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[–] LittleLordLimerick@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why does AES always seems to end up with forced labor camps? I don't remember forced labor camps being a central part of socialist ideology...

A country can call itself socialist, that doesn't make it so.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So the arbiter of what is socialist is you? Not the revolutionaries who have actually worked on socialist projects

[–] LittleLordLimerick@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, I can have an opinion on socialism without having been a socialist-revolutionary. That is correct. Spot on.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sure you can have an opinion, but if its about something you know nothing about, and have not investigated then it is worthless. Not just to other people, but to yourself as well

[–] LittleLordLimerick@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know you are, but what am I?

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

no-choice I now have no choice but to abandon communism

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What have you actually done to help socialism then?

Are you a union organiser? Are you in a union? Which one? What party are you in? What projects do you support? What are you actually doing as a socialist? Other than voting for a liberal party every few years I mean.

[–] LittleLordLimerick@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My partner is a teacher and is in a union. We are both active in organizing and supporting. There are no unions for the industry I work in, so I work with hers.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Then you should know better than this bullshit, because you would be working with several of us. There is definitely not a teaching union that is not filled with MLs, education in particular has the highest number of us.

As opposed to you/hexbear being sole arbiters?

[–] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So America is AES? We lead the world in prision labor.

[–] LittleLordLimerick@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

America bad does not imply China good.

[–] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

China doing good in the world while America does bad does imply that though.