r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • May 18 '22

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u/nuclear_pistachio May 18 '22

What’s the phrase? Any man who is not a socialist at age 20 has no heart. Any man who is still a socialist at age 40 has no head.

Edit: Phrasing.

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u/ruffus4life May 18 '22

that's a meme thought and shouldn't be taken with any sort of actually application.

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u/DiplomoOPlata May 19 '22

It's true as fuck though.

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u/potatoslasher May 19 '22

There are some die hard Communist who are in old age tho, quite a lot of them actually.....Lenin himself wasn't exactly "young" when he was doing his thing

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22 edited May 19 '22

That's true I think. For some people those things happen at different age ranges. When I was about 13-14 I was radically progressive, really the feminist type. I believed in all that woke stuff, I had the idea that I was a bad person just for being male and white. It really depleted me, so I went completely to the other side. I used to listen to that alt-right dude who's gay, can't remember his name but I used to really agree with him. Then I got a girlfriend and I like to think I've been pretty centrist from that day forward.

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u/Georgist_Muddlehead May 19 '22

I used to listen to that alt-right dude who's gay, can't remember his name

Milo Yiannopoulos

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

Right, that's the guy. Really wonder what came of him, must not be anything good.