Why Are So Many Young People Becoming Socialists?

For decades the United States has been a bastion of free market ideology and extreme individualism, but in the last few years we've seen a major resurgence of socialist ideas. In this episode, we'll take a look at why so many young people are attracted to socialism, and why, to many, capitalism is no longer seen as a viable path forward.
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[@SecondThought]

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[@tarikrandom7535]

What reason could it have been demonitized?

[@sovietpotatoes2353]

howdy comrade this is the wierdest word combo ive said...

[@hravandil9993]

@@tarikrandom7535 Because the Channel actively propagates an ideology that directly opposes KZbins interests?

[@tarikrandom7535]

KZbin at some point demomitized conservatives,so I guess youtube does not like politics?

[@TurtleChad1]

This video has been Turtle Approved

[@samlasalle3853]

The Gen Z good old days are just a time when we were too young to understand everything bad that was happening in the world.

[@starlightt4094]

Yep

[@adianchowdhury9016]

agree

[@colesky33]

For me they were 6th grade halo reach after school type shit

[@OatmealGrillBlazer]

true

[@HappywaitSadnoBoth]

I think that’s exactly what it is for Millennials too. At some point we were just too young to understand what was happening. But now, what’s bad it my niece is nine (only nine) and has a general understanding of politics (and why she wanted Trump to lose), mass-shootings (and the importance of gun safety and regulations, my significant other teaches her about weapon safety), about her own body (and how important it is to stay away from anyone who she feels might s*xualize her at her young age). It’s like she’s so young, and she knows stuff that I wasn’t even taught until I was at least 11 or 13. It’s like with each generation, kids come to these realities at a progressively younger age and it’s not okay...

[@wamsang7818]

Companies when we ask for help: MY MONEY Companies when they ask for help: OUR MONEY

[@hitoshura2800]

It's painful how accurate this is

[@hybridxg2204]

Corporate communism

[@МагжанСыдыков]

@@hybridxg2204 nope, business is a hounds' pit were bulldogs are fed with Pedigree while other dogs have to find food for themselves.

[@somkeshav4143]

@@МагжанСыдыков I think this person was joking lol

[@TurtleTrader]

@@МагжанСыдыков An excellent analysis of our current situation. I have the aforementnioned "Pedigree" and I do just fine in this culture ... but I think it is a horror show of inequality, unfairness, corruption, greed and financial malfeasance done by corporations and (literally) supported by the government.

[@g2theartist]

*something goes wrong with capitalism* Capitalists: "and this is why socialism doesn't work"

[@georgekostaras]

When I see stupid arguments like that I bring up socialized medicine in a dozen developed countries.

[@_armoricat_]

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[@LunarPenguin42]

@@georgekostaras give the US some slack. you compare it to developed countries. the US has shown countless of times that its not one of them.

[@g2theartist]

@@Klust413 that works too

[@Alejandro-cn5yp]

@@georgekostaras the costs of medicine in the US are do to government involvement and anti competitive laws and subsides. And the Federal Reserve caused the housing crisis. And by the way bailing people out is corporatism not capitalism.

[@matthewgoodman7588]

"I want healthcare like Canada and Australia" "No that's socialism" "Ok, I would like one socialism please."

[@safe-keeper1042]

Yeah, sounds about right. "Socialism" in the US seems to have come to mean "any change that brings us the tiniest bit to the left".

[@filipwolffs]

@@safe-keeper1042 It's almost like the wealthy who control the media realized that right-wing policies are beneficial for them at the expense of everyone else and decided to create a huge propaganda campaign to portray anything even remotely left-wing as insane and dangerous. What better way to safely exploit the populace than to convince them to support the process.

[@artdent9871]

Dunno, Canada's Middle Class was gutted too, just with Health Care: "By the time the Berlin Wall fell, a lot of über rich had started pouring millions every year into funding hard-Right politicians and media to destroy the Middle Class, so that they could have powerless wage slaves and duck paying taxes again, like back in their natural habitat, the 19th Century. Just Google the size of the U.S. Middle Class: there's an unprecedented boom after the Soviets get the Bomb, becoming the majority for the first time, then a steep rise for decades straight, then it suddenly stops growing through the '80s while the Soviets crumbled, and then, if you remove retirees, it starts crashing down with the Berlin Wall in '90. What's left of the Middle Class has literally been dying off for decades, heading down to minority, pre-Soviet levels, where it had been fluctuating for a century prior to the Soviets scaring the hell out of the top 1%, and it will likely get back down there when the boomers are gone, literally down to 19th-Century levels, QED. Now look back at how it happened: do you remember Reagan's 'Free' Trade and Trickle-Down BS, then Neo Cons, Gingrich, both Bushes, the Tea Party, plus the Tories back then, Thatcher, Mulroney, Harper, and equally well-funded variants in most Western Countries? The policies that the wealthiest funded them to implement: screwed organized labour, offshored manufacturing, peasantized the remaining blue-collar, and most white-collar, jobs by attacking pensions and employment benefits (largely making most jobs "part time" or contract, no matter what the hours), made education unaffordable for the majority, and handed out massive tax cuts to the wealthiest, corporations, and Big Oil, forcing massive cuts to social programs and govt services. Ever-increasing numbers of all ages have been living paycheck to paycheck ever since, a broken leg away from homelessness, frozen out of higher education (without crippling debt) and a Middle Class that is increasingly out of reach. Yet did you notice that the top 1% have been getting richer and richer ever since, as a direct result of these hard-Right policies, and paying less and less in taxes? Well, duh, once Communism fell, the Middle Class was expendable, it was only needed to make the Soviets look bad so that the wealthiest weren't destroyed by nuclear-armed 'Commies' convincing the West's poor to unite against them. Back then, we had a booming Middle Class, and they had 'proletariat' bread lines in Moscow, but since the '80s, the only things booming anymore are food banks, McJobs, quasi-slave labour in the developing world, and the wealth of the top 1%. So those rich pr!cks must be laughing their asses off at the recent trend of younger generations blaming their parents' and grandparents' generations for affordable university, and good jobs, vanishing with the Middle Class, like that wasn't done on purpose, by them, using their hard-Right lackeys in politics and the media. Follow the money, duh, straight to Right-Wing politicos, and funding the creation a whole new type of openly partisan, hard-Right media, that warped public opinion and made it impossible for Centrists to get elected if they openly tried to reverse the damage, instead of just trying to slow it down, barely, as it turned out. Noam Chomsky nailed it: today's Dem leadership would be considered moderate Republicans, fiscally, a half-Century ago. Most people didn't even notice it happening with so much money poured into Right-Wing media by the super rich, since the '80s, to manufacture consent for repeasantizing the average American, and moving the once-moderate 'Center' farther Right every decade. The Dems are now called 'Lefties' for advocating policies to get the Middle Class off of life support that Moderate Republicans would have supported as late as the '70s, but taxing the rich and corporations at pre-'80's levels again is not even on the table. Think about it: Biden is proposing an increase in corporate taxes to LESS than PRE-'17 levels, 28%, but the GOP, and their hard-Right, media whores, are calling him a 'radical Lefty' for this proposed tax increase that is, in fact, roughly HALF of what corporations actually paid from the '40s to the '80s, which was over 50%, all while they bring back "Jim Crow" voting restrictions, nation wide! Talk about 'Welcome to the 19th Century.' It takes a lot of money to manufacture consent against something as reasonable as corporate taxes that were the norm for most of the last century, even more to get them down to half of that, but duh, they're Rich, and all these policies they've paid the Right for since the Soviets crumbled have made them exponentially richer, while most everyone else is on a slow train back to the 19th Century. Granny is working at Walmart or eating dogfood for a reason, 'kiddies,' and you're calling her an entitled Boomer for being on the same slow train as you are? The powerful just love the powerless playing at scapegoating and bigotry, it's the perfect cover, always has been. 'OK Boomer' MY ASS, everyone posting that is a dupe. Yeah, you're all screwed, at least have the brains to know how, and why, and by whom: It wasn't a generation that screwed you, and everyone else, it was super-rich greedheads and their working-class, right-wing dupes: 'white males with no university education' MY ASS, they've too often been ignorant rac!sts and bigots who were fooled, by dog whistles, into voting for the permanent elimination of the Middle Class they once belonged to. They were key to the GOP's 'Southern Strategy,' so the majority didn't vote for gutting the Middle Class, the majority didn't vote AT ALL. Welcome to the 21st Century, there is no joining what's left of the Middle Class anymore, it's increasingly just wage slaves of all ages, ruled by millionaires and billionaires who are essentially above the law, a living nightmare that seems like a Rich Republican's, Russian Kleptocrat's, and Chinese Oligarch's, wet dream. It's a Black-Mirror Sh!tShow of a situation that only a Fascist Autocrat could love. Basically, the Robber Barons are back, and they bought the GOP decades ago, so now we live in a Dickensian dystopia that's getting darker every day. Duh." [Partially clipped from a previous reply]

[@artdent9871]

@@safe-keeper1042 yup, here's how: "By the time the Berlin Wall fell, a lot of über rich had started pouring millions every year into funding hard-Right politicians and media to destroy the Middle Class, so that they could have powerless wage slaves and duck paying taxes again, like back in their natural habitat, the 19th Century. Just Google the size of the U.S. Middle Class: there's an unprecedented boom after the Soviets get the Bomb, becoming the majority for the first time, then a steep rise for decades straight, then it suddenly stops growing through the '80s while the Soviets crumbled, and then, if you remove retirees, it starts crashing down with the Berlin Wall in '90. What's left of the Middle Class has literally been dying off for decades, heading down to minority, pre-Soviet levels, where it had been fluctuating for a century prior to the Soviets scaring the hell out of the top 1%, and it will likely get back down there when the boomers are gone, literally down to 19th-Century levels, QED. Now look back at how it happened: do you remember Reagan's 'Free' Trade and Trickle-Down BS, then Neo Cons, Gingrich, both Bushes, the Tea Party, plus the Tories back then, Thatcher, Mulroney, Harper, and equally well-funded variants in most Western Countries? The policies that the wealthiest funded them to implement: screwed organized labour, offshored manufacturing, peasantized the remaining blue-collar, and most white-collar, jobs by attacking pensions and employment benefits (largely making most jobs "part time" or contract, no matter what the hours), made education unaffordable for the majority, and handed out massive tax cuts to the wealthiest, corporations, and Big Oil, forcing massive cuts to social programs and govt services. Ever-increasing numbers of all ages have been living paycheck to paycheck ever since, a broken leg away from homelessness, frozen out of higher education (without crippling debt) and a Middle Class that is increasingly out of reach. Yet did you notice that the top 1% have been getting richer and richer ever since, as a direct result of these hard-Right policies, and paying less and less in taxes? Well, duh, once Communism fell, the Middle Class was expendable, it was only needed to make the Soviets look bad so that the wealthiest weren't destroyed by nuclear-armed 'Commies' convincing the West's poor to unite against them. Back then, we had a booming Middle Class, and they had 'proletariat' bread lines in Moscow, but since the '80s, the only things booming anymore are food banks, McJobs, quasi-slave labour in the developing world, and the wealth of the top 1%. So those rich pr!cks must be laughing their asses off at the recent trend of younger generations blaming their parents' and grandparents' generations for affordable university, and good jobs, vanishing with the Middle Class, like that wasn't done on purpose, by them, using their hard-Right lackeys in politics and the media. Follow the money, duh, straight to Right-Wing politicos, and funding the creation a whole new type of openly partisan, hard-Right media, that warped public opinion and made it impossible for Centrists to get elected if they openly tried to reverse the damage, instead of just trying to slow it down, barely, as it turned out. Noam Chomsky nailed it: today's Dem leadership would be considered moderate Republicans, fiscally, a half-Century ago. Most people didn't even notice it happening with so much money poured into Right-Wing media by the super rich, since the '80s, to manufacture consent for repeasantizing the average American, and moving the once-moderate 'Center' farther Right every decade. The Dems are now called 'Lefties' for advocating policies to get the Middle Class off of life support that Moderate Republicans would have supported as late as the '70s, but taxing the rich and corporations at pre-'80's levels again is not even on the table. Think about it: Biden is proposing an increase in corporate taxes to LESS than PRE-'17 levels, 28%, but the GOP, and their hard-Right, media whores, are calling him a 'radical Lefty' for this proposed tax increase that is, in fact, roughly HALF of what corporations actually paid from the '40s to the '80s, which was over 50%, all while they bring back "Jim Crow" voting restrictions, nation wide! Talk about 'Welcome to the 19th Century.' It takes a lot of money to manufacture consent against something as reasonable as corporate taxes that were the norm for most of the last century, even more to get them down to half of that, but duh, they're Rich, and all these policies they've paid the Right for since the Soviets crumbled have made them exponentially richer, while most everyone else is on a slow train back to the 19th Century. Granny is working at Walmart or eating dogfood for a reason, 'kiddies,' and you're calling her an entitled Boomer for being on the same slow train as you are? The powerful just love the powerless playing at scapegoating and bigotry, it's the perfect cover, always has been. 'OK Boomer' MY ASS, everyone posting that is a dupe. Yeah, you're all screwed, at least have the brains to know how, and why, and by whom: It wasn't a generation that screwed you, and everyone else, it was super-rich greedheads and their working-class, right-wing dupes: 'white males with no university education' MY ASS, they've too often been ignorant rac!sts and bigots who were fooled, by dog whistles, into voting for the permanent elimination of the Middle Class they once belonged to. They were key to the GOP's 'Southern Strategy,' so the majority didn't vote for gutting the Middle Class, the majority didn't vote AT ALL. Welcome to the 21st Century, there is no joining what's left of the Middle Class anymore, it's increasingly just wage slaves of all ages, ruled by millionaires and billionaires who are essentially above the law, a living nightmare that seems like a Rich Republican's, Russian Kleptocrat's, and Chinese Oligarch's, wet dream. It's a Black-Mirror Sh!tShow of a situation that only a Fascist Autocrat could love. Basically, the Robber Barons are back, and they bought the GOP decades ago, so now we live in a Dickensian dystopia that's getting darker every day. Duh." [Partially clipped from a previous reply]

[@l.av.h7812]

American socialism is dumb, nordic democratic socialism is smart and most young Americans don't seem to get it.

[@kevins3821]

My dad lives a very difficult life. Debt, nearly homeless, and lots more. But, he always tell me "Your life is going to be more difficult than mine." Even through I live a very decent life. Now I get why

[@AndrewManook]

Tell your dad to have hope.

[@Gigika313]

Tell your pops it’s not his fault, that’s how capitalism works.

[@safe-keeper1042]

I predict reform is coming to America, too. The current unchecked capitalism is just unsustainable, and more and more people are seeing that.

