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[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

Your first (and only) premise is highly vulnerable. Socialism and cancer are two different things.

[–] celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 63 points 1 day ago (18 children)

The average American doesn't know what capitalism, socialism, communism, or fascism means. They don't know what representative democracy means. They don't know what first past the post means. They don't even know that they have an electoral college let alone its role. The 3 branches of government are largely a mystery. And most Americans are under some kind of impression that the POTUS is some kind of benevolent dictator.

I'm not surprised that someone on twitter thinks capitalism solves poverty.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 15 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

That's fair, but that's all the more reason why it is the duty of Leftists to read and spread Marxist theory!

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

"THAT'S COMMIENISM!!! POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!!!" - average reaction to anything from the left

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Different people have different levels of class awareness. Identifying the ones ripest for radicalization helps dramatically.

And, to be fair, I am advocating for Communism.

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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I had to read the second post twice to understand what it’s saying due to the non-standard grammar. But I’m a foreign speaker.

I’m asking an honest question out of curiosity: Was this easily legible to you?

[–] FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

I think the linguists call it African American Vernacular English. It's completely reasonable for you to not understand it from the outside looking in.

[–] pendingdeletion@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m a native English speaker and had no issue… but I come across (or hear) contractions like “ain’t” often enough that it barely registers as being non-standard… just much less formal, really. Some punctuation might’ve helped you here.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago

At least like one comma could have done a lot...

Yes, it was very clear (native speaker here). Something like this is more commonly spoken than written, so I can see why it might be confusing. If your experiencing with English is more formal (via education, reading, etc) vs talking to a whole bunch of different people, that would explain it.

[–] TheOakTree@lemm.ee 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

"Ain't" can be kind of difficult. It can mean "are not," "am not," "is not," "has not," or "have not." Aside from that, the statements should be separated with a period, and "it's" was used instead of "is it." Also, they use "the fuck" instead of "what the fuck."

"Ain't" is pretty common in casual speech now, and the rest is relatively common in internet speech, so it was pretty easy to read for me.

"Capitalism hasn't solved white people's poverty. What the fuck is it going to do for us?"

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Was this easily legible to you?

Yes, very easily.

English doesn't have one standard grammar, but yeah this was pretty easy to understand for me.

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 75 points 1 day ago (4 children)
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