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Mao tells it like it is (lem.lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

I love asking the .ml losers to name a single event in history that was made better by someone doing nothing.

Aside from their typical pseudo-intellectual ad hominem, this is almost always the end of the discussion.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    I thought they always advocate for some vague (usually violent) action, which they will never actually take.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Yeah it's typically either them calling for others to do a violent revolution, calling for people to not vote because there's no point, or just generally insinuating that we should live in some vague form of anarchism that they can't seem to support when asked the obvious questions others have regarding that ideology. Or all three at the same time if you're talking to one of the more unhinged ones.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Not from my experience. They usually whine and pout about some dumb shit that only they think makes sense, then play victim to tEh liBZ.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Fair enough, that does sound like .ml users.

    They banned me from their meme sub without discussion for calling out a historically very inaccurate meme. Such princesses these revolutionaries, I must say.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I'd say .ml is reaching insufferable levels of annoying, but we passed that milestone a while ago. I'm not even sure what word to use to describe their tedious bullshit. We all knew that kid in school that every clique could agree was annoying as shit and everyone just wanted them to go away. That's where I'm at with them. Bug spray? Would that work? Rat traps?

    Pseudo-intellectual is an apt description.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Nobody is arguing for doing nothing, the argument is that political change comes from organizing and struggle outside the boundaries of the system, not through engaging within its legal limits.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    ¿Por qué no los dos?

    Why not still attempt to utilize the process of voting while also organizing for the shittier scenario when others, because it definitely ain't gonna be .ml pansies, have to do more than that to put the train back on the tracks?

    Your response is also way more moderate than what most .ml trashcans are posting all over this platform.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Communists typically advocate voting for worker parties, such as the PSL. It isn't that voting itself is a problem, it's that placing our energy behind getting an imperialist party elected rather than the other is energy that could have been spent on growing the socialist organization. From the perspective of an individual, voting doesn't take much time at all. From the perspective of an organization, election season takes a tremendous amount of effort, no matter which way you push for. These are the kinds of problems you run into when organizing that aren't immediately obvious for those that are used to seeing political participation as purely an electoral measure.

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