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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don’t like to see so many political posts in all and so many weird images in comment sections

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As a left-leaning person that would be nice to believe, but I have seen young teenagers who get a taste of shitty capitalism just run to the other side of the spectrum and become 'communists who know nothing about communism except that it's better than capitalism'.

I think actually building a working system of governance that doesn't concentrate corruptible levels of power in a few hands is hard, and many people lack the patience and intelligence to work out the problem. So they run to 'easy answers' that make them feel morally superior and offer the chance of something different (even if worse), especially when they are young and reactionary.

Its the same way some Bernie fans ran to Trump because they lacked the patience to dismantle the duopoly for real, so they hoped he'd do it somehow. We're all feeling worse off, but at least they got to 'show the democrats, right?

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

I think you're both right. I think some of it is right wing people trying to convince the people you're talking about to abandon morality and not question the "communist" countries (which somehow they still include Russia?) no matter what they do. They don't care about doing what's best for workers if it's anti-western. That's not leftist.