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Y'all have brainwashed me over the last decade. I'm thankful TBH.
I used to be a staunch ancap libertarian and now I'm a hardcore socialist bordering on communist.
I mean, Trump's first term also had a lot to do with it. That was a shit show.
It's crazy how much a grown ass man can change deeply held beliefs when forced to re-evaluate reality.
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.
The USSR was the prime example for what happens when communism fails. The USA is the prime example of what happens when capitalism fails. Many of their mistakes are mirror images of each other.