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Comment by HNisCIS

20 hours ago

Don't conflate "populace" with "lobbying groups". The populace wants health care and this ain't it.

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  • Uh, Marx is the one who said "Under no pretext..." but who's keeping score at this point.

    Yes, I get that you're trying to express a deeply RWNJ partisan view but as a proud LWNJ I must express that the real world is much more complicated than "commies are nuts yo". Perhaps the issue is rampant authoritarianism?

    • > Perhaps the issue is rampant authoritarianism?

      Yes, you got a president democratically elected by the clear majority of the people in the USA on a clear platform to deport all illegal immigrants (as impossible as that might be in practice), and you - the minority - are flooding the streets, harassing the law enforcement forces and committing crimes to stop the law from being applied even after the majority of the electors told you that they indeed want the law to be applied (in case you had any doubts that the law - that already existed - should indeed be applied).

      If that's not rampant authoritarianism, nothing is...

      P.S. If you know so much about Marx, you should probably also know that Communists are standing in a long time honored tradition of calling fascists to anyone that's in their way. Stalin was already denouncing Trotsky (you know, the guy that was actually even more ideologically pure about communism than Stalin himself) and his supporters as "fascists" back in 1928.

      Just 2 more years for LWNJ to be using the same tactic for 100 years straight... at least they know how to keep traditions, I give them that much.

  • Who, Mamdani? He's a democratic socialist, not a communist.

    It's like you just confused RAM with SSD because they both involve gigabytes.

    • "If there was any system that could guarantee each person housing, whether you call it the abolition of private property or you call it, you know, just a statewide housing guarantee, it is preferable to what is going on right now.", Mamdani, 2020

      "We have to ensure we are unapologetic about our socialism", Mamdani, 2021

      "There are also other issues we firmly believe in [...] weather is the end goal of seizing the means of production", Mamdani, 2021

      "We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.", Mamdani, 2026

      It's funny. You people go up in arms calling Elon Musk a fascist because he made a suspicious gesture with his right hand. But, then you have a guy outright telling you he wants to "seize the means of production" and you make excuses on why he is not actually a communist.

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