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Underlying all the lies and historical falsifications in Trump's declaration are the fears of a ruling class that is terrified by the growing opposition to capitalism.


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[–] HalfBakedChef@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

My company keeps me in a dorm like a soviet, and I have to pay for the privilege. $400 a month to have a stinky roommate in a 15x15 box. Why am I treated with such distain?

Company housing? Sounds a lot more like capitalism to me. Something capitalism has historically done across all capitalist countries. Some real gilded-age 1880's shit.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Nowadays that's no longer on the table of "allowed critiques of socialist regimes". Now you have to go by stuff like:

  • Social engineering.
  • Modern culture war bullshit somehow shoehorned into that period.
  • Culture war urban legends like a Hungarian football reporter being forced to refer to a player "the white sock player" instead of "the black player" (football players have numbers on them for easy identification).
  • Giving people welfare instead of work (most of the Soviet Bloc had mandatory work).
  • Not having a strongman leader like Donald Trump or Viktor Orbán, because these morons think it's called that because it's a good thing.
  • Claiming crime was rampant due to "lack of arrest quotas" (some states had arrest quotas, and regularly ended with tragedies).
  • Inventing some fake famines, because people need to claim communism = famine. This lead to people claiming Hungarians not eating beef like Americans is due to a famine. Hell, they even call banana shortages "famines", just to hammer this talking point home.