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...but Corporate Socialism is widely accepted and successful in the USA. The Americans will not top the 1st class European countries, because the vast majority are slaving away at work and simply too tired and stressed out to protest or vote out the asswipes supporting the current system.
That and most of us didn't pay attention to school.
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.
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.
The opinions shared about socialism in this thread prove you right, unfortunately.
The rich use their money to make and separate classes using information/propaganda/public relations/marketing/slogans or whatever your favourite word is for communication to the masses.
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"
The US used to be a world leader in anti-fascism.
anti-fascism or anti competing fascism?
Isn't manifested destiny already fascism?
Eeeh... It was only anti-fascism as in "anti-others" (who happened to be fascists in a way they differentiated from). The US has been real fucking bad from the very start and there hasn't been a single moment where that stopped. I can't see a single period where it isn't the modern day meaning of fascist. Yeah, the civil war was won by the better part but it wasn't a "good vs evil" black and white thing, because nothing is like that in reality. Faschism is deeply ingrained in the US and has always been so, especially when it comes to politicians, military, police force etc.
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.
Yes.
The fire department is socialist. People like the fire department.
I don't! They only show up to my house when there's a fire! They bring bad juju, and fire!
“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"
"Parasitic pedophile class" is a lot of words to just say "conservatives".
