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@Ghostyb40451588 @KovaXCX @TL_Zealously @neontaster Yeah famously all the people were regularly starving over and over again before capitalism came around and taught people how to actually find and cook and produce food, it was amazing, people were so starving. They said wow it was here all this time! If only we had capitalism!

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@LeonardinBiz @punkproletarian Exactly. I am one of those tax payers as well and i support being critical of the US armed forces. I have nothing against any specific person, and i respect the bravery and service ethic, but i see it as a tool of global imperialism and not an ethical force for good in the world.

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@MartinS79245879 @NikaMelkozerova Capitalism requires a majority in poverty to be wage slaves for capital.

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I don't have a dog. If I had a dog, it doesn't bite. If my dog bit, then it didn't bite you. If my dog bit you, then you provoked the dog.

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Buffalo wings are made from tiny flying bison. It's literally in the name.

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@LeonardinBiz @punkproletarian Tell that to the Vietnamese --- yeah go ahead. You tell them that.

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@S0NlA9 It's so cute and beautiful and I wish I had time to do things like that but I do not because of capitalism, I have the abilities to do this kind of stuff but I do not have the time because I'm working all the time just to survive even after being homeless in the usa.

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@commie_trucker Where I live the trees are covered in bittersweet vines that are strangling them and it only takes a small bit of effort to cut the vines but nobody does it so we're losing most of the trees and it looks like hell

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@bopinion That's what it does. It's working.

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@BayerUS End the chemical industry.

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@TaxIsTheft0816 @_ThomasPearson_ @basedspinach @crlittle15 Capitalism is what created this poverty in the first place and keeps us in it structurally. Capitalism is a system of class subjugation to the rich by the control of the land as a commodity.

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@MaciJones69 @Inhumansoflate1 Capitalism keeps people in poverty and struggle on purpose so that the few may be very very rich. Their riches come from our poverty and labor.

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@Rothmus Extreme poverty is a fake metric and the famous graph is faked based on bad data. Capitalism keeps people in actual poverty by design. It's also not good for science as you say. It distorts technology for profit and away from what's better for people.

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@lilcodyromero @zukeepre @queenie4rmnola @marrs_edward That's just totally untrue, capitalism keeps people in poverty and more than 80% of the world's people are in poverty right now in capitalism.

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@TheAliceSmith Real world capitalism: a carpenter working seven days a week for months and years and unable to afford a house. That’s my reality. Not your fantasy.

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@AHart1974 @PendletonHuckl1 @ta_mills @Tesla_Muffin Capitalism kills people in poverty structurally, the great majority of people in the world are in poverty right now in 2023 because of capitalism, it's a system to force us to serve the rich and that's what it does.

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@LeonardinBiz @punkproletarian Who pays for the armed services?

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@drmitchell85 @BradleeLewis @drew3ooo @HomoSapiensJohn @OwenJones84 So... a bit socialist mixed with capitalist --- and the socialist part is what makes it more tolerable and better for more people than the extreme capitalist countries like the USA --- here look at this scatterplot. Enjoy the raw data.

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@keralovell Going to college was a mistake, i would not do it again, my life was misguided by the ideologies and fake American Dreams of the elders who know so little about reality, and the economy is not my grandpa's economy where he could work as a carpenter and buy land and build a house.

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@BriannaWu You are not in the left. You are controlled opposition. The left has good arguments because it's on the side of truth.

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@lilcodyromero @zukeepre @queenie4rmnola @marrs_edward Nope that is empirically not true. Huge part of the US population is in poverty and working very hard.

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If I fucking hear “capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty than any other system” one more time I’m going to fucking destroy a fucking something.

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@WassiaEichhorn @JoeDunman I experience capitalism every day as lack of freedom and total extraction of my labor for the rich who don't work, so...

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@TheAliceSmith Real world capitalism --- hard working people can't afford housing.

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@McAllisterDen @Buck_McCray @AOC We think YOU so-called "conservatives" are anti-human ideologues for the class war on the poor so that is why we oppose you hateful scummy people.

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@ArtistMiruna @MintPressNews How do you know? How do you make that assertion?

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@MaciJones69 @Inhumansoflate1 Well it really just represents the fact that there is such obscene waste of money while so many millions of people are homeless in the USA not to mention the hundred million people who are struggling so badly. It's a bad system of obscene inequality.

