Unify Action - They Thought We Should ＂Tax The Rich A＊＊holes＂ - They Panicked When I Said This

00:00:00.000 like privatized healthcare is stupid it doesn't make any sense you're saying government should 0.99

00:00:04.080 own housing health care food stuff like that 25 000 people died last year waiting for health care 0.99

00:00:09.600 of course yeah that's that's the issue with the government okay but i thought we just said that

00:00:13.120 government is basically social it's everyone is given equal basic standard rights so do you know

00:00:20.560 what that means yeah like that that is democratic government so you have so you have free housing

00:00:28.260 No.

00:00:29.020 So that's not democracy.

00:00:31.000 Socialism is still a democracy.

00:00:32.920 You know that, right?

00:00:34.120 Okay.

00:00:35.080 I think we have different definitions.

00:00:36.880 So my definition of democracy is the people voting for their rulers,

00:00:40.300 and everyone has a say.

00:00:42.260 That's still how socialism works.

00:00:44.600 Socialism still has democracy involved.

00:00:47.760 Okay.

00:00:48.540 So you're still voting for your leaders in socialism?

00:00:51.280 You're voting for policy?

00:00:52.560 Democratic socialism.

00:00:53.740 Democratic socialism.

00:00:54.560 i think that is the superior form socialism okay when you are doing that like the socialist aspect

00:01:04.360 comes in of you have equality and you have basic rights you have a right to food you have a right

00:01:09.200 to water you have a right to your own self-governance okay and you have a right to

00:01:13.300 housing something that we don't really have in a lot of other countries all right yeah i have a few

00:01:17.180 questions about that yeah of course so do we tax the rich to pay for the housing or is the housing

00:01:23.840 ultimately free because like people is like the food free is like is there like no exchange of

00:01:28.660 money for food or housing there is there's still an exchange of money obviously like you have a

00:01:35.540 base amount of food that you're given you have a base amount of housing that you're given there

00:01:39.540 still is upward mobility okay you can still go out and like buy a hamburger if you want but you also

00:01:45.940 know that you can come home and have like a bowl full of oats you're not going to starve to death

00:01:49.220 there's guarantees of that there's social things placed in charge you can still go out and buy a

00:01:54.360 nicer house but you can still go home to your little like concrete hut so that's what democratic

00:02:00.880 socialism is you have these i wouldn't call it concrete hut necessarily living the dream no it's

00:02:06.140 not the dream sure okay but it is better than what we have right now and i would rather pack some 0.95

00:02:12.800 assholes that don't care about me and have everyone have a home that they can live in 0.97

00:02:17.400 and have food and not have to starve then you know you've been in toronto there's plenty of 0.99

00:02:23.640 homeless people here right and giving them those opportunities still giving them a place to stay

00:02:28.160 okay um so i've listened to a lot of people talk like people who work with homeless people

00:02:35.140 homeless shelters and things like that and the unfortunate side of homelessness is that a lot

00:02:40.200 of these people don't want to actually make their lives better like there's a lot of there's like

00:02:44.560 there's shelters and places they can actually go to actually get help and to clean their lives up

00:02:48.520 but a lot of them don't because they prefer the way they're living sure yeah i've worked with the

00:02:54.380 homeless like personally and that is true there are quite a lot of homeless people but that is

00:03:00.240 they're making that choice though like so are we going to force them to do something different i

00:03:05.360 don't think it's right for them to have to sleep on the side of the road i think they should still

00:03:09.300 have a bed at the end of the day they should have the choice because like right now if you wanted to

00:03:14.140 build a house in the middle of downtown toronto or if you want to build a house in a field outside

00:03:17.840 that no one's in you can't do that right so you don't have the yeah you don't have the option to

00:03:22.860 do that but under so you can you just have to pay for it yeah but under socialism you still have the

00:03:28.000 option to have a house to have things that you can put in that house still have a safe space for

00:03:31.780 your own self that's that's the benefits of socialism brings okay it's not it's not completely

00:03:37.800 opposed to capitalism like uh communism is it works in tandem with it well uplifting it with

00:03:43.900 and communist ideals okay um so the way that i understand socialism though is that we have public

00:03:49.780 ownership of the means of production as well as wealth redistribution so would we have that in

00:03:54.600 your ideal world ownership of the public ownership of the means of production yeah obviously obviously

00:04:00.460 i think that like sure there's some systems that should be under government control school food

00:04:07.600 most food like agriculture i think makes sense hospitals definitely yeah like privatized health 0.96

00:04:15.460 care like it's stupid it doesn't make any sense uh basic human resources like the housing market 0.81

00:04:22.800 should be under government control okay we have enough housing in canada we have more than enough 0.99

00:04:27.400 housing in canada for everyone people just can't afford it that's the issue and a lot of people

00:04:33.560 picket jobs because this job market is awful these buildings up here many of them have many

00:04:39.540 many empty rooms it's it's it's regular it's a very regular thing okay so you're saying government

00:04:45.880 should own housing health care food stuff like that so so government already has like we already

00:04:51.320 have public health care yeah how how would you think that's going is it going good compared to

00:04:56.680 the u.s yeah okay so like 25 000 people died last year waiting for health care of course

00:05:02.620 all right so we need more infrastructure like that's that's part of the issue but it's completely

00:05:08.640 government run and the government's like doing nothing right so that that's sort of in that

00:05:13.840 sort of inefficiency and like lack of resource like recognition that like like they're not fast

00:05:20.100 right so the so you're saying that we should have that same sort of government control over

00:05:24.440 everything how can we guarantee like food is an essential service how can we guarantee that we

00:05:29.080 will have enough food production well we don't that's not the issue with socialism that's the

00:05:33.980 issue with the government yeah that's that's the issue with the government okay but i thought we

