ElGosso [he/him]

Communist Reddit

I dunno why you’re implying this is something outlandish when this already happens. They just call it “campaign donations” if they’re in office and “speaking fees” when they’re out of it.

With all due respect on one hand here we have Sir Charles Trevelyan, assistant secretary of Her Majesty’s Treasury, and in charge of administering aid in Ireland during the Blight who said

“We must not complain of what we really want to obtain. If small farmers go, and their landlords are reduced to sell portions of their estates to persons who will invest capital we shall at last arrive at something like a satisfactory settlement of the country”.

But on the other hand we have you saying “no they didn’t.”

It had everything to do with capitalism. There are quotes from people in the British government during the Blight talking about withholding aid to poor farmers so the land would be purchased by people who would develop it.

As opposed to, what, exactly? Capitalism, which gave out hugs to native Americans and free back rubs to the Irish when the blight hit?

Someone compared us to Nazis and you don’t think we’re being attacked?

It seems pretty apparent that all of the most ardently anti-Hexbear users on here aren’t operating in good faith. Comments like yours make it pretty apparent. Just say that you don’t want Hexbear federated because it’s communist, and you’re a staunch anti-Communist.

Don’t be a jerk, put it in spoiler tags or something

Left unity means left unity

You’re right - I shouldn’t have assumed that was your ideology, but the only people more ardently anticommunist than liberal capitalists are fascists and I wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt. My broader point is that you already are perfectly happy to share a space with “evil” ideologues, who have committed terrible atrocities across the planet. And you’re even willing to stoop to denying genocide in the process of trying to claim that there’s rhetoric that there’s no time or place for. You have no actual argument here, just hypocrisy and anti-communism.

I’m getting into it in someone in this comment section who went as far as genocide denial, if you want to see the kind of hostility we regularly face. I don’t want to link to it directly, but you can easily find it by scrolling up.

Insulting my intelligence isn’t a good way to make your case, especially on a topic which you are so flagrantly ignorant about - everything I have said here has been well-documented, and given your attitude I am disinclined to explain it directly. Instead I invite you to educate yourself on the atrocities committed against my people - even a cursory inspection of the Wikipedia page of the Great famine will show no exaggeration on my part.

Furthermore, you’re shifting the goalposts. Your ideology committed great atrocities against my people. Why should my ideology be treated differently from yours, if that’s the litmus test?

That said, it is extremely hard to stay engaged on Lemmy when there is background of constant, shallow hate and derision thrown at me and my views.

With all due respect, this is how communists feel whenever we try to present our own interpretation of events. Even presenting objectively true statements that aren’t 100% in line with a Western perspective gets a flood of “wumao 5 cent army Russian bot” comments.

I don’t have to imagine it. My family was the victim of capitalist genocide, my family did have graves defiled. They were Irish during the famine and had the temerity to continue to be Catholic when they immigrated to America where they still had to be second-class citizens for another hundred years. By your own logic, why should I be civil toward liberal capitalists who defend the same system that tried to explicitly eradicate my family and their culture?

I’m not just calculating it, I’m writing fanfiction about it

It’s me, I’m getting milked in Zootopia

C’mon we both know they’re gonna spend beaucoup bucks on it, there’s nothing the government likes more than military spending

Daily reminder to the reminder - the U.S. has to replace those supplies with new stuff which does cost money.

We cannot

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum – even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.