Hitler was a socialist who hated socialists that didn’t line up exactly with his own style of socialism. Much the same as how moslems hate moslems who don’t follow exactly the same specific kind of mohammedanism. Stalin also had socialists shot every day for not believing in the right kind of socialism. Hell, the revolution that birthed the Soviet Union was fought between bolshevik socialists and menshevik socialists, whose ideology was about 95% identical to that of the bolsheviks.
Born, raised, and spent my career in East County San Diego. I was there for the ‘03 and ‘07 sieges, among others. Moved to Arizona last year, but still work in East County (can’t draw my pension for 11 more years).
I love San Diego. Well, actually, I love what it used to be when I was a kid, into my 20s. I always thought I would raise my kids there, and leaving was the hardest thing I’ve ever done, but we had to do it. California is untenable, and it’s dying. I wish I could see a way to turn it around, but I can’t.
One of my firefighters’ ex-girlfriends was like this. Lefty NYC college chick (Columbia, if memory serves), took Confirmation Bias to a whole new level.
She insisted that California’s recent disastrous fire seasons are all because of “muh climate change” (she threw in some “patriarchy” shit here and there as well)—after all, that’s what Gavin Newsom says, and he only lies when noise comes out of his mouth. I explained to her that none of the weather was “unprecedented,” and showed her some records to back it up. I explained the history of wildland fire suppression and rangeland management in California, and how it’s been progressively neglected by the increasingly democrat-dominated state government since the late 80s, allowing a dangerous and unprecedented accumulation of dead fuels while also weakening live trees due to overcrowding and the resultant competition for soil, water, and sunlight, with the resulting domino effect of making them less resistant to drought and bug kill, further increasing the aforementioned dead fuel load. I explained how increased encroachment/development of rural areas has both increased the frequency of fire starts and put more people in harm’s way, and that in addition to neglecting prevention, our suppression budget has not kept up with the increased threat.
Well, this bitch declared that I was “mansplaining,” and that I didn’t know what the hell I was talking about. I mentioned that I’ve made my living as a full-time professional firefighter in California for 21 years, have fought lots of wildland fires in that time, that the taxpayers are damn near half a million dollars deep in training me to perform that job in both operational line fireman and strategic incident command roles, I’m extensively trained and certified in fire behavior prediction and calculation, I’ve spent two decades studying the scientific aspects of wildland fire, and I’m good enough at it that I’ve attained the rank of Fire Captain and am in charge of a station in a rural area with high fire danger. She doubled down and added that I’m obviously racist because she’s 1/16 Bolivian or some shit (she looks whiter than me).
TL,DR: My own experience with university-indoctrinated leftist moron who refused to believe she might know less about anything than somebody from outside her tiny academic bubble, and defaulted to calling me an “-ist” when she couldn’t present a rational counter argument.
I never did this. Instead, the neighbor kids and I engaged in BB gun shootouts with Red Riders and similar low-power spring-operated “shoot your eye out” toys in the horse pasture out back. We also played Smear the Queer. Sometimes, we combined the two.
My wife is a naturalized US citizen, immigrated with her parents & twin sister as an infant. Her parents were brutally victimized by communists in their native country (Cambodia). She is thoroughly based, devoutly Christian, speaks English as her first language, despises leftism in general, and is an all-American girl in every way except birth. She’s raising our kids with those same values. Why shouldn’t she get to vote?
He and his not-actually-hispanic wife sold one of their houses. He still has a couple more worth north of $20 mil.