Change My Mind

So you agree. Right on.
Thank you for your engagement.

Also, I think you misspelled "capitalist" there, but that doesn't surprise me.
Check this out: https://youtu.be/NjwGzYbvyIc

This was awful,.. perhaps because I grew up in a communist country and know about the beauties of socialist ideology first hand.

Do you know what will happen to that professor (and others like him) once there is a drastic change in the political structure or revolution and socialism is introduced?
Do you know what will happen to LGBTQ? Do you know what will happen to you?

Dig a little deeper, and try to find out where this professor got his ideas from, and you will come to one conclusion.

This is 1/3rd of the time of what I just watched, and I sincerely hope you see it.
https://youtu.be/G-GTaT9JbqU

I live in a society where we have normalized Nazis and White Supremacists again. I work at a job where we have to worry about people wanting to bomb our building or come in and shoot us.

I'm not really interested in your fear mongering.

But thank you for your engagement..

No no no my friend. Deluded SJWs have normalized that anyone who does not share their point of view is a nazi or white supremacist. And you bought into that.

If a KGB defector who is describing KGBs tactics in an interview, and Bernie Sanders' press conference following his return from Soviet Union is fear mongering, god help you.

Stop fearing life.

have you ever notices when you say "SJWs" out-loud it, it sort of sounds like "sjews"?
I sure have. seems vaguely concerning that your entire movement is centered around blaming the "sjews" for everything, don't you think?

Don't think I am replying to this particular statement, but this is all becoming borderline psychotic at this point...

If you can find a country where you would feel less oppressed and threatened - perhaps it will even be a socialist paradise - you should move there. Why struggle and put up with nazis everywhere?

We've all got decisions to make and lives to live, good luck to you.

Because Patriotism is about making the place where you live better. And not letting Nazis, Fascists, and White Supremacists take over.

Besides, many of the greatest works in the US were based on Socialist values.

Why do you hate workers and democracy so much?

https://youtu.be/hS_J6C6rZiQ

https://youtu.be/o1eHKf-dMwo

Also, this is my home. This was the land I was born on. And in this nation we have a saying:

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

That is a value this nation has had for well over 100 years. A value you supposedly adopted when you supposedly immigrated here.

This crap about "they should have applied" is white nationalist bullshit. My great grandparents didn't "apply" to come here. They came here because they chose to. And there is no need for anyone else to have to "apply"

This nation may not be perfect. But it can be made better. It can be made better *for all people*.

I say to fight for the people you are too chicken shit and too cowardly to stand up and fight for.

I fight for people who are my friends and neighbors and family I have made over the course of my life.

We were not built on the values of being gated, isolationist community. Were built on the values of openness and inclusion and community and looking after our neighbors.

And democracy.

And guess what, this nation has always had socialist values.

Where you think the Hoover Dam came from? Or our interstate highway system? Or our national parks system? Or our school and educational system, which *used* to be the greatest in the world?

In fact, here are 75 things which are socialist in the United States.
Don't like socialism? You are already swimming in it every day.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/3/29/1078852/-75-Ways-Socialism-Has-Improved-America

Oh, and another value we have? It's another one we share with the Soviet in fact.
Punching Nazis in the face.
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2017/01/what-would-captain-america-make-donald-trump

So you might want to be careful. When you start condoning the use of concentration camps and blaming the "S JWs" for everything, you just might get mistaken for a Nazi.

Good luck to you comrade.

By the way, Captain America was created by a couple of Jewish people. So there is that as well.

Just so you know.

In fact, did you know that there are now vowels in the Torah? so saying that SJW is actually a reference to S-J(e)W is not really that far fetched.
so you might want to be careful now that you know.

You know what's also funny? How the riech wing wants to claim how the "s-jews: are calling everything nazi... but then go around and calling anything you don't like communist and invoking the specter of stalin. talking about the pot calling the kettle black.

Oh, and here is an article from the ADL on the hand symbol.
you know, that Jewish organization which tracks antisemitic activity
or is this just the "s-Jews" who secretly control everything lying about this?
https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/okay-hand-gesture

There are literally White Nationalists who have run for office: https://www.businessinsider.com/white-nationalists-running-for-office-in-2018-2018-5

And you are the one fearing life. I'm not the one running around talking about how the sky is literally going to fall if we get more worker co-ops, credit unions, and labor unions.

You're also apparently pretty terrified of the dreaded "SJWs".
Ooooh, people who talk about promoting basic human. scary scary.
what's next? the Antifa boggart? Do we need to teach you Riddikulus to protect you from co-ops, credit unions, and "SJWs"?

remember it's swish and flick. swish and flick.

