• 🏳️‍⚧️Edward [it/its]
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    3 months ago

    I am right now very happy for lemmygrads taglines, a) I was reminded (all day) this quote exists, and b) I didn’t have to go far to find it:

    It is difficult for me to imagine what ‘personal liberty’ is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment. Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible

    – J. V. Stalin, Interview Between J. Stalin and Roy Howard

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      3 months ago

      Again, I do not argue for capitalism, I agree with Stalin on this quote. I’m saying that I can go into whatever forum I want, and say that Joe Biden is committing genocide, and I don’t disappear, I don’t “kill myself” in my hotel room. I’m not defending capitalism, as I am a communist. The condition in which the worker lives is irreconcilable the universal liberty, however if China is socialism, in terms of liberty, they would be the same. I believe that socialism could be so much better. I believe that China could be so much better and it will be someday. But the state will not allow it.

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        3 months ago

        You have to be a troll. But - you’re a pretty funny one. A Boeing whistleblower ‘killed himself in a hotel room’ literally just last week. You can yell at Joe Biden however much you want, he’s still gonna commit genocide without blinking.

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          3 months ago

          Again, when I say Joe Biden commits genocide, I don’t get disappeared the next day.

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            3 months ago

            That’s because you’re a nobody.

            I know this guy’s already been banned and he can’t respond to this, but I just had to fucking say it.

            What liberals don’t get is that you’re only allowed to exist and argue against the state if you are effectively not a real threat.

            They don’t have to kill anybody in the CPUSA because they aren’t a very effective group at making political change (right now), but the Black Panthers? Well, that was a different story…

            A regular old citizen of Germany was arrested for posting on a social media post “from the river to the sea”, They didn’t even have to finish it. That was the only thing they said. Capitalist states disappear people all the time, It just depends on how fascist they are. And Germany is pretty fascist right now. The United States is in fact trying to destroy TikTok for its freedom of speech (I’m sure for other reasons too, as they probably just want an American bourgeois to make money off of it.).