[@zacharyarons6950]

@@safe-keeper1042 Just hearing that gives me hope.

[@lohollywood1f428]

Same here

[@KaseyCanga]

"when was the last time you applied to a job" my dad is in his 60s and retired after spending 20 years at his good job. However after like 2 years he had to go back to looking for work because our family needs the health insurance. He hasn't had to apply for a job in SO long he needed a lot of extra help from my sister and I. How to use indeed, update a resume on a computer, communicate with employers online, not to mention the fact that it's been incredibly difficult to even land a job despite his lengthy experience. It hits hard, but people tend not to get it unless it hits them over the head.

[@estherblancify]

I, myself work with people over the age of 65-80, who are in it for the same reason, HEALTHCARE

[@kellyfehr3719]

@@visceratrocar So when I become obsolete what then. They shut me off? This is why socialisms time has come. We're not machines to be used up and discarded.

[@colliric]

Dude .. tell your dad if he puts just $5k-$10k in Cryptocurrency, he can re-retire. Even if he draws it down he'll earn $500-$1k per week. But if he leaves it to grow fully for 6-12 months, he's set for returning to retirement cuz now he'll have lots. Tell him to watch for any surprise crash news though. Maybe set a safety "sell order".

[@longbeach225]

Applying for full time jobs are crazy now. They make you go through a personality test now see if you fit the work culture. 15% of the time is about skills and rest is unrelated stuff. I suck at interviews because of this and I just stuck with IT contracting. I'm doing this now while I build a online business.

[@POMOnkey1]

This is news to me. So how do retired folks in US normally pay their healthcare costs?

[@PC42190]

As a Chilean, I loved the parts where you showed people's support for Salvador Allende. Solidarity from Chile! ✊

[@professorgrimm4602]

Solidarity from Austria! It's so disgusting what they did to Allende. I'm sorry that your country had to suffer under Pinochet.

[@snowcold5932]

Allende and Sankara are some of the historical figures I have the deepest respect for myself. Saludos desde España :)

[@elnegrobembon]

Saludos y solidaridad desde Puerto Rico.

[@professorgrimm4602]

@@snowcold5932 Me too. Allende, Sankara and Ho Chi Minh. May they rest in power!

[@handohall3406]

El pueblo unido, jamás será vencido

[@Megan-xm5nv]

I wonder how many of us sent this to our parents... I know I did. The line where you said "Many older people think the economy is thriving. It's not." really got me. - that's EXACTLY how my older family members think, but without seeing their friends and community losing everything to gig work, part time grind, and a lack of benefits or time. THANK YOU for your socialist content. It actually does bring me hope.

[@isabelkloberdanz6329]

I would never dare send this to my parents. My dad would turn red and shake and call me stupid and brainwashed.

[@joshuagharis9017]

I am a parent, I fully support socialism, 100 plus year old capitalist system is no longer needed

[@Fer-5059]

May ask for how they reacted?

[@GhostRangerr]

Older people grew up during the cold war & it's aggressive anti-socialism/communism propaganda, so i can imagine it's harder to change the way they think about the system.

[@theboyisnotright6312]

That was my father to a T. And actually my older brothers and sisters. Tho my oldest sister (known to the family as the hippy one) is coming around.😊

[@alatovarner]

My favorite part of capitalism is how I’ve paid various landlords more than $120K over the last decade and have nothing to show for it.

[@SpaghettiKillah]

Truth be told that's YOUR fault rather than capitalism 😂

[@timothymorris7334]

@@SpaghettiKillah Please enlighten us with a second option

[@thefray123]

Should’ve put a down payment on a place instead of a security deposit/ first and last months rent, but yes yes it’s all capitalism’s fault.

[@M3G4FR34K]

A prompt for you to consider: should housing be a commodity, or something that can be privately owned? I don't expect anyone to answer publicly, more than anything I pose the question for you all to ponder and perhaps create your own arguments for or against it. Cheers!

[@M3G4FR34K]

Also, yes because saving as someone in the ever-declining middle class is so easy, right? /s And with those non-existent savings it's easy to put a down payment on a house, right? /s Get yall heads out of your asses. This economy has been brutalizing the average American and it's EVIDENT when all it takes is a pandemic to break this house of cards economy and jeopardize millions of Americans into potential eviction.

[@WesternCommie]

I was in grade school when 9/11 happened. Lived in Massachusetts at the time and My mom came to pick me and my brother up from school. She drove us around worried schools would be targets for attacks. That is one of the stronger memories I have of my childhood.

[@Cindy99765]

I am so sorry.

[@Cindy99765]

@@MP-ut6eb I agree. By the way, it's spelled "much," instead of "mitch." :)

[@Sablus]

I always think back to that panic (my mom had the same reaction) and now I just kinda laugh at it. No attack was going to be done on some podunk town in PA, but still 9/11 created such a effect in ripping away the illusion of stability and peace that most every American suffered some type of mental breakdown from it. This isn't to say the attack wasn't horrible, but compared to stuff that other countries have experienced this century it's kind of laughable no? Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Malaysia have all experienced death and destruction of their society on a scale that most Americans could never truly grasp.

[@vincegonzalez2171]

Me too, third grade. Only difference is I grew up on the west coast, so I was still getting ready for school. I had just walked into my dad's room to tell him I was ready to go, when I saw smoke billowing from the towers on his tv. My mom had already passed away before this, and yet this was the moment that I saw my dad the most shook up of his life I'll never forget that.

[@ashkitt7719]

I was on the bus to school and the edgy kid said "Dude, you hear the twin towers fell down?" I thought he was just messing with me. Then we got to school and immediately dismissed. I was sent to my grandma's house and I saw on the TV that the edgy kid was right.

[@Furretjesus]

I’m not even 18 yet and I’ve already lived through my second “once in a lifetime” financial crisis

[@worlds3061]

Once in a lifetime Don't let the water hold me down

[@daswasich1147]

well depends on how "lifetime" is defined, currently those catastrophic events are spaced out enough to be "once in a lifetime* events" *of an anti-vaxx kid

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

I'm 27 years old, and I've lived to see a centuries worth of chaos and mayhem all compressed into a fourth of that time frame. Endless wars, 9/11, Two Economic Crashes, natural disaster after natural disaster mass shootings, huge protest movements that sadly go nowhere.. Its like someone put the 20th Century in the VCR and hit fastforward twice.

[@funybirbman3813]

Same

[@МагжанСыдыков]

Good one))

[@SeanKula]

It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.

[@deedee1623]

Yep. George Carlin said it best! 👍

[@Darkdevil1584]

@Family room Remote lol this video points out very well that corruption is a issue for America and i imagine everywhere. relax my man we on the same team against the rich.

[@mjag2834]

The American Dream seems to be a New Nightmare...

[@Centurion101B3C]

If you want to live the American dream, don't live there.

[@mjag2834]

Whoop! Whoop! Thats the sound of the Police! Whoop whoop, thats the sound of the Beast! (Even the Blacks will give in eventually and become divided).

[@Ironborn4]

Important work. I have been raised with socialists around me that were thrown into jail and endured torture because they had the audacity to demand human rights and some equality in a right wing religious country. Yet still their beliefs endure.

[@justanothergamer7918]

I’m so sorry that happened. I hope this country gets better and actually listens to socialists instead of casting them aside.

[@Ironborn4]

@@justanothergamer7918 haha fat chance. They barely got past genocidal racism

[@МагжанСыдыков]

Spain?

[@emrexcem]

@@Ironborn4 Was gonna guess turkey but we didn't finish with genocidal racism arc yet

[@sithpsychopath3189]

Arkansas?

[@TheTrainmobile]

I swear, any historical event post 2003 gives me horrible flashbacks. I remember back in 2007 and my parents were eligible for one of the mortgages and asked me and my sibling if we wanted to move into a larger house. We said no so we never moved. Turns out we dodged a huge f*cking bullet. Unfortunately for us though, my parents were involved in the residential construction industry. The building contractors screwed my dad's buisness over royally and we've been essentially impoverished ever since, having to rely on food stamps, family, and any work that comes by our way. My dad's buisness was his retirement. He's 50 now. He'll be lucky to receive any social security at all from the government. The only way my parents will be able to survive is if my siblings and I take care of them. As badly as my parents have changed emotionally since their fall from middle-classdom, I can't help but feel sorry for them. They were living the American dream and the rug got pulled out from under them. I recognize that my family's story is not unique, and that plenty of other people have also had the rug of economic freedom pulled out from under them by the bourgeoisie. I'm not going to stand on that rug like my parents and grandparents before me only to suffer again. I'm done putting up with the suffering. Capitalism is a system built on greed and when those on the top fuck up, it's everyone underneath them that suffers. Socialism doesn't have that. When people mess up everyone goes out of their way to fix it and move on. Nobody suffers, and I want to strive for a world where nobody suffers; a world where there is no rug for people to step on, but a carpet of economic freedom that all can enjoy. My metaphor might just be a metaphor, but I know that capitalism is unequivocally a broken system, and people will continue to suffer as long as the big guys on top mess up and make everyone else pay the price.

[@TheTrainmobile]

I knew I should have proofread this. Now I have to fix all the typos.🤦‍♂️

[@TheTrainmobile]

@@Student0Toucher I don't think socialism is perfect. I just think it's more capable at solving society's problems than capitalism. A system based on sharing resources and meeting the needs of people is more humane and efficient than a system based on exploitation of people and corporate greed.

[@TheTrainmobile]

@@Student0Toucher And what does that have to do with my answer? Surely you can agree that exploitation still exists in those countries. And all western countries have exploited and are still exploiting workers in the Global South. Just look at how Nestle uses child labor in their supply chain and how Tesla played a role in overthrowing the Bolivian government to reduce lithium prices. What I'm getting at is that as long as the systems at be are based on exploitation, there won't be a "perfect balance of socialism and capitalism". You can't say a system works by sharing some of the resources with citizens of the developed world and having the absolute poorest of humanity recieve next to nothing for the labor they provide to their wealthy employers.

[@TheTrainmobile]

@@Student0Toucher AI for harvesting cocoa beans? We're a long way off from that technology. Still doesn't adress the fact that Nestle's exploitation of children is still happening now, and may continue for as long as they need cheap labor for their buisness. Then there's this idea that China's financial "success" has to do with capitalism being a great equalizer. This is far from the case. China's economic growth was caused by limited foreign investment into their industries, the sharing of technologies and science previously forbidden by Maoist policy, and the de-collectivization (AKA: disenfranchisement) of rural workers. This has lead to exploitation of Chinese manufacturing workers by both foreign capitalists and the CCP; as well as the povertization of rural communities. On the surface, you may see a booming consumer market, but underneath that facade is a deep rooted inequality just like we see in the West. What lead to this was the failures of Maoism from the Cultural Revolution, which drove the CCP to reinforce its political power by giving in to pressure from the capitalist world. Once again, sharing resources with the wealthiest in society while exploiting the poorest in that society is not a successful system.

[@Tetris521]

Capitalism has people that suffer and socialism doesn't? 😂😂😂 you must be joking bro.

[@muntherdoesstuff9615]

Politicians: *frick up America* Also politicians when people become socialists: :0

[@tarikrandom7535]

Lol

[@paulsangiorgio3093]

Ikr they’re fricken so stupid

[@kyriedurant130]

Fr they so dumb

[@Lizard0563_8]

Lol that soo true socialism forever 😃😃😃

[@kyriedurant130]

@@Argozification most of us can’t vote 😂

[@parkb5320]

It reminds me that when I complained about the way things are in America, I was told, “if you don’t like it, leave.” So I left. I’m now living in Japan and my life, financially, is much better than it ever had been in America. Now when I point that fact out on social media, I’m told by the exact same people, “you don’t live here, so you can’t say anything.” And that’s the problem with America. You are never in a position to criticize it.

[@nancyboyette3748]

ParKb5 Japan is a democratic capitalist society and it’s working for you. Is capitalism the problem or the way America runs its country?

[@Srijit1946]

@@nancyboyette3748 the original comment had to nothing to do with capitalism or socialism, but a common conservative talking point.

[@ultramarine40k65]

Why arent you living in cuba or venezuela bro

[@ihavenojawandimustscream4681]

This is extremely ironic since many Japanese people can't even afford housing or financial freedom,and now you get all these expats running around with US dollar

[@xanderwarwick9973]

@@ultramarine40k65 Cuba ain't got the same level sushi game, ya know?

[@archvaldor]

It seems so strange when you watch a show from the 60's the father is always supporting a housewife, kids, paid for a home and a car, often on a factory wage.

[@l.av.h7812]

American socialism is dumb, nordic democratic socialism is smart and most young Americans don't seem to get it.

[@lee-fc5bu]

@@l.av.h7812 this

[@eye2eye899]

@@l.av.h7812 Canada is close to getting it right

[@floppingtuna2022]

@@eye2eye899 yea close but not enough

[@MrAlen6e]

@@eye2eye899 not at all unfortunately the prairie provinces won't allow it , although British Columbia is on the right path

[@vsssa1845]

As an Ubereats driver, thanks man. Its hard out there.

[@iqqh]

respect for you, hope you get a good paying job!

[@vsssa1845]

@@iqqh i hope so, currently im studying and dont want huge student debt so im doing this "job"

[@alexgarin7490]

@@vsssa1845 What are you studying?

[@videogamescausentviolence5717]

I can't even imagine what it's like living in America

[@iheartjbgccb]

@@vsssa1845 same Im getting paid 7.25 scraping pennies bc I don't want to be tied down to a fucking loan. Trying to get a better paying job is hard & I wont be able to pay rent & go to school without sacrificing some shit

[@ismailb4334]

My main reason is how much power mega-corporations have

[@meepy546]

pls stop mr bezos i just want to not live in the amazon internment camp

[@ismailb4334]

@@meepy546 Lol, this made chuckle

[@miasolum5612]

We gotta stop this shite or else Cyberpunk is gonna become reality.

[@deanjordan6053]

@@meepy546 Even ours gives you food and water.

[@hravandil9993]

@@racialconsciousness7169 follow your leader

[@yeetoryeetor8872]

I'm an older Zoomer, It's very refreshing to hear a KZbinr talking about the world truthfully without being worried about being called a conspiracy theorist.

[@mhxybeats653]

Us 18-21 year olds get lumped in with the tik tok kids when we have way way way more in common with millennials and that shit makes me so mad. it gives people an excuse to just dismiss everything we say as angry teenager shit. it’s all arbitrary anyways.

[@DanielLopez-ob9jz]

@@mhxybeats653 being called a millennial or Gen z won't really change anything as Gen z and Millennials generally get grouped together anyway and dismissed just as much. As a 17 year old, I just say that I'll keep spouting my belief until we get heard somehow.

[@monsterglacier]

@@mhxybeats653 older zoomers are in their mid 20s. You're a mid zoomer.

