• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      What’s crazy is there’s 31 different flavors of communism that doesn’t require unquestioning loyalty to a supreme leader, and tankies can all just easily choose to support any of them.

      Keep every last good thing they claim to support, and just ditch the roving gangs of murderers and literal tanks crushing anyone that doesn’t 100% agree with them…

      But they won’t, because the lust for violence is why they’re tankies in the first place, instead of any of the rational flavors of communism. They’re not tankies for the communism, it’s just a path to acceptable violence against an out group

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        5 hours ago

        They’re not tankies for the communism, it’s just a path to acceptable violence against an out group

        Ironically this can be applied to a lot of your common folk fash supporters too. Some people just want to watch the world burn and don’t really care what path they have to take to get us there.

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          4 hours ago

          There’s less than 1,000 billionaires in america, and they control over $8,100,000,000,000…

          They don’t need to be murdered though, you don’t get to be a billionaire without commiting enough crimes to be jailed for life. It’s just our legal system is a joke and they have more resources than the government.

          1. Seize their resources

          2. Prosecute them and give them a court appointed attorney

          3. Nothing, we literally have to do nothing after that.

          No roving gangs, no guillotines, throw them in the same ocean they throw us.

          Completely ethical and moral, and that shit matters. Because how you start a new society influences it the entire time it exists.

          Once their wealth is gone, all the underlings will be scrambling to turn states evidence, no one hates billionaires more than the people who have latched onto them to siphon off wealth. The ones who actually have to interact with them, clean up messes, and know where both literal and figurative bodies are buried.

          The only thing that puts billionaires out of reach of consequences is their billions we just have to remove that and let nature do the rest

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            1 hour ago

            Its the first step of your plan that is really the sticking point. They really don’t like doing that. And they have a lot of ways of avoiding it and harming those who tried. I love the way you frame it all but there is no way that that is going to happen peacefully. They would pay for roving gangs themselves to stoke fear long before they allowed it.

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              9 minutes ago

              I don’t think you understand how numbers work…

              There’s less than 1,000 billionaires, there’s like 330,000,000 Americans

              That’s 1 billionaire against 330,000 Americans…

              Do you have any idea how many guns 330,000 random Americans have?