• I'm back on my BS 🤪
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    732 months ago

    Wasn’t it Lenin that said something about the bourgeoisie selling the proletariat the rope they would be hung with??

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      Does this mean whoever built your house can just walk in any time they please?

      EDIT +3 / -9 pretty much what I expected. Good job guys.

      • @Jiggle_Physics
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        122 months ago

        No. It means the group of laborers who built the house should get the brunt of the profit in building it.

      • @jorp
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        52 months ago

        LEFTISTS HATE THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK

  • @hark
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    322 months ago

    Just reach out and grab it.

    • @Agent641
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      182 months ago

      What are they gonna do, take it back? Good luck, I have a pitchfork!

  • andyburke
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    162 months ago

    If you can’t make a torch or pitchfork at home out of shit you have lying around, I don’t need you on my side in the revolution.

      • @Viking_Hippie
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        42 months ago

        I hear they named a pretty good one after the Soviet foreign minister during the Winter War…

      • @Agent641
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        32 months ago

        Tape a sparkler to a bell jar full of spicy dino juice for a safer, less leaky, and more windproof cocktail.

  • @bcgm3
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    2 months ago

    Welcome to Costco Globo-Mart. I love you.

    Welcome to Globo-Mart, I love you.

  • @Garbanzo
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    -92 months ago

    In California you can only buy torches and pitchforks that are approved by the state. Guess how many inexpensive ones are approved (lol, none). If you want to carry your torch or pitchfork outside of your house it either needs to be locked in a box or you need to buy a permit, which runs about $1200. There’s also a fee for a background check anytime you want to buy torch fuel, and they’re raising it by 500%.

    • @kofe
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      12 months ago

      Ok but to be fair, do you want it to be easier for idiots to burn your state down?

      Ok I typed that and immediately realized an idiot can probably still buy a Bic. Maybe… Maybe I’m an idiot

      • @Garbanzo
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        12 months ago

        I’m actually talking about guns, and yes, they should be easier to get. The government and the wealthy should concern themselves with improving material conditions to avoid unrest instead of trying to monopolize the capacity for violence.

        • @kofe
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          22 months ago

          Oh. Uh. I support access to firearms for things like environmental conservation, but people with them are more of a danger to themselves, including myself. I’ll support your right to defend yourself, but I won’t go down that road further mentally. Wish you the best though

  • @Carrolade
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    -112 months ago

    Torches and pitchforks became obsolete about a century ago anyway, the offshore bank account and private jet are too effective as counters. Now its boycotting and voting.

    • Fonzie!
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      152 months ago

      I’d say it’s nicked M-15’s in the US and 3D printed guns everywhere, nowadays

    • @Viking_Hippie
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      102 months ago

      Yeah, good luck voting your way out of a system that’s controlled by exactly the people you’re trying to get rid of…

      • @Carrolade
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        02 months ago

        Better luck than thinking you’ll have one of the few successful mass uprisings over one of the thousands that just gets crushed and gets like 2 sentences in a history book. Slow reform actually has a modest success rate, as we ourselves demonstrated under people like Teddy and FDR. Just not as sexy.

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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      52 months ago

      Ummmm, rioting always has been and still is on the menu.

      Boycotting and voting hasn’t worked that well in 4 decades, time to drag the owner class into the streets and remind them what happened to Rome and France.

      • @Carrolade
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        Now that deserves a good luck.

        Side note, this is not the first time rich people have taken over the country, incidentally. We’ve had to fix this before.