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Also it doesn’t take a genius to point out the obvious. Anybody can tell you that fire is hot, water is wet, Hitler was a bad man, and Marxism is a failure. Marxists coping with the failures of Marxism have the same denial as conspiracy theorists. There’s literally no way about it. Marxism is in the same boat as feudalism, Nazism, absolute monarchies, or religious theocracies. They’re complete failures that need to be left behind in the past where they belong. Marxism didn’t work yesterday, it’s not going to work today, and it won’t work tomorrow.

What are you even talking about?

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China stopped being economically Marxist in the 1980s. The only thing that they kept from Marxism was all the authoritarianism. Cuba isn’t doing too hot though, their doctors literally get paid $50 a month

If you have the ability to learn, then learn from history. It states very clearly in big bold letters that MARXISM IS A FAILURE

Capitalism is not perfect, it has many problems and requires many adjustments, but despite it’s flaws it is objectively better than Marxism. Why? Because it has actually been proven to work.

They could, but they’re pretty much guaranteed to not be as bad as the big corporations because they lack the resources and know how. The fact that you could also host your own instance is a huge plus considering that you could basically ensure that your data won’t get collected.

You probably think this is a galaxy brain gotcha, when in reality it just shows you’re incapable of comprehend the concept of context. I gave an opinion. You can either agree or disagree. If you disagree then either state that you disagree and leave or explain your disagreement. Leaving ad hom and pretending it’s an explanation is literally the textbook example of why this fallacy is a fallacy. It doesn’t make you any less wrong or me any less right. It just showcases your inability to actually rebuttal what was said. With that being said, if some moron is clearly engaging in bad faith, then there’s nothing for me to explain. There’s literally no argument for me to counter, therfore, these morons just get a reflection of their engagement

Cultural hegemony is literally a Marxist concept that only exists to justify the ideology, not the other way around. No matter which way we slice it, Marxism in all its forms is a failure. It’s a failure both on paper and in practice. It has resulted in just as many, if not more atrocities than fascism… Yet fascism has been rightfully demonized and put to rest, but Marxism hasn’t. It’s time to move past Marxism, it’s wrong and it’ll never work.

Perhaps those were the most efficient jokes?

Lemmy is basically just a decentralized clone of reddit. A public profile containing comments, posts, upvotes, and the like are considered an integral part of the Reddit experience. I personally don’t like it as a feature, but that’s why it exists.

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The point I’m trying to make is that these things are open to interpretations. There are religious people who take them literally and other religious people who don’t.

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I know, American politics is so littered partisan hacks that anything that doesn’t align with liberal or conservative propaganda seems odd.

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Exaggerations like this end up hurting your cause rather than helping it. It shows that you need hyperbole to make your points, which just delegitimizes them. If you just stated things as they are, more people would appreciate your honesty and would be willing to consider your arguments. Banning abortion is authoritarian, harms women, and the bans don’t actually reduce abortion rates per the research. That’s all you need to say to have most people support you.

I feel like being against cronyism isn’t really a hot take. Virtually everybody is against cronyism except for the cronies themselves.

They’re private in the sense that there isn’t a corporation stealing your data without your knowledge, selling it without your consent, removed you out for ads against your will, and/or making your experience shittier to manipulate you into buying their paid features. These alternatives offer a much more pure experience for the typical user. Things like comment and vote history being public is just a part of the design of the forum, they’re not tools to farm your data.

That’s some bullshit

Fun fact: Capitalism is superior to any form of Marxism and there’s literally nothing you could do or say to change that

Another fun fact: Not everything you don’t like is capitalism’s fault.

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