If you're right and you aren't willing to actually communicate why, or worse, if you're right and you don't even understand why, you might as well be wrong.

If you're going to argue with people on the internet, and I know you are, either go full irony or actually take time to work out an argument that you know is going to be persuasive, none of this halvsies shit.

I was on the edge of becoming a leftist for like six months. That's literally how long it took for me to even be exposed to the idea that capitalism is bad for inherent and structural reasons, and not because of all the really obvious shit that liberals also disagree with but think can be reformed away.

    • communistthrowaway69 [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      The entire appeal of the right is that it's an easy, bullshit explanation that requires no work and preys on deeply engrained societal prejudices.

      Our job is just harder, requires more effort, and will more frequently fail.

      Harder to teach someone calculus than to tell them a wizard did it.

    • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      “I’m not racist but why do black people commit so much crime in comparison to other races?”

      Part of the trick is figuring out who's in that borderline group (where they are potentially open to a real answer) and who's just trolling. It's probably best to assume the former, at least at first, because (a) you don't want to lose those borderline people and (b) unless you're in the ass-end of the internet, there are usually more people lurking and reading the exchange than there are people actively taking part in it.