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How would you say you're a communist without saying you're a communist? (hexbear.net)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Examples that come to mind:

saying your favorite video game is Disco Elysium
saying your favorite TV show is Star Trek DS9

The two rules are that:

It has to be to do with a category that is socially acceptable to talk about with most people in a casual setting. So no politics or philosophy.
Nothing too on the nose, ex, no "I love the music of the Red Army Choir" or something.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A lot of these don't work cause I joined the DSA at one point and they asked essentially "What is to be done?" (in different words) and I answered "Sorta nothing, I guess, I mean, capitalism seems to be collapsing pretty fast and like basically everyone I know is some kinda communist." Then there was a sorta awkward pause cause oh wow was I wrong.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You were supposedly wrong how?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Everyone turned out to be a lib, even me ooooooooooooooh

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Well your answer to what is to be done was 'sort of nothing", which is a very lib answer tbh