Seconding this, Red Rising is the shit. The first book definitely has its rough patches, but it rapidly improves starting in the second.

Communism allows everyone to pretend to have free stuff by declaring those that actually make it less than human, and thus less than citizens.

Your crops are picked by exploited immigrants, the coltan in your electronics mined by African child slaves, and the electronics themselves assembled on 14-hour shifts by sweatshop workers under capitalism. And you still have to pay for them.

What you’re describing are colonialism and slavery, both of which are time-honored, bedrock capitalist institutions.

No, no you should not. No investigation, no right to speak.

“Uhhhh ‘the machine’ is clearly Big Woke that’s trying to make us all gay trans Muslims. It’s like you don’t know anything 🙄”

If you know so little about your own country’s credit scoring system, you shouldn’t speak so confidently about one on the other side of the world.

angry at YouTube for trying to uphold a stream of revenue, when it’s the only thing that makes the platform possible.

In capitalist hellworld perhaps, but in any decent society such a service would be maintained by the state as a public utility.

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people in the west seem to just implicitly trust Nazi propaganda. It’s an odd phenomenon.

Nazism wasn’t beaten in WW2, it was internationalized

No, you see, Display name@feddit.nu is the one true interpreter of the desires of all people. We should just let them pick every government since clearly they know best.

Is your point that you’re an asshole, because that’s the only thing you’ve managed to prove

you’re just insane

Wow, who would have guessed the social darwinism defender was ableist

Had they been forced to, that would simply be slavery.

Having a mutual obligation to care for others in your community is exactly the same as being rounded up at gunpoint, ripped from your homeland, shipped to a field or a mine halfway across the world, and forced to toil all day every day for barely enough to survive on until you inevitably succumb to the horrible conditions inflicted upon you

It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment. Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.

-J. Stalin

Fuck off genocide apologist

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What if the wheels fell off every single car in the world at the same time?

What if pens got hot?

If you’re fascist and antifascists come for you, you have a choice. You can give it up. You can go renounce what you said. You could just go on with the rest of your life and stop turning up at fascist rallies. Anti fascists probably aren’t going to buy you a pint and be your best friend but they’ll move on. But if you’re a person of color, if you’re trans, or a person with a disability or gay or Jewish, and fascists come for you, there is nothing you can do to make them happy except stop existing. If you’re a political enemy of antifa, you can become a friend. If you’re a political enemy of fascism, either they lose or you die.

Abigail Thorn, The Philosophy of Antifa

Having not read the story

I. NO INVESTIGATION, NO RIGHT TO SPEAK

Unless you have investigated a problem, you will be deprived of the right to speak on it. Isn’t that too harsh? Not in the least. When you have not probed into a problem, into the present facts and its past history, and know nothing of its essentials, whatever you say about it will undoubtedly be nonsense. Talking nonsense solves no problems, as everyone knows, so why is it unjust to deprive you of the right to speak? Quite a few comrades always keep their eyes shut and talk nonsense, and for a Communist that is disgraceful. How can a Communist keep his eyes shut and talk nonsense?

It won’ t do!

It won’t do!

You must investigate!

You must not talk nonsense!

Hey, what happened at Standing Rock?

In your own words, what is fascism?