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Communism is some GOOD SHIT

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[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 64 points 9 months ago

Capitalism is the Benzodiazepines of the masses

[-] thirtymilliondeadfish@hexbear.net 37 points 9 months ago

benzodiazepines is the carnivore diet of the masses

[-] pudcollar@hexbear.net 59 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Communism is psilocybin. It grows from humble places. It brings out hard truths through intense dialogue and self-examination. It gives the ability to see patterns in things.

[-] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 34 points 9 months ago

And sometimes it makes you panic because you see how sinister the ordinary world can be.

[-] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 9 months ago

Idk I just get a looming sense that everything will be darkness forever, and nothing will ever be ok.

[-] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

From shrooms or communism?

[-] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 9 months ago

I was making a joke about both, but all my shroom attempts have been along those lines.

I've made some strides in getting mentally healthier since then, so I'm sure that'd help!

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago

I mean, that's just a bad trip

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 49 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Nevertheless, another reading can be made of Marx. The often cited phrase--"religion is the opium of the people"--is truncated. What follows this remark lets it be understood that human beings need opium, because they are metaphysical animals who cannot avoid asking themselves questions about the meaning of life. They give what answers they can, either adopting those offered by religion or inventing new ones, or else they avoid worrying about them.

You know, he could have bothered to actually read Marx before saying dumb shit.

The full quote from Marx, in context, is:

Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 9 months ago

Also what comes immediately before:

For Germany, the criticism of religion has been essentially completed, and the criticism of religion is the prerequisite of all criticism.

The profane existence of error is compromised as soon as its heavenly oratio pro aris et focis [“speech for the altars and hearths,” i.e., for God and country] has been refuted. Man, who has found only the reflection of himself in the fantastic reality of heaven, where he sought a superman, will no longer feel disposed to find the mere appearance of himself, the non-man [Unmensch], where he seeks and must seek his true reality.

The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d’honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world.

You see Peterson cannot elaborate on this because he's a religious person who hates modernity, so this short circuits his entire belief system and ideology.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 9 months ago

I doubt he even read it at all. Didn't he once got owned in a debate by Zizek and it came out he barely skimmed though Manifesto and that was all about marxism he ever had read?

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago

Yeah that's true lmao

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago

Why bother reading when your hordes of impressionable twitter followers aren't going to read either? He gets paid either way.

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 45 points 9 months ago

Free adderall for everyone so we meet the five year plan!

[-] sloth@hexbear.net 41 points 9 months ago

A psychiatrist I know once told me, "Meth-Amphetamine would help most people; the problem is, it helps too much and is easily abused."

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[-] yoink@hexbear.net 36 points 9 months ago

man who has only ever done drugs: getting a lot of drugs vibes from this

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 32 points 9 months ago

The Nazis put Communism in their chocolate? That doesn't seem right...

[-] Barabas@hexbear.net 35 points 9 months ago

That was the socialist part of national socialism.

[-] machiabelly@hexbear.net 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

inb4 tankies say the Nazis weren't real socialists smuglord

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 30 points 9 months ago

And who was the benzos of the masses? peterson-pill-dinner

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[-] honeynut@lemm.ee 30 points 9 months ago

"benzo of the masses" rolls of the tongue better

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 17 points 9 months ago

Rolls over his tongue better too.

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

Abusing benzos is our last line of defense against neo-marxism!

[-] context@hexbear.net 29 points 9 months ago
[-] RION@hexbear.net 29 points 9 months ago

Top shelf communism disrupting my circadian rhythms

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

3 days and counting... do we ever get to sleep again?

[-] Helmic@hexbear.net 26 points 9 months ago

isn't like half his philosphy that he's a christian? what does this MEAN peterson? are you saying religion is bad but communism is worse? are you saying religion is good because opium is good? is religion harm reduction? are chrsitian socialists junkies? tell me your secrets, benzo man.

[-] micnd90@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago

His brain is scrambled because of benzo. Lesson of the day, eat your broccoli and do drugs responsibly

[-] BigHaas@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

Benzos should be entirely avoided tbh. Worst drug class

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 9 months ago

It's a new version of the old "communism is a cult too" take typical for the cultists to have, accusing communists of hypocrisy, but being firmly anchored of hypocrisy itself (and of course not reading). Also it wouldn't be Peterson if he didn't doubled down since he's not only cultist but also junkie.

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[-] darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.ml 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Actually religion slots well into the meth role.

It makes people paranoid of things that aren't really there too.

[-] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 22 points 9 months ago

Cashier giving me a suspicious look. we both know I'm buying a cartful of diy communism ingredients and a monster energy drink

[-] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 22 points 9 months ago

Conservatives are so bad at making communism look bad.

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 20 points 9 months ago
[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 20 points 9 months ago

It enables people to get a truly obscene amount of work done in an incredibly short time?

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 17 points 9 months ago

Conservatives stop making communism cool challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago

So that's why I've been grinding my teeth so much lately

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago

Makes sense given that he's into downers and not uppers.

[-] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

I don't think he's religious I think he has a patrician attitude that people should go to church on sundays because it's the done thing

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Makes sense, every time I've taken amphetamines I have ended up feeling more sober

I guess I should get tested for adhd, but my point still stands

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

Bold quote foundation to use if considering his history

[-] Sasuke@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

the jokes write themselves peterson-pill-dinner

[-] Saoirse@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

And brother, I have untreated ADHD. racks slide

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