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Walter Masterson @waltermasterson I setup a lemonade stand to teach my daughter about capitalism. At the end of the day she made $54. I charged her $20 to use my lawn and rent my table, and $12 in supplies. Then I took my cut of $20. "But daddy, that means I didn't make any money today" I explained that since I am the investor who took the biggest risk, I'm entitled to the most money.
Jonas Attilus, MD MPH @jonasattilus Patient attempted suieide because they can't afford their rent anymore. The system is convincing me their behavior was due to their depression, impulsivity, personality disorder & unhealthy coping mechanism. We are too afraid to mention capitalism, and housing crisis.
larriewayne NYC Mayor Mamdani is opening up city-run grocery stores in an effort to lower grocery costs for working people. "That's socialism!" scream the Republicans in Alabama, where the state operates liquor stores.
MAGA PEOPLE ARE LIKE, "I'M A MEAN PIECE OF SHIT ON PURPOSE, AND I'M SO PROUD OF MYSELF." EGOPROOF®
RenzoTM @fwrenzo1 Nobody talks about how we're all paying $15 for sandwiches now and just pretending that's normal. Five years ago that same sandwich was $8. The price doubled and the only explanation we got was "supply chain issues" which apparently means "forever."
In Finland, charging fees for tuition is illegal, which means rich kids have to mix with normal kids, which means rich families had to make sure the school their kid went to was good which meant the rich were prompted to invest in public schools. Finland, take a bow Falarenthessira Zenvoryss This aligns interests across social classes. Removing private options makes every parent advocate for public excellence. It's a great model for social equity.
untitledgoosememes. Billionaires legit decide to hoard wealth instead of helping people. Full stop, that makes you a terrible person. And defending that greed is almost as bad.
"I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face!" Gay GOP candidate Reid Rasner, sues fellow Wyoming Republicans for calling him a pedophile.
middleclassparty @middle_class_us The advice for the housing crisis is get roommates. The advice for grocery costs is cook at home. The advice for the commute is move closer to work. The advice for debt is cut spending. The advice for burnout is find balance. None of these are solutions. They are instructions for how to be poor more quietly.
taylormetzner "Everyone has the same opportunity" is an insane sentence in a country where ZIP code can shape school quality, air quality, food access and life expectancy.
Christian Nationalism is just Sharia Law with bacon & beer
Jess Margera @jessmargera Maga is apparently now boycotting going to NYC because they hate the mayor. They say they will never go there again. I mean is this guy fucking amazing or what? That place is going to be a fucking paradise now
jwynia If you believe in jailing homeless people, you already believe homeless people should have housing paid for by the public. You've just decided that the housing provided should be super- expensive, should suck, and their lives should be miserable while they receive that housing and food. Which says a lot less about homeless people than that you are a dick.
'You shouldn't be so open about your mental illness' Why? Because it may help me? It may help others? It may help end the stigma surrounding mental health? It may make someone get care for themselves? GOD FORBID.
BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS Paris is drowning in trash because the bin men have gone on permanent strike against the retirement increase. Their Energy bills are 50% of ours They retire 6 years earlier Their pension is 2x higher Yet still they will strike. Why are they better off? Because they strike
Elon Musk @elonmusk Mamdani has built nothing. He is a taker, never a maker. Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan A 'taker, you say? The Washington Post Elon Musk's business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding
LAST TIME AMERICA HAD A "DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST WE GOT SOCIAL SECURITY, STRONG LABOR UNIONS AND A MINIMUM WAGE
Elon Musk @elonmusk Orwell was a genius NateTalksToYou @NateTalksToYou Indeed. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it. - George Orwell
BREAKING: A mother who previously claimed on RFK Jr.‘s Children’s Health Defense podcast that vaccines killed her 18-month-old twins has now been charged with their murders.
The term "privatization" was first coined to describe the N*zi's economic system.
kyamawebb "Communism sounds good in theory but..." Let me stop you right there compadre, bc capitalism doesn't even sound good in theory. Oh ya, 13 people owning 99% of global wealth, ya let's create a system that makes that possible. What the fuek is wrong with you?
Middle Age Riot @middleageriot The same people who think Democrats are communists think Donald Trump is a Christian.
Robert R. Raymond @robpertray when people conflate capitalism with trade or commerce they're missing the most important aspect of capitalism-its deeply undemocratic nature. despite the fact that wealth is created collectively, it's captured individually and deployed for the benefit of the few (capitalists)
STUDIES: НОМОРНОВIC MEN MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY
I've noticed all the talking heads on Fox are telling us the protesters are paid agitators when in fact the talking heads on Fox are the paid agitators @MHTruthUltra
JESUS WAS "WOKE".
@hell_line0 Remember when a kid got years in North Korean prison for stealing a poster and everyone was like "what a terrifying country!" and now Americans are facing years in prison for touching floating paint chips...??
THEY KEPT A DEAD WOMAN ON LIFE SUPPORT TO FORCE A BIRTH, DEFENDED A COP WHO SHOT A BABY OVER DIAPERS, AND WANT WOMEN EXECUTED FOR ABORTION WHILE RAPISTS GET LESS TIME. "PRO-LIFE" IS ONE HELLUVA CULT.
Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex It is important to resist the commodification of basic human needs. Food, water and healthcare cannot be subordinated to market considerations or geopolitical interests. Access to adequate food is a fundamental human right grounded in the dignity of every person. Meeting this need not only alleviates suffering but also addresses underlying causes of geopolitical instability. Indeed, food security is an essential component of global and integral security.
Our economy should be measured by how the bottom 30% are doing in the supermarket, not how the top 1% are doing in the stock market.
