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[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 118 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Mao: We should literally kill every landlord

Harris: We should fund a first time home buyers grant of $20,000 for pell grant recipients who have owned a small business for 25 years

Vaush: These are literally the same thing

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 81 points 2 months ago (3 children)

We've done it. We've finally manufactured and deployed the wrongest man.

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 39 points 2 months ago

Him going back to this well every election year has to be intentional lol

[–] dumpster_dove@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago

Ian Miles Cheong walked so funny-clown-hammer could run

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 68 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The β€œ[historical figure] would’ve supported [modern candidate/movement/policy]” is the most brain dead argument. Obviously, they’re not here to tell us otherwise. But more importantly, despite the iconography being fun, figures like Lenin, Mao, etc were not prophets delivering holy truths from on high. They were just people making the best of their situations and figuring out what worked in the moment. Which is the best we can do, and often that means taking a different tactic than leftists of old. Ironically, playing games of β€œWhat would Lenin do?” is the exact opposite of conceptualizing theory in the modern context because it ties leftist politics to people who had decades of evolving context since their deaths.

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[–] staticfanfare@lemmygrad.ml 63 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I really hope this mf catches a bullet come the revolution

[–] FidelChadstro@hexbear.net 60 points 2 months ago (8 children)

For anyone curious about the Harris housing plan: https://nhc.org/the-harris-walz-housing-plan-detailed-serious-and-impactful/

It includes:

Tax breaks for builders

Different tax breaks for builders

Up to $25k for first time home buyers who have not missed rent in the last two years. Also sounds like it might be limited to 1 million buyers a year

Funds for local govt to distribute to non profits/housing services

Deregulation ("cutting red tape and bureaucracy")

Remove tax benefits for corporations that buy single family homes to rent

Some vague "rent control" that isn't

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 37 points 2 months ago (3 children)

who have not missed rent in the last two years

Come the fuck on. What in the hell kind of means tested bullshit is this?

[–] miz@hexbear.net 33 points 2 months ago

sounds designed in a laboratory to crush tenant strikes

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[–] Vernon_Tennessee@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago

So funneling money to local government jobs stacked with friends and relatives of the DNC? What else is new?

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[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 58 points 2 months ago (5 children)

This is some of the absolute dumbest shit I have ever read. What on Earth could Vaush have ever read beyond Wikipedia that led him to this conclusion? biden-leftist

[–] ItalianMessiah@hexbear.net 48 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I believe in this context he quoted something Marx wrote about supporting "revolutionary parties in Bourgeoisie elections" and either missed the "revolutionary" part or he claimed the Democrats to be revolutionary.

He took a quote about Marx supporting Communists running in Bourgeoisie elections and twisted it to support voting for Bourgeoisie parties.

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 42 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

and either missed the "revolutionary" part

Lmao agony

or he claimed the Democrats to be revolutionary

LMAO agony-turbo

He took a quote about Marx supporting Communists running in Bourgeoisie elections and twisted it to support voting for Bourgeoisie parties.

Yea, there's no genuine way to read this other than Marx supporting PSL or other actual Leftist parties, surely people have pointed this out, right? Right? agony-limitless

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago

Sounds like a fever-dream joker-stare

[–] anonochronomus@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago

Vaush lied as naturally as he breathed... dubois-dance

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The fact that he provided zero quotes to back up his claims about this, given that he positioned himself as having read these figures works thoroughly, says it all.

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 56 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lmao "radical"

Her policy proposal is extremely conservative and unlikely to meaningfully change the course of the housing crisis

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago

Three million new homes!*

*at $1,000,000 each.

[–] rubpoll@hexbear.net 55 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Mao is evil and everything he did was evil.

Kamala Harris is good and everything she does is good.

If you like Mao, who is evil, then you should like Harris, who is good.

Harris and Mao actually have really similar policies, which you should be happy about if you like Mao, which you shouldn't.

Being a Liberal must be fucking exhausting.

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[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 42 points 2 months ago

I'm not the biggest fan

So you are a fan, though

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 41 points 2 months ago

Well, if Kamala Harris wants to lead an uprising against the landlords that will be the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and lead to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the people, then I guess you've actually got to hand it to her.

[–] SovietyWoomy@hexbear.net 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

$1,000 tax credit for peasants who don't overthrow their landlords

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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Every time some chud talks about what a dead person would do to support their chud cause, this feels so called for.

https://vlipsy.com/vlip/the-boondocks-huey-throws-a-chair-at-fox-news-host-a5s1ALDX

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago

You beat me to it 😞

I don't have one for Mao and Lenin.

[–] Torenico@hexbear.net 35 points 2 months ago

Too many liberals have trouble contextualizing theory in the modern era. If Hitler, Mussolini, etc, were alive today, they would have been Bernie/Warren staffers, and would have endorsed Biden after Bernie dropped out. You'd know that if you read more than their Wikipedia articles.

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 35 points 2 months ago
[–] Goblin@hexbear.net 33 points 2 months ago

This is like the opposite of great man theory, like sure these dead fucks arnt infallible but goddamn put at least a little respect on their names

[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 2 months ago

"If Mao was alive today" as if Mao lived in 700 BC or someshit, bro he knew what American imperialism was

[–] context@hexbear.net 31 points 2 months ago

xi-peel but it's contextphobic instead of xi

[–] asante@hexbear.net 31 points 2 months ago (3 children)
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[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago

This should be punishable by death

[–] Vernon_Tennessee@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I feel theres a certain bloc of leftists who, post-bernie, have been ingesting vast amounts of copium to support dems. instead of taking the difficult route of organizing locally and starting from scratch, these guys decided to call it a day and support Kamala. So lame and sad.

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[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago

"Kautsky!!!!" lenin-rage

[–] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months ago

stalin would have personally led a gang war so big that cascadia would be a country and vaush thinks the old man would have been a staffer

[–] a_little_red_rat@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago

This is just a rehash of his old "Lenin would support voting for Biden", where he cherry picks a quote or two and runs with it.

Also, as if Lenin and Mao were fully unique Great People and there no current radical leftist leaders that take similar positions, lol

[–] sisatici@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

crop your darn images or you will be the next person in the dunk tank

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago

Crop workers are on strike

[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago

Deeply unserious say-the-line-bart-2

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Will no one rid me of this turbulent streamer?

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This has to be him baiting us

Please god let it be bait

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[–] Beetle_O_Rourke@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago
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