While perusing Reddit tonight for a topic to enrage myself enough to get the creative juices flowing, I hit pay dirt on a topic close to home.
Unfortunately, that topic is how brain-dead and illogical the fundamentally Communist viewpoints of many of my generation-peers are. The horrifying ramifications of this trend will not be seen for many years, but there is still time to opposite it in the arena of public debate.
I guess I knew what I was going to get when I looked at one of the top threads in a subReddit for Communist shitheads. Given the attitude of certain Communists around here like (who believe "all property is theft", yet hold a large-ish Steem wallets used only for hypocritical self-voting), I certainly wasn't expecting to get a well-reasoned position from the opposition.
Frankly, I was expecting to be surprised if they could even properly explain their ridiculously inconsistent framework for an Orwellian nightmare-society.
I wasn't quite expecting advocacy for the forcible confiscation of private property by the US government "to give to the homeless", however.
Now, these people are capable of using an internet connection and reading. They have access to the whole of human knowledge and history on the internet. All the information they need to see that every assertion on which they base their arguments against private property are fundamentally unsound is available to them, and for free (which is relevant, as I'm sure most of these Commie adherents are broke losers.) Every attempt to institute their philosophy has created a terrifying, Orwellian nightmare. Communism/Socialism is the only philosophy that has ever produced a society that is arguably worse than Nazi Germany.
This isn't even a remotely debatable topic. Nevertheless, you will find an endless string of regressive, reality deniers within.
Nakedly partisan discourse, reality denial, support for dictatorship: Check.
I didn't even have to cherry-pick the above comments. They are wholly representative of the subreddit. These people actually think their governments should forcibly confiscate property until all peoples outcomes are identical.
They want an entire species of interchangeable robots with no rights or individualism.
Now, you might think "Oh, Lexiconical, you just went to the hornet's nest to come up with a rant topic." Well, yeah, duh. But this level of support for murdering dictators would have been unheard of even a decade or two ago. This is the way the political wind is blowing. We must all (violently, if necessary) oppose views like this wherever we find them.
Publicly humiliate Communists and Socialists at dinner parties. Don't let them get a word in edgewise. Have a pocket take-down ready to deliver, wherein you can render their entire position and philosophy with the appearance of childlike idiocy. Make anyone near them scared to espouse their philosophy for fear of humiliation. Keep a copy of Animal Farm quotes on your phone. Get a concealed carry permit, you may need one when the Brown Shirts come for you.
Never, ever nod along with the "think of the ______" arguments used to steal your freedom.
If you don't fight this, you'll all be working the plantation while the mentally ill homeless people are living in what used to be your apartments.
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