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@JesterJum Because its not "each other" they are many players in the game. And compounding interest.

The entire Earth is $348 trillion in debt. TO WHO?!?!? EACH OTHER??? If you took all of the money in the world....all of it....that would only be enough to pay back 1/3 of that debt!! Am I the only one who this makes absolutely no sense to???

@cafreiman @LPofCT I would argue that the hard sciences are wrong all the time, find great discoveries by mistake when looking for completely different things, misinterpret data to satisfy theories that then are proven wrong, and ultimately are not that "hard" of sciences anyways lol.

“Economics isn’t remotely rigorous enough to qualify as scientific.” “Huh, OK—so what do you think explains rising prices?” “Greed.”

@cafreiman @LPofCT 🤣 greed, the one variable of our times. And it rises and falls alarmingly and sporadically with no warning.

@LaissezCorvid @Bl00dOld 🤣 ok I DONT think ancap is an oxymoron, But this is a banger of a twist.

>"Anarcho-Capitalism is an oxymoron!" >Is a Marxist >Marxism is derived from the Hegelian dialectic, which claims that contradictions should be embraced >Oxymoron means contradiction By the Marxists' own philosophy, they should embrace Ancap as the synthesis to their thesis and antithesis

The Constitution does NOT give you rights. You already have them. The Constitution simply tells the government that it cannot take those rights away.

@polkabecky @DefiantLs @CPalmerEldritch They still give good boots on the ground war reporting that aim aware of. It doesn't seem to pick a side. At least with Iran.

@DefiantLs @CPalmerEldritch Ah, NPR, how far you have fallen. I used to listen daily and now it's all BS.

NPR CEO: "I think our reverence for the truth might have become a bit of a distraction that is preventing us from finding consensus and getting important things done."

@Puttitinthere @FreeTalkLive No- thats what Marx claimed. First of all, a large corperation isnt bad. But the government shouldn't subsidize it. Subsidizing corperations with tax dollars to control the market is the least free market policy you could make.

@FreeTalkLive Capitalism literally creates corporatism. It is an unavoidable consequence of capitalism. They are completely impossible to decouple in society over the long term.

You don't hate capitalism, you hate corporatism. You look at bailouts, subsidies, and firms that get rich through political access instead of honest competition, and you are right to feel disgusted. Capitalism lives or dies by voluntary exchange, by serving people well enough that they choose you over someone else. Corporatism works by fusing business with the state so failure gets cushioned, rivals get fenced out, and consumers get trapped. In one arrangement, profit follows value. In the other, profit follows influence.

@_for_mation @FreeTalkLive If people simply, voted for free market policies we wouldn't have to live like this lol.

@FreeTalkLive Capitalism has been hijacked by corporatism, no and, if or buts. As long as they are not decoupled, one simply is the other.

Ok I missed the part where you said "work with government". Yea. Those are not free market policies at all that produced that, but it sounds like you are aware. And I do understand the illusion of choice. Those things are not due to free market policies, but sounds like you know that. Monopolies are not nessesarily bad either and not always the reason for cost increase. But in a market where competition is impossible, a monopoly is being enforced by the government. Which it sounds like you know. I don't know who decided that non free market policies are part of capitalism, but the term is broad and overused. Every single modern market is a mixed market system. I dont know percentage of private to public markets are required to describe each "system" and Im not aware that anyone has attempted to define that outside the "index of economic freedom" to rank them by country.

@SunnySideBot @shadydoorags What do you think work with means? And yeah they are, all food in America in the grocery store is owned by like 2-3 big company names, housing is being built cheap af but cost more, and being built by large companies. Auto industry makes a base, and different shells for that. Etc

"Capitalist", like most words, has more than one definition and requires context. When most people say "I am a capitalist" they typically mean "I support capitalism", which doesn't require you to own capital in order to be true. This is very different from someone who supports communism or socialism because those are systems that require everyone to participate, by force if necessary, and thus if you want one of those systems, including their negative consequences, it makes sense that you would start imposing those systems on yourself, first. In capitalism, you do not have to own capital, make a product nor distribute it, you're just in an environment that allows everyone to do so. However, let's assume the NPC is using a different definition of "capitalist". Most people do own capital, they just don't use it to its fullest extent, though I guess it would be more accurate to call those things "potential capital". I own a computer and I use that computer to make a product, videos. I allow my product to be distributed by a company, YouTube, in exchange for a percentage of the profit. This also allows for potential growth of my brand, which in turn creates potentially more wealth for myself, which I can put towards more capital. Most people who own computers don't use them that way, but it doesn't dismiss the fact that they could.

