A 17-year-old kid started working with me, and he was talking politics with another co-worker. I was staying out of it, but then he asked me what I consider myself to be, politically. I hit him with, "I'm a pretty hardcore communist, actually." His jaw dropped and he laughed, and he was like, "No, really. What are you, actually?" When I told him that I was a Marxist-Leninist, he responded with, "Dude, that's terrible. Why?"

I'm normally not super open about my politics unless I gauge that someone is accepting to hear some theory, but I just wanted to fuck with this kid lol. I told him that the incentive for ever-increasing profits in the interest of a small group of elites is destroying the planet and exploiting people all around the world. He came back with, "You really need to read more. If you understood more about what you were saying, you wouldn't support such a violent ideology." I'm literally twice his age, lmao.

Then he asked me if I ever read 1984 :michael-laugh:

He asked what led to me becoming a Marxist. I told him that I used to be a libertarian like him when I was his age, but as I grew older and started learning historical materialism, my worldview changed.

We went back and forth a little over the next 20 minutes. I kept it cool and respectful because I wasn't super invested in debating him. But he was getting all flustered and started playing all the hits, like workers not being entitled to owning their work because the boss took all the risk. Humans are naturally greedy, so socialism could never work. Marxism is responsible for over 100 million deaths. I rebutted what I could when I felt like it, but I'm not a debate bro and I didn't really care what he had to say. I just thought the whole thing was funny.

My favorite part was his face when I told him that I don't support liberal democracy, and that a one party state is actually far superior. :che-smile:

  • Shoegazer [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I had someone ask me what I believed in, and I just said “whatever helps poor and hungry kids.” He responded with “oh so you’re a communist?” And I said “sure if that’s what communism is.” And for no reason he just gets really mad and goes on a tirade about communism bad no food 9 trillion dead even though he was the one who implied communism is good lol

    • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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      2 years ago

      Pretty mask off to immediately freak out when someone is like “I wanna help poor kids”

      “FUCK POOR KIDS” :frothingfash:

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        “FUCK POOR KIDS"

        Most :libertarian-approaching: seem to want that literally, too. :guts-rage:

      • Shoegazer [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        The funny thing is that I didn’t necessarily disagree with him cause I was an anti communist chud at the time. But it just weirded me out how that was how he decided to respond lol. That was my ‘belief’ at the time because my school was full of poor kids and children of immigrants who worked all the time (including me) and I felt it was fucked up

    • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I had someone ask me what I believed in, and I just said “whatever helps poor and hungry kids.”

      :parenti:

    • MC_Kublai [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      You could bust into a pile in the corner of your room everyday for a year and the cum golem would be 200x smarter than this guy

    • Commander_Data [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      There's an audio clip where Archie Greene is interviewing folk singer and labor activist Aunt Molly Jackson and she says something like she got involved because "I wanted the little children to have something to eat".

    • ToastGhost [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      'sweatshops are good actually' types are so funny. an easy dunk to sway bystanders because they are so obviously evil.