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[–] ruckblack@sh.itjust.works 37 points 3 weeks ago

Memes are so entertaining and funny on the memes community boy I love memes

[–] sweatersocialist@hexbear.net 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

claims communism is bad

wants thoughts to be free

i'm a capitalist, i want advertisements beamed into my dreams and i want to be charged for all of my thoughts- the added benefit being my head is kept clear.

[–] hahattpro@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Communism is good. I learn communism when I was young in public school. Communism is soo good. The world needd communism.

  • Said me, a person who live in the country with one political party - the communist party
[–] RISC_Xi@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago

Cool, I say that too. A person who lives in a country with multiple political parties - a variety of lib and chud parties

[–] Confidant6198@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The only people calling themselves “free thinkers” for thinking that communism is bad, are the people in the west though.

[–] Tiltinyall@beehaw.org -2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Lol, "institutional think is right thinking" says someone who can't do anything more radical than post memes on the internet.

[–] Confidant6198@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Tiltinyall@beehaw.org -1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah edgy commie has nothing to do with established government. Nice try KGB!

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Here's one to go get angry about, the Jordan Peterson crowd saying "Communism is slavery to the state".

https://www.reddit.com/r/JordanPeterson/comments/1fli6xc/socialists_hate_capitalism_because_they_dont/lo3xkyb/

[–] Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee -1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean, the argument that communism is slavery to the state is a real and valid argument as of 2024.

It's not like capitalism is any less a form of slavery, except instead of stealing from everybody to give to everybody it steals from everybody and gives it all to insurance companies and other businesses benefiting oligarchs. The whole system is slavery under another name, work for the luxury of having a place to sleep at night so that your owner can live a comfortable life. Slavery to many masters who use your body for their gains.

There's not going to be a system that you're not a slave to though, unless we somehow find a way to trivially convert matter to energy and vice versa and build a utopia where machines do everything for us... and we all share the rewards. All hail science fiction communism? (and keep in mind science fiction keeps becoming reality! Just don't hold your breath for this in our lifetimes.)

[–] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's bold to assume communists give to everybody, or basically anybody.

—someone from the Eastern Bloc

[–] Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

We’ve never had real communism.

I don’t think human nature will allow for true communism at scale. Like all political organizations beyond a handful of people, corruption is de facto present and completely at odds with the theory.

People can swear up and down that it’s doable but I truly don’t think it could ever be by humans. We are too selfish.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 0 points 3 weeks ago

Communism is, by definition, stateless. No, that's not a valid argument and never was.

That ML groups work that way tells a lot about ML, not communism.

[–] EherNicht@feddit.org 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is the D Deutsche Welle? Or what is that? The other ones are clear.

[–] Furball@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] EherNicht@feddit.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

It is thanks. Looks quite similar to German English broadcast DW.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

CIA and Nazis agree? Must be true. I guess communism is bad, and thinking so makes me a free thinker. Thank you for the enlightening post.

[–] Gay_Tomato@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] anarcho_blinkenist@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehlen_Organization
and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sunrise_(World_War_II)
and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
and https://www.historynet.com/these-nato-generals-had-unusual-backgrounds-they-served-in-the-third-reich/
and https://www.redstreetjournal.com/p/cia1
and... yknow i'd be easier to name the nazis that the US intelligence and military didn't hire. which some were instead by MI6 and Mossad, like the pioneer of the gas vans Walter Rauff [Archived]
And for good measure: just a few of the industrialists and political elite of the US capitalist class who financed and were deeply connected with the Nazis and the German capitalist class for whom fascism were the anti-communist market-seizing attack dogs. ("first they came for the communists...")

[–] MaeBorowski@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

Is this sarcasm? The venn diagram that represents overlap of what nazis believe & value vs what the CIA believes & values may not be a perfect circle, but it's fairly close.

[–] FlexxxingOnThePoors@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Can't tell if joking or just stupid...

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I get what youre going for but the whole argument breaks down when you take into account that socdem exists. These same people oppose it, while we still dont want communism.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 weeks ago

Social democrats don't have a coherent answer for the imperialism question, which is the primary contradiction of this era. Social democrats still want to maintain hyperprofits as the expense of the global proletariat

[–] RISC_Xi@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago
[–] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 0 points 3 weeks ago

Capitalism and Communism are bad, there is a middle ground which is better than both and most of the western world uses it. Have a largely free market, but also have socially funded services that wouldn't work under a free market system like healthcare.

[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Stupid meme that assumes democrats are pro-communist

[–] optissima@possumpat.io 1 points 3 weeks ago

Unless it means that Democrats are complicit in lie?