• Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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    In Germany the say:

    If you’re not a communist at fifteen, you don’t have a heart. If you’re still one at thirty, you don’t have a brain.

    I don’t know bout you, but my socialism does not come from a lack of understanding how politics work.

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      There’s another sentence: “feminist until married, atheist until the plane falls and communist until rich”. But if you are like that you were never feminist, atheist or communist.

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        “There are no atheists in the foxhole.” Is suppose to mean that, but it also means a CO will order atheists out to get shot first.

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      I was a communist at 15, by 30 I was an anarchist.

      I used my brain to study history and politics and realised authority would never absolve itself.

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        Are you me?

        Authority has always been so obviously full of shit for my entire life. There has never been a real demonstration of how it aids the common people, but constant demonstrations of how it abuses us.

        When I made claims like that when I was younger, I was scoffed at and insulted for not slobbering on my masters schlong like a good little serf.

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      Since socialism isn’t communism the sentence either doesn’t apply to you or it REALLY applies to you. 😆

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      The quote was authored by liberals, so of course its going to be insulting towards their major rivals.

      Of course, leftists have their own sayings. One of my favorites being

      “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist.”

      Although

      The maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry

      is a close second.