I don't fucking get this whole poverty-pandering horseshit against socialism. I fucking despise it with every core of my fucking being.
I grew up without proper electricity, warm water, basic electronics in the late 90s; fucking nothing. Demunincipalized slum drifting from my grandmother and to my parents. To shower I had to warm up tubs of water in the microwave and use a cloth to wipe my shit down in the tub. I didn't eat for fucking days at a time. Candles in pots and stovepipes were what kept me alive throughout some of the harshest winters and blizzards in this fucking nation AS A CHILD.
Where is this same pandering and sympathy towards those who are victimized and destroyed by capitalism? Who's families are torn apart by the sheer atomization of society and the constant desire for escape that manifests in so many of the unhealthy behaviors that plague us day to day? Alcoholism, addiction, violence spurred by desperate poverty? No, no; those are the choices of rational actors choosing to be killed off by the thousands due to austerity.
They'll crusade this against you, acting like you shouldn't support socialism because "my parents had to put their feets in shit to stay warm" (doubt) when the alternative hasn't GIVEN ME A GOD DAMN THING. Oh no no, I had to stay alive by curling around the open burning gas stove; that's much better, right?
They'll find endless excuses to justify your poverty; but when a socialist talks about their grandfather's poverty after getting kicked off the slave farm it's all ears and brains.
I don't fucking get this whole poverty-pandering horseshit against socialism. I fucking despise it with every core of my fucking being.
I grew up without proper electricity, warm water, basic electronics in the late 90s; fucking nothing. Demunincipalized slum drifting from my grandmother and to my parents. To shower I had to warm up tubs of water in the microwave and use a cloth to wipe my shit down in the tub. I didn't eat for fucking days at a time. Candles in pots and stovepipes were what kept me alive throughout some of the harshest winters and blizzards in this fucking nation AS A CHILD.
Where is this same pandering and sympathy towards those who are victimized and destroyed by capitalism? Who's families are torn apart by the sheer atomization of society and the constant desire for escape that manifests in so many of the unhealthy behaviors that plague us day to day? Alcoholism, addiction, violence spurred by desperate poverty? No, no; those are the choices of rational actors choosing to be killed off by the thousands due to austerity.
They'll crusade this against you, acting like you shouldn't support socialism because "my parents had to put their feets in shit to stay warm" (doubt) when the alternative hasn't GIVEN ME A GOD DAMN THING. Oh no no, I had to stay alive by curling around the open burning gas stove; that's much better, right?
They'll find endless excuses to justify your poverty; but when a socialist talks about their grandfather's poverty after getting kicked off the slave farm it's all ears and brains.