[@Reed5016]

@@DanielLopez-ob9jz That's right. We're disrespected anyway, Zoomers and Millennials deal with the same shit from Boomers and Generation X. But here's the thing: if people are capable of critical thought, they shouldn't be looked down upon, regardless of their age. Many Zoomers and Millennials realize that we will be screwed economically, looking at debt and college. Overall, the economic crisis and the disillusionment with the American dream. None of these are uncommon among our generations. To assume Zoomers and Millennials are ignorant or blind is stupid, as we can see a lot, and are worried about our future. I agree with you're points.

[@isabelkloberdanz6329]

@@mhxybeats653I don’t want to be lumped in with millennials and their taco tank tops and doggo memes, but I also don’t want to be lumped in with gen z and their buccal fat removal tiktoks and their “I’m literally neurodivergent and a minor i- 🖐️😭✨” idk what’s worse. Each generation has its cringe moments I guess.

[@fredsmith-kingofthelunatic7810]

THANK GOD. FINALLY SOMEONE WHEN ACTUALLY KNOWS WHAT A MILLENNIAL IS.

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

@@LtCaveman u

[@Shyguy5104]

@@LtCaveman every generation is a statistic you ding dong, so that's a meaningless statement

[@metron0m]

It's a made up word that means what the majority makes it mean

[@fredsmith-kingofthelunatic7810]

@@metron0m well that sort of covers all words now doesn't it? You're the sort of person that argues people use the term "literally" correctly these days...

[@metron0m]

@@fredsmith-kingofthelunatic7810 yes. If the majority would use "literally" to mean "table", it would mean that.

[@gracielablanco5975]

There are so many millenials and zoomers working so hard to biuld a more equal society. I really hope we can make a difference.

[@politech2722]

We will. We don’t have any other choice

[@lilheckman4305]

I was born in 98... I turn 23 this year.... Am i a millennial or a zoomer? Idk idc all i know is that all humans are equal to each other and therefore no human should have more power or authority than another human.... Evolution needa hurry up so humans realize the best and easiest way to gettin errything we need and want is to jus simply truly love erryone and be truly selfless... If erryone did that, erryone would have what they want and need... But too many people only care bout they own money and power.... I hate america cause it breeds narcissists who literally walk over those who are literally dyin on the sidewalk and dont even think or feel anything bout it and if they do think bout it they think "damn that sucks glad that aint me maybe if they weren't so lazy and made better choices they wouldnt be in their situation" .... america is the worst country in history... Then you got these boomers like my parents who were born in the 50s (yeah my dad was born in 50 and my mom in 59) and they think "if you jus got a job blah blah blah".... I say "Naw bruh no thx lmao yall have had such miserable lives and have no empathy or love or understanding or compassion or sympathy or loyalty left whatsoever and are the most narcissistic, apathetic, indifferent, judgmental, racist, hypocritical, greedy, manipulative, conniving, deceptive, people who ion wanna be anything like so id rather be homeless and have love and understanding and the determination to find my true self than to jus have a job and be jus another mindless brainwashed program that is controlled by our capitalist enslavers" ... I been homeless for over 2 years and have lost all my love and loyalty to this bullshit country and look at all these people who say "gotta make this bread im on the grind" as slaves to paper wit faces the government created for em to worship... Its fuckin crazy.... Dont even get me started on the fuckin christians.... Fuckin christ i used to be jus like em cause a my parents.... Bein born and raised in central florida by southern baptists who were born in the 50s fuckin suuuccckss bruh... Especially when they have you when they in they 40s... Anyway now when i go to church i simply ask for some water and get the cops called on me... Well... If its a white church i get the cops called on me.... Black churches actually help me and dont do it begrudgingly and show real love .... Dont even get me started on how this country is white supremacist.... I gotta gtfo the south and go back to LA bruh... Thass the only place in this country i ever felt like i had the power to be myself... Anyway peace

[@mjkittredge]

Unfortunately so many of them get caught up identity politics, sanctimonious tokenism and perpetually feigning outrage over minor issues. They can't be bothered to vote but they're busy on twitter sending death threats to jk Rowling for not agreeing with all their opinions

[@Rxnextgenradio]

@@lilheckman4305 we’re zoomers bby 😎

[@gracielablanco5975]

@@politech2722 that's true

[@stupid90able]

I'm personally not a socialist but i liking watching your content to see things from your perspective.

[@hravandil9993]

You should be /lh

[@verycoolguy8455]

I’m glad you stuck around. Thank you for hearing him out. This channel is partially the reason I’m a socialist now, and I couldn’t be happier.

[@hravandil9993]

@@verycoolguy8455 how did becoming a commie make you happier it just makes me sad

[@verycoolguy8455]

@@hravandil9993 As a liberal, all I could do was bitch and moan about the effects of capitalism and I couldn’t provide consistent, solid counters to the accumulation of wealth at the top. I had always been concerned with the status of the working class before I was socialist, but I didn’t know what the best way to help them was. I don’t have to bitch and moan anymore; I KNOW what we need to do to secure freedom and justice for the working class. Bringing democracy to the workplace is the way forward. I’m happy that there’s a clear goal in mind, and that I can directly help in bringing us closer.

[@Hithere-jm2os]

@@hravandil9993 no need to be rude, democracy should be a mix of ideologies trying to come to terms and understanding of each other’s opinions and views without necessarily agreeing. It’s fine if you don’t agree with them but it’s no excuse to treat them that way

[@marcv2828]

"the ambulance ride will cost you twice as much" *confused european noise*

[@Ben27377-g]

At least us Europeans know that a socialist government doesn’t work lol

[@hiddenperson3696]

@@Ben27377-g Your not a European European your an American European.

[@Ben27377-g]

@@hiddenperson3696 so if I’m born in Norther England and both my parents are English and Ive never even been to America I’m somehow American?

[@Ben27377-g]

@@hiddenperson3696 also it’s You’re not your, I’m guessing you don’t need to learn that tho due to the poor standards within your high schools

[@hiddenperson3696]

@@Ben27377-g European

[@howdougetoutofhere]

"Capitalism is doomed to fail because it incentivizes infinite growth on a planet with finite resources." Damn I never thought of it that way but it's so true.

[@terriemartinez9989]

No. Wrong. Brains are infinate.

[@sethdrake7551]

its a lot like a tumor if its not growing its dying if it is growing everything around it is dying and eventually even if it is growing its still dying

[@FordFalcon1962nBlue]

ive said it before too and i agree- capitalism works until the top has all the resources and the bottom doesn't have enough to keep the cycle going- you then have to skew everything....can't buy your products if we can't make enough to life

[@zerofox5458]

I disagree with you. Socialism will never work and this is all a moot point because right now the evil cabalists are about to reset the whole world with a one world government. Please wake up ... this is like talking about what kind of cold medication to take while being stalked by a pack of hungry hyenas.

[@tarrydmunster1916]

@@post-leftluddite Populations won't grow exponentially forever. The populations of developed nations stabilize and even contract if we don't count immigration. If we can get every nation to that point of development then the population of humanity will stabilize. For the rest of your questions, I don't have the answers (mostly because I'm not an economist and they're outside my scope of skills) but I've also never heard any good answers from capitalists other than the vague and ambiguous response "the market". But I also question why we're making people do dangerous and terrible work no one would ever willingly want to do and why we'd be okay with a system that does?

[@megaderplord]

Partnering with other youtubers and bringing them to the spotlight has been very helpful. I'm sure the algorithm would have been content to suppress someone like Yogopnik and Paul Morrin on my feed were it not for you bringing them to my attention. Hope to see ya bring more youtubers into the spotlight.

[@thedaggonator]

I’m having an amazing good ol days. Nothing better than coming of age without leaving my fucking house.

[@Johtic_]

literally made no fucking sense

[@cosmic3004]

i can relate immensely. i feel like my life has been put completely on pause and i'll never get back the time i've already lost

[@ambeegaming76]

I feel bad for the people that were graduating in 2020. They missed half their last year in High School many lost their Prom & Graduation ceremony & many still have put off going to Uni or College for a few years.

[@luc6284]

@@ambeegaming76 yeah that's me haha. I've also spent three quarters of a year in university without really getting to know new people... I'm relatively introverted though so that helps

[@ambeegaming76]

@@fatbasterd5195 I remember back in the 00's I was a tween I'd make 7 cents in interest on $200 in my saving account a month. I put $2000 in a saving account 2 months ago I made 1 cent interest. I LOLd so hard I burst a blood vessel.

[@levity1047]

The fact that America actively attacked countries for caring about its citizens should be very alarming. How can anyone sit back and say they’re proud to be an American when all they bring is suffering. The 99% needs to stand up to the 1% but it’s extremely difficult when most of us are brainwashed into believing that caring for your fellow humans is wrong

[@Lil_Lola44]

They did the same in Australia many years ago one of our Prime Ministers Gough Whitlam wanted to secure independence for Australia, he also put through many progressive policies like terminating conscription, instituting universal health care, free university education and more however he also was very vocal about wanting the USA out of Australia demanding names of CIA agents and threatening too close the USA's military bases including their secret spy base in pine gap so the USA declared him a threat and made moves behind the scenes too have him replaced by Malcolm Fraser in which case they succeeded and naturally all of this isn't taught in school so most Australians don't even know

[@JNB0723]

@@Lil_Lola44 Wow. Can you send me a link so I can learn more? That is disturbing. I am disgusted by America's Foreign Policy: pressuring China and South America, Invading the Middle East to secure oil interests, etc.

[@sm1purplmurderedme583]

it’s very scary. like how is america angry that other countries genuinely care ab their citizens? i know why because they wanna stay in power and continue capitalism but STILL it’s so inhumane. do they not get tired of their constant evil doings

[@JNB0723]

@@sm1purplmurderedme583 I am an American in full agreement. Time for socialist changes!

[@DC-wg1cr]

When once in a lifetime events happen every 5 to 10 years then you need a new system.

[@GhengisJohn]

Saw a youtube channel saying that this was a good thing and that it was just "the natural function of the market resetting itself", which was "actually to be celebrated". Lotta problems with that statement. Like how the rich get richer in these debacles and their mistakes often see them receiving bailouts so they don't seem to participate in the whole "reset" with the rest of us or how the working class keeps losing wealth without regaining it, anyway yeah... economists kind of suck and when the only way you can explain why the system isn't really bad is because bad things are good for the system I think it's time to reevaluate that system.

[@alanmsmxyz]

Or shorten the lifetime!

[@tcskips]

The crony capitalism we have now was by no means inevitable. The problem with the economy, like it always is is because of government intervention protecting companies from competition. Take the poor pay and working conditions for Amazon. If Amazon had to face more competition for the labour market and employees, like consumers, had more choices about where they want to work Amazon would have to increase its pay or improve its working conditions in order to stop employees finding more favourable employment opportunities elsewhere. Companies exploit workers for their labour but workers exploit a companies need for a workforce. This video also doesn’t take into account that uncorrupted prices, based on the market, are signals of supply and demand and are also based on the expertise, knowledge and consumer buying behaviour that the consumer themselves aren’t consciously aware of. You also don’t take into account that people are people some good, some bad and the best way of orienting their self interest is to provide a competitive good or service at a competitive price based on voluntary exchange where by a trade will only take place between 2 parties if it is mutually beneficial provided it has no 3rd party effects. Giving more power to government will widen wealth inequality (by making people suck up to those in power) and slow economic growth to stagnation (because there’s no incentive to innovate or be effective and efficient as the government can keep competition out of the market).

[@mtsenskmtsensk5113]

@@tcskips "Giving more power to government will widen wealth inequality (by making people suck up to those in power)". So you are suggesting that sucking up to an all powerfiul Corporation is more effective than dismissing a government. The fairest way to make life more equal is to increase Tax and then make the necessities of life free for everyone. If corporations paid their fair share of tax then education and a free health service would be nil cost to the government. First you need to make lobbying illegal and fines very severe, for contravention. Any misdemeanor severely punished, deter crime by increasing wages so that being on welfare isn't worth it. Make your country invest minimum 75% of investment budget in the country where it was earned. Make the economy a high wage economy and train your own people to fill up as many jobs as possible, so that the money earned is mainly spent in your country. All companies should obey the government, but when they don't threaten to confiscate their assets. In short America should do internally what it has been doing to the rest of the world. Apply internal sanctions to make the companys toe the line, for disobedience you can forever fine and tax them until they cannot operate and will give in. Of course the corrupt politicians trying to subvert the government can be remand in custody, and incommunicado so that no amount of lobbying and dirty tricks will dissuade the government for ducking its responsibility to the electorate.

[@youtuber7186]

@@tcskips Governments hinder competition *on the behalf of capitalists* , they don't do so out of malice or incompetence, it is simply in their *class interest* . You can't say "consumers do this workers do that" when talking about *systems* , you're trying to wrap individual *choice* around *real life material limitations* . There is only so many choices in the economy as for work or purchase, in the first case the jobs that exist will employ the available workforce to the degree that is most profitable. This necessarily means a non-zero unemployment rate, as desperate workers needing to take anything to survive will accept lower wages and thus increasing profit margins. As for purchase, the product with the best reach (physical and marketing) and price will naturally see the most customers; economics of scale necessitates that corporations trying to monopolize will produce at cheaper costs or go into massive debt to expand in order to capture the largest share to increase profits. As the system can *only* reward profits, no amount of personal responsibility or consumer choice can matter. Systemic incentives are objective facts of the capitalist market economy which cannot be avoided. The feeling of responsibility itself is highly malleable by capitalists through propaganda and marketing campaigns and personal responsibility is always limited by the material conditions of the particular individual, conditions which themselves are a part of the system. I also have to add that this has nothing to do with morality, simply the objective facts about the systems and how the means of production are organized among the people. Moral arguments are fine in order to pull on people's heart strings, but they don't elucidate why our empathetic intuition may be correct in that socialism is indeed objectively superior.

[@Marxism_Today]

Working with you on these videos was great! It’s becoming clearer and clearer by the day that socialism offers the only viable path forward for the working people of the world. Solidarity from an Irish socialist republican ✊

[@schauss9897]

nice

[@hravandil9993]

Solidarity from Norway ✊🚩🏴

[@mortayor7075]

Socialism is the future... and that's pure fact Look how the latgest country failed while the smaller ones failed due to capital greed and failure

[@nil981]

>republican >Socialist Those two words should never be used in the same sentence together.

[@hravandil9993]

@@nil981 Irish republicanism is rooted in the strife for self-determination and decolonization. It is anti-imperialist and has historically been Leftwing.

[@TusharAnandfg]

Your channel is literally every conversation I've had in my head.

