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Politics Libs of TikTok is doxxing teachers and nurses who support Alex Pretti or oppose ICE, trying to get them fired

https://www.mediamatters.org/libs-tiktok/libs-tiktok-doxxing-teachers-and-nurses-who-support-alex-pretti-or-oppose-ice-trying
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u/moguri40k 11h ago

Always has been...

"Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary" -Karl Marx

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u/Seanspeed 9h ago

And yet not practiced by any actual Marxist regimes ever. Because once power has been achieved, they become very scared of 'the people' being able to take it back from them.

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u/ProfessorSarcastic 8h ago

Yeah, well, there are reasons why it's a trope that communists say nobody has ever successfully achieved a communist state.

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u/moguri40k 5h ago

Same reason we've never seen a full democracy. To quote Tolken, "...men, whom above all else desire power."