Reading about FOSS philosophy, degoogling, becoming against corporations, and now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)

  • FaeDrifterEnglish
    54·
    9 months ago

    Unfortunately I’m not making them up, because if I was, communism would be far more popular.

    Instead of communists going, “well, maybe I could be better”, they go, “it’s all western propaganda that makes communism so unpopular, it could not possibly be me that ever does anything wrong”.

      • FaeDrifterEnglish
        56·
        9 months ago

        “Marxism” polls very popular in an authoritarian 1-party dictatorship that strictly controls the internet, media, and speech, polls unpopular where freedom of speech is allowed.

        This is not the flex you want it to be, you’re really just proving my point that communists are terrible at messaging.

      • FaeDrifterEnglish
        56·
        9 months ago

        (Also just a gentle reminder that dehumanizing an out-group is a red flag for fascism)

          • FaeDrifterEnglish
            33·
            9 months ago

            Point out precisely where in this conversation I dehumanized an outgroup like you did with “westoid cesspool”, and I’ll concede that I am as much of a fascist as you are.

              • FaeDrifterEnglish
                34·
                9 months ago

                If you’re referring to this comment:

                “Marxism” polls very popular in an authoritarian 1-party dictatorship that strictly controls the internet, media, and speech, polls unpopular where freedom of speech is allowed.

                It’s not “dehumanizing” to criticize a government. The people of China - for them I have a huge amount of empathy and sympathy. I believe they deserve freedom of speech, and LGBTQ rights, and all human rights. I go out of my way to pay more for fair-trade goods, and avoid companies that exploit Chinese laborers (hello Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon).

                There is a distinctive difference between unhelpful slurs (westoid cesspool), and legitimate criticism (1-party dictatorship).

                • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
                  410·
                  9 months ago

                  You’re not criticizing the government, you’re removing agency from people living in China and claiming that they’re not capable of making their own decisions. Thinking that you know better than they do is peak chauvinism. The fact that you confuse your racism with legitimate criticism says a lot about you.

                  • FaeDrifterEnglish
                    21·
                    9 months ago

                    Also, the US might have freedom of speech, but it’s still an oligarchy with a government that serves the rich more than the majority.

                    I’m not “peak chauvinist against US citizens because I’m removing their agency”, it’s just objectively very difficult for the laboring class to fight back against the ruling & ownership class, and I have no difficulty in criticizing the US government for it.

                  • FaeDrifterEnglish
                    22·
                    9 months ago

                    Not at all what I’m saying.

                    I’m saying the government controls all the flow of information, and I don’t trust their numbers to reflect reality. I don’t trust Apple’s customer satisfaction surveys either.

                    I mean, should anybody be surprised that a communist organization newspaper would survey high support for Marxism? That’s like the NRA releasing survey results that show high support for zero gun regulation.

                    If you want to be effective at messaging for communism, besides learning to take criticism, you also have to be aware of your own confirmation bias.