• @[email protected]
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    61 hour ago

    While the conservative that planned this insane and illegal real life thought experiment jerked off into a dirty sock while wearing a trump mask and somehow, despite not even touching the gun, still shot themselves in the foot.

  • AItoothbrush
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    Throw the gun away and beat thw shit out of the fascist with the other two would be my choice. That hurts more than a gunshot.

    • OBJECTION!
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      Historically speaking, the Nazis literally first built the camps to put Marxists in.

  • @[email protected]
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    A Marxist is stuck in a room with a liberal, a fascist, and an anarchist. The Marxist has one gun and two bullets. What does the Marxist do? Shoot the liberal and the anarchist.

    (Based off actual historical events.)

    • OBJECTION!
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      The Soviet Union did more to stop the fascists than anyone else, and 27 million people in the Soviet Union were killed in the fight.

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        Yeah, but that’s after they made an alliance with Nazi Germany. An alliance Germany broke, not the USSR.

    • @[email protected]
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      The Marxist was the only one who gave the anarchist guns, tanks, and planes. But no, they’re surely a bigger threat than the liberal and fascist.

    • @[email protected]
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      If anyone disagrees:

      Kronstadt

      Spanish Civil War

      Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

      The War in Ukraine

      Etc.

      • @[email protected]
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        • 1932 Germany
        • Two months ago, thanks guys, Palestine and immigration policy are saved now
      • @[email protected]
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        The Spanish Civil War is actually slightly inaccurate. The Communist Party were sided with the Liberal Republicans instead of the revolutionaries - like the anarchists, and other socialists - and later prosecuted those revolutionaries and accused them of being fascists while a lot of them were still in the frontlines fighting actual fascists. The Communist Party were just serving the interests of the USSR, which at that point wanted a liberal government in Spain (due to their relation to France, if I recall correctly) and not a workers’ revolution.

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          Did you forget how all the MLs were rooting for Putin and performing apologetics about how Russia had “national trauma from its interactions with the west”? (actual quote, btw.) They pointed out how there were some factions in the military that were antisemitic and ignored the openly fascist policies of the Kremlin.

      • Dragon Rider (drag)
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        Spanish Civil War

        What can drag Google to learn more about tankies fucking up Catalonia?

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      Surely giving the gun to the fascist is a better decision. They’ll just shoot themselves in the foot… Right?

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        They eventually do. Fascism encourages corruption and incompetence, social division and the fragmentation of non-governmental movements, local dissidents and autonomies. Mussolini was so incompetent that not only was Italy eventually invaded by the Allies and lost its sovereignty to the German Reich, but Benito himself was imprisoned, despite his escape he didn’t make it to Switzerland and was hanged by Communist partisans. Hitler, on the other hand, also encouraged corruption and division within his own structures to prevent people from allying against him or creating opposition. Hitler himself was an incompetent idiot who interfered in the work of his generals. To the end, Adolf believed he could win the war, and when he realised the shit he had created, he shot himself. Fascists aren’t smart or competent enough, they often rely heavily on people who can do things and who are bribed by the fascists to work with them. Hitler often used Göring’s upper class position and connections with prominent aristocrats to get his ideas through, as Hitler himself was just a peasant born in a village with little education and was even homeless for a time. Hitler relied heavily on people more competent than him in important positions to get what he wanted, because he could do shit on his own.

  • @[email protected]
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    Perhaps the Marxist and the anarchist should have voted when the liberal was asking who should be given the gun.

    • @[email protected]
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      Perhaps they did, but it was a first past the post voting system and resulted in a hung parliament.

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    A leftist is stuck in a room with another leftist and a fascist.

    The leftist has one gun and two bullets, and they must be used.

    What does the leftist do?

    Shoot the other leftist twice.

    • @[email protected]
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      … then claim the other leftist making an edgy joke at the age of 14 is a proof they were the real fascist.

    • @[email protected]
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      Based off of current goings-on, this is factual. Constant internal battles about who’s the true leftist while ignoring the real enemy

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        The only ones ignoring the real enemy are the liberals, actually helping them to fight the leftists.

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            Damn that was fast! USA is not yet full fascist that liberals are already rewriting history!

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                By pretending that liberals didn’t push the fascists to power. And instead blaming the left, as always. The only enemy of liberals are the leftists. It always has been, and it’ll always be apparently.

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                  Where do you vote, incidentally? Besides Lemmy.

                  Not the US, clearly.

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                  This is a myopic analysis of why the fascists are in power. The left as a whole is responsible for pushing the fascists to power because of their inability to settle on a common agenda. Some leftists are more concerned with social justice, some with the worries of the working class and some with capitalism entirely.

                  This blaming of one particular ideological group for why the right were able to usurp power is part of the problem. Looking for who to blame instead of looking for a solution that all leftists can agree on.

                  Note: When i refer to the left, I’m talking about liberals, progressives, social democrats and the far left ideologies.

      • @[email protected]
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        I use my two bullets to shoot the concept of this political thought experimentp. Let me out now puzzle master, we had a deal you can’t keep

  • @[email protected]
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    Is it a US liberal, or a “rest of the world” liberal (which typically means the opposite)?

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    Of course they started with 6 bullets but the liberal and the fascist liked to pass the gun around and take pot shots at the marxist every so often so the marxist couldn’t ever influence or overpower them. This is just the moment the liberal realized there were only two bullets left.

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        If the Marxist is Russian, I’m pretty confident I’d be able to shoot myself twice in the head in that room.

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    My political positions are somewhere on the left outskirts of Social Democracy, so I’ve no love for liberals. That said, when I look at the US, it was not the liberals that just gave a fascist not only a gun but an entire army.

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          Oh so it’s fine when Musk says that nazis were leftists?

          But I’m not surprised a liberal don’t care about words or meaning if I’m being honest. They’re usually first into repurposing words for propaganda.

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            No, I care about meaning. The problem is there’s lots of people who argue about words and ignore the meaning.

            Like calling me a “liberal” wtf does that mean? You don’t know a damn thing about me. But I’m a “liberal”.

            The thing you said doesn’t mean anything. They’re empty words. “social democracy is a liberal doctrine” is an utterance empty of content.

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            And arguing with him about it is pointless. The propaganda is fire-and-forget and your “No, they’re fucking Nazis” should be equally non-invitational.

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      When is it do you believe the Marxists and Anarchists were in power? When do you believe they held the gun to be able to give it away?

      Punch up, not down.

      To put it in another reference frame. When a video game fails who’s fault is it? The millions of consumers? Or the corpo overlords? When democrats fail, is it the fault of millions of voters? Or the fault of corpo overlords? When something fails it is always the responsibility of those in power to affect the most change. Except, when it comes to politics, then we forget that it’s those with power that hold responsiblity.

      I hate predatory micro transactions and day 1 dlc. I don’t blame the people that boycotted them for the prevelence of mtx? I blame the people that demand they be sold first, then I blame the people that sell them, then I blame the people that bought them. It’s not the fault of the people that didn’t buy them. Except in politics for some reason.

      Sorry, I just got recommended a “games are shit now corpos took over, it’s the leftist’s fault games are bad”. The misattribution of blame from ‘capital interests’ to ‘leftists’ is so pervasive even the “I’m left of center” crowd are doing it. I didn’t engage there but still need the catharsis