• SippyCup@lemmy.ml
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      1 day ago

      ACKTSHUALLY THO the Irish potato famine was socialism actually. Because see the British were trying to save the Irish FROM socialism, so they HAD to take all the crops. Because, ummm, if they let the Irish keep the crops that they grew, WHICH WERE FOR THE BRITISH, then that was socialism.

      Also the Irish did it to themselves they were just too lazy to work. The British were starving too. Because see the famine. And it started in Kansas. JUST LIKE THE SPANISH FLU. So anyway now we have a free and capitalism Ireland like baby Irish Jesus intended.

      Glad to have cleared that up mate.

      • Hestia [she/her, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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        20 hours ago

        I was under the assumption that the potato famine was caused solely due to crop disease. Do you have sources for the brits stealing their crops? Not doubting it, just want more info.

      • bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net
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        I’ve been wondering if it’s just all the blocking, so I have effectively been blocked by and blocked in response every libtard on Lemmy, or if they have made an exodus to Mastodon or Bluesky or something.

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          15 hours ago

          Same here because of the last election and I see it as a blessing

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      22 hours ago

      This meme reads as a criticism of capitalism and common anti-communist rhetoric. It doesn’t do any apologia for authoritarians, which is what usually sets off the “libs”

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        9 hours ago

        Critism of capitalism and defense of communism is authoritarian to liberals though. After all, to them private property ownership is a human right and not allowing it is an authoritarian impingement on their freedom.

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            5 hours ago

            That’s true, but there’s also more than a few people around here who will insist they aren’t liberals and then when you find out their actual politics they’re just New Deal style liberalism

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            Depends on how you critique the CPC, for what reasons. If they are from a position entrenched in liberal viewpoints and US state department lines on China, then it’s fair to say they are liberal. However, there are legitimate ways to critique China from the left. They are slow to adopt widespread LGBTQIA+ rights, for example, and while this is improving, I’d personally like it to be going much faster. Saying the CPC is doing organ harvesting is not legitimate critique.