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  • Fuckass [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    The fact that so many anti communists portray communist as being anti American while retaining the 13 colonial stripes in the updated flag is always funny. It shows how little they know about the people they hate

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      The comic is also telling on how so many Americans (boomers at least) think communism is primarily about enforcing atheism and persecuting the religious.

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      If communists are not anti American, why do some of them say “death to America”? I’m genuinely curious, I’ve been trying to understand alternate perspectives but it is confusing reading some of the communist interactions on lemmy. Are they trying to be ironic, or are those just foreign propaganda trolls, or do some communists actually want to see a whole country burn, innocent children and all? Is it an inside joke that I just won’t get because I’m a “stupid lib”?

      • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.net
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        We are anti-america, they’re pointing out the irony of using the 13 stripes, referring to the original colonies, in a communist America fantasy.

        Also, it’s death to America, not death to Americans, i.e the military-industrial complex, exploitation of the global south, and related culture that masquerades as a country. Most people would rather that didn’t mean reducing the country to ash, but revolution and dissolution of the current state.

      • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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        America is the most evil entity the world has ever encountered in the history of time itself

        It has done more harm to more people in more ways than any other in the history of the world, and it’s still doing it now, poisoning the future of humanity

        Death to America

      • fuckiforgotmypasswor [comrade/them,any]@hexbear.net
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        “Death to America” doesn’t refer to killing every person in America, it refers to the death of a nation-state and the ideology it’s built upon.

        Leftists use this term to advocate for the abolition of things like: fascist police death squads that kill disproportionately lower income and black/brown people indiscriminately and with impunity, the ending of American imperialism that immiserates the entire world while poisoning our planet, the end of neoliberal institutions (which we created) that enforce structural inequality across the entire world (like the IMF), ending nuclear holocaust and weapons proliferation, the evisceration of the bourgeois class that has plundered and profiteered off the natural resources we need to survive, etc; all of which are hallmarks of American structure.

        Of course, too - to make an omelet, first you have to crack a few eggs.

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          Thanks, I do appreciate the explanation. Judging from the other responses, there are some differing opinions about it, so maybe a little of each.

      • BlueMagaChud [any]@hexbear.net
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        no, we’re definitely anti-amerikkkan, death to amerikkka, they’re saying that if we created a new flag it wouldn’t include any bourgeois atavisms such as the 13 settler colonial stripes. lol, is this a bit? no communist wants to see “a whole country burn, innocent children and all”, that’s what amerikkka does, in Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc., we want to see whole class of the bourgeoisie burn and their class collaborators to liberate the working class.

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          So if I say Death to Russia, everyone should know that I’m only referring to Putin and his ruling class of cronies, not the Russian people?

          • SaniFlush [any, any]@hexbear.net
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            We don’t like Putin either, but also when centrists say stuff like that they don’t mean it and would gladly watch an entire ethnicity die just so they could feel safer. It doesn’t come off as honest.

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              What is a centrist to you? I don’t think I am one. I’ve never voted for war nor ever wanted any ethnicity to die. But I don’t personally have any control over what my government does.

              • Biggay [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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                Do you want things to change? Does your organizing or actions in politics make conservatives mad and call you a red? then youre not a centrist.

                If you dont care about things and the conservatives call you a lib, youre probably a centrist.