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Kiddie_Kleen t1_iqrqdwj wrote

Reply to comment by KnownDegree4888 in What do people on this sub think about the Maine Communist Party by [deleted]

We don’t run candidates at the moment so it’s hard to draw votes from anything

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KnownDegree4888 t1_iqrqi07 wrote

So basically a totally useless organization

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Kiddie_Kleen t1_iqruf63 wrote

Damn didn’t know helping unhoused people get food and funding people to get addiction counselling for free was useless I’ll make sure to let them know!

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indyaj t1_iqryumi wrote

Post the party metrics for these fine acts of philanthropy.

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Kiddie_Kleen t1_iqrzhym wrote

Philanthropy would just be us getting money and then sending it to charities we do hands on work

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indyaj t1_iqs9teu wrote

> Philanthropy would just be us getting money and then sending it to charities we do hands on work

No. That is not philanthropy. This is: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/philanthropy

Which is how you portray your political group. Not a bad thing but why call yourselves communists when you could more palatably call yourselves secular humanists?

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Kiddie_Kleen t1_iqsabhu wrote

  1. You missed the part after where is says “a gift done to help the humanitarians”
  2. We don’t only do what I listed feel free to go to the link on my post to read more about what we do! But we also do stuff such as fund candidates, organize marches, provide education as much as we can and many more things! Feel free to read up on it
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indyaj t1_iqsaxs7 wrote

But you're Communists. If you weren't a political organization claiming to be humanitarian, then I'd consider reading more but this is how it all started and now we have China and North Korea. No thank you.

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Kiddie_Kleen t1_iqsdqz5 wrote

That’s the problem, you clearly like some of the things we do but you’re not looking at us bc we’re communist, you’re the entirety of the US congrats!

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indyaj t1_iqsf376 wrote

What makes you explicitly communist? Is it the desire to be subversive? If you really want to "help" then maybe call yourselves something less controversial.

I'm not a capitalist by any stretch. My mother thinks I'm a communist because of my criticism of it, but I'm not. The history of crimes against humanity should be enough for anyone to denounce it. Yes, the same could be said about capitalism but I'm not banging a drum about that either.

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Kiddie_Kleen t1_iqsgma8 wrote

We are the communist party though, changing our name would do little against that, we subscribe to communist beliefs, our party has been around since the 60s (actually earlier but it was called other names) it be like saying the democrats should change their name bc they were the party of slavery before the platform switch, it would be nothing other then performative

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Kiddie_Kleen t1_iqrzcvj wrote

No, unlike philanthropy we don’t just throw money at problems, we have people that teach at shelters on how to forage in urban environments and how to grow food in small spaces. Along with we own farm land that we use to help unhoused people.

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indyaj t1_iqs8ssd wrote

Philanthropy isn't "throwing money at problems."

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KnownDegree4888 t1_iqs6e5x wrote

You do that, sounds like a band aid on a severed artery

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Kiddie_Kleen t1_iqs8f1d wrote

Would you rather us run this year, take away votes from other progressive candidates leading to a fascist to win, or what we think is the better alternative wait until a off year where we can do a big push and likely get someone elected. It’s a pretty easy to grasp strategy plan

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