• Custoslibera@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    I’d recommend posting a tangentially political meme at some point on Lemmy.

    The amount of people who will come out of the woodwork to tell you ‘don’t post this’ and ‘don’t make things political’ will really be eye opening.

    People don’t want to address systemic issues and think not talking about them is a viable solution.

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        Don't even have to go THAT far, I get called a commie for saying a 40 hour work week should provide basic shelter these days. 🤷

        If we want to live in boring reality, it doesn't happen a LOT but way more than it should.

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              Those yachts provide jobs for the yacht builders and yacht operators of the world. Society needs these things far more than other things like basic human rights and dignity

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          I mean that was and is a basic communist agitating point, you might be closer to a communist than you think.

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            I don't know if this is supposed to be snarky or not but I've accepted a while ago that I'm definitely some version of "leftist."

            I don't see myself that way necessarily but capitalists are drawing their line in the sand so far to the right that it is what it is lmao

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                Gotcha. I've always seen myself as a centrist, not particularly anti capitalist, just into safety nets and less car centric infrastructure.

                Nowadays I get called a commie for talking about public transit, I'm a commie for the work comment, list goes on. I don't buy into your red scare bs guys, if that stuff makes me a commie then I'm a commie les fuckin gooooooo

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                  Ah, yeah, I used to be a social democrat too, but I did a lot of reading and I came to the conclusion that social democracy isn't really politically sustainable without the threat of communism, and it really isn't economically stable in the same way capitalism isn't as laid out in Capital (which is a good read btw, very dense but worth reading for the economic analysis)

                  Yeah anything gets you labeled a commie nowadays, McCarthyism is alive and well.

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      We do want adress systematic issues, just in the right communities. When i visis memes i wanna see funny memes. In dankmemes i wanna see dank memes. In NCD i wanna see non credible military stuff.

      That's the issue

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      Yeah, because we don't particularly fancy being lectured by teenagers on the Internet.