The responses you get from Millennials when you warn about the dangers of communism and islamists from real history...

Okay, fair enough. Socialism is shit.
And anyway most "socialist societies" aren't really socialist.

Karl Marx came up with this theoretical idea.

The guy was a loser, no offence.

Literally spent his life as a bum supported by his wife.

Karl Marx never actually trialled his theory irl. He couldn't even pay his own rent ffs. Just lived off his family. Textbook loser.

Then some people in Russia and China etc took his ideas and used them to justify murdering tens of millions of people lol.

But do you see capitalism working all that great too?

I mean for most people. Obviously it works for a minority lol.

So much depends on what metric you want to measure against. I'd like to use my father's side of the family for an example, only because I'm familiar with the story, and I know others with similar history. My 4x Great Grandfather came to Virginia as an indentured servant from Europe. He worked 7 years to pay off his passage and temporary housing, etc. He also earned a modest wage, which he saved until he had the opportunity to buy a home and worked in his trade as harness maker. My 3x Great Grandfather learned the harness making trade and added some blacksmithing skills, after he married, he and his wife moved to Kentucky where he cleared about 20 acres and built a small farm that provided sustenance and a very modest addition of income. He was conscripted in the Civil War by the Confederacy, not supporting slavery he defected to the Union side, which would have been an automatic death sentence had he been captured. The Confederacy confiscated his farm and all his harness and blacksmithing tools, leaving him with nothing, in addition he lost a leg in the war. He moved his family west to Missouri where they built another homestead, and prior to his death, moved with his family to eastern Colorado, where my Great Grandfather was a water rider for CF&I steel, making sure water flowed from reservoirs to the steel mill. His sons worked at dairies, farms and for retail shops until WWII when they all served in the armed forces. Prior to the war, my grandfather and grandmother bought boards from a store that had been damaged in a flood for 10 cents per board to build their first home, a tarpaper shack. My grandmother pulled and straightened the nails to reuse them (early recycling). When my father was born in 1935, my grandfather owned a mule, but couldn't afford a saddle, and they brought their first child home to a dirt floor shack. After the war, my grandfather went to work at the steel mill where they were paid in scrip that was only good at the company store. He didn't smoke, but bought cigarettes at the company store and sold them for cash- a breakeven or modest loss proposition- and bought 3 vacant lots and eventually built 3- 800 sq ft homes, one he lived in till his death, the others he sold to put my father through college. He retired from the steel mill in 1970 on a $400/mo steel workers union pension and $200/mo Social Security.

My father got a teaching degree, and eventually earned a Masters and became a college professor, the only "thing" he got from his ancestors was an education. He eventually bought a farm, where I grew up. I learned mechanics, welding, carpentry and how to raise livestock and crops growing up, earned my way through college with athletic scholarships, married, worked construction, bought my first home for $12,000 and eventually started my own construction business. I've been mocked for telling the incredible things that happened after that point, which took a stupid farm kid from the plains of Colorado to working at the White House, to working in the oilfield and more, so I won't repeat that. My 3 kids worked through college with little support from me, I didn't have it, and all three are earning 6 figures, in fact my daughter started a business that hired uneducated single moms and trained them to earn better than a livable wage and has become a millionaire. (She double majored in Math and Statistics). Each generation bettered themselves with capitalism, no big inheritance for a leg up, but our hard work was rewarded, and only possible because of the USA. A friend of mine immigrated from Switzerland where he didn't qualify for the university track and went through the trade training to become, as his grandfathers and father before him, a baker. Married an American, moved to the US and owns a thriving business (not baking). I grew up with black, hispanic and white kids with very similar backgrounds, we all came from pioneers who started with nothing but ambition and hard work then took a chance with the American Dream and succeeded. They are farmers, roughnecks, doctors and lawyers, never looking for a handout, and working their way up was as natural as breathing. Capitalism is not without it's weaknesses, but when given the chance without government tyranny from unnecessary regulations (my daughter had to close her first business due to increasing regs making it impossible to run for a profit- 50 single moms out of work, but with computer skills), a determined person has far greater opportunity to live up to their human potential.

