Smug zoomer conservative doesn't know what Socialism is

[@YaBoiHakim]

Support me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/ComradeHakim Twitter: @YaBoiHakim Cruella de Vil over here wants to talk down to you about hard work as she films from the condo her parents paid for. I apologize in advance for subjecting you to this avant-garde horror. *Sources:* www.cnbc.com/2021/07/14/full-time-minimum-wage-workers-cant-afford-rent-anywhere-in-the-us.html www.theguardian.com/society/2021/aug/12/housing-renter-affordable-data-map www.businessinsider.com/more-millennials-planning-to-rent-forever-cant-afford-housing-2019-11?r=US&IR=T www.npr.org/2021/03/03/973054080/potholes-grid-failures-aging-tunnels-and-bridges-nations-infrastructure-gets-a-c www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jan/22/wealth-gap-widening-for-more-than-70-per-cent-of-global-population-researchers-find news.un.org/en/story/2022/10/1129912 truthout.org/articles/us-provides-military-assistance-to-73-percent-of-world-s-dictatorships/ news.un.org/en/story/2022/09/1126771 www.mercycorps.org/blog/quick-facts-global-hunger www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/six-fold-increase-people-suffering-famine-conditions-pandemic-began www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1646771/pdf/amjph00269-0055.pdf www.nytimes.com/1983/01/09/world/cia-says-soviet-can-almost-do-without-imports.html web.archive.org/web/20190429182655/www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP84B00274R000300150009-5.pdf marxism.halkcephesi.net/trotskyism/gulag.htm www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2022.html www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/15/us-prison-workers-low-wages-exploited elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/abs/10.1093/wbro/lkx002 epod.cid.harvard.edu/article/dispelling-myth-welfare-dependency www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/11/20/9764324/welfare-cash-transfer-work www.urban.org/urban-wire/ten-myth-busting-facts-about-welfare blogs.adb.org/blog/busting-myths-related-food-stamps-welfare-and-work www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/03/welfare-childhood/555119/ www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/89976/wealth_and_education_4.pdf eprints.lse.ac.uk/68507/13/Karagiannaki_Effect of parental wealth.pdf www.cnbc.com/2019/05/29/study-to-succeed-in-america-its-better-to-be-born-rich-than-smart.html www.africaportal.org/features/tackling-malawis-medical-brain-drain/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/002581726803600203 ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.56.11.1904 zapier.com/blog/potential-entrepreneurs-report/ fortune.com/2014/09/25/why-startups-fail-according-to-their-founders/ www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jan/16/black-owned-firms-are-twice-as-likely-to-be-rejected-for-loans-is-this-discrimination www.express.co.uk/news/world/701026/russians-life-better-soviet-union-ussr-sixty-four-percent news.gallup.com/poll/166538/former-soviet-countries-harm-breakup.aspx?g_source=link_NEWSV9&g_medium=tile_1&g_campaign=item_210866&g_content=Former%2520Soviet%2520Countries%2520See%2520More%2520Harm%2520From%2520Breakup www.spiegel.de/international/germany/homesick-for-a-dictatorship-majority-of-eastern-germans-feel-life-better-under-communism-a-634122.html www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2010/04/28/hungary-better-off-under-communism/ news.gallup.com/poll/210866/balkans-harm-yugoslavia-breakup.aspx www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/30/struggling-romanians-yearn-for-communism/ www.reuters.com/article/us-communism-nostalgia/special-report-in-eastern-europe-people-pine-for-socialism-idUSTRE5A701320091108

[@Andrey_Gysev]

9:52 Actually, in soviet system of camps, prisoners got a SALARY, they had shops, they had education "evening-schools" they had an opportunity to learn a new working skills and aquire an experience to work at a good job when they'll be released! Even some "political" prisoners got an accountant job at the camp and when they was released - they got accountant job at regular factory. To be fair, her speech is a collection of myths that was popular like.. 5? 7 years ago? She is like frozen in time to repeat the same nonsense Ideologemas.

[@euruskreacatoa2370]

Hey Hakim, love your videos, i would LOVE to have a video on the biography and personal history behind many socialist leaders such as Lenin, Stalin, Fidel etc etc. It's definitely a good change of pace from responding to clowns like that girl lol

[@Andrey_Gysev]

​@@Fanrondam Actually, the interwar period was horrible for every country in the world, not only the Soviet government prisoned the "speakers against the government", but what they did is released and reabilitated them all after ww2 period of recovery of the country. And what we got? A massive movement of anti-soviet chauvinistic propaganda on the places, nationalism, and a collapse of the system from the ground up, that allowed regional elites to rise their capitals and to exploitate their people. Also, remember that Soviet Union existed in the "permanent siege" made by the whole capitalistic world, with the saboteurs, spies, propagandists and so on.

[@XXTRIAGexx]

Why would you use the term Philistine in the pejorative habibi?

[@road_chad3669]

Hakim black friday deal

[@Mantriox]

When she said "where does your worth come from if not your job?" I genuinely felt very depressed. What a miserable world we must live in if that's the case... what does she even think life is?

[@Para2normal]

Yeah agreed, I always get very irritable when folks say "Elon Musk is worth $xBillion " , they should be saying he has financial value of $xBillion.

[@Old_Jack_Ketch]

I would bet huge money (well, my idea of huge money) that she has a video somewhere shitting on ‘quiet quitting’ as lazy.

[@Kingdom_Of_Dassogne]

Life is work. Life is Struggle. There is more to a person than their work effort, but I think your productivity says a lot about your character

[@Dis_Dis]

@@Kingdom_Of_Dassogne Being a wage slave and being productive aren't the same thing. Art is productivity but most artists get paid jacksh*t for example.

[@Kingdom_Of_Dassogne]

@@Dis_Dis Because their art is not marketed or quality enough to make good enough sales.

[@theredjoker8857]

Too funny when she says socialism is an inhumane system of exploitation and the very next moment claims the value of a human being is expressed by his productivity. Truly, a demon.

[@danieljliverslxxxix1164]

Comrade Stalin would like you to visit a gulag.

[@matterking1]

She's been eating capitialist shit for so long and been reinforced that it tastes good by her peers. They think that the unnecessary suffering caused by capitalism is "Just the way things work everywhere". So they just bite down and smile.

[@MarshallJukov]

@@matterking1 Capitalist farts never smell

[@sentientnatalie]

Indeed lol. I had a brief look at her channel's videos, they're about what you would expect, right to far-right indulgences. I wonder if she's learnt the goose step yet? xD I think she'd be considered white enough to be "acceptable company" to the most dangerous of far-right groups.

[@naryosh_]

@@MarshallJukov yes they do it smells like pollution

[@bbrbbr-on2gd]

The type of person to unironically call people "human capital". 💀

[@salicaguillotines]

Self awareness is the first step 😊

[@fritzstammen4535]

I'm anti-capitalist, but why is it wrong to refer to people as human capital when they are serving the purpose of capital, ie, their talents are producing profit? Under any economic system, a person's abilities represent a type of capital, so it's a useful economic term. No ones saying capital is all people are, and referencing human capital doesn't mean you think society should be capitalist, but human capital simply is a thing. If you get a degree in engineering, you are developing human capital. Capital exists under socialism, it's just managed different it's products are distributed differently.

[@loreleiofthemist]

​@@fritzstammen4535 this shows a bit of a fundamental misunderstanding of what capital is. capital is not simply the value of work produced, but rather wealth that is privately owned by capitalists. thus "human capital" is not simply the value produced by the working class but rather the value of that labor that is extracted and hoarded by the owner class. "No one is saying capital is all people are" unfortunately you're quite wrong there. the term human capital by definition reduces a human being to the value they can produce for the owner class. it is inherently dehumanizing, and that is EXACTLY how capitalists mean it when they use the phrase. i have in fact never seen anyone use the phrase who didnt mean it that way, save for the many people who dont quite understand how the system of capital works. this isnt meant to be condescending in any way btw, i respect you a lot for asking questions and trying to educate yourself. unfortunately the way we in the west think about economics and the value of labor is heavily influenced by the capitalist systems we live under, leading to these fundamental misunderstandings of what capitalists mean when they use terms like this. we are taught that capitalist economics are the cornerstone of all economics, and anything else such as socialist economics is just a fantasy dreamed up by people who dont understand economics.

