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:

  • JosipBRUHTito [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Once when I was in high school some kid wore a punisher shirt to work and kept trying to talk to people about the importance of capital punishment and harsh policing so I got everyone to act like it was a pirate logo and say pirate things to him. He did end up crying but in retrospect I feel like I may have stopped a mass shooting

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I am dying laughing over here imagining this kid listing out FBI arrest statistics and you're going "arrr me mateys"

      • JosipBRUHTito [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        When everyone was signing out that day someone was in the bathroom (off the locker room with a paper thin door) and yelled out "yargh me sharteys" and then shit really loud. God summer jobs were so much better than adult jobs. But we were also all making like $8 an hour so maybe not lol

        • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          The benefit of a summer job is that there's an end in sight. You don't give a shit because no matter what, you're outta there when school starts. Adult jobs just keep going until they grind you down so far that you quit, get fired, or die.

    • rubpoll [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      He did end up crying

      Good. A lib would've tried debating him out of that shit and it only would've further entrenched him.

      "Don't you understand how ignorant that is?" will never be as effective as "You just posted cringe bro".