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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How so? How is being against AES not anti-comminist?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why does AES always seems to end up with forced labor camps? I don't remember forced labor camps being a central part of socialist ideology...

A country can call itself socialist, that doesn't make it so.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So the arbiter of what is socialist is you? Not the revolutionaries who have actually worked on socialist projects

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, I can have an opinion on socialism without having been a socialist-revolutionary. That is correct. Spot on.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sure you can have an opinion, but if its about something you know nothing about, and have not investigated then it is worthless. Not just to other people, but to yourself as well

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know you are, but what am I?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

no-choice I now have no choice but to abandon communism

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What have you actually done to help socialism then?

Are you a union organiser? Are you in a union? Which one? What party are you in? What projects do you support? What are you actually doing as a socialist? Other than voting for a liberal party every few years I mean.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My partner is a teacher and is in a union. We are both active in organizing and supporting. There are no unions for the industry I work in, so I work with hers.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Then you should know better than this bullshit, because you would be working with several of us. There is definitely not a teaching union that is not filled with MLs, education in particular has the highest number of us.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

As opposed to you/hexbear being sole arbiters?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So America is AES? We lead the world in prision labor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

America bad does not imply China good.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

China doing good in the world while America does bad does imply that though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Cause you can hate one thing but like an other version.

The world is not black and white.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Been thinking about getting one so I can just regurgitate trite Redditisms and feel content contributing nothing to the minds of others.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How you like communism and hate communism at the same time? Its not black and white thinking, its just basic reality