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@MerriweatherB10 @CatholicLeague Sure bud.

@Ver1f13de @CatholicLeague I find this one to be a good generalization of reality. 👌

Besides an insatiable appetite for control, what defines the Left is an equally insatiable appetite for envy. No one epitomizes these vices today better than New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a young Muslim man born to privilege who has never had a real job. catholicleague.org/mamdanis-quest…

@SocRepProject @horrorfan597 ... Liberals are socialist. Socialists are socialists. Conservatives are socialist. Libertarians are socialist. Words have meaning, you know. Fascists are the fusion of state and corporate power. AKA: the opposite of socialism. Please learn the terms you use before using them.

@horrorfan597 Fascists are socialist, communists are socialist, every economic failure is socialist… It’s actually the root of a shockingly large number of evils.

It’s actually socialism

@WilliamT4479 @MartinOdorGod_8 @jormungandrizer @Carina_Amyth @esjesjesj "Some people" isn't most people, which is why our justice system as a whole should be rehabilitative, not punitive. People who CAN'T be fixed should be sent to mental institutions so that we can discover ways of addressing their mental issues.

@Ver1f13de @MartinOdorGod_8 @jormungandrizer @Carina_Amyth @esjesjesj Some people can't be rehabilitated. That's the thing. Suicidal empathy thinking they all need a loving hand is what gets people killed. Some can't be fixed.

I told you that her family specifically requested people didn’t share images of her dying online because they didn’t want her remembered that way and you stopped doing it for a while but now you’re just doing it again because you don’t give a single fuck about her at all.

@JackJon42435672 @RepCasar Survivorship bias.

@RepCasar No, not a scandal. If you are too dumb or lack the work ethic those are the jobs you will be stuck in. I started working my ass off at 12yo and sold my last company for $60M at 46. I didn’t go to college. I’m from a lower class single parent household. Work harder.

In the last 17 years, the price of everything has gone up. I’ve gone from too young to rent a car to member of Congress. But the federal minimum wage hasn’t gone up a cent. That’s a scandal.

@RepFine Who the fuck defines "American values", Randy? Who defines them?

Armenians should not serve in Congress. Neither should Somalis. Or Guatemalans. Or — wait for it— Israelis. If you are a citizen of a foreign country, you shouldn’t serve in ours. We need to pass my bill to stop the invasion of dual citizens in Congress. NOW.

@MerriweatherB10 @CatholicLeague Random quote memes aren't indicative of reality.

@jormungandrizer @WilliamT4479 @MartinOdorGod_8 @Carina_Amyth @esjesjesj Which would just advance the "reaction > prevention" model on mental health. Why not address the problems that LEAD TO violent behaviors rather than purely reacting to those behaviors? Reaction-centric models just lead to the deaths of innocents.

@Ver1f13de @WilliamT4479 @MartinOdorGod_8 @Carina_Amyth @esjesjesj The better mental health resources we need are involuntary commitment to long term inpatient asylums far from population centers.

@RichardThNguyen @PowerLunch_biz @Rothmus What's the data on worker-managed economies, in that case? You seem so confident about capitalism being the best system, so what about democratic socialism/syndicalism? All of the data I have seen thus far have indicated that cooperative economics is the future.

@PowerLunch_biz @Rothmus Every nation on earth that has adopted free market capitalist policies has seen the lowest levels of poverty in its history. Just because the number isn't 0 doesn't mean it isn't the best possible system.

Concern for the poor is not what drives the left. If it were, they would embrace capitalism, the greatest anti-poverty engine ever devised. Their real passion is hatred of the rich. The poor merely provide a convenient pretext.

@mitchellvii "solved illegal immigration" No, he hasn't. He couldn't even do his mass deportations because he pussied out. Deportations don't work to solve illegal immigration. They're cruel and drain taxpayer dollars. Instead, we should rework our immigration system as a whole.