[@NWOLFF9719]

I've felt the same thing

[@michaelpacicco3685]

God it isn't just me? I feel d so god damn validated by every video i watch. Now if we can just get everyone else to watch this we might have a chance...

[@aprilk141]

@@michaelpacicco3685 there is always hope. We keep it alive everytime we do an act of kindness or solidarity for our neighbors. No matter how bad things get, we have that hope. And even when we can't see it, we have a duty to win.

[@riggs685]

@@michaelpacicco3685 @RAVEN I'd lie awake at night thinking of humanitarian efforts that could be made on a community level, envisioning applied concepts of socialism, before I began to understand socialism. Then I realized these weren't new ideas at all. So, I was relieved to know these concepts were real, but felt silly for naively thinking I was onto something good.

[@HenryTitor]

Most of us aren’t communist/socialist by choice. We are who we are because no alternatives or solutions have been provided by current system. Until such is no longer the case, it is, at least for me, my responsibility to stand in opposition, whether communism/socialism will ever become reality or not.

[@vulcanfeline]

please 'choose' to be socialist. if you don't and society becomes equitable, you may slip back into capitalistic thought that got us here in the first place

[@HenryTitor]

@@vulcanfeline Don't worry, I did make that choice myself, born in upper middle class family. I'm simply having the same concern, as you, about our new comrades not making the choice but forced to be one by the reality of our current situations.

[@prexp9026]

It's utterly sad that more and more people will be in the same situation as us. God I fear the fate for the next generation post covid if things don't change.

[@HenryTitor]

@@prexp9026 If nothing else, I have learned from talking/yelling with older generations is to only share our experience and knowledge with the next generations when necessary but most importantly to have faith in them to know better than us. Cause one day we will be the one with old fashioned ideas.

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

This is what happens when a country refuses to solve problems, America can hate us socialists all it likes, but that TOO is a "problem" the US refuses to fix.

[@dominoot2652]

Ironically, good old days for gen Z should theoretically be right now... havin' the time of our life rn right!?

[@anthony2384]

Ah yes, the year in which I can’t even remember what I did.

[@ARandomSpace]

Ah yes, the year where I went to online classes and mostly played games all day.

[@floppingtuna2022]

Lmao the time of our lives definitely! We’ll def remember these times xd

[@dominoot2652]

@@floppingtuna2022 I mean we WILL remember them lol Fr though, I do look back on the early days of quarantine fondly actually. That universal unsuredness and chaos was weirdly assuring. Now some people are in school, some aren't, it's hard to hang out with people, and things feel more distanced now than april of last year

[@Ben27377-g]

It’s actually good

[@darthjarjarbinkstherealsit6832]

I remember the good old days when I was five years old and didn't know what was going on in the world.

[@nottodayartt5187]

Ah yes, those were the days

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

Same. Notice that a lot of our generation has our "Good old days" Be our CHILDHOOD and not teenage or young adult years like the previous Gen X or Boomer gens.

[@thathistoryiscoolguy]

Same

[@hunter-pq1de]

I was 5-6 during the recession.. :/ and then my parents got divorced stemming from financial hardship. That was kinda the end of the good ol’ days for me

[@subarux4054]

Yeah, the "good old days" for me were staying up all night playing Halo 3. I guess the Internet and video games served as a form of escapism from a world I could yet come to understand.

[@ReignLowell-CaedoFaeda]

I’m a 28 year old millennial and I have over 36k in debt. I live in the most expensive state in America and our minimum wage is $7. We have the highest homeless population per capita. I lost my job thanks to COVID so now I’m working 2 and a half jobs and I still can’t seem to keep my head above water. My medication is impossible to purchase because I lost my health insurance. I have no 401k now and zero savings. I’ll take full responsibility for some of my poor financial decisions, but living pay check to paycheck has been my norm since I entered the workforce. It sucks that I’m always stressing about money and what I’m going to eat next. I’m so numb to this society and country that I didn’t even know Socialism existed. I’m 100% a Socialist now after watching this video.

[@VulgarRage]

So you take full responsibility for some of your poor financial decisions and now you want others to pay for your mistakes. makes total sense.

[@ReignLowell-CaedoFaeda]

@@VulgarRage Who said I wanted anyone to pay for my “mistakes”? I’m working my ass off just to survive and put food on the table. I’m just laying out the facts

[@mattiascaccabarozzi]

@@VulgarRage 🟨🟦 spotted🤮

[@keithford245]

It’s difficult for a young person to understand the complex world we live in. 150 years ago life was easier to understand, living in a small village with people you knew well. But of course people were suffering and dying of things that aren’t even an issue for us today. A much shorter life with little children dying on a regular basis.

[@keithford245]

50% of high school graduates today have no idea of what they want to do. In a global economy new jobs are being created and old jobs fazed out at an increasing rate. STEM professions definitely have a big advantage.

[@namehere5675]

I grew up in a conservative family. My mom is a devout Republican. Both parents grew up during the red scare period, so they are pretty well indoctrinated against anything not "American". I was pretty conservative too until a few years ago. I started to change my perspective over time. I really liked Bernie, he resonated with me. I no longer consider myself a Republican. I registered as a Democrat so that I could vote for Bernie in the primaries this time. I missed my chance the first time, I didn't want to miss it the second. I even convinced my mom that Bernie was the best choice. I presented the evidence, and she changed her mind. The 4 years of Trump certainly helped with that. Sadly, it didn't make much of a difference since Bernie didn't win. I don't consider myself affiliated with any party or particular group. I am more left leaning now. Since many of the ideals of the left are closer to my core beliefs than those of the right. I'm trying to figure out what path to go forward with next, but no matter what, I am tired of sitting on the sidelines. Voting alone isn't going to solve our problems, direct and concerted effort will.

[@princessbuttercup8954]

This is how we change things! Good for you.

[@tarikrandom7535]

Amazing!

[@mrb6206]

fuck yeah what a great comment thank you for your service ;)

[@williehardiman6766]

Very well put, friend.

[@fredericku.c.klinsmann3388]

I would honestly say Bernie is just as bad as Trump and he would be a very damaging president to the world. The U.S isn't the only country to exist in the planet Earth and millions of people don't really have clean water or food and the rich countries have torn the poor nations because of colonialization, slavery, etc. Bernie plans to put alot of social programs like Medicare for all, social security expansion, college for all, housing for all, Green New deal, etc. These are all the programs I like but they're going to cost alot of money like over 40 trillion dollars to pay. The U.S needs to improve its domestic policy and the healthcare is messed up because we're paying $500 for a $20 product. The U.S can get 10 trillion dollars more to spend on domestic policies and 30 trillion to spend on foreign policy like giving electricity, hospitals, clean waters, jobs to other countries. The American people think too selfishly that they don't know that the world exists where others are in a worse situations. Also the rich should get taxed 70% which will scale and give us just enough money to spend on domestic policies. The military budget should go down to 680 billion instead of 1.2 trillion which would give enough money for domestic policies. The country that got their society is not even in Europe it's Mauritius kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYach3awn56KY80

[@DarkLadyJade]

The older people LIED. They lied. Growing up, I did EVERYTHING they said to do to end up successful; I stayed out of trouble, followed the rules, went to school and got educated, went to school after high school, got jobs, went back to school, I did everything 'right' and I have NOTHING to show for it! I have no healthcare, I'm always struggling financially, my rent takes up most of the money I earn and not only can I not afford to move, I don't even know if I'll have a place to stay from one month to the next. Most frustrating of all, my dad and other people like him who are completely out of touch with the way things are, swears that I and anyone else struggling is just lazy and whiny and expecting handouts.

[@theharshtruth8563]

Sounds like you left out a lot of vital details as to why you're broke and you would rather blame your parents than take accountability for any of your actions. I'm not buying your story.

[@fullyblank]

@@theharshtruth8563 no what they're saying is that since the older generations had a liveable wage when they were younger they expect the wage we now get should be as liveable as it was for them years ago, but what they don't understand is that it isn't and they misconstrue it as laziness and that you should try harder, instead of the fault of the system

[@mschiller1661]

They didn't lie...The world changed. In their day, that was how you got ahead...not anymore....

[@DarkLadyJade]

@@mschiller1661 It's a lie because they still act like things are the same.

[@nancyboyette3748]

it’s unfair to generalize one group of people by the behavior of a few. Every generation has its own issues of privileges and limitations/suffering to deal with. You will drive yourself insane by pointing the finger outwardly instead of inwardly. Every generation had adversity to overcome then landed on their feet and prospered. The worst thing you could do is to compare yourself to your parents or grandparents lives. I’m a boomer and if I did that, I would have been angry and resentful my entire life. My parent’s generation didn’t experience their friends being shipped home by the 1000s in pine boxes. The majority of my parents generation only had a high school education yet were able to buy a home on one income and were able to live comfortably on that one income for a lifetime. My generation wasn’t as easy as you might think. Ours was the first generation that both husband and wife had to work if we wanted to live as nicely as our parents did. With only one income, no one could afford to buy a home. Some of us chose to not have kids so we could live the life but then regretted when we got older. We also were the generation that began valuing education so we doubled up our efforts by attending college or a trade school while maintaining a job and kids. The majority of our parents had the attitude that hard work pays off and to not give any free hand outs. After finishing high school, we were expected to get a full time job and be prepared to move out immediately. Most of us did. There was no such thing of them helping to finance or support us while we were trying to figure out life. I won’t go into how common verbal and physical abuse was the norm and social/govt and police intervention was rare. When we became of age, in charge of society, we did many good things that improved the world, but we also became out of control through opulent lifestyles and addictions: alcohol, drug abuse, anything sexual, over indulging our kids out of guilt since we left them home alone. I could go on and on but in the end, you must take personal responsibility and evaluate the good and the bad and move forward. An advantage that the majority of millennials had were compassionate, generous parents who were willing to support them and or provide a place to live while they figured things out. Also they were the most technologically savvy. On the responsibility side as a young adult, did they maintain or demand a pampered lifestyle while unemployed and why? Did they continually get student loans semester after semester accruing enormous debt? Did it ever occur to them to stop and reassess their educational goals and figure out how to reduce the costs or pay as you go by working and going to school part-time? I have no doubt that some did work while attending college but the millennials, as a whole are known for having massive college debts. My question is why didn’t their brain kick in after the first year of accrued college debt and decide to come up with a responsible plan? Blaming it on their parents or educators for egging them on is no excuse because they were no longer children, but adults that had a conscious that screamed caution. This is where millennials must take ownership of where they screwed up, just like every generation before them did and do what’s necessary to fix the problem. Some innovative ways that I have seen this generation create wealth is to teach themselves programming skills, learn a trade or to develop an internet business. It is rare for boomers to take these routes but not for this generation.

[@dearyvettetn4489]

I’m not a young person but a Gen-Xer experiencing the American economy as a Millennial. I followed the rules, went to college (more than once) have the debt to prove it, got chewed up and spit out working for a corporate machine that won’t rehire me because they can’t lowball and abuse me, returned to low wage work ( including Gig work), and will soon re-enter entry level labor to earn enough money to get me out of student and consumer debt before I can finally retire. Being a POC, and a mother has opened my eyes and helped me see this country as an incognito Millennial who, BTW wants a better existence for her GenZ children. I can’t be the only Xer that’s had this American experience. To my fellow mature Americans: If you don’t respect your kids enough to listen to them on this subject, reach out to someone one generation down who is likely not male and white if you want some inside on why this system isn’t working. Socialism won’t fix everything, but late-stage capitalism IS NOT WORKING. You’ll find that out later in your life when It needs something from you, like your, home, pension or social security.

[@j.c.jeggis1818]

not coming at you specifically, but there's not a ton of knowledge to be gained from viewing the world through the lens of Boomer/Gen X/Milennial/Gen Z. You're not a Gen X-er experiencing the economy as a Millennial any more than I'm an Aquarius experiencing romance as a Scorpio. You're a mother of [x] age that grew up seeing [y] on the news. That's infinitely more helpful if I'm trying to understand you than trying to sort humanity into generations like they're Hogwarts houses.

[@Ascend777]

I also know some Gen-Xers who are open to socialistic ideologies. With this capitalistic economy concentrating wealth in the hands of corporations, it's easy see why.

[@artdent9871]

Um, keep Gens out of it: "By the time the Berlin Wall fell, a lot of über rich had started pouring millions every year into funding hard-Right politicians and media to destroy the Middle Class, so that they could have powerless wage slaves and duck paying taxes again, like back in their natural habitat, the 19th Century. Just Google the size of the U.S. Middle Class: there's an unprecedented boom after the Soviets get the Bomb, becoming the majority for the first time, then a steep rise for decades straight, then it suddenly stops growing through the '80s while the Soviets crumbled, and then, if you remove retirees, it starts crashing down with the Berlin Wall in '90. What's left of the Middle Class has literally been dying off for decades, heading down to minority, pre-Soviet levels, where it had been fluctuating for a century prior to the Soviets scaring the hell out of the top 1%, and it will likely get back down there when the boomers are gone, literally down to 19th-Century levels, QED. Now look back at how it happened: do you remember Reagan's 'Free' Trade and Trickle-Down BS, then Neo Cons, Gingrich, both Bushes, the Tea Party, plus the Tories back then, Thatcher, Mulroney, Harper, and equally well-funded variants in most Western Countries? The policies that the wealthiest funded them to implement: screwed organized labour, offshored manufacturing, peasantized the remaining blue-collar, and most white-collar, jobs by attacking pensions and employment benefits (largely making most jobs "part time" or contract, no matter what the hours), made education unaffordable for the majority, and handed out massive tax cuts to the wealthiest, corporations, and Big Oil, forcing massive cuts to social programs and govt services. Ever-increasing numbers of all ages have been living paycheck to paycheck ever since, a broken leg away from homelessness, frozen out of higher education (without crippling debt) and a Middle Class that is increasingly out of reach. Yet did you notice that the top 1% have been getting richer and richer ever since, as a direct result of these hard-Right policies, and paying less and less in taxes? Well, duh, once Communism fell, the Middle Class was expendable, it was only needed to make the Soviets look bad so that the wealthiest weren't destroyed by nuclear-armed 'Commies' convincing the West's poor to unite against them. Back then, we had a booming Middle Class, and they had 'proletariat' bread lines in Moscow, but since the '80s, the only things booming anymore are food banks, McJobs, quasi-slave labour in the developing world, and the wealth of the top 1%. So those rich pr!cks must be laughing their asses off at the recent trend of younger generations blaming their parents' and grandparents' generations for affordable university, and good jobs, vanishing with the Middle Class, like that wasn't done on purpose, by them, using their hard-Right lackeys in politics and the media. Follow the money, duh, straight to Right-Wing politicos, and funding the creation a whole new type of openly partisan, hard-Right media, that warped public opinion and made it impossible for Centrists to get elected if they openly tried to reverse the damage, instead of just trying to slow it down, barely, as it turned out. Noam Chomsky nailed it: today's Dem leadership would be considered moderate Republicans, fiscally, a half-Century ago. Most people didn't even notice it happening with so much money poured into Right-Wing media by the super rich, since the '80s, to manufacture consent for repeasantizing the average American, and moving the once-moderate 'Center' farther Right every decade. The Dems are now called 'Lefties' for advocating policies to get the Middle Class off of life support that Moderate Republicans would have supported as late as the '70s, but taxing the rich and corporations at pre-'80's levels again is not even on the table. Think about it: Biden is proposing an increase in corporate taxes to LESS than PRE-'17 levels, 28%, but the GOP, and their hard-Right, media whores, are calling him a 'radical Lefty' for this proposed tax increase that is, in fact, roughly HALF of what corporations actually paid from the '40s to the '80s, which was over 50%, all while they bring back "Jim Crow" voting restrictions, nation wide! Talk about 'Welcome to the 19th Century.' It takes a lot of money to manufacture consent against something as reasonable as corporate taxes that were the norm for most of the last century, even more to get them down to half of that, but duh, they're Rich, and all these policies they've paid the Right for since the Soviets crumbled have made them exponentially richer, while most everyone else is on a slow train back to the 19th Century. Granny is working at Walmart or eating dogfood for a reason, 'kiddies,' and you're calling her an entitled Boomer for being on the same slow train as you are? The powerful just love the powerless playing at scapegoating and bigotry, it's the perfect cover, always has been. 'OK Boomer' MY ASS, everyone posting that is a dupe. Yeah, you're all screwed, at least have the brains to know how, and why, and by whom: It wasn't a generation that screwed you, and everyone else, it was super-rich greedheads and their working-class, right-wing dupes: 'white males with no university education' MY ASS, they've too often been ignorant rac!sts and bigots who were fooled, by dog whistles, into voting for the permanent elimination of the Middle Class they once belonged to. They were key to the GOP's 'Southern Strategy,' so the majority didn't vote for gutting the Middle Class, the majority didn't vote AT ALL. Welcome to the 21st Century, there is no joining what's left of the Middle Class anymore, it's increasingly just wage slaves of all ages, ruled by millionaires and billionaires who are essentially above the law, a living nightmare that seems like a Rich Republican's, Russian Kleptocrat's, and Chinese Oligarch's, wet dream. It's a Black-Mirror Sh!tShow of a situation that only a Fascist Autocrat could love. Basically, the Robber Barons are back, and they bought the GOP decades ago, so now we live in a Dickensian dystopia that's getting darker every day. Duh." [Partially clipped from a previous reply]

