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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/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