Okay leftists, you don't like Trump. I get that. But if you take back the House and the Senate, what will you do differently? For instance, President Trump has completely solved illegal immigration at this point. He has shut down the border. How will you improve upon that? Donald Trump has American energy production cranking on all cylinders. How will you improve upon that? As promised, manufacturing is coming back to America and exploding through the roof. How will you improve upon that? How will you reduce inflation without raising interest rates? Here's the thing. Your entire platform is hating Trump but you have no actual solutions that are better than what he's doing. Time for you to give us your platform or shut the hell up.

@Nick_Davidov @BizarroTrump10 @grok I hope you enjoyed that dicking you got from Grok.

@BizarroTrump10 @grok true?

The socialism vs capitalism debate is mostly a question of who you trust more with capital allocation: - People risking their own money - Politicians spending yours A few sub-questions: - Do you think capitalists or politicians allocate resources better? - Do you think the pie is fixed, or can the pie grow? - Do you think more regulation increases freedom, or suppresses it? To be fair, free-range capitalism can absolutely become the Greed Olympics. Even capitalist systems need courts, laws, property rights, zoning, monetary policy, etc. But when government over-regulates, everyone can lose. Example: a sunny town called Freedopolis elects a new mayor who runs on cheaper rent and stronger tenant protections. There are more tenants than landlords, so he wins in a landslide. He passes rent control. Landlords can’t raise rent much, and evicting someone for not paying takes a year. Immediately, landlords don’t want to risk it and become insanely picky. They require huge deposits, perfect credit, stable employment, references, a clean background check, a perfect BMI and sleep score. They also set initial rents higher because they know they’re locked in forever. Some stop renting altogether and just let relatives live there. Result: rent goes up, inventory goes down, and getting an apartment in Freedopolis is nearly impossible. The mayor says: “Fine, the government will build affordable housing.” The city hires consultants. The consultants make plans. City planning agency reviews the plans. Everyone bills hourly. The city pays for the back and forth. Two years later, they produce a 900-page plan they could finally agree on. Then they run a tender process. No serious builder bids because the plan is obviously impossible. So the mayor calls in a favor with his brother’s construction company to take on the job nobody wants. The brother says: “I’ll do it, but only cost-plus, and we need flexibility because your plan appears to be ambiguous.” Now there’s a Bermuda Triangle of consultants, contractors, and permitting agencies emailing each other “just circling back” on the taxpayer dollar. Then they notice lawsuits piling up. Neighbors sue because shadows. Activists sue because vibes. A guy with a Substack sues because the building is colonialist. Someone claims ancestral rights to the parking lot. The city settles with everyone. The budget is now 5x. Eventually, after spending 10x, the shiny new affordable apartment building opens. The mayor announces: “No credit checks. No employment checks. No sleep-score discrimination. Housing is a human right.” At first, 100 normal young workers move in. Alongside with 30 thugs. The workers start moving out. More thugs move in. Police stop coming. Now nobody wants to live near the building. Rent in the remaining normal neighborhoods skyrockets. The mayor declares a housing crisis caused by capitalism and proposes a new tax on anyone renting out their apartments or owning luxury property (which is by now any property not next to the mayor’s affordable housing project). Next episode: Freedopolis builds a government grocery store to make bananas cheaper.

@Nick_Davidov @TheJoke90419999 But they should.

@TheJoke90419999 Dictatorship of the politicians! Proletarian never actually controls anything

@dantypo @ohyoudidntknw @MaximumK75753 If the business fails because I couldn't afford to pay my employees a living wage, I shouldn't have been in business. It's that simple. Business owners are parasites who leech off of the hard labor of workers. We should have a cooperative style of economics, not a private one.

@ohyoudidntknw @MaximumK75753 You really assume much. Here’s an idea. Start a business. Pay your employees $30 an hour. See how long your doors are open. Now, answer the question: How much should a cashier at Sheetz get paid?

Am I the only one who still views minimum wage as gas money for your car and movie tickets for you and your date while you gain work experience in high school or at the bookstore in college? When did it become a career wage?

