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@magills_ She's apparently a lawyer too, but doesn't know that states have their own constitutions.

@NewsWire_US This probably wouldn't have happened without Virginia's insanely gerrymandered map, now it seems the floodgates were opened after that.

Republicans in Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina Push to Redraw Majority-Black Districts, Sparking Outrage and Protests

@Noahpinion I'm surprised Bush is that high

A lot of people on this website have ODS. Normies love the man.

@DrewPavlou Europe is seen as the enemy to the left because it represents the west and western ideology even if it's not as relevant as it once was. At least he addresses the extreme culture of guilt that Europe has always had even back when the Mongols were invading and killing everyone.

I actually like this. It’s good to see a left winger who likes Europe and doesn’t hate himself for being born European

@EP_EPRS @EP_Justice Exactly as predicted, they are going after VPNs now for even more state control, and they always do it under the guise of protecting children.

Virtual private networks #VPN are increasingly used to bypass online age verification. Protecting children online is a priority, with new rules being implemented requiring a minimum age for access to some services Read👉 link.europa.eu/FGfr6C #DSA @EP_Justice @FZarzalejos

@WeWillBeFree24 Literally the only thing he wants to do is import more foreign workers to take jobs from the locals, that's his entire platform.

Vivek got caught lying about population decline in Ohio. I told you. It's just the beginning.

@draloneboy Abby is right. Also why isn't China importing infinity Indian immigrants if that is how you get the next Einstein since they are right next to them? Most of the H1B jobs are for entry level positions, 99% of the people bring brought in with the scammed H1B system are not geniuses

Abby Phillip: “I do think the H-1B program needs some attention. It needs some degree of reform.” Kevin O’Leary: “Abby, do you want the next Einstein to come to America or Shanghai?” Abby Phillip: “I’m not fighting against an H-1B visa, folks. I’m the daughter of immigrants. Both of my parents are naturalized citizens of this country... There are real concerns that people have about companies that abuse the system.” Kevin O’Leary: “We’re talking about genius, bringing 65K genius to America.” Abby Phillip: “Kevin, you know it’s not just genius. Sometimes they’re abusing the system and bringing in medium to low wage workers [to replace Americans].”

@Angry_Staffer They violated the process of their own constitution and failed to follow their own rules. It was struck down on procedural grounds and was found to be in violation back in January on top of using misleading language.

Based on this Virginia ruling, the Tennessee and Florida maps should both also be shot down. If not, Virginia should just pull a Tennessee and change the rules to ram it though the legislature. 🤷‍♂️

@hasanthehun They failed to follow their own rules and it was already found unconstitutional back in January because they started the first sessions after early voting had already begun. It was improperly introduced, failed to notify the public 90 days prior and used misleading language.

the va supreme court denied the results of the redistricting referendum. scotus gutted the voting rights act and tennessee carved up the last dem district destroying black voter power in the state. those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable

@crazy_stephen_i @brad_polumbo @HistoryBoomer You're just saying any author or creator of a story has not earned their wealth, none of this is an argument against specifically billionaires, just anyone who makes money from creating a story or writing a book, like Bernie Sanders.

You know she didn’t direct the films right. She didn’t act in the films. She didn’t run global marketing campaigns. She didn’t handle product distribution chains. She didn’t go to law school herself or handle legal issues. You understand that when something grows to a value of billions it is the product of the work of hundreds or thousands of different people all earning value in concert. Right?

Please explain to me how JK Rowling didn't earn her billions. Who did she exploit or steal from at scale?

@IamSean90 Cuomo was begging them to come back when he was governor, he even promised to pay for dinner.

These people will you to your face that "the rich don't actually leave" while New York has lost $100 billion more in income than California who has twice our population. Over 25% of the total income leaving blue states for red states, is just people leaving New York state

@Polymarket I thought importing infinity immigrants was suppose to lead to infinite growth.

JUST IN: South Korea officially surpasses Canada as the world's 7th largest stock market.

@8abizantino @RockChartrand Yeah, mercantilism is closer in this example. Also I'm only focusing on it because that is what the quoted tweet's picture was talking about, specifically monarch Leopold II's colony in the Congo, which was a state run monopoly employing forced and slave labor.

@Skipxbeat @RockChartrand I thought we already discussed the free market capitalist thing, if its okay with you then I'll agree to settle it in Mercantilism, its just funny how you see? to focus only in the colony owned by the king of Belgium, and taking Belgium markets out of the equation

Because capitalism is apparently when a king runs a state enforced monopoly, imposes production quotas, uses a militarized force to enforce labor, bans free trade, and mutilates people for failing to meet quotas. In reality, the Congo Free State was far closer to a centrally planned command economy than anything resembling free market capitalism. Leopold claimed ownership over the land and resources, forced Congolese villagers to meet rubber quotas, prohibited free exchange outside the state system, and used the Force Publique as an armed labor police to enforce compliance. Ironically, production quotas and forced labor are exactly what communist systems became infamous for under Soviet collectivization and other command economies. The USSR imposed state quotas on collective farms, forcibly centralized production, confiscated property, and punished resistance while millions suffered famine and repression under the Five Year Plans. A king using state violence to control production is not capitalism. It is authoritarian central planning. The fact that a ruler extracted resources for profit doesn’t magically make it capitalism any more than Soviet officials extracting resources for the state made the USSR capitalist.

@8abizantino @RockChartrand Also you mean Rockefeller Jr. (not Sr) was linked to a company, not owned by him, that came in in 1906 (Leopold gave up the Congo in 1908), and had nothing to do with the militia or rubber tax. Jr. denies affiliation, the company was also not part of "red rubber" like ABIR.

@8abizantino @RockChartrand Leopold didn't "give" or sell them any land, he allowed some companies to extract resources on his land in exchange for dividends and taxes, he also used forced and slave labor, there was no free market or free trade and it was a state run monopoly.

@Victorshi2020 You are a paid shill for Bass.

A couple takeaways from the LA mayoral debate tonight: Nithya Raman is not LA’s Zohran Mamdani. No where close. No serious person in LA believes Spencer Pratt should be mayor. Karen Bass hasn’t been perfect, but she’s got a record & results to prove it.

@8abizantino @RockChartrand I know what it's mocking, but a state controlled monopoly with forced labor, where free trade was illegal is the opposite of capitalism and there was no free market as they were only allowed to sell to the state at fixed prices. It would be closer to mercantilism, not capitalism.

@Skipxbeat @RockChartrand Aight starting from 0 and after letting other drive the conversation, yeah, i use ironically the phrase they mock of "its not real communism" with their free market utopia, i know that Leopolds Congo was Predatory Capitalism

@8abizantino @RockChartrand There was no free market in King Leopold's Congo, they were only allowed to sell to the state who fixed prices, in addition, there was forced labor, they couldn't just sell their labor, which is not capitalism and it was a state owned monopoly, as Leopold II was the state.

@RockChartrand "Its not real free market capitalism" lol

@SankarasLawyer @MattisRedacted It wasn't capitalism, it was a monarch controlling the Congo. There was no free trade, they weren't even given money for their labor and they were only allowed to sell to the state who fixed prices removing supply and demand. It was just forced labor under a monarchy.

@MattisRedacted They didn’t call it slavery. Those people earned low wages or they had their hands chopped off. It was naked capitalism at its finest. Work for Belgian rubber companies or die.

“capitalism is never imposed.”

@miggy_n7 That was under King Leopold II of Belgium, a monarch, it had nothing to do with capitalism or the free market. The photo was taken to show the brutality (chopping off a hand for missed quotas) internationally so they could put pressure on Leopold to cede the area.

"el capitalismo nunca se impone"