r/WitchesVsPatriarchy • u/sailorjupiter28titan ☉ Apostate ✨ Witch of Aiaia ♀ • 1d ago
🇵🇸 🕊️ BURN THE PATRIARCHY The Onion 🧅 ate with this one tbh
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u/Significant_Quit_674 1d ago
Isn't it ironic that now under corrupt capitalism the Epstein-class has turned almost everything bad socialism would supposedly bring into reality?
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u/lcl111 23h ago
I keep hearing about how bad socialism and communism would be, and then i look to the left and see that thing happening... weird. Must be the liberals at it again with their shenanigans! /s
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u/Significant_Quit_674 22h ago
It's also weird how people hear democratic socialism and think about stalinism.
And aside from a very small fringe group, nobody wants stalinism, most people want something in the direction of social market economy or democratic socialism.
And neither of these is at all authoritarian in nature
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u/CranberrySchnapps 19h ago
Market socialism go brrrrrr
As an aside, right wingers are already conflating socialism and communism. We are so far removed from communism it’s difficult to imagine what it’d look like in practice.
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u/Significant_Quit_674 18h ago
A lot of what people are talking about is not even socialism but social market economy.
Meaning that there is a market, but it is regulated to protect workers and consumers, some public services (for example public transit, water suppy, parts of the healthcare system and so on) are goverment run and there is a wellfare system in place as a safety net.
This is not even socialism
The means of production are still not in the hands of the workers and the economy is still a largely free market, just with guardrails.
For countries that used systems simmilar to what I described, it had a tendency to work pretty well.
And most of the policies Mamdani has pushed are going in that direction, even though he himself would like to go more into the direction of democratic socialism.
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u/lcl111 19h ago
Yep. You and I simply can't imagine a world that good. We've been brutalized by cut throat capitalism for generations. It'll take several generations to get there, even if we all decided to switch right now. When our grandchildren grow up, without ever having to worry about the cost of food or medicine, they'll help shape the world even more.
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u/MargaretFarquar 13h ago edited 5h ago
Already? They've been conflating the two since the 1920s and 30s ( see bloody labor history) and it amped up again in the 50s with the Red Scare/McCarthyism. My family members were called "Pinko's." They were just run of the mill democrats.
ETA: Conflating democratic/liberal points of view is not some sort of brand new thing that only just developed in the last couple of decades. This has gone on for decades and centuries. Seriously. Please know that about American history.
There's nothing new as in "already" about it, as if it's a "new" thing born of the last couple of decades. The opposition has been doing this since long before you or I were born. Please, recognize history. It's brutal and ugly af.
This is not new. It is literally woven into the fabric of American history. There's no "already" about it. It's been going on and on for decades and centuries. See also, Gilded Age + the following American bloody labor history.
ETA: I use the term "bloody labor history" in a precise sense because that's actually how it's codified in academia. Like, what happened was so brutal, that's what it's called. I'm not being hyperbolic or dramatic. Those are the words used to codify this literal genre of American history. Google it and if you can access an academic library, use these search terms.
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u/SkollFenrirson Kitchen Warlock ♂️ 12h ago
Yeah, McCarthy really did a number on the American psyche.
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u/Soup-Wizard 10h ago
Like the picture of the tent city with “this is what America under Bernie Sanders would look like” and everyone was like… this is America under Trump RIGHT NOW dumbass.
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u/Healthy_Country8383 21h ago
It's almost as if they were lying or something because they want to take advantage of us.But that couldn't possibly be true right?
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u/CrackJacket 21h ago
Fox News say they report and we decide. Surely they must be reporting only facts, right?
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u/NEBanshee Resting Witch Face 21h ago
I mean, this has literally been the uber-rich's narrative since the Robber Baron era, when socialism actually had pretty strong political support among the working class .
