Anon discusses politics

This is incredibly wrong. Bring a right-wing person from 50-60 years ago to today and he would get along with modern rightwingers because their core values are mostly the same and they still defend and want same things.

On the other hand, bring a leftist from idk 3-4 years ago to today and he would be called nazi by modern leftists.

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stylepoints99@reddit

I think you're conflating leftists and democrats.

"Leftists" haven't changed.

However, "leftists" are becoming more popular and are making up more of the democrat party.

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Kaleb8804@reddit

The only establishment they’re conserving is “not progressivism”

The modern right wing doesn’t actually stand for anything besides Trump.

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7jinni@reddit

It's literally the reverse of the image. The left-wingers have gone more and more extremely to the left such that the Overton Window is now the extreme-left of two decades ago and the new extreme-left are literally self-avowed Marxist revolutionaries. Meanwhile, the centrists of two decades ago that haven't changed their views at all are now routinely called far-right Nazis for daring to have a milquetoast opinion that doesn't devoutly echo Marxist talking points. You can't even just not have an opinion; you must agree and emphatically praise them for their views or you're a hyper-far-right ultra-fascist turbo-Nazi. They've gone completely insane, pushing normal people — let alone more conservative types — to the fringes of political discussion. And then the Marxists have the gall to make claims like the above which are just flat-out inversions of reality. And they know it and don't care because they'll literally do anything to win; lying and protection is their bread and butter.

"My only principle is winning." — Vaush, proudly self-avowed Marxist, quoted verbatim.

They're all exactly the same.

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Vegetable_Safety@reddit

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Neither-Phone-7264@reddit

I mean theres a difference between like a centrist and someone who looks like a centrist compared to those extremes lmfao

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nsaisspying@reddit

Wow, Very profound! but, don't you know that communism has never failed?

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shiny_xnaut@reddit

Communism succeeds by definition, so if it fails, then it was actually never real communism in the first place

Checkmate libtarf

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weicheschweine@reddit

AcUaLlY iT nEvEr FaIlEd CaUsE iT wAsNt rEaLlY tRiEd 🤓🤓🤓

Nevertheless the concept is still stupid and not enforceable regardless how much u dream about it at night

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nsaisspying@reddit

gif

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PeterPorty@reddit

You should play Disco Elysium.

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maracujas_amarelos@reddit

?

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0c_099@reddit

Yes, it literally is.

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ImAnGenius@reddit

Normies must fight to the death so the ultra rich can get even richer, its very simple

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Automatic_Day5460@reddit

Why do the damn normies love Amazon delivery, Steam games, and Starlinks more than the sacred and most holy methheads rifling through their cars at night?

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UncleVolk@reddit

Finally someone who gets it

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HighZein@reddit

Why are you questioning him, bro? Didn't you see he's user handle? Bro's a genius

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Evergroen@reddit

Talking to people in the real world reveals that these social media circles are just echo chambers of like minded people jerking eachother off.

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lllGrapeApelll@reddit

Tell that to the Mensa table in the break room.

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NetStaIker@reddit

Get on extreme u loser ass fence sitter

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JuiceInhaler@reddit

Glowie

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SaddamIsBack@reddit

Bitchass

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Snirion@reddit

You need to jump in the box and be told what to think, otherwise you're bitchass centrist, because if you don't fit in any box people who sit in their boxes will put you in the box anyway.

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Automatic_Day5460@reddit

the 90-9-1 Rule (or the 1% Rule). Coined by internet researcher Jakob Nielsen, it describes "participation inequality" in online communities, stating that 90% of users only view content, 9% contribute occasionally (e.g., commenting), and just 1% create almost all the active content.

Internet discourse is mostly generated by people with too much time on their hands (disaffected losers).

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Snirion@reddit

Makes sense, all the content is consumed by winners doomscrolling.

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ron4232@reddit

Based on

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Strive_for_Altruism@reddit

Centrist gang

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theduderedditorguy@reddit

"centrist" Looks inside Leftist

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Ok_Independence_2630@reddit

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hairyballsinmybutt@reddit

Oh my goodness, a centrist, what will we ever do?

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UncleVolk@reddit

If not having severe schizophrenia is being a centrist you can call me a centrist too lmao

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31rdy@reddit

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31rdy@reddit

Someone gimme the cat image

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AmaterasuWolf21@reddit

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Yeseylon@reddit

No, no, we still didn't administer the true test

u/ImAnGenius, what flavor Gatorade you want?

