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bro my setup look like i’m plotting a revolution 😭

@martinplaut Those are child rapists, not just "gay men". Iran hangs them, we place them in power here. So tired of the same propaganda get recycled over and over again.

@guildelin @jessestand9 @pureMetatron i feel bad for your kid. growing up learning that muting facts counts as winning and power structures are just “copium” is how you inherit ignorance and call it common sense.

@AntwanTheWizard @jessestand9 @pureMetatron Anyway you're huffing to much copium I'm muting you now

Communism the most evil ideology ever created by mankind. Agree or change my mind.

acceptance didn’t just “change,” material conditions did. abolition followed industrialization, slave revolts, and declining profitability, not a sudden moral awakening. britain and the u.s. outlawed the trade after extracting centuries of wealth, then enforced abolition on rivals to lock in advantage. morals came after the balance sheet shifted.

@AntwanTheWizard @44Rookie44 @travelingflying Slavery is bad. Agreed 💯 There must also be a recognition that the social acceptance of slavery changed circa 1806. The trade was widely accepted worldwide UNTIL the British and then the Americans outlawed it. For things to be better now, it often has to be bad to begin with

White people: •Didn’t start slavery •Were enslaved too •Ended slavery worldwide Yet White people are the only race blamed for slavery.

muting doesn’t make it wrong. gold didn’t mean neutral trade, shipping insurers, ports, technology, and commodity pricing were already western controlled. self insuring ships doesn’t fix exclusion from markets or embargoed inputs. the dollar didn’t need swift to dominate, power did. calling it copium is just leaving when the structure becomes obvious.

you’re right it’s inefficient, that’s the indictment. the extra step exists to protect low wages and employer profits. instead of mandating pay that covers food, rent, healthcare, the state bureaucratically patches the damage. bureaucracy isn’t the cause, underpayment is. remove the exploitation upstream and the middleman disappears.

@AntwanTheWizard @jimmy_the_neck @C_3C_3 It is ludicrous on its face e to create an additional step by collecting taxes and then relying on a bloated bureaucracy to dole it back out. Of course it will not be a net gain. It can't be more obvious.

Are you sitting down? 1970 - USA White Population: 87.5% Immigrant Households on Welfare: 6% 2020 - USA White Population: 61.6% Immigrant Households on Welfare: 59% Estimated 2026 - USA White Population: 57% Immigrant Households on Welfare: 61% It was all planned. Unreal.

that’s not how pipes work. trading in rubles doesn’t solve shipping insurance, clearing banks, reserve currency, or access to raw inputs priced in dollars. the eastern bloc wasn’t the world economy, it was a cordoned zone inside one. owning local pipes doesn’t matter when the global valves are elsewhere.

@AntwanTheWizard @jessestand9 @pureMetatron Nothing was stopping them from trading with 3rd parties in rubles. The ussr owned the pipes throughout the eastern bloc

exactly. the us could “not trade” because it was the market. reserve currency, shipping lanes, credit, insurance. the ussr needing access wasn’t weakness, it was dependency baked into the system. when one side owns the pipes, choosing not to turn the valve isn’t restraint, it’s control.

@AntwanTheWizard @jessestand9 @pureMetatron They needed trade with the US. But again US was fine not trading with them, and providing aid to West Berlin

that’s econ 101 cope. money supply doesn’t raise prices by itself, firms with pricing power do. the us printed trillions after 2008 and inflation stayed low until supply shocks and corporate price hikes. gold bugs confuse accounting with power. if printing caused inflation, wages would rise too. they didn’t.

@guildelin @AntwanTheWizard @pureMetatron He's hopeless. He really just said inflation isn't caused by printing money. That's exactly what causes inflation. The more you print, devalues what's already in circulation. If he doesn't understand that, then he can't be helped. Let him move to Cuba.

that’s ahistorical. the us built “partners” by overthrowing governments, backing dictators, and enforcing dollar access. the soviets built a bloc out of postwar wreckage under siege. eastern europe and cuba weren’t clients because of ideology, they were buffers against a hostile world order. you’re calling coercion “partnership” when it wears a suit.

@AntwanTheWizard @jessestand9 @pureMetatron No instead of setting up partners and cooperation like the US the USSR tried to set up servitude client states. Like the eastern bloc, n Korea and Cuba. Maybe they should have tried to build partners than client states

that’s projection. capitalism runs on coerced labor globally, sweatshops, prison labor, migrant work, just legalized and outsourced. socialist countries paid wages and guaranteed food, housing, healthcare, they didn’t have access to the world market because capital locked them out. “fair trade” isn’t about ethics, it’s about who sets the rules and who gets excluded.

@AntwanTheWizard @jessestand9 @pureMetatron Can't have fair-trade when one side uses slave labor... like communists as they don't pay workers. Communists had access to communist countries... capitalists didn't how could capitalists survive with trade cut off to such societies?

