@RockChartrand Yeh except wealth does exist to be distributed ... how do you think a functioning economy works you fuck wit!
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Mike Murphy
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Mike Murphy
@dalkeithfiddler
Swansea, Liverpool, Sheffield , Nottingham, Brighton and now Edinburgh (30 years !) Irish and Scottish citizen @theSNP #YES #EU
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If your complaint is that wealth didn’t “trickle down,” you’re already assuming it was owed to you in the first place.
Wealth doesn’t exist to be distributed. It has to be created, and it only gets created when people are free to produce, invest, and trade.
If your standard is that success is a problem unless it’s redistributed, you’re rejecting the idea that people are entitled to what they earn.
Aes🇺🇸@AesPolitics1
Reagan is one if not the worst presidents in history and I stand by that statement to my dying day.
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@elonmusk No it's not. I haven't researched this or asked an AI bot to verify ... there's no need. Given your X history and record we're now at the level that we know that it is 99.99999% certain that anything you say is pure bullshit.
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@elonmusk If this kind of commentary is typical of your critical thinking skills and ability to objectively analyse data and distinguish between causation, correlation and co-incidence then it's no wonder that your Star ship keeps fucking blowing up !!!!
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The vaccine dosage was obviously too high and done too many times.
I had the original Wuhan virus before there was any vaccine and it was much like any other cold/flu. Bad, but not terrible.
But my second vaccine shot almost sent me to the hospital. Felt like I was dying.
PeterSweden@PeterSweden7
This should be headline news EVERYWHERE. A Pfizer insider who was former head of toxicology in Europe has just come out and said something that many "conspiracy theorists" suspected. He estimates that 20 000 to 60 000 people in Germany have died from the c*vid vaccine. This was said at a parliamentary enquiry commission in Germany. So why isn't this massive news being reported everywhere? Is the mainstream media that has recieved millions in funding from Bill Gates deliberately covering this up... 🤔
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@ginamilan_ This is tragic. The fact that in the US today even successful middle class folk can't afford the meds they need to keep them mentally stable. What a disaster !
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The European countries should be on their fucking knees kissing Trump’s ass for getting the Strait of Hormuz reopened. Without the US, those pathetic fucks wouldn’t have shit.
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@RockChartrand Christ almighty !!! There are countless examples of so called "capitalists" controlling food supplies and selling to the highest bidder rather than those in the most need. Consequentially many didn't survive. Do you have no humanity ?
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People didn’t survive for thousands of years because someone guaranteed them food, they survived by producing and trading.
Marx didn’t discover needs. He redefined them as entitlements on others.
And when that idea is imposed at scale, it doesn’t solve scarcity, it amplifies it.
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@cjsnowdon I've never managed to average more than 50mph on the M6 and M5 anyway. On very busy roads a lower max speed limit leads to fewer accidents and fewer jams and counter intuitively shorter journey times
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Polanski won’t survive a general election campaign.
YouGov@YouGov
With a Green Party document reportedly proposing 55mph speed limits for motorways, 69% of Britons would be opposed to such a move Results link in replies
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@RockChartrand It may be true that Capitalism is based on voluntary interaction but just like Socialism there is no pure form of Capitalism in the world. Both systems have been corrupted by unfair practices, deception, monopolisation, bribery and regulatory systems that protect the elite
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Capitalism is far more social than socialism ever was.
Capitalism is built on voluntary interaction. Every transaction requires agreement, cooperation, and mutual benefit.
You don’t get anything unless you offer value to someone else. It’s constant, peaceful coordination between individuals.
Socialism replaces that with coercion. It doesn’t ask, it mandates. It doesn’t rely on agreement, it relies on enforcement. The ‘social’ part isn’t people working together, it’s people being forced into the same arrangement whether they agree or not.
So one system runs on consent and cooperation.
The other runs on compliance and control.
That’s what real anti social behavior looks like.
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@RockChartrand As usual you fail to understand the difference between money and value and also the source of all money. A sovereign state can create all the "money" it needs at the stroke of a computer keyboard. The question is what "value" do billionaires add.
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You’ll also collect a lot less in taxes when there are no more billionaires.
If revenue was the goal, they’d be rooting for trillionaires.
But it isn’t.
Envy won’t allow that.
✧@cessonmute
"If you tax billionaires you won't have billionaires anymore." EXACTLY.
