tocopherol

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[–] tocopherol 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

don’t accept cash or credit, only some kind of cash transfer app like zelle.

That sounds sketchy, I've seen card only but where have you seen a business do this?

[–] tocopherol 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Well yeah it's probably not actually useful right now for establishment dems to use it. Occupy Wall Street helped popularize the idea of the 99% vs the 1%, I think that sort of language is more useful for encouraging unity among the working class.

Like describing workers vs the owner class or something along those lines, there are many ways to explain marxist/socialist concepts with simple, easy to grasp language that isn't stained with the connotations of 'communism' that many Americans are instinctively opposed to due to decades of red scare propaganda.

[–] tocopherol 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The fetishists yes, but to anyone thinking otherwise mostly all the leftists I know are strapped. It's just an issue of organization.

[–] tocopherol 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Years ago I was site-wide banned for "multiple false reporting" or something for reporting comments that advocated blanket murdering protesters and black people related to BLM protests. These comments are probably still there while antifascist users and subs are banned regularly.

[–] tocopherol 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah, I don't think it's very likely that a mythical jolly man brings presents to kids worldwide

[–] tocopherol 6 points 4 months ago

At best ICE and DHS officials should be tried in a Nuremberg style court.

[–] tocopherol 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I think it would help teach people the term, and that could increase class consciousness among average people, which would probably cause more people to see both parties as the shams they are. If they used more explicit leftist language like that though it could trick some into thinking they are truly a left-wing party.

[–] tocopherol 1 points 4 months ago

Yes because I would raise my daughter to get to know someone before dating them and have a good sense of character, and not assume someone was evil because they were in a prison. It's also been shown that innocent people have been sent there.

[–] tocopherol 4 points 4 months ago (6 children)

If you're talking about actual 'leftists' on a true scale, not the center and right wing dems and reps, most support gun ownership for all of the proletariat. Democrats talk about qualifications for gun ownership or more restrictions but all the leftists I've personally known would agree with the maxim from Marx:

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary

From the Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League

[–] tocopherol 2 points 4 months ago

Why would we bother criticizing fascists? Do you think a nazi will change his mind because I argued against totalitarianism and xenophobia well enough? Tankies critique the left because we actually have a chance of working together. I'd be curious to know what fascist propaganda tankies espouse according to you also.

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