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- Jun 13, 2020
Have they ever visited a third world country? Even just Lebanon on something?They don't obviously, but I wanna see them try, it would be hilarious to see anisa pissing the locals off somehow, or Ian being intimidated by a 5'3 manlet streetseller into buying some overpriced tourist shit.
I have a friend who is basically lockstep with then when it comes to their politics (he's a good guy despite this).
We were talking recently, and he agreed with me that most people who have these political views have one thing in common: they've never left the US (or Canada). They've especially never been to a third world shithole. Because of this, they can't see what separates the US from being a third world country, and how easily everything here could go to shit.
They've never encountered migrants in a poor country, who came from a poorer country and are slowly in transit to a rich country, they have no idea how shitty those people are. Because of that, they want unlimited amounts of those people here.
Defund the police? Sure. They can't imagine a world without police, where whether you're raped, for example, comes down to how much community respect your husband, brother, or father has. They can't imagine a group of people squatting on their lawn who say they'll leave if you pay them all of your money, and won't even leave then. Don't even get me started on home invasions.
They see AOC chanting that the supreme court is illegitimate, and enthusiastically cheer her on. Because really, why not abolish checks and balances? What could possibly go wrong with a top-down government with a single branch that can do whatever it wants unimpeded?
They can't imagine a government that's truly oppressive, because they've never been to a place like that, despite it being almost all of the outside world. They don't know how shitty they're advocating our society to become.
Their ignorance knows no bounds.