common thread for any type of police officer anywhere tbh. I’ll say you can sign up for that kind of job out of idealism but give it like 5+ years or so on the force at some point you have to square the circle. Either you adopt the ideals you enforce or alternatively you’re so much of a nihilist you figure your job is to be a mercenary to inflict violence on behalf of orders above for pay. What else are you gonna do to be able to sleep at night?
lmao that’s like when my 4th. grade teacher gave me The Giver to read and I was like “Wow this sounds based if we just don’t do the eugenics part. Organizing the economy? Community events? Sign me up!”
The Giver is about communism? I thought it was just teen dystopian dreck with no political relevance like Divergent or Maze Runner or whatever. Granted, I have read none of the three.
The Giver is supposed to be an Animal Farm/1984 anti-communist book for kids, yeah. Everyone is assigned families, jobs, and homes by the government, made to conform with everyone else, and is given drugs to suppress their sexuality, along with being made colorblind.
The main character is a boy (Jonas) who is born with a partial ability to see color and he gets assigned to the career “receiver of memory” and he will be trained by a “giver of memory.” A giver is someone who carries memories of the past and can magically transfer those memories to someone else as long as they have the genetics. The current giver is getting old and needs a replacement, so Jonas is given this task. The memories are everything from color to snow sleds to what it’s like to break bones to battlefields of dying soldiers.
Another thing in the book is people are “released.” This is never explained to any of the characters what this actually means, so they think it means being sent to another community or exiled into the wilderness. Jonas finds out it means being executed. People who break rules, babies that don’t have proper genetics or are excess population, etc. are all “released.”
Jonas finds out it means being executed. People who break rules, babies that don’t have proper genetics or are excess population, etc. are all “released.”
I’m so happy we don’t have anything like that in capitalist society.
Really furthers my belief that a lot of these natsec freaks aren’t especially bright
Managed to accidentally radicalize someone they were probably suspecting of being a communist by using a (for them) particularly stupid choice of words
I mean, this would absolutely work on nonconformists who break rules for the sake of breaking rules, and kids/teenagers. Want a kid, or someone with a childish mindset, to study something, the best way is to convince them they’re not supposed to and they’re getting away with something. Use that on people with demand avoidance tendencies or who break rules to break rules, and use “the government doesn’t want you to read this” to reach a broader group. But yeah, if you want to get teenagers reading ML theory, this would probably work better than anything a lot of young commies are doing to radicalise peers…
It’s the same marketing genius saying “your electric comoany doesn’t want you plugging this 39-cent-BOM magic-beans box in” or “buy generic boner pills online with this lEgAl LoOpHoLe”…
except they’re making bank.So I guess it would work.
To use this exact tactic, we’d have to hand out theory as “the government doesn’t want you to read this”, but that would absolutely work. Especially in places where current public trust in government is at an all time low.
Cause and effect isn’t exactly their strong suit, though in some cases maybe a little manufacturing an enemy you can box in easily to keep funding going.
Probably. On the other hand they do like radicalizing people so they can use them as an excuse to outlaw or further surveil or attack organizations so it’s not impossible they were really hoping to paint MLK with the communist brush and if they had to literally turn people into communists around him to get that to work they were quite willing to do so. Hoover in particular was desperate for it so absolutely wouldn’t have been beyond trying to create some communists if it meant giving him more ammo to take down the civil rights movement and MLK.
Well, poor people shouldn’t be poor, he wrote
Damn sounds good sign me up!
Um, y-you’re supposed to agree with US and NOT him
Imagine how evil you have to be if that’s how you would sum up Marx and consider it something you need to fight
common thread for any type of police officer anywhere tbh. I’ll say you can sign up for that kind of job out of idealism but give it like 5+ years or so on the force at some point you have to square the circle. Either you adopt the ideals you enforce or alternatively you’re so much of a nihilist you figure your job is to be a mercenary to inflict violence on behalf of orders above for pay. What else are you gonna do to be able to sleep at night?
even when i was told the wrong definition of communism in school (“its when everyone is equal”) i was like yeah thats awesome?
lmao that’s like when my 4th. grade teacher gave me The Giver to read and I was like “Wow this sounds based if we just don’t do the eugenics part. Organizing the economy? Community events? Sign me up!”
The Giver is about communism? I thought it was just teen dystopian dreck with no political relevance like Divergent or Maze Runner or whatever. Granted, I have read none of the three.
The Giver is supposed to be an Animal Farm/1984 anti-communist book for kids, yeah. Everyone is assigned families, jobs, and homes by the government, made to conform with everyone else, and is given drugs to suppress their sexuality, along with being made colorblind.
The main character is a boy (Jonas) who is born with a partial ability to see color and he gets assigned to the career “receiver of memory” and he will be trained by a “giver of memory.” A giver is someone who carries memories of the past and can magically transfer those memories to someone else as long as they have the genetics. The current giver is getting old and needs a replacement, so Jonas is given this task. The memories are everything from color to snow sleds to what it’s like to break bones to battlefields of dying soldiers.
Another thing in the book is people are “released.” This is never explained to any of the characters what this actually means, so they think it means being sent to another community or exiled into the wilderness. Jonas finds out it means being executed. People who break rules, babies that don’t have proper genetics or are excess population, etc. are all “released.”
I’m so happy we don’t have anything like that in capitalist society.
Really furthers my belief that a lot of these natsec freaks aren’t especially bright
Managed to accidentally radicalize someone they were probably suspecting of being a communist by using a (for them) particularly stupid choice of words
hands out a communist reading list
Maybe this is how we get people to read theory
I mean, this would absolutely work on nonconformists who break rules for the sake of breaking rules, and kids/teenagers. Want a kid, or someone with a childish mindset, to study something, the best way is to convince them they’re not supposed to and they’re getting away with something. Use that on people with demand avoidance tendencies or who break rules to break rules, and use “the government doesn’t want you to read this” to reach a broader group. But yeah, if you want to get teenagers reading ML theory, this would probably work better than anything a lot of young commies are doing to radicalise peers…
Impersonating feds to hand out theory (in gmod rp servers ofc) would be insanely based
It’s the same marketing genius saying “your electric comoany doesn’t want you plugging this 39-cent-BOM magic-beans box in” or “buy generic boner pills online with this lEgAl LoOpHoLe”…
except they’re making bank.So I guess it would work.
To use this exact tactic, we’d have to hand out theory as “the government doesn’t want you to read this”, but that would absolutely work. Especially in places where current public trust in government is at an all time low.
Cause and effect isn’t exactly their strong suit, though in some cases maybe a little manufacturing an enemy you can box in easily to keep funding going.
Probably. On the other hand they do like radicalizing people so they can use them as an excuse to outlaw or further surveil or attack organizations so it’s not impossible they were really hoping to paint MLK with the communist brush and if they had to literally turn people into communists around him to get that to work they were quite willing to do so. Hoover in particular was desperate for it so absolutely wouldn’t have been beyond trying to create some communists if it meant giving him more ammo to take down the civil rights movement and MLK.
I guess they need to secure their job security somehow.
Okay what are you offering then, will I still be poor?
Yes, you’re still going to be poor but the already rich will get richer, great deal huh?
I don’t follow…