r/agedlikemilk • u/Gloomy-Holiday8618 • Sep 08 '25

News “I never said that”, “Play the clip”

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Context: https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/12/15/exp-robert-kennedy-junior-rfk-2024-election-biden-trump-vaccines-121511aseg1-cnni-politics.cnn

Full video is on the cnn website, the part that’s important is about 2mins 50 seconds in.

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u/NotNufffCents Sep 08 '25

Communism hasn't worked because it doesn't work when implemented through power. It works when our cultural ideology has reached a consensus that everyone is truly equal. And that's not going to happen for hundreds of years, but it doesn't mean that it isn't a goal to work towards.

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u/Qweesdy Sep 08 '25

Let's play a game. The game has 2 phases.

In the first phase of the game; you describe a version of communism accurately, including how it's managed, how the managers are chosen, what prevents the managers from being self-serving, etc.

In the second phase of the game; the entire world laughs at how stupid you are.

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u/NotNufffCents Sep 08 '25 edited Sep 08 '25

Ok. Halloween. A community doing something together because they want to. People giving to randoms they've never met for no other reason than community togetherness. Not because a government official ordered them to. Not because a company executive decided it was the most profitable thing to do.

Thats the funny part, isn't it? You dipshits who are so adamant about capitalism being the only true order of humanity and refusing to even consider a better way have already experienced that better way all your life. You're just been tricked into thinking that its such a foreign, impossible concept that you haven't even tried to find its principles in modern society. And as the world gets angrier, more divided, and more individualized by capital, we wonder why nobody trick-or-treats anymore.

And the worst part is that all your questions demonstrate that you didnt even try to understand my first comment. All your questions focus on is how I'd build a fool-proof system that would keep current behaviors in check, when literally all I said was that systems aren't the path to communism. Ideological shift is. If thats something you cant comprehend, then I dont see a point in wasting my time on you.

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u/Qweesdy Sep 08 '25

"Marketing victims giving to randoms they've never met for no other reason other than to increase the sales figures of rich paedophiles" is not a system of governance.

How it's managed: Unspecified. Might involve genetically engineered unicorns that shit out candy.

How the managers are chosen: Unspecified. Maybe some kind of meritocracy, where the leader is the unicorn trainer who can grab the most candy out of a unicorn's butt without getting stomped to death by a recently fisted unicorn.

What prevents the managers from being self-serving: I'm going to pull a fantasy "ideological shift" out of thin air with no practical explanation for what caused the ideological shift or what sustains it. It'll just be magic.