I can't blame them for misinterpreting because the misinterpretation is more likely to match the typical Twitter post.
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In a weird self-referential way the reaction to the tweet provides reasons for why we need 1984 and more to convey the evils of communism
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It doesn't help that so many people in tech believe it's just because we just haven't tried their special, perfect version of communism yet.
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Many arguments end up: "no no we just haven't tried *enough* (socialism, communism, capitalism, freedom)". Invalid and valid arguments alike
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"There's One True Political Philosophy that explains all human phenomena and it's MINE" is a hard notion to shake
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But you'd be hard pressed to see reasonable people holding fascism as the ideal. OTOH can't go a day without seeing communist cheerleading
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I guess I'm not sure what your definition of "reasonable" is. Who are these reasonable communist apologists?
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A lot of people in tech actually. But I will not call people out. Some of them as obvious as having the hammer and sickle in their bio
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It's pretty trendy to back communism in San Francisco, Seattle, etc... there are tons of programmers on Twitter who tweet about it daily
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Plenty of socialists in my feed, can't recall any full-blown communists. Though if I saw any I'd probably assume it was theater.
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I have a lot. Hence this subtweet
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I'm genuinely curious now. Can someone DM me examples?
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inb4 people conflate marxism and communism!
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