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Pumpkin_Sushi@reddit

Based Centrist Anon

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BaconDragon69@reddit

Based and true

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Hau65@reddit

fed

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jsm85@reddit

/pol/ is short for politically incorrect, not politics.

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staybehind23@reddit

Awaiting the Reddit ACHKTUALLLYYY:s.

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Olliekay_@reddit

one of my absolute fucking favorite things about this app is that people, on reddit, actively using reddit - will unironically go "just wait until the redditors get here"

buddy..

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The_Law_of_Pizza@reddit

A strong linguistic point, but you know what he means.

Terminally online progressives who functionally control the biggest front-page subreddits.

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Olliekay_@reddit

Perhaps I'm lucky, but as much as I'm told about thsse people being everywhere and unavoidable, I hear about them more then I actually witness and interact with them

I mean, I could go searching and find them in about 30 seconds, but I could find a lot of things I don't care for or don't want to see in 30 seconds

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The_Law_of_Pizza@reddit

Well we aren't exactly talking about going to find them in the deep corners of the web here.

Just go to Politics. Or News. Or Law. Then say something completely benign and normal like:

I think that Israel is being overly broad and aggressive in their response to October 7, but I also recognize that they're dealing with an interactive terrorism problem and that Hamas are using human shields.
I support trans peoples' right to transition and live their lives as they see fit. It's only polite, so I'll do my best to use their preferred pronouns. But the girls sports thing is probably going too far, and some of the neopronoun stuff is sort of loopy and attention seeking.

See how fast you attract attention and/or get permabanned.

I was permabanned with no prior warnings for saying almost word for word that second paragraph.

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snizarsnarfsnarf@reddit

Lol you wouldn't get banned for either of those comments

The Israel comment is only normal if you aren't aware of any of the history of Israel, the history of Gaza or even the history of the founding of Hamas (supported by Israel to become the government of Gaza). If you went on worldnews and made your comment you'd get a bunch of hasbara accounts telling you that Israel's response has been the most measured response in history

The trans women in sports thing is so minor, happens on such a small scale, that even making that comment in the first place and continuing to think about it gives insights into your leanings. In K-12 int the US there are 5 total identified trans women athletes, in college sports it's less than 50 and most aren't even particularly good

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Wampalog@reddit

Congrats, you've proved their point.

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snizarsnarfsnarf@reddit

Peak reddit comment right here

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The_Law_of_Pizza@reddit

Lol you wouldn't get banned for either of those comments

I literally did.

I'm also not interested in your progressive purity testing and political views.

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snizarsnarfsnarf@reddit

I literally did.

Got some links there, bud? Or you just pretending to be outraged like those fictitious reddit progressives you're whining about?

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Olliekay_@reddit

see the thing is, that r/politics (also like, incredibly botted), is legitimately small fry, it's irrelevant - a single Taylor Swift Instagram post will have more reach then a r/politics thread ever will

Reddit is community run, mods suck, bots are rampant snd intentionally stirring the pot.

I'm asking you, why do you care?. Did you legitimately enjoy posting on r/politics that much? could you not just make an alternative account and keep doing it?

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SansCulture@reddit

Just wait until the elections grow closer, you’ll have a close encounter of the second kind. Mods in many left leaning subreddits are radicals or possibly foreign agents. I was kicked from multiple left-leaning subreddits for telling people to vote for Democrat Kamala and to not “revenge/principle vote” Jill Stein. I questioned the ban and a very pro-China mod had a back and forth with me in messages instead of being reasonable. Said person denied China’s genocide of Muslims whilst also trying to convince me that voting Stein wasn’t go to lead to Trump winning. You’ll never guess who won 2024. The final thing the mod said to me before blocking me was in German, so either a direct Marxist quote meaning the extremes of the left were in control or actually a European basement dwelling socialist was moderating a subreddit for American politics.

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lllGrapeApelll@reddit

Mods in any leaning subreddit are radicals by nature. Left or Right doesn't matter. You're in a curated forum if you don't conform you'll get the ban cause you're ruining the circle jerk.

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Olliekay_@reddit

alternatively, you can just ignore it.

I mean really, online activism does fuckall anyway. if you want to get politically involved, go outside. If you don't want to go outside, then why bother at all.

