• @[email protected]
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      ?

      I read it as specifically criticising NIMBYs and suburban redlining/urban sprawl.

      Because obviously that’s what turning people off, not their full throated support of Putin’s invasion and “protest voting” to put a fascist in office.

  • @[email protected]
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    Meanwhile, I can’t, for the life of me, understand why anyone would want to be communist rather than being a libertarian socialist or anarchist. Unless they think that they’re the ones that will be telling people what to do, rather than be the ones getting told what to do?

    • @chonglibloodsport
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      They go around calling people bootlickers. That’s projection. They fantasize about cozying up to Stalin and his jackbooted thugs. It’s the same fantasy as the one shared by Curtis Yarvin, Peter Thiel, and their neofeudalist followers. Same goes for all the MAGA morons, the Putinist Z radicals, the 50 cent army, and countless other authoritarian groups.

      The world is a very complicated, dangerous, and frankly scary place right now. When people are unable to cope with all the uncertainty they reach for a strongman. This leaves the rest of us Ambiguity tolerant folks to actually try to deal with all the insanity, or to keep our heads down.

    • @[email protected]
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      M-Ls generally hold to the idea that revolution is necessary and M-L is, pretty indisputably, the most successful ideology at launching a worker’s revolution.

      Keeping Da Revolushion socialist is something I assume they think they’ll be able to do a better job at, if they’re not just in full on tankie denial.

    • @[email protected]
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      Yeah, I’m also libertarian and generally a bit to the left of mainstream libertarianism, and I honestly don’t understand why anyone would legitimately be on the more authoritarian end of the spectrum.

      I appreciate that just plugging in libertarianism today could be bad, but surely most people want fewer people telling them what to do, right?

      • @[email protected]
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        You would think. I mean, that’s the whole principle behind things like reproductive rights, or LGBTQ+ rights, isn’t it? The freedom to control your own body without the government telling you what you can and can’t do with it, as long as you aren’t directly harming someone else? And yet. Ignore the fact that Stalin et al. almost always had purges of LGBTQ+ people, and that the rights of women were–and are in current Russia–sharply curtailed.

  • @B312
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    -Hates anyone who isn’t a complete believer in the “cause” -Praises genocidal countries like USSR and China who killed millions -Absolute dicks and generally people who irritate others “wHY DoES nO ONe LIkE uS?1?1”

  • Maple Engineer
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    I tried to read that shit and am definitely dumber for it.

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      I question if they’re even communists, considering most commie-spaces throw them out, and I’ve never actually seen them talk about communism in the modern day.

      • @[email protected]
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        Marxist-leninist is the term they use (.ml) which should be called stalinism as that’s it’s ideological father.

        If called out they can confront with huge diatribes with often ready maar copy pastes from red sails.

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            Easily sucked in an information funnel that’s very hard core. This is not unique. In the nineteenth century some hard core communists bored against help for laborers, as they felt it would happen their appetite for revolution.

            Mostly salon communists, mind you.

          • YeetPics
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            46 hours ago

            Inability to create honest discourse. It’s why they rely on copy-paste responses for most comments and an image macros of a pig shitting on its own balls when you really get them cornered in a fallacy.

            • ArxCyberwolf
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              Also why they rely on brigading/“dunking”. It shuts down any real discussion and makes it clear they’re out of actual arguments.

    • @Sootius
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      No! It’s actually a real fun and friendly place.

  • @PugJesusM
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    I wonder if it’s because they realize that roleplaying revolutionaries does nothing to advance the working class, and that the main job right now is to pull the populace left and organize labor so there CAN be a sustainable socialist future, not to live out your wildest ML fantasies where you get to shoot all the anarchists and exile all the Whites?