[@fritzstammen4535]

@@loreleiofthemist I appreciate your respectful and thoughtful response, but I understand capital to mean any asset that creates economic value intrinsically. I took some economics in college, and I'm well aware that the education system teaches capitalist economics, but I don't see why this definition should be different under socialism and capitalism. Capital as I understand it still exists under socialism, but is owned publicly instead of privately. As I see it, a persons advanced skills in a given area of the economy amount to a form of capital, but instead of existing outside of them, like an oven in a bakery does, they are a part of them, ie. the bakers knowledge of baking. Therefore, I see no problem with describing a person's skills which act as capital as "human capital", while appreciating that they are also just humans. Calling it human capital just acknowledges that there are aspects of the person which makes their contribution to the economy greater than other people's, but says nothing about who has the rights to the rewards reaped from that capital. If you have any sources that support your definition as a better alternative to mine, I'd like you to refer me to them, and I don't mean that as a call out at all, I'm legitimately just curious to learn more. Edit: it's worth noting that capital is generally the sole concern of capitalist economics, which is why I think we might have a different sense of the connotations of the term. When a capitalist uses the term human capital, it reduces a person just to capital, because capitalism inherently reduces peopel and resources to their potential economic output, whereas an economic system that isn't solely focused on growing capital can acknowledge human capital as one element of a person's role in the broader system.

[@FreddyNjuakom]

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[@khrushchevscorn6459]

This person recently released a video bootlicking the British monarchy, calling people who criticise them “stupid” and “disgusting”.. she’s American. This demonstrates the level of capacity for critical thought she has.

[@johnallenbailey1103]

She's a white supremacist

[@FaithfulFumoFan23]

If you're American and simp for any monarch you're a total c**k.

[@philippbohland2420]

Wtf. Really?

[@lol-ih1tl]

didn't the American war of independence happened as a rebellion against the rule of the British monarchy?

[@stereotype.6377]

And then calls herself a “Republican”

[@Nota-Skaven]

"if Siberia needs doctors you're becoming a doctor in Siberia" > rural area gets doctor > I get a free fucking doctorate > secured employment Where was the bad part?

[@andreamarino6010]

Even in a capitalist country with some sociql policies like Italy works like that. You're in the public sector, hospital needs you, and they ask you to go. The end

[@lengors7327]

@@andreamarino6010 the horror

[@gcod3d161]

And the people against this will still be like ‘I think military service should be mandatory for young men so they can be taught how to actually -insert their stupid American value here-‘

[@Krill_all_health_insuranceCEOs]

@@superlogos58 shameful 😔

[@GreekHouseEffect]

she hates poor people

[@panqueque445]

"I'm going to show you why Communism is bad" *proceeds to show they don't know shit about Communism" Literally never fails.

[@danieldeplorable4960]

Joseph Stalin murdered 30 million people. Mao killed 50 million people. Did your anti-American college history professor ever tell you that? Somehow, I doubt it.

[@panqueque445]

@@danieldeplorable4960 How many people did the US kill again? And continues to kill to this day? How many Americans are in jail and forced to work? Or did your prob American brain washing convinced you that's somehow different? You're a clown

[@danieldeplorable4960]

Awwwwwww, did I insult your idols and heroes Mao and Stalin??? Are you going to cry now, Commie?? Does Commie want his binky??? Hahaha 😹😂😹😂!!!

[@recapv7615]

I love communities, every single one of you thinks if you were in rule you would have made true communism.

[@panqueque445]

@@recapv7615 Never said that. Nice projection there.

[@rafaszopa2955]

You downloaded Tik Tok to watch thirst traps I downloaded Tik Tok to provide my personal data to the Glorious People's Republic Of China We are not the same

[@hectorvega621]

Lol I wish I could give a reward like in Reddit but a like will do.

[@user-te1ot7ux7c]

I downloaded TikTok for the earlier reason, but the algorithm is failing me hard

[@Novusod]

You don't have to download tik-tok to watch tik-tok videos.

[@gallectee6032]

You guys don't actually idolize China right? The whole "laying flat" movement doesn't wake you that it's practically the same type of structure?

[@Realandauthentic]

@@gallectee6032 It was a joke, no one likes china

[@namangoy]

Also it’s rarely “I like when the government lets me starve”. It’s usually “I like when the government lets the dirty poors starve”, but if they made that any clearer it’d be even more obvious how selfish they are

[@Nightmare-pj4fg]

Also it is in many cases WORKING CLASS PEOPLE role playing as alphas or bourgeois who advocate and agree with these people advocating for these kinds of hierarchies/ Capitalism, which is just sad. I always like to ask “You do realize that under this system, and the system you’re advocating for, you would be/ are a literal peasant right?”. As for the petit bourgeois, well they are petit in more than one way if you know what I mean. 😏

[@thatveganliam5863]

This woman is insane, by her logic anyone that’s disabled to the point of not being able to work has no worth.

[@juliakiehl9557]

Sounds like a far right talking point, now doesn't it ? (Literally this is how people lose their empathy and go down the alt right pipeline, always watch people's rhetoric)

[@projectpitchfork860]

@@juliakiehl9557 Yes. The german nazis literally murdered disabled people because they considered them "useless eaters".

[@V34035]

Nah disabled ppl, have their best lives in capitalistic societies. And that was not what she said but ik you all like to make up sh!t to sound like the good one here.

[@theshermantanker7043]

There's probably more to it that isn't shown, who knows. I've seen some of her videos before and they never really carry this vibe

[@yuenmienyu]

@@theshermantanker7043 she doesn't talk much about communism and the economy much on her channel, but a lot of her points rely on far right rhetoric and conspiracy theories (eg. "the LGBT are coming for your children and gr00ming them"). constantly refers to minority activism as "woke" despite CLEARLY not knowing what woke actually means.

[@sovietcupcakes328]

Anti-communist talking points have the intriguing ability to reproduce exactly the same 70 year-old shallow tropes infinitely without embarrassment. Edit: Well I guess I'm a capitalist now since I own this salt mine XD

[@404findnotnamed]

Anti-communist talking points should come with "May contain Nazism" on the packaging. Why put in the effort of coming up with new ones when the ones from 1940s Germany still work

[@danieljliverslxxxix1164]

And communism has the uncanny ability to reproduce the same failed experiments over and over again at the cost of millions of lives.

[@p.chuckmoralesesquire3965]

nice reptile nightmare-fueled pupils she got there.

[@ernestokrapf]

70 years? I would say at least 120 years lmao people been saying stuff like "socialism can't work because of human nature" since when Marx was still alive

[@alexanderkoryakin9510]

​@@ernestokrapf in 'wage labor and capital' it is even explicitly called out: "To say that "the worker has an interest in the rapid growth of capital", means only this: that the more speedily the worker augments the wealth of the capitalist, the larger will be the crumbs which fall to him, the greater will be the number of workers than can be called into existence, the more can the mass of slaves dependent upon capital be increased." "Growth of productive capital and rise of wages, are they really so indissolubly united as the bourgeois economists maintain? We must not believe their mere words. We dare not believe them even when they claim that the fatter capital is the more will its slave be pampered."

[@nerd3839]

A lot of her “facts” is a brief glance over a Google search, Conservative theory for you

[@nerd3839]

Which I think shows how Google has a political bias by showing easy skewed and misinterpreted data, they don’t need to suppress speech just make it not know

[@Ryan_hey]

Literally, I don't think she's picked up a book in her life. At least not on topics relevant to the content she releases.

[@sentientnatalie]

@@Ryan_hey Probably not, but if there was one, it was probably *the* one authored by a certain Austrian megalomaniac, you know?

[@Money_Fox]

she is just dumb.

[@tjenadonn6158]

Conservative intellectualism is just as self contradictory as married bachelorhood.