Briana Mill... @theBriana... Therapy helps but let's be clear. You can't CBT your way out of capitalism. You can't mindfulness your way out of racism. You can't self care your way out of oppression. You can't journal your way out of ableism. This isn't about coping, it's about deconstructing the systems
Steve Harvey What's something that's become too normalized? Peyman Piran @piran_peyman Exploitation by labor. Exploitation by rent. Exploitation by interest. Exploitation by mortgage. Exploitation by taxes. Exploitation by food, water and energy prices.
@omgsidewalks You CANNOT have hyperwealth without hyperpoverty. A billionaire exists in one country because child labor exists in another. Stock markets grow by looting countries raw. That's the reality of capitalism: the misanthropic greed of the rich is fed by devastating the poor.
Capitalism has ruined people's perception of the world and made them think that it is normal to be extremely selfish and greedy when it is not. It is really not natural to believe that human beings should go without shelter, food, and healthcare simply because they do not have enough money.
zahira kelly @bad_dominicana german nazis were literally inspired by u.s. indigenous genocide & antiblack slavery policy. so stop pretending nazi ideology came first.
THE NEWS IS JUST RICH PEOPLE PAYING RICH PEOPLE TO TELL POOR PEOPLE TO BLAME EACHOTHER
Qasim Rashid Bootlickers: OMG Musk is a Trillionaire how amazing! Me: Tax trillionaires out of existence Bootlickers: lol you're so dumb for thinking he has a trillion dollars cash Me: Oh, so he's not a trillionaire Bootlickers: Yes, yes he is Me: So for bragging rights, buying anything he wants, influencing elections, & controlling politicians-he's a trillionaire, but for accountability & taxation-he's not? Bootlickers: Correct Everyone: And that's why you're a bootlicker
@MetamateDaz Rich people don't die if you tax them. Poor people do die when you cut welfare and healthcare. No comment, just 2 facts.
Anonymous @YourAnonNews Imagine waking up tomorrow and every billionaire vanished. Most people would still go to work. Food would still be grown. Roads would still be built. Hospitals would still operate. Now imagine every worker vanished. That's the difference between wealth and value.
This parasite in a skin-suit becoming a trillionaire while you can't afford groceries and rent is actually the same thing and we need to realise that the ultra-rich are not going to solve our problems, they ARE our problems.
Pete Hegseth made the flu vaccine optional for troops two months ago. Now nearly 160 troops at Lackland AFB in Texas have the flu, only 40% of trainees opted in, and one recruit has died. The base just got an exception to require the vaccine again. This is what happens when you choose political ideology over science.
melinda d. anderson @mdawriter Enslavers in Texas purposely failed to free enslaved ppl and probably never would've if a union general hadn't rode into Texas. That's the meaning of Juneteenth-not the day that slavery ended but rather that white supremacy will always find way to persevere. Note to news outlets.
Elon Musk is now a TRILLIONAIRE! But just how big IS that number?? Well, if you count the number of people who died because of Musk killing USAID, about 780,000, that's $1.3 million per death. Source: Oxfam
Kar @bustitopen420 no one "earns" a trillion dollars Akilah Hughes @AkilahObviously The idea that Elon Musk worked harder than every person alive and who has ever lived is a very stupid and immature fairytale. Wake up. He's robbing us.
Luke Miani > save $15M a year by cutting a screwworm monitoring program > screwworm outbreak almost immediately > $1B to combat it Government efficiency FactPost @factpostnews The Trump administration has announced they'll need to spend an estimated $1 billion to combat the New World Screwworm.
Dino Manti The whole "Ford Nation" brand is a massive, ego-driven insult to actual democracy. Doug Ford treating a provincial population as his personal fan club is ridiculous. And "Ford Fest"? It's a completely transparent, vote-buying PR stunt. They roll out a few thousand free hot dogs and carnival rides just to distract people from how much he's quietly slashing services behind closed doors. It is nothing but pure hypocrisy and greasy politics. Wake up Ontario.
In 2021, Elon Musk said he would pay $6B to prevent mass starvation if the UN showed him a plan. The UN showed him the plan. He went silent. Then he bragged about dismantling USAID, the agency that helped prevent that starvation. Now, he's the world's first trillionaire. He could have saved millions. He chose the wood chipper instead. Elon Musk @elonmusk We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could gone to some great parties. Did that instead.
BTW a couple years ago I went down a lead poisoning rabbit hole and in the mid-2000s there were a bunch of news stories about boomers already starting to exhibit dementia symptoms in their 40s and then mysteriously everyone appeared to stop talking about it Scott A lot of people on here think so many boomers are now borderline schizophrenic with volatile tempers because they experimented with drugs 50 years ago when by far the most obvious reason is extreme lead poisoning
Zack Budryk @BudrykZack Closest I can think of is when Czar Alexander II's train derailed in 1888 and killed 23 people, because Alexander was drunkenly demanding the engineer go faster and when the guy explained that's not how trains work Alexander accused him of being a Jew David M. Perry @Lollardfish 15h Is there anything like what Musk is doing to twitter in history? Any analogies?
therealjoe.smith You don't have to agree with me on everything. But if 2,000+ passages about the poor barely register while six verses dominate your faith, it's worth asking who set your priorities.
they/them might be giants @babadookspinoza People only hate Elon Musk because he comes from an emerald mining fortune made in apartheid South Africa, he buys ideas and pretends he's an inventor, he's a white supremacist, union-busting, abusive employer, he's hoarding $1T in stolen wages, he makes us ashamed to be human,
Elon Musk @elonmusk Murderous migrants beheading innocent people in their home town is what's making people angry, not "social media"! Ben Briones @BasilRRMaximus "Murderous migrant kills millions of grandmas by cutting social security in order to avoid paying taxes"