I mean, of course - arguing with idiots can be fun, but if it's legitimately bothering you then stop walking into the "comments that bother me" factory

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SansCulture@reddit

Yeah, you can totally ignore censorship as it’s happening to you, good take /s

Getting banned for a lukewarm take and then argued with during your appeal is indicative of the bad faith activism happening in front of us. I don’t know how that wouldn’t bother someone

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Olliekay_@reddit

dude you're getting banned on a subreddit not being placed on a gag order by the government

mods of any alignment will power trip and do this shit, I guarantee I could go say incredibly reasonable stuff on subreddits from every fucked up goofy political alignment and then get "censored"

reddit is a community run platform, if you don't like the way that a community is running their subreddit make your own or some shit

Again, this seems like the most non issue ever

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the_real_skrylo@reddit

There is a big gap between "a person that happens to use reddit" and "a redditor"

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drwicksy@reddit

Being a "Redditor" is like being an "Athiest"

Plenty of people, myself included, are atheists, but a few of them make me not want to be sometimes.

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Olliekay_@reddit

generalizing reddit is like generalizing every user of X (the everything app) or any other social media

you're a redditor - you are the person in the image, and once you learn to accept that. You can be free

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ReturnRadio@reddit

No

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Yeseylon@reddit

X (the everything app)

The purest form of cringe is using X instead of Twitter AND calling it what Musk wants it to be.

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Olliekay_@reddit

but it's the everything app, it has everything

you can talk to grok on the everything app

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the_real_skrylo@reddit

There is a long and rocky road ahead of me I guess.

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AbadeersGhost@reddit

Not really. We're redditors and we're cringe.

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AGTS10k@reddit

this app

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ExtraPomelo759@reddit

Find it so funny how people treat Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany as opposite ends of the spectrum when in practice both were totalitarian hellholes run by a megalomaniac and their cult of personality.

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Spinnenente@reddit

ACHKTUALLLYYY:

reddit very much depends on the sub and the moderators. Some ban you for the mildest criticism or because you make a small joke (like how i got banned from r/communism) and others are pretty much free wheeling post whatever you like within tos.

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Smooth_Maul@reddit

I once got banned from Asmongold's sub on an old account for making a joke about him being unclean and the mod said "it may have been a joke but next time try to be funny" lmfao

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ElonTaco@reddit

That's fair though, your joke probably sucked and they've heard "lol dirty man" like a billion times. Gotta at least be original.

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Smooth_Maul@reddit

Nah I never claimed it was an original joke but the mod talking exactly like a mod was really funny. They're all the same guy at the end of the day.

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Spinnenente@reddit

i got banned from r/comics because i complained that one guy was spamming like 3-5 posts a day with pretty low effort content.

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Smooth_Maul@reddit

I got banned from r/comics because someone posted a comic promoting political purity testing and I said I think that political purity testing is regarded and pushes people who are trying to learn or be better people and only serves to push people into extremist circles.

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EuenovAyabayya@reddit

See also Mao and Pol, but theoretically "not proper Communism," which has never actually been attempted seriously at scale. Probably because nobody can get any logistical sense out of the idea.

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Prestigious-Fig1172@reddit

""Stalin killed miliions but it was OK, because some of them was nazis.""

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Mattrockj@reddit

TLDR: Social media sucks ass.

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Niumimansa_Is_King@reddit

Epstein pulling the strings

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heqra@reddit

literally, none of these places are like that besides some of pol

Twitter is all Nazis Facebook is all AI generated misinformation Reddit isn't communist, it's socialists or if we're being real a vague variety of echo chambers on both sides

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L_Vayne@reddit

Because the algorithms for social media websites promote those who make the most outrageous claims.

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McDelper@reddit

/pol/ is actually majority racist tho unlike the others

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8123619744@reddit

We’re actually in an epistemology crisis. Everyone is being fed salient algorithmic news content designed to shape their world view into caricatures of their natural inclinations. Being reasonable and trying to understand things is literally getting more difficult every day.

It’s like how the food we have is so tasty and calorie dense it’s difficult to not be obese. We evolved surviving starvation for a million years, and now you can spend 7 bucks at Taco Bell for an entire days worth of calories.

There are no GLP-1 drugs coming to save us from information noise though. We’ll drown soon.

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Saaka_Souffle@reddit

There are no GLP-1 drugs coming to save us from information noise though.