[@artdent9871]

@@j.c.jeggis1818 GOOD POINT, you'll love this: "By the time the Berlin Wall fell, a lot of über rich had started pouring millions every year into funding hard-Right politicians and media to destroy the Middle Class, so that they could have powerless wage slaves and duck paying taxes again, like back in their natural habitat, the 19th Century. Just Google the size of the U.S. Middle Class: there's an unprecedented boom after the Soviets get the Bomb, becoming the majority for the first time, then a steep rise for decades straight, then it suddenly stops growing through the '80s while the Soviets crumbled, and then, if you remove retirees, it starts crashing down with the Berlin Wall in '90. What's left of the Middle Class has literally been dying off for decades, heading down to minority, pre-Soviet levels, where it had been fluctuating for a century prior to the Soviets scaring the hell out of the top 1%, and it will likely get back down there when the boomers are gone, literally down to 19th-Century levels, QED. Now look back at how it happened: do you remember Reagan's 'Free' Trade and Trickle-Down BS, then Neo Cons, Gingrich, both Bushes, the Tea Party, plus the Tories back then, Thatcher, Mulroney, Harper, and equally well-funded variants in most Western Countries? The policies that the wealthiest funded them to implement: screwed organized labour, offshored manufacturing, peasantized the remaining blue-collar, and most white-collar, jobs by attacking pensions and employment benefits (largely making most jobs "part time" or contract, no matter what the hours), made education unaffordable for the majority, and handed out massive tax cuts to the wealthiest, corporations, and Big Oil, forcing massive cuts to social programs and govt services. Ever-increasing numbers of all ages have been living paycheck to paycheck ever since, a broken leg away from homelessness, frozen out of higher education (without crippling debt) and a Middle Class that is increasingly out of reach. Yet did you notice that the top 1% have been getting richer and richer ever since, as a direct result of these hard-Right policies, and paying less and less in taxes? Well, duh, once Communism fell, the Middle Class was expendable, it was only needed to make the Soviets look bad so that the wealthiest weren't destroyed by nuclear-armed 'Commies' convincing the West's poor to unite against them. Back then, we had a booming Middle Class, and they had 'proletariat' bread lines in Moscow, but since the '80s, the only things booming anymore are food banks, McJobs, quasi-slave labour in the developing world, and the wealth of the top 1%. So those rich pr!cks must be laughing their asses off at the recent trend of younger generations blaming their parents' and grandparents' generations for affordable university, and good jobs, vanishing with the Middle Class, like that wasn't done on purpose, by them, using their hard-Right lackeys in politics and the media. Follow the money, duh, straight to Right-Wing politicos, and funding the creation a whole new type of openly partisan, hard-Right media, that warped public opinion and made it impossible for Centrists to get elected if they openly tried to reverse the damage, instead of just trying to slow it down, barely, as it turned out. Noam Chomsky nailed it: today's Dem leadership would be considered moderate Republicans, fiscally, a half-Century ago. Most people didn't even notice it happening with so much money poured into Right-Wing media by the super rich, since the '80s, to manufacture consent for repeasantizing the average American, and moving the once-moderate 'Center' farther Right every decade. The Dems are now called 'Lefties' for advocating policies to get the Middle Class off of life support that Moderate Republicans would have supported as late as the '70s, but taxing the rich and corporations at pre-'80's levels again is not even on the table. Think about it: Biden is proposing an increase in corporate taxes to LESS than PRE-'17 levels, 28%, but the GOP, and their hard-Right, media whores, are calling him a 'radical Lefty' for this proposed tax increase that is, in fact, roughly HALF of what corporations actually paid from the '40s to the '80s, which was over 50%, all while they bring back "Jim Crow" voting restrictions, nation wide! Talk about 'Welcome to the 19th Century.' It takes a lot of money to manufacture consent against something as reasonable as corporate taxes that were the norm for most of the last century, even more to get them down to half of that, but duh, they're Rich, and all these policies they've paid the Right for since the Soviets crumbled have made them exponentially richer, while most everyone else is on a slow train back to the 19th Century. Granny is working at Walmart or eating dogfood for a reason, 'kiddies,' and you're calling her an entitled Boomer for being on the same slow train as you are? The powerful just love the powerless playing at scapegoating and bigotry, it's the perfect cover, always has been. 'OK Boomer' MY ASS, everyone posting that is a dupe. Yeah, you're all screwed, at least have the brains to know how, and why, and by whom: It wasn't a generation that screwed you, and everyone else, it was super-rich greedheads and their working-class, right-wing dupes: 'white males with no university education' MY ASS, they've too often been ignorant rac!sts and bigots who were fooled, by dog whistles, into voting for the permanent elimination of the Middle Class they once belonged to. They were key to the GOP's 'Southern Strategy,' so the majority didn't vote for gutting the Middle Class, the majority didn't vote AT ALL. Welcome to the 21st Century, there is no joining what's left of the Middle Class anymore, it's increasingly just wage slaves of all ages, ruled by millionaires and billionaires who are essentially above the law, a living nightmare that seems like a Rich Republican's, Russian Kleptocrat's, and Chinese Oligarch's, wet dream. It's a Black-Mirror Sh!tShow of a situation that only a Fascist Autocrat could love. Basically, the Robber Barons are back, and they bought the GOP decades ago, so now we live in a Dickensian dystopia that's getting darker every day. Duh." [Partially clipped from a previous reply]

[@artdent9871]

@@Ascend777 yup, here's why: "By the time the Berlin Wall fell, a lot of über rich had started pouring millions every year into funding hard-Right politicians and media to destroy the Middle Class, so that they could have powerless wage slaves and duck paying taxes again, like back in their natural habitat, the 19th Century. Just Google the size of the U.S. Middle Class: there's an unprecedented boom after the Soviets get the Bomb, becoming the majority for the first time, then a steep rise for decades straight, then it suddenly stops growing through the '80s while the Soviets crumbled, and then, if you remove retirees, it starts crashing down with the Berlin Wall in '90. What's left of the Middle Class has literally been dying off for decades, heading down to minority, pre-Soviet levels, where it had been fluctuating for a century prior to the Soviets scaring the hell out of the top 1%, and it will likely get back down there when the boomers are gone, literally down to 19th-Century levels, QED. Now look back at how it happened: do you remember Reagan's 'Free' Trade and Trickle-Down BS, then Neo Cons, Gingrich, both Bushes, the Tea Party, plus the Tories back then, Thatcher, Mulroney, Harper, and equally well-funded variants in most Western Countries? The policies that the wealthiest funded them to implement: screwed organized labour, offshored manufacturing, peasantized the remaining blue-collar, and most white-collar, jobs by attacking pensions and employment benefits (largely making most jobs "part time" or contract, no matter what the hours), made education unaffordable for the majority, and handed out massive tax cuts to the wealthiest, corporations, and Big Oil, forcing massive cuts to social programs and govt services. Ever-increasing numbers of all ages have been living paycheck to paycheck ever since, a broken leg away from homelessness, frozen out of higher education (without crippling debt) and a Middle Class that is increasingly out of reach. Yet did you notice that the top 1% have been getting richer and richer ever since, as a direct result of these hard-Right policies, and paying less and less in taxes? Well, duh, once Communism fell, the Middle Class was expendable, it was only needed to make the Soviets look bad so that the wealthiest weren't destroyed by nuclear-armed 'Commies' convincing the West's poor to unite against them. Back then, we had a booming Middle Class, and they had 'proletariat' bread lines in Moscow, but since the '80s, the only things booming anymore are food banks, McJobs, quasi-slave labour in the developing world, and the wealth of the top 1%. So those rich pr!cks must be laughing their asses off at the recent trend of younger generations blaming their parents' and grandparents' generations for affordable university, and good jobs, vanishing with the Middle Class, like that wasn't done on purpose, by them, using their hard-Right lackeys in politics and the media. Follow the money, duh, straight to Right-Wing politicos, and funding the creation a whole new type of openly partisan, hard-Right media, that warped public opinion and made it impossible for Centrists to get elected if they openly tried to reverse the damage, instead of just trying to slow it down, barely, as it turned out. Noam Chomsky nailed it: today's Dem leadership would be considered moderate Republicans, fiscally, a half-Century ago. Most people didn't even notice it happening with so much money poured into Right-Wing media by the super rich, since the '80s, to manufacture consent for repeasantizing the average American, and moving the once-moderate 'Center' farther Right every decade. The Dems are now called 'Lefties' for advocating policies to get the Middle Class off of life support that Moderate Republicans would have supported as late as the '70s, but taxing the rich and corporations at pre-'80's levels again is not even on the table. Think about it: Biden is proposing an increase in corporate taxes to LESS than PRE-'17 levels, 28%, but the GOP, and their hard-Right, media whores, are calling him a 'radical Lefty' for this proposed tax increase that is, in fact, roughly HALF of what corporations actually paid from the '40s to the '80s, which was over 50%, all while they bring back "Jim Crow" voting restrictions, nation wide! Talk about 'Welcome to the 19th Century.' It takes a lot of money to manufacture consent against something as reasonable as corporate taxes that were the norm for most of the last century, even more to get them down to half of that, but duh, they're Rich, and all these policies they've paid the Right for since the Soviets crumbled have made them exponentially richer, while most everyone else is on a slow train back to the 19th Century. Granny is working at Walmart or eating dogfood for a reason, 'kiddies,' and you're calling her an entitled Boomer for being on the same slow train as you are? The powerful just love the powerless playing at scapegoating and bigotry, it's the perfect cover, always has been. 'OK Boomer' MY ASS, everyone posting that is a dupe. Yeah, you're all screwed, at least have the brains to know how, and why, and by whom: It wasn't a generation that screwed you, and everyone else, it was super-rich greedheads and their working-class, right-wing dupes: 'white males with no university education' MY ASS, they've too often been ignorant rac!sts and bigots who were fooled, by dog whistles, into voting for the permanent elimination of the Middle Class they once belonged to. They were key to the GOP's 'Southern Strategy,' so the majority didn't vote for gutting the Middle Class, the majority didn't vote AT ALL. Welcome to the 21st Century, there is no joining what's left of the Middle Class anymore, it's increasingly just wage slaves of all ages, ruled by millionaires and billionaires who are essentially above the law, a living nightmare that seems like a Rich Republican's, Russian Kleptocrat's, and Chinese Oligarch's, wet dream. It's a Black-Mirror Sh!tShow of a situation that only a Fascist Autocrat could love. Basically, the Robber Barons are back, and they bought the GOP decades ago, so now we live in a Dickensian dystopia that's getting darker every day. Duh." [Partially clipped from a previous reply]

[@loverrlee]

The American Government: *Are we the baddies? :o* Millennials like me: yes, yes you are and you always have been the bad guy... you literally start wars in other countries for no damn reason... :/

[@douglaswinters9695]

Oh there’s a reason: dolla dolla bills y’all

[@Baconcatboy]

No damn reason how about ww2 and there wasnt a reason in Iraq when the government there was super corrupt and killing innocent people

[@douglaswinters9695]

@@Baconcatboy you’re not actually suggesting the US invaded Iraq out of concern for the Iraqi people are you? There were reasons, but it had little to nothing to do with Saddam other than getting him out of the way in order to secure oil assets

[@mtsenskmtsensk5113]

@@Baconcatboy Low wages kill people, or are the root cause of crime, 1% US population are incarcerated (2.5 million people). An estimated $83 billion was stolen by America from Iraq, and half a million children dead. American has long ceased being the good guys.

[@Baconcatboy]

@@mtsenskmtsensk5113 that's a good point but think about the good things we still do today

[@joemency2242]

The voice you did when you said "If you're not a capitalist then you're not an american" was really good lol

[@SecondThought]

Thanks! It’s always fun to do that one :)

[@crawfordgaming1668]

14:51

[@wh2960]

Sum gov. : Ay we may be poor but we can take care of the people and the people matter! The us: sjsjsisiwoaosiwiwi >:(((((

[@bbcb1856]

That voice was spot on

[@ameridesign]

@@SecondThought Lol, sounded like the old school Mid Atlantic Accent.

