Notices by mike805 (mike805@fosstodon.org), page 4

@sphinx @tofugolem @futurebird the so-called other side is not better. Clinton had a bunch of scandals including money from China. Al Gore contested an election and tried to do selective recounts, until the Supreme Court shot him down. And the D party was responsible for a really big insurrection in the 19th century. I could go on.

The parties do not represent competing moral principles. They represent competing collections of interests. They are just rival gangs.

@tofugolem @pleaseclap @futurebird @sphinx yes they are less Fascist. That's the good news.

The bad news is they are a lot more Bolshevik. And not just Bernie. It seems like half their talking points come from the Communist Manifesto.

Sometimes I think we are watching the run-up to the Spanish Civil War, or perhaps the Kampfzeit, repeating as farce (the first time being tragedy!)

Does it really have to be a choice between Communism and Fascism?

@tofugolem @trochee @pleaseclap @futurebird @sphinx the whole system serves the wealthy and corporations. The D and R serve the system.

Communism is direct ownership of the means of production by the state. Fascism is where the state controls the corporations but the corporations retain formal ownership of the means of production.

Both C and F treat humans as just a tool, part of the means of production, to be used by the people in charge. Both are evil.

@trochee @tofugolem @pleaseclap @futurebird @sphinx yeah that was Karl Marx who said that. He was pretty good at describing the faults of the present system. Not so good at proposing a solution. The Dems want a big centralized financial system with themselves at the top. They get private jets, everyone else gets an e-bike if he is good.

Communism is a strategy for turning everyone against each other. Previously it was about class, the current iteration is about identity groups.