Even from people that never lived in a communist state

edit: im 17 and i hate communism

  • @JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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    Because there are a lot of communists on lemmy?

    Some can be very annoying. If you haven’t blocked hexbear, I highly recommend it. They got exiled from reddit years ago and have been stewing in a tankie echo chamber ever since.

    • @Pascal@lemdro.id
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      They got exiled from reddit years ago

      Huh, just like everyone else here

      It’s weird rather that some people are such bootlickers that they complain about people being socialists/communists after leaving a platform because of capitalism

    • @Sootius@lemmy.world
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      90% of the shit spouted about Hexbear is just baseless nonsense. Soon as you actually try to have a good faith discussion, they’re hecka cool.

      • @JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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        Not when I tried it. When shw federated, I tried for about 2 days to talk about stuff. But they kept defending Russia in it’s invasion of Ukraine with super brain dead arguments and holding up North Korea as a shinning example of communism. Plus at the ends of threads, they often just respond with poop emojis. Or even at the beginning of threads. That’s just annoying.

        Edit: oh and defending or denying China’s treatment of the Uyghur was also common.

  • @SPRUNT@lemmy.world
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    You’re blaming communism for what is, like everything else, a people problem. It doesn’t matter what system you’re talking about, there’s always bad actors and horrible people that you can point to and say “see? That’s why it’s bad!”

    Also, you are 17 and only really have the knowledge that you have been taught, and minimal experience living in the larger world. Most everything far you have learned has been what others have wanted you to learn. Once you get into the real world for a decade or two and start experiencing a full life, your views will change.

    Or you can resign yourself to a life in front of cable news and stay firmly locked into an opinion that others have given you.

  • sag
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    im 17

    me too

    i hate communism

    I don’t care about this type of stuff on Lemmy. I love Cat, Linux, FOSS and Game. Lemmy have all of them.

  • If under communism everything is shared, that would have to include political power.

    So that would make communism a direct democracy. Which communist country was a direct democracy?

  • @m13@lemmy.world
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    “I’m 17 and I hate communism”

    😂 enough said. Come back when you’re a bit older and a bit wiser.

  • @Alsjemenou@lemy.nl
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    Do you even know what communism actually is? I mean do you know where it came from, and why?

    If you’re 17 and in America, there isn’t a lot of hope that you have been told about this in a non-biased manner. Young people especially are susceptible to the ideology that they can make it in life through hard work and equal opportunities. You might even already have felt some success in this regard, was able to achieve a goal because you worked for it. And it all makes sense to you.

    And you think, In some way or another, that communist are perverting this, maybe by giving away shit for nothing or worse want to take shit from you.

    But that’s not true.

    Socialism wants you to fully get your complete value of your labour for you, instead of most of it going to a boss who didn’t work. And communist want to make sure that the system doesn’t allow for bosses to make decisions about the conditions workers live in.

  • VitalyOP
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    Guys please check the list of the communist countries and come back to me to tell if you want to live in there, ok?

  • Nomecks
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    You apparently don’t like getting up votes either.

  • deadcatbounce
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    If you’ve never lived in a communist state you’re much more likely to favour communism. People who have (lived in communism) don’t.

    'Mercans believe that social healthcare is communism - until they get seriously ill whereupon they opt for moving to a ‘communist’ country: UK or Canada or go for the US healthcare provider called gofundme.

  • Cowbee [he/they]
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    Multiple reasons.

    1. Lemmy was crested by and is maintained by Marxist-Leninists.

    2. Lemmy’s structure and rejection of the Profit Motive is in line with Communist ideals, and attracts Communists and other leftists over Reddit, which is Capitalist.

    3. FOSS in general is supported by Communists and Anarchists.

    • @angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com
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      FOSS is strongly supported by communists, but there’s also strong support for it from right-libertarians (when I was younger I remember the stereotype being that Linux users believed taxation was theft)

      (I agree that the way FOSS operates is anarcho-communist in nature; I just think people with fringe politics are more likely to support FOSS in general)