• TheDrink [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 days ago

    Because it’s not enough that every cultural institution indoctrinates us into anticommunism from birth, and every political institution backs anticommunist organizations, and every media institution promotes anticommunist messaging, and oh yeah let’s not forget that every school textbook is already deeply saturated with anticommunist propaganda.

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    Pieces of shit hold active malice and contempt towards to the people stuck on the lowest parts of the ladder. As their American Exceptionalist pride gets threatened by the worsening conditions for young people they would rather lash out with bullshit like this rather than do anything actually constructive.

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    I hope they pass it for Streisand effect reasons. This will probably increase the number of class conscious people in the US

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    yo this is sick, like real red scare stuff again

    i’m already not going to be able to enter the states when they ban marxists. i wonder how my family over there will react when they bring back the black book of communism shit

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    Also incoming soon: a new definition of communism and why the mexicans/jews/black/gays/etc all seem to fit the definition

    They will never look at a room of 10 people and figure out it’s not 9 v 1 but they’re the 1 v 9. If everyone in the whole country but you is crazy, then perhaps you’re the crazy one.

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    “The government will own your toothbrush! (Everyday you push your train to work and back)” - US textbook

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    Are the Pax Americana continuing their politics to brainwash people to fear any hard working innovative people who gain success from their human capital instead of their connection or family inheritance? The fear that the invisible hand or a traitorous pro-Capitalist government will hire Communists to manage the lazy Capitalists are ironic and self-contradicting. If they continue their old-fashioned indoctrination, they at least need to hide the contradictions that they are embracing the very authoritarian indoctrination practices that they projected into the scary red boogyman or that they are framing witch hunting of marginalized people and movement with democratic support as an authoritarian scheme by an overpowered mastermind that could overcome the logics of reality. They could use their tankiejerk false flag slogan to make the people mindlessly support bourgeous governments against any democratic movements, but that only assumes that supporters of Communists are manipulatable ignorant useless bystanders.