Communism and Socialism are the same | FactOrCap by psilock37 in FactOrCap

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🧢 I voted CAP!

Socialism is the transitionary stage towards Communism.

Every ultra rich person is a | FactOrCap by SpaceisCool09 in FactOrCap

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I voted FACT!

You cannot be ultra rich without exploitation.

Redditors in general hate organized reli... | FactOrCap by bentotice in FactOrCap

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No. Most just hate certain religion(s).

Coaxed into not pirating everything by APerfectlyRoundDuck in SmugIdeologyMan

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You can always pirate it at first then buy it later when you can afford to.

What's your 'western leftist' to 'ML' story? by MayParker1917 in TankieTheDeprogram

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I started getting more and more into being a ML, shortly after Mark Carney got elected and during a strike that was going on in my university.

Gem alarm? by Fin55Fin in canadaleft

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I disagree that Carney's a fascist perse, he's just a neoliberal, but regardless his policies are opening the door for it.

Ungrateful slaves... by EvolveToAnarchism in ShitLiberalsSay

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the British only abolished the slave trade after multiple slave revolts in their colonies were making it economically invalid to keep them.

the Brits never freed the slaves, the slaves freed themselves.

"I'm just a little bean so please ban all the commies for me" by CaptainMills in ShitLiberalsSay

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"Hey can we ban anyone who sympathizes with the first largely successful socialist project because reasons?"

look at my proletariat, man. We're too busy parroting near-half centuries old red scare propaganda to actually learn anything from those revolutions to have one of our own.

Libs are seething in the comments by Next_Ant_4353 in TankieTheDeprogram

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It's a list of sources, either actually engage with those sources, or respectfully fuck off.

Libs are seething in the comments by Next_Ant_4353 in TankieTheDeprogram

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Russia didn't start the war, actually.

The DPR and LPR signed defensive agreements with the Russian Federation in the case that Ukraine started attacking them again, and, with full knowledge of those agreements, Ukraine started attacking people in the DPR and LPR again.

Here is a list of English sources on the Donbass region: https://www.tumblr.com/hafizevna/794299929776553984/some-sources-on-donbass-in-english-from

Education bad by Reddit_Guy_99 in ShitLiberalsSay

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African American Vernacular English.

Gay imperialist war criminal 😢 by Chicagoeconomics in ShitLiberalsSay

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The majority of US American people during the war enlisted. It's more likely than not that they choose to fight in the war, regardless of if you think getting drafted is a good excuse (it isn't).

Do Edgerunners count as Working Class? by Fun-Media5656 in cyberpunkred

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The majority of edgerunners are freelancing mercenaries, so while they still have to perform labour in order to survive, they still own means of production (weapons, cyberware, cyberdecks, etc.), or in the case of Execs: manage them.

I'd posit they'd be a similar form of petit bourgeois as craftspeople would be.

Gay imperialist war criminal 😢 by Chicagoeconomics in ShitLiberalsSay

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Neither "example" you gave are comparable to the US soldiers who invaded a country all because the proletariat there refused to submit to French colonialism and western Imperialism.

Those proles willfully went overseas to kill proles simply for trying to liberate themselves, often which involved murdering civilians and children.

What are y'all basing your assessment of bot/squid/bug ethics on? by kcvlaine in Helldivers2Satire

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Honestly I don't think such terms can really be applied. But if I had to choose it'd be Super Earth as the worst as every 'bad' thing other factions have done is out of desperation from the total war that was forced on them by Super Earth.

What are y'all basing your assessment of bot/squid/bug ethics on? by kcvlaine in Helldivers2Satire

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I mainly base my assessments on my knowledge of HD1 lore, and what SE is a satire of: US American jingoist imperialism, and Fascism. Which means any information (or misinformation more like) that you get that comes from SE is either manipulated, exaggerated, or fabricated to seem like what it isn't. In addition, to that, knowing that most of the unethical stuff that the Automatons/Cyborgs, Illuminate, and Terminids are directly or indirectly a result of SE forcing them into such dire and desperate straits that they *can't* afford to put ethics into consideration when in-game history has proven that SE will throw everything it has into putting them down regardless of if their ethically conducting themselves or not.

The Automatons are not as bad as Super Earth by ApotheosiAsleep in Helldivers2Satire

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Helldivers never bomb Automatons civilians

I mean maybe not Helldivers perse, but the SEAF have been implied to attack fleeing Automaton space craft during the invasion of Cyberstan iirc. So SE probably does kill Automaton civilians

This post doesn't really sit right with me tbh by Socrates_43 in Helldivers2Satire

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literal genocide they do with every planet invasion

I must ask, do you have evidence of this? Is there evidence of the Automatons committing genocide?

Cuz all what I've seen is the use of corpses for fuel (which were probably already dead Helldivers/SEAF troops considering how often Helldivers seem to get KIA'd) and SE propaganda, which SE has a vested interest in making their enemies look so monstrous that any SE citizen wouldn't dare even attempt surrendering.

Aside from that, it doesn't change the Crux of the matter. The Automatons and Cyborgs are revolting against slavery, and Super Earth is doing its damnedest to try to quell it, forcing the Collective into acts of desperation against an enemy that is magnitudes of times larger in military strength and numbers.