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“Erm akshurally they just need to lift themselves by their bootstraps, workers are so lazy and entitled” ☝️🤓

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11 points

They can’t because their boots are too caked in horse shit!

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55 points

Workers start a worker owned cooperative that undercuts the old boss.

“NOT LIKE THAT!”

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6 points

dusting off my old copy of La Terra Trema

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15 points

Have you seen how expensive bootstraps are these days?

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10 points

Wtf did I read?

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-12 points

Chinese Pornography.

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1 point

Exactly.

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-44 points

Be careful where you step on this issue.

Pretty sure tankies are banned in the rules here.

Whats your opinion on NATO?

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79 points

Not all leftists are tankies. This is a pretty standard take on the failures of capitalism.

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49 points

Calling all leftists tankies is a pretty standard shit lib take

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3 points

It seems like a sizable portion of .world users have a thing for making up issues and claiming tankies are the cause of these imaginary issues, then getting together for a circle jerk about how great they are for recognizing these tankie problems.

They’re just like the American MAGA idiots - stupid people loudly getting upset about things.

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11 points

No Tankies are leftist, period.

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0 points

That’s not how subgroups work…

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Tankie is not synonymous with socialist/communist.

Edit: and neither is criticizing capitalism

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Yeah thats fine but federated instances are absolutely writhing with tankies who will use sentiments like this to encourage subterfuge and spread propoganda.

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18 points

I feel like if you react to any left-wing posts like a you’re the main role in a 50’s red scare propaganda video, they’ve already won.

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4 points

Maybe capitalism should have made sure we didn’t need 2-3 jobs all at 40 hours a week just to pay rent and groceries. Buying a home? Forget it.

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17 points

Disagreeing with imperialism makes you a tankie now? What in the absolute liberal brainrot what do you mean?

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7 points

Unfortunately they’re too fargone. You should save your time and energy.

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Are you referring to NATO as imperialism?

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9 points

It exists as an extension of American imperial power, its how America wages war and influnces so many countries. Is it not outrageous to want an end to the endless cycle of forever war perpetuated by the military industrial complex and nato?

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Completely fine with me.

What’s your opinion billionaires?

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Shouldn’t exist, but that hardly proves my political allegiances.

You pass btw

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2 points

What do you think about the economy being owned by the working class? Also what about a future where the global south isn’t drained of resources in the name of the capitalist class?

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4 points

Is this a verification can test?

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44 points

I exclusively drink bull milk

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20 points

That’s what my Dom calls it, too

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The whole “more cows and computerized milking raised prices of milk” reeks of anti-industrial Luddite garbage.

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You should read about who the luddites actually were. They were not opposed to technology, but to poor wages, low quality goods, and workers being replaced. Capitalists destroyed their reputation with propoganda.

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What actually raises the price of milk is the farmer uses his profits to buy up other local dairy farms consolidating their position in the market. They then sign exclusivity deals with both grocers and further milk processors (who are also consolidating) to prevent competing in the market, driving their competitors to either sell for cheap or go out of business. https://theconversation.com/americas-dairy-farms-are-disappearing-down-95-since-the-1970s-milk-price-rules-are-one-reason-why-237439#:~:text=Across the country%2C the dairy,per farm – has been rising.

Because “farm Inc” has a massive horde of wealth, they can stamp out competition by either buying them out, cutting them out, or driving them out of business with prices a small farmer can’t handle. After that, they get to set and raise prices at will with the now smaller pool of big name “farm Inc”.

This literally happens every time a market is poorly regulated and businesses allowed to grow too big. It’s the natural end state of capitalism.

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End state? That’a just stage two. The end state is when we all are sworn to our individual masters on penalty of death/disemploymeant, or when we’ve had enough and do something different

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8 points

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