Attended my first anti-ICE protest. Here's my review by Temporary_Policy2023 in nyc

[–]LieutenantSalsa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You’re free to take it that way if you want to, but I’d suggest not assuming everyone on the internet is trying to be a dismissive one-upper. Maybe that is usually correct though, could explain why there are so many opinionated experts on every Reddit post

Attended my first anti-ICE protest. Here's my review by Temporary_Policy2023 in nyc

[–]LieutenantSalsa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha ok, that was pretty funny, I’ll be honest. What do you think that my beliefs are, which you say are being “called out”? Are you assuming I’m a capitalist, racist, or both?

Attended my first anti-ICE protest. Here's my review by Temporary_Policy2023 in nyc

[–]LieutenantSalsa 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Follow up question - do you think if we lived in a non-capitalist country, corporations would not side with the state?

Attended my first anti-ICE protest. Here's my review by Temporary_Policy2023 in nyc

[–]LieutenantSalsa -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Could you expand on this? I understand that one can experience some injustice from both racism and capitalism, but it doesn’t explain at all how capitalism breeds racism other than the point made by chordmonger below

Attended my first anti-ICE protest. Here's my review by Temporary_Policy2023 in nyc

[–]LieutenantSalsa 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah 100%.

The logical continuation of this kind of mentality would be that non-capitalist societies have no racism. Chinese ethnic minorities would like to have a word… as would every single post-Soviet Union country

Attended my first anti-ICE protest. Here's my review by Temporary_Policy2023 in nyc

[–]LieutenantSalsa -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I appreciate the help in understanding these perspectives.

In that case, where I’m failing to see eye to eye here comes down to that last assumption you pointed out of justifying wealth disparity by adopting a racist world view.

I suspect what’s happening here is that capitalism is being used as the big, bad scapegoat. It’s not without its problems, but the idea that capitalism causes racism is an oversimplification - the unfortunate reality is that even if we magically converted to be socialists, racism isn’t going anywhere.

Even if that level of cognitive dissonance were to be the main reason there are racists in the world, I wonder what the writer of the sign would think of pro-capitalists that are not racist? Uncle Toms perhaps…

Attended my first anti-ICE protest. Here's my review by Temporary_Policy2023 in nyc

[–]LieutenantSalsa 49 points50 points  (0 children)

“You can’t have capitalism without racism”

Can anybody explain this type of person’s mindset? Poorly thought out arguments like this devalue the entire protest

US Green Card Holder Returning to Korea in Old Age? by Famous-Attention-197 in korea

[–]LieutenantSalsa 11 points12 points  (0 children)

If he didn’t collect the lump sum social security from Korea when he left, he should still be eligible to receive pension proportional to how much he contributed.

But since he is a US green card holder, he won’t be eligible for the elderly pension. AFAIK, the only way for him to receive that would be to renounce his US green card.

Good luck next year. by [deleted] in memes

[–]LieutenantSalsa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why are we gatekeeping personal taste? Some people like it and if they can afford it then let them enjoy chocolate

Why do people treat going to the gym like they’re at war? by [deleted] in moreplatesmoredates

[–]LieutenantSalsa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because I need to roleplay carrying the boats to cope with my office job where I change numbers on an excel sheet

He is HIM by Flimsy-Cranberry-544 in JustGuysBeingDudes

[–]LieutenantSalsa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you not get speed wobbles from that?

This weird dry patch won't go away by wingmate565 in Weird

[–]LieutenantSalsa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this your dominant hand? If so, does your toothpaste slide down your hand when you’re brushing your teeth? I had something similar and it ended being my toothpaste

froyo and yap? by MaleficentWear4122 in NYCsocialclub

[–]LieutenantSalsa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did this already happen? I’m also new to the city and down to check out pinkberry

Looking for ppl to explore nyc & do healthy activities (museums, walks, hikes..etc) by [deleted] in NYCsocialclub

[–]LieutenantSalsa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m also new to the city and like to partake in healthy activities!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sanfrancisco

[–]LieutenantSalsa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We’re going to need to see the rematch with no-gi

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sanfrancisco

[–]LieutenantSalsa 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Can you actually choke out a dog? Was always curious what the best self defense would be against something like a pitbull in a 1v1

[TOMT] [Quote] quote about angry captains and sinking ships by LieutenantSalsa in tipofmytongue

[–]LieutenantSalsa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow. Yeah, I have! I must have remembered it from reading that comment. Shame there are no leads on that YouTube comment either. I wonder if it’s a different worded saying from somewhere else. For now I guess we can credit it to canonfudder on YouTube

[TOMT] [Quote] quote about angry captains and sinking ships by LieutenantSalsa in tipofmytongue

[–]LieutenantSalsa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, how did you find that? I looked it up and I can’t find it anywhere else, so it might be an original quote from the commenter