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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

wait seriously?

Yes. Seriously.

Trolling antisocialists is ridiculously easy. In 2019, I used one my prank caller accounts on Reddit to trick dozens of them into upvoting two sets of deliberately miscaptioned photographs. Some antisocialists have such ridiculously broad definitions of socialism that it is only a mild exaggeration to summarize their understandings as ‘capitalism = good things; socialism = bad things’.

Manipulating them into agreeing with fascists is not too difficult either. I am not referring to mundane, generic conclusions like ‘always follow your heart’ or ‘brushing your teeth is good for you’. I mean unambiguously political statements, like ‘Bolshevism could maintain its social illusion only because its deceived population lacked any opportunity for comparison.

I remember ChapoTrapHouse, when it still existed on Reddit, ignorantly upvoting an anticommunist quote misattributed to a communist thinker, but if I remember correctly it was just some generic, inspirational crap that had little to do with politics. Sure, it was still careless of CTH to upvote that without researching, but it was much less impressive than the prankster thought that it was.

ETA: This was probably the quote, in which case it was only slightly more political than I remembered.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Chuds upvoted Engels photo when told it was photo of a Confederate lmao

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

There are basically two types of people who are antisocialists, they're either capitalists or ignoramuses. The former are antisocialist because it's against their class interest, and the latter because they've been brainwashed.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

this kind of self own is really satisfying.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Not me walking passed empty buildings with boarded off windows because some leech is rather leaving them empty instead of letting people live in it