I met a young guy a couple nights ago that went on for about 20 minutes telling me about how great Communism is.
I was meeting with a friend for a drink in Hamilton and after we were on the sidewalk having a smoke and chatting. Dude comes up to us and immediately spins the conversation towards Communism, how misperceived it is, etc.
Every time I tried to say something or ask a question he just got louder, so I just let him rant. My friend was just smiling the whole time. Went on about how the Red Revolution was purely grassroots, Bolsheviks and Lenin etc were heroes, that Russia really won the war and were the good guys but evil Capitalism is screwing it all up and that a Marxist world is what we should all be striving for.
Was amazing. And scary.
Might have been fun to have a discourse but he didn't allow it, would just keep talking and get louder. He looked maybe late 20's hipster intellectual type, beard and glasses etc.
Said some dumb shit about lockdowns too lol He was an advocate for hard lockdowns but yet there he was at a bar talking with strangers like me 3 feet away with no masks on
