Reasonable request

25 days ago by Spectre to c/comics

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/43662539

[a character is pointing at and berating a strawman made to look like a stereotypical communist]
So, you're a communist right?
Okay then, solve every single problem in the world right now
Create the perfect society, we're watching, you have five minutes
Can't do it? Sounds like your silly ideology is whack then
Tankie!

https://thebad.website/comic/reasonable_request

elixir_fan 30 points 25 days ago

I hear anti-communist nonsense at work sometimes and this is what it feels like. "Commies tried so many times and it always fails!" (literally ignoring coups and regime changes, AES, that capitalism might kill us all, sex trafficking, etc)

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kn33 5 points 24 days ago

Communism didn't "fail" so much as it "lost".

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Cowbee 8 points 23 days ago

And to be clear, while the dissolution of the Soviet Union was devastating, there are still strong socialist states like China today. Communism didn't lose, it took a major blow temporarily.

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Clent 12 points 25 days ago

My favorite is when people admit it works in small groups but doesn't scale. It's an amazingly defeatist attitude.

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racketlauncher831 1 point 25 days ago

The problem stems from centralization. A commander sits at the top of trillions of people is fundamentally wrong, no matter how good he or she is. No one single human shall have that big of an influence to another human.

But those fucking defeatists are disgusting. No one is asking them to solve the problem. Just shut the fuck up when someone else is solving the problems. That's the least they shall be doing.

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Cowbee 9 points 23 days ago

To be fair, the idea that someone is supposed to sit at the top of society is a fundamental misunderstanding of socialism past, present, and future.

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orca 11 points 24 days ago

Ask these folks if they have a better idea. They never do and always fall back to capitalism, even though we’re all witnessing capitalists fuck up the entire planet. They won’t even entertain the pieces of a whole as good ideas. It’s either all or nothing. They’ve already skewed the argument in their favor because of capitalist propaganda influence.

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TiredTiger 3 points 23 days ago

"It's not perfect, but it's the best system we have." 🥴

It never ceases to amaze me just how incapable the average person seems to be of imagining something better than the status quo.

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deft 1 point 24 days ago

They literally don't though? Most people often express the need for socialist policies and embrace the "chain is only as strong as it's weakest link" mentality. What are you talking about?

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orca 7 points 24 days ago

They literally don’t what?

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deft -3 points 24 days ago

They never do...

They won’t even...

They’ve already...

Gee I dunno 🙄

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orca 4 points 24 days ago

Excuse me, let me clarify:

In my limited personal experience

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Ostrakon 10 points 24 days ago

Nothing funnier than watching people use a strawman themselves while attempting to illustrate an example of a strawman.

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Godric -2 points 24 days ago

So many comics that are just "checkmate, strawman 😎"

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Cowbee 6 points 23 days ago

Isn't that the majority of what you post on political memes? To be fair to you, that's really all political memes are for, to provoke a response. The meme itself is far less important than the possibility for it to spark a discussion in the comments.

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TankovayaDiviziya -3 points 24 days ago

There was 70 years...

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newtraditionalists -11 points 25 days ago

Pathetic. Im sorry you need attention so badly, but dont force everyone to suffer your idiocy.

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