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[–] DougHolland 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You cannot ever get folks on our side using words like 'bourgeois'.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

This, what you say is not as important as "How you say it"

See the idiots going "I hate Obamacare, but I love ACA!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Baffling statement. "Bourgeois" is one of two words that define the way my 'side' views the world. I don't think you and I are on the same side.

[–] DougHolland 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a question I've wondered for decades: Why do so many socialists speak in code-words — Bolsheviks, bourgeoisie, Engels, Marx, proletaritat, etc — which only push people away? Socialism is a grand concept; why not translate it into English?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Is this satire?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] DougHolland 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a good start, but I'd go with 'owners' and occasionally stress, 'all owners.'

People respect plain speaking, and suspect convoluted speaking. If we want to win folks over, plain speaking is the way.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Drag owns a toothbrush. Drag isn't a member of the owning class, but drag is in the most literal sense an "owner". Drag recognises you're using a technical definition of a common term, but drag doesn't think liberals will understand. They'll see your language as convoluted.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Drag, good to see you again buddy

[–] DougHolland 2 points 1 week ago

I needed this & I love Drag.