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I keep getting called a lefty in our town Facebook group by people with NHS stickers on their profile pictures.
Dude definitely never understood Animal Farm.And I missed the satire in this. OP knew what he was doing.
This has to be a troll but I’ll be damned if r/conservative isn’t dumb enough to bite
The post is satire/trolling.
I was interested, so I found the original post, and the mods there removed all the comments, so you can’t see the people falling for it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/iig9uh/is_my_boss_a_communist/
Yeah the comments were also trolls https://www.reveddit.com/v/Conservative/comments/iig9uh/is_my_boss_a_communist/
Boy, conservatives sure love their free speech.
They really do. Some speech is more free than others.
This is suspiciously close to the famous “some are more equal than others” from my favorite book, <removed by moderator>.
I got banned from there years ago for asking a question in a comment.
well that’s your first mistake. Only communists question stuff.
They are the most banned happy I have heard of. They know how susceptible the audience is to manipulation so they won’t abide any counter manipulation.
As we speak people are losing their jobs because they said some shit about Kirk boy.
Hell, I’ve seen people losing jobs and shit purely from posting direct quotes from Charlie Kirk, nothing more
People who respond in an extrajudicial manner to being fired like that are well within their rights.
pro tip: change any reddit url to reveddit to view deleted content https://www.reveddit.com/v/Conservative/comments/iig9uh/is_my_boss_a_communist/
Unfortunately it looks like the commies on Reddit are a bit smarter than your average conservative.
I think this post needs to go on truth social or some Chan type thing.
I just realised I don’t know where I would find a den of white supremacists… And I guess thats a good thing. I want to say the words telegram but I’m not sure? Huh. Til
Gonna start calling landlords “socialists”, see what happens
Comes up empty for me
So weird. When I click on the link, it also comes up empty. But if I replace
redditwithrevedditin the original url, it works.Here’s a screen grab.
Peak satire 👨🍳👌
Way too many comments from people taking this at face value. This is almost formulaic bait.
Satire not bait.
I call it bait entirely because of its audience: it’s posted to r/Conservatives.
Satire should be perceivable by its intended audience, such that the audience will interact and enjoy it on that meta-level. The expected audience of that subreddit isn’t looking for coded messages to unionize. Unless this post was made entirely for the enjoyment of progressive lurkers, which is not as reasonable to assume.
Except the audience wasn’t the conservatives there. It was us. It was people outside looking in. It was posted there so it could be shown elsewhere. Pretty clearly.
Between LLM brain rot and COVID, we lost a lot of collective brain power in the last few years
This post is 5 years old
Now now, it might be the first time on the internet for some of these commenters, who have somehow stumbled on Lemmy as the first place they visited.
May god have mercy with their souls
This guy/gal’s got the right idea. Turns out conservatives agree with a lot of leftist ideas when you don’t use their Boogeyman trigger words.
I’ve been saying that for decades but a lot of marxists are more into the aesthetics of marxism than the actual goals.
marxists are more into the aesthetics of marxism
Sort of a selection bias.
“The only Marxists I ever see are the ones advertising themselves” implies you might not be looking very hard
Funny how you quoted them twice yet neither one is actually a quote
They accuse you of their bogeyman trigger words whether or not you advertise it or are even actually doing the bogeyman thing in the first place. I fail to see how this would address that. The words need to be rehabilitated, not avoided, so they lose the knee jerk reaction that the right wing counts on.
I’d be a Marxist if only I had the money they always seem to have laying around.
More into Groucho than Karl?
Then again, Groucho did say something like ‘I would never want to join a club that would admit me as a member.’, so perhaps not.
I mean, IIRC Karl claimed to not be a marxist. Guess it runs in the family.
After the programme was agreed, however, a clash arose between Marx and his French supporters arose over the purpose of the minimum section. Whereas Marx saw this as a practical means of agitation around demands that were achievable within the framework of capitalism, Guesde took a very different view: “Discounting the possibility of obtaining these reforms from the bourgeoisie, Guesde regarded them not as a practical programme of struggle, but simply … as bait with which to lure the workers from Radicalism.” The rejection of these reforms would, Guesde believed, “free the proletariat of its last reformist illusions and convince it of the impossibility of avoiding a workers ’89.” Accusing Guesde and Lafargue of “revolutionary phrase-mongering” and of denying the value of reformist struggles, Marx made his famous remark that, if their politics represented Marxism, “ce qu’il y a de certain c’est que moi, je ne suis pas Marxiste” (“what is certain is that I myself am not a Marxist”).
Of course his favorite book is animal farm lol
When you walk so far to the right, that you are arriving on the left.
This has to be a troll.
Most likely, since he uses communism, socialism, and Marxism interchangeably
Concerned-antocommie is such a troll alt username
95% sure is trolling. Yet, I’m also 100% sure a lot of those buffoons will not notice.
Not many smart people left on the sub. Just yes-men.
They’ve done so many purges in /r/conservative that it’s basically communism
I really don’t think there were many smart conservative redditors to begin with.
My thoughts as well, surely there’s no way.
But… America.
It’s true, but I feel like the dumb ones wouldn’t have bothered to read Animal Farm.
Maybe Atlas Shrugged
It’s a pretty common assigned reading in schools these days
In American schools? Neither myself or anyone I know has ever been asked to read anything from Orwell.
It was:
I did the math
Followed by a logical conclusion that sold this as trolling to me
It was going great until “I’ve come to the conclusion…” Gave the whole game away.
Post up for 2 minutes, no votes shown. Definitely a troll post and probably screencapped by whoever made it before it was removed.
We should troll them like this a LOT more.
Accusing people of being communist is just fun as well. It is not all that inaccurate with our political leaders either.
The president is taking stock in companies and taking payoffs from companies. Because he’s a fucking communist.
It is absolutely inaccurate to call the capitalist fascist Trump a communist.
Duh. That’s the whole point.
are you autistic?
Shit I’m autistic and even I got the social nuance of the post.
I think old mate might just be plain old fashioned Forest Gump level stupid.
at least they got their heart in the right place :')
No dude he’s a fuckin commie
Why? I think he is a fascist communist. All his fans are tanky cunts.
He would hate being called communist though.
The problem is that their ability to ignore obvious contradictions is so immense they sometimes embrace it unironically.
“Russia will take the US without firing a single shot”
would have been better to not use the word “unify”. too transparent.
I think being somewhat transparent is the point. You want them agreeing untilnthey get to the end and say “oh”, and feel angry/annoyed by the satire, but deep down you’re sowing doubts that maybe this does all make sense and that you should investigate it more and get educated.
Form an employee company
Even ‘labor’ is a bit of a giveaway, IMO. Still funny tho
🤣 This has to be a secret leftist trolling the right. No way someone actually think this is “communism”.
Of course this isn’t socialism. It is plain and simple capitalism.
Have Americans been propagandised beyond help?
This is clearly a bait post in /r/conservative. The author knows exactly what they were doing, lol.
Also yes
Not in this specific instance at least
This is clearly a rage bait post for conservatives lol
It isn’t rage bait or whatever. I’m not surprised a lot of Americans can’t see it.
a surprising proportion at least
Missing nsfw tag for memetic agent with acute physiological aneurism vector.
Nevertheless, excellent shitpost.
Capitalist’s workers should rally behind such a great example.
