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Every single fucking time: THIS IS THE FUTURE UNDER COMMUSOCIALMARXISM!
endless pictures of current capitalism conditions, usually centered around homeless people
Yeah, it sure is a good thing we have capitalism to make sure that every person is taken care of and nobody gets fed to the orphan grinding machine.
I knew this die-hard conservative MAGA guy, and we kept having this argument. He would constantly point out the homeless camps in California, blaming it on their "Socialist policies". I kept pointing out that California has more billionaires than any other state, has the 5th largest economy in the world, and if that's not the model of a successful Capitalist state, then what is? His answer was Texas. I felt like bashing my head against a brick wall.
That dude was nuts, but at one point I wore him down and got him to admit that CEOs are useless at best, and evil at worst. And I swear to God, he said "yeah, companies should just get rid of CEOs and be owned by the workers who vote on how to run the company." My jaw hit the fucking floor. When I pulled up the Wikipedia page for Socialism, he completely reversed course. CEOs were suddenly very necessary and good again.
He was so close.
I would never let him live that admission down.
Every day I'd be reminding him about what cognitive dissonance is, and that he was all for a policy change until he learned that the belief he held and was ACTIVELY ADVOCATING FOR aligns with an ideology that someone who makes a lot more money than he does told him to hate.
I reminded him quite a bit, but I cut him off during the pandemic. He's also an antivax moron (big shocker, I know), and while I can't prove it, I firmly believe he passed his Covid to a friend of mine who had a compromised immune system, and she subsequently died.