@NCCoastfan2 @marceelias It's unconstitutional for the president to issue an executive order about it. Congress and the States have authority over elections, not the president.
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Andrew Charles
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@marceelias Mandating photo ID to vote and proof of citizenship to register to vote are not unconstitutional. Elias has no choice but to spout lies.
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Trump is saying that he will disregard Congress and issue an Excutive order that will violate the Constitution.
Here is my promise: If he does that, we will sue and we will win. Just like we did the last time. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/tr…
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@SVcrazycatlady @LeahLibresco No they didn't. Businesses can't work that way. That's not capitalism, that's economics. In this case, it's because the FDA repudiated the previously approved trial guidelines. Moderna says it's a waste of time and money to develop vaccines if they're not going to be approved.
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@LeahLibresco Another reason Capitalism has failed us.
Pharmaceutical companies used to make vaccines at a profit loss for the greater good.
Now, they only care about returns on investments.
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“What is most disturbing is not the specifics of this case but the arbitrariness and capriciousness of the process. The EU, Canada, and Australia have all accepted Moderna’s application for review.”
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@RockChartrand That's business, not capitalism. The assumption is people who own stuff=capitalists. Wrong. People who own businesses are all for closing markets, including for capital, to anyone but themselves, and concealing market information.
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This meme only works if you pretend markets and competition don’t exist.
Capitalists don’t pay “as little as possible.” They pay what they must to attract and keep workers against other employers. If wages could be suppressed at will, labor shortages and job hopping wouldn’t exist.
Profit doesn’t come from starving customers. A business that underpays loses workers. A business that overprices loses buyers. Both get punished.
The cartoon assumes a feudal world with trapped workers and monopolist bosses. That isn’t capitalism. That’s a fantasy used to erase choice and consent.
The real system where people can’t afford what’s produced is socialism, with political prices, broken incentives, and chronic shortages.
🧡Lulu🌾;@ItsLulu_7
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@Lynch2010Ryan @RockChartrand Fascism is not anti-communist. You can be both. But if you're not communist then fascists oppose every other political rival. Communists, socialists, republicans, monarchists. It is a philosophy that opposes any kind of rival political expression that may speak against the party.
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If that were true fascism wouldn't kill communists and socialists comparing the two to eachother isn't helpful in the least if you actually cared at what your talking about you wouldn't pontificate it for idiots to follow blindly stop pretending your not part of the rot your using it's arguments rather than actually learning how the systems function, go watch Democracy Now videos of Ritchard Wolff
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Communism does not oppose imperialism. It replaces market exchange with political conquest.
When production collapses, it survives only by expansion, expropriation, and coercion. That's imperialism by another name.
And fascism is not communism’s opposite. It is what communism reverts to when reality refuses to cooperate. When central planning fails, dissent rises. When dissent rises, force replaces persuasion. The party, the state, the nation, the movement, pick the label you like. The method is the same.
Every communist regime eventually needs borders, enemies, police power, propaganda, and violence to hold together a system that cannot sustain itself voluntarily. That’s not an accident. It is the logical endpoint of abolishing individual rights and private property.
So when crowds march waving red flags and chanting against fascism and imperialism, what they are really protesting is the mirror.
History shows that the ideology they defend is responsible for both.
Rana Ayyub@RanaAyyub
What a moment to witness as a journalist. Close to ten thousand people gather on the streets of Bilbao (spain) to protest against fascism and imperialism
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@Big_Mck You're an idiot. Without profit you go bankrupt. Then nothing gets built. Besides profit taking is not capitalism. Capitalism requires profits, a surplus, because every system does. That makes this the dumbest argument in economics. The only real question is that of equity.
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How capitalism destroys the world and limits innovation, rather than the reverse.
Capitalism can never be relied on for basic needs such as food security or even healthcare, it only serves to accumulate and maximize profit.
What an accurate take from him.
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@RockChartrand How? And define capitalism in a way that is distinct from business, the use of money, and inherited property. All things that exist without capitalism.
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Communists and socialists deliberately invert the meaning of parasite because the real definition points straight at them.
A parasite is someone who survives by extracting value from others without voluntary exchange or productive contribution.
That description fits people who demand subsidies, entitlements, bailouts, and protection from competition, not people who build companies and persuade others to trade with them.
So they flip the script. They call producers “parasites” to evade the obvious fact that production requires competence, risk, and value creation, while dependency requires none of it.
The inversion isn’t economic. It’s psychological. It’s a way to turn failure into moral superiority.
Once you accept that earning is exploitation and need is a moral claim, every personal shortcoming can be rebranded as victimhood, and every success can be framed as theft.
