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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Man, that is some concerning shit, pardon my french. Really concerning shit.

Im just speachless tbh. I talk a lot, you can see it in this threat, but I can only say about that, that it is some very concerning shit.

Does he fancy himself to be Batman or what?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

People forget that Marx advocated for ruthless criticisim. As a rule whenever I read something and it peeks my interest, before I keep digging further I ask myself: Where's the catch here? Are they trying to sell me something? Who can actually benefit from this.

This simple scruttiny maybe won't reveal the holes in the idea, but it will lead you to things you can research, read contra-arguments and get a fuller and rounder idea of whatever you are reading. But sadly this is a skill that is getting loss, not because people can't intellectually do it, they just do not care or want to put the effort.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I saw a guy here in Lemmy arguing once that the nordics are socialists contries... The dude also told the comenters trying to explain why is not true to go read... I get they were confused and I belive is a easy mistake to make, but he had so many good comments explaining in a calm and easy way why he wasn't right and he keept just deying it.

There is just sadly too much (miss)information out there and most people dont have the interest, energy or (and in a lesser degree) the capacity to exercise critical thinking and reading.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Of course, is easier to maintain your belives if you see yourself as "moderate" or "apolitical". Is easier if you belive your line of toughts are share by a "silent majority" thus making it reasonable and moderate.

Just mental hops to affirm themselves.

Sounds a bit like insecurity to me, they don't see or feel themselves as in the position or capacity to justify what they belive in, so they refuge behind "Is just common sense" or "we are the majority", "is not political", basically a post modern rehash of the naturalistic argument.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Not exactly good, my comment mostly stems from coversations both online and irl, that's way I wrote " considered by many" and not just "considered". There is a entry in wikipedia about it tho:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_communism#Gift_economies_and_commons-based_organizing

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. In a way there IS a "threat" for them, that they will not be anymore at the top of the pyramid, they see it as the "woke, communist, liberals" or whatever trying to subdue them, ironically what they want is to be able to further subdue everyone else.

Also ironic and sad: poor (poor as in not rich) white men were never at the top, they were just as exploited as the rest, the are just made belive they weren't. Of course they enjoy some extra perks, mostly judicial, but they have more in common with a poor black guy than with a millioner and nothing with a billioner

What a world we have. But at the very least is never dull.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Imo, a problem with Marx, is that tha the languaje he used lend itself to very broad interpretations, thus making it easy to absorb him into whatever ideology/plan/scheme.

People who like Stalin or Mao and in a lesser degree Trotsky and Lennin -which to whom we nowadays call commnunists- used his languaje to reaffirm their ideas. Even tho imo their ideoligical brand was quite a ways out of Marx.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 months ago (11 children)

"I don't wanna get political in this video"

Get's mega political and starts using political lingo used by the right wing

Way to go, dude, you played yourself.

I've also seen his temper in his videos plus adding what he said in this video, I am convinced the guy should not be allowed to own a damm BBGun. But he's lucky he doesnt live in a "communist state". Yo what a shitshow.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Open software is considered by many a modern example of a anachists-communist project.

The dude is just spewing what he belives to be truth without any regard for the concepts he is actually talking about. Even me supporting both FOSS and gun ownership I belive the whole video should be regard as misinformation/misrepresentation at the very least, propaganda in reality.

[–] [email protected] 148 points 8 months ago (40 children)

Tho I support gun ownership, this guy has no business owning a gun

"If you are a [in my perception] a communist, you don't wanna step on my lawn" === "If I don't agree with you, I'll shoot you"

Plus anyone saying "communist states" is definetly fallen victim of right wing propaganda and haven't even take the time to research what communisim is. Even the US left political wing is quite capitalisitic.

Just a bunch of bad "arguments" bagged up with slapsticks words which he doesn't even know the meaning of.

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