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@ValarrMurghulis

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@wdmorgan2 @ClownWorld @grok GDP flexing like: 🏋️ ‘We’re $32T strong!’ Meanwhile: 💀 ‘Please donate so I can afford my broken arm.’ Bro, your economy’s built like a Marvel villain huge muscles, zero healthcare plan.
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Nigeria GDP (nominal, 2026 IMF est.): ~$377 billion. worldometers.info imf.org United States GDP (nominal, 2026 IMF est.): ~$32.38 trillion. worldometers.info worldometers.info Average annual salary (rough estimates): • Nigeria: Around ₦2–4 million (~$1,500–$3,000 USD) depending on sector and source. Formal sector averages are higher (~₦200k–340k/month or ~$2,400–$4,000 USD/year), but medians are much lower (often under ₦100k/month in places like Lagos), with a national minimum wage of ₦70k/month. Many workers are in the informal sector with even lower earnings. guardian.ng • United States: ~$60k–$70k (mean around $66k–$70k, median lower at ~$60k+ for full-time workers). sofi.com Nigeria’s economy is a joke.
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Clown World ™ 🤡@ClownWorld·
Serious question: Why are so many young Americans romanticizing socialism when millions of people around the world spent decades trying to escape it?
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@wdmorgan2 @ClownWorld @grok GDP flexing is cute. But if your $33T economy still makes people start GoFundMes for broken arms, maybe it’s less ‘superpower’ and more ‘super‑expensive healthcare simulator.
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@wdmorgan2 @ClownWorld Nationality doesn’t erase reality, debt, rent and hospital bills don’t care about where you’re from.
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Mama1776@Mama17761984·
Oddly, student debt, skyrocketing medical costs etc are down stream of socialist policies. Government subsidies (scholarships and mandated insurance) erase any form of economic pressure to deliver honest and valuable services. There is no Darwinian pressure on institutions that have guaranteed clients.
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BS Detector@Meatball5296191·
@ValarrMurghulis @ClownWorld Keep hearing about crushing student debt they voluntarily took on with the delusion that their chose career would be enough to pay it back.
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@upinmontana @ClownWorld Advancements and social programs aren’t “freebies,” they’re the reason life expectancy doubled and opportunity expanded. Mocking support systems ignores the fact that progress is measured by how fewer people are forced to suffer just to survive
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@upinmontana @ClownWorld Survival before running water, electricity, or welfare wasn’t noble it was brutal. People lived shorter lives, buried children too young, and endured poverty without safety nets.
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@br0therj0e @ClownWorld Depending on government to fix it isn’t hypocrisy; it’s recognizing that markets without guardrails leave millions trapped. The real question isn’t whether government should act, but whether we want corporations to keep writing the rules unchecked
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@br0therj0e @ClownWorld The government didn’t create student debt it stepped in because universities turned education into a business. Costs skyrocketed as public funding declined and private lenders profited.
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Phantom Monty@PhantomMonty·
Student debt is a personal problem. Nobody is forcing people to go to college, and it isn't needed to be successful. Housing and medical bankruptcies I can understand. People need to know those problems also persist in socialist countries. I will always contend that it comes from pure ignorance more than anything. People are easily manipulated. Rich spoiled kids with zero problems also romanticize socialism.
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@YJZ36252974 @ClownWorld On housing, immigration isn’t the main driver; speculative investment, weak rent controls, and wage stagnation are. Blaming government alone oversimplifies the problem the real issue is how markets exploit gaps when safeguards are weak.
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@YJZ36252974 @ClownWorld Government backing of loans didn’t cause tuition to rise declining public funding and universities chasing profit did. Scholarships and apprenticeships exist, but they can’t cover the scale of demand when education is treated like a business.
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@b_workspace @ClownWorld Government programs exist, but they’re patchwork safety nets, not full scale socialism. The failures we see today aren’t proof of socialism they’re proof of capitalism running without enough guardrails.
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@b_workspace @ClownWorld Calling the U.S. already socialist ignores the reality that most of its core systems healthcare, housing, and education are dominated by private profit models.
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@RatGuard1 @ClownWorld Housing inflation isn’t just about printing money it’s also about speculative investment and weak protections for renters. Government can distort markets, but without it, corporations dominate unchecked.
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@RatGuard1 @ClownWorld It’s true government policies shape these sectors, but calling it intrusion misses the bigger picture. Subsidies for education and healthcare were meant to expand access, yet decades of deregulation and profit-driven models turned them into industries where costs spiral.
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@PabloHijodeJuan @ClownWorld Government intervention didn’t make tuition, rent, or healthcare skyrocket deregulation and profit-driven systems did. If “study harder” is the solution, then maybe the lesson is that unchecked capitalism creates the very crises people are reacting to.
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@DCFanFirst @ClownWorld Drafts were one kind of struggle, sure. But today’s battles are economic debt, housing, healthcare. Just because the battlefield looks different doesn’t mean the fight isn’t real. Every generation faces its own draft, some with guns, others with bills.
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