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It’s crazy to see an elected official just deliver on every campaign promise.
Democrats Deliver@DemzDeliver
🚨 HUGE: Zohran Mamdani just announced that NYC will build 200,000 new rent-stabilized homes.
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Rogerio Dos Anjos
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Nobody wants to steal money from you or anybody.
Well, see, here there is a problem. My ancestors have worked without pay, some generations have worked for a lower pay, today I also work for a lower pay and there is an enormous gap between those are descendants of the unpaid ancestors and those who descend from paid ancestors.
Do you think these things are coincidental?
Should we just keep our heads down and keep on working to earn that respect we don’t seem to deserve despite the fact that we haven’t actually stopped working throughout these centuries?
Perhaps if the non-slaveowners had joined the fight this could have been sorted out whilst the ones that benefited from slavery were still around with the fortunes they’d made.
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We're not talking about "heirs". We're talking about the heirs of the heirs of the heirs of the heirs. So many generations that trying to calculate who is "owed" what becomes an exercise in folly.
And remember, the value of the asset itself—the slave labor—has long since depreciated to zero. As is the case for ALL labor performed 170+ years ago.
My advice would be to stop looking for Uncle Jackpot to rain down unearned money on you. Because your ANCESTOR was a slave doesn't mean you get to steal money from ME.
Work hard. Get ahead. Nobody owes you anything. So EARN it. You'll have more respect from the rest of us than by walking around with a fist in the air and a palm out.
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What if the west isn't the villain they told you it was?
We’ve spent years accepting accusations about racism, intolerance, and slavery without challenging the bigger historical reality:
The societies most condemned today are also the ones that led the world in ending slavery, expanding rights, and building the most tolerant nations on earth.
That’s the conversation nobody wants to have.
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This is what DeepSeek has replied to me when I asked about it:
“From an economist's perspective, the wealth generated by slavery has not disappeared. Instead, it was transformed and transferred into foundational sectors of the U.S. economy, creating a structural legacy of inequality that persists today.
While the specific assets of slavery (human beings) were liquidated at emancipation, the immense profits had already seeded key capitalist institutions. Scholars have traced this wealth directly into the frameworks that define modern America:
· Financial Institutions and Wall Street: Profits from the slave trade and slave-produced cotton provided the capital that funded the growth of major financial institutions. Cotton accounted for over 50% of U.S. exports and became the center of America's financial flows. This wealth was not destroyed; it was reinvested into the banking and insurance industries that now dominate global finance.
· Industrial and Physical Infrastructure: The cotton empire fueled the Industrial Revolution, particularly in the North. New England's textile mills, which formed the backbone of American industrialization, relied almost exclusively on slave-grown cotton for a crucial period.
· Land-Grant Universities and Institutional Wealth: Prestigious universities, including Harvard, Yale, and Columbia, were direct beneficiaries of slavery-era profits, creating intellectual and social capital that compounds across generations.
· Intergenerational Wealth and Political Power: This is one of the most direct forms of transference. Recent research reveals that descendants of wealthy slaveholders have been able to pass down those disproportionate riches across generations. A study of members of Congress found that legislators whose ancestors were large slaveholders have a current median net worth five times larger than their peers without slaveholder ancestry ($5.6 million vs. $1.1 million).
A Direct Successor, Not a Metaphor
The transformation is also institutionalized in ways that aren't just about past money in today's banks. The 13th Amendment abolished slavery except as "punishment for a crime," which created a legal pathway for a direct economic successor: the convict leasing system and, later, the modern prison-industrial complex.
This system perpetuates a form of racialized economic extraction where incarcerated workers earn between $0.13 and 11 billion worth of goods and services annually**. This doesn't just mirror slavery's logic—it is a mechanism through which the economic devaluation of Black labor continues to generate wealth for others.
The Resulting Wealth Gap
The combined result of wealth being transferred into exclusive institutions and the active exclusion of Black Americans from wealth-building mechanisms (like the New Deal's G.I. Bill and Social Security) is a vast racial wealth gap. Today, the median household wealth of white Americans is roughly 45,000 for Black Americans.
Economists cannot point to a single "Slavery Trust Fund" that still exists. However, the capital generated flowed into and fundamentally shaped the most critical sectors of American capitalism. When the institution of slavery ended, the wealth it produced and the racialized economic logic that underpinned it did not vanish; it was adapted and entrenched into the country's very foundation.”
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The wealth generated by slave work is long gone. Any person who understands business gets this.
