• locke@sopuli.xyz
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    8 months ago

    Yeah I’m definitely not gonna donate money to people who are publically and proudly communists.

    I might donate to my local instance though. They seem like cool cats.

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Communists are people who live on a commune.

      A commune is a group of people living together and sharing possessions and responsibilities.

      On one end, a group of friends who live in a house sharing food and living space, you can absolutely call them communists. And the other end of all the bad shit. Same with capitalist, where there’s multiple angles of it all.

      That bad shit is tankie, where its authoritarian communists.

      I hope I helped.

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      8 months ago

      Nothing wrong with being a communist. Being a tankie on the other hand… Fuck them

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          8 months ago

          You know there is money in communist nations right? The Soviet Ruble was a thing. This comment reeks of “You criticize society, yet you participate in it”. The Lemmy devs need money to survive, especially in a cutthroat capitalist world. I don’t find it hypocritical within their beliefs. Criticize them for their waving away authoritarian actions, for spreading propaganda, or silencing wrongthink on their instances, but I don’t think it’s fair to come at them for wanting to be fairly compensated for their labor, that’s Marxism 101.