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submitted 9 months ago by 6xpipe_@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[-] yukichigai@kbin.social 147 points 9 months ago

Communists? Nah, not a problem. I mean I'm a Star Trek fan, and while it's not played up that much the Federation is a post-scarcity socialist-adjacent society. I'm all for everyone having their basic needs met without condition or obligation, and money being obsolete.

Tankies though can fuck right off. North Korea is not a bastion of democracy. China is not more free than the US. This is not difficult to see.

[-] Cleverdawny@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

I don't think anyone has a problem with post scarcity utopian idealism, we just aren't at the post scarcity part yet

[-] Custoslibera@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

Star Trek is fully automatic gay space communism.

It’s not socialist adjacent.

[-] yukichigai@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

Counterpoint: Riker.

Look, I know the Federation doesn't have money, but they probably brought it back just to charge Riker for all the extra cleanup required every time he visited the holodeck.

[-] ZenFriedRice@lemmy.ml 82 points 9 months ago

Aye I wish belived that capitalism created a fair society. Seems more comfy.

In my experience, the point of leftism is to bring more power to the average citizen. What about that do you disagree with?

[-] db2@sopuli.xyz 61 points 9 months ago

The meme doesn't say "leftism".

[-] 6xpipe_@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Communism =/= leftism. It's an extreme form of socialism.

My biggest problem isn't even the communist ideals. Have your ideas, that's fine. I don't care.

My problem is the amount of people coming into post comments attacking American Imperialism® on posts that aren't even related to communist ideals or, sometimes, that don't even mention America. It gets tiring reading how much America sucks when that's not even the point of the post.

[-] Lordbaum@mander.xyz 66 points 9 months ago

*tankies

[-] DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee 62 points 9 months ago

I don't mind seeing communist content, it's better than the shit that I was seeing on Reddit's front page before I left it. At least communists aren't spewing hatred against people based on their skin colour, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other things that people can't control.

Although the centrists and leftists still hate each other, Lemmy is just a nicer place in general due to the lack of far-right horse shit.

[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 6 points 9 months ago

Idk, getting told I should get hit by a truck and nuked into dust because of the country I happened to be born in is kinda sus.

[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 46 points 9 months ago

I dont have a problem with commies bc they are people that want good but we just disagree on how it should be achieved. Tankies on the other hand are basically nazis but they support stalin and not hitler.

[-] Solaris1789@jlai.lu 35 points 9 months ago

Socies are cool but tankies are absolutely not

[-] BRINGit34@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 9 months ago

Lemmy is great because of the commies

[-] kn100@sh.itjust.works 24 points 9 months ago

Lemmy would be great if people would just stop whinging all the time and just blocked communities they didn't like. Jesus.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 13 points 9 months ago

Once instance based blocking is made available to users this will be a non issue

[-] ahto@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago

I'm always surprised by people complaining about seeing communities they don't want to see. Does everyone really browse "all"?! Why don't people just browse "subscribed" and only subscribe to communities they like?

[-] yata@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago

Community search function sucks, so browsing all is really the only viable solution to find new communities.

Also often you can find communities you didn't even think to search for in all, which is probably the most important function on lemmy as long as it lacks so many of the niche communities which thrived on reddit.

[-] DigitalTraveler42@lemm.ee 20 points 9 months ago

At least it's not Nazis, although tankies are every bit as bad.

[-] AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

…every bit?

[-] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 11 points 9 months ago

I hear more complaining about commies/tankies than I actually see posts from them

[-] halvar@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

You ought to consider yourself lucky.

[-] purahna@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 9 months ago

this is how I feel about the liberals to be honest, but that's the beauty of lemmy: we can have our instance to talk about communism, and you can have your instance to talk about how much you hate communism.

[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 9 points 9 months ago

Lol. 90% of hexbear posts are about liberals.

Libs live rent free in your heads, don't lie to us 😏

[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"I know we're the dominant group in everyday society, and most regular people agree with us, which means most people you must interact with on the daily are probably liberal, but we live rent free in your head you see, and it totally doesn't have anything to do with us shoving our bullshit down your throats every day in your daily life. It's because you're pathetic!"

Sure, Jan. Sure.

[-] Talaraine@kbin.social 0 points 9 months ago

I just love that we can sit here in the fediverse and talk about it without one or the other getting banned. I guess I'm old school first amendment.

[-] Rottcodd@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago

The problem isn't communism per se, but communism forcibly imposed.

More precisely, the problem is that communism is the superior system to the degree that it's egalitarian - that it eliminates the ruling class and instead treats all citizens equally - and the forcible imposition of communism immediately destroys that, since it presumes that those carrying out the forcible imposition rightfully possess the authority to do so, and thereby simply establishes them as a new ruling class.

Communism should be the goal, but in order to actually fulfill its potential, it MUST be voluntarily adopted by the people rather than forcibly imposed.

[-] OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social 10 points 9 months ago

This but also humans are inherently greedy, easy to corrupt, and prone to power hungry authoritarianism, so no system we create to govern ourselves has ever, or will ever, be fair or just.

[-] bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

I like commie porn tho

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

You might want to move instances. .ml is federated with hexbear, which has a lot of really annoying authoritarian communists. (Tankies) .world and many others are defederated with them, so you could block the subs and users, or move to a different instance.