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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Yeah quite a large portion of lemmings are politically insane. It's either 'burn the rich, overthrow the government' or 'Maybe the windmill party has a valid point'

Like why can't people just be chill and get along

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hey now, don’t go lumping “eat the rich” in with these crazies. I can hate tankies and hate our growing wealth inequalities

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

eat the rich? I bet they would taste funny but I am open to the idea

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

You are thinking of clowns.

The rich have been fattened up for decades and massaged on a weekly basis. Their meat is juicy and tender.

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

They taste like infinite free healthcare so you know that meat is fucking Premium Kobe grade shit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

A rich diet is sectarian-agnostic on the left

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Communists are the only way to solve that wealth inequality

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

God that would be a depressing thought. Thankfully, a tankie’s idea of communism is in fact not the only solution, we need only look at democratic socialist countries like Denmark.

I think it’s fine for people to be rich. I don’t think it’s fine for that to be at the expense of the poor to such a ridiculous magnitude that the wealth has long become moot for that individual’s quality of life:

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

we need only look at democratic socialist countries like Denmark

Sure helps when Europe benefits from literally trillions of dollars a year in net extraction from the global south

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937802200005X

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

Thanks for the sauce! The Nordic argument gets used far too often by center-leftists in the core imperial countries because they already assume a level of available wealth which can only be sustained by the exploitation of the colonized rest of the world.

The greed of the rich will never be sated. They may retreat or bide their time but they will come back for more, until they have sucked every drop of your blood.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just wanted to point out that Denmark is a Social Democracy, not Democratic Socialist. The vast majority of the economy is fully Capitalist, paying for Social Programs isn't Socialism, Worker Ownership of the Means of Production is.

If you want to argue for Social Democracy, go for it, but don't pretend it's actually Socialism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Denmark

Only communists in the US are calling for nationalization of oil. About 75% of Denmark's oil is nationalized and lets them fund social programs. Liberals in the US would never accept that.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, the people "being chill and getting along" (i.e. just keeping the status quo going) is nowadays supporting a genocide,so...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Like why can’t people just be chill and get along

I think the hurtling toward climate crises has a lot of people desperate for governments to actually do something to help assuage it, not make it worse.

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

Well put! I love this place and have had some good discussions but I've also seen a lot of teenage political craziness and had that "oh, I'm talking to a lunatic or a child" sensation more often than I'd have liked to.

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

teenage political craziness

That's a much more accurate description

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I suspect we needed a baseline level of insane to not just threaten to jump Reddit, but actually follow through on it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's insane not to leave, but there's certainly a baseline level of "gives a fuck"