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@MTRichards400 @MattisRedacted @DemetriusRO6 You make a compelling argument to greatly diminish the size and scope of the federal government

@MattisRedacted @DemetriusRO6 Man you gotta be so braindead to not understand that when capitalists control the government the spending is ON THEM.

“The problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other peoples money.” Sweetie we’re $38 trillion in debt under capitalism

@safiabsmith1 @MattisRedacted @DemetriusRO6 What was "our wealth" that got sold?

@MattisRedacted @DemetriusRO6 Man you gotta be so braindead to not understand that's exactly what it is. The government wouldn't have financial issues had they not sold all our wealth to private interests. The problem isn't that government are spending, it's that they are continually selling & outsourcing.

@SpeedKing445 @quietpol1tics @Lord_Fumble @M_Mujtaba1 @RupertLowe10 Muslims are 6.5% of the UK population but only contribute $70 billion annually which is only 1.6% of UK GDP. Your statistic does not help your argument at all.

@quietpol1tics @Lord_Fumble @M_Mujtaba1 @RupertLowe10 Lmaoo are you thick? Muslims contribute around £70billion annually to the uk economy.

I want to make Restore Britain's position on illegal migrants abundantly clear. Every single one would go. If you've come here illegally or stayed here illegally. You will be deported. And yes, that includes women and children - other parties are too scared to mention them. Reform have said they won't deport women. 'Not part of our plan' for the next Government, Farage says. That is a mistake. They all need to go. It won't be particularly pleasant viewing, but it needs to happen. Restore Britain has produced and released the most comprehensive policy on mass deportations ever devised in British history. A version for legal immigration is currently being worked on, setting out our vision for the 'red list'. What we are recommending to implement is an unprecedented level of removal. Along with our changes to legal immigration, millions will go. When I first started talking about this in Parliament, it was heresy. I was insulted and abused. Reform tried to put me in prison because of it - my home was late-night raided by armed police because Farage didn't like the fact I wanted to deport Pakistani rapists. I stand by every single word I said. Millions must go. Under a Restore Britain Government, millions will go. I promise you that.

@AConcernedPare2 @jmdenouden @Messinadress1 They're not paid based on merit/skill, pay is standardized across districts or counties. The small number of exceptional ones are grossly underpaid while the majority who are unimpressive and disinterested are vastly overpaid

@jmdenouden @Messinadress1 Our current system isn't set up to value teachers, unfortunately. I think historically one of the biggest issues has been low salaries and high pensions/benefits. High performing students aren't pushed into majoring in education because the incentives are all wrong.

As someone who comes from a family of teachers , 90% of you aren’t smart enough to homeschool your kids and are doing them a serious disservice

@psybertron @A1an_M There is no creature more willingly naive on Earth than the affluent, western boomer

@A1an_M There's nothing in that clip that suggests he's "smashing" anything, other than the poster's commentary?

When I was in my twenties I spent a weekend building a tiny section of dry stone wall about 3 feet wide near Glastonbury. It's painstaking, backbreaking, hand-shredding work. What a complete cnut this guy is. He should be made to rebuild a mile's worth of wall. And then we should knock it down and make him do it again.

@notpopbase @BernieSanders Yeah better give the money to the multi trillion dollar government instead, great point lady

@BernieSanders the people in these comments:

If you paid $1 in federal income taxes this year, you paid more than: Walt Disney Citigroup CVS Kohl's Ticketmaster Tesla United Airlines GoDaddy Paypal Palantir Roku HP 3M PG&E Halliburton That’s absurd. We need real and progressive tax reform.

@WillyBobWard @FenAhsokenobi @omaha_scanner @OmahaPolice It's odd that you think Patrick is the dick here and not the lady trying to stab an innocent child

@FenAhsokenobi @omaha_scanner @OmahaPolice Patricks tombstone : “I’m a dick and I hate people and things, rawr!”

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@xio4444 @UziCryptoo This is just childless cope

People who make the decision to be childfree usually don't regret their decision. I don't know where this collective mentality that "I think people like this are going to regret not having kids in their future" come from. If having children were so great, I'm sure they would be having them.

Friend of mine is 35 years old, married and doesn’t want kids. His household income is roughly $300k/yearly and his house is nearly paid off. They invest a good portion of their income for retirement, take multiple yearly vacations and live a nice life. I think people like this are going to regret not having kids in their future. One day when he’s old all he will have to look back on is the random stuff he bought and wasted money on. Instead of putting that money towards having kids and building a family he’s choosing consumerism. This just seems so wasteful and boring to me.

Ah damn, too bad you couldn't access the internet until 2026 to let us all know

@albiceleste37 @CigsMake You're scared and lashing out because you know what the answer is. Massive increases in labor supply (through immigration in the US) puts downward pressure on wages which is great for the big corporations and you don't want to be on their side. But, you are.

@CigsMake I’m sorry but what’s the point of posts like this? “Oh, sob, I remember when my grandfather worked as a milkman and was able to afford a house for his wife and 12 kids.” Ok? That was 1938, things change. Grow up.

You could support a family working at Macy’s

@SignalBlue2 @plasticolicious @StatisticUrban @JoshuaDone Anyone with a conscience

@plasticolicious @StatisticUrban @JoshuaDone So who in the community should feel obligated, why them specifically, and why not the state?

At a certain point you simply have to say to the libertarians "no, wrong." An orphaned baby does in fact have the human right not to starve to death in the street. Any form of society that can't guarantee that right is bad.

@Dr_Marxist_27 @TiradeYT @CptAncapistan @GodandtheBear Social class isn't static. 70% of Americans will spend at least 1 year in the top income quintile

@TiradeYT @CptAncapistan @GodandtheBear Before I even tried to unravel what you just said. What class are you from or what exactly is your political ideology for your class interest? I'm A working class person and I'm talking about working class issues if you think that's bickering I want to hear your privilege 😂

Capitalism cannot exist without poverty thats what makes it inhumane.

@IIIrdWorldOrder @cowboytankie @lporiginalg Believing in a theory that was easily debunked over a century ago makes you a true intellectual titan

@cowboytankie @lporiginalg Rightoids really should just keep their dumb mouths shut and remain posting about culture war race war slop,,, stay the fuck out of economics or anything that requires high iq.

@_ChatOurs_ @brivael "I don't like your example because it shows how ludicrous my entire economic ideology is. I shall now pretend I am still the smart one by telling you to read more books. Everyone will fall for this clever ruse"

@brivael Passer 400h pour faire une chaise, c'est pas plus du travail que le tissage de Pénélope dans l'Odyssée ... ce n'est pas un exemple valable. De plus quand on parle de valeur ici elle n'est pas monétaire mais de valeur d'usage. Faut quitter l'IA et vraiment lire les bouquins un peu

Tu viens de résumer la théorie de la valeur-travail de Marx. Je vais t’expliquer pourquoi elle a été réfutée il y a 130 ans, sans méchanceté. L’idée que la valeur vient du travail a un problème fondamental. Si je passe 400 heures à construire une chaise moche que personne veut acheter, elle vaut pas plus qu’une chaise construite en 2 heures que tout le monde s’arrache. La valeur ne vient pas du temps passé. Elle vient de ce que quelqu’un est prêt à payer. C’est la révolution marginaliste de 1871 (Menger, Jevons, Walras), confirmée par Böhm-Bawerk en 1896 qui a formellement démoli la théorie valeur-travail. C’est pas un débat ouvert. C’est réglé depuis plus d’un siècle dans la littérature économique. Maintenant “le propriétaire extorque la plus-value”. Extorquer implique une contrainte. Or un contrat de travail est volontaire. Personne te force à signer. Tu peux partir demain. Tu peux monter ta propre boîte. Tu peux devenir freelance. Et surtout, le propriétaire ne “prend” rien. Il prend un risque. Il avance le capital. Il paie les salaires AVANT que le produit soit vendu. Si la boîte fait faillite, le salarié touche son chômage. Le propriétaire perd tout. Ses économies, son temps, parfois sa maison. La “plus-value” que tu décris, c’est la rémunération de ce risque. Sans quelqu’un pour avancer le capital et organiser la production, le travailleur produit rien du tout. Demande à n’importe quel freelance : le plus dur c’est pas de faire le travail, c’est de trouver le client et de structurer l’offre. Dernier point. Si le travail seul produisait la richesse, les pays avec le plus de travailleurs seraient les plus riches. L’Inde et le Bangladesh auraient un PIB par habitant supérieur à la Suisse. C’est évidemment pas le cas. Ce qui fait la différence c’est le capital, l’innovation, l’organisation, et les institutions. Je te dis ça sans animosité. La théorie valeur-travail est séduisante parce qu’elle est simple et qu’elle a un héros (le travailleur) et un méchant (le patron). Mais la réalité économique est plus nuancée que ça.

@ChrisHeddles @RockChartrand But poll taxes were instituted as a prerequisite to vote, this flat amount is not. And if it's about disproportionately hurting the poor because it's functionally regressive, so are social security and sales taxes. So how is this any different?

@MetternichSyst1 @RockChartrand Because they are totally different ways of calculating how much each person pays. Don't like it? Argue with the dictionary.

Unpopular opinion: there shouldn’t be tax rates, there should be tax amounts. If you split only federal spending evenly, it’s about $27,000 per adult per year, with roughly $3,700 of that just paying interest on past spending. That’s the actual price tag. The reason it’s hidden behind rates and brackets is simple: amounts create accountability. If every adult saw a bill for $27K, the question wouldn’t be “who should pay more,” it would be “why does this cost this much, and what am I actually getting for it?” Right now the system blurs that. Costs are diffused, benefits are emphasized, and the bill is partially pushed into the future. Amounts would force a different conversation. Not about redistribution, but about value. And that’s the part the current framing avoids.

@ChrisHeddles @RockChartrand How is that any different from a flat, progressive, or regressive tax?

@MetternichSyst1 @RockChartrand A fixed amount per person is a poll tax.

@ChrisHeddles @RockChartrand Where was a poll tax discussed?

@RockChartrand Sure - there have never been problems with poll taxes ever in the history of people... 🤡🤡🤡

@CrytCoinGuy Reform will be an afterthought in 2029

On a train and a group of 15 young british university students are all talking about politics. "We must stop reform" "I dont care about the politics as long as reform dont get in" " I love zack hes so gay" They have 0 clue what they are voting for. Sad to see.

@EmilyNAbbysDad @ChristianHeiens Compelling rebuttal

@MetternichSyst1 @ChristianHeiens

There will be no national divorce because the Left will never permit one. If Red States tried to secede, the Left gets to do what they love doing, which is temporarily cast aside their explicitly anti-American hatred and LARP as the Union in the American Civil War. Their rallying cry will be that the trans youth of Mississippi are being oppressed, and that it would be a failure of Progressive morality for Blue State America to permit Red State America to leave the Union just so they can enact their racism, sexism, transphobia, Islamophobia, and all the other -isms and -phobias that the Left endlessly moralizes about as the root of all social evils. They’ll never permit it. They will quite literally fight a civil war to keep Red States in the Union, by pointing to Blue clusters within them that need to be saved from their reactionary fascist overlords. So your options are to just surrender to these people or to take power at the Federal level and impose your will on this entire country, including Blue States like California and New York.

@SpiderUncensor @JackWDart problem than admit an obvious truth because in your morally bankrupt worldview, the worst thing that can happen is being called a racist. You're happy to let the problem continue so long as you can pretend to have the moral higher ground. It's utterly pathetic.

@SpiderUncensor @JackWDart It is wholly unsurprising you are refusing to answer a simple question about an 8x increase in rapes over a 2 decade period. As predicted, you are scared shitless to say "Pakistanis tend to rape at a much higher rate than native British population". You'd rather ignore the

One woman is killed by a man every three days in the United Kingdom. One in four have been raped or sexually assaulted. 93% of domestic abuse perpetrators are male. This is on us. It is on men. We have to do better.