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[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I am tired of explaining why communism is a wishful thinking pipe dream that turns into authoritarianism every time.

Someone sold you magic solution horseshit and you swallowed it and asked for more. There are no magic solutions. Democracy and freedom is the only way. Collective slavery of communism must die.

I won’t waste my time any further. It’s a free country (yet). You are free to believe in communism even though you couldn’t have free beliefs under communism.

Any westoids that never knew communism and think it is amazing can go and remove themselves from the gene pool in my book.

[–] killingspark 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm just going to point out that you are the one even bringing communism on the table and I am happy to discuss it. You brought that up as a response to my comment:

I get that being on the winner side is convenient. I am too. I just see that constantly winning seems to lead the world into a pretty bad state overall where, suddenly, noone is a winner anymore.

And all it would take to not get into the disaster scenario would be some redistribution. Doesn’t even mean you can’t be a winner anymore. Just means you get to win less hard.

To which you responded:

I am still not gonna vote for communism and neither socialism. Good luck with that stuff. It’s isolated to niche internet communities for good reasons.

I wasn't arguing that we just use the magic communism bullet to solve our problems. You just think that I am arguing that. I was and am of the opinion that we can improve the situation massively by increasing redistribution of wealth.

Edit: And I like the idea of communism in a theoretical way because I think it can be helpful to think about stuff that probably won't be implemented to get ideas on how the current system could be improved. The idea of distributing economical power more evenly is at core of socialism but it doing that in a moderate way doesnt require a revolution, it can be implemented in our current system. /Edit

Any westoids that never knew communism and think it is amazing can go and remove themselves from the gene pool in my book.

Thinking of people as less valuable to "the genepool" because their opinions differ is the kind of thinking that explains why liberals and fascists are so often political friends.

[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It’s a euphemism for willing sudden disappearance from environment of planet earth. Not literally anything with eugenics.

I could say they should consider halting their mitochondria for a day.

[–] killingspark 2 points 1 month ago

That's still suggesting they are worth less than other humans based on their opinions

[–] VictoriaAScharleau@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

communism is a wishful thinking pipe dream that turns into authoritarianism every time.

except every time it hasn't

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you continue to abuse the flagging system, you will be banned.

[–] VictoriaAScharleau@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

deal with the misinformation in your community