Every third post on Lemmy

Hey yknow that’s a good point.

I mean unless we’re talking about the rich. But like my whole political ideology kinda hinges on aggression in that direction so…

I think the common Communist definition of "Rich" and Marx's might differ vastly, and I think the vagueness of the word is half the reason. I see too many Communists calling for the death to (for example) computer programmers because many of them are able to save up a couple million by retirement. I know a few that ended up with $10M cash because they worked for a profit-share startup. While I'm not an expert on Marx, I'm pretty sure that's not what he meant when he referred to the bourgeoisie.

Hell, I don't think he ever predicted the massive number of "petite bourgeoisie" that we have now in much of the west, people who put in 60-80 hours simply to live the same life the rest of us live but not have to obediently answer a boss. I'd do that if I could. You'd think Communists could make allies of both the successful proles (like programmers) and the petite bourgeoisie.

If you draw "rich" somewhere close to the $100M mark or higher and include some asterisks on the ones you think should be murdered in the streets (assuming that's what you meant by "unless we're talking about the rich"), maybe most people will agree you're not an aggressive communist (but still be terrified of you like we are of anyone who wants to kill someone for who they are). If you're going to look at a grandma who has $2M in savings after her husband dies, the world's got problems with you.

I mean, if you want to peacefully dismantle people like Musk, then I'm 100% on board with you. If you would support someone taking sudden and violent force to him, as much as I think he's a douche, that's why we use the word "aggressive".

I'm sorry but the Marxist and communist discussions on here are an absolute far cry from wallstreetbets lmao, not to mention using WSB favorite word gets you banned in a lot of these communities

Exactly

Are you lying about the communists supporting Trump or are you just repeating lies about the communists supporting Trump?

One time, back in the 90s, a baby danced.

Apologies for the sin of linking Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NonPoliticalTwitter/

Sometimes humans do stuff that are not at all related with politics. But we are masters of linking any non-political action to political arguments. (The classic 'I like pancakes.'-'So you hate waffles!'-problem)

Sometimes I just want to have a space to engage with funny memes without the mental strain of filtering out political comments.

I would say pre 2016 political jokes was at one level, where the onion could make jokes that was not just an echo of reality.

Somewhere after that we crossed the political joke event horizon, and now we live in bizarro world, where many news items could have been the onion jokes.

Sure that's true, but here it's like way above 50% of the posts being just full-on propaganda, disguised as memes. IDK, I'm just comparing it to other sites/communities where the politics to meme ratio is way lower and feels less forced.

Back in the 2000s, most memes were just cat pictures. Longcat [is long], ceiling cat [is watching you], keyboard cat, grumpy cat etc.

Also #BrusselsLockdown hashtag was used in 2015 to ease political tension.

Haha yes! The threehundreth variation of the same joke, feels like the first time I heard it

You had me at first lol

I mean it does though? If my wife died because she couldn't get healthcare she needed, I feel like that might maybe affect me.

There was a way to word this where you wouldn’t be a hypocrite but ya kinda just face planted fam.

The whole point of being progressive is to identify things we’ve been missing and things we’ve been doing wrong and to fix them.

Not to only swing the pendulum the other way. Not cool.

Singling out straight white men.. so progressive!

I don't know why people are down voting you when you're right. Hell people are mad at you just for talking about it

tits or boobies debate. Discuss amongst yourselves

I wonder if there are any conservatives who get upset about nutrition labels when they find out the food has trans fats in it.

The truth is somewhere in the middle, like always

Edit: apparently I should have put /s at the end

never ever ever let the fascists run unchecked. they tend to end upside down somewhere in Italy.

Fellow South Dakotan, /me tips hat

I've been here a couple of months and I don't think I've seen but possibly one Biden thing

There are already, like antiquememeroadshow, adhdmemes and my_mouldy_memes. But the most generic meme communities, or the flagship meme communities if you prefer it that way, are infected.

I hate to tell ya this but it’s like that all over the internet with any population of reasonable size. This is the noise of smashing huge amounts of people from all walks of lives and experiences together.

Of course the thing in common to talk about is the thing that impacts our lives the most.

Did I hit a nerve? UwU

I wish I could ban hexbear as a whole.

Why did you join lemmy.ml then? You could instead use an instance which defederates from hexbear and lemmygrad...