Alcohol still works

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rlaxowns@reddit

Fake news can't hurt me if I'm constantly blacked out

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fluffynuckels@reddit

I got a ban on the communist sub for pointing out how bad things where for people in the USSR

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Professional-Reach96@reddit

I hate how much they badmouth and blame Gorbachev for not magically fixing decades of stagnation and unironically think his plans to democratize the USSR was 'capitalistic' and increasing freedom to the USSR's citizens was 'anti communist'

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Defiant_Orchid_4829@reddit

Gorbachev implemented Capitalist reforms and became a social democrat after the fall of the Union. He was also in a Pizza Hut commercial when Soviet in post-soviet countries were collapsing. Gorbachev was just the last domino but he doesn’t have clean hands either.

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DowntownGrocery6945@reddit

Me when I go to r/communism and they're communists 😱😱😱

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Bebop_Bodo@reddit

What did you expect???

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fluffynuckels@reddit

To piss of communist. And it worked!

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Happy_Ocelot_4945@reddit

The facebook post is actually just someone complaining about skinwalkers

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PheasantPlucker1@reddit

I'm not racist, BUT, I've never met a decent, god fearing skinwalker

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Atreigas@reddit

Have you ever met a skinwalker?

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Lucius-Halthier@reddit

You know they aren’t bad once you get to know them, I dated a skin walker for 8 months and she never ONCE took more that 2 feet of skin at one time, AND it was spaced out so I could heal!

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ArcticLeopard@reddit

Of course i have, some of my friends are skin walkers....wait shit

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TellmeNinetails@reddit

The skinwalkers found your comment and didn't like it.

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jungleass98@reddit

Bout a dollars worth, id reckon

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Atreigas@reddit

Oh shit. Thats all of em.

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MoneybagsMalone@reddit

It's actually 2 penguins

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serpal999@reddit

Are they perhaps playing chess?

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Yeseylon@reddit

3 kobolds in a trenchcoat

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The_Noremac42@reddit

Was he mustachioed and handsome?

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Slightly-useless-sc@reddit

Skinwalkers always disguise themselves as department of natural resources agents. Really easy to tell.

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gjb94@reddit

Imagine you're farmer, and suddenly all your sheep look like Rcohard Nixon. Where are they getting them?? How are they putting them on?? Eventually you're gonna lose your fucking mind

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lmay0000@reddit

Huh???

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mentina_@reddit

Facebook one is complaining about halloween

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Pumpkin_Sushi@reddit

I WANT ALL SKINWALKERS, OR SKINIGGAS AS I CALL THEM, OUT OF M7Y ENCHANTED FOREST NOW

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BrunesOvrBrauns@reddit

Wrong. The real reddit-ass position is that Communism is a myth. It's never actually been tried without western Capitalist sabotage intervening. Same with socialism, but to a lesser degree (applies to most attempts at socialist policies/programs in the Western hemisphere).

based

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TurtleTitan@reddit

Just say there's never been true capitalism, it really confuses them when you use their backwards ass logic against them. Of course despite their educations few can hold a conversation, they can mention books, data, and such but not think whatsoever. I don't think you'll find any Government that doesn't have some deviations from the definitions, maybe some small island type but anything above tribe level really is going to have problems in this regard because something will become a law or regulation that fights that premise.

I'm just waiting for someone with enough push to make the claim. There's enough restrictions in just about every Capitalist countries from absurd regulations, absurd laws, and social welfare being an antithesis (hard work favors the workers) that an argument could be made.

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Radical-Efilist@reddit

Isn't that pretty much Anarcho-Capitalism? And it is glorious to see an AnCom debate an AnCap, it's like the spiderman meme but with brainrot.

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The_Law_of_Pizza@reddit

I like the part where you clearly don't know what either communism or socialism mean.

It really sells the joke.

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BrunesOvrBrauns@reddit

Gotta read your CIA history bro

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MrBingly@reddit

I never understand how people get the sense of Facebook having some particular political slant. Isn't it just stuff from your friends and family on Facebook?

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Groundbreaking_Bag8@reddit

Why the fuck would anyone WANT to talk about politics lmao

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Biggu5Dicku5@reddit

The internet ruined it, like so many other things...