That's how losers avoid accountability while demanding power over the people who outperform them.
If they were right, the people they hate most would be unnecessary. In reality, those are the only people making their lifestyle possible.
MC Squared@mcsquared34
Capitalism invariably produces a small parasitic class of people who live securely and affluently from the collective labor of others, while contributing little or nothing to society themselves.
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@RockChartrand But the anarchists all pretend to be capitalists. No honesty, no laws, no regulation, no equity. Let's lie and cheat and steal and bar entry, and let the market decide if it ever finds out.
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@bluefrog9102 @ryangrim Looks like he'd already been disarmed, and hasn't drawn his weapon, he just had a phone out recording. The agents seem to have taken it upon themselves to be judge jury and executioner after he was no threat.
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@ryangrim Sorry to disappoint you but based upon what a fellow officer would judge what occurred - hostile behavior armed with a gun, hands flailing around and not obeying lawful orders. Very dangerous behavior from suspect. Justified shooting tragic but can’t blame police for Enforcment
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If I’m the officer who emptied my clip into Alex Pretti’s back, I’m starting to get worried.
Also we need to know who the agent is who clapped and celebrated as his colleague fired 4 extra shots into his lifeless body. He should never work in law enforcement again.
Agents are about to find out how far they can take Stephen Miller’s promise that they have absolute immunity.
Abby D. Phillip@abbydphillip
DHS suspends Bovino's access to his social media accounts, source says cnn.com/us/live-news/m…
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@JohnRad15 @RockChartrand That's not capitalism. That's what was before capitalism. You're confusing ownership with capitalism. You're saying cats are animals therefore cats are bad because brain rotting amoeba are animals. That's a straw man argument.
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@AndrewCharles70 @RockChartrand Capitalism is a system to deliver cheap labor to the capitalist class by controlling the land as a commodity, as they said openly :
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Capitalism doesn’t keep people poor. It exposes who’s producing value and who isn’t.
Under capitalism, you don’t get paid for needing things. You get paid for earning by offering value others choose to trade for.
People who want to live off others without producing call that “oppression” because the system refuses to reward entitlement.
Cheap labor isn’t created by markets. It’s created by policies that trap people in dependency: regulation, inflation, credential barriers, welfare cliffs, and state-protected monopolies. Those are anti-capitalist interventions that suppress opportunity and bargaining power.
If capitalism wanted people poor, it wouldn’t constantly be lifting the bottom, increasing productivity, and turning yesterday’s luxuries into today’s basics.
The only systems that reliably keep people poor on purpose are collectivist ones, because poverty makes people easier to control.
Capitalism rewards effort and value creation.
Communism rewards grievance and excuses.
That’s why one builds prosperity and the other manufactures resentment.
John Rad@JohnRad15
@MikeMcCroskey @BillyNotSilly @RockChartrand Look up Dunning-Kruger yerself. Capitalism keeps people poor and overworked on purpose. Capitalists want cheap labor so they made it by keeping people poor.
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@SeacretMist @webcav1 @Osinttechnical They're not coming anyway. The US won't let anyone in without checking their phones.
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@webcav1 @Osinttechnical Lol if anyone wants to boycott the World Cup over Greenland go ahead, it would be of no consequence.
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The crisis has escalated to the point where EU politicians are meeting on a Sunday.
OSINTtechnical@Osinttechnical
EU ambassadors will hold an extraordinary meeting tomorrow in Brussels to address recent U.S. threats.
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@rluthersmith @ProfHall1955 Yes, but every individual who benefits from it tries to corrupt it to their benefit. The problem with capitalism and objectivism is that everyone is fine with it only until someone else might build a better widget than you do, or cost you rent by buying their own home.
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@ProfHall1955 Capitalism is the most successful distribution system in history
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Never forget this basic principle - when capitalists talk about freedom, they mean the economic freedom to acquire as much money and property as they can. All other freedoms are negotiable, or in some cases impossible.
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@DistopiaResidnt @ProfHall1955 Rubbish. Corporations are people, in the collective. Corporations and securities laws exist to protect the investors, but regulators often find it easier to fine the corporation rather than investigate who actually broke the law.
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@ProfHall1955 Our entire legal system is designed for corporations and not individuals.
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@_A_Ksenofontov_ @ProfHall1955 Ask a narcissist. They'll say yes, but they'll mean no.
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@ProfHall1955 Isn't the freedom for 'me'-'me'-'me' the same as the freedom of 'us' as the plural of 'me'?