[@RafaelW8]

As a European, I am always shocked when I watch your videos. And honestly sometimes I cannot believe that things are that bad in the USA. Also, I guess I am a socialist according to your definition, and I didn't even realize it.

[@kinggoten]

I'm canadian and follow his channel not because I use it to poke fun at american friends but because if they change their systems and make things better that will then change places like canada and the eu to be even better

[@kinggoten]

@Zac Atkinson still far better then america when it comes to many public services

[@joaolopes1628]

There's no freedom in Europe.

[@hornygiantess]

@@joaolopes1628 your mom

[@joaolopes1628]

@@hornygiantess big brain socialist

[@Caleldir]

the world trade center is LITERALLY the oldest memory i have sitting on the couch next to my mom... not even going to school

[@bogmanhimself4656]

my parents have videos of me crashing my toy plane into lego buildings as an infant after seeing it on the news all day. life is dark man

[@johannageisel5390]

It's so weird for me as a European. Every time I hear somebody say: "We all remember 9/11", I'm like: "Uhm, vaguely, yes." Sure, we watched the news for a bit after I got home from school, but apart from that, it didn't really touch me. I was just very bewildered when I visited the US in 2004 and got asked a lot of private questions* by the passport checking guy at the airport when I arrived. I thought this must be a joke and why would this be his business? The elderly German couple behind me even said he maybe wanted to flirt with me. *questions like: "What are you here for? What are you studying? How did you get the money for this trip?" etc. I had visited Russia a couple years earlier and had the visum in my passport, so it was also: "What did you do in Russia?"

[@Sixty_Five_Pronghorn]

@@bogmanhimself4656 fuckin hell. I wasn’t even five months old when it happened, but my mom was absolutely scared shitless because my dad was set to fly home from California that day. Thankfully, his flight was cancelled, but he was stuck in California for a few days, and he said it was super scary going through TSA for the first time and flying home just after such a terrible incident. While I don’t remember 9/11, I do remember my family being super poor during the 2007-2008 recession. My parents had divorced by then, but both of them were poor as fuck. My dad ended up renting a house with a few other guys for a few years, and my mom just barely scraped by in her tiny house. Meanwhile, I was born with Cystic Fibrosis and a heart condition. If medicaid (especially Obama Care) didn’t exist, I’d be fucking dead. My medical care costs an average of $700,000 per year. When I was a newborn, I was hospitalized for basically my entire first year, undergoing heart surgery after heart surgery and living on life support for at least two months of my life. The government thankfully paid my medical bills that year, which totaled a whopping $1.2 million dollars! Yet, for some dumb fuck reasons I’ll never understand, my maternal grandparents are super ultra conservative. They saw me grow up. But, I guess they care more about the idea of banning abortion than keeping people like me alive by taxing those who make over $400,000 a year an extra 2%. Meanwhile, everyone else, including my paternal grandparents are super left wing. Hell, I’m pretty sure my paternal grandpa was basically a communist until his death, and my dad is openly a democratic socialist. My mom is also a socialist. She just doesn’t know it yet

[@safe-keeper1042]

I watched it on the news in first period in high school at the age of 15. Looking back it's really weird to think about how people growing up now haven't experienced 9/11.

[@bogmanhimself4656]

@@safe-keeper1042 i gotta say, it's really weird being that kid and having to piece it together after the fact. i never lived in a world without fox news so I've been seeing insane polarization all my life, but i never experienced the events that directly caused that polarizing shift so it's all kind of a weird blob of "things crazy adults told me and youtube videos" i watched a video of the livestreamed bombing of Iraq in 2003 as it aired on CNBC and FOX, and it was completely baffling to me. both watching how video gamey and unthinking it all was, and all of the leadup to that moment that the average citizen knew nothing about (on either side). learning that history is really different when you can pull up a link to the nariyah testimony and the chemical weapons we were selling iraq like a decade and a half beforehand, and i just have no idea where to stand conclusively except "god fucking damn my country is evil" watching a 9/11 worth of people die every day from criminal negligence during a pandemic has only been a weirder modifier on all of this shit. seeing how fervent the response to 9/11 was, but getting told to calm down about covid deaths? man, what a fucking trip. we had freedom fries and a complete upending of airport security, everyone got massive patriotism boners, people were booed for opposing warfare, as a kid i had to sing "proud to be an American" every year in an assembly, and my Christian mom was dehumanizing people that believed in basically the same religion as her. so much of my childhood status quo was actually a HUGE change from life only a decade beforehand, but admitting i feel fucked up by an event that killed 200x the people and made me homeless for a short period? saying i want a major restructuring of the government to prevent it from happening again? both are considered "a bit of a strong reaction" among my family. i seriously just don't get it, or really understand anything about countries or patriotism or allegiance or "liberty" or any of this massive shit show I've been born into. at this point I'm going to move to the most boring flyover state possible and spend the rest of my life contributing to the economy/human civilization as little as possible to retain my sanity lmao

[@avirei98]

This is insane these are things i think about sometimes and someone put it into a video . I pay no attention to politics and I wouldn't consider myself a socialist because I don't consider myself anything This video did an incredible job of putting together how I feel about what's going on.

[@yourhalfwaygenius8323]

Always care about politics. If you can vote go vote!!!

[@thoughtprism2963]

This is like the thesis statement for your entire channel. I'm certainly going to share this with my friends and relatives.

[@alexsmith2910]

Thank you!

[@nuvisionprinting]

I would but most of the people I know are honestly at the very dillusional about capitalism.

[@seand.g423]

Dude, I love this channel as much as the next functional brain, but... I honestly wouldn't even bother recommending the channel, let alone sharing any of the videos... not for lack of quality, but... just because it's probably a waste of time on _their_ end.

[@yusuke_99_74]

You are so right, I’m Generation Z, and there were no good days😞

[@kroolini3678]

you live off your parents and have no idea what real struggle is.

[@jscotthatcher380]

i'm really sorry. old fogey gen X/M here, some of us are still trying.

[@cormano64]

@@kroolini3678 Do you know that user or are you just projecting?

[@kroolini3678]

@@cormano64 he’s gen Z. The oldest he is will be about 20 at most. It’s not projecting, that’s just how it is

[@seafoam6119]

@@kroolini3678 imagine being raised by parents. LMAO

[@leftykeys6944]

I am a 70 year old woman and I'M a socialist.

[@Itspapacritz]

miss keys may i ask how you became a socialists mam?

[@leftykeys6944]

@@Itspapacritz -- Like millions of much younger people, I've had plenty of time to see how our current system sells us short... catastrophically! It disgusts and horrifies me to see so much of what belongs in The Commons stolen from us, in the name of "privatization". Our healthcare extortion racket and the student debt scam are the most classic examples of this thievery, but I could go on and on...

[@eatathepizza4449]

Based , grandma , keep going strong !

[@peytongonavy]

You're Lefty. Obviously!

[@mush1e979]

LEZ GO

[@javiermontiero4982]

Growing up I ignorantly chose to keep my nose out of politics and most anything related to 'current affairs' but midway through college I began opening my eyes to the world around me. Since then, I still haven't identified with any political party and still haven't become a reliable voter. But I do relate very strongly with many, many points in this video. I have always hated the education system, as someone who ACTUALLY LIKES to learn, it'd be really great if I could just learn more stuff. But I'm barred from that because my one, useless degree so far has already been enough to keep me locked in crippling debt. Why can't I learn? Because for whatever reason, the system doesn't like that. At least, doesn't like knowledge to be free. Or even cheap. I dislike the entire political spectrum in the US as every inch of the spectrum seems just too deeply flawed and disinterested in the people it exists to serve. But more and more, I am increasingly identifying with socialist ideas.

[@ClassicalTraining]

Have you dabbled in the revolutionary literature?

[@thankouf01]

Finally a video of yours that doesn't get blocked or age restricted! Hello from Greece

[@SecondThought]

Hello! Thanks for watching :)

[@Cindy99765]

@@SecondThought I really like your content, thank you so much Second Thought. Is there a way to donate or support your channel besides subscribing?

[@chasingclouds2519]

@@Cindy99765 Their patreon?

[@srj607able]

You can deblock age restrictions vids by asking your parents to do so.

[@notOL01]

@@srj607able Not how it works you remove the age restriction by getting a vpn then connecting it to a US server

[@vernonkroark]

You actually sugar coated the gig economy. It's way worse than you explained it. You didn't even mention payroll taxes.

[@aganib4506]

The more reason to build up Mutual Aid and Dual Power Structures in our community.

[@dog8438]

The pandemic started when I was 19 and it was literally the worst time for it to start of me. This is the time where I finally get the freedom to do whatever I want and I'm 20 years old stuck at home.

[@dominoot2652]

and this is supposed to be our 'good old days'

[@kanjonojigoku8644]

Same, im thankfull i didnt go to college right after high-school in this pandemic, been throwing myself around random freelance jobs in art, feels like every day is the same and nothings getting better

[@mikei6605]

I feel you. I just turned 20 and life doesn't even feel real anymore. I wake up and do the same thing over and over.

[@t-bone9239]

Same man. Today marks my second birthday in lockdown. I was 19 when Covid hit and now I am 21 -_-

[@kanjonojigoku8644]

@@t-bone9239 make the best of it, if u got time at home maybe try learning a new skill, not for a job, just for yourself to keep sane

[@hellshaked6530]

Genuinely didn't think I'd find a video from someone who openly states their bias towards socialism and still managed to make a mostly unbiased video

[@captindo]

I'm not a socialist, or with any other affiliation, just a Canadian that wants to see its species flourish and grow, we have so much potential but, if we keep ourselves divided by small differences then we'll never get off this rock. Be good to one another and help each other out.

[@whysocurious7366]

“I’m not a socialist” Why not? Bc of the negative stigma? Do you have values that contradict with socialist values (like, instead of stopping all of climate change you just wanna stop half of climate change)?

[@jscotthatcher380]

but... you just... ahh nevermind...

[@foxtail286]

I'm also a Canadian that's scared that socialism will turn into authoritarianism. I support socialist values, but I'm just wondering if those values could go very wrong.

[@whysocurious7366]

@@foxtail286 there are millions of people consistently fighting against all forms of socialism, millions fighting for facism/ racism... tankies who want to emulate authoritarians like Stalin or Mao who push rebranded-capitalism/ State-worship.. but you’re worried about actual socialists gaining power for the first time in history?? Why?:o

[@hravandil9993]

@@whysocurious7366 as an anarchist I don't see why people are mad at ppl who idolize these leaders...like, does it matter as long as they're helping their community or parttaking in praxis in some way?

[@aJoats]

If I had a dollar for everything wrong with capitalism.... I might not have a problem with capitalism.

[@user-xo2ix3pt7k]

I'm Australian and the more I learn about America and the way of life there, the more dystopic it seems. Australia is obviously far from perfect, but seeing videos like this makes me grateful for the things like Universal Healthcare that I take for granted. Hoping you guys in America can get back on the right path, not to mention the world in general.

[@GhengisJohn]

The sad thing is it didn't have to be this way. Look up FDR's second bill of rights speech and you can see how close we came to avoiding this insanity.

[@lisahayes3648]

As a fellow Australian I’d just say watch out as we are heading the same way in many ways. We need a strong socialist party and movement here as much as they do in the US.

[@lisahayes3648]

@OMGIDestroyedMatter they're just students doing what students do, thinking they know everything & being obnoxious.

[@user-xo2ix3pt7k]

@@lisahayes3648 Trust me, I know. We have far too many politicians who see the US as a goal rather than the cautionary tale it is.

[@gotyournose6479]

@@user-xo2ix3pt7kThe US is great.

[@joshbigz6864]

I am one of the older millennials and I have never seen the economic boom that we were promised. To make things short I went to ITT Tech in 2002-2004 and saw it start out as a good school but watched it turn into a diploma mill by the time I graduated. Everyone else including me could not find a job in the field and we kept getting told by boombers that it would be OK that the economy would recover and we would all get good jobs one day, well we have been struggling to survive since and we have yet to see the economy bouncing back that we were promised. I maintain a vigorous exercise routine,take meticulous care of my teeth and eat a healthy diet because I have no retirement savings and do not think I will ever be able to retire.

[@TheGIGACapitalist]

Employers have always been trying to shoehorn employees into the category of contractors, the issue is that they are winning on such a huge scale.

[@Redactedlllllllllllll]

Im an aircraft mechanic/electrician, still companies make you work as a contractor for at least a while.

[@speedy01247]

I hate that, employees should be given a fair share of the profit.

[@sorzin2289]

Temp to perm contract jobs. Treated like a second class citizen when working those jobs. Need permission to access materials I needed for my work. Could be fired anytime without warnings.

[@SimonTimbers]

I worked for Postmates and as someone who understands basic math, after depreciation on my car and time spent sitting waiting for orders, I was making around $4-6/hr... in California. My rent was $850 and I lived in a room with someone else. No thank you, I would rather be homeless, and that's exactly what would have happened if I didn't receive unemployment benefits. But why did it take a pandemic happening for us to realize that unemployment should be enough to survive? And why are we now reversing it? And why should anyone be subject to that work to begin with? Not only did it pay a substandard wage, but I genuinely felt unsafe doing my job, and I would not be protected from anything, from getting into an accident, my car breaking down, a crazy customer, or the homeless guy that tried to attack me outside of Panda Express. I was living in a state of fear that I would not wish on my worst enemy. The icing on the cake is when they drafted a bill to permanently make employees defined as contractors to screw them for eternity, and it passed because there was little to no opposition and it was worded in such a way that was incredibly manipulative.

[@longbeach225]

Yes. I work as a IT contractor and now that prop 22 passed they labeled us as independent contractors so now I have nothing and have to pay for a CPA to do my taxes every 3 months. Meanwhile my pay still the same. However, I stayed with my mom and saved money and now started a online business. Actually lot of young folks are starting businesses but the corporations are trying to control that too by creating race to the bottom platforms like UpWork, Fiverr and other platforms to sell your services for pennies on the dollar by making you compete with people from India forcing you to drive down your prices so they can get it on the cheap.

[@fatcat1414]

I'm a gen-Z leftist, and I feel you explained our reasoning very well. I became disillusioned with a lot of right wing rhetoric at a young age. Even at age 8 I knew that the US healthcare system was fucked up, and this was before I even knew universal healthcare was an option. And that was only the start of my pull leftward. Now I'm seventeen and have been learning about socialism for months now. I think this video will be a good thing to show my family in the event they express confusion about my beliefs and why it's so popular among my generation.

[@liberalsocialist9723]

I just tell them I want my country to be more like Norway.

[@xavierseventeen1110]

I feel a little better knowing others are seeing what I'm seeing too.

[@fatcat1414]

@@xavierseventeen1110 I'm also happy to see that there's an entire online community of people who feel the same as me. Living in a place where any leftist ideas, even simple ones like universal healthcare, are shut down immediately wears down on my spirit after a while if I don't have a community of like-minded people to fall back on.

