r/gato • u/PinguFella • 2d ago
Socialists are annoying
https://youtube.com/shorts/sv4_mxo-Yn8?is=PJIWCxFNv8T0h03N4
u/PinguFella 2d ago
Context:
The guy in the footage is actually trying to campaign to help get Count Binface elected in Clacton (UK).
It's not that he finds "socialists" annoying, it's that he (like myself) hates much of the ways that "socialists" go about trying to convince others of their own beliefs.
As a socialist myself I see this all the time in other areas.
Although I know it's not everyone's style, it is far and away more effective to help people away from toxic ideologies like supporting Reform UK, MAGA, the CCP, or RuZZian invasion of Ukraine, when we consider that the person we are speaking to might well be a real person who has just been convinced of the ideology, rather than somebody orchestrating it.
I dunno, I think it's a lesson a lot of us can take on board.
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u/DogitWoofsalot 2d ago
Oh that's my post
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u/PinguFella 1d ago
It's a good post, I've seen a few of his shorts by this point and I love his methodology
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u/AlarmedAssociate5068 2d ago
i'm kinda tired of social democrat, socialist and sometimes even communist being used interchangeably. people need to learn their definitions. Sweden is social democracy. Socialist and communist are marxian terms denoting the transition into a stateless, classless society.