• DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Do you think 4chan gets jealous that the left, one half of all political thought that has been dead and irrelevant for decades is still more feared by the establishment than fascism? Hell, porky is hiding behind 4chan’s legs like a scared little kid.

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      2 months ago

      Do you live in the imperial core? Have you been made to believe that left political thought has been dead and irrelevant for decades? Are you a victim of the Great Firewall protecting fragile westerner opinions from the conflicting views of a billion Chinese netizens?

      You may be entitled to financial compensation.

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        I’d compare leftism in the west to more like a dormant virus that occasionally shows symptoms, but is quickly and ruthlessly addressed because the host is a hypochondriac. And there’s no vaccine or treatment of the underlying cause, because capitalism is the cause. I’m a very firm believer that leftist movements spring up then spread very rapidly, like a pathogen or something. The masses can “activate” within weeks sometimes. Movements that begin as maybe 100 people can suddenly explode into hundreds of thousands in just a year, or less. At one point the communist party of China had dwindled down to what, 20 people? And then around 15 years later they had seized the whole country.

        I think Porky knows this, that the really scary stuff is uncontrolled widespread spontaneous discontent that coalesces into something more concentrated. That’s why they’re less afraid of fascists, because fascists will gladly play by the liberal rules.

        Also yes I’m comparing myself to a virus

        • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          Capitalism is a virus, Leftism is the vaccine.

          The patient is an anti-vaxxer that keeps winding up in the hospital after collapsing in public and then immediately punches the first doctor they see before checking themselves out of the ER and going to a homeopath that coughs in their face.