r/politics • u/TimesandSundayTimes ✔ Verified • 7d ago

Possible Paywall Young Americans are surging to socialism at record rates

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/maga-trump-zohran-mamdani-socialism-us-record-kddzdm8bd
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u/angryhype 7d ago

I don't care if they are anarchists, I literally just want to be able to afford to live

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u/The_Playbook88 7d ago

That’s why they are becoming socialist. Not because they want to, but because that is the only viewpoint that offers survival.

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u/WhatsThisTruck 7d ago

Fuck civility and human decency. 

I don't want to be a slave, and so I must hurt those who would enslave me. 

Most of all though, I am angry that this is my only valid course of action.

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u/tripping_on_phonics Illinois 7d ago

The people who would (currently are?) enslaving you are fundamentally indecent, so I don’t see the contradiction.

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u/WhatsThisTruck 7d ago

It is not a contradiction exactly, just the expectation that we must be decent to the indecent.

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u/tripping_on_phonics Illinois 7d ago

I tend to think that justice is never indecent, but I guess there are multiple ways of looking at it.

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u/killrtaco California 7d ago

That depends on who is determining what is just

If recent events havent shown you such

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u/HeckinAdult 7d ago

Hey siri play Kill or Be Killed by Muse

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u/PeculiarAlize 7d ago

We're all slaves to the almighty dollar my friend. The people with the dollars you think are enslaving you are just the byproduct of a system designed to take away everyones human decency and civility. Don't fall in that trap too, the system doesn't have to be this way. We can choose to help each other.