RustyShackleford

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Your are assailed by many threats: the religious, the nihilists, the corporatists, the fascists, and the alleged "collectivists". Extreme authoritarian "leftists", A.K.A. “tankies” (i.e., apologists for Lenin, Stalin, Mao, the CCP, the DPRK, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Xi Jingping, etc.), are threats to a free, egalitarian, and open society, are just as violently authoritarian as their religious, corporatist, and fascist competitors, and should be treated with the contempt, distrust, and ridicule they deserve.

They claim to speak and fight for the proletariat, promising a new utopia, never before seen, once their revolution executes the last “class-traitor”. In practice, once they’re finished with “seizing the means of production”, they’ll never relinquish control and become the new ruling class.

They’ll assume the mantle of an enlightened elite post-revolutionary administration to guide the proletariat to their promised utopia of “each according to their ability, to each according to their need”. In practice, "the party leadership needs the most, because they’re obviously the most able” in reorganizing the economic and political structure of society. The utopia of the “dictatorship of the proletariat” will never exist, only the dictatorship of the “revolutionary party”. Repression and execution await those who question their claims and decisions.

These supposed champions of labor are really harbingers of death - of the mind and the body. They claim to be the true authoritative “voice of the people”. Understand what they really are; power over everything and everyone, forever, is what they seek. They want you either as a true believer (a willing pawn) or dead, just like all of the other supposedly benevolent dictators who promised utopias throughout history.

They’re akin to the pigs in Orwell's Animal Farm, the loudest voices in the revolution, usurpers of a righteous cause, but a bit “more equal” than everyone else after the farmer is done away with. Fortunately, the pigs, like the farmer, got their comeuppance in the end of the story. Make these pigs squeal.

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

Moral posturing is a an agent provocateur's strategy? Can you link the document?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (8 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

very LOUD minority

self-anointed gatekeepers

top posts are continually about shaming other users

Crabs in a bucket. No one's allowed to succeed, unless everyone™ does.

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

"Dumbass" is in the name.

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

while we are essentially seeking the same goals.

Authoritarian "leftists" are not seeking the same goals as other leftists.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

it cannot be voted in

Technically, it can.

simply ask a billionaire to not be

One doesn't have to ask; under the very same Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment, the legal argument would be, theoretically, that the vast accumulation of wealth and its legal and political ramifications violates the life, liberty, and property of other citizens.

The dissolution of the union and the United States government is also possible with the ratification of 2/3 majority of the states.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You don't need the "literally".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Communism isn't Communalism.

Yes, that's true.

Advocating for Communism

... is legal, under the 1st Amendment.

attempting to implement Communism at a national level is illegal

By force, yes. Theoretically, with a broad enough consensus, it could be voted on and enacted.

All pedantry aside, it's important to differentiate between theory and practice or ideology and an organization.

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