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I literally worked for a year on Paul Krugman's $3 million vacation home in Berkshire County and couldn't save enough to even begin to buy a small house for my own kids. He's absolutely out of touch with the working class. He's a sham, a liar for the mandarins of capitalism.

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Dude, where's my recession? In 2023 we gained 2.7 million jobs and saw inflation plunge with no significant rise in unemployment. Doomsayers should be engaging in some significant soul-searching.

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@OuchThatsSharp @ghost_251 @RobertoCuellos @green1234_5678 @hippotuits @antikommunistic @GolfingLefty @ninaturner Oh yeah it does, where you been?

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@FromKulak No this is totally incorrect. People were doing very well in many societies throughout the Long human history, people were in poverty in class subjugation systems like feudalism and then capitalism. European history is not all history.

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@IuliiaMendel @McFaul Russia tried diplomacy in earnest before and during this. You don't get your own facts. You don't get to revise recent history.

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Quit my job and it’s my first Monday free in years. Amazing to have my own day. Milled wood on bandsaw mill. Working on shed on my own land. Lumberyard. Need to be my on boss, still capitalism still exploitation but much better than working for a direct boss in a bullshit job.

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@JamesRobichaux @ClaraSorrenti No it's capitalism.

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@Rich_in_NJ @paulkrugman Koch Brothers project in fact.

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@nofside @rental @Stevoffical Capitalism as a system. Why? Capitalism as hegemony, as the historical overtaking of control of all aspects of life, shaping culture for its ends, shaping the justice system, shaping the material distribution of wealth, maintaining control and creating artificial scarcity. Why?

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@JimTheBeard @bitcoins1stlady Or maybe the US Empire and Israel should not be monsters and you should not be backing them as a monster yourself. Maybe join the human species and have empathy.

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@MartinS79245879 @NikaMelkozerova It does require that.

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@HamptonThink I am a revolutionary because we are not meant to be wage slaves, and capitalism is an entrenched system of wage slavery and extraction of life force from the majority.

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@idlematts Yes it is the ideology of capitalism which tries to redefine human nature to justify its own existence which is amoral.

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@daniel18301830 @karolk @blaircottrell89 @Paul_McCreesh You are very correct, John -- there is a lot of intellect used in carpentry -- math and reasoning. I do it all, and do it well, and i am also very much anti-capitalist and left.

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@HarmfulOpinion Yeah because you're actually a very bad person. That's why people are mad at you. And then you laughing about it cuz you are a bad person. It's just pretty objective dude, face it. You earned this and the people who understand reality are yelling at you because you deserve it.

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@malachi54 @dhh @jasonhickel You can follow @davidgraeber on Twitter. I highly recommend his talk with David Wengrow called "Paleolithic Politics and Why It Matters" -- the stuff they're up to is great. Changing the human narrative that's been so distorted by the capitalist mythology.

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@gillette_jim @rheumecraig @paulkrugman I was a teenage libertarian reading Ayn Rand at seventeen. Thank goodness I outgrew it by eighteen.

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@BothSidesDo_It @wreccles Good. Rubin is wrong. I'm a carpenter and Rogan is right.

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@0Gstank @TheJumboman @thkaal @GadzooksB Please define that threshold used to make that graph. The devil is in the details. Also note that capitalism didn't begin on 1820. Capitalism CREATED the poverty shown at the beginning of the graph.

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@JimbauxsJournal @WassiaEichhorn @JoeDunman Capitalism. Same thing. Forced labor for basic needs. Extraction of life force from the majority by the rich.

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@paulkrugman I literally worked for a year on Paul Krugman's $3 million vacation home in Berkshire County and couldn't save enough to even begin to buy a small house for my own kids. He's absolutely out of touch with the working class. He's a sham, a liar for the mandarins of capitalism.

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8 years

This deserves to be posted weekly. Monsanto hid critical knowledge about PCBs risks. Monsanto lies and people die.

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@drmitchell85 @BradleeLewis @drew3ooo @HomoSapiensJohn @OwenJones84 Well then, that's an issue of definition. If you want to define socialism as strictly and only state control of all means of production, you're free to do so, but most people have a less struct definition that relates more to the impetus of policy choices, for capital or society?

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@davidgraeber As you are well aware, the best minds of our generation are serving the stupidest whims of the super wealthy people. The entire system is a pyramid scheme that is grinding the souls and intellectual life of people into dust from our vertebrae.

