• MrMamiya@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Ooh man this one’s gonna piss off a whole lot of people who haven’t read a book in 20 years and don’t otherwise have any information about alternatives to capitalism beyond a vague icky feeling.

  • Slayer 🦊@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Surrounding yourself with radicals of any political ideology is generally a bad idea

    Except maybe centrist if its even possible to be radical centrist

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        Not really. I’d say he sees the modern issues we face better than you. It’s an issue of echo chambers. If you concentrate a community only with people who share your ideology, especially radical ideology it just amplifies it within that community and achieves little else.

        People begin to believe that their worldview is the dominant one, because they’re entirely unopposed in their thinking. They are never challenged on any major belief, so the discourse is almost pointless and just spends its time running around the edges of difference.

        It also breeds laziness, because you never have to defend your position. Mostly just ends up as communities that share memes with eachother which I shouldn’t need to point out is pretty pointless.

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          That’s a fine bit of Enlightened Centrist hypocrisy from start to finish 🤦

          The fact is that centrists have the biggest echo chamber in the world and are consequently as sure of their philosophy being standard as everyone except the far right, sometimes even more.

          I’d much rather be around like minded people who think independently (which isn’t a contradiction when you’re not a part of the centrist circlejerk. There’s a lot more ideological diversity on the left.) than a bunch of centrists mindlessly repeating what the party propagandists and Politico (but I repeat myself) tell them to think.

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            Who in your world are the major players, political figures or thinkers in this kabal of centrists?

            Before you reply please note that I am not from the USA. I am peripherally aware of U.S politics from a geopolitical perspective because we are lapdogs for that country but there’s few minor players that I’d be aware of without research.

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      This presuposses that your concept for “centrist” is accurate. Which can really only be understood by critically examining the available set of ideologies and making up your own mind

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          Thanks Captain! I sure did notice, you are the one that is doing the main Work on the ship. Sadly I am not such an creative mind that can creates such treasure just with the power of its mind.

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            You can always make relatable LOTR memes. Like if there’s something thats bugging you, you could make a meme about it.

            For example, have the caption “Me Trying To Make A Meme” and have a picture of Elrond smithing the sword.

            Or “Me hammering a nail with my hammer from Wish.com” with an image of Gimli hitting the One Ring and breaking his Axe

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              Holy shit just reading and imagining this makes me laugh. I woulf never have come zp with somthing like this. But i’ll try finding situations where i could create a meme from it. :D Thanks!

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          Thanks Captain! I sure did notice, you are the one that is doing the main Work on the ship. Sadly I am not such an creative mind that can creates such treasure just with the power of its mind.

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          Thanks Captain! I sure did notice, you are the one that is doing the main Work on the ship. Sadly I am not such an creative mind that can creates such treasure just with the power of its mind.

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    Please don’t bring that shit here. Just keep to lemmygrad dude.

    Marxism is a deeply flawed ideology. I recommend reading Karl Poppers writings about marx to understand how fucked it really is.