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@ProfHall1955 Then they're not really capitalists, just mercantilists, pretending to be capitalists for the PR effect.
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@sfliberty Nobody knows what capitalism is. Greed and business interests are not capitalism. They're human nature. Deregulation is not capitalism. Appropriate regulation is necessary to prevent an oligarchy from arising intent on destroying capitalism to protect their own interest.
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“After the fall of communism, everybody in the world agreed that socialism was a failure. Everybody in the world, more or less, agreed that capitalism was a success. And every capitalist country in the world apparently deduced from that what the West needed was more socialism.”
— Milton Friedman
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@b_schwartzy @Xenoimpulse @aspiringpeasant The capital class largely tries to subvert capitalism, not support it. Their interest lies in closing markets to new players, eradicating competition and preventing capital from funding rivals, while arranging concessions, tax breaks and market access for themselves.
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@Xenoimpulse @aspiringpeasant *largely unviable
that probably has nothing to do with the capital class spending billions of dollars to subvert, sabotage and sanction any socialist system that isn't sufficiently subservient to capitalism.
but yes, otherwise this is fairly accurate.
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@b_schwartzy @Xenoimpulse @aspiringpeasant Don't mistake the capital class for capitalists. They're largely not. Capital controls the means of production is not a philosophy it's a fact. Socialism only changes who controls the capital. And the only difference between national socialism and other types is who owns it.
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@SaraForTexLege Reinvestment doesn't avoid taxes unless you're a non-profit. Higher company taxes just increase the cost of investment. Taxing distributions may be what you're thinking of.
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This is the most debunked hogwash that has ever been debunked.
The most robust growth era in the history of America was when the corporate tax rate was at its HIGHEST, because companies would reinvest to avoid taxes as opposed to hoarding wealth.
We have had 45 years of the supply side economics experiment and literally all it has done is explode the national debt and greatly broaden income inequality.
This ChatGPT written SLOP designed to scare the masses into continuing to vote for the wealth hoarders and against their own interests.
SNAP THE EFF OUT OF IT. It is a LIE.
Hold your own damn 🥃, the adults are speaking.
NicholasGibbs@NickGibbsIAG
Sad to see @RoKhanna become another politician who has no economic literacy. Now hold my 🥃 Your case for a billionaire wealth tax falls apart on every key point. You say founders like Jensen Huang would not be deterred by a 1 to 2 percent annual tax on unrealized gains because he was not thinking about taxes in 1993. That is irrelevant. No one calculates distant taxes on day one. The issue is marginal incentives: slashing the ultimate reward after decades of risk forces stock sales to pay the tax and deters the next wave of founders. Pretending this has zero behavioral effect is economic nonsense. You brag the Bay Area has 37 times Austin’s VC and Florida “is not on the map.” That is stale data ignoring the exodus already underway. California loses high earners and companies yearly because of crushing taxes and rules. Tesla, Oracle, HPE did not relocate to Texas for the barbecue. Adding a federal wealth tax accelerates the bleed. Clusters are not immortal. You note public funding built foundational tech: NSF, DARPA, universities. True, but irrelevant to the conclusion. Public money funds research; private risk turns it into world changing companies. Capping rewards for that private step means fewer breakthroughs get commercialized. Basic incentive economics. You warn of revolutions from inequality, citing history. History says the opposite: Britain’s brutal industrial inequality drove the fastest living standard gains ever. Real wages soared eventually. 1848 and 1917 stemmed from tyranny and war, not rich people. America’s Gilded Age was far more unequal than today and built the 20th century prosperity engine. Punishing success slows the growth that lifts everyone. You claim a wealth tax boosts innovation. Reality: nearly every OECD country that tried one scrapped it (France, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Denmark) because it raised peanuts, sparked capital flight, and hurt growth. The track record is a total failure. And the mirror moment: Washington already hauls in record $5 trillion plus yearly yet runs trillion dollar deficits through waste, fraud, and bloat. Hundreds of billions vanish annually on duplication and improper payments. Before inventing new taxes on the tiny group creating real value, demand government live within its means. Jensen Huang and Elon Musk allocate capital with ruthless efficiency; government is the worst allocator on earth. Feeding its irresponsibility is not justice; it is complicity. Wealth is not a fixed pile to slice up; it is the return on risk that grows the entire economy. Taxing it punitively does not enlarge anyone’s share; it shrinks tomorrow’s pie for all. A billionaire tax would not save innovation or democracy. It would cripple both. Your position is not just wrong; it is upside down.
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@Heccles94 I think you have that backwards in fact. But then you haven't actually defined or understood capitalism or socialism, so the mix-up is understandable.
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