[@joaolopes1628]

@@liberalsocialist9723 Norway isnt socialist.

[@liberalsocialist9723]

@@joaolopes1628 Did I say it was?

[@slname8935]

Luckily not age restricted this time. Another great video.

[@SecondThought]

Thanks!

[@GhengisJohn]

I see that your avatar is truly loved.

[@Xiphactinus]

@@SecondThought honestly KZbin's age-restriction filter is awful, talk about consumerism etc., fine, talk about the holocaust in depth, nope, age restricted!

[@kriegskommisar2847]

Never thought that I'll see the day when american starts to critisize capitalism in favour of socialism. You have my respect and subscription, good buddy. Keep up the good work.

[@rounaksinghbuttar9083]

The inequality is unbearable. On one hand we have Jeff bezos spending billions to go to space for fun and on other hand we have people struggling to make ends meet even by working multiple jobs and people who are homeless. Capitalism has got to go. Or at least the government has to be considerate of the middle class and the poor. By providing social schemes like healthcare, education, housing, etc.

[@Ryan_hey]

@@rounaksinghbuttar9083 Yep, it's quite a thing to see a billionaire spend so much to do something the public sector did 60 freaking years ago. But hey, if you can somehow figure out how to live to the age of 4,000,000 years (literally), you too could earn the same net worth with the average GDP per capita in America.

[@DevSarman]

The state of Kerala in India is known to be a socialist stronghold in India, and is currently the most developed state with highest HDI in India, just for a simple fact.

[@GalacticNovaOverlord]

@@younggamer7218 just search it up online. You can find stories, data, etc... www.quora.com/Why-is-Kerala-considered-as-the-best-state-in-India?top_ans=191829492

[@nikhiliyengar1510]

Correlation doesn't imply causation.

[@thehuman2cs715]

@@nikhiliyengar1510 sure

[@joshuacoleman8000]

I hope that state is able to keep it that way with Modi making the rest of India his Hindu nationalist bitch.

[@austinhernandez2716]

I used to be a libertarian, as in American libertarian, so pretty far right. But the pandemic opened up my eyes. Now I'm a libertarian socialist. Your channel focusing on politics for the past year, especially the one on American healthcare, contributed to it greatly. I appreciate it

[@tails18boy]

I highly recommend Hasanabi. You can see him on twitch or clips of him on youtube. Also check out azur scapegoat on the topic of spectrum if you haven't

[@verycoolguy8455]

I’m glad to hear it dude! Welcome to the left.

[@hravandil9993]

@@MaximusRequiem no. Libertarian originally described Anarchism and was a leftwing term, it was co-opted by rightwingers and now has a different meaning.

[@toddharig8142]

@@MaximusRequiem ​It isn't, socialism is a spectrum, just like capitalism. I highly suggest you take a look at different kinds of socialism, its super interesting. If you are looking for specific tips my two faves are Libertarian Socialism and Anarcho-syndicalism.

[@jadenlaurent]

Welcome to the Anarcho Socialist gang!!

[@BubbleoniaRising]

X-er here. Lost everything in 2008, struggled for years, went back to school (re-training for a "new" job) and started looking for work just as Covid-19 kicked off so I hear you loud and clear.

[@JohnDoe-rg4tl]

Trained for new job for 12 years and then got job. Sounds legit

[@zombieminecraft4213]

@@JohnDoe-rg4tl he means after getting past primary school and got into college he spent 12 years training and learning for his job.

[@tcskips]

Thanks to government subsidy of the housing market and socialism wants more government involvement in the economy🤦‍♂️

[@tcskips]

@Ryan McCreedy do your research buddy boi

[@tcskips]

@Ryan McCreedy no it’s worse, instead of a monopolised business it legitimises a government monopoly which is exactly the same except it doesn’t even have the veneer of doing business in relation to the market and not a centrally planned economy.

[@Resetium]

The reason I am a socialist is simple. I see that people are homeless, that people are not earning enough to eat, that some people are having to juggle two or more jobs to survive. I ask why they are struggling this much. I am told they are either lazy, not working hard enough, or have some other moral failing. Whatever the explanation, the claim is that they deserve it. I ask why the greatest nation in the world would refuse to ensure that all people in it are happy and able to pursue their ambitions. I am told only a socialist believes in an ideal world like that where everyone can pursue their dreams. "Okay," I reply, "then I'm a socialist."

[@leerose8628]

The script for this video is amazing. Perfect narrative through line and it has no fat, super lean and meaty. Great job.

[@SecondThought]

Thanks so much! I try my best to keep things clear and concise.

[@johnmunro4952]

I'm Gen X ( born in 75) and it's tragic that I'm part of the last generation to be able to afford to own a home ( the ultimate carrot of consumer capitalism) on an average income.

[@JohnDoe-rg4tl]

Income to house price ratio is the best in the US compared to all the other major countries.

[@SoloEcho]

Im with the unlucky majority, millennials. Cant afford 1

[@joshuagharis9017]

Gen z here, looking with fha for home in CT, it's impossible at my pricing

[@joshuagharis9017]

​@@JohnDoe-rg4tl no, it's really not

[@joshuagharis9017]

​@@JohnDoe-rg4tl and saying it's better doesn't make it good or okay

[@CommonSenseRevolution]

"Capitalism is a system the demands infinite growth on a planet with finite resources" . The maker of Second Thought is very intelligent and wise. This statement basically sums up what I have been witnessing happen slowly since my childhood in the 1960's. I watch more and more of your videos every day and learn something from each one, but this one hammers home the truth. Capitalism is why I'm currently out of work and as such, unable to contribute to your channel. I pledge to do so if I am able to secure work soon. I never want to see this channel die or disappear. You do great work in creating awareness of many issues and I salute the channel owner/creator for doing so!

[@u.a.perfectace7786]

Current Capitalism/ Corporatism=Evil. It is LITERALLY getting in the way of the ideal ways to live our lives and our evolution as a species. Maximize short term profits, to fuck with long term survival of humanity and the environment. Not everything had to monetized and profitable in strictly monetary terms. We are screwed on this current path.

[@dinklezucc5982]

The creator of this channel was payed a visit by the DHS for “anti-american sentiment”. To me that is like a state seal of approval that these videos are super legit.

[@biteme9008]

+

[@aneesh8963]

As gen-z and millenial i grew up in catastrophic thinking influenced by y2k, then 9/11 happened, iraq war, recession, isis, covid etc etc it never ends

[@PeterEhik]

Welcome comrades, there's enough food and shelter here for everyone, we will take care of each other because today, you, tomorrow me.

[@ngotemna8875]

Thank you. I needed to hear that. Have a great one =)

[@jedihubbyhersh]

💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿

[@l.av.h7812]

American socialism is dumb, nordic democratic socialism is smart and most young Americans don't seem to get it.

[@marcokonnecke877]

This is a good sentiment to have. I wish more people saw things this way.

[@kyirid]

I’ve heard this phrase somewhere before. “Today you, tomorrow me.” really makes me feel glad I help others.

[@jayd6731]

Being almost 40 I have spent most of my life hoping people would realize there is a better way to live then the way we have been living. I am glad to see after all these years I'm not the only one hoping for a real change. Let's get these old politicians out of office and get some intelligent younger people in there and let's all make a real change

[@ngotemna8875]

I'm 30 And i am *so tired* of constantly having to explain why the system is broken.

[@nicholassheavils209]

Literally all 'viable' US politicians are boomers. The gen X have been skipped entirely, and any younger polies with positive intentions are denigrated in the media with no remorse. Politics is a gruelling effort, designed to make people give up. If anything is to change we cannot. Fight on friends, good luck.

[@socialoutcast6234]

I'm actually confused do Americans genuinely not know anything about history or the present?? When has socialism ever worked as a permanent system? Capitalism works in America and in all of the developed countries. Just because you have individual problems with healthcare or education doesnt mean you turn to straight up communism 🙄 Socialism will never work..

[@spadeysay6846]

Time is quite limited to make that change. In so far as the US is concerned, nothing short of a revolution will it see any chance for a positive change.

[@jayd6731]

@@socialoutcast6234 I am not supporting socialism I am supporting change. I keep up with world geopolitics. All the socialism ran countries have been destroyed by us sanctions. I'm not sure if that really counts as not working.

[@monchete9934]

That segment of "that was corporatism" reminds me of the strawman argument of "that wasn't real communism/socialism". It's quite funny that one of the most common strawman arguments against leftist movements is just projection of a real pro-capitalist argument.

[@MathiasBacher]

I'm once again very glad to be European, I hope your movement succeeds!

[@Dark7ify]

Please understand that Europe is capitalist and gains its success of the back of the developing world and the exploitation of poorer countries in the global south.

[@MathiasBacher]

@@Dark7ify I agree but I was thinking about our social system which is way ahead of the American one and is only a thing of political willingness. But yes, I would appreciate to see even more development to a more social and fair system

[@Dark7ify]

@@MathiasBacher joa stimmt

[@leftykeys6944]

@@Dark7ify ????

[@ashkitt7719]

@@Dark7ify Also Europe has a new fascist problem, especially Germany it seems.

[@darthjarjarbinkstherealsit6832]

I am a simple man. I see second thought, I click like.

[@SecondThought]

Thank u Jar Jar very cool

[@maceuniverse4125]

^

Messa agrees

[@drakebradford1728]

9/11 was my first memory, I was 3 years old and the image of people jumping to their deaths to avoid the fire is forever seared into my brain. There were never good ol days for young people

[@KateeAngel]

I am not American, so I learned about it years after it happened. Watching news wasn't my hobby at 8-10 years old. I also learned about how bad 90s were in my country (Russia) years after. Because I was such a small child back then I didn't understand anything

[@hamzapatel2547]

But u shuld know that their actions dont represent Islam truly in any way, shape or form

[@KidnovaFOI]

I remember being subscribed to this channel since it was all science, stick figures, and cows. I enjoy this political transition. I've learned so much and love the way you put together these videos! Please keep doing what you're doing!

[@kei2142]

It's a Texan Socialist, that's an extra point.

[@osmark86]

same. subscribed for the entertaining science content. can't say I mind this new direction though since Second Thought has basically become a comrade, and as a socialist Swede this is just heart-warming XD.

[@l.av.h7812]

American socialism is dumb, nordic democratic socialism is smart and most young Americans don't seem to get it.

[@basicallykanye1693]

@@l.av.h7812 with social democracy’s you still need to exploit workers and the global south. It’s still capitalism

[@floppingtuna2022]

@@basicallykanye1693 but tbh, priorities in the global north aren’t the people in the global south

[@nerdoftheatre]

My sister is a very very young Millennial and I'm one of the oldest in Gen Z. We have two years between us. It honestly feels like we grew up in different times. She was in school in 2001 and my mom and I were running errands that day. At the age of 3. My only memory is seeing something about it on TV at McDonalds, after my mom picked up my sister from school that day. In seventh grade, I remember my teacher flat-out telling us that we had lived through a small part of our lives without war, but that we would not remember a time without some sort of conflict. I remember the recession, but I was a kid. My grandpa got sick in 2008 and refused treatment because he didn't want to saddle my family with debt. That was one of the first times I realized that the world wasn't sunshine and rainbows. That my grandpa died from a treatable disease because he didn't want to put my family into debt. I know people who have had the same job for twenty years whine about how people are just lazy, even though they haven't had to get a new job. I've heard people call me lazy for living with my parents, even though I graduated in the middle of a pandemic and found out that nobody was hiring. I know people who have said to get college degrees, only to turn around and say "You should've just gotten a job to pay for school." As if school hasn't been constantly raising in price. It's a completely different time, yet older generations are acting as if their childhood was the pinnacle of greatness. The younger generations are realizing that our childhoods weren't actually that good and that it is only getting worse.

[@thomas0086]

America‘s obsession with hyper individualist bullshit defeats the entire purpose of coming together as a civilization in the first place.

[@AmelieZh]

Oh but the China topic will unite you all. Because of what the media told you.

[@1Dimee]

Excellent video and a compelling case for socialism. This was so needed after that bs video from CNN about "Why kids these days love socialism"

[@l.av.h7812]

American socialism is dumb, nordic democratic socialism is smart and most young Americans don't seem to get it.

[@joeloftus6148]

@@pavelow235 I think we'll be alright in that sense. There is nothing in this world - nothing whatsoever - that even comes close to resembling the peoples and cultures of 12,000 years ago. Also, "the chief making decisions and the people being oblivious" is already happening. This entire video is about trying to change exactly that. If that's the thing you're worried about, you should be jumping on the socialism train with gusto.

[@lcefrisbee]

I just watched this whole video and am still wondering how a socialist government would work

[@degradingattentionspans6151]

@@l.av.h7812 nordic social democracy requires the exploitation of the global south to function, since it is still in the capitalist framework. we need real socialism, not social democracy which just exports the exploitation abroad

[@paradisearcher9334]

Because we see the many flaws of capitalism that can't be fixed, our politicians being openly corrupt and being bought out by the top 1%, other develop country doing better than this us, huge wealth gaps with 5 people having more money than the bottom 90%, minimum wage being stagnant while the cost of living increases, this country having the money in the world for the military and corporation bailouts but can't afford to a better healthcare system, systematic racism, etc. I'm sure there's more but these are just the reason of the top of my head

[@mr.p2742]

Although I agree with your arguments, "Socialism" is a way too radical word to describe what the youth hope for. "Social Democracy" would be a better term which is less radical and would appeal more to moderates.

[@remcon559]

So true. And many people seem to believe that Scandinavia and other European countries are socialist, while that's not true at all. We sure have social aspects, but at the same time we have a free market economy etc. Socialism is more like what the Russians had.

[@ericalbers4867]

Call it what you want but what matters is what is actually is. You could call a dictatorship a "care bear democracy" and it's irrelevant. It would still be a dictatorship. The issue is that the entire thing is completely fractured and many of the ones getting face time are radicals, don't know exactly what anybody wants, generalize to much, and act pushy, confrontational, and pretentious. Instead of calling for a complete revamp or change of government, ask for specific policies - leave socialism out of any part of it, and understand it's limitations in the US. We are as large as every European country put together and our population is larger. Some of the things that work well there are infeasible here. Also stop talking about it like there's a move to revamp the government. That'll never work, there's a word for that and it almost never goes well. Given that many of them are against firearms it wouldn't go well for them. It doesn't need to be done anyway. There are specific issues that need to be tackled - tackle those (not all at once, change takes time. Years, even decades). Those wanting it need to convince people with a well laid out plan. Not be pushy, confrontational, or anything they currently do because they think somehow after hundreds of years THEY'RE the ones that have it all figured out. They don't.