Oh hey, here is another list of Nazis who ran for office. Complied Israeli site: https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/record-breaking-number-of-white-nationalists-run-for-office-in-u-s-1.6272263

Unless you want to claim the Israelis are lying about Nazis in the US...

And I currently live in a nation in which the leadership is making active efforts to criminalize my existence. And where we have children in concentration camps. And where they are selling those children.

So again, your fear mongering is a little late at this point.

Criminalize your existence? Wtf? How?? Are you a dreamer or something? Or you mean that rodeo ass-clown mama-san congresswoman wanting to prosecute those who criticize congress?

You're going to get criminalized existence when socialism arrives on the American shores. Don't you worry about that.

Concentration camps? That's not how concentration camps work, and that is what you are implying. These people walked into these camps themselves, and can leave to go back home and apply for visa at a local US Embassy any time they like. No one is holding them there by force. They're there because they did not want to wait in line like everyone else and wont leave.

Selling children? Where did you get that from?

Oh, and here is your list of Anti-Transgender and Anti-LGBTQ Actions
https://transequality.org/the-discrimination-administration

So yeah, your fear mongering about how the socialists are going to go after LGBTQ folk is a bit of a joke at this point. considering it's the capitalists in the US doing that here

And the children in the concentration camps are not allowed to leave. most of them are not even being returned to their families. so good job defending concentration camps. i mean, along with your use of the term s-jews...

These are literally concentration camps we are putting children in. They literally fit the definition of concentration camps. And they are then being sold to families in the US.

As for selling children. It's funny how you reich wing folk will believe there is a child trafficking ring being run our of the non-existent basement of pizza joint by the Clinton, but DeVos is literally selling children from detention facilities, you all go silent: https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/06/26/bethany-christian-services-family-separation-betsy-devos/

*And* I live in a city in which people who are fleeing actual harassment, violence, and laws being enacted against them are moving to in literally record number. So the idea that a few more worker owned co-ops, credit unions, stronger labor unions, and universal health coverage and access to education would make that any worse has got to be a fricken joke.

If you're talking about illegal immigrants fleeing violence. Please know that there is no war in the region. Just corrupt politicians destroying their country and drug cartels running mock,.. if people don't like that, then they should vote and change things for the better.

They were offered asylum in Mexico and refused it. If you are fleeing actual harassment and violence, and want nothing else but to get away from it all, you stay in the first safe place and not pick and chose.

Are you aware that if we double the current corporate and income tax, it wont be enough to cover all Americans, not to mention illegals. Where will all that money come from? Ask Venezuela?

um, no I am not. I am talking about trans people feeling violence targeted anti-trans legislation in their home states.

I mean you're fricken fear mongering over an old guy saying we should have more worker co-ops and credit unions. What sort of joke is this?

Asking, Where his ideas came from? Is not fear mongering.

Did you watch the video? Feel free to quote from it.

I mean you are literally freaking out because some old white guy is talking about co-ops and credit unions.

I mean, the old guy references the Mondragon Corporation, which is basically a worker run democratic corporation which employs over 70,000 workers.

https://youtu.be/8bcNfbGxAdY

What do you have against workers and democracy?

I'm not going to watch another link, till you watch what I sent you.

Why should I? You can't even cite the one I supplied.

Why are you even defending capitalists anyway? Are you being paid for this? Is this an internship? Or do you just like defending bosses and giving away free labor?

As I mentioned before, I moved from socialism in communist country to capitalism in the US of A! If you don't like capitalism, pick a socialist/communist utopia on this planet and move. Don't mess America up. Let it be free. Do you desperately need another failed socialist experiment, so that you can say yet again, that it wasn't implemented properly?

You like living off handouts?

I mean anyone could *claim* to be from anywhere they want. I don't believe you actually were from a communist country. I think you're making it up.

Right on! There are communists everywhere. They must be stopped!

I was orphaned and placed into foster care when I was 15. I graduated high school and started working when I was 18. I put myself through collage and was the first person to get a Bachelor's (double major) and Master's degree. I was the first person in my family to do so. I have never been on welfare and have worked my entire adult life. I have always paid my housing, utilities, and food.

I'm talking about labor unions, worker co-ops, and credit unions. Solid socialist endeavors. And here you are fear mongering over giving workers more control over their working environment and conditions. What do you have against democracy and supporting the workers? Why are you so anti-worker and anti-democracy?

Again, thank you for all the free work you are putting in to help with the engagement around my image comrade. Your unpaid labor is appreciated.

By the way, what country are you from? What years did you live there?