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The US used to be a world leader in anti-fascism. There's even those old-timey films explaining how letting it in would ruin the American way.

https://youtu.be/42X_eAOU4DU "Don't Be a Sucker"

Both of the Cold War empires spent decades lying about what socialism was, and that process continues to this day. No wonder people are confused.

All major media outlets are fascist mouthpieces

“Means of building collective power”. That’s the right thing to communicate, My take is we need a new word that’s not socialism, communism etc because those words have lost concrete meaning, similar to globalism and neoliberalism no one knows what they mean anymore because they’ve been targeted, abused, redefined and vilified.

People have knee-jerk reactions to those words.

I tried that in a group of people the other day. I got a resounding "Nah, I'm good"

What do you do when everyone is happy to die? Because right now my plan is "try my damned best to make sure these dipshits don't take me down with them"

in the OG Matrix: Cypher isn't evil because he betrays everyone and gets some people killed, which is undoubtedly an evil act. No, Cypher is inherently evil because he not only doesn't care, but he actively chooses ignorance. He CHOOSES to go back to sleep. This is the avg American. They chose ignorance because they WANT to be mesmerized and lied to, Americans enjoy and celebrate it. IGNORANCE IS BLISS.

How does one connect with one's humanity?

How does one connect with one's community, especially if somebody has to start?

"Parasitic pedophile class" is a lot of words to just say "conservatives".

Everybody's hooked on communism.

But what about anarchism?

Whenever I see posts about "rebelling" and "standing up" I just think...are you assuming that the vast majority of people in this country ARE NOT okay with their lives? I mean, that's the only way a true "rebellion" will ever occur. And despite what liberals and the Left say, most Americans are content with their lives.

The amount of people who are completely ignorant about socialism and communism in this thread is evidence that the first sentence of this tweet is true, and that it was super effective.

And yet you need twitter to get your message out. Irony in that...

I bugged out 20 years ago and that community you refer to took alll they could from me and kicked me to the curb.

Im gonna need appologies and damages compensated before i believe in society again.

Im not holding my breath.

americans can't rebel.
that money has also been used to make them weak, subservient and pacified.
Best they can do is vote harder and whine

O my God. I cannot even begin to tell you how truly stupid this meme is!

Building collective power and protecting the vulnerable.

Show me one example of a socialist or communist country that has actually accomplished what this meme is describing. And no, don't just say China. China is a hybrid economy that has incorporated extensive markets and private enterprise alongside substantial state ownership and control. It isn't some straightforward example of the socialism this meme is talking about.

More importantly, socialism and communism were never originally designed around "protecting the vulnerable" in the first place. The central issue was economic power and ownership.

The fundamental socialist argument was that the people who collectively produce wealth should have collective ownership and control over the means of production, rather than allowing those means of production to be concentrated in the hands of a relatively small class of private owners.

And ironically, wealth concentration is exactly the problem we're dealing with today. You don't need to invent a "parasitic pedophile class" or some grand conspiracy to make that argument. Concentration of wealth inevitably creates concentration of political and economic power, and that is a legitimate problem that deserves serious discussion.

You can absolutely argue that collective economic power would provide greater protection for vulnerable people. But that's an argument for socialism. It isn't the original definition or purpose of socialism.

If you're going to defend socialism, at least defend what socialism actually is rather than turning it into a generic synonym for "things that help vulnerable people."

And can we please stop attributing every good thing a government does to socialism? Socialism is an economic system. Programs designed to help people are social programs run by the government, and they are not inherently socialist or communist. Providing public services and social programs is simply one of the basic functions of a governing system.

Thank you for sharing this, OP. This is beautiful.