[@mixfeat]

My favorite argument is that “socialism was tried and failed”. Dude, tried once, held on for 70 years being the second economy in the world while simultaneously being under literal economic blockade from the rest of the world, having half the people killed and manufacturing bombed into oblivion by the nazis! Come the f on. Only in my lifetime there have been five worldwide economic meltdowns. Capitalist countries literally becoming “failed states”. And yet it’s not “capitalism was tried again and again and again and keeps failing most of us”?

[@chris135x]

1. You don't understand capitalism 2. You also don't understand that socialist policies have led people to commit mass murders 3. Go read some history books

[@ishathakor]

@ahogammer6895 yeah & it was also the us specifically that was involved in those coups and regime changes. like idk maybe socialism is just inherently flawed or whatever just like capitalism and we need a third solution but of course socialist countries keep failing. the us keeps intervening and throwing them into chaos.

[@kaiserinmargot]

It makes me laugh each time a conservative uses long paragraphs to say "I like it when the government leaves me dying on the streets". Once again thank you Hakim for your videos, it is always interesting to watch them.

[@danieljliverslxxxix1164]

But it’s okay when communists enforce death camps of forced labour and starves their countries to death? Look in the mirror dude.

[@sawsaw7]

Well it's not like not dying on the streets is a right or something

[@yaqubebased1961]

It's not anyone else's responsibility to take care of you

[@haafilah2003]

@@yaqubebased1961 So according to capitalists, helping poor and homeless people is bad? Absolutely evil and inhumane.

[@renlevy411]

@@yaqubebased1961 Psychopath

[@angellaramie9344]

Her point on identity being based on production really makes me consider how she views those disabled and can’t work or stay at home parents? They aren’t making money for a capitalist, so are they worthless to her

[@kathartzell4856]

yes and brings to mind Nazi segregation of people who were worthy and not worthy of living, scarry shit

[@mooseymoose]

It’s a very common sentiment among the Nazis and Nazi adjacent.

[@-kurow-7113]

Either this anwser or an error 404 because she forgot them in her reasoning.

[@KickinRadTopHat]

When conservatives talk about “people” they’re really talking mainly about cis white people with enough money to own property because that is what they consider the base level of “normal person” who should be considered when talking about society at large. Anybody who slips through the cracks of that definition is on some level not a person, or somehow responsible for their immiseration and therefor whatever bad thing that happens to them is just the consequences of not being normal. “Tough luck buddy, should have fit in” is their answer once you strip away all the talking points.

[@Octoberfurst]

She probably calls them "useless eaters!" No doubt a fan of Ayn Rand.

[@raulmelo5881]

Her point about the doctor’s going to Siberia as if that was a bad thing really shows how shallow of a person she is , that shit really pissed me off

[@laurioho2041]

How dare minorities get medical services

[@rirayejohnson8079]

"Where are you going to get fulfillment if not a job?" This has to be satire, can't believe she actually believes this.

[@Lily-ni5po]

Not even her parents love her. Her life is empty

[@VicStrange9]

Its not. A lot of people actually believe this. You'd be surprised about how much of this garbage is spewed absolutely everywhere. My last brush with that was a psychiatrist telling me that "having a job cures depression lmao" and I'd be like "but are you fucking kidding me that has nothing to do with the problem"

[@jooot_6850]

@@Lily-ni5po she has replaced her soul with material wealth

[@eduardoribeiro3605]

I've never got fulfillment from any job I've ever had, much the opposite actually... I hate the fact that our society makes you feel like you should be thankful to your employer, I mean it's a forced trade, they need people to do things for them and we the people need to do things for them so we don't starve, they're not f00kng philanthropists. A brazilian socialist youtuber that I follow said that "all the working class want is to have dignity, decent paying jobs, security, and quality free time to spend with their families, that's not asking for much, but even that is denied them" The media and society alike makes you feel like a loser if you are not working your 4ss off trying to be the next musk or buffett, it's shameful to not have the desire to change the world and create an empire instead just be a simple worker.

[@rumpelstilzz]

Just look around in her room, I freaking bet she will never have done any productive job in her live nor will she ever. Silver spooned full time daughter.

[@Riku-zv5dk]

This girl's privilege has privilege, what you would expect from someone who lives well off in the Imperial Core. She's so detached you can't even say she has rose tinted glasses, she instead has roses for eyes for how bling she is. She does ask a good question though, in an ignorant kind of way, 'where does your worth come from?' This is a legitimately good question people should ask themselves, it's the first step to realizing there is more to life than being a cog in someone else's machine. Being asked that question by someone else made me realize I was on the wrong path in life, but I doubt her half a braincell can even contemplate the question she asked, let alone contemplating its importance.

[@toronaldaris]

As an American, I know for a fact people don't question their own beliefs. This is why you have Religious and Political zealots running amok trying to convince everybody their way is the standard de-facto way to rule/operate the world. Americans are Alienated from the natural world. Everything is a commodity, including themselves, just took Hollywood and some technological breakthroughs to get people to start the process of people commoditizing themselves, aka Hustle Culture. This young lady unfortunately has fallen victim to this new pipeline to making more cooperative and serving citizens of the country. America ~ Bootlick me until your raw, then move over for the next person because you left a spot.

[@nukiradio]

@Abdullah al-Busniyy I'm from texas. We don't claim her. She's a disgrace

[@Money_Fox]

so do you.

[@americancommunist6076]

@Dr. Octogon what does that mean

[@TheoDaJunk]

@@americancommunist6076 something sexist maybe...about how her privates are blind or that she's a racist cause she don't wanna sleep with poc

[@babalooey8308]

"Seriously, where are you going to get fulfillment, if not a job?" Friends? Hobbies? Love? Family? Full blown mindslave.

[@theshermantanker7043]

Hilariously enough that's the viewpoint most people leaning left have. The right is all about a traditional family bringing you happiness and all that dumb shit. Ironic that you now flip it the other way round so that it suits you

[@MrOuija-rr8kq]

She took it a step further , socialism is when the government exists.

[@Krill_all_health_insuranceCEOs]

🤣 true

[@Money_Fox]

no its not.

[@ProjectileGrommet]

Socialism is when communism lmao imagine

[@eternallustformedusa4844]

@@ProjectileGrommet and communism is when capitalism

[@tvfandashow6222]

Capitalism is when iphone Socialism is when China lol Edit- socialism is when Great Britain (seriously I've heard this one)

[@embyratwood690]

As someone who spends most of my time at home due to disability, self worth doesn’t come from a job or productivity. Helping my family and making friends with my neighbors and getting involved in online communities has given me more meaning than any job I’ve had. I had the unlearn the capitalist propaganda of “no job = lazy and useless” and still sometimes feel bad for being unable to work

[@sojourner4726]

Damn right!

[@bismarachman9691]

even there are immense posibility with this current level of technology that even the "disable" can contribute in economy. but they decide to allocate their resource not for investing to improve that but bailing out monopolies and finance capital! This system must go down! Capitalism must go for humanity! Long Live the Revolution! Hope you and your family always in a good health, comrade!

[@senismarsenis9678]

She has that young boomer mindset XD

[@jenm1]

Our self worth comes from us just existing and being.

[@m-pc5334]

As someone with adhd, productivity is also something I struggle with. My mom often asks me if the satisfaction of "a job well done" gives me enough "purpose" to stay motivated. It’s more of an argument she makes for why my brain should produce more motivation juices. But really? It doesn’t feel like anything I’ve ever done was good enough to feel like that. it just feels like it was good enough for me to survive. To be like the others. I don’t want to work in a system like that. I wish I could just live off of telling stories and trying out new things I randomly take interest in. I don’t know if it’s possible, but maybe I’ll figure something out

[@andrewphilos]

To answer her horrible, horrible question, your value as a human comes from two places: 1) your inherent value as a human being, and 2) your relationships with others. Work is, and should be, just a small portion of that.

