• ghen@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    2 days ago

    Leftists are capitalists too, they just know that strong social safety nets are required to keep the ball in play instead of letting the billionaires take it home with them.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      edit-2
      2 days ago

      Leftists are capitalists too,

      Not all leftists are capitalists. That’s absurd. Socialism is a left-wing ideology.

    • مهما طال الليل@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      edit-2
      2 days ago

      No, you are clearly not a leftist. Everyone should get a ball, or at least be communally shared. If we seize the means of ball production we can **** CEOs without worrying about going ball-less.

      • FMT99@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        edit-2
        2 days ago

        And here you see a microcosm of the problem. “Leftists” range from “we have to destroy the system and everyone in it damn the consequences” to “I just want the government to provide reasonable services”. (but no, only I am the true left)

        • volodya_ilich@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          22 hours ago

          we have to destroy the system and everyone in it damn the consequences

          Literally nobody defends anything like this. Destroying the system is the tool to liberating everyone inside it and to give them better lives, what moves leftism is a desire to rise the human living conditions

      • ghen@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        2 days ago

        Leftists exist between liberal and communist.

        And since communism can’t work with our current understanding of humanity leftist is about as left as you can get

        In my analogy everybody does get a ball because that’s the social safety net necessary for gameplay. Not everybody gets a fancy hat with a neat feather though