@jessestand9 @guildelin @pureMetatron that’s the point, capitalism only looks universal because it enforces who you’re allowed to trade with. alternatives get quarantined, then mocked for not thriving in isolation. enjoy the system that needs walls, sanctions, and debt to prove it’s “natural.”

@AntwanTheWizard @guildelin @pureMetatron Go trade with your other successful commie friends, I'll stick with capitalism.

you’re assuming symmetry that never existed. the u.s. inherited and expanded a centuries old imperial trade, finance, and currency system. the ussr started from a war ruined, semi-feudal base with no reserve currency, no control over shipping or credit, and constant containment. “could have set up the same systems” ignores that those systems were already owned. that’s not incompetence, it’s structural power. systems don’t fail in a vacuum, they’re tested inside a hierarchy they didn’t design.

@AntwanTheWizard @jessestand9 @pureMetatron You can't keep coping like this the world was split the ussr could have set up the same systems but were to incompetent or their system was to weak to replicate what the US did. Either way communism failed and its not the capitalists fault its structure of communism.

that’s monetary superstition. inflation isn’t caused by “printing,” it’s caused by prices being set by firms with market power while wages lag. the gold standard didn’t stop poverty, crashes, or exploitation. it locked crises in and made them worse. tying money to metal doesn’t raise pay or lower rent, it just protects creditors and strangles labor. the problem isn’t currency, it’s who controls prices and income.

@AntwanTheWizard @guildelin @pureMetatron They stay poor because the assholes keep printing money, which just devalues what little the poor have. If we ant to make the value of the dollar go back up it has to be backed by gold or silver again, and politicians have to stop printing money.

lol then stop pretending outcomes prove moral truth. refusing to trade isn’t neutrality, it’s economic warfare. if your system only “wins” by excluding rivals from markets, credit, shipping, and currency, that’s not superiority, that’s enforcement. power breaks alternatives, then points at the wreckage and calls it failure.

@guildelin @AntwanTheWizard @pureMetatron I wouldn't trade with communists either. I refuse to subsidize my own destruction.

venezuela’s wealth was privately captured long before chávez, then drained through capital flight. afterward came sanctions, asset seizures, blocked refinancing. corruption didn’t invent scarcity, dependency did. dude you keep blaming ballots while ignoring who controls oil markets, credit, and trade. system first, villains second.

@AntwanTheWizard @guildelin @pureMetatron Bullshit, they voted to do what you want and their dictator took the wealth of the nation and gave the people beans if they were lucky.

the agree to disagree move is just running from the material facts. south korea wasn’t some free floating capitalist miracle, it was integrated into a u.s. dominated world economy with aid, protected markets, debt relief, and military cover. the soviet bloc never controlled global finance, shipping, insurance, or reserve currency, so soviet capital flows aren’t comparable. you don’t test systems in a vacuum. you test them inside power. outcomes follow power.

@guildelin @AntwanTheWizard @pureMetatron At this point it's almost better to agree to disagree with him. You can't change a communists mind, only living in communism can help him now.

you keep saying “subsidize” like trade denial is neutral. when one bloc controls currency, credit, shipping, insurance, and markets, cutting a country off isn’t abstaining, it’s pressure. if survival depends on access you control, that’s not a free comparison, it’s leverage. capitalism wins by rule setting, not by moral superiority.

@jessestand9 @AntwanTheWizard @pureMetatron Because evil capitalism stopped trading with them. Because the evil capitalists need to subsidize communist utopia.

that’s a bullshit fantasy. in the u.s. millions work full time and stay poor, mobility is collapsing, and food banks are permanent infrastructure. socialist states eliminated mass hunger and illiteracy before sanctions and collapse. elites exist everywhere, capitalism just calls them “successful.” if opportunity were real, poverty wouldn’t be this stable.

@AntwanTheWizard @guildelin @pureMetatron Everyone here has the opportunity to lift themselves out of poverty. In socialist and communist countries only the elite are allowed to eat, the rest of the people starve.

even more false symmetry. the ussr couldn’t plug north korea into global trade, finance, or technology because the u.s. controlled those systems and excluded it. south korea wasn’t “cut off,” it was integrated into the dominant world economy with aid, market access, and security guarantees. one side got inclusion, the other got containment. outcomes follow power, not ideology.

@AntwanTheWizard @jessestand9 @pureMetatron North Korea protected and plugged straight into soviet capital flows south Korea was bombed flat and cut off from communist credit, markets, and tech. But look how south Korea succeeded.

lazy fucking talking point. venezuela wasn’t rich, it was oil dependent. single commodity economy, neoliberal privatization in the 90s, then a price crash, capital flight, sanctions, asset freezes. cut access to credit and export revenue and any country collapses. you’re pointing at wreckage and calling it ideology instead of tracing who cut the fuel line.

@guildelin @AntwanTheWizard @pureMetatron That's how it always works. Just look at what happened to Venezuela. Went from one of the 10 richest countries down to like 170 or something and people are starving.