ChatGPT says: "Labor performed 170+ years ago is not a durable “asset” still sitting on a balance sheet. Services are generally consumed when performed. The economic value created by field labor in 1850 was largely converted into:
-- goods that were consumed long ago,
--capital that depreciated long ago,
--businesses that failed or changed hands,
--wealth that was spent, taxed, destroyed, diluted, or redistributed across generations.
So if someone argues that the literal economic output of slave labor is still sitting intact inside today’s economy, that is generally not how economists or accountants would frame it."
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@scyld50373020 @WilliamGMichae1 @KonstantinKisin So because the enslaved are dead and those who for years benefited from their work are also dead, the wealth slave work created just disappeared?
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The slaves who weren't paid for their work are long dead. And so are the people who exploited them.
But it would be a mistake to say that only black people suffered in the 19th century and earlier. Horrible things happened to a LOT of people. Whites too.
What about the Irish immigrants who, when their boats arrived in America, would all be put to work in freezing factories—entire families, men, women, and children. Thousands of them died because of pneumonia and other diseases. Should THEIR descendents be paid "reparations" too? Or do you have a racist, "blacks only" take on the issue?
History is full of injustice. But here we all are, despite what happened to our ancestors. People who work hard, get ahead. Parents whose obsession is getting their kids educated, will see their kids prosper. This is the ONLY way that lasting change happens—one family at a time, one person at a time.
Welfare doesn't bring about lasting change. Welfare weakens the recipient, and tells them they're a victim, and gives them a sense of entitlement—and resentment. Welfare breaks the pride of the person who receives it.
"Reparations" are welfare, times ten. "This is for you, victim. You need to have money paid to you by successful people, because you can't be successful. The game is rigged. It all goes back to your ancestors... take this money, and spend your days resenting what happened to THEM, too. Because money can't fix THAT. You will ALWAYS be a victim!"
"Everything has ALWAYS been a conspiracy against you! But here's some free cash. Go buy yourself an 80-inch TV or something."
It's so insulting to the people who have broken the cycle of poverty and risen by their own initiative.
I'm a white person who spent five years living below the poverty line. I paid off my student loans while making $13,000/year. I'm now doing much better... and everything I have, I earned. And I worked insane hours to get it. Nobody gave me a damn thing.
So I reject the idea that my money should be taken to give to others. You take my money, it's theft. And if you pocket that money, it's an insult. Far better that people should work hard, and have the honor of saying, "What I have, I earned. Me and nobody else. I played by the rules and rose to the occasion. My ancestors may have been slaves, but my labor was for ME and my family."
"I sacrificed so my kids could do better than I did."
"And I taught my kids to study, and save, and work hard, so their kids could do better than them."
That's the "generational equation" that changes lives and destinies. Not stealing from me because your ancestors were slaves.
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@scyld50373020 @WilliamGMichae1 @KonstantinKisin So you just in favour of inheritance if the money or property has been given to the person. If the person has never been paid for their work, their heirs should just forget about it?
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@dosanjosroger @WilliamGMichae1 @KonstantinKisin Why would I be against a person being able to bequeath what they’ve *earned* to the people they care about?
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They are all dead, but that wealth generated by unpaid labour hasn’t disappeared, has it?
I understand those people engaged in a perfectly legal activity and eventually realised it was something immoral or that it wasn’t in accordance with liberal values, but can their descendants wake up one day and say “well, these group of people just behave horribly for no reason”? That behaviour has current consequences.
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I have to assume you’re still referring to those who owned slaves in the U.S. Well, those people are all dead. They were also all engaging in a practice that was accepted and legal at the time. Western society thankfully changed both of those standards and went to war over it. The U.S. lost over a million lives during this war, billions were spent, and more was lost to wartime inflation.
What debt is it you want paid that a million lives did not satisfy? Who do you want to pay it?
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@XenuWorldOrder @KonstantinKisin We seemed to have come to an agreement on 90% of things. Great!
The only caveat would be the fact that many people who supported slavery and took advantage of that for many years and paid nothing for that.
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So people in the USA ended slavery and expanded civil rights, not because they wanted to, but because they were forced to by people in the USA.
You say the abolitionist movement was not majoritarian and that people went to war against them. The Union states had over twice the population and the military was twice the size. The majority of the USA was on the side of the abolitionist movement.
Western whites didn’t start slavery, they ended it. You’re searching for reasons to criticize. Why is that?
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@jcaetanoleite Tenho interesse em saber mais sobre o 3
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Alguns mitos sobre economia brasileira fundamentais:
1- São Paulo sustenta o resto do país.
2- A causa do problema fiscal do país é corrupção.
3- Auditoria Cidadã da dívida.
4- Industrialização vai desenvolver o país.
5- Bolsa Família inibe o trabalho.
6- Se privatizar, necessariamente melhora.
