Anonymous #1 11h

Point and laugh

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Anonymous #1 7h

Please I beg you to explain how in detail how the holy Roman Catholic and apostolic church in America is under attack and discriminated.

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Anonymous #1 5h

Bro what when 😭

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Anonymous #1 5h

I am Christian and know what I’m talking about. No we are not.

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Anonymous #1 4h

I wish

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Anonymous #5 4h

Ong

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Anonymous #6 3h

what was ur previous comment?

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Anonymous #5 2h

8 (I’m just gonna go with the assumption that that was their number) was talking about how even small business owners with no employees profiting only from their own labor had bourgeoise interests and I was struggling to translate that into any examples of material harm, so I was hoping they’d explain how that was bad since I’m not as well-versed in this stuff as I’d like to be. I’ve been trying to open a sole proprietorship small business for a bit so I’m basically trying to figure out if I’m-

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Anonymous #6 2h

-unknowingly doing something harmful

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Anonymous #6 2h

(I now realize this is VERY off topic to anyone who didn’t see the thread lmao, I think the conversation went like this: Christian extremist said not being Christian is bad because it allows religions like Islam to spread —> I said that was bs bc other religions have a right to exist —> 8 unseriously said “good, Islam is truth” —> Christian extremist pointed out 9/11 —> I pointed out using extremism as an in to think the whole religion is bad is wild and 8 said it wasn’t that bad since the-

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Anonymous #6 2h

-building was full of business owners —> I said not all business owners were bad and also that 9/11 was bad (that went to a slightly different conversation that’d be tangential to describe) —> 8 said they all are a part of the bourgeoisie or have bourgeoisie interests —> I said that was only capitalists and that those without employees aren’t exploiting workers —> and yeah that lead to basically what I said 8 said

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Anonymous #6 2h

No you're not doing anything harmful individually. You still live in capitalism and you have to reproduce your class position, so it's okay to start a small business, I'm not going to call you a bad person for doing so. It's just that as a whole, small business owners tend to have reactionary interests.

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Anonymous #5 2h

Ah, so more a matter of making sure I check what my motivations are in doing things relating to my business? Also, what do you mean by reproduce my class position?

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Anonymous #6 2h

Do whatever you want with your business, at the end of the day it is the mode of production that leads to class relations, so simply trying to be a more fair business owner will not have any impact. Reproducing your class position means maintaining the conditions that allow your class position to continue existing. This is not really a conscious process. For example, a person who relies on selling their labor power for a wage, a proletarian, will work for a capitalist, receive wages,

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Anonymous #6 2h

spend their wage on their needs, allowing them to return to work and this process repeats

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Anonymous #5 2h

Ok, thank you for the info. Is there any literature you can recommend for learning more about this? I know the obvious one by Karl Marx, I just can’t remember the name offhand but I know it’d be easy to find, but any others?

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Anonymous #7 2h

Asking if it was a red flag for a man they were interested in to be atheist but also say he’s against religious discrimination. I don’t remember the exact percentages on the poll options but I think it was something like 2/3 no it’s not a red flag and 1/3 it is a red flag

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Anonymous #6 2h

They were mentally ill

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Anonymous OP 2h

Tomato tomahto /lh

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Anonymous #6 2h

Of course! I would recommend starting with the Communist Manifesto and then Capital. Capital is a really long and heavy text though, so I would suggest reading Carlo Cafiero's summary of Capital as a guide to help you organize your thoughts.

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Anonymous #6 1h

I’m not disagreeing with you I just thought it would be good to mention how it was all just schizoposting

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Anonymous #5 1h

Alrighty, thank you for the recommendations! (And also for the warning lmao, I am Not Good at reading dense literature but you gotta start somewhere :,) )

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Anonymous OP 1h

I didn’t think you were disagreeing with me lol, I was basically just saying that we were saying the same thing, mine just had more details and other context (Also unrelated but I feel like it can’t go unaddressed, “schizoposting” is really not a great word to use, it further marginalizes schizophrenic people when they already have a highly misunderstood and feared mental illness)

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