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@ReggieHere Yes. Pro-capitalists always talk about "voting with your dollar" when they're trying to make the case for a free market. But that just means the richer you are, the more votes you get, which means those with all the money have all the means to keep all the money and those with no money have all opportunity stolen from them. That's not freedom.

Ravenheart 9h ago

#Capitalism isn't a free market. Competition, one of its core mechanisms, results in winners and losers. The winners get richer, which makes winning again even easier, which snowballs into monopoly. And when they own everything, fair competition becomes impossible. There's nothing free about that.

Ravenheart 11h ago

#Liberals like to claim that without State meddling, #Capitalism would thrive. Yet this current #ParamountWB merger is evidence against that. Some state representatives are now fighting to stop this monopoly from taking place. Without State intervention, there will be much less consumer choice and their precious "free market" will become even less free. Monopolies are inevitable in unrestrained capitalism, the sooner we realize that, the better off we'll be.

Ravenheart 13h ago

Remember: #Democrats might be left of #Republicans (a simple feat), but they are by no means #Leftists. Leftists are anticapitalist, antiestablishment, and revolutionary. Democrats however *are* the establishment, and they most often consider true, full socialism to be too radical.

Ravenheart 6d ago

The "I Did That" stickers at gas pumps: #MAGA were pasting them everywhere during Biden's administration. But I'm seeing #Trump ones torn up and thrown on the ground these days. Don't dish it out if you can't take it, snowflakes.

Ravenheart Apr 7

#Trump is a cornered animal. The walls are closing in. He's about to go ballistic.

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Ravenheart Apr 6

@AlexanderKingsbury On the contrary, Capitalism is a system with structure and mechanisms crafted to accumulate wealth into the hands of a few at the expense of the many. *That* is demonstrably true, just look at our obscene global wealth inequality. The mechanism of competition and the private ownership of the means of production naturally result in such inequality, oppression and mass privation.

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Ravenheart Apr 6

@AlexanderKingsbury That's my point. It exists outside of the Capitalist framework to compensate for capitalism's shortcomings. It's supplementation. If we relied exclusively on capitalism to meet our needs, millions of people would die, because capitalism only cares about profits and the concentration of wealth. The extent to which it may meet people's needs is purely incidental, it's an afterthought to shareholder profits.

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Ravenheart Apr 6

@AlexanderKingsbury State welfare programs. Independent charities. Nonprofit organizations. All trying to compensate for Capitalism's shortcomings. Without them, the poor would be left utterly destitute, even more so than they already are. Capitalism fails to meet people's needs, and so for those people to survive, they depend on institutions that function (at least partially) outside of the capitalist rat race.

Ravenheart Apr 6

The fact that #Capitalism depends so heavily on supplementation and regulation in order even somewhat to function is a powerful indicator of its ineptitude as an economic system. It's not a good dog that must be muzzled. We can do so much better.