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This is a Dengist community in favor of Bashar al-Assad with no information that can lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton, our fellow liberal and queen. This community is not ironic. We are Marxists-Leninists.

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Being programmers and what not, are they supposed to be this gullible? (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by sicaniv@lemmygrad.ml to c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml

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Irony is, those in need of deprogramming the most are the ones into programming. How is it even possible that people that are supposed to be so intelligent/logical/rational are actually this gullible to state's propaganda that they believe it without a shred of doubt.

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[–] nephs@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 year ago

One only look into politics if they need to.

When you have a comfortable life there's no objective reason to question the structure of power are oneself is immersed into.

Because programmers generally get a comfortable lifestyle from the compensation for their work, they can easily believe that wages generally correlates to skill and effort, becoming completely oblivious to the concept of surplus value. From that point on they are susceptible to reinforcing dominant ideology.

Speaking as a programmer trying to rally the class. It's hard! Too much anecdotal evidence that things are fine, apparently. But I want to believe tides are starting to change.