Bro
Get off my d***

can you explain what you meant then? is it just brand worship?

No

then what is the meaning behind "communism no iphone"

because whatever that means is bullshit if you're agreeing with all my criticisms of the statement

please dont joke about the unconstitutional dissolution of the USSR man.

the United States threw 286 million people into extreme extreme poverty for geopolitical and financial aims.

286 million people thrown into defunct hospitals with no running water, skyrocketing d*** abuse and child prostitution.

its really not that funny

Communism doesn’t have the need for luxury products

The ussr failed on its own merit

which is a good thing

*from my iphone

property theft ≠ murder and violence

what i mean is, a rich person getting a 70k watch stolen (like the article says) or a Lamborghini stolen from them where theres no other outcome (like the robber going to jail, the person who's being robbed gets killed, etc.) isn't something so horrific that its comparable to someone getting killed. its not something thats gonna evoke a lot of empathy from me

honestly, the article doesnt give too much information and its coming from a heavily biased source (LAPD), so whatever they say should be taken with heavy grain of salt

so basically, a rich person having an expensive luxury item stolen from them? i don't care. this doesn't mean that i think it's "good", or that gang violence should be supported, its just a situation where I have no empathy for the person being robbed (just robbed, not killed or seriously harmed)

notice I said rich person, by that I mean someone wealthy enough to flex 70k watches like its nothing - not the average person

if my school didn't necessitate a mobile device i wouldn't have it...

id check out the Citations Needed podcast for similar a***ysis. they generally respond to media trends and break down just exactly how media propaganda works its really really interesting.

citationsneeded.medium.com/news-brief-organized-crime-shoplifting-epidemic-panic-hits-san-francisco-media-b044c0f78bfa
here's an episode breaking down the “Organized Crime” “Shoplifting Epidemic” Panic that was going around last year

Right
Its okay to like nice things

its not okay to like wasteful things because they're nice

not untrue

one of the worst tragedies in modern history but you're not necessarily wrong.

Who are you to say that

someone who lives in a world where the "leading" country is collapsing in on itself for the very reason that we like wasteful things because they're nice

shoplifting

So iPhone is leading to the collapse of civilization is what your saying

yes, all slaves did for all of those centuries was pick cotton

we really the dwyane wade and lebron of this thread lol nigga just threw down the lob i passed him