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IWrestleSausages@reddit

'Wanna talk about some politics'

That right there was your first mistake, boyo

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ender89@reddit

The only thing you need to know is that there is greater wealth disparity now between the ultra rich and, well, everyone else than there was during the days of the Robber Barons.

I don't think you can accuse america of becoming communist after that was addressed, and the only reason we cant buy 2 cars and a family home on a single salary like in the 70s is that the wealth gap is back with a vengeance.

It's not communist or socialist to point out that the ultra wealthy have gotten rich off of the economic output of the rest of us.

It's not crazy to recognize that Amazon warehouse workers provide more value to the company than bezos does, but they're barely paid enough to live.

It's not crazy to demand the fair share of our labor.

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StormOfFatRichards@reddit

I just want to talk politics

Without having any positions

Or hearing any that challenge mine

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HandyProduceHaver@reddit

Well they've got to be at least reasonable opinions

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statuslovesnepeta@reddit

‘I just want to be validated in all my beliefs while never having to think critically or defend myself’ is how all circlejerks start

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Big-Cat-6582@reddit

Basically, it's all true at the same time. And you gotta get over it

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TheFurryofFury@reddit

Anon doesn't know about AIPAC

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NefariousFennec@reddit

the Jewish part is based, rest are fake and gay

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Captainsnake04@reddit

I made this fucking green text I CANNOT believe it is still going around

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FrutCake@reddit

Funny how much Twitter has shifted since this was posted

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DarkGamer@reddit

Reddit understands the difference between Leninism-Marxism and a communist society. Based.

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DiabeticRhino97@reddit

Good goy

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Tomachian@reddit

Basically any tourist getting into any interest with hardcore people

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Res_Novae17@reddit

Most people still have them. The problem is the algorithms. You only see the stuff getting driven to the top because it engenders the most outrage responses.

This could all be fixed. Society itself could be saved quite easily. All it would take is for algorithms to only reward likes instead of total engagement. But that would reduce ad revenue for the social media companies.

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mallo15@reddit

Because once you become someone who's "interested" in politics, especially some certain ideology, you cannot have "normal" political views.

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betterthaneukaryotes@reddit

2021 btw

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Dry_Blueberry6806@reddit

You can really tell this is from 2021

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hairyballsinmybutt@reddit

As it turns out, most people are stupid and easily influenced.

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ConsciousStretch1028@reddit

Funny because twitter is the exact opposite now lol

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Pingushagger@reddit

The average (normal) person isn’t discussing politics in online spaces. You’re obviously gonna find weirdos there.

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escudonbk@reddit

Ragebait=engagement=money

Also the internet is not a real place.

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Yeseylon@reddit

I remember when it was... Good times...

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TheNeuroLizard@reddit

Anon is making a big mistake. By avoiding the most extremist, reductive opinions on any topic, he’s leaving himself nothing to post about on social media. He’s leaving so much potential engagement on the table.

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SlimothyJ@reddit

Wants to talk politics

Goes on social media

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xvsanx@reddit

this was during 2021 too, awful times

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Stompert@reddit

Well, 2026 isn’t much better.

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xvsanx@reddit

fair lol

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Pepperonidogfart@reddit

Fox news during the obama years is what happened. They shifted to opinion and party propaganda and made a mint off of it. Opinion news became an entertainment platform branded as truth. The hatred they stir works because people are dumb, panicky animals.

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SunnySalads@reddit

Reddit is more like /Pol/ and Twitter combined. I dont see much communism talk anymore, but as a whole Reddit is extremely left leaning. At the same time though you see wildly antisemitic shit on any posts that have to do with Jews or Israel.

It's the worst mix of virtue signaling and actual blatant racism at the same time.

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Active-Ambassador275@reddit

Mom said its my turn to post this now

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ZaidCharades@reddit

It's funny how this post dates itself by it's views on twitter.

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JustChillin3456@reddit

Wait you’re telling me women don’t like it when guys are politically radicalized ?

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Danijay2@reddit

Bro thought he'd get good takes in four echochambers with different flavours. SMH. If you want to actually talk about politics, you are better off asking random people on the street what they think.

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brainrotbro@reddit

People on the fringes have always held extreme views. Social media has provided a megaphone for those people. I'd wager that people with reasonable political views are less likely to post on social media about them.

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cybrfunk@reddit

Everything has to be in extremes now

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TheAppleGentleman@reddit

Anon discovers politics

And that History is inheretly political and can't be teached or studied objectively

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