[@comrade_cat303]

We need to stop torturing hakim by making him watch this videos

[@euruskreacatoa2370]

Ikr

[@nektariosorfanoudakis2270]

Name checks out, when are you shutting gitmo down, Dear Leader Chairman Sir?😵‍💫😴

[@lizp9518]

Agreed

[@comrade_cat303]

@@nektariosorfanoudakis2270 so true

[@lesdmark]

It's not just Hakim it's torturing... I just cannot even with these people anymore.

[@artypyrec4186]

I enjoy that US citizens, blame socialism for the current state of the US.

[@Nota-Skaven]

the communist socdems, and the Democrats, ...and the Republicans now, somehow?!?! (or Trump specifically anyway), socialism is when government I guess

[@danieljliverslxxxix1164]

@@Nota-Skaven Socialism is when the moronic working class thinks it knows better than the people who actually started and run the industries, but because they’re too think they put all their faith into electric representatives who in turn become the new tyrants of industry and oppressors of the working class. Socialism is a viscous cycle and oppression and misery, and you Marxists morons call that materialism. Laughable.

[@Nota-Skaven]

@@danieljliverslxxxix1164 "because they're too think" Minor spelling mistake, I win

[@Kingkongreviewz]

It is senate leaders who have unlimted terms who fix nothing, people who hate America are the problem which is socialist.

[@danieljliverslxxxix1164]

@@Nota-Skaven Take whatever win you can, commie. It’s the only one you’ll ever have. ;)

[@thetristanfrantz]

Here I am still living in my high school bedroom at 22, sleeping in a 10 year old dilapitated twin size bed, meanwhile the w̶o̶m̶a̶n̶ girl in this video sleeps in a queen size bed in (maybe) her own house. But that's a failure on my part, right? Has nothing to do with the fact that where I live, I'm lucky to even get a job working as a kitchen slave at a local fast food joint getting paid nowhere near enough to afford rent let alone buy a house. The rich privilege is strong with this one.

[@PeacefulJem]

Literally same exact experience. Late stage capitalism means no one owns anything, ironically what capitalists want people to believe socialism is

[@Manie230]

@@PeacefulJem that’s false. It’s not that no one owns anything it’s that the rich own everything. And the poor get the scraps the shit the rich don’t want.

[@eges72]

@@PeacefulJem That's what Capitalist propaganda is about. Blaming all of their disgusting ills on the left.

[@Sansfunnyboness]

I'm gonna share my story of becoming a Socialist: So basically after quiting school I was left depressed (diagnosed by a doctor of course) for 3 to 4 years and in that time I fell into the Right-Wing Pipeline of videos until one day out of nowhere I saw Hakim on my timeline and I was like "Socialism gives a better quality of life ? Doesn't this guy know that Stalin and Mao killed more people than Hitler ? I can't wait to hear what excuses he has to say" and then I watched the video and then another and then another later on finding Second Thought and Yugopnik. Thank you Hakim you saved me😿(Edit. I'm also a fellow balkan like comrade Yugopnik)

[@saturationstation1446]

that attack against mao and stalin never made sense to me. by the time those people were born, europe had already murdered half a billion brown people on their conquest to be the master race

[@untraceablefgc-9mkii251]

Same i remember watching more and more right leaning videos a few years ago but them i stumbled upon AzureScapegoat's channel.

[@nineten9011]

I stumbled on secular talk, then from there to second thought,then to hakim

[@lancetheking7524]

I found out Second Thought and then Hakim so fun stuff for us socialists

[@lancetheking7524]

Yugopnik seems new to me

[@Stalennin]

"Food in the USSR is probably more nutritious" Fan factoid(?): go read up on the history of "doctor's sausage". Still an amazing cold meat snack (how do you even call these in english?) even after its quality has been reduced by "capitalist efficiency". The party literally had a team of doctors and nutritionists design a nutritionally complete processed food for the people and it used to cost pennies by contemporary standards.

[@saturationstation1446]

as someone who WILL die from starvations effects (and probably soon) this is something i did not know. interesting. we call cold meat "lunch meat" usually. we call the places that sell it a "deli"

[@jifij89]

@@saturationstation1446 i’m so sorry. i hope you’re receiving some support

[@stuffwithsoph8264]

@@saturationstation1446 is there anyway we can give you support?

[@SpeedKing..]

@@stuffwithsoph8264 they are already gone rip

[@windws7137]

@@saturationstation1446 but your nickname bro😭😭

[@zhizn_snake]

Whenever people speak of "the dangers of communism and socialism" I feel like they're trying to suggest that a new socialist or communist society would resurrect Stalin and Lenin from their graves (probably simultaneously and with laser eyes) to wreak havoc on the earth.

[@Toaster_YT]

Yea and theres just a giant vacuum cleaner sucking everyones money

[@grunklesmuff]

Complete communism is pretty bad

[@axlgzrdmattick]

Hiring an editor was great decision hakim,now we have more frequent videos from you, which is amazing. Props to you and the editor

[@rockfire1669]

I love when capitalist point at capitalism and say it was communism that did this(forgetting the fact the USA won the Cold War)

[@Strauss-]

she's a capitalist-sympathizer, I doubt she is actually a capitalist.

[@abuthahirumarhathab4201]

@@Strauss- she is probably a petty bourgeois but not a bourgeois. That means she does a significant amount of work but also owns the means of production.

[@kellywalker1664]

@@Strauss- truetruetruedety true. Most people don't realize 'Capitalist' denotes a class, not a political belief. You can be working class and sympathetic to Capitalism, but you can't be working class and a Capitalist.

[@rockfire1669]

Idk how to break it in their heads, so I just refer to them as a true billionaire capitalist. And when they wonder when they are not in the same spot of like Elon, that is when I’ll start being civil again.

[@VeteranVandal]

@@Strauss- nah, pretty sure she's bankrolled by the usual scumbags. Unless you mean she's not the owner of capital... That's possible, but i really can't say.

[@roguenoob]

I was crying when listening to that! Couldn't stop laughing from the moment she said "socialism is the government doing stuff" with a straight face

[@kadafi4lyf]

Youre right. When we try socialism, it won't be like USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, Vietnam, Cambodia, North Korea, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czech, Albania, Congo, Yugoslavia, Somalia etc. No, when we do it, it'll be your way, and it'll work perfectly, and the government won't control anything but people will still work and the system won't fall apart. Do you genuinely believe that^

[@ThanhHa-uk9hi]

@@kadafi4lyf do you want accept to be exploit to death in this system?

[@kadafi4lyf]

@@ThanhHa-uk9hi peculiar how you people can only defend socialism by attacking capitalism. It's like you can't actually defend it. To answer your question, no one says capitalism is perfect.

[@soulplexis]

​@@kadafi4lyf its almost like socialism is the solution to capitalist caused problems...

[@Vhlathanosh]

@@kadafi4lyf funny you mention some of those countries and don't talk about which country in particular made them be that way.

[@WesternCommie]

I spent my educational years in the late 90s to late 2000s American educational system, and I have learned a lot about the 'dangers of communism'.. You are completely correct in the fact that the system is anti-communist. I am still having to correct thought processes programed into me from my younger years and I have been trying to study socialist theory for 3-4 years now. The capitalist system likes to keep us working so we don't have time to think.. Keep the proletariat tired so they won't have the energy to fight back.

[@Kingkongreviewz]

Dude my parents were poor in china had nothing, there was and still is a genocide on us just because we are Muslim. They brought me here to Canada similar system to United States in less than 15 years my family had succeeded into living high class lifestyle. Me getting a internship at AMD. There is more freedom in this system, easier to achieve, this same dude talking about capitalism is bad never sat a day in china, Burma, etc where you beliefs don't matter but the system is your GOD

[@lucyaravena507]

@@Kingkongreviewz China is the exact same country that has said countless times that their system is "socialism with chinese properties". spoiler: it is quite literally capitalism, with the only difference with it being that there is one single party in the government. Why do you think that in terms of production they're even beating the U.S, and are practically rivals at this point? China is as revisionist as you can get - not saying all the stuff that's happened there isn't awful, JUST that the country is simply revisionist. and quite awful at that.

