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The per capita tax burden in the United States is ~$16,600 Eliminate all social welfare and it falls to ~$3,500 The primary purpose of the United States government is violent wealth redistribution

China: *abandons Marxism for Friedmanite quazi-free markets 40 years ago* American: “Wow, Marxism is working great over there.”

#NotSatire A Pakistani woman, Shabana Mahmood, has stripped a native British man of his British citizenship. First time in British history. Mark Bullen lives in St. Petersburg with his Russian wife and works for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg. He was a British cop for 11 years.

1900-1929, when labor unions were a small % of the work force: Average workweek fell from 58.5 hrs to 48.7; inflation-adjusted wages jumped by 2/3rds.-THE AMERICANS: An Economic Record, Econ Prof Stanley Lebergott.

What definition for "socialism" are we using here? Because in China the private sector generates the majority of the GDP, the majority of employment, most new jobs; private companies vastly outnumber government-owned ones; profit motives, wage labor, competition, and capital accumulation drive most economic activity; a class of billionaires exists; inequality is very high, America is only ~15% more unequal than China; the US uses taxes and social transfers to reduce inequality by about 19%, China only does so by about 4%; there is no broad worker ownership over the means of production; profits from state companies do not directly flow to citizens as social dividends; markets largely determine prices, allocation, and incentives and not central socialist planning. So it seems more like highly regulated state capitalism with many nationalized businesses, especially since the means of production are mostly privately owned. And even if we said modern China was socialist, where is this supposedly superior quality of life? Human Development Index: US 0.938; Taiwan 0.934; China 0.797 Numbeo Quality of Life Index: US 186 (top 15-20 range); Taiwan 155.5 (38th); China 135 (around 50th-60th) World Happiness Report: US is 24th; Taiwan is 27th; China is 68th. Lastly, I have to point out that China used to be governed under strict socialist principles, which coincided with many tens of millions dying of starvation. Only now that actual socialism (worker ownership of means of production, etc.) has been abandoned is the average Chinese person starting to come closer to Western countries in quality of life. China is no longer called a socialist economy by economists, instead they describe it as state capitalism, party-state capitalism, or an authoritarian market economy with significant state intervention, specifically because private ownership and capital accumulation dominate. So, the rapid improvements people like you take credit for are literally the direct result of China fundamentally abandoning the very thing you advocate for, while only retaining small aspects of it. Still it is a country governed by a brutal dictatorship, engaging in an active genocide against an ethnic minority, with no human rights of any kind, and a quality of life significantly below the US and the capitalist equivalent Taiwan, which it is currently preparing to commit a gigantic act of imperialist aggression against.

@jacket80169 @SkinnyBrallan @SenRandPaul Do your research before you reply.

Sounds like a horror film. Socialism poisons everything it touches.

@robertsepehr @Luv_Xcuses Clearly not true, Europeans are way more concerned with being perceived as morally virtuous

Be brutally honest, what's one thing Americans are simply better at than the rest of the world??

@Real___iTamara I know thinking is hard, sweetie. I feel bad for you.

What if Hitler was a hero and everyone lied?

@SkinnyBrallan @SenRandPaul Can you name a single socialist country where the average person was more prosperous than the average person in the US was at the same time?

@SenRandPaul You poor thing. The sheer terror of anyone but the rich prospering in our Country must scare you to death. 😱

Look at the comments. The MAGA cultist retards are losing face.

Antiracism in action: > People do bad stuff > Efforts are made to stop that bad stuff > Those efforts involve identifying the people who do bad stuff > But those identified people are virtually all black and brown > Therefore the efforts are racist and must stop

@martyintexas1 My loyalty is to the Constitution and to the people I represent, not to a President nor to a Party. That’s how our Founders expected our Republic to work.

Impeach this orange nіggеr, now.

New Microsoft Project

@ninaturner Did you not learn about the Civil War in school?

I’m a Black American. My “type” liberated ourselves from chattel slavery.

The New York Times reports that 12 of the ~1500 January 6 rioters have reoffended in about a year's time—calling it a "crime spree". The recidivism rate of the J6ers is 0.8%. The average 1 year US re-arrest rate, by contrast, is 43%. funny how that works

@Milajoy Now imagine if you devoted yourself this much to the Constitution and the values of the American founding instead of to a politician.

I am ride or die with MAGA. I am ride or die with Trump. NOTHING will change that. Ever.

"The economy was designed, and it can be redesigned." The retardation and delusion of the average leftist is incomprehensible. And these people want to have the control over your life.

@ZackPolanski The economy was not designed. It is an emergent phenomenon of the independent activities of millions of people making decisions according to rules and incentives, making judgements and taking risks of their own. You do not know what you're talking about.

@Ashen__1__ @InfraHaz

@InfraHaz Debate Zührer Zulu already pinko

The Menopausal Males posturing about how freakin' patriotic and anti-communist they are, calling independent minded citizens "traitors," "foreign-backed," and calling for federal repression of dissidents: They're really just the branded bitch cattle slaves of Israel.