hell yeah
It’s fun because I walked around the east and west coast with open communist shit and had quite a few young folks cold open walk up to me and ask what’s up and how they’re interested in learning more.
My vest has a trans colored ☭☭☭ over the heart and in a major US city nobody has ever hassled me about it. Mostly just get “nice vest”
Hell yeah, I’ve never seen your vest but I too shall say nice vest!
I’m doing my part
Local org doing food drives and teaching classes
Feels good
Also:
54 Percent of Strong Liberals Say Violence Against Rich Sometimes Justified
This is a pretty big deal? Honestly this seems like a bigger deal than the positive view of communism.
Yeah but they’re calling us liberals
these surveys never let you identify as a commie, it’s always “very liberal” to “very conservative”
This stuff can be maddening. To my MAGA neighbors, I’m a liberal and a commie, because they’re the exact same thing. To my leftist friends, I’m sometimes considered a shitlib or a fash-light, because I fall short of a purity test occasionally.
If I’m ever surveyed, I just choose “very liberal” and move on.
yeah I’m a centrist
So I don’t consider myself a centrist, but I guess it depends on who you ask, and where I’m at. I’m likely not quite as left as many here, but anything not Republican is radical here in MAGA Land where I live.
I will admit, the rise of MAGA Fascism in America has pushed me to the left.
FWIW I wasn’t calling you a centrist, I was making fun of the survey options like “yeah I’m a centrist, because I think communists and anarchists both make some good points”
the thing that finally pushed me out of liberalism was seeing the way the dems keep insisting that bipartisanship is good, motherfuckers cannot simultaneously tell me that the republicans are going fascist and still expect me to believe collaboration is good, I will reject both of them instead
Billionaires should be killed.
the survey did not define the concept of “socialism” and therefore it’s pretty unclear how the respondents perceive it. Is it related to scientific socialism, thaqt is Marxism-Leninism and the socialization of the means of production, or with the so-called “democratic socialism” (mixed economy, welfare state) within the capitalist system? Taking into account that the word “socialism” in the U.S has been associated with social democrats, like Bernie Sanders and AOC, the second option seems more favorable
While true, this is a huge improvement over where we were when I was a kid.
Ideals are easier to have than live. We need to bring them from the celestial realm to the material realm.
Calling it welfare would turn a whole bunch of people against it. Call it social safety net, or health care, or unemployment insurance, or poverty assistance… just a suggestion if you support the programs… the corporate politicians and racists have turned welfare into a bad word…. Entitlements is also seen as a bad word until people realize that means Medicare and social security.
I do understand that all of this actually is welfare… it’s just that the propaganda machine, I mean corporate media, have turned it into a bad word…
Words really do affect people emotionally, words are important…
I wholly agree, but most people don’t know how to find indie media unowned by very wealthy
fascistsliberals. Even the “progressives” on Lemmy refuse to read anything published outside the global West or Western-aligning, or if they do, dismiss it as tankie propaganda, and maybe plenty of it is. Look how long it took to convince Lemmy there’s an actual genocide in Gaza, and they’re still fiercely defending the iron dome.It defies comprehension how people can’t think, "the media lied to me about Palestine, we saw the Panama Papers, Snowden (but he moved to Russia, propaganda!), Manning, Assange, so many more! and refuse to consider they’re lying or seriously distorting everything else.
Contrary to popular belief capitalism is not actually a godlike entity that needs people to believe in its holy power to exist
59 Percent Favor Repealing Green Energy Subsidies to Pay for Permanent Tax Cuts
90 Percent Say There’s Nothing Wrong with Making Lots of Money Most Americans have favorable feelings toward the rich and what it takes to become rich:
9 in 10 Americans say “there is nothing wrong with trying to make as much money as one honestly can.” 62 percent agree that we all benefit when people get rich because they “invest their money in new businesses that create jobs and new technology.” 71 percent “disagree” with the idea that “it’s immoral to allow people to become billionaires.” 54 percent say they feel more admiration than resentment (46 percent) toward the rich.
world is still dogshit
Young Americans (40 percent) are also more willing to justify violence against the rich.
Small amount of hope for the future though.
bits of hope but still plenty of despair
Junko Enoshima emoji when?
Remember, these positions about billionaires aren’t strong. They’re something that the ruling class spends hundreds of billions of dollars maintaining. All it takes to flip those opinions is something else happening.
1st and 2nd world
they are
not like us
How many of the 30% unironically believes communism is when the government does a whole lotta stuff?
Sure, but the fact that 30% of them don’t think it’s downright evil from the 100+ years of anti-communism is kinda neat. I bet that number was near zero 40 years ago.
I, for one, believe wholeheartedy in the power of a socialist/communist revolution, and I feel morally obligated to use any means necessary to vote for someone that will make Canada more like Sweden /s
Socialism is when government does some things and communism is when government does most things
Let’s get those numbers up
Well, yeah.
Can’t get a good paying job. Can’t afford education. Can’t afford a nice house. Can’t afford health care.
We had a glimmer of a mildly less bad capitalist hellscape where people could work from home, and the ownership class stomped down on that.
A lot of people are mad about the current system. Some of them voted for trump for poor reasons. But it’s clear that the current system is bad for most people.
no more half measures walter
You can propagandize us all you want, but you can never stop your own system from breeding revolution out of its own contradictions
[Their weapons] can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.
Man, I wish It was like that in my country (am from post-socialist country)
:rick-harrison: best I can do are some 60yo conservative succdems
Man, I wish It was like that in my country (am from post-socialist country)
its the opposite there
only communists you will find there are at least 50 if not older
Not to do idealism or get all misty eyed, but Communism WILL win. Maybe not in my lifetime and maybe not yours, but we WILL win.
We gotta do the work now to make it happen
Tbh if it doesn’t happen in the next 10-15 years (at most) we run out the clock on climate change.
Hell yes.
