• HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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    A Marxist is stuck in a room with a liberal, a fascist, and an anarchist. The Marxist has one gun and two bullets. What does the Marxist do? Shoot the liberal and the anarchist.

    (Based off actual historical events.)

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    2 hours ago

    A leftist is stuck in a room with another leftist and a fascist.

    The leftist has one gun and two bullets, and they must be used.

    What does the leftist do?

    Shoot the other leftist twice.

  • meowMix2525@lemm.ee
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    3 hours ago

    Of course they started with 6 bullets but the liberal and the fascist liked to pass the gun around and take pot shots at the marxist every so often so the marxist couldn’t ever influence or overpower them. This is just the moment the liberal realized there were only two bullets left.

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    3 hours ago

    Fuck that shit answer. I’d shoot myself twice.

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        1 hour ago

        If the Marxist is Russian, I’m pretty confident I’d be able to shoot myself twice in the head in that room.

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    5 hours ago

    My political positions are somewhere on the left outskirts of Social Democracy, so I’ve no love for liberals. That said, when I look at the US, it was not the liberals that just gave a fascist not only a gun but an entire army.

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    10 hours ago

    “Do you know why people don’t like liberals? Because they lose. If liberals are so fucking smart, how come they lose so god damn always?” - Will MacAvoy, Newsroom

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    13 hours ago

    Reminds me of a joke on a Bright Eyes song.

    “There’s a Communist and an Anarchist in a car who’s driving? The cop.”

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      10 hours ago

      Our choices were Fascism or Corporatism. Why wouldn’t we blame the parties?

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        10 hours ago

        I blame the Democratic party as much as anybody else for not being progressive enough, but nobody can blame a party for their own decision not to vote.

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          6 hours ago

          Are you one of the people who consider voting third party to be tantamount to not voting?

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    12 hours ago

    What’s a liberal according to Lemmy? Economically liberal and socially liberal? Social democrat? Obama or Bernie?

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      5 hours ago

      It kind of has a double meaning. One side is someone who believes in like democracy, freedom, human rights, and the other side is someone who believes in private property. For historical reasons, the two tendencies are like joined together on most things, but there are differences.

      A lot of leftists don’t like liberals because they defend private property and capitalism, but a lot of liberals see themselves as leftists because of those progressive values.

      Whether or not a liberal is left wing very much depends on the liberal. Every socialist was once a liberal, whether they were political or not. Conservatives are a kind of liberal, but with the progressive parts removed so it only defends private property.

      capitalism is really good at like hiding away its injustice behind contracts and laws, a socialist would see those laws as unjust and want to do radical reforms up to and including overthrow of the ruling billionaires. a liberal might not see the injustice, or if they do, tend to want to stick to courts and reforms because it does contain elements of fairness and justice. liberal justice is more fair than feudal justice, but less than what many socialists would like.

      The meme is a reference to the idea that social democracy, liberalism and fascism are all different aspects of capitalism.

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      I would use the terms as they mean depending on the context of the conversation and who the audience is. If I know that my audience is American and probably less knowing of the original meaning of the terms, I would use the words liberal and conservative as they mean in American mainstream sense. But if I know that the audience is knowledgeable enough to know what the word liberal means in the classical sense, I would use the term in such a way.

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          11 hours ago

          Depends on how quickly you have to read. It’s not a very dense book because like half of it is restating history and context you can just skim by if you’re already familiar with the time period, and it uses very accessible language.

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            10 hours ago

            Yeah that’s why I’m curious. I read at about 350WPM so what I consider a fast read may be slow for some.

            It also depends on the density of the text. I’ve been struggling through Imperialism by Lenin for like a month.

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              10 hours ago

              Sorry, I literally don’t have an answer, I have never timed how long it takes to read something. All I can say is how quick it feels to read something.

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        5 hours ago

        So rich people? 18th century bourgeois were probably quite liberal but I bet a lot of current bourgeois are more conservative than liberal, so it’s hard to understand.

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    4 hours ago

    More like spot themselves in the foot and drop the gun at the fascist’s feet.

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    Anarchist has his own, and due to his knowledge of history he kills the other three before the marxist can attempt to talk him into teaming up against the fascist then turn around and stab him in the back while bickering with the liberal.