Comments by "Chompy the Beast" (@chompythebeast) on "Breadtube, Debate-Bros, and The Problems of The Western Left" video.

  1. I feel like this argument was preempted by the Anti-Intellectualism segment at 10:46 , down to the dubious suggestion that it's a matter of privilege that the poorer struggle to attain. In fact, people living in privileged positions aren't at all used to being given reading regarding politics, since they've been raised not to engage with them at all beyond maybe voting
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  2.  @vanguard6937  The argument that every system will produce class divides only betrays the ignorance of the one making it: Literally every other system in history has been explicitly predicated on class division, and only socialism/communism is predicated entirely on the abolition of the very means of creating class divisions
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  3. Hakim has spoken at length about social democracies elsewhere if you're interested in that topic being explored further. Unequal exchange plays a major role in Scandinavia as well. Vid is called "How Rich Countries Rob The Poor; The Failure of Social Democracy". It's pretty numbers-heavy, but it describes all capitalist social democracies by nature
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  4. I can't hear it right now, but he often uses Die Internationale in Afrikaans, you'll find it here on YouTube. The revolution is terribly romantic
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  5. Social democracies work for their citizens by exporting misery elsewhere. And anyone who doesn't want poor people to have access to healthcare and education is just a sociopath whose opinions ought to be dismissed
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  6. lol it's not fascism when TERFs get nuked from the community, that's praxis TERFs ain't got no friends, cowboy
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