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[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 61 points 2 years ago

Democracy is when you vote between red man and blue man, both of whom have the same policies.

[-] Commiejones@hexbear.net 40 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

And both are funded by the same Bankers, Weapons Makers and Resource Extractors

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago

Though, in fairness, red man is actively hostile to LGBT people, migrants, and women whereas blue man is content to let LGBT people, migrants, and women suffer via apathetic neglect instead.

Truly a vibrant political system.

[-] MultigrainCerealista@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

Democracy is when The People Decide if trans people should exist but the tax rate policy is written by the rich

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

Weird how democracy didn't stop the genocide of the Native Americans, or the Aboriginal People of Australia, or the First Nations. I guess "true democracy" has just never been tried.

[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Let's topple all fake democracies. China's red-blue man owns US's red and blue men anyway.

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago

Two Jews meet on the U-Bahn in 1935. One is reading a Nazi newspaper. His friend asks him "how can you read those outrageous lies about us?!" He replies "If I read a real newspaper, its persecution this and deportation that. But in this paper? We own all the banks, the movies, the government!"

[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Classic but red flag (lol) conspiracy theory vibes in this context. Jewish people owning China or vice versa? Either way fits more in line with qanonists

[-] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

God could the point go over your head harder. That user wasn't engaging in a conspiracy theory that Jews on all the banks movies and government, they were comparing your apparent belief that the Chinese government controls the American government to those antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Also zero points in an argument with a bunch of people who can't downvote farquaad-point

[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Whooooosh lol 😉

Would someone actually create a "your apparent belief" in their mind from that

[-] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You know what, it's not even apparent, you explicitly stated it:

China's red-blue man owns US's red and blue men anyway.

disgost

[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There's actually a looong leap from the known China-sponsored politicians to antisemitic cabal conspiracy theories

[-] commiewithoutorgans@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

I think that in 30 years you'll be considered the anti-Semite of this age, honestly. Sartre once famously claimed something like "if the Nazi didn't have the jew, they would have created him."

Sartre, for all his faults, understood that fascism always needed the external and periphery, whether defined geographically or ethnically, in order to sustain itself through expropriation. Who this was doesn't matter as much as that this group is defined as having more than it deserves for bad reasons and is therefore justifiable as a victim of violent expropriation. The values represented have become more progressiveâ„¢ in that you believe China owns American representatives in order to mistreat Muslims or something. But materially it's identical to "Judeo-Bolshevik" antisemitism

Here's a bite-sized analysis from a guy who's pretty good at this:

https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1495054681579692035?t=gmJyzLx5go9hZWcFJkt5fw&s=19

[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I remember fascists have been calling antifascists fascists for a long time but "the anti-Semite of this age" is definitely one of the most despicably hateful derogatory things I've seen in a while.

Edit: no, I do not open links from Musk's alt-right-landia

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

Did you seriously read this as saying the Nazis were right?

[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I don't know who would read that

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