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[–]copenseethe 33 insightful - 3 fun33 insightful - 2 fun34 insightful - 3 fun -  (21 children)

It is not only reddit that is cracking down on wrongspeak. Twitter, Youtube and how many others are purging people based on political leanings.

[–]Canbot 29 insightful - 4 fun29 insightful - 3 fun30 insightful - 4 fun -  (20 children)

That kind of coordination is concerning. It is one thing for one website to go full retard; but a coordinated move like this requires planning. That means high level negotiations and conspiracy. There has to be a greater power at play here that is pulling the strings. And they are making a move. This will not end here. This is likely related to all the rioting. It seems that the Communists who have been infiltrating seats of power for the last 60 years finally feel they have the power to overthrow the government. Or rather have enough seats in government to purge the opposition.

If they are right things are about the get really really bad for the US.

[–]copenseethe 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What is happening now looks like the sacking of Rome. It is sad to see western civilization being trashed by the mob. Rhodesia is becoming Zimbabwe. I am not even sure that I won't face consequences for writing these words.

[–]quickbeam 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (12 children)

If you think Communists were in charge of the banning then why did Chapo Traphouse get banned and why am I a hard leftist yet several subs I followed got banned? This is definitely being done to signal Reddit as "ultrawoke", but ultrawoke is not the same as communist. Though some people may be far left on both economic and identity issues, there are many who are only one or the other. Bernie Sanders voters basically all got screwed over by the same type of woke signalling, and I'm pretty sure if you think the government is full of communists you think Bernie is one of them. I hate to break it to you but there are almost 0 communists in our government. Maybe one or two in city government. Otherwise just a handful of boring old Democratic Socialists who want things to be more like Germany or Norway and a whole lot of big money corporate middle of the road types who think that banning some subreddits is meaningful political change and can substitute for improving people's healthcare, incomes, etc.

[–]Canbot 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

Anyone who simply wants more social programs would simply advocate for more social programs. Anyone advocating for Socialism wants something else, whether they admit it or not. Sure, there are plenty of useful idiots who don't understand that social programs can be had under capitalism, and THEY literally believe you need socialism for it. But the people pushing for socialism from places of power, like the head of media companies, can't have gotten to where they are if they were that dumb.

Even Communist, save for the useful idiots, are not really communist. They have no intention of distributing the riches at thier disposal equally among the masses. Nor do they ever intend to treat everyone equally, or even obey thier own laws. They use the promises of these ideologies to mesmerize the sheep. First to get them to destroy thier own country, and overthrow thier current leaders, and later to keep them pacified with the belief that they are getting an equal share of everything.

So when I say communist I am merely referring to the people who use those same tactics. Socialists and communists make the same promises and the same condemnations. They use racism/classism to divide and control people. They use inequality as evidence of corruption and mistreatment and promise to solve inequality with a new system. The details of that system don't matter because they are never going to be implemented.

Socialist don't want social programs, they want power.

[–]quickbeam 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

Well, I'm a Democratic Socialist and I want everyone to have a living wage for their work, adequate housing and food if they can't work, Medicare For All (mirroring the very functional healthcare programs in like every other country), and affordable or free college education if we're going to require a degree for every job under the sun. I know a lot of other Democratic Socialists and they are highly educated and they want the same things. I'm betting you don't know many actual human beings who identify themselves as Democratic Socialists, so why would your knowledge be better than a person with firsthand experience? Are you a person who thinks Nancy Pelosi and Bernie Sanders are at all similar? If you are, you don't know what you're talking about when it comes to what leftists are advocating for. We're all supporting Shahid Buttar who's running to get Pelosi out. There may be a very few politicians using the socialist label to get power, but it's honestly a pretty poor way to get power in the U.S. right now when you consider that Biden (who was railing against socialism at every debate) is now the Democratic nominee, not Bernie, who could actually string full sentences together in addition to having better ideas. in any case, I'm a very well-educated and well-read individual who has lived and worked abroad, so if you want to recruit people for your anti-communist crusade you'd best look elsewhere. Have a nice day, though! I'm glad to be in a place where people are allowed to speak freely, even if I don't agree with you!