Many on the left still worship Lenin and Stalin lol. Some of the most evil men to ever walk the earth.

Then wonder why people vote for Trump. Trump might be a narcissistic fascist lunatic who wants to deport people and destroy the USA's reputation. But at least he's not a genocidal maniac.

It's a close call though, to be fair.

I've spent several hours with Trump on a construction site I supervised when he came to meet with our client. He is not narcissistic, not fascist, and not a lunatic. There is nothing wrong with deporting people who aren't here legally ahead of people trying to get here legally, and there is nothing wrong with deporting criminals who have no intention of making this a better nation. F what other countries think of us.
Trump impressed me compared to other millionaire/billionaires I have worked with because he not only asked great questions, he actually listened to the answers. Not only from the high level workers, but the lower skilled workers as well. He engaged each person individually, even learning that one man had a young son going in for major surgery in the coming week. When he returned a month later, he greeted me by name and immediately asked where this father was working, went directly to him and asked how his son was before Trump went about the business purpose for his visit. He also called each of my crew by name after meeting them once for a few hours a month before. Definitely not a narcissistic, fascist, or lunatic. And this was around his Playboy interview. Don't take his TV persona too seriously, and don't forget what survival skills are required in NYC, weakness is taken advantage of, you don't let the real image of yourself out of the bag.

The left has always eaten their own. We should encourage them to step it up.

Islamism + Communism? Is that a common thing? 🤔 Bit contradictory, aren't they? More like just joining forces temporarily against a shared enemy, but they're hardly compatible worldviews.

Contradictory for sure, until you see they share common enemies, just as you note. Neither ideology is above deception of friends or foes to accomplish their objectives. Personally, my money is on the islamists. Russian influence in arabic nations is well documented from the early 1950s on, with numerous tech deals, arms deals and joint military training, etc. (The US had their spooks working too, but a lot of the wwre double agents leaning more toward Russia. While both have designs on world domination, the islamist have the overwhelming zeal. Once they no longer need the communists, the beheadings will begin with those commies who won't submit to allah. There are some indicators this is all closer than it appears in the mirror. Europe is a total disaster, Christmas celebrations are being disrupted and destroyed with no outcry or response. Islamist rioters and calls to prayer are taking over almost everything in European daily life. I just read some intel/public info that Saudi Arabia is funding and establishing an arabic diplomatic mission in Miami that has the potential to significantly undermine the US. and all the FL economic development shills are to dumb to see the long game and are excited to have the new, deal..

I agree Islamists and Commies are unlikely bedfellows. I mean, the Nazis hated Commies and sent them to death camps (along with many other groups we all know about – or do we?).

Haj Amin Al-Husseini, mufti of Jerusalem, tried to be sympathetic to Shitler.

Islamism and Communism ain't really compatible though.

Anyway that's history.

I'm curious about this bit:

"Europe is a total disaster, Christmas celebrations are being disrupted and destroyed with no outcry or response. Islamist rioters and calls to prayer are taking over almost everything in European daily life."

I agree Europe is a disaster lol.

But I'm confused about the rest. Xmas trees and lights are still up. Mariah Carey, Slade and Band Aid are still playing.Trains are still delayed coz of leaves on the line. People are still wearing hideous Christmas sweaters. The weather is still shit. It's still as commercial as ever.

But what's the other stuff? Xmas has been cancelled by Muslims? Do you happen to know where? Cos I'd like to check it out if it's not too far to travel. Nothing I can see suggests Xmas is cancelled...

https://www.brusselstimes.com/1860869/head-of-baby-jesus-stolen-from-grand-place-nativity-scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoWuok3uzLA
https://www.voicemedia.global/article/germany-submits-to-islam-christmas-market-in-overath-cancelled
Here's a few. Check them out carefully if you do your own search (as well as these examples- I try to find multiple sources to cross validate, I just put these up as a quick source), some reports are projecting past events onto this year and are propaganda. It's the same no matter what you search, liars are rampant, but the truth is out there if you look for it. Islam has sworn to conquer Europe and they are on the verge, the religious zeal is impossible to throttle back. Communists aren't generally as intense, and they overestimate their sophistication.