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URL format
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[Opinion] prefix
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You're literally just repeating my sarcasm back at me like
Sure but it maybe helps others to understand your sarcasm 🤗
I would hope the emoji made it clear that "us has never been a democracy" paired with Marx Engels and Lenin would get the gears turning for some people, and anyone that already read any of that would understand the point.
People are free to ask questions but unfamiliar users from other instances outside of hexbear and lemmygrad and slightly less so lemmy.ml are rightfully treated with suspicion.
Also their comment was indistinguishable from common right wing talking points about US and democracy.
😮 their post is right wing? I see me as left wingy and seem to agree with the person that answered your comment, thinking you two were talking about the same thing?
This is a common right wing talking point and their comment really added nothing that I hadn't already simplified with the comment they were replying to, which is a common right wing response to criticizing the US as not truly being democratic despite its claims.
"Satire demands clarity of purpose", but so do such ambiguous nitpicking. My intent was clear because I included the references to marx engels and lenin. Their comment was indeed nitpicking and that nitpicking was unclear of purpose.
Not everyone is told history in the way you know history, it is not common knowledge everywhere.
I mean it should, but it isn’t