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

The things you say you want are universals. Everyone wants that. What they don't want is the ignorant raising of the minimum wage without consideration for whether it would achieve the goal of raising the quality of life for those on minimum wage or simply increase inflation thereby lowering the quality of life for all wage earners while enriching capital holders.

and they are highly educated

Unfortunately these days that just means more brainwashed, more arrogant, and pigheaded. We live in a world where college professors and administrators lead the charge for censorship, deplatforming, demonizing opposing ideas, slandering opponents, and violent action against peaceful opposition. They pretend to teach both sides of an issue but then give a slanderous description of the opposition. The longer you spend in this kind of indoctrination the dumber you are.

I'm betting you don't know many actual human beings who identify themselves as Democratic Socialists

I know you, and I have had many conversations with people who call themselves that over the internet. Talking to someone face to face, and talking to them over the internet are not that different. In fact, this format is far better for getting to know someone because it allows them to collect their thoughts, organize them, and make a thoughtful response if they are so inclined. When talking to someone in a conversation there is far less room for thought, it is reactionary quips and when someone pauses to think that is generally the end of the conversation. No one has time to sit there while you think. However two people can come back to the same conversation on the internet over the course of several days.

One thing all of you seem to have in common is the belief that even though you call yourself a socialist, you don't mean socialist. And it is not you who is misusing the word but in fact everyone else who thinks you are using the word correctly that is ignorant and wrong. In reality putting Democratic in front of Socialist does not allow you do redefine what socialist means. It is you who is responsible for confusion and not everyone else who is ignorant.

I'm a very well-educated and well-read individual

I highly doubt you touch any reading material that does not reinforce your beliefs. I doubt you watch conservative YouTube channels with an open mind. I doubt you could make an accurate argument for any ideology besides your own. In fact studies have shown that when Conservatives are asked to describe the beliefs of progressives they are orders of magnitude more accurate than when progressives describe conservative beliefs.

[–]theFriendlyDoomer 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

I highly doubt you touch any reading material that does not reinforce your beliefs. I doubt you watch conservative YouTube channels with an open mind. I doubt you could make an accurate argument for any ideology besides your own.

What are some of your favorite left reading material that does not enforce your beliefs? How about left YouTube channels that you watch with an open mind? How much time do you spend with that broadening process?

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

That is what aboutism. You seem to think that you are more well informed than other people. If YOU don't go in depth into arguments that oppose your beliefs YOU are not, regardless of who else is as poorly informed as you. I don't go around with the arrogant belief that because I am well educated on a certain paradigm that I know everything there is to know and therefore my position is simply to teach others. That is the arrogance I constantly have to battle from leftists. That is the impression I am getting from what you wrote. And I have lots of conversations with people right of me and they don't have the same arrogance.

This is not a "I'm better than you" argument. It's a "you are not as informed as you think you are". You can never be well informed if you are only informed on Democratic Socialism; even if you have a doctorate in it.

[–]theFriendlyDoomer 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

That is what aboutism.

It's a test of whether you follow the same principles you expect in someone else. I literally just mirrored the sentences you wrote and changed the word "conservative" to "left."

I read so many things by conservatives/reactionaries that I'd actually have a harder time putting together a left reading list for you -- though come to think of it, I could. Ask me to, if you want -- but I doubt you're going to be able to make the time.

Longer form writing really is the better way to see the other side, as I had already written here.. It's hard really to change a mind in a debate format. It's too emotional and trust tends to erode as the debate goes on. With a book -- at least a good one -- you build trust with the author.

To be honest, all three things I'm reading right now are by reactionaries. 1) The excellent aphorisms of Don Colacho 2) Mencius Moldbug's An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives 3) Budapest 1900 by the endearing John Lukacs (no link -- it's a library book).

I just got done with Mussolini's Intellectuals by A. James Gregor. And though it's an academic treatment, at it shows I'm willing to listen to the ideas.

And, no, I'm not pretending that this is normal for people to the left of you. Most people don't do their homework. I was just seeing if you were one. If not, no worries -- you're in the vast majority.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

What is your favorite/most convincing book on democratic socialism?

[–]SaidOverRed 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Full communism is still up. I know because I'm subbed. The point is that 'the narrative' is communist. So they are safe. But the Coomer subreddit (anti-pornography, anti-masturbation, pro-family) was too controversial. Why? Say it with me: it's about the narrative.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

what can we do? what do they not expect?

