ArtemisMar 20

When you get taught about scary, scary communism as a kid, they make it sound as though it means you couldn't even own your teddy bear.

No one explains (likely because they themselves believed the same when they were taught) the difference between your teddy bear & a factory.

Show threadArtemisMar 20

Maybe people could enjoy their own personal objects WITHOUT us having to allow some people to hoard resources. Maybe those two things really aren't the same type of thing. Maybe the fact we call them both "property" obscures their differences.

We can share the resources in common for the common good AND you can have your very own teddy bear that is just yours. I promise.

Show threadTzimisce FleshMar 20
@artemis Yeah, "use the same word for two different adjacent things" is an absolute blight for discourse.
Show threadTzimisce Flesh
@artemis Tangentially related, but see also: Terms like "criminal" and "terrorist" being so pushed in the parlance that people's go-to insult for fascists becomes "people who oppose the state" or shit like that.
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Show threadTzimisce FleshMar 20
@artemis If I hear one more lib calling the Confederates "traitors"...
Show threadArtemisMar 20
@flesh
Yeah, exactly. Like THAT'S the problem.