How to survive a holiday gathering when your daughter invites Karl Marx to the party.

:porky-happy: is going :wojak-nooo: because her daughters have realised that she's a disgusting leech

  • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    This is a shocking development in my parenting career.

    This sentence withered me, I am now a raisin

    E) This part is great too

    While I wait, I may not be able to talk my children out of socialism, but I know how to make a deal. I’ll tell my daughters that I will read every word of “The Communist Manifesto” — twice — if they will read Milton Friedman’s “Capitalism and Freedom.”

    How's this for a fair deal, I'll read your 23 page pamphlet TWICE EVEN in exchange you read this snooze fest capitalist rag that is a literal order of magnitude longer.

    E2) Oh good lord there is a comments section

    • Tommasi [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      :data-laughing:

      Thinking milton friedman will convince anyone critical of capitalism they're wrong

      • regul [any]
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        2 years ago

        what if the child consents tho

      • VHS [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        i've read friedman and it's basically just disgusting greed apologia

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      E2) Oh good lord there is a comments section

      Let's have a look

      Recently, another daughter, a freshman in college, came home and said, “No one likes capitalism anymore.”

      You should remove her from school and cut off all financial support and force her to go work on a communal farm for two years.

      I'll agree to this if and only if everyone has to work in a coltan slave mine for two years before they're allowed to support capitalism

    • Spectre_of_Z_poster [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Here’s a deal. She reads Marx’s Kapital v. 1 and in exchange I will huff gas and speculate on cryptocurrency