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The capitalist press (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 37 points 1 year ago (1 child)

"Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas."- Oscar Wilde.

I think public opinion is overrated. Too many fools in the public. Just look at MAGA idiots in US.

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  • [–] 51 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    You can describe socialist and communist policies and people generally love them. You just can't use those thought terminating trigger words.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    That comes from dishonest politicians and media, who twist things for their benefit. They frame certain acts like they are coming for your 2 chickens, when in reality, they are coming for a rich fucks' 100000 chickens. Such people have a vested interest in fooling the people with 2 chickens. Hence, they campaign by equating such measures with 'scary' words like 'communism'. Propaganda works. These kinds of tricks are bread and butter of advertising industry. So why not politicians and media?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Describing it is one thing.

    Actually implementing it is another.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    In Nordic countries, they do have something along the line. Although it ended up being democratic socialism, which is left-center instead of far-left authoritarian.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    The Nordics aren't Socialist in any capacity, heavy industry and large firms are squarely in the Private Sector, and they earn the bulk of their income from acting essentially as a landlord in country form, from predatory IMF loans.

    Moreover, all Socialism is democratic in some form, the idea that there is a niche of Socialism that alone is Democratic is a misnomer. Democratic Socialism is better described as Reformist Socialism.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What I mean is taking the opinion of the public seriously. I mean, people believe in a lot of weird things and that includes me. As an example, lot of people are anti-vaxxers, that doesn't actually make vaccines dangerous. Should their opinion matter? If so, how much?

    I think the quote is meant to consider that sometimes we must ignore public opinion and do what is right. But, I agree some nuance could be lost. But sadly, the quote has no context because it is from a list of quotes Oscar Wilde wrote. Maybe, we should supply our own nuance.?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Public opinion has a pretty big influence on who is getting voted into public offices. Ignore at your own peril.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yes, but that is the problem of politicians. Regular people like you or me can safely ignore public opinion. Because we know how dumb public is.

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