80% of meaningful Capitol? What do you mean by that? There isn't anything the 1% owns right now that is impeding my life. Free market policies are against subsidizing corperations and taxes at the same time. Always has been that way. The government often props up large corperations with a combination of subsidies and regulations that hurt small buisness. Subsidizing also reduces risk for large corperations, banks, abd hedge funds that the rest of us are 100% responsible for with complete risk assumption. So if there is any inequality of assuming risk, the government has created that.

@shadydoorags What's it called when the 1% owns 80% of meaningful capital and work with the government to suppress the chances of others to succeed? Just asking

Socialism is about the redistribution of wealth from the productive class to the political class.

Dan, in your first call, which I think is the first and last occasion you and I ever spoke: (1) you seemed upset that I had received and had released FBI whistleblower information about the pipe bomb investigation. (2) I informed you that your staff had threatened to criminally investigate my staff as retribution against me (for pipe bomb or Epstein activity?) (3) you threatened to personally finance a defamation suit against reporters on behalf of a suspect. Perhaps it was also a veiled threat to sue me. You said “those depositions aren’t going to fun for the people involved” or something like that. In any case, Deputy FBI Director shouldn’t be financing civil lawsuits against reporters covering cases the FBI is working on. (4) you said you were going to call every agent in and get to the bottom of the whistleblower issue. (5) you offered me a briefing but I was going to be tied up until at least 6pm on the Epstein files transparency act, so I asked how late i could get the briefing and you said you were going to leave the office at 5pm. (6) I asked you a few questions on the call and your answers indicated to me that you were perhaps less informed than me on some of the issues, or you were going to be less than forthcoming. A few hours after the call, I received and released new FBI whistleblower information regarding the all-hands meeting (which matched what you told me in #4 above), related to concern that the meeting was called to “out” the whistelblowers. Your second (attempted) call was the evening I achieved 218 signatures on the Epstein discharge petition and I had been busy thwarting Mike Johnson’s last ditch effort to derail the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Not sure why your call log shows 1:36am. You called me in the evening, maybe 8ish? note - my staff also had the unfortunate pleasure of receiving numerous late night calls on Signal from FBI staff telling them there was absolutely nothing in the Epstein case and that I should back off.

When will people be better at understanding the ultimately selfish nature of apparently selfless fanaticism?

Everything is always in flux, so a flexible market is important. This is a huge topic. Many people moved from cities back to small towns and many are getting gentrified, which raises costs there as well. Well paying work from home IT jobs ect setting up camp in cheaper places can bring opportunities and raise prices

@SunnySideBot @politvidchannel Unless the poorest 50% are earning a living wage and not affected by regressive taxes like tariffs then small town America cannot survive

BREAKING: New study finds 50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down.

@BuenoForMiami Bandwagon Theory tryers. I get it. But until a protest aligns with the actual specific and complicated demands I have I won't be there. So probably will never be there.

Whats the purpose of a protest? Besides letting people know you’re upset, what do you expect to change?

The Republican Party needs free-market, pro-trade, anti-war voices. I’ll keep fighting for those principles no matter what.

@kurri_jari The morning beer let's me know you're serious about what you said 🤣 you're not wasting a nice relaxing Saturday.

Regarding the No Kings thing. Like or dislike Trump all you want. But you're wasting a fine Saturday morn/afternoon if you gather with fellow like minded people with silly signs. Just drove by a bunch of boomers with signs in an affluent suburb of Portland. Shaking their signs and hooting and hollering as I drove by. I gave them a Thumbs Down. Not because of their political opinions, but because they're wasting energy. Volunteer to walk a dog. Call a friend you haven't chatted to in ages. Scrub some graffiti. Be productive on a level that creates a real result. Gonna grab a morning beer and think on this a bit more. Thank you.

@KamenAmericaJPN YUM tis the season

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