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Apparently I’ve been shadow banned. Please like this if you see it, so I know that some people actually see me. I don’t exactly know what that means or how long it lasts or why it happens.

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@Lenny_Kloggins @hansalexrazo Seeing class or race is not racist or classist.

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@ztarasj @davidgraeber @Peter_Turchin I really cannot stand “occupy accomplished nothing” guys. There are so many of that type. People just don’t see what actually occurred and what connections were made and that it was pretty much the best we can do in this current moment. We need such a thing once again.

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@ElJuntapalabras @clayroutledge Capitalism is class subjugation by Enclosure. Took me forty years to learn

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Trump supporters: “There were no meetings with any Russians.” “They just forgot to report the meetings with Russians.” "There's no evidence of collusion with Russia!!" "Who cares if the Trump campaign colluded with Russia?" “Трамп собирается сделать Россию великой снова!”

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Been a wage slave in capitalism for so long now that I am working on my own land I am struggling to remember I’m not being whipped by a boss and to relax. Been a couple days now. Must remember to breathe.

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@bunny2be @TheEconomist Less capitalism IS the solution --- Less all the way down to none. And by "capitalism" i mean the system of exploitation based on ownership of the land by the wealthy.

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@xj6response @MrAhmednurAli My God give the Red scare propaganda a rest already.

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@teachrobotslove I've known Communists of a wide variety of personalities and most of them are very hard-working and very caring and not self denying like your ex supposedly was, and what you're doing here I think is basically political mccarthyism. This is opportunism you're doing. Ugly stuff.

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@israelrice @Phil_Lewis_ Get away with? Capitalism is a debt trap. It’s a fucked up system designed to put people in debt.

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@bopinion It's working right, as it's designed to extract wealth and maintain a permanent poor working class. It's design goals are the problem --- but it's working.

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@itsgiandee @johndburger @jascollins @ZiggyRichards @aedison It's propaganda, cooking the books to make it look like capitalism has lifted almost everyone out of poverty by not counting the non-market assets of non-capitalist political economy, like people owning our own land with crops and houses, and being able to live without much $$$$.

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@existentialcoms Poverty is necessary for there to be exploitive and vast wealth. Wealth alone can be earned honestly, but not billionaire wealth. Capitalism makes housing and land too expensive to make most of us into wage slaves for the rich by the basic need of shelter as the driver.

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I’m going to be five minutes late to work today with the rich people because I spent an extra five minutes with my daughter jumping in muddy puddles and it’s Friday and I don’t fucking care.

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Capitalism is when you put a mouse into a cage and it has no access to food or water except by running in the wheel that you put there for it to run, but you say that the mouse is free because it has a choice to not run in the wheel.

Just “one of THOSE” cruel and small people 🤭🇨🇦

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@TrueDerekSloan The trouble with “free” is that it has no value to the person who doesn’t pay for that free. We were taught to take what you need. Others are taught to “take it all, if you don’t, someone else will, so it might as well be you”. Some go a step further and sell it.

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@AudiByrneHaema I call it denialism, obfuscation, propaganda, delay tactics, scrambling, etc... this specific one is the Four Dog Strategy.

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@HHI_Golf_Guy @UberFacts You think US people are inherently more criminal than other people of the world? The problem is extremely harmful system and sick society causes poverty and alienation and distress. But yeah sure more cops is what we need, yeah sure. Turn the screw tighter.

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@AHart1974 @PendletonHuckl1 @ta_mills @Tesla_Muffin No I live in capitalism in the USA right now in 2023. Land is a commodity and not a basic right and the rent is due on the 1st of the month and you have to go make wages to pay the rent or else you end up homeless, that is capitalism in the essence.

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@keralovell Yes! I was homeless in grad school living in an abandoned house across the road until it got too cold then sleeping in my office avoiding the guard. Now i'm a carpenter working 7 days a week in Berkshire County and can't afford a house, i rent for my little family, it's insane.

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Famously, nobody ate before capitalism began a few centuries ago. It was very tough.

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@SageThinker99 @S0NlA9 Lmao capitalism is the reason you get to eat in the first place

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@elonmusk Started being born white in Apartheid South Africa to very comfortable family, have endless social safety net... that's not poverty.

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@mcdugall @elonmusk Maybe we should end capitalism and not worship king elon

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Capitalism is so fucking evil that it makes housing extremely unaffordable by design, this is intentional people. It is intentional to make us into wage slaves.

