• masquenox@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I don’t understand why people in the US fall for that take. Socialism did take root in the US - that’s the whole reason they had to invent police and alphabet organisations to crush it.

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            10 months ago

            Absolutely. Americans can, to a limited degree, hide behind the excuse that they are the most propaganda-drenched people on the planet.

            Can you?

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              10 months ago

              It’s a ~famous quote. Do you think a quote reflects my personal views on something? Should I perhaps go about and edit quotes to my liking?

              Secondly, “take root” is ofc metaphorical, and we could argue the semantics of what constitutes “taking root”. It’s clear that at the very least if it took root, it lost to some degree to another thing that took root (like a corporate kleptocracy) and while no-country is perfect clearly the countries with much better social programs has had this metaphorical plant of socialism bloom a bit more.

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                10 months ago

                Should I perhaps go about and edit quotes to my liking?

                No. Just pick ones that actually stand up to scrutiny. I guess you don’t know where the term “redneck” (as it’s used in the US, of course) actually comes from, do you?

                It’s clear that at the very least if it took root, it lost to some degree

                Absolutely not. It was actively destroyed. Do you really think they invented internal political police organisations like the FBI to “fight crime”?

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                  10 months ago

                  Absolutely not. It was actively destroyed. Do you really think they invented internal political police organisations like the FBI to “fight crime”?

                  You seem to be having issues with metaphors.

                  Who honestly gets that pissed off at a quote? I guess a temporarily embarrassed millionaire.

                  When someone says “let them eat cake” do you actually jump in with "actually there’s a lot of diabetics in the US population and type II diabetes is a known national issue, so actually they shouldn’t be eating cake, they should eat at moist wholegrain if they eat any bread, you see wholegrain actually keeps your blood glucose steadier for longer. And she never even said it, that’s a mistranslation! "

                  Or would you perhaps understand there’s a specific thing that’s relayed though that meme?

                  " dO YoU rEAlLy tHiNk fBi fights crime? wHaT aN iDIoT1!! tHeYrE a GoVeRNmeNt cOnSPiRaCY aGaInST sOciAlIsm, noT aCTuAL lAw eNfORcEmEnT"

                  Go home to grow a mustache, boy-o.

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                    10 months ago

                    You seem to be having issues with metaphors.

                    Appealing to my (alleged) lack of understanding of metaphors does not change the fact that you - unironically - attempted to explain history using a quote that can be easily disproven.

                    Or would you perhaps understand there’s a specific thing that’s relayed though that meme?

                    So are you or are you not cogniscent of the fact that your silly quote misrepresents history?

                    noT aCTuAL lAw eNfORcEmEnT

                    You were saying?

                    Go home to grow a mustache

                    Mustaches are easy - backbone isn’t. I hope it won’t prove impossible for you.