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[–]Canbot 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I was born to immigrants who came here with nothing. Given an education free of charge for 12 years. Protected by the strongest army in the world, even though I could not contribute. Given the same rights as the aristocrats, even though I was born a peasant. Given the right to vote, even though my family had no part in building this great nation. I walked on the paved and well lit streets that I did not build. Drove on the paved roads I did not fund. Was coddled by the infrastructure that took 100 years to build up before I was even born.

I live in the greatest country in the world. I have a great, high paying job. I vacation every year like a king. I see what the rest of the world is.

I contribute to this country voluntarily. My contribution builds the well lit streets. It funds the schools. It funds the welfare of the poor. It keeps us all safe and affords us the luxury of being disgusting, entitled, ungrateful pieces of shit.

I would like my money to be well spent instead of squandered. To that effect I would like the government to be no bigger than it has to be. But no government, no taxes, is not a paradise. It is literal all out war. It is dog eat dog. It is the most dystopian chaos that can exist.

There is nothing more retarded than to want to turn the greatest country in the world into the most dystopian shit hole simply out of spite. Simply because there are people who are far more successful than you. Stop hating the rich.

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It's not hating of the rich to point out that our leaders care more for capital than human life. That with all these fucking taxes, all those things you said would actually be done right. Oh, free education? You mean indoctrination for factory work? Oh, roads you didn't build? You mean shitty made roads that need to be repaired every couple of years. Oh, a right to vote? You mean manufactured consent, right? You really think we live in a democracy, and it's hilarious. the west is a glass house. Point at the shiny walls please, and feel better about not being in a mud hut.

[–]Canbot 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Point at the shiny walls please, and feel better about not being in a mud hut.

It IS better than a mud hut. I'm all for trying to make something better, but I am also intelligent enough to know that in trying to make it better there is a 99% chance you will make it worse. Especially if you are one of those people who is destined to repeat the mistakes of the past by believing that "real socialism hasn't been tried" or some other bullshit excuse for why your way failed in the past. So prove your method somewhere else. Don't destroy the best country just because it isn't perfect when there are hundreds of shittier countries where you can run that experiment.

I don't want to live anywhere else in the world, and that is saying something. Most people in the world agree.

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I don't support the wholesale destruction of any infrastructure or political system. It does have to be dismantled and rebuilt.

I don't support full on socialism, and the only reason my preferred system of government (clan-based democratic monarchy) didn't live into the modern age is because massive empires fucking destroyed them. That's not their fault, that's the fault of the British and the Americans. People can try and say otherwise, but its true. The greatest confederations of clans and tribes didn't fall apart due to massive amounts of malcontents, unlike how America is coming apart due to massive amounts of malcontents. They fell due to wicked wars brought upon them by wicked people.

I don't support BLM or antifa or boogaloo or any of that nonsense. I don't support the political parties, nor do I support the economic system they created. I don't support the glass house. It's going to break, not because evil people are breaking it, but because it's shoddily made. America has too many malcontents to keep going how it is, it'll become far worse in a fascist sense, or it will become "third-world" in most places.

I don't want to live anywhere else either, buts that's just because I was born in this land and I'll see it through to the end. Not because I can go get a job and food from the grocer. You like the west because you are human-centric in your views.

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Look, another who doesn't understand the meaning of the word "socialism".