The amount of propaganda they believe and are certain of plus their unending love for capitalism is just mind blowing. I’m done trying to convince people of the opposite, they will either arrive at the truth themselves or never will.
You can have the most level headed discussion about something, cite sources, evidence etc. and still get called “chinese/russian propaganda” or “show me where socialism works” or “I will not live under a dictatorship like they do in china” or “If we let china dictate our lives we are all working in sweatshops or 996”.
Sorry for venting, I’m just more and more realising that people straight up believe something without ever challenging that narrative and it’a frustrating.
Man I’m lucky I’m not around people like that anymore. The slurs are really the icing on the fecal layer cake. Not that it helps, but I think their racism is just a derivative of their worldview.
Again it seems that first pillar is doing all the work here. But attacking that means attacking their class position, which many are not surprisingly reluctant to do.
The first point is definitely the thread through everything. I’ve been told by these people that having more money is as simple as working harder and more.