[@Kingkongreviewz]

@@lucyaravena507 I live in a city called Markham which is 50% Chinese ask any of us no one wants to live in china over canada. The CCP is God, you say something bad about them the next day your on the local news having to apologize. They have no KZbin, Google, Twitter for the masses just one app wechat, plus social credit system, reeducation camps how tf is all that capitalism when companies like Ali Baba, TikTok, Huwawei have all their data given to ccp when their ceos or celebs every year go missing. Indians are more happy than the mainland, plus china per person has more debt than Americans. South Korea and Taiwan are 100 times better and the backbone of innovation other than the province of Guandong in China which has billions invested in it by the ccp. CANADA>CHINA. Plus I hate lockdowns and Shanghai rn is prime c-19 lockdowns trust me you would never want to live there. Companies go to china to dye ask Uber

[@horsermchead2504]

bro the commenter saying he has poor parents in china and escaped has a japanese name. lol

[@Kingkongreviewz]

@@horsermchead2504 that's the creator of Bitcoin not my name cmon Mchead

[@deepdarkfantasy3238]

Ей надо пройти курсы повышения квалификации, где миллионы съеденных лично Сталиным?

[@eternal1sm]

Приятно видеть здесь русскоязычных камрадов

[@pokepreet1]

Eaten by Stalin ❌ Eaten out by Stalin 😳✔

[@windws7137]

с шевцовым подружилась бы

[@lutho7693]

@@pokepreet1 😳

[@XDarkxSteel]

Not only did Stalin eat all the grain in the soviet union but he also vored 120 million peasants

[@elianna838]

Thought 1: One correction when she says that under communism you would be forced to go to where there is a shortage of Doctors: The USA has the same thing 😂 you can get student debt forgiveness by going to underserved areas as a doctor or teacher lmao Thought 2: later in her life when she becomes disabled she's in a for a rude awakening when she finds her productivity has significantly decreased

[@rumpelstilzz]

What productivity? She producing anything?

[@jakedunnett8213]

I love how a 9 year old child makes a point about the welfare system and she’s like “damn, he’s right” 😂🤣

[@sojourner4726]

If my memory serves correctly, the child was refuting claims that welfare makes people lazy. She was trying to dunk on an 8 year old.

[@pokepreet1]

@@sojourner4726 The kids a communist! He has some bad takes here or there but hes literally a little kid, and so based for his age.

[@chriss780]

@@sojourner4726 and he still beat her lol

[@candy-ninja]

@@sojourner4726 I have high hopes for Gen Alpha.

[@luminator911]

@@candy-ninja That kid is Gen Z and now he's a teenager and no longer supports communism :(

[@L33tSkE3t]

Your rebuttals to this practically unbearably smug, unlikable, clearly over-privileged and ignorant woman engaging in her lightly veiled what about-isms, Gish galloping and just blatantly lying and were incredibly articulate and well researched. Thank you. You have brought the ever important nuance back into the conversation. Also, great book recommendations!

[@YaBoiHakim]

Thank you!

[@gabetaylor2635]

“Gen Z-ers are communist because they weren’t taught properly” and then shows a genZ-er reading like 8 books

[@alexarviso6836]

id love to see her familty history and how much wealth and privilage she comes from.

[@handsfortoothpicks]

And her next line is "I'm a self made women"

[@ivanbrezina7632]

She is Russian living in US. Her family history is probably much worse than you can imagine.

[@divinespark4987]

@@ivanbrezina7632 Russian fascist collaborators maybe.

[@chelsycordon6187]

Lol no she’s loaded@@ivanbrezina7632

[@GenericPlasticWaterBottle]

Ahhhh yes, A Russian immigrant is "privileged". As if the millions of Russian immigrants who migrated here were not immediately impoverished

[@kittybeans8192]

20:10 That makes me feel sad and worried for her. Does she really not get fulfillment from anything in life except her job? How about friends? Hobbies? Hell even eating a freaking cake? Nothing like that at all? Just... JOB? I dunno, my fulfillment never came from my job itself. My fulfillment came first and foremost from talking and playing with friends, which includes things like setting up game servers, and doing creative things with them too (like scripting little games or simulations, etc.) A job, at the absolute very best, simply was a means to that end, by allowing me the money to pay the bills so I could do what I really found fulfilling.

[@FirstLast-cw6tz]

Her type must be having a blast to be payed to make up stuff and just spew hatred against all social classes. She doesn’t care whatever harm she’s making, she’s a ghoul. That’s why she has fulfillment.

[@VicStrange9]

That's capitalism: you ARE your job. Without a job, you're nothing: you're meant to be a pawn of the system, and that's the only thing that gives your life meaning. As said somewhere else, last time I saw that was a psychiatrist telling me that "having a job cures depression lmao".

[@candy-ninja]

She may not even have any close friends. That's a sad thought..

[@irrelevant_noob]

@Kitty Beans i'll have to disagree with one bit though: imo "at the absolute very best" the job will largely align with my passions and will provide me with, say, a sandbox/playground where i can use their high-tech corporate servers to indulge my passion for programming while at the same time solving problems for their customers. Triple-win, i think that's better than a mere "means to an end". ;-)

[@JacobR522]

Before I was more well read I tried to debunk this but now I know it was kinda cringe. Great response.

[@GoodStarfish]

Channels like these rely on assumption and predisposition. A key to spotting prop is the 'book-ending' conclusions coming out before the argument. She also pulled the classic "I mean just look at..." Where the only possible action a rational skeptic could take is to pause there and get an equivalent to a BA in history to determine if the appeal is appropriate at which point you question why the content creator didn't just post their own reasons and data before making such appeals.

[@zinaida3833]

I'm so glad most of my generation isn't like this person and hasn't just gobbled down the capitalist talking points without any hesitation.

[@robertmartin6800]

As a zoomer, this is true. We're _all_ communists, and it makes me want to die.

[@theshermantanker7043]

Most of this generation is instead the exact opposite, blindly following socialist ideas, and absorbing literally everything, both it's strengths AND weaknesses. There's no progress to be made if you follow either side blindly lmao

[@kadafi4lyf]

Youre right. Most of our generation has just gobbled down communist talking points without hesitation.

[@Pridetoons]

Fun Fact: Most Millennials hate TikTok too.

[@Andrey_Gysev]

Fun Fact: In Soviet Russia TikTok hates you.

[@Pridetoons]

@@Andrey_Gysev Fun Fact: In America all social media platforms are owned by billionaires.

[@WarpPotato]

Fun Fact: Potato is a very useful vegetable.

[@Andrey_Gysev]

@@Pridetoons so thats why in Soviet Russia TikTok and Twitter hates Russians)

[@neko222svo]

@@Pridetoons its sad fact

[@bp2041]

"Where are you going to get fulfillment if not a job?" Is that honestly what people like her think? Fulfillment comes from a job? That's so sad on so many levels

[@jenm1]

In a socialist society, fulfillment could actually come from productive labour that exists for a reason and not just to line someone’s pockets

[@Ivan-gp4tr]

Well im a car mechanic and my job gives me fulfillment as i really like cars and working on them. Ive been interested in it as long as i remember, i even fix and upgrade cars (my own, neighbours, family members cars) in my free time. Why is it sad? When your job is something you love doing i dont see a problem with it. The only problem it would be if the job is your only fulfillment...

[@smikkelbeer7890]

Depends on the job really

[@bp2041]

Let's define a "job" in capitalism quick. A paid position of regular employment. Take the money out of the mix and it can no longer be considered a job. There are other reasons to find fulfillment in what we do other than for money. That's all I'm saying and what she fails to see

[@frostmonster5542]

I really laughed when she said that under socialism it is impossible to choose your career Let her tell it to my grandfather, who, you won't believe it, CHOSE HIS CAREER He grew up in a remote village in the times of "Stalin the Terrible", in which there was not even a school, studied to be a technical specialist in college. He got into a new closed city (Sarov, better known as Arzamas-16), went to work as a specialist in laying telephone lines, found out that at an enterprise for the development of atomic weapons, staff with his qualifications were paid more and went to get a job there HIMSELF and got a job at the institute, where he graduated to a nuclear engineer. If he had more ambitions, he would have been able to grow up to be a full-fledged physicist with a degree. And for all this he paid about $10 for his entire life, if converted to the modern exchange rate, then even less (at the beginning of the existence of the Soviet Union, high schools were still paid, the fee was canceled when he was studying, so his family had to pay for one class out of two, it cost them ≈1/10 mountly income) And in conclusion: he worked on secret nuclear projects without being a member of the party and criticizing it, but not only did he not end up in the "GULAG", but he never even received a demotion Sorry for my English, I'm not very good at writing texts in it, I wrote this with the help of a translator

[@frostmonster5542]

By the way whole this video is full of bullshit on 146%, it's just because my grandfather told me about his career recently, so that's what got me so hooked

[@americancommunist6076]

Thank you for your family's story!

