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@ImTheMacheteGuy posted...

I'm financially stable. I don't make a lot but I budget and I save. I'm about to hit 8 years on my current job. It's not glamorous, but it pays the bills and I live on better means than I have previously. I have a regular savings, and retirement plan(s), some of which is inherited and I've managed it wisely to optimize its eventual output, while many in my position would squander it. Fiscally, I've actually operated in a more right wing manner within the past decade. However, my votes have been for left wing candidates.

If my rights were to be imposed upon, to the point I felt threatened, you could naturally expect my name to play a part. Think of "the purge" series. I know what I would do.

But still, look at the other side a bit more. Are you really looking for people to get so paranoid that they feel the need to think of that doomsday shit? Is a "the purge" scenario even logical or warranted? No. It is not. However, your opponents think of it, and I'm not gonna tell you they are wrong to do so.

I will not abandon the left, but the left needs to step back and reevaluate, otherwise, the likelihood of additional losses increases. You can disbelieve me if you want but that's a fucking party death sentence. Trust me on that or don't (if you choose don't, play close attention)

first of all: Fluffy was misrepresenting my position. I'm not sure if he was lying or if he genuinely doesn't understand the difference between "French and Russian revolutionaries were justified in killing off their respective royal families" and "we need to indiscriminately kill anyone who makes more than X dollars a year." I don't particularly care which one it is either, and am not interested in any discussion coming from anything he said.

that being said, two things from your post:
1. I don't judge people for trying to live as best they can under capitalism. saving for retirement is hardly the same thing as exploitation.
2. unless you're voting for actual socialists (i.e. explicitly anti-capitalist) please do not refer to them as "left wing candidates"

keep in mind that when I talk about Class issues, I do so in a Marxist context. Class is determined by how money is made, rather than the actual amount of money.
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