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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Downvote spam report: 1/4th of the downvotes on this one (so far) are from zero-content accounts.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Who could have done this

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

zero-content accounts

🙄

Again with this. Just for context, how many of the upvotes are zero-content accounts?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Interesting. How do you find that out?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Admins can see voting patterns.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Admins can see who upvotes and downvotes, I'm pretty sure.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This implies the CIA disinfo was some kind of oopsie

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

The purpose was that the disinformation was so bad that it shocked even the professor

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Agreed, the professor’s mouth and eyebrow should be flipped around.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd even replace communism with socialism. Since it's also vilified in the US, but it's a broader term which is, to me, more relevant nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (7 children)

What do you mean? Socialism is generally just the process of building Communism.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There exists socialist theory outside of marxism-leninism

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yes, there does, but the idea of a Socialism that would not eventually work itself towards Communism is silly, that assumes a stagnant system that cannot advance.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (20 children)

Communism works and has worked for thousands of years. People thrive when their needs are met. It's authoritarianism that doesn't work

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

When do you call a system "Communist" and when do you call it "Authoritarian?" Early-human "communism" isn't what Communists advocate for, instead Communists advocate for moving beyond Capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

authoritarianism has worked for thousands of years.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

just because the system isn't working for you doesn't mean it's not working

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Depends on the goal doesn’t it?

Authoritarianism archives incredible luxury and comfort for a very small portion of people.

Communism archives collective well being and minimized suffering.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

communism always fails because it's authoritarian, that's the same reason the west, the east and everything else will fall

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