[@Liebknechtlupus]

@@frostmonster5542 😄WHY NOT WRITE THIS STORY YOUR GRANDPA IS GREAT это хорошая история

[@teodorasavoiu4664]

Many people in our grandparents generations (in the eastern bloc) were lucky enough to be the first in their family to get a full education but capitalist propagandists will never acknowledge that. Village children today do not have the opportunities our elders had😢

[@manuelschlotterflosse1459]

Thank you! Man I hated seeing that horrible video in my recommendations while nobody was saying anything. As a German I say: Für den Kameraden Hakim hoch die Faust!

[@fantuswitt9063]

Hey I am German too! Do you want to take over the comment section and declare a DDR 2.0.

[@kazaddum2448]

Wäre "Genosse" nicht besser als "Kamerad"? Letzteres ist im deutschen doch stark an den preussischen Militarismus gebunden.

[@manuelschlotterflosse1459]

@@fantuswitt9063 Ja bitte, aber diesmal ganz Deutschland. Und ohne Honecker und Ulbricht, mehr Rosa Luxemburg, mehr Thälmann, dann wird das.

[@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45]

@@fantuswitt9063 Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch! (I'm not German)

[@tst2363]

@@manuelschlotterflosse1459 Der Ulbricht ging sogar. Problematisch war halt das die deutschen Kommunisten entweder tot, eingesperrt (Honni) oder jahrelang in der UdSSR oder sonstigem Ausland waren. U nu gibts keine mehr und die Werktätigen fragen sich warum alles für sie bergabgeht..

[@will823]

Of course she doesn't know socialism She's a conservative

[@sicheng714]

“You need to be a doctor until you paid your debt in maybe 6-7 year it’s horrible ” I don’t know compared to the US student who need at least 10-20 years as a cooperate slave to pay off the student loan, this sounds better to me

[@ldo300]

I was thinking the same thing. Plus you get to work in your field. I never used my degree. When I graduated not only were entry-level jobs asking for 2 -5 years experience but they were starting at 20k a year I was making more as a cna I lived in NYC I can't afford a pay cut

[@_Antiyou_]

her hair is so oily I kept waiting for FBI to break into her room

[@RedScareClair]

I have an MD friend that is working in the public sector because if she gives them X years they will pay were student loans. I know a teacher that is in the same deal. These people are too lazy to actually give any honest analysis. Hakim is spot on as usual. I've worked in hospitals in both rural and urban counties in my state. The rural hospital had to contract a very expensive MD group that utilized travel doctors to entice them to come. So poor counties end up paying significantly more for physicians and these physicians aren't from the area so they aren't invested. They are chasing money. Contrast that with the urban county, many of the doctors have roots in the area even if not originally from there. They make significantly less money than some of the rural doctors but are happier, are invested in their patients, and are respectful to their colleagues. It was a night and day experience. The doctors that made less money provided better care and were happier people and as a result their patients had better outcomes. It's the complete opposite of what capitalism preaches. If wealth was more evenly distributed rural areas would be able to get better support in both education and healthcare.

[@7th808s]

She rockin' that "can I speak to the manager" fit

[@γιουργια]

"I want to speak to the manager of communism"

[@yuenmienyu]

"you are indoctrinating my child by letting them be gay!" (she's made a lot of anti-lgbt content using this as an argument)

[@muha0644]

I don't have money to throw around on patreon, but i want to show my appreciation to you for entertaining us in such a based way so: Thank you. That's all i can do. Seriously, thank you for being a medical worker, thank you for spending your free time on this bullshit of a platform, thank you for putting such complicated topics in simple terms, thank you for being an educative catalyst, and thank you for recommending us books (many of us would not have even read any books had we not seen how good some can be).

[@YaBoiHakim]

You're too kind, thank you

[@laika5707]

@@YaBoiHakim hi

[@jhagler9010]

Imagine having 500 years of hindsight, unfathomable access to information at your fingertips , and still supporting capitalism smh

[@Kingkongreviewz]

Dude my parents were poor in china had nothing, there was and still is a genocide on us just because we are Muslim. They brought me here to Canada similar system to United States in less than 15 years my family had succeeded into living high class lifestyle. Me getting a internship at AMD. There is more freedom in this system, easier to achieve, this same dude talking about capitalism is bad never sat a day in china, Burma, etc where you beliefs don't matter but the system is your GOD. Chinese people are more debt search it up. The average Indian is more happy than Chinese. Communism is sad, flawed, cause someone will misuse its people.

[@kadafi4lyf]

Your conclusion: socialism is good because capitalism isn't perfect. If you actually studied history you'd see communism has led to nothing but mass graves. But hey, let's try it again, this time it'll work right? 🤡

[@jhagler9010]

@@kadafi4lyf If you want to have a reductive conversation about which “ism” has killed more people we can do that, but you aren’t going to like the results. Even a cursory glance at history shows a mountain of corpses from capitalism, easily in the billions. By your logic the system that causes more death and human suffering is the preferred system. I prefer the system that provides a higher quality of life 93% of the time and doesn’t require constant warfare to make its economic system even somewhat functional.

[@Lu.20]

I'm Brazilian and I found your channel this week, thank you so much for the content, and for all the hard work you've put into the videos✊🏻

[@liladesneko5730]

Hello fellow brazuca

[@Lu.20]

@@liladesneko5730 😄

[@Xalusc]

O canal do Hakim é excelente. Saudações, camarada!

[@Yappin1299]

The fact that she's actually of Russian descent (Petrov is a Russian surname), speak English perfectly, with a living condition that are hundred times better even compared to average first worlder because she once studied at one of the "left" Ivy league universities (group of elite university such as Harvard, Yale, etc) means that she probably descended from a House of Romanov's crony or probably even related to the Tsar Edit: She looks German so maybe she's related to House of Romanov

[@ydagan2400]

Misha is a Russian name too

[@burrybondz225]

That is a lot of assumptions you tied together.

[@VicStrange9]

Or: russian oligarch family sent to the US, which sounds plausible too.

[@CP-ir3ft]

so her being privileged means she's descended from the romanov's? whut?

[@bestrafung2754]

@@VicStrange9 Yeah that would make more sense, especially if she's descended from oligarchs who were kicked out of the USSR.

[@3chordGrifter-et4qe]

Come on, her trust fund and rich grandparents prove life is great for everyone

[@UltraTaka1]

I do love the idea of all soviet doctors being forcefully conscripted to immediately become a professional in Siberia as like a 16 year old with a big lab coat on, like she claims.

[@γιουργια]

That's a law in like,most European countries You have to go for a some period in poorer less populated area, so that they aren't left without doctor. I guess Europe is the Soviet Union now/s

[@chriss780]

@@γιουργια the number of times anti-communists bring up some practice thats been accepted practice in every capitalists country on the planet for several hundred years as some unique totalitarianism example of fascism when the commies do it will never not be funny to me.

[@gxd9903]

The very same education system she blamed for the rise of socialists is the same education system that is very blatantly anti-communist. My honors economics textbook had a section explaining what the free market was and its advantages, then the next section was about the planned economy and its disadvantages. They don't even do pros and cons for both, highlighting the good of what they want to promote and the bad of what they want to tear down.