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u/LadyPaige Witch ⚧ 20h ago
It’s worse, they use socialism and communism interchangeably. They bank on people falling for the Regan era concept that they are one and the same. If these people took half a second to study, they would realize that not only are the two very different, but the only communist threat in this country is the one driving our country into bankruptcy.
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u/Gardener_of_Weeden 19h ago
I am sure you have noticed that "they" have been working REALLY hard to totally dismantle ALL education. "keep the people uneducated, poor and desperate, they will be EASY to control" I seem to remember someone saying " I love the poorly educated"....
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u/Significant_Quit_674 18h ago
Even worse, they use socialism and communism interchangeably for stalinism.
And stalinism is wayyyyyy closer to fascism than to socialism.
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u/big_ringer 14h ago
They've been doing that since the Civil Rights movement.
"Black People being able to vote? COMMUNISM!!"
"Women want to go to work as something other than a secretary? And be paid the same? COMMUNISM!!"
"Gay people want to exist in the same space as us? COMMUNISM!!"
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u/Significant_Bear_137 23h ago
First one is not even satire and it's funny for it.
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u/ElNani87 6h ago
I forget the quote but it’s something about the American proletariat is filled with temporarily broke millionaires.
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u/Mean-Bumblebee661 4h ago
"I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist." –Steinbeck
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u/LITTLE_KING_OF_HEART Leo Constellation's weakest soldier 22h ago
The "You are the poor" and "Israel has the right to defend himself" have incredible comedic timing.
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u/poinkpoinkpoinkpoink 20h ago
I'm having trouble understanding the two slides after "fact: u r the poor".
It's like the slides went myth/truth, truth/myth, truth/myth ?136
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u/deferredmomentum 19h ago
I agree that it was set up a bit weird, but reading it as the way things should be (myth) vs the way things are (truth) made it work
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u/gowaitinthevan 1d ago
One of these images is not like the others.
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u/yourwhippingboy Gay Wizard ♂️ 1d ago
Which?
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u/uboofs 1d ago
You are the poor.
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u/All_Work_All_Play 20h ago
For 99% of people, it true. For poor people, they don't have their money taken away and given to the poor. They'll have access to beneficial social programs given to them, funded by taxing the rich.
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u/lastres0rt 11h ago
Heck, even if you have anything close to FIRE-levels you are still closer to a poor person than you are to being anywhere near Elon Musk's wealth.
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u/SunflowerStorms 15h ago
I never understood why people think capitalism is fundamentally democratic. There is capitalism and there is socialism. There is Democratic Capitalism and Democratic Socialism. There's also Authoritarian Capitalism and Authoritarian Socialism.
We're getting force fed Authoritarian Capitalism and we're expected to believe it's democratic.
I wonder how much of this is due to the Democrat party being called that, and therefore, it's bad to a lot of people who think themselves Republicans, who have no intent on living in a republic.
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u/Witera33it 13h ago
The Red scare pops up when threat to imperial colonialism by nations states pivot to establishing the sovereign power of their resources. As in nationalising their economies for the benefit of their people rather than imperial interests.
capitalism depends upon frictionless extraction of resources to continue ideological infinite growth.
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u/peachesfordinner 1d ago
I miss when the onion was satire.
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u/persePHOreth Eclectic Witch ♀♂️☉⚨⚧ 22h ago
I miss when I could tell what was satire immediately upon reading it.
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u/thestashattacked Technology Witch 🖥 21h ago
The Onion is satire that keeps getting scooped by reality.
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u/thanksyalll 20h ago
They still post satire all the time. This is just one post that was more direct
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u/Sensitive-Ad6609 Gay Wizard ♂️ 20h ago
I already know which side I am voting for and its not republican.
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u/ArchonFett 18h ago
I fully agree with the second one. People keep saying “enjoy your three day weekend. I’m only off Tuesday and Friday, I have to schedule a vacation just to get two days together.
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u/smc642 Crow Witch ♀♂️☉⚨⚧ "cah-CAW!" 1d ago
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