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What was a time when you drank the kool aid?
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I believed the USA was a liberal democracy full of concerned citizens. I also had faith in the financial system at one point!
In fairness before the Internet we could pretend people were decent and thoughtful. Facebook well and truly ended that.
So you just drank the socialist kool aid. Got it.
You say socialist like it's a bad thing and it screams "I'm ignorant."
If you hate socialism stop using the things socialism provides you. Mail, paved roads, power and water delivered to your house, fire and police, education, etc. Socialism is a big part of why our lives are so decent despite the capitalist hellscape the billionaires are pushing. They've lied to you that social programs are why your taxes are so high; they're high because the wealthiest among us aren't paying a fair share.
None of that is socialism.
Thinking everything is a "hellscape" and only those in your group are enlightened enough to see a better way (those outside the group are "ignorant") is what most people refer to as "drinking the koolaid".
Modern "socialism" is at best a grift, at worst a cult.
I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in...
...don't make me post the whole copypasta.
"socialist kool aid"
If caring about others is kool aid, call me the kool aid man because I am about to burst through the glass ceilings and bring delicious nectar to all.
You have faith in the financial system?
Hahah socialism. Like subsidies for farmers who grow corn for ethanol? Or like subsidies for Amazon warehouses. Or should we only do socialism and when banks gamble to hard and collapse? Or socialism like getting a government/military jobs to avoid poverty?
Fallacious reasoning. I could also reference Stalin, breadlines, and the fact that the greatest famines in human history were the result of the authoritarian nature of socialism.
We could discuss the pros and cons of specific policies but instead the "socialist" kool-aid drinkers just tend to rant about capitalism = bad and therefore socialism = good without any grasp of any nuance or willing to do any critical thinking.
For example, with ethanol growing corn pulls carbon out of the air, burning the ethanol of course returns it back. It's carbon neutral, which is significant because Global Warming is a real thing. Pulling oil from the ground and burning it is obviously not carbon neutral. Ethanol is a much better fuel than burning oil.
Amazon was facing an anti-trust lawsuit: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/09/ftc-sues-amazon-illegally-maintaining-monopoly-power
But something has changed in the last year, so now it's drill, baby drill and corporations like Amazon can bribe the government to look the other way on their anti-competitive practices.
You've probably been convinced "both sides are the same" because that is the belief of your group. But it's in the the nature of cult behaviour to deny reality to conform to the group. Which is what the phrase "drinking the koolaid" is in reference to.