• DankZedong @lemmygrad.mlOP
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    For people that have been waiting for systemic change for decades by calmly ticking a box on a ballot you guys sure seem to not have that much patience

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    It is funny, all my adult life I’ve been a leftist but never had much interaction with tankies because of how I was always taught that they were hypocrites and pseudo-fascists and so on…

    But lurking lemmygrad and seeing “liberals”, who mostly don’t even know what that word means, getting repeatedly dunked on with actual sources and recommended reading has been a great eye opener to what ml actually stands for.

    So please keep doing what you guys are doing, because even if who you are responding to runs away after getting an elaborated answer, there will always be people like me that are actually trying to learn something and will appreciate the response.

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    Communists that you find on internet are not just 13 year olds from america, there is a world out there you libs/conservatives from americkkka. It is really funny you guys still make this joke. Communists comes in different age, colour, from different countries. It is not a phase in the life of rebellious children from your country. So please don’t come here to infantilize us.

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      Hey, the CPC has 90 million active members but they must all be naive, idiotic children, right? Truly they are too stupid to understand that our Western ideology is far more superior.

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          being a member of the CPC comes with duties and other obligations because you represent the state. For example you should be married before joining or at least in a relationship because they don’t want you to date around due to the power implications (you being a member and the people you date not being members).

          It’s not like joining a party in liberal democracies where you just pay the dues and then do whatever.

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          I don’t fully know what it entails but the CPC has 98 million party members. For a population of 1.4 billion that seems low, but you have to remember that not every single person has the ambition to be politically involved. Many people just live their lives without being member of a political party. And even then, almost 1 in 14 people being member of the biggest party in the country is pretty massive.

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        That’s it. The only way to remain an anti-communist is to refuse to read communist literature. Anyone who reads communist theory will either become a communist or know that communists are right (and become a figure like McCarthy).

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    Damn, they’re charging headlong into machine gun fire. And I thought meat shield suicide armies only existed in fiction.

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      There were a few occasions when the Romanian fascists machine‐gunned retreaters.

      Officers often threatened to shoot cowards, and commanders sometimes even ordered “blocking detachments” to machine gun soldiers who retreated, though this was rarely followed through with.

      (Source.)

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        blocking detachments

        According to Russell Bentley, the Ukrainian government was doing this during the 2015-2018 period of the war in Donbass. The regular army was incredibly demoralized – they were fighting against a determined and heroic enemy, who in the battle of Donetsk Airport took down Ukrop observation towers not with artillery, but with machine gun fire trained for days at the base – and to keep these conscripts from retreating, Azov and Aidar troops were kept stationed in their rear.

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    It’s closer to “if those kids could read they’d be very upset”.

    I’ve cancelled a lot of comments before posting them when they try to argue with you lot and don’t even know how you’re using words.

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    I don’t even know wtf I’m looking at.

    read theory…

    Maybe make it more generic to really be cryptic. Literacy vs libs

    Who’s libs? no idea. Reading what? still no idea. Why basketball is involved, cause kids like to ball.

    I’ve always wondered why dunks were considered a big deal. They happen several times a game and are the same amount of points. Is that in theory somewhere? I’m lost by everything in this meme

    • 🏳️‍⚧️ 新星 [she/they]@lemmygrad.ml
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      In case anyone actually has some of these questions:

      We’re a Marxist-Leninist instance, which means we’re communists.

      Libs refers to people who follow liberalism, which applies to both the US’ Democratic Party and the Republican Party.

      Theory refers to Marxist theory. We’re often famous for telling people to read things…

      The basketball is because memes are way better than making a paragraph explaining like this.

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      Yeah, because I’m sure American internet politicians are 100% serious and basketball is just a kid’s game. For a guy who thinks any progress is good, you seem to be pretty intent on keeping that progress as low as possible.

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      Maybe it is 😔 guess I should just wait for the liberal ideology to finally trickle down after 50 years

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      Rich westerners with access to all the treasures of the world’s literature, freely available, seconds away: “I can’t be bothered to read”.

      WW1 soldiers suffering from the most brutal war in history:

      We came down to the front of the Twelfth Army, back of Riga, where gaunt and bootless men sickened in the mud of desperate trenches; and when they saw us they started up, with their pinched faces and the flesh showing blue through their torn clothing, demanding eagerly, “Did you bring anything to read?”

      • Jack Reed - the ten days that shook the world
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        To be empathetic to them, our schools fucking suck, they teach most people to hate reading really, it’s ingenious of the ruling class, teach your population to read but make it so torturous in school that the majority won’t use it to educate or even entertain themselves

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        🆒Wow, damn, got’em dude😎 nah im just playin, that’s probably the stupidest thing I’ve read all week, read theory, loser

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        Yep, I really wish we could be like the US or the EU, and have the largest manufacturing economy in the world, and the biggest economy by PPP.

        Oh wait – that’s China.

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    Reminiscent of the self referential in r/TheDonald where they thought they would ‘own’ liberals…

    Same people kids, different flag.