Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Famed Twitch Socialist Hasan Piker Buys 3 Million Dollar Mansion In Hollywood To 1 Up OK Boomer Girl" video.

  1.  @andyb6400  "What is he supposed to do?" - Maybe stop receiving chat donations because he's pretty much set for life? That would be a start. "Either give all his money away" - He doesn't have to. What about instead of giving money away, he actually starts building something to further his goals? He could start a business, not use any tax loopholes, pay his fair share, give his employees benefits and not exploit them. If his theories are correct, he'd actually make money! "or completely stop criticizing society" - He doesn't have to stop criticizing society. But he has to recognize that society made him rich by sitting in front of a computer. He gets money from people who probably have to work hard. How is he any better than a boss? "Itd be a drop in a pond" - Even if you argue that in terms of total it would be small change, still doesn't change the fact that he has the opportunity many didn't have. Instead of taking it, he sits on a chair and rakes in cash. Additionally, even if you ate the rich by straight up taking all the wealth from the 400 richest people in the US and took the revenue of American Fortune 500 companies, you'd still not have enough money to run the US federal budget for an entire year. So even if Bezos donated all his wealth it would be a drop in the bucket. The excuse that works for Hasan works for everyone else. "So he uses his platform and uses his 1st amendment right to try and influence policy change" - He could influence policy change by doing instead of talking. Ever heard be the change you want to see in the world? Or if he can't do it, he can hire someone with the skills. Also, he can try to influence policy change for free. There's so many activists who lived very humble lives because they were dedicated to the cause rather than the money. I don't think there's anything wrong with enjoying life, but it seems to me Hasan is more of an enjoyer than someone willing to create the change. Good for him. Seems like he could be a little more grateful. "It would have to be policy enforced by the government" - I'm sorry but this is just authoritarian fantasy. So Hasan will give his money away when it's the government using the threat of force? Easy to be charitable after getting a strongly worded letter from the IRS saying that if they have to come back next time they'll bring cops. "If he "lead by example" no one would follow" - If his theories were correct, he could become the best business owner ever. All Americans would want to buy from his business, and every worker would want to work at his establishments. Other companies would be FORCED to adopt the same policies as him to stay in business. That is, if his theories worked.
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  2.  @billytucker9763  Communism is the utopian, stateless and classless system. Socialism is when the communist party (the vanguard) takes hold of state power and uses it to transition to communism. Under socialist systems, houses were expropriated. There is no such thing as "minor socialism". That's just social democracy.
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  3.  @billytucker9763  "Congrats, you're a socialist and you didn't realize it" - That's just you playing fast and loose with definitions. A social safety net isn't socialism.
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  4.  @billytucker9763  I don't support socialism. Socialism is a system under control of the socialist party. Yes, I would love to live in the woods. Unfortunately the government repealed the homesteading act in the 1970s. It's not black and white. It's not extreme thought. Socialism is the outlawing of capitalism. Socialism emerged as an attempt to erase capitalism. It's an antithesis. There's nothing about Christianity that involves televangelists. Televangelists weren't even possible when Christianity emerged. Socialism was an attempt to outright END capitalism forever. A better comparison is being a Jewish Christian or a Christian Islamist. How can you reject Christ as the prophet and also follow Christ? How can you follow Mohammed as the true prophet and also think Christ is the true prophet?
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  5. This, but unironically.
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  6.  @mr.h5028  Mind that the reason WWII happened was because of WWI. So not having a military would have actually prevented those things you mentioned.
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  7.  @mr.h5028  The revolutionary war was fought with a militia, though. Nothing wrong with the people fighting for their independence. The Spanish war was triggered by the explosion of the USS Maine, which was not definitely proven to have been caused by the Spanish or by an internal source. WWI was a family quarrel between European royals. My point is that your claim that a military was needed because of the bad things that happened in WWII, well WWII was caused by the consequences of WWI. We reap what we sow.
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  8.  @mr.h5028  It doesn't matter what I believe. My point is that WWII was a direct consequence of WWI. You can't justify having a military to stop the holocaust, if the existence of military forces was what lead to the holocaust. Also, by the way, when Polish resistance member Witold Pilecki volunteered to be captured to be taken into Auschwitz and then escaped, relaying the information about the death camps to British and American intelligence, they actually suppressed the information because they felt that if it seemed that the war was being fought to end the Holocaust, the Americans would actually becomes less supportive of the war. The objective was to defeat Germany.
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