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The purpose of this community is sort of a "work out your frustrations by letting it all out" where different leftist tendencies can vent their frustrations with one another and more assertively and directly challenge one another. Hostility is allowed, but any racist, fascist, or reactionary crap wont be tolerated, nor will explicit threats.

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Pointing out the hypocrisy of an "anti-tankie" RadLib got my comment removed from Lemmy.ml (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm astonished at how sensitive the mods must be over there.

Apparently you're allowed to say whatever baseless slander you like about the eeeeevil tankies but the minute someone says "Hold up a sec, you claim to be anti-authoritarian and yet you support authoritarianism either explicitly or implicitly?" and they have to shut it down immediately.

Regardless, I think I made a pretty solid counterargument to the typical complaint about communism being authoritarian.

Mfers skim read the Wikipedia entry on Hannah Arendt and start thinking they're justified in slinging accusations about "muh authoritarianism" smh.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

There are real problems that need to be dealt with, no? For example in G7 countries the ratio of older to younger people means there will be a larger need for health care professionals and that would take up a larger proportion of the workforce away from say, working on infrastructure.

If I'm understanding you correctly, that's not really a meaningful problem (it is for capitalists as that decreases certain types of growth and profit) or at least one that can't be readily solved through central planning?

Also also, is it related to pitting the supposed interests of different age groups against one another rather than cooperatively solving issues that arise?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Sounds like we should look in and see what Cuba is up to, I’m sure it’s nothing but un-freedom and suffering and illness

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, there are some, that's why i said it was 90% capitalist dogwhistle, not 100%, but again this problem is not fundamental, and it's mostly related to redistribution - something that capitalism can do, but is usually unwilling, and even if, only by showering the capitalists with tax money which could resolve the problem easier, faster and better if it was being used straight up for the retirement pensions and public works. And that's for the capitalism, planned economy can plan this even better with big picture in mind.

If I’m understanding you correctly, that’s not really a meaningful problem (it is for capitalists as that decreases certain types of growth and profit) or at least one that can’t be readily solved through central planning?

Yeah.

Also also, is it related to pitting the supposed interests of different age groups against one another rather than cooperatively solving issues that arise?

That too, we currently can see it in the real time, young people are targeted with anti-retirement propaganda (and often even straight up ageist one), while older ones are told the young ones are to blame because they are "lazy and entitled" for not wanting to work for peanuts and have many kids.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the response and clarification!