• LeninWeave [none/use name, any]@hexbear.net
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    None of this change the fact that someone’s full-time residence is personal and not private property. People have the right to their homes.

    People are only pointing this out in response to the user saying no one in any socialist state has ever been allowed to own a home. No one is directly comparing the systems of ownership in these states to America, just pointing out that ownership did and does exist.

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      You are making a direct comparison. I am challenging it. This is like if you all put your money into diamond toothbrushes that have microchips that are backed by the U.S. government. What the cartoon guy on Twitter is failing to elucidate is that yes, Americans like your parents do need to be decoupled from the global asset market. That is a form of expropriation, that doesn’t mean make them homeless, and you’re reading it uncharitably. It seems like you people have no idea where you even are. The Communist Manifesto has nothing to do with you.

      • LeninWeave [none/use name, any]@hexbear.net
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        You are making a direct comparison.

        I am not. I literally said I was not in the comment you are replying to. I am only saying that ownership exists/existed in socialist states (regardless that it wasn’t identical to ownership in America, it was there), therefore the Twitter user is wrong on the facts.

        What the cartoon guy on Twitter is failing to elucidate is that

        What the cartoon guy on Twitter did is express themselves in an intentionally confrontational and engagement-baiting way instead of just constructively saying what they meant. The result is that if they did have a serious point, it was lost in the controversy because their original comment (in the OP) could easily be interpreted as “evict everyone who owns a house”.

        that doesn’t mean make them homeless, and you’re reading it uncharitably

        It was written on purpose to be read uncharitably. We are in a thread replying to a second screenshot where the user doubled down and said no one was allowed to own land in any socialist state, which is simply not true. In the very same comment as that screenshot, Alaskaball posted a screenshot of the constitution of the USSR affirming the right to ownership of one’s dwelling as personal property. Whether the nature of that ownership was identical to the ownership a resident has of their home in America is irrelevant, the point is that the Twitter user’s statement is factually incorrect.

        It seems like you people have no idea where you even are. The Communist Manifesto has nothing to do with you.

        This type of tone is a similar form of engagement-farming to what you see on Twitter. It’s counterproductive to having a good conversation.

      • mendiCAN [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        It seems like you people have no idea where you even are. The Communist Manifesto has nothing to do with you.

        ugh, leave reddit behind dawg. this distracts the reader, reducing your comments impact.