[@robertmann8874]

@@ericalbers4867 The population of the US is 330 million people. The population of Europe is 745 million people, so what you said is wrong, and whether or not it would suffice as evidence that Socialism, Social Democracy more specifically, cannot work in the US is now irrelevant. The Area of Europe is 10.2 million km2 compared to 9.8 million km2 for the Us, which is indeed very close, so at least what you said about the area of these territories is fine. I think comparing the US to Europe is not a very apt one, so I rather compare it to the EU. The population of the EU is, of course, bigger than the US. The population of the EU is 450 million people compared to 330 million people in the US. The Us is, however, approximately twice as large. Ultimately, I don't really understand how this is the deciding factor for this debate.

[@robertmann8874]

@@ericalbers4867 I also don't understand how you brought up insurrections. A government revamp can happen via elections. I agree that change takes time, but it doesn't need to. Change takes time because a lot of people don't want change, or they want very little change, or they don't care about any large scale issues, therefore they don't get involved in 'politics'. This means that the people who want change do not have a majority in the government, so yes change takes time. As the demographic slowly changes, the government will go further left. It'd be better for socialists if it was faster, but it is almost impossible to change the mind of people from older generations. Older generations are generally a lot more conservative and do not care to have their minds changed. To be fair, it is insanely difficult to convince anybody to change their political beliefs. Another reason why change might take a really long time is because generally the older you get, the further right you go. By that I do not mean that it is a slow process, I just mean that by the time you are 60, you are probably more conservative than when you were younger. I do agree that there are a lot of people who are pushy and confrontational among socialists, but most people who are expressive of their political beliefs are pushy and confrontational. As regards to your last statement, no I don't think that socialists think that they have just figured it out. That statement is fucking stupid. Of course most people believe their political ideology is clearly better than others, so it isn't surprising if someone thinks they know better than others. I also don't think that anybody would give a shit about a well laid out plan because most people just want to have their beliefs affirmed. When you talk about 'specific issues', wtf are you talking about. Socialists do tackle specific issues, they tackle plenty of them. All these issues come together for a broader picture, large scale change, but don't get me wrong it would be a slow transition into a social democratic society, even if the socialists had a majority.

[@robertmann8874]

@@ericalbers4867 Ultimately, I think you just want very little change because you are okay with the status quo.

[@shyguy1630]

What bothers me most about our current system. Is not that the top makes so much it’s that the bottom gets so little. Our roads are bad bridges are crumbling. Barely any decent public transit. To see a doctor is expensive to a dentist is just as bad. We have some of the richest companies that ever existed and we can’t even get proper dental coverage much less medical.

[@thegratefulsteve]

It's not the endless wars? Since 2001 the US has dropped over 430,000 bombs in the middle east... thats an average of 47 bombs a day! We work and pay taxes to fund brutal crimes against humanity. All because of capitalism.

[@kt8083]

Well that’s because we need money for our super important oil wars and to bail out super nice corporations! I mean that’s what we all agreed on right? A nation by the people for the rich- oh wait no it doesn’t say that my bad.

[@mduckernz]

Indeed, the rich could still be ridiculously rich, but all the infrastructure could be fixed, people housed, fed, and medically treated. That this is not so shows the depths of the depravity the rich are comfortable with

[@rogerrms2180]

Only in the USA it’s wrong to care for your fellow citizens

[@vulcanfeline]

see: georgia making it illegal to give water to people waiting in line for hours to vote

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

In Capitalist America: Selfishness is rewarded while selflessness is punished.

[@МагжанСыдыков]

Not only, we are with you!✊ Kazakhstan.

[@randyjax09]

How many times are we going to look back and say “Bernie Sanders was right” before we start taking him seriously?

[@jamesgravil9162]

@@chrisbergsten1429 I wouldn't say he "sold out." His hands were tied. If you had to choose between Biden and Trump, who would you cheer for?

[@liberalsocialist9723]

@@jamesgravil9162 People who say sold out to Biden tend to love Trump. Or believe he is just as bad as Hillary but stick to the liberals.

[@kjl3080]

@@chrisbergsten1429 I mean, it’s not like every other candidate dropped out and joined biden, making it impossible for Bernie to win on his own

[@NHope-md8ds]

New idea: We take all of our wonderful and fair ideas that care currently considered "socialism" or "communism" by the far-right and centrists, and we just start giving them new labels. Like instead of calling it a "nationalized healthcare" system we'll start calling it the "America is Awesome" system, or the "Bald Eagle Glory Freedom" system. I'm pretty sure conservatives wouldn't read past the title.

[@IronKnight2402]

I like this idea

[@abhishekvenkata9192]

Woah. Looks like you have a lot of respect for people that dont agree with you.

[@mercurialsilver5688]

@@abhishekvenkata9192 Too much respect to be honest.

[@rustyoak8860]

how cute, you think the democrats would let single payer health care pass. I'm sorry kid, but democrats are just as bought off by the private health insurance and big pharma industries as the republicans. Just look at Obamacare, no public option and a huge giveaway to the private insurance industry. Joe Biden, no public option and quickly gave up on $15 minimum wage, and is doing nothing to help our working class. Unfortunately, democrats and republicans are virtually two sides of the same coin. They serve the 1%, the people who put millions in their campaign funds, they could care less about the people who work for a living.

[@IronKnight2402]

Much love from a lefist viewer in the Philippines

[@ARandomSpace]

I, too, am a socialist on the Other Side of the World.

[@Redactedlllllllllllll]

Good luck out there.

[@IronKnight2402]

@Conor Malone we have a lot of issues here

[@JastwatchingYT]

Dude being a leftist in Phillipines is like a death sentence

[@ViraL_FootprinT.ex.e]

There's people that think having multiple gigs is one "picking themselves up by the bootstraps". Even though these people, many with degrees can barely make ends meet. Typical "bootstraps" sociopathy.

[@josemaria8177]

Young people understand that the choice is between socialism and extinction.

[@MWhaleK]

Most people who hate or at least say they hate Socialism? Have no effing clue what the word actually means. Also, the bit about infinite growth on a planet with finite resources? That is part of why I am in favor the colonization of Mars and other planets in the solar system, that would (at least in theory) allow for access to more resources without destroying the planet.

[@Izigurand]

The Earth is already in the processing of being destroyed. We don’t have time to colonize Mars, and we definitely won’t be able to move to other planets. We need to do something about our planet before we can even think about other ones. Colonization is simply not a viable option, and it may not be for centuries.

[@cloudatlas349]

The red scare propaganda still runs deep...

[@xuto2693]

I'm 35, american. I consider myself a conservative. I also often find myself supporting progressives and policies most americans revile as "socialist". I feel that a intellectually honest conservative approach still arrives at many of the same conclusions. For example, universal healthcare instituted by the people via it's representatives is the collective decision by a society to institute an alternative to what a capitalist, profit driven system offers. That is still very much a free market action. Capitalism, by it's very nature, is actively OPPOSED to any concept of free market or self determination. It's goal is to make as much as possible while spending as little as possible. The end stage is a corporate system that buys it's own laws and regulations, underpays those who produce its value, overcharge in comparison to how much they are actually paying to produce something, and then skim more profit from taxpayers. Individualism is nothing more than divide and conquer. We are a society that allows ourselves to be preyed upon by bad actors. But we are also a nation that uses military force to impose capitalism, so there's every reason to believe they will be just as vehement about enforcing it here.

[@detimeditom]

Not only do we not have these good old days, more and more of us come to the bleak realization that we are robbed our futures

[@danielroberson5389]

Yeah I'm never going to be able to afford college with out a loan or financial aid and when I'm off my parent's health care plan, one-car crash and I'm dead

[@vincegonzalez2171]

@@danielroberson5389 Yep the parents health plan thing got me too! I was part time for four years after graduating from college, so I never got to have benefits (they kept finding ways to keep me from getting full time), and then boom, pandemic and goodbye all part time workers.

[@arobbo28]

even back when i was like 7-8, i knew that there was something wrong with this system

[@xtophervirtanen1804]

I'm 41, I've identified as Socialist since I was 17 in 97. Glad I'm not alone anymore.

[@ashkitt7719]

Proof that there are good Boomers out there.

[@bdquest9999]

@@ashkitt7719 he's not a boomer

[@Andrew-tj6sc]

This comment made me so happy, thank you for all you do and putting younger generations on the right path, the good ones appreciate it.

[@SP-xy7yh]

Yeah now you have a couple fat white kids to hang out with at Starbucks

[@Donald_Trump_2024]

Damn y'all are washed...

[@TheAmericanAmerican]

Oh... this is gonna be good 😋😋😋 Edit: oh... it was indeed very good 😁

[@SecondThought]

Hope you enjoy!

[@Kage-jk4pj]

SOCIALISM IS THE ONLY WAY FORWARD

[@TheAmericanAmerican]

@@SecondThought Just finished and it lived up to all expectations as do all your awesome videos. Well done Comrade ✊🏻

[@cowboydoggo6168]

@@Kage-jk4pj He didn’t make any good arguments for socialism, he just said that capitalism was bad. Just because one side is bad doesn’t mean the other is any better.

[@cowboydoggo6168]

@@younggamer7218 Agreed

[@kolbyjackcorgi]

Because they realize it's the best way to get rid of this failed and archaic bipolar system based on the whim of short-term needs with no long-term sustainability. I absolutely love this new generation!

[@xxxmxxwm1564]

History repeats itself. I am waiting for a catastrophe.

[@danielgonzalez5787]

I believe that the only way to be taken seriously by the main stream is to show that people are willing to die for this. I want to hold a hunger strike to protest the war on drugs but I have no idea how to go about organizing it.

[@Ben27377-g]

Hunger strikes won’t stop impoverished people in South America making cocain

[@Ben27377-g]

This kind of attitude is what killed 200 million people in the USSR

[@Ben27377-g]

In the UK we look at the US and think wtf how are all of their children so ignorant. This is one of the reasons why

[@danielgonzalez5787]

@@Ben27377-g peace be with you

[@Ben27377-g]

@@danielgonzalez5787 they weren’t joking when they said American high school are shit

[@armstrong.r]

My good ol' days are when I was too young to grasp the horrors around me.

[@Passionate_Potato]

I remember when I was younger I was told robots and machines would cut our work week in half and increase wages. Fast forward 20 years, wages are down, hours are up and profits for the capitalists are at record highs. Maybe us workers would feel the benefits of technology if we owned the means of production.

[@byrongsmith]

Robots and machines are indeed doing a lot of the important work these days. But since only a tiny bunch of billionaires own most of the robots (or own the IP on them), then the benefits accrue almost entirely to them.

[@byrongsmith]

@@jg9444 I have no idea who you are trying to convince or of what. Maybe try turning it off then turning it back on again?

[@saavrinfaia]

“Why would I pay taxes for other people’s college when I’m not using it?” “Why would I pay taxes for other people’s welfare checks when I’m not using them?”

[@bobthegoat7090]

Everyone's welfare often bleed into your own life. If the US can just become more united every citizen will reap the rewards. It is mostly only the uber wealthy that might not benefit. You are going to need one of the things that socialism will make free and instead of betting it is going to be cheaper isn't it easier to just be covered and pay a tax you know what is every time? That is the basic premise of insurance. Also your income will become much bigger because money is not going to some corporation, but for that to happen you will need to pay tax however that is still going to be less than the average increase in income the vast majority is going to get

[@jayr6637]

Whether your taxes fund other peoples college or welfare checks you are getting a benefit out of it, but whether you can see it or not is dependent on your worldview :)

[@dominoot2652]

Because... you're not selfish? Even if you were selfish, that redistribution of money helps to alleviate poverty, and therefore lower crime rates, or violence. Good for your safety and life expectancy. Helping people get an education in college also alleviates the likelihood of poverty, helps them get a job, stimulating the economy, driving progress, etc. Those people will get a job, pay their own taxes, which will hopefully go towards you getting social security, free healthcare, and free or affordable education for you or your kids one day. You know that idea that if you work really hard, you'll make it? This will make that more of a reality. Making people's success less dependent on their inherited wealth, ethnicity, color of their skin, or gender, but the quality of their character, and the effort they put in. Equality of opportunity, in other words.

[@Calgacus7]

Why do you pay taxes to the fire department when your not using it; or for the upkeep of public parks you don't use. When we pay taxes we are supposed to get services out of them; even if some particular services don't dirrectily benefit you right away, the people that it does benefit leads to a more healthier and prosporous society from which we all benefit. For example if a public service is in place to help keep people out of poverty, they have a better chance of overcomming poverty, this makes society more productive, and creates a healthier economy because people who are not impovrished can participat in the economy more. And if we had more people attend college, that would also lead to us having a more productive population. That's why we have free public schooling K-12 in the first place. But lets be clear; we socialists are not interested in raising the taxes of the working class. If you're a blue or white coller working man we have no interest in raising your taxes, infact we want to cut YOUR taxes while raising the taxes for the rich. It's called a progressive taxation system. The only people who need to worry about a tax raise from us would be people like Jeff Bezose, or Elon Musk. They already were paying a lower rate in taxes than you. Even before Trump took office and cut them further. And before you argue that, this system will drive away investors or the rich will just move to another country; let me tell you that they are already doing that while paying there already very low tax rates, they've already outsouced almost all of the rust belt; the reason they were able to do that is because the rich were able to build up enough capital since the 70s because there firms were becoming more productive, real wages stoped rising, and there taxes were cut by proponents of trickle down economics. This allows the rich to build up its wealth to the point we have multi-billioneirs who can now make the risky business venture of up-rooting their American factories in Pennsylvannia and move it over the largest ociean in the world to China where the labor is cheaper. This can be prevented; not just by limiting the amount of wealth accumulated by the wealthy, but by also saying to these firms that if they do move out, they will be taxed, and/or cut out of American markets. However the absolute best way to insure that firms don't outsource is if the working class (thats you and your fellow co-workers) owned and controlled the means of production (that's the firm you work for). If that were the case, then no firm would ever outsource because why would the workers outsource thier own jobs. In conlusion, socialists support your taxes going to services that benefit the working class. We advocate for a progressive tax system that taxes the rich not the working class. We support the raising of the real wage by tying it to production. We are against outsourcesing by advocating a transition from a capitalist system where the firm is owned by private individuals (Jeff Bezose and Elon Musk) to the firm owned and runned by the working class (you and your fellow workers). We belive that this will raise the standards of living for the working class and end unnecessary socio-economic hierarchy in the work place and in society as a whole.

[@lisahayes3648]

At the moment your taxes are going to corporations & the rich, how’s that working out for you?

[@GhostCharacter]

This video concisely encapsulated my own process. Much of it is a dismal story, but it's so heartening to know that I share it with so many, and that we're learning and forming hopeful opinions together.