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them. And they're consolidating the mosques so there's not even a place that's easy to go to if you want to do your religion. So I'm not saying right or wrong. So I'm not agreeing with them or disagreeing with China. I'm just describing that they've decided to treat it like a mind virus, just like they treat COVID. It's basically the same thing they did with COVID, you know, just to starve it bas…

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Democrats, Republicans, basically everybody's pretty sure they're a victim. But the Jewish numbers are crazy how high they are anyway.

Somebody named Abigail Shrier wrote in something called Commentary, and then the Wall Street Journal picked it up for an opinion piece. And she asked this question: Why are the BLM supporters, climate extremists, academic feminists, and trans activists so quick to side with Hamas? And of course you've asked the same question. You know, why are the people that Hamas would literally murder — like literally murder as soon as they had a chance to — why are they supporting Hamas when Hamas would literally murder them? And you know it's obvious. It's in their whole belief system.

Well, the hypothesis here is that it's all related to Marxism, and that Marxism could be defined as — and again this is Abigail Shrier's writing — you can define Marxism with one sentence: hate those who have something you don't. It's basically hate for people who have more than you have. But I would go further and say it's hate for people who have more than you have and you're also unwilling or unable to work for it. Because if you thought you could get it too, I don't think it would bother you at all. Because when I was a little kid I used to think, you know, hey if I work hard I'll have what people who have more than me have. So I was never jealous of rich people when I was — well I suppose everybody is a little envy, but I wasn't. I wasn't jealous of rich people like, you know, I must kill them and take their stuff and change the system. I just thought, oh I want to be like them so I'll work hard and do the obvious things to be successful.

But I've been looking for a way to mark Marxism because I contend that one of the reasons it's sticky is that people don't understand it. So people are reading into it whatever they want to, whatever they want to feel. So people probably have jealousy, that's part of it. But others probably feel like they're outcasts and they want to be part of something. Some people are just joiners. So there's probably a whole bunch of reasons that somebody aligns with Marxism because it's sort of vague. It allows you to map whatever you're thinking onto it. And there's no clean, simple one bullet point that tells you what it is for the people who don't know what it is.

So I would like to suggest, just brainstorming here, my suggestion is to call Marxism — to say it's called Marxism because it marks successful people for destruction. Marxism is for marking people for destruction. Am I wrong? Doesn't that capture it pretty well? The entire thing is that they're not trying to make the poor people rich. They're trying to make the rich people poor. Isn't that the entire thing? It's not about making poor people rich. It's about making rich people poor. You're ma

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rking them for destruction. So I think you could sell to the undereducated public that Marxism is based on the word mark, to mark somebody for death or mark them for destruction. Because that's how it plays out in reality. In reality it's a complaint about the oppressors. You're marking the oppressors, and the oppressors tend to have the money. So Marxism is marking people for destruction if they…

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