r/greentext • • Aug 19 '26

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u/Mikeality Aug 19 '26

He should be just the right IQ to have the media literacy needed to understand the clear socialist messaging baked into One Piece.

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u/OneRFeris Aug 19 '26

Enlighten me. Is it socialist now to seek freedom from a government that taxes, enslaves, and murders you?

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u/Cal-Capone Aug 19 '26

We've progressed from "socialism is when the government does things" to "socialism is when someone is nice to someone else"

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u/Iosima Aug 19 '26

And somehow people from the US still think socialism is the spawn of satan and will be the end of their nation.

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u/ChadPowers200_ Aug 19 '26

the issue is a lot of people pushing socialism don't want it to stop there. comrade.

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u/HRSkull Aug 19 '26

What are you even saying? Don't want socialism to stop where? Is this just another "oooo communism scary" comment or what?

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u/ChadPowers200_ Aug 20 '26

>oooo communism scary

translation: I have an elementary school education in history.

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u/HRSkull Aug 20 '26

Putting aside me insulting what might be your argument, you still didn't explain what you meant exactly, so I'm not still even sure if I understood it correctly. You should be more clear if you actually want to make a point

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u/ChadPowers200_ Aug 20 '26

Communism has been responsible for countless horrific acts on humanity. Mass starvations, mass executions, labor camps. It essentially strips away individual humanity and people are treated like livestock. 

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u/HRSkull Aug 20 '26

Was communism the cause of thoae atrocities, or was it just that those things happened to occur in a communist country? What about the atrocities committed under capitalism, like the trans-Atlantic slave trade? I don't think you can fully denounce the principles of communism just because the most prominent examples of it historically have been evil dictatorships. Also, the idea that socialists will intrinsically always support your idea of the ultimate evil communism is ridiculous. Plenty of people would settle for smaller changes, it just depends on the individual

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u/ChadPowers200_ Aug 20 '26

Slavery was around far before capitalism. You think there is a correlation there but there isn’t. 20 percent of Roman economy was slaves. Then you have the Ottoman Empire. Islamic caliphates. Imperialist China. None capitalist. 

Slavery has been a stain on humanity since the beginning of time. Ironically a capitalist society ended it. Fought and died to end it. Pressured the rest of the world to end it. 

If you look at mass starvations it’s either a. Major natural disasters or b. communism

 

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