numerous democratic socialists who are in Congress, you just aren’t paying attention.

            Run for office. There have been many spoilers from genuine grassroots campaigns. Don’t want to do either? Keep coping and seething online.

            • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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              The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. Entryism always ends up changing the entrant instead of the system. We are revolutionary socialists.

              • @[email protected]
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                31 year ago

                It’s clear you never studied US politics if you think that is remotely true. The Gilded Age and the Great Depression briefly pushed America away from corporate interests towards policy that benefited the working class. We averted overt fascism a la the Business Plot and the ratfucking that Smedley Butler disclosed while being the most badass anti-capitalist ever.

                You’re not a revolutionary socialist, you’re a larper who won’t do anything to better the world other than wait for this revolution like it’s the second coming of Christ.

                You guys are the QAnon of the left.

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                I’m not sure if you are aware of this, but the Allende thing is more a US intervention problem that a democratic socialism problem. Certainly Mohammad Mosaddegh would agree.

                • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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                  Wow, you mean the US will just destroy you no matter how much you play by their rules, and that all that handwringing about evil communism is just bad-faith obfuscation from the world-eating vampire class to mislead their billions of victims? Wild.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        So socialism, if it has any degree of democracy to it, which is kind of essential to socialism, is evil in your eyes.

        What version of decision making is acceptable in socialism then?

        Just one party rule?

    • @[email protected]
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      91 year ago

      Extreme violence is still violence. Industrial violence on a massive scale is still violence. You are advocating for violence, terrible violence, and then getting upset someone else advocated for comparatively mild violence.