this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2023
511 points (87.3% liked)
Asklemmy
43968 readers
1681 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy ๐
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
They're not leftists - they're just red-coded fascists.
The clearest evidence of this is the total disregard for worker enfranchisement and meaningful decommodification.
this is the mainstream view on the far-left
i didnt voice any opinion on what the extreme or far left are, so i imagine you either didnt understand my comment or are being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian
The point of animal farm is "Communists are so shit, they're almost as bad as capitalists". Suggesting that Orwell wouldn't prefer communism to capitalism is simply false.
"I support the upcoming American Hitler 2.0 rounding up and elimination of undesirables fascism because a system that forces me to contribute to the healthcare of others is equally bad."
Cool story bro
Righties: YoU cAnT rEaD lOl
Also righties: