Capitalists can just be like “dude look at this NPR article socialism is bad”
Meanwhile I have to have an extensive understanding of philosophy, history, science, economics and politics in order to justify my worldview.
Sometimes I forget that people don’t have comprehensive world views, and accidentally say something’s CIA propaganda, then have to go through that whole process of explaining how the CIA having fronts and interfering in global affairs isn’t a conspiracy, it’s just reality, and that finding sources about it isn’t the same as finding sources for an 8th grade book report, because it’s the goddamn CIA! Shits exhausting and sucks balls, I just want to be dumb I know I’m right bitch, get off my dick
Yeah, every time I talk to my mom about this she's like "well you have to give the US credit for the good things it's done" and doesn't have an answer when I ask her what good things she's talking about
They only ever fall back on WWII, which a) the Soviets did WAY more than we did, b) the US very easily could have almost allied with Hitler against the USSR, and in fact almost did, and c) WWII was what allowed the US to become the dominant global empire, and some speculate that was the plan all along.