[–]Canbot 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It is pretty tough to say. I find that a lot of people I try to talk to are completely asleep, and all the things that should concern them they just scoff at. It is going to have to hit them personally before they wake up. And even then they will probably believe whatever bullshit excuse the media gives them for their hardship. It all really depends on what your personal circumstances are and who you have around you. You also want to do things that are not putting all your eggs in one basket. Do things that will have utility for you even if nothing happens; because even though you can identify that something big could be happening you really have no idea what exactly it is or how long it will take. You need to develop your own ability to adapt to changing conditions. Here is a short, vague list.

  1. Form relationships IRL. Make friends. Grow your personal relationships with extended family. Get to know your neighbors. If you have kids make sure you can talk to other parents in their school as a friend. You will need them to push back against marxist indoctrination in your kids schools. Make sure you can organize resistance to new laws, police raids, and forced "medication". Make it so that if a mob shows up to your house you can call someone who will show up and flank them.

    Become politically active in your community. Learn what issues concern people, this will be very important in organizing them. Try and get on to a board within your local community and set up community chat groups. Use it to red pill people.

  2. Be armed. Be trained. Have a few months of water and food. This will limit their ability to use starvation against you.

  3. Educate yourself. Learn to debate. Become articulate so you can use your words to inspire confidence and organize people. Read up on how communist revolutions have been done before. Read up on the CIA's revolution handbook. Read up on color revolutions. Learn survival techniques. Learn guerrilla warfare techniques. If you resist you may end up on the run. Think about what you would do in that situation.

  4. Depending on where you are there are a lot of cameras and cell towers tracking you. Taking them out individually would be nearly impossible without getting caught eventually. But if you take out the phone lines and power lines you would temporarily disable both, and could go around destroying them without being tracked while you do it. Think about how something like that could possibly be done. Don't do it, just be informed.

  5. If you are so inclined get a HAM radio. Figure out how to develop the ability to broadcast over radio frequencies so in the event that all communication is tightly controlled you could create a pirate radio show.

  6. Have cash on hand. A few grand.

  7. Spread information to people who are otherwise unplugged. Make sure you have your facts straight, that you can articulate them, that you can debate people. Things to bring up:

a BLM is funded by the DNC, they are used by the DNC to race bait before elections as a tactic to get minority votes;
b Teachers/schools are brainwashing kids with leftist ideology. They are teaching kids to be racist against whites as a tactic to create a racial divide between whites and minorities.
c The media are responsible for racial tensions, not racists or nazis. The media as a policy refuses to report race in cases of black on white crime but emphasized race when reporting on white on black crimes. This is a racist policy of demonizing white people that is responsible for the hatred that fuels the riots.
d Socialists/Communists always claim that "true socialism has never been tried". When you point to a failed socialist state they claim it failed because of corruption or foreign interference and not because of socialism. However, they also say that we need socialism to fix our country because it is corrupt. If our country is corrupt, and has corrupt people in power yet still manages to be doing better than Venezuela that must mean that in this corrupt environment capitalism is the better system. Turning to Socialism, in a corrupt environment, could only logically lead to giving the same corrupt forces in our country more power and lead to the worst outcome of the worst socialist state.
E 90% of pre pubescent children who consider themselves trans are cured when they go through natural puberty. Putting a trans child, no matter how much they believe they are the other gender, on hormone blockers means you are withholding the cure from them. It is the most vile, evil thing humanity has ever invented. If the left is willing to go along with this, these people are all despicable human beings. All the rhetoric they spew about morality is bullshit. All the names they call conservatives are hypocritical. The left is the most hateful, double speaking, morally devoid group to have ever existed.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

a BLM is funded by the DNC, they are used by the DNC to race bait before elections as a tactic to get minority votes

Proof? You can't just make claims without any justification. It clearly worked to help get DT in office in 2016. I'd say that's more proof that they actually work for Republicans.

[–]Canbot 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There were already links posted here about how donations to BLM went directly to a DNC super pack. If you look at google trends data on BLM you will see that activity spikes about a year before an election and then dies off right after the election. It is clearly extremely active during the campaign season and not any time else.

Anyone with any sense can see how the DNC spends the majority of their efforts name calling Republicans as racist. They propagandized Trumps own campaign slogan to be seen by the masses of sheep as a racist hate symbol. Their platform is "they are racist so vote for us".

[–]HK51 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

First: don't be afraid.

[–]avena_sativa_3 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

donating to saidit is one option.