• BigBolillo@mgtowlemmy.org
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    Communism is fun until there is no more someone else’s money for free handouts.

    I adapted it but it’s still valid I guess.

    Expect companies to flee the state just as happened in LA.

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      15 hours ago

      Where do you think those billionaires got their money?

      spoiler

      Its all Someone Else’s Money

      New York as a whole has ridiculous taxes because of insane police budgets and corruption allowing stuff like ambulance companies charging the state 3K/trip for non-emergency weekly dialysis visits.

      Which is weirdly similar to California which you’d think was a communist utopia the way rightwingers talk about it.

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        If I sell you a thing, it’s no longer your money, it’s my money. You get a thing that is now your thing.

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          Nah, you get temporary conditional privileges to use my thing. And I decide the price because I’m the only company that makes the thing because I’ve used all of my previous exploitation of you to buy out all of my competitors and buy your government.

          Free market so good

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          Problem is by now, I don’t get that thing anymore. i get a freaking licence to use it for some time, and when you decide I don’t own that licence anymore you got my money and I have nothing

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      Then start taking their property and give it to the community of people who are running it anyways.

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          Then the community has less burdens and it continues to build them as they always have for the rich.

          You think you would just disappear because you can’t suck rich people’s dicks?

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      This isn’t communism and social programs are a net positive in the long run. California is doing fine.

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            I define it as something not much different than fascism. For me the main differences between these are the nationalist and globalist difference, fascism being national socialism and communism being globalist socialism.

            I know the official definition of communism is just the owning of the means of production by the state which could be true but beside that there is always an elite of individuals which are in control and have a particular interest in controlling everyone else’s lives for the good of “the proletariat” but more for their own interests.

            So national socialism is a more localized doctrine and globalist socialism is a more global doctrine.

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              an elite of individuals which are in control and have a particular interest in controlling everyone else’s live

              Ask a lib to describe communism and they describe capitalism.

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                Slightly more insidious than that is the attempt to conflate ‘socialism’ with ‘national socialism’, i.e. the Nazis. Seemingly every five minutes someone tries to conflate the two despite being on opposite sides of the political spectrum, hence the bullshit pseudoscience that is “horseshoe theory”.

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                  Libs: I just shit my pants. Both the communists and the nazis are trying to avoid me. That’s because they’re actually the same.