00:05:37.760 just said that government is basically social we don't have the right people in charge that's the

00:05:41.180 issue there needs to be a change of those in charge to those who actually want to bring about

00:05:46.120 socialism there's still a profit incentive underneath all of this stuff because there's

00:05:50.740 still certain surgeries like dental care is absolutely necessary but you still have to pay

00:05:55.300 for it in canada okay that should be i think that under socialism we don't have a government that's

00:06:03.180 large enough to support it we don't have a government that's large enough to uplift it

00:06:07.360 the issue is is that our government is already too small for what we are trying to do and we

00:06:14.640 need a little bit more local authority on this as well i at least i think i think that there

00:06:18.500 needs to be a bit more localized authority like a lot of these issues that you bring up is because

00:06:24.560 it's a top-down issue like right you have these people at the top but if you give a little bit

00:06:31.300 more command to the people lower in the chain these hospital wait times you know we'd be able

00:06:36.380 to build more hospitals we'd be able to build more infrastructure for food infrastructure for

00:06:40.760 housing it's about it's about people getting stuck in bureaucracy bureaucracy is the issue

00:06:46.880 thing but okay so you want less bureaucracy but more government yes i don't think those two things

00:06:55.520 are diametrically opposed okay but like government basically is bureaucracy like if you have like

00:07:02.440 the people down lower they don't necessarily have a lot of like power like they just have to do what

00:07:07.680 the people of above tell them to do and i'm saying that we should give them more power okay but all

00:07:14.260 Right, so you want different people and more power to different people.

00:07:20.720 Yes.

00:07:21.240 How do we know that the people that we put in charge are actually going to have good intentions? 0.97

00:07:26.120 Because if you look at the dictators of the past, the Stalins, the Lenins, the Maos,

00:07:31.120 that have hundreds of millions of people,

00:07:33.840 it's really 100 million people that communist dictators and socialist dictators have killed.

00:07:38.200 It's horrible.

00:07:38.880 so they came to power

00:07:41.500 promising the exact same thing

00:07:42.900 the socialist people

00:07:44.580 what level of government were they on?

00:07:46.920 well that's federal

00:07:47.640 and I'm saying that we should give more

00:07:50.900 provincial power

00:07:51.740 we're giving more provincial power

00:07:54.100 but is it still possible

00:07:56.680 for a provincial premier to be a dictator?

00:07:59.120 possibly

00:07:59.540 I think possibly

00:08:00.400 often there will always be people with malintentions

00:08:05.360 but how do we beat them out?

00:08:08.000 well

00:08:08.200 unfortunately you can't always do it like we it's clear that we can't do it anyways so there's

00:08:13.460 already terrible people that are in government currently i would argue a capitalist dictator

00:08:18.080 but i would not then argue capitalism is a scam because one guy is using it to his own advantage

00:08:25.060 like since trump came to power public approval of him has plummeted but his pockets have been

00:08:31.160 high he's made so much money yeah and that's really all he cares about so that that's a bad

00:08:35.540 man using the system to his advantage and there will always i think there will always be people

00:08:41.540 trying to use the system to their advantage what we need to do is we need to do our best to try and

00:08:47.360 limit the amount of people who try and abuse the system that's that's what world war ii was all

00:08:52.080 about hitler got into power he was not a communist and would you say that hitler is worse than

00:08:56.740 shalin i think that's a they were both particularly bad one just packaged his political beliefs

00:09:04.520 better yes hitler just like full out he was horrible he was horrible i think he's probably 0.76

00:09:09.000 one of the worst worst beings that ever lived i would say so no i would but stalin inevitably 0.64

00:09:13.820 ended more lives simply because he was in for longer and he packaged his political theory 0.83

00:09:20.460 in a nicer package right which yes which i don't think there's any way to like like so he had this

00:09:26.160 nice package like he said like hey we're going to we're going to have everyone's going to be equal

00:09:30.580 everyone's going to have sufficiency

00:09:32.560 and the people that are

00:09:34.420 socialists now that want to get into power

00:09:36.440 like Mamdani, they're promising basically the same

00:09:38.680 thing, how can we be sure that

00:09:40.480 what they're promising they'll actually do

00:09:42.000 how can you be sure that they're not going to do it though

00:09:44.440 it's the same argument

00:09:45.960 that's based in chance fallacy

00:09:48.700 it is a risk

00:09:49.300 is this the chance then for them to actually enact

00:09:51.840 well there was a chance that Trump would

00:09:53.760 rename Lake Ontario, Lake America

00:09:56.360 and that chance has come about

00:09:57.660 so there's everything is a chance anything you do i would say that trump though is a much more

00:10:03.620 ballsy leader than some of the other people he actually goes yeah just because he's doing more

00:10:09.280 doesn't mean he's doing more good stuff right he's ballsy in the worst ways possible is the thing

00:10:15.800 but um just because something bad can go wrong that doesn't mean you shouldn't do it so i'm

00:10:21.560 attending university that could be a complete failure i could maybe not get a job uh i go into

00:10:26.960 debt and i become homeless yeah but does that mean i shouldn't do it i think there's a lot

00:10:32.940 more at risk though in giving the government a huge amount of power a lot more at risk it's a

00:10:37.720 lot more risk but there are different scales sure but if you scale that down to a personal scale

00:10:43.060 if i vote in a government and they become a dictator it will be terrible yes but also

00:10:50.860 it's my one decision which in comparison to university for example that one

00:10:56.980 decision has a very minute chance of my impact actually meaning anything we're

00:11:01.980 going to university it's all you making that decision and you up you up and now

00:11:08.100 you're out forever I would say it it's I'd say it's very comparable I would say

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Unify Action - September 17, 2026

They Thought We Should ＂Tax The Rich A＊＊holes＂ - They Panicked When I Said This

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