@WilliamT4479 @MartinOdorGod_8 @jormungandrizer @Carina_Amyth @esjesjesj The thing is you're viewing repeat offenses as a failure on the part of the offender rather than what it is: a failure of the system. By system I mean both economic and judicial. We need better mental health resources and a justice system focused on rehabilitation.

@Ver1f13de @MartinOdorGod_8 @jormungandrizer @Carina_Amyth @esjesjesj No. Im saying the 3 strike rule was actually one I agreed with. It shouldn't have been for minor drug offenses, but for violent crime, yeah.

@MDSebach None of the points you made are incompatible with an actual democracy. Why? Because a republic is a form of democracy. The whole point you're making is that tyranny of the minority is better since tyranny of the majority is all big scary. No wonder why Europe is better off.

@Ver1f13de I was imprecise. I should have said "In the American Republic... ." All you did was create a red herring based on that, allowing you - you wish - to evade every salient point I made. Do better.

Reminder: To Democrats "our democracy" means having the power to vote America into socialism first, and eventually into communism.

@AlBeachGuy @adrianisoffline Yes you are, since you can't seem to grasp the concept that protests are primarily composed of workers. Not just ones like the IWD protest. Most jobs offer some kind of PTO or vacation that can be used for this. At least learn how jobs work before telling others to get them.

@adrianisoffline No. Now run along, find a job, and stop being a burden on society. 👋👋

So why aren’t they at work?

@Varerbird @K3nB3n Your response reeks of ChatGPT with the cliché statement at the end. I suspect that you're just arguing to argue atp.

@Ver1f13de @K3nB3n “Government & economics 101” is cute, but accountability 101 says show the cost, funding source, tradeoffs, results, and audit trail. Calling it “free” is branding, not intellectual honesty. “Negligible” is the sales pitch. Taxpayer funded is the math.

This should be everywhere. It's so funny tho that the Democrats "love" zohran so much NOW,when they largely hated him and refused to support him with his campaign 😭

@WilliamT4479 @MartinOdorGod_8 @jormungandrizer @Carina_Amyth @esjesjesj So don't do anything at all is your solution?

@Ver1f13de @MartinOdorGod_8 @jormungandrizer @Carina_Amyth @esjesjesj Sometimes people just need to be locked away because they don't want to change.

@MDSebach Supermajorities aren't restricted to republics. France and Germany have them for similar fundamental changes. Honestly you're really just talking for the sake of talking lmao.

A republic limits the power of simple majorities or pluralities by recognizing and codifying into constitutional law moral principles (inalienable rights) that preexist any government and constitute a barrier that simple majorities cannot cross. The United States Government was created for the express purpose of securing man's inalienable rights (see the Declaration of Independence) from the whims of voting majorities, requiring supermajorities to make any fundamental changes. You are proposing that man's rights be subject to the whims of a mere majority. You should really stop doing that. Thanks.

@ZarkFiles @EngrsMNL @JonathanBr58856 @TrpstrLeonOG Do we really think about the people evicted because they can't pay the exorbitant rent asked of them by landlords who die, though? Homelessness leads to mental health issues, which leads to drug use, which leads to deaths of both the homeless victim and the people around them.

@EngrsMNL @JonathanBr58856 @TrpstrLeonOG It is disappointing to see anyone advocate murder, particularly when the cause is resistance to extortion.

My landlord raised my rent $340. I asked why. "Market rate adjustment." I googled my landlord. He owns 34 properties. Manages them through 3 LLCs. Lives in a $1.3 million house. Has never fixed my heating properly. My rent increase is his mortgage payment on preperty number 35. I am not a tenant. I am a revenue stream who gets to sleep here.

@ZarkFiles @TrpstrLeonOG Alternatively maybe housing, something literally REQUIRED by society to even survive, shouldn't be privatized so there's none of that risk to the tenant nor the landowner. It'd save people a shit ton of money too.

@TrpstrLeonOG I have sympathy for tenants, having been one most of my life. The landlords get my sympathy too though. They have to pay their bills whether or not their tenants pay their bills or destroy their property. Managing properties is thankless and risky.