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Beating Libs with their own dumb arguments lol (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml to c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml

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So I had a convo w a lib recently and they said that I am hypocritical to have jeans or enjoy American TV and movies or enjoy anything in American culture or American inventions if I dislike the way our country is run and the state of our culture and politics. So I gave a few examples of things they like that would make them “hypocritical” by that logic. I said that they shouldn’t be allowed to eat ice cream or play Skyrim (umm no dragons for you, those are Chinese and Korean by origin) no more satellites because the big bad Soviets sent Sputnik. I obviously let them know I don’t actually believe that and they should be allowed to wear and eat and play what they want without having to tiptoe on eggshells around nonexistent ideological barriers. But just out of curiosity, what would be other examples of cultural influences or inventions that Libs/conservatives would have to divest themselves of(if they followed this dumb logic they way that they expect us to)?

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[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope they do not like pasta. Because noddles came from China. As did dumplings. They also should propably burn their paper money, also from China.

[–] Blinky_katt@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Paper in general, gun powder, compass

[–] RearAdmiralDumpDeck@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

If that's the case then the only legitimate way to criticize capitalism is by eating berries and living in a cave. I ignore those litmus tests because it goes both ways. Since to them I'm either a hippocrite because I use capitalists products or I'm a poor freeloader who wants to own other people's stuff for free. When people make that asinine claim I usually just point out that black slaves in the south participated in slavery while being very much against such practices, imo there's no need to use hypothetical this and that to shut them down.

[–] JoeDaRedTrooperYT@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Another good analogy as to why the iPhone gambit is insane, is telling to an ancap this

And ur shirt is made China, why are you wearing it? Baffled?

[–] IntoDaLagoon@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Using a cell phone, eh? Be sure to thank Comrade Kupriyanovich and the other soviet scientists who first made handheld satellite communication a reality"

[–] big_spoon@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

is that some tetris? communist!

sending people to the space? communist!

vodka? tovarisch!

is that some mf internet? OGAS was soviet!

aerobatics? sorry...

anthrax vaccine? no...kalashnikov? postal codes? space rovers? tokamaks? rocket launchers?

well...

[–] JoeDaRedTrooperYT@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

This is like saying "Why are u playing COD if u hate America?"

[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They should really just abstain from literally any product that has the tag "made in China" on it, and any other "made in " for that matter. That includes most non-perishable goods available cheaply in the USA like clothes, electronics and household appliances. Also guns. I hope they don't like cars given all the petroleum coming from scary Muslim countries.

But also the 8 hour workday limit historically was a demand and a victory of the First International ( section 3 ), so if they don't like those foreign communist ideas they should go back to 14 hour workdays.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I once read a funny article where some Japanese actually checked out in practice those lib "boycot China", they found out volunteer for that and after taking everything made in China out he was just sitting in nearly empty home. They finished the article with conclusion that in Japan you couldn't even die in peace without China because nearly all coffins are made there.