Lefty friends think capitalism is why they can't play
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A lot of the complaints the Left bring up have merit at the very start. Cops are fucking awful and shouldn't be trusted. Corporations are greed fucking retards that are dragging us all to hell for nothing. Etc.
But their immediate followup is so retarded people just kneejerk to the contrary position because it seems better than whatever they are going to replace it with. You don't even want to acknowledge agreeing with that singular point to avoid the foot in the door.
>a bunch of factually true statements
"and that's why we need to start switching to this system that has never worked once in the last hundred years and leaves millions dead by the time it's over"
Not even factual statements given that they themselves are the cause of what they complain about.
Housing is too expensive? Can't get a well paying job? Have no meaning in life? Don't feel safe?
Maybe stop voting for the godless communists who flood the nation with criminal foreigners. Turns out there are more jobs and more houses and cheaper food if we don't have fifty million illegal Mexicans stealing everything in sight.
That's why I don't have any pity for them. Because they're cutting their own throats and screaming vitriol at anyone who might be inclined to help. We're literally going to have to shoot most of them as step 1 of fixing this country, so to hell with them and their problems. They want to die, so fuck em.
They are 100% incapable of acknowledging any kind of cause and effect, because it's been conditioned out of them.
The only time they align with rationality is on the rare occasion they can use it as a gotcha against their enemies, then they'll instantly abandon it again. And at that point it isn't even rationality, it's shouting so much nonsense that one or two things end up being accidentally true.
I can give benefit of the doubt that a lot of the current crop of Lefties didn't vote these problems into existence, they were already there and pissing them off before they could have any effect on it.
I still give them no pity, because they respond to that by exacerbating and continuing the problem (and are in fact often actually evil), but I think most of us came up with those issues already a major problem plaguing the country.
Perfect way of putting it, because it is a foot in the door. They've shown time and time again that they're incredibly dishonest, and that if you give them the slightest bit of ground they'll seize the opportunity to turn on the craziness and destroy everything.
It's Putler's war tax.
I think there is a lot of expectation from millennials and gen z that they should get a 6 figure salary straight out of college. With their gender studies degrees.
Yes, things are expensive. Inflation is high. Life sucks. But manage your expectations. Work hard. Don’t spend what you can’t afford. Pay off your debts. Don’t eat out every night. Don’t buy a new car every 3 years or a new iPhone every time a new one comes out.
If the capitalism they rail against didn’t exist, they would have all the amazing toys they could buy and play with.
Look at all the clips of young women going "I expect my man to earn 100k-1 million a year" like its a common salary. They have no frame of reference outside of influencers
Then don’t go to university. It’s overpriced and degrees are undervalued. You make more in a skilled trade than you do with most college degrees.
And if the cost of living is to high, move to a town or state where it’s lower.
And no I’m not a boomer. My parents are.
You can thank federally guaranteed loans, banks required to lend to those unworthy of the credit line, and, of course, property tax tied to the value of the home. Don't forget massive increased demand for housing thanks to immigrants not even allowed to be here.
Higher education got stupid expensive, too, thanks to similar issues.
Capitalism appears to have failed as a system, just as communism and socialism has failed (albeit in a different and less gruesome manner and over a longer time frame). Perhaps a new system needs to be produced, or the west can go back to an older model of society. Bring back the values of Christendom or forge something new. Unfortunately, I don't think the modern west has enough intelligent people to choose either path.