Still waiting on that CIA paycheck, man when CIA payroll dept finally pays me that back pay is gonna be sweet!

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    Yes, for example, me an anarcho-communist who thinks western governments are generally terrible. But ALSO thinks that governments like Russia and China are absolutely terrible and committing different forms of genocide, am definitely on a CIA payroll right? That only makes sense?

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    Umm first off, you’re an intern, you don’t get paid. Second, I sent you for coffee like 3 hours ago and you still haven’t dropped it off at my desk.

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    A anti

    Homie should take a break from pretending to read theory and read a book about grammar

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    Remember how russia got completely surprised by Ukraine’s collectivism and national identity?

    Yeah, if one does actual psyops and mass propaganda at national level, you can present and see your enemy through a similar mindset (yes, goes for usa and china bs as well).

    The most hilarious thing was a circlejerk convincing dummies there is a grassroot movement between polish kids in being interested in russia, the language and communism.
    Bitch gtfo. Any kid who would get caught with this shit would get smacked in the head at light speed. Yes, there is such thing. But ran by russian troll farms. What was proven by journalists, ngos as well as eu intel agencies.

    Of course the most legitimate account is PolandIsAStateOf… Whoever is running that account does not use polish ever.

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    Being called a single issue voter for caring about Palestinian children at all and a tankie for caring about economic liberation certainly would make this meme seem accurate.

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          No it isn’t. If you are going to cite rhetorical flaws please have a clue what they are. At no point have I argued against any point they made so by definition this cannot be a straw man.

          What I did was ask an inconvenient question ypu don’t want to confront because it makes you have to face up to the lies you have accepted.

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            Your comment was a low effort strawman (and I suspect you to be little more than a liberal troll) for three reasons:

            1. Conflation of Socialism and state socialism
            2. False dichotomy of socialism and democracy
            3. Subtly hinting that only liberal democracy can bring freedom as opposed to workers democracy

            From your second comment you have effectively proven that you are deeply unwilling to learn about the liberation of the workers. You are either deeply uniformed and/or you simply do not want to be informed. If you have any intrest in genuenly understanding my economic views feel free to read Think It Over by the IWW (its a very short read).

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              You are stretching so hard you are about to tear a muscle.

              There was no strawman you just cannot accept the simple fact that I posed a question that you do not want to answer because the answer is inconvenient for your ideological perspective. The fact is most socialists/communists are at their heart authoritarians which is why they can talk about “freedom” in the context of modern China or the USSR.

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                Tell me, whats so free about your Liberal Democracy? Congratulations you get to choose between two politicans but they’re both owned by the same corporations. You get free speech until it threatens capital or state. Lastly you enjoy the right to oppress people but only if you’re privileged. Right now we live in a dictatorship of capital, a system build on imperialism and today runs on neocolonialism.

                Yet you arent guaranteed shelter, you aren’t guaranteed food, you aren’t even guaranteed to see more than a sliver of the fruits of your labor. You own nothing, you have nothing, everything that you think you have is crumbling around you as the liberal system falls.

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                  I have not posited any political system as an ideal so if you want an actual example of a straw man argument you should look at your response here as you are arguing against points I never made in order to “win” which is what a straw man argument consists of.

                  If you cannot determine who leads your nation nor what ideology it follows you cannot be free. If a nation cannot legally abandon the central party or an ideology they cannot be free.

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    I had some mouth breathing chuds on Discord accuse me of being a CIA psyop because I didn’t want to play a game with EAC (a specific kind of kernel level anticheat) yes, being anti spyware makes me a spook, cmon guys are you even trying 🙄

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    Meanwhile I had the opposite reaction. “Man, I really hope this leftist reddit diaspora is at least passingly familiar with some contemporary post-left theory from the last century and isn’t just tankie brainrot…”

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    I’m not a psyop but I am definitely anti-communist. Communism is fuckin’ stupid. Capitalism is out of control for sure, but I damn sure prefer it to any form of communism that has ever existed on a nation-state level in the world. Signed, a lemmy dot world user.

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        Community property, community ownership of everything, and the kind of government that is required to enforce non-ownership of everything. Because in my experience when you let the community own something the dumbest bastards in town will just fuck it all up. Community ownership of everything only works when everybody is nice and considerate of others, but in the real world there are fucking idiots everywhere who don’t care about the external world and others at all.

        So for communism to work, you’d have to exile all of those idiots to somewhere else. Then you are Hitler 3.0 with mass deportations and camps all over again. There’s no good answer to the inherent problems.

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          Personal property allowable isn’t it? I understood that to be distinct from private property. The UK has plenty of council run parks, the NHS etc which are publicly owned without too much trouble.

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            Part of the definition of communism includes community (government controlled) ownership of everything. You could not own a house or land and the government could tell you that “your” property must be given to someone else at any time.

            This would never work in the USA or really anywhere that values personal freedom. And therein lies the core issue with communism, as it destroys the freedom of individuals in sacrifice to the “greater good” of allegedly equal distribution of resources. In practice, like in China for example, the ranking members of the Party tend to get More Equal distribution of resources like having their own special gardens of organic produce that the common folks never have access to.

            IMO it could only work in small communities of like-minded people, like the hippies and others used to do last century. At the nation-state level it inherently leads to authoritarian oppression of freedom.

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              From what research I’ve done since your initial post you don’t appear to be correct concerning personal property by most interpretations.

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            Yes of course social programs to help those in need are good, and we should have more of them everywhere. Much of Europe has this all figured out and in place already without resorting to communist extremes.

            What we have currently in the USA are programs for food assistance for the needy, medical care through programs like Medicaid (in danger) and state/county operated Health Dept clinics where the poor can get medical care for free or income-based costs. So we are not without help entirely but there is a lot of room for improvement.

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      You mean why .ml are the way that they are? See this recap post: https://lemmy.world/post/29072279

      As far as why they shit on .world? Because it’s the biggest instance that generally won’t tolerate their crap as far as posting of their favored propaganda goes anyways (wish .world would just defed from them already like the rest of the triad)