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How would you say you're a communist without saying you're a communist? (hexbear.net)
submitted 11 months ago by THIRD_WORLDIST@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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Examples that come to mind:

  • saying your favorite video game is Disco Elysium
  • saying your favorite TV show is Star Trek DS9

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  1. It has to be to do with a category that is socially acceptable to talk about with most people in a casual setting. So no politics or philosophy.
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[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'd say anyone who likes the Culture series, but a lot of techbros like it and don't really connect up the politics (basically a high level communist society doing an interventionism)

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Musk famously named a couple of his spaceships after Culture ships, and if there's anyone the Culture is wonder-who-thats-for for it's him.

[–] Galli@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

Bezos also likes the series and nearly made a tv adaptation of Consider Phlebas that thankfully fell through.

All the bazingaires are wow cool spaceship wow-cool-robot about the Culture while missing communist themes that couldn't have been more overt without each book just pausing to quote the manifesto in full.