[@MiserableMuon]

Finally someone is responding to her stupid arguments against communism. AND IT'S DADDY HAKIM!!! LOVE YOU.

[@aralornwolf3140]

Who is she?

[@MiserableMuon]

@@aralornwolf3140 just a stupid conservative woman who thinks she can win against socialists by bring "human nature"

[@MindMaelstrom]

@@aralornwolf3140 just a shitty influencer.

[@mjatriumxironreign8969]

Misha Petrov

[@sojourner4726]

Of course, she hasn’t had a full-time job yet, nor has she had to fend for herself. She clearly lives with her parents which is a good thing because by all appearances this girl is 16.

[@theshermantanker7043]

She's in her early 20s, if you've seen some of her other videos

[@lordanzu8763]

Holy crap, after I realized I was non-binary I got recommended so many anti-trans KZbin shorts from this creator (the video's subject, not Hakim) and she's so infuriating! To see Hakim responding to an anti-communism video of hers is honestly really surreal to me, but I'm glad he's doing it!

[@nkemnoraulmanfredini7286]

yeah

[@vladimirstarostenkov4417]

She makes public judgements about people's personal choices while criticizing "government doing stuff" like guaranteed jobs? Ok.

[@wjaz7219]

you aren't non-binary though

[@juliakiehl9557]

Ah hell no, just letting you know that you are valid and always will have a community by your side.

[@theshermantanker7043]

KZbin has a weird sense of humour, and a cruel one at that I really doubt she's anti-trans though, comparing her to some actual nutcase like Ben Shapiro, you can quite clearly see the difference

[@sovietcupcakes328]

Damn, this girl really is a zoomer, that level of argument couldn't come from anyone but a child.

[@GoodStarfish]

Not true. It came from their Gen X parent

[@forsakensavior7316]

@@GoodStarfish gives you an idea how mature her parents and her parent's parents are who keep parroting the same old propaganda

[@GoodStarfish]

@@forsakensavior7316 They want you to subconsciously accept the default 'be profitable" because "Socialism is when you starve or get gulaged" partly because of survivor bias, partly to recuse themselves of responsibility for suffering and therefore to them, socialism is just an excuse for "the young," and specifically you the individual are finding excuses to be "lazy"

[@forsakensavior7316]

@@GoodStarfish the thing is i refuse to believe that the boomer generation have blindly went through life not knowing all the socialist policies and other advantages they had growing up that made them so wildly successful that they now after reaching the top fight tooth and nail to make sure no other generation gets the same advantages. But i wouldn't be surprised if some are so uneducated and ignorant that they do in fact have survivor bias

[@danieljliverslxxxix1164]

So tell me again who are the people who will be fighting and dying for your revolutions? If you hate a whole generation of people because they don’t share your political ideology, then YOU are the problem.

[@UltraTaka1]

She reminds me of a toddler dressing up and role playing as her mother when the house is empty, drinking out of empty tea cups while draped in big white pearl necklaces, and loosely rooted in shoes that don’t fit.

[@jaydinledford6990]

If this is the level of propaganda we are currently up against I'd say we're doing pretty good

[@jaydinledford6990]

Don't do the rest of her video Hakim, I don't want you to have a stroke bro

[@grumpfrog8602]

This comment made me feel better about seeing garbage content like hers. Anyone with even a touch of critical thinking skills will not be convinced

[@prognosticii]

"Zoomer Conservative" sounds like a defect high-speed train.

[@atropatene3596]

What I like about watching Hakim's videos is that there are seriously solid book recommendations every time. What I dislike about watching Hakim's videos is that my "to read" list always gets longer after each video.

[@ThaDrizzle]

Thank you for the book recs, Hakim! Everyone needs to read more, we need innovative education solutions to combat the firehose of propaganda in the American schools.

[@clickclackkittykat]

Did you get a list of the ones he mentioned here, couldnt find one or two

[@danieljliverslxxxix1164]

People already read. They just don’t read your commie bibles.

[@Xloi63]

On the jobs and education point, it is well known that most Canadians with a degree can, relatively painlessly, uproot their lives in order to practice their skill (be it teaching, engineering, medicine, etc.) in the North of the country, be paid a premium for it, subsidized by the federal government, and return home with their cash bundle after a few years. Incentives and programs like this exist under capitalism, but it isn't made out to be scary and horrible (even if the reality is that this scheme is a part of the intentional underdevelopment of the largely Indigenous Inuit Yukon and NW province). Even working as a federal police officer will get you paid a premium if you work in a remote location. This is an extremely common thing, but the minute a socialist country does it, EBIL

[@ankharahallstrom1580]

She reminds me of so many of my conservative classmates. I think the fact I always have a smile on my face and I rarely get angry is what drove them the craziest. I love when they'd ask me to talk to someone who lived under communism, and I'd say I did, my great-grandparents, and then I'd point out that they always praised the Soviet Union, Stalin and Lenin. I'd describe the stuff they told me so that they couldn't go for the "oh, they were brainwashed to love the regime".

[@charlesbaicy3295]

A Hakim video drop means a good day

[@theweekndxo7438]

My moms Polish and one day she randomly starts going on about how communism was better and they didn’t have the problems we have now and that i could’ve went to uni for free 🤣 i was like YES MOM

[@georgeschmall9254]

They never claimed to have achieved communism in Poland, or the USSR foe that matter. They were still in the socialist phase, transitioning from capitlaism to communism under the guidance of the dictatorship of the workers.

[@romangiertych5198]

To be fair, uni's still free here despite capitalism.

[@alki_1]

Calling bs. Wtf??? In what world is communism "better"? You're uneducated

[@BeyondFunction1]

I love your mom.

[@stuffwithsoph8264]

Exactly! Americans always speak for Eastern European folks saying "ah you don't know how bad the Soviet Union was!" when my entire family are communists (Ukrainan and Greek) and my boyfriend born in Poland, living in Kraków is a socialist, it's so condescending! Btw, you might be able to claim citizenship if your mother can prove she was born in Poland and you can go to school for free there! Even private schools are very cheap, I don't remember how much it is in złoty but iirc it is approximately $800 CAD for the school year. Cheers!

[@rockdiesel9141]

"Please read a book." I was waiting for that sentence to come up. I was not disappointed. This important message is the reason I pay for these videos on Patreon.

[@pyryko]

She made commentary about a child's opinion on the internet 😭

[@sloppystyle]

and you know that child is just parroting their own parents schlock

[@thugstin6429]

We all went through our "capitalism is perfect and we are in a utopia" phase with capitalism. Whats part the grieving process, delusional?

[@irrelevant_noob]

*denial. Literally the first stage. ;-)

[@thugstin6429]

@@irrelevant_noobyes! Thats what i was looking form

[@KaDaJxClonE]

Anytime I hear someone say "USSR had gulags." I ask for the date range. I usually get ~1930's (ww2) through 1980 (collapse). I ask how many and compare their anwser against the US incarceration population. US is always higher. And the ancedotal charges are always more severe in the USSR; treason, murder, sedition, trafficking, etc. us charges are almost always drug, gang, and family debt charges.

[@chromaticstorm787]

To be perfectly honest, around third of the GULAG inmates were political. And this is beecause infamous 56th article of Criminal Code of USSR included almost everything from terrorism to leathlet givaway.

[@gapsule2326]

This lady has never worked minimum wage.

[@Emiliapocalypse]

How can you simultaneously advocate for less govt involvement in our lives and then want the same govt to ban bodily autonomy?

[@寂び侘び-b6s]

- Anti-communism - Nuance Pick one.

[@lengors7327]

Libs debating communist states: *nuance is nowhere to be found* (you know, besides lying or just being completely ignorant) Libs debating settler colonialist states: "Nuance! I demand nuance!"

[@chriss780]

@@lengors7327 Don't even get libs started on Fascism, you've never hear more "nuance" in your life

[@kegorator1]

Does this girl have any idea how many doctors would KILL to have their student loans 100% paid off in five years of work?

[@birbeyboop]

loving the higher frequency of videos lately

[@Shimansaji]

That Dr. Wolf clip gives life!

