For example, I’m a communist, so I don’t believe in money as a ledger of account. So I would really be owned if the CIA left large sums of cash at my doorstep.

I’ve taken the vocel pledge, so I’m vulnerable to having an intensely attractive spy try to extract antifa super secrets from me. It could jeopardize communism if I were to be compromised in such a way

I am easily swayed by propaganda, so if I had another season of Star Trek, especially an Ortega heavy one, to watch I’d be rendered powerless to continue posting and spreading agitprop because I’d have to avoid spoilers. It would be the perfect window to put spies and money around me

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    Don’t plant pollinator gardens in the empty spaces where I’m secretly planning to put a giant statue of Lenin’s head. People enjoy those more, but I could convert them to communism if they saw Lenin’s head instead.

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      What’s more, if all the hostile architecture goes away, we’ll be so inundated by the unhoused that we’ll have no where to do our socialist demagogy. If the city is more walkable in general we’ll be drowned out by everything going on in on the people who WALK by that they won’t stop to listen to us. Antifa’s outreach will be shattered.

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    As an impassioned agitator for transition to a communist state, I’d be extremely effectively robbed of my rebelliousness and righteous anger if we established a a dictatorship of the proleteriat. I’d hate it so muuuch maddened

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    My poverty means that I haven’t been able to travel to China so I can see how terrible it is there compared to the United States. My illusions sure would be shattered if I had to see for myself how a reliance on high speed rail instead of cars makes everyone feel so unfree.

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      yeah, if the US built high speed rail then we’d be firmly owned. We’ve been asking and asking for it and then when we realize it’s not all it’s cracked up to be we’ll never have any public credibility again. It’s fullproof!

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    Marxist leninists in imperial core countries would suffer so much, if the imperial super profits were to stop flowing in. Please don’t stop all the wars or conditions might reach a stage were we actually have to get up and lead a communist revolution instead of just posting about it.

    jk we should do that anyway

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    I am technically able to pay my students loans off over 20+ years, and as we know “from each according to their ability”. It is therefore my duty as a good communist to pay my student loans and their interest in full, and I would be insulted if they were erased.

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      Exactly! When we get a government handout then how will we ever convince anyone that communism is le good? We’ll go from being bitter losers to beneficiaries of the system and thereby our critiques will be invalidated.