Fun fact about socialists: None of 'em want to share a hypothetical "people's toothbrush." Toothbrushes are personal property after all, not private property, and it's hilariously unsanitary.
slightly long, capitalism rendering socialist thought hard to understand
@LexYeen We understand it well now, just, we grew up where capitalism was just taken for granted and alternatives never even mentioned except "the ussr was communist" (with no explanation of what that means or that they, uh, kinda weren't in any meaningful way) (sometimes china and/or cuba got mentioned too but never more than a mention and the implication of badness)
capitalism conflates private and personal property into the same thing in all its rhetoric, and that makes it hard to understand when someone says "we should get rid of private property" and "private property" means to you "all my clothes and books and video game collection", even though to the speaker it means "industrial equipment, housing, land, and that sort of stuff"
it's like this one time we tried to get our mom to understand that viola is pronounced /vioɫə/, not /violə/, but she couldn't wrap her head around the difference between /l/ and /ɫ/ because those are considered the same sound in english
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@Felthry It doesn't help that *generations* of Red Scare propaganda exist, either.
If you'd like a youtube video explaining the difference, the channel Second Thought just put up a video titled "Do Socialists Just Want To Take Your Stuff?"