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@Tokmak1787 @mhdksafa Most economic migrants that come to the United States for instance are coming from capitalist countries that the United States forced to remain capitalist, like Guatemala Honduras El Salvador etc, because capitalism keeps people in poverty.

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@robinlemare @jasonhickel Smith was an early PR man for a system that was exploitation from the very beginning. If you think Adam Smith was a genius and capitalism can be decent then please read this book. It focuses on the tension between Smith and Steuart and what their functions were:

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If we are in the “land of the free” in the USA then why does it feel so fucking much like slavery?

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@queirozfcom @ukhogette @TheAliceSmith But they have low wage labor due to artificial poverty of the majority. That's use of a systemic exploitation system.

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@aScottyMr @NocturnalHolly @NeolithicSheep How about, nobody deserves to be exploited, and this includes that Jeff Bezos should not be extorted using sexual pictures without consent, but also he should not be exploiting millions of people in a system of exploitation?

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Some people think capitalism is natural and is everything. Imagine thinking that "Capitalism is literally baked into the DNA of the universe. Your short-sighted ideological ignorance won't let you see that the exchange of capital is everywhere & in everything." Propaganda works.

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@LeeCamp But they created a system and machines to exploit people and extract the value of their labor towards them don’t they deserve billions of dollars? Don’t they deserve our life force?

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@TheEconomist "boycotting, sanctioning and divesting from Israel" is not antisemitism.

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@CallaWalsh @closegitmo @WitnessToGTMO @yamiaraACN_Cuba @Deguantanamo @AdrielBosch @PrensaGtmo @DvidTwit @EmbaCubaUS @EmbaCubaFrancia Down with the USA

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@babadookspinoza @jaybeware Freud is naive and incompatible with being human.

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@FightHaven The guy wasn't out of control just drunk. The kick boxer is wrong here and did a bad thing.

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@BeaudetteGary @charliekirk11 No, we're saying socialism is good because we work for things but there is not a class of elite wasters taking half the value of our labor, so we can actually survive and live before we die.

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I am a full time working carpenter in capitalism who must go to work in ten minutes and i am looking up food pantries and can't afford a house, and yet work full time for the super rich finance people from the city on their vacation homes. Can't afford land because capitalism.

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Fuck the rich and fuck capitalism. And this now. This is a system of slavery.

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Capitalism has fucked me up. The anxiety of being precarious for housing for so many years now, decades. It has made me a stress case with stress health issues and given me PTSD.

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@davidgraeber @CaseyBHead It’s more a measure of the level of monetization of economics in place of self provisioning than it is of what poverty actually is. Enclosure drives people off the land then we must do wage work to buy food and shelter. Then we’re less poor? Seems like we’re more exploited to me.

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@AxelFunhoff @ClaraSorrenti @blastjarna Suggest a system NOT literally designed to keep people in wage slavery to the rich.

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No, it doesn't. It "efficiently directs resources to where" the rich want those resources to go. Very simple and undeniable.

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Fucking stupid libertarian lapdogs of capitalism all over this fucking website. They make me sick and are advocating a system of wage slavery that steals most peoples lives.

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My uncle died last night and I had wanted to play him some songs from several years now but I didn’t get to because I’m always working for the rich and now I have to go work for the rich again and I was working for the rich when my grandma died and I didn’t get to see last time.

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@Wombat802809 @Sh3lby118 @HeidiBachram Thomas, the elephant in the room is that Israel has been doing settler colonial genocidal actions against Palestine for 75 years now and that is the root of the cause of the conflict there. You can't undo that without undoing the real cause.

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@ProjectLiberal No capitalism keeps the people in poverty and it's not free markets in any sense of freedom, it is class slavery for the many to the few.

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@Stay_young4now @grumpyMichael @TonyHWindsor Yes thank you but sadly you’re in a minority.

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@Ezra4Liberty You understand that graph is of so-called extreme poverty which really means nothing at all, it has no relation to actual poverty, and more than 80% of the world's people are in poverty and capitalism right now. Millions of people are homeless in the USA right now in winter 2024.

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I got bought out of wage slavery by a rich person with compassion, and not a day too soon. It was killing me. I was in a downward spiral.

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All billionaires are sociopaths.

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@BothSidesDo_It @wreccles To some small degree, there is some bad influence in the building code that makes life harder for the poor, but generally they are made by very good people with the right goals in mind, and enforcement does make buildings safer and better. Many builders would badly cut corners.

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