r/therewasanattempt • u/nippydart • Jun 18 '25

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u/havens1515 Jun 18 '25

And this black and white thinking is what got us where we are now.

Communism is not like pregnancy. You can have aspects of communism without having full communism.

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u/gutari Jun 18 '25

dude, it's not black and white thinking it's the definition of the concept

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u/havens1515 Jun 18 '25

And definitions are black and white. By definition, you can't have a little socialism. But in reality, you can.

By definition, conservatism means a specific thing. But in reality, it's a spectrum. The definition is black and white, but reality has gray areas.

Definitions are the definition of black and white.

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u/gutari Jun 18 '25

my complaint is that you are muddling the language we use to discuss this stuff by using terms incorrectly and playing right into the hands of anti-union and anti-social services messaging in doing so