[@fysica4aag]

That would be a great tiktok!

[@wgebbia]

My father told me, sometime in the early 1980's, that people in USSR were assigned careers and that's why US was better. It was one of those cold-war "common knowledge" things

[@nox5555]

both sides did that in the cold war. pretty much all school systems selected kids based on skills and had alot of pressure to follow those paths.

[@dulvab9968]

Communism is when i disagree, the more i disagree the more communister it is

[@harryhoudini9613]

communism is when they take away iphone and make me work for my living 😭😭😭💔

[@TraumaBurial143]

@@harryhoudini9613 Which is ironic because that's literally the essence of capitalism.

[@maniak1768]

I don't know about you, but I find it so touching when teenagers are thinking of themselves as the capable and experienced champions in a perceived ideal of a meritocratic society, all of that of course from the safety of their upper-middle-class parental home.

[@user-ze1ej5zb6z]

If she knew anything about socialism she wouldn't be conservative in the first place.

[@lennontism]

stopped doing my online school tests just to see hakim

[@euruskreacatoa2370]

Based

[@matthewware8973]

Is she even getting sponsored by an oil tycoon?

[@JohnKobaRuddy]

Their is something cathartic about having Hakim vent on our behalf

[@Ziaoe]

"Capitalism = The right to pick a career?!" LMAO

[@crystlelakefarm1254]

Yeah, all they do is deny a person the job they want

[@prustah4895]

Alright so uh… who’s gonna tell him about the video that claims the USA is socialist because of the poverty in Indian reservations?

[@gnas1897]

What

[@Sorenzo]

So in the USSR you could be forced to work at a free clinic, and in the USA you're forced to work anywhere BUT a free clinic.

[@jifij89]

‘you have the choice to pick a career’, she has never spoken to a disabled person in her life 😂 we are quite literally not hired by most jobs. even if they claim they’re ‘disability confident’ as it’s called in the u.k. and if we are hired we’re discriminated against and pushed out by inaccessible work!!!

[@phlegios]

Hakim, maybe you should try enforcing their fears of communism (sarcastic parody of their view in a way)? The more outrage they see, the more angry they become, and the more brain cells leave their bodies. It's just amazing.

[@Kingkongreviewz]

Dude my parents were poor in china had nothing, there was and still is a genocide on us just because we are Muslim. They brought me here to Canada similar system to United States in less than 15 years my family had succeeded into living high class lifestyle. Me getting a internship at AMD. There is more freedom in this system, easier to achieve, this same dude talking about capitalism is bad never sat a day in china, Burma, etc where you beliefs don't matter but the system is your GOD. Chinese people are more debt search it up. The average Indian is more happy than Chinese. I rather liver in Canada 100 times over China, my town i livew in is 80% Chinese they all don't like their lives in china my friend movies don't reflect real life.

[@phlegios]

​@@Kingkongreviewz First of all, and no offense, but your English grammar doesn't say you lived in Canada for 10+ years. My grammar is in no way good either, but yours doesn't really prove like you lived in an English-speaking country. I mean, maybe you saw my comment and decided to respond as quick as possible with disregard to punctuation and things like that; nevertheless, seems strange (sus, I'd say). Following that, you say you've got an internship at AMD, not to mention your family enjoys the high class lifestyle. Now, I'm aware that there are these 20+/30+ years old "kids" that got popular on TikTok, Vine before that, and even Twitch/KZbin that live a luxury life, but even their speech/grammar seems more "coherent" (for lack of a better word; just woke up, can't think of any synonym, sorry). Now let's give a brief overlook of your life in a Western country like Canada and how it propelled you and your family whereas in China your family wasn't so lucky. Your argument #1: "There is more freedom in this system, easier to achieve". - I think what you're saying is that there are more jobs available for educated people such as yourself. Now why is that? Could it be that Canada has one tenth of a population that of China, and so the competition is pretty tight over there, therefore only the best of the best crawl out of poverty, to paraphrase your statement. Your argument #2: "this same dude talking about capitalism is bad never sat a day in china, Burma, etc where you beliefs don't matter but the system is your GOD". - From what little I know, the country has been fighting civil wars, one after another. There was little peace time in between those power grab coup d'etats. In fact, the last coup d'etat happened about a year ago, iirc. So, how do you expect people to live prosperously when the government and various ethnic groups fight for power every so often? Furthermore, you point out to a sawdust (a flaw) in China's eye, but can't seem to notice a giant plank of wood in the Western society. I'm talking about capitalism, of course. Don't westerners worship their Bull of Wall Street, the symbol of aggressive financial optimism and prosperity? In other words, people worship fraudsters and speculators, imperialists. Your argument #3: "Chinese people are more debt search it up." - That's your anecdotal evidence. Nonetheless, we ultimately go back to China's population. Too many people, not enough jobs available. India is no different. Which brings us to... Your argument #4: "The average Indian is more happy than Chinese." - Average is a terrible metric to judge something by. You can have a million poor people with the lowest wage imaginable in India and one billionaire with financial capital of, say, 50+ billions in his bank account. The average of that would still be quite high. Besides, a lot of people in India live beyond poverty line, not to mention that there are a lot of destitute people living in rural areas of India. Indian capital - like every other capital in any other nation - tends to consolidate in financially rich cities; this is why most Indians seek work in such cities. I've never been to India, but seeing as how this formula works in practically every country, I'd say nobody goes out of their way to specifically work in rural areas. You can't extract benefit from such areas, unless you're a rich oligarch with lots and lots of money laying in your pocket. And I'm just gonna lump all these last arguments together because I'm kinda tired typing in a pop-up window: "I rather liver in Canada 100 times over China, my town i livew in is 80% Chinese they all don't like their lives in china my friend movies don't reflect real life." - Again, we go back to overpopulation and lack of jobs for said population. Sad reality, but that's not my job to fix it. As to movies don't reflect real life... Uh, I'm not even sure what you're talking about here; maybe propaganda pieces, but then again, if you look up various documentaries, showcasing the amount of poor people living in America and Canada, it's kinda ironic to look at your statement; not to mention the fact that most of the American cinema, much like cinema all over the world primarily focuses on the so-called "middle class" and "upper class" livelihoods/experiences. How is that not propaganda of "The American Dream" and capitalism in general, hmm? The End.

[@jeremyhillaryboob4248]

@@phlegios You destroyed him so hard he deleted his comment lol

[@phlegios]

@@jeremyhillaryboob4248 Wasn't my goal, but, oh, well :)

[@phat-kid]

i know exactly where she's coming from. she had to be homeschooled with christian curriculum to be taught this stuff, or attended a school that used the same curriculum.

[@soileH]

18:52 I regret drinking tea at that moment when he said she is some kind of demon. Can't stop laughing xD

[@radisk5973]

14:27 This just reminded me of a conservative middle school teacher i had who hated communism and used her grandmother from east Germany not being allowed to be a doctor because she wasn't considered smart enough as an example of evil totalitarianism and I remember thinking it was a weird example because there are plenty of people in the US who can't be doctors because they aren't considered smart enough, or who are considered smart enough but don't have the money for school. Of course, she might've been lying, she once described abortions as way more violent and dangerous than I now know they are to scare the class into being pro life.

[@NickRomney1]

A new Marxist Paul video and a new Hakim video within an hour of each other? Now this is based

[@selahanany5645]

Was she reacting to... literal 8 year olds?? Jeezus christ.

[@DubGamin420]

9:41 "I'm suffering enough I don't need to see TikToks on top of this" too real 😭 But fr tho thank you for the content. I grew up in 94% white rural Appalachian mountains as a black man. I've since moved out and got a degree in finance. Only becoming educated and listening to "alternative" sources did I understand how capitalism and racism truly define modern America

[@superkingoftacos2920]

Wait, her proof is an 8 year old making a tic tok? Most adults don't know how welfare works, let alone how it impacts society, let alone how an ideal welfare system would work and impact society, why does she think a literal child is the authority on this?

[@γιουργια]

I swear to god Each conservative video about "socialism bad" is exactly the same. Same arguments, same examples,same everything