• ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    11 days ago

    God can you imagine if we lived in a hellishly cruel and exploitative world of industrial genocides, child labor and deregulation, like in the dirty stinky past? Then those communists might have a point, haha

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      11 days ago

      Once I had someone try to refuse communism with something like “Marx was writing at a time where everything was made in factories. Times have changed.”

      ok which star trek replicator did your clothes come from mr liberal

      • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        You mean to tell me that the people making all commodities aren’t making $300k/yr and working from home with their output coordinated through a series of gig economy apps? I don’t know about that, sounds pretty old fashioned.

    • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Nonono neoliberalism fixed all that, look at the global extreme poverty graph, the line is going down! (Please don’t look at what happens when you take China out).