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• RustyShackleford@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Apparently, I wasn’t clear enough.

  Personal liberty, freedom of thought/inquiry, and self-determination are assailed by many threats: the theocrats, nihilists, corporatists, fascists, and so-called “collectivists”. They all claim to be the true authoritative “voice of the people”, but let’s discuss the authoritarian “leftists”, A.K.A. “tankies” (i.e., apologists for Lenin, Stalin, Mao, the CCP, the DPRK, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Xi Jingping, etc.).

  They are obvious 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. Beware of their cult(s). 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 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 politic.

  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. And like pigs, these self-styled champions of labor will squeal when they don’t get their way.

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  • soumerd_retardataire@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Direct democracy then

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    • RustyShackleford@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Utterly predictable to point of comical banality.

      Deny, deflect, obfuscate, and blame anyone or anything else. Same song, every time.

      History and their own current rhetoric is absolutely clear: the wannabe “champions of the people” are exactly like their fascist, corporatist, and theocratic authoritarian counterparts. Apologists, hypocrites and “whatabout-ists”.

      Bunch of temporarily inconvenienced oligarchs-in-waiting.

      What are boot-licking “tankies” in reality?

      Performative, gelatinous, invertebrate, amoral pussies, who’ll forgive or talk around any atrocity committed by their cult for a glimmer of a chance to wield the power they purport to rail against.

      All the while, seemingly completely unaware of the profound comedic irony and dissonance of their professed political stance, their moral posturing, and the depravity of their willingness to side with the most blood-soaked, murderous regimes and psychopaths in history.

      And every time one points it out? “WhAtBoUt WhAtAbOuT wHaTaBoUt _________, HuH?!”

      Good times, with these clowns.

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      • soumerd_retardataire@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        All the while, seemingly completely unaware of the profound comedic irony and dissonance of their professed political stance, their moral posturing, and the depravity of their willingness to side with the most blood-soaked, murderous regimes and psychopaths in history.

        You’re describing yourself supporting the west, who’s been mostly the only responsible of wars, genocides, support to dictators, …, since the colonization. The extent of our interventions isn’t taught in schools or medias, and didn’t stop in 1991.

        If you believe in the atrocity propaganda demonizing our declared enemies, i’ll continue to prefer living with them peacefully, in a world that would protect them&us

        Not much to add

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