Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union

[timosman]

[timosman]

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...930714115.html

Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union:

- waiting years to receive a car you ordered, to find that it's of poor workmanship and quality

- promises of colonizing the solar system while you toil in drudgery day in, day out
- living five adults to a two room apartment

- being told you are constructing utopia while the system crumbles around you
- 'totally not illegal taxi' taxis by private citizens moonlighting to make ends meet

- everything slaved to the needs of the military-industrial complex
- mandatory workplace political education

- productivity largely falsified to satisfy appearance of sponsoring elites
- deviation from mainstream narrative carries heavy social and political consequences

- networked computers exist but they're really bad
- Henry Kissinger visits sometimes for some reason
- elite power struggles result in massive collateral damage, sometimes purges

- failures are bizarrely upheld as triumphs
- otherwise extremely intelligent people just turning the crank because it's the only way to get ahead
- the plight of the working class is discussed mainly by people who do no work
- the United States as a whole is depicted as evil by default
- the currency most people are talking about is fake and worthless
- the economy is centrally planned, using opaque algorithms not fully understood by their users

[Swordsmyth]

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...930714115.html

I wonder what causes all those "coincidences".

[timosman]

I wonder what causes all those "coincidences".

Everybody in a management position is a liberal.

[Swordsmyth]

Everybody in a management position power in the entire state is a liberal communist.

Fixed it.

[Zippyjuan]

Fixed it.

Commie is so 1950's. Even the Russians stopped using it.

[Swordsmyth]

Commie is so 1950's. Even the Russians stopped using it.

Democratic Socialists Openly Calling For Communism

As a DSA chapter co-chair I just wanna set the record straight for a minute: communism is good
— Olivia Katbi Smith��أوليفيا كاتبي (@livkittykat) June 30, 2018

Shortly after, other DSA leaders weighed in with their endorsement of communism.
The Charlottesville DSA co-chair:

as a dsa chapter co-chair, i would like to cosign this pro-communist statement. https://t.co/xFTDXJQJH6
— molly �� (@socialistdogmom) July 1, 2018

The Hudson County DSA co-chair:

As a DSA branch co-chair, I would like to sign onto this with a small amendment: Communism is very good. https://t.co/We1AUMZYTZ
— Free Palestine/Abolish ICE (@ThatNJSocialist) July 2, 2018

The Seattle DSA co-chair:

As a DSA chapter co-chair as well, I extremely second this. https://t.co/cO1elllluD
— Keaton ☭ �� (@Keatronn) July 1, 2018

An Officer for the Queens DSA chapter:

As a previous branch co-chair, and a current elected rep of @QueensDSA's electoral working group, I second this statement#CommunismIsGoodActually#MultitendancyLeft https://t.co/ybj7rAzvBl
— Justine Medina �� (@jnmedina8989) July 1, 2018

[timosman]

Fixed it.

You should add - according to their public position - http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...ates-Are-Lying

[Swordsmyth]

You should add - according to their public position - http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...ates-Are-Lying

The people in power are not lying about their public position, they are the leaders that everyone else conforms to and they are the ones enacting the policies that create the present conditions.

The only lie is that communism is intended to help anyone but the powerful.

[timosman]

The people in power are not lying about their public position, they are the leaders that everyone else conforms to and they are the ones enacting the policies that create the present conditions.

The only lie is that communism is intended to help anyone but the powerful.

I think you just contradicted yourself.

[Swordsmyth]

I think you just contradicted yourself.

No, they are not lying when they state that their public position is communism, the lie about the purpose of communism is not relevant to the article you linked to about people lying about what their position is.

[timosman]

No, they are not lying when they state that their public position is communism, the lie about the purpose of communism is not relevant to the article you linked to about people lying about what their position is.

They wouldn't be selling it so hard if it was equal.