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Zoboomafoo, to memes in Just fuck me up fam
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My recommendation is to pick one problem and focus on it. Don’t feel like you need to fix everything in the world, just make a small part of the world better. Volunteer at a soup kitchen, clean up litter, canvas for a ballot measure you care about. Doing nothing while agonizing over how much is to be done helps nobody.

Zoboomafoo, to memes in Common Marx W
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How convenient

Zoboomafoo, to memes in Common Marx W
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See, that’s what I mean. You treat The Revolution as an inevitability, then twist yourself into knots to justify why it hasn’t happened yet.

Zoboomafoo, to memes in Common Marx W
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Me:

In my opinion, Marx wrote his conclusion first, then cherry picked the points in history that supported his conclusion.

You:

I can’t fathom the arrogance of people who say “Marx just didn’t think of x, y or z”

Please, enlighten me how I said that

Zoboomafoo, to memes in Common Marx W
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Why shouldn’t I? I stand by my original point and you’ve done nothing to rebut it

Zoboomafoo, to memes in Common Marx W
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Oh ok, what I really meant was:

In my opinion, Marx wrote his conclusion first, then cherry picked the points in history that supported his conclusion.

Zoboomafoo, to memes in Common Marx W
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In my opinion, Marx wrote his conclusion first, then cherry picked the points in history that supported his conclusion.

Nothing in that implies what you’re accusing me of

Zoboomafoo, (edited ) to memes in Common Marx W
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The economy of Vietnam is a developing mixed socialist-oriented market economy

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Vietnam

That doesn’t sound very communist to me, and I’ve heard plenty of times that a mixed economy isn’t a socialist one at all.

Or is that only when it’s a European country?

Zoboomafoo, to memes in Common Marx W
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Nothing you said rebutted the section of my comment you quoted, you just started fighting strawmen

Zoboomafoo, to memes in Common Marx W
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The US lost a war to Vietnamese nationalists that adopted the trappings of Communism in order to get materiel support from China. They rejected it, and China, as soon as possible

Zoboomafoo, to memes in Common Marx W
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And to radicals, there is no greater foe

Zoboomafoo, to memes in Common Marx W
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In his book, he charts the course of human history and tries to predict where it will end up. He comes to the conclusion that a violent revolution will soon come to pass as the workers overthrow their bosses and start sharing resources.

“Soon come to pass” was 150 years ago, the Revolution hasn’t happened. Marxist scholars since then have been recreating the letters between early Christians asking why He hadn’t returned yet as promised and pushing the date of the Second Coming back.

In my opinion, Marx wrote his conclusion first, then cherry picked the points in history that supported his conclusion.

Zoboomafoo, (edited ) to memes in Feels good
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Back in thr US Civil War 160 years ago, the loyalist side was called “The Union”. So people are jokingly pretending your meme was about Union victories there

Zoboomafoo, to memes in Feels good
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Oh good, it wasn’t just me

Zoboomafoo, to memes in Happy Halloween!
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I feel called out but you’re right

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