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@montie There was no existential threat. What Trump has succeeded in doing is creating a harder line regime that now knows it can control the global economy with impunity and will probably decide it really does need nukes now to deter the US from doing this again
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No. Trump didn't lose. The West lost. In the last few weeks we've proven comprehensively that we are decadent. We are unwilling (not unable) to bear the cost of tackling an existential threat. We'll reap what our civilisational weakness has shown.
Daniel Hannan@DanielJHannan
Trump has just lost a war to Iran. I would liken it to the Suez débâcle except that, at Suez, Britain successfully swept Egyptian resistance aside. We were defeated by Eisenhower’s hostility, not Nasser’s tanks. This time, the US just flat out lost - and the world is vastly worse off for it.
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@danielmgmoylan I think the main parties ie Labour, Green and Lib dem will all be supportive. Oh wait ... poor love , you think the Tories may still be a "main party" 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
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There’s also an informal condition that the main political parties are solid in support of membership so that a general election can’t result in withdrawal.
That was true in the UK up to 2016. There is no chance that it will be true again. That alone guarantees a French veto.
Neal O'Kelly@NealOKelly
@johnjmarley @danielmgmoylan The one thing the EU will not be giving us - as they have made clear all along - is a sweetheart deal.
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@danielmgmoylan @AlbertRamsbott1 Another lie. A new member is free to decide it's own timeline for joining the euro. In practice that can mean never joining. I know you hoodwinked a lot of people in the referendum but you do realise that a lot of people can google this shit and find out you're talking bollocks
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I think there are about 500 people who really think we should go on our knees and apply to join the EU, give up the pound, submit ourselves to EU law and spend 10 years negotiating our humiliation. And they have all been in my timeline today.
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@Rwwils @danielmgmoylan @plumberdavid There is no queue ... that's yet another brexiteer lie. Each application is considered on it's merits. As the UK is still largely aligned with the aquis we shouldn't have too long a wait.
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@danielmgmoylan @plumberdavid If there is a queue to join then surely it must be a good thing
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@Jacob_Rees_Mogg You mendacious fuckwit ! They're obviously not lower, they're higher. Comparing to the overall EU prices is bullshit! Every country is different. The question is are they higher than if we'd stayed in the EU ... the answer is YES they are. Another Brexit fail !!!!!
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genuinely what is the appeal of this man and this party
Zack Polanski@ZackPolanski
🚨 First time in British history that a party to the left of Labour have topped a national poll. 💚 Hope is here. It's all of us. ✊🏼 Reject hateful, divisive politics - and let's make hope normal again. Join.greenparty.org.uk
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@johnredwood Where do you get your numbers for a non brexited UK to compare ?
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Why do people put out lies about loss of GDP and trade from Brexit based on out of date wrong forecasts? The official numbers for trade and GDP over the last ten years show no Brexit losses, with the UK outperforming Germany for GDP.
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@dalkeithfiddler @afneil It helps grow the economy, extra money can be used to assist with energy bills as it has done in the past.
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Your mind is clearly blown because you have no idea what you’re talking about. Let’s just take gas. All of it comes by pipeline into the UK and is used in the UK. Oil is a bit more complicated but I’ll let you grapple with the facts about gas before moving on to that. Let me know if you have any questions about gas. Happy to help.
Zoe Gardner@ZoeJardiniere
It is blowing my mind how many people don’t seem able to grasp that oil & gas in the North Sea is not “ours” but was sold off to private companies who will trade it on the international market like any other fuel. We don’t get any kind of privileged access to this fuel.
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@dalkeithfiddler @afneil Apart from the tens of thousands of jobs and billions in tax it supports for the UK if we produced our own?
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@dalkeithfiddler @afneil How come you clowns never realise there are transportation costs associated with importing gas from overseas (and converting LNG). Most north sea gas is used in UK (limited by storage capacity).
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@robprogressive Of course but it could also have fed and paid a whole lot of nurses and doctors or teachers / police. This encapsulates the economic problems in this country. Maybe you could downgrade to a cheaper car and use the savings to pay NHS workers. This is the essential debate now in UK
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A man was getting out of his Lamborghini and someone stopped him and said aggressively:
“How many people could you have fed in starving countries for the price of that Lambo?”
The man paused, then replied. “I don’t know, but it fed a lot of the 1,800 families who work at Lamborghini.
It fed the designers' families. It fed the carbon-fibre manufactures families. It fed the tyre manufacturers families.
The 300 workers who are dedicated to making each individual Lamborghini all get to eat and work building something they love"
This is the fundamental problem with socialists. Socialism expects you to give it all away, but capitalism creates it in the first place
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