7- Empresário paga imposto demais
8- O Banco Central é capturado por rentistas
9- Mais federalismo e poder pros estados será melhor.
10- Precisamos de infraestrutura de transporte na Amazônia para desenvolver o país e a região.
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“Reparations” have been getting paid for 60 years… Ever since we started pouring trillions of dollars down a rathole called “the Great Society”.
Bottom line, anything a person has been *given* which they haven’t *earned* is worse than money wasted. It is actively destructive to the human spirit.
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@WilliamGMichae1 @scyld50373020 @KonstantinKisin I’m suggesting the descendants should inherit the results of the work of their ancestors
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@dosanjosroger @scyld50373020 @KonstantinKisin You’re not suggesting someone other than your family gets your money when you die?!!
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@WilliamGMichae1 @scyld50373020 @KonstantinKisin So is Inheritance free money as well? Perhaps it should be a debate society should be having 🤷🏾♂️
I can multitask, don’t worry about my concentration 😂
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@dosanjosroger @scyld50373020 @KonstantinKisin Yes. It is literally free money, because you did nothing to earn it.
The only work you actually have to do is explain why you deserve it, but you can’t even do that well.
Concentrate on your own life, your own family, and you’ll be much happier and wealthier than you are now.
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@rmotta2 No primeiro turno sempre tem bons candidatos, o problema é o ideário do que é um bom líder que geralmente envolve alguém que não se parece com a maioria
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Eu voto desde 1980. Na absoluta maioria das eleições o que restou ao eleitor foi escolher o menos pior.
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@mehdirhasan Which is quite principled stance to take, but not a particularly convincing one.
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Yes, I don’t dance for ignorant Islamophobes
Nick Matau@nick_matau
You see, this was @mehdirhasan's perfect opportunity to speak out against the radical Islam @JohnCleese was referring to and, of course, he failed! Mehdi literally proved his point! Mehdi didn't even counter with his own argument... he immediately went to insulting the "kafir"
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@marioliveirain Eu acho importante tratarmos de nossos próprios traumas emocionais e psicológicos para não enxergarmos os fantasmas deles a cada esquina
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@elonmusk If I were British I’d be freaking out over Musk’s obsession with Britain
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@reporterenato O que me espanta é o povo ainda ouvir o que Luciano Huck tem a dizer sobre o que quer que seja
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Concordo com esse post. Eu já desmaiei de fome quando era criança. Sentir a dor da fome transforma a vida e a mentalidade das pessoas. É fácil criticar a luta pela existência quando se nasce em berço de ouro. O Estado deixar alguém passar fome deveria ser crime inafiançável.
Kriska Carvalho@KriskaCarvalho
Imagina ter um salário de R$ 4 milhões, uma fortuna de mais de R$ 1 bilhão, e ainda assim criticar o Bolsa Família, que paga em média R$ 600 para que famílias tenham o mínimo: comida no prato e alguma chance de sair da extrema pobreza. Luciano Huck está sendo mal-caráter, para dizer o mínimo. Quem nunca passou fome não tem moral nenhuma para tratar a sobrevivência dos outros como privilégio. Passa fome primeiro, sente o desespero de não saber o que vai comer no dia seguinte, e depois vem aqui falar asneira.
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@piersmorgan Is Trump not capable of seeing such obvious things, Piers?
It felt like you were trying to absolve him.
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We’re all wondering why this war was started in the first place.. and concluding that war hawks like you persuaded President Trump it would be a good idea. It wasn’t.
Lindsey Graham@LindseyGrahamSC
If a deal is struck to end the Iranian conflict because it is believed that the Strait of Hormuz cannot be protected from Iranian terrorism and Iran still possesses the capability to destroy major Gulf oil infrastructure, then Iran will be perceived as being a dominate force requiring a diplomatic solution. This combination of Iran being perceived as having the ability to terrorize the Strait in perpetuity and the ability the inflict massive damage to Gulf oil infrastructure is a major shift of the balance of power in the region and over time will be a nightmare for Israel. Also, it makes one wonder why the war started to begin with if these perceptions are accurate. I personally am a skeptic of the idea that Iran cannot be denied the ability to terrorize the Strait and the region cannot protect itself against Iranian military capability. It is important we get this right.
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@WilliamGMichae1 @scyld50373020 @KonstantinKisin To be clear: I’m not talking about white people in general, but the people who benefited from the work of enslaved people
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@dosanjosroger @scyld50373020 @KonstantinKisin I get it. I know what you’re saying;
You want free money for something that didn’t happen to you, from people who didn’t do it to you. I get it.
But what if you realized that the resentment you feel towards the only people who ever tried to help, was holding you back?
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