Comment by littlestymaar

Comment by littlestymaar a year ago

I live how right-wing guys would call any of their opponent a “communist”, even Joe Bidden got called a socialist by some republicans…

Believe it or not, but social democracy based on welfare state (which has nothing to do with Communism) is the only thing that works. (And ironically that what defeated the communist ideology).

The fact that its opponents have to conflate it with Communism as their only argument shows all that needs to be about their reasoning.

matheusmoreira a year ago

... Except I'm not calling Joe Biden a communist.

I'm calling Lula a communist. He calls himself one. As does the judge he appointed to the supreme court. They even cheered when it happened: "finally we have a communist in the supreme court". Are you actually claiming that these people are not socialists?

I don't even need to discuss their obviously socialist ideologies. There is no need to interpret veiled implications, no need to make any inferences. They straight up use these words to describe themselves. Are you seriously going to contradict their own words on the matter?

If we cannot find common on ground on even such basic facts, then there's no point in any further discussion. Peace out.

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fragmede a year ago

The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo would like to have a word with you.

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- matheusmoreira a year ago
  
  You know, it's funny.
  Democracy is essentially a prerequisite for a nation to be considered civilized in the 21st century. Obviously, they claim to be a democracy. They clearly aren't. Nobody believes them.
  Socialism and communism are failed ideologies that degenerate into dictatorships. They have never worked anywhere in the world, not even once. These people have every incentive in the world to hide their ideology and pretend that it's actually something else. But they don't. They're proud of their communism nonsense. They'll tell you to your face about their socialist ideals. I have videos of our current president giving lengthy speeches on the subject matter. I remember one particularly troublesome video he made just before the elections where he straight up said the state should confiscate everybody's inheritances and give you nothing but what you need to survive.
  But somehow it's news to people, the fact these guys are socialists. I have to point it out constantly. People inevitably respond with skepticism. I have to cite evidence every single time. And when I do cite all the things which back up my world view, people just ignore all of it and call me a conspiracy theorist. Like the other guy did in this comments section.
  
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- littlestymaar a year ago
  
  Yeah, he's probably the kind of guy who believes Hitler was a socialist because there's “socialist” in the Nazi party name.
  
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