Almost like every political system needs accountability and an engaged population who haven't been bloated on nutrionally depleted bread and spend 24/7 browsing for a better life on the circus machine.
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This is America.
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And yet, the capitalists STILL try to threaten you that those things that are ALREADY HAPPENING will happen if you support socialism or communism.
I'm like "BRO. LOOK AROUND YOU."
I think they were worried that would happen to rich people.
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Old Russian joke (well, supposedly): " In capitalistic Amerika, bank rob you.
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Socialism is the dispersion of power across a group, ya know, like democracy. Capitalism is the concentration of power into a hierarchy. That's really all the fearmongering is about. They can't sit at the top of a hierarchy that doesn't exist. They can't build the hierarchy if we have our needs met already.
Add "Largest companies crashing so everyone has to chip in to bail them out."
We can use MAUUNNNV as an easy to remember acronym to remember all the ways in which the man keeps is down
Ah, but it's not happening to me. QED.
I guess, but TbF many places have slipped into unadulterated fascism. Markets are highly manipulated. Just as communists complain that all failed communism wasn't really communism, a capitalist could rightly complain this isn't really capitalism.
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But it’s ok if it’s profitable.
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