Underlying all the lies and historical falsifications in Trump's declaration are the fears of a ruling class that is terrified by the growing opposition to capitalism.

Underlying all the lies and historical falsifications in Trump’s declaration are the fears of a ruling class that is terrified by the growing opposition to capitalism.

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  • HalfBakedChef@lemmy.zip
    3·
    5 days ago

    My company keeps me in a dorm like a soviet, and I have to pay for the privilege. $400 a month to have a stinky roommate in a 15x15 box. Why am I treated with such distain?

    • RedWizard@news.abolish.capital
      3·
      4 days ago

      Company housing? Sounds a lot more like capitalism to me. Something capitalism has historically done across all capitalist countries. Some real gilded-age 1880’s shit.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 days ago

      Nowadays that’s no longer on the table of “allowed critiques of socialist regimes”. Now you have to go by stuff like:

      • Social engineering.
      • Modern culture war bullshit somehow shoehorned into that period.
      • Culture war urban legends like a Hungarian football reporter being forced to refer to a player “the white sock player” instead of “the black player” (football players have numbers on them for easy identification).
      • Giving people welfare instead of work (most of the Soviet Bloc had mandatory work).
      • Not having a strongman leader like Donald Trump or Viktor Orbán, because these morons think it’s called that because it’s a good thing.
      • Claiming crime was rampant due to “lack of arrest quotas” (some states had arrest quotas, and regularly ended with tragedies).
      • Inventing some fake famines, because people need to claim communism = famine. This lead to people claiming Hungarians not eating beef like Americans is due to a famine. Hell, they even call banana shortages “famines”, just to hammer this talking point home.