Ad mid roll:

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i-cant “Lmao okay I guess not then.”

Or they’ll be discussing politics and history with an (otherwise) interesting guest when the subject broaches Marxism, and you hear the same old, first-grader, thought-terminating misconceptions about “human nature” or “works in theory”. agony-acid

bruh-moment

Edit: One guy remarked that the Nazis were a result of the October Revolution, which may be technically accurate because some White Russians worked with the Nazis, but he was definitely framing it in a “communism did WWII” way.

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    3 months ago

    the whole system is built around telling people they’re extra special smart little kiddos for knowing the right and correctly true answer, and that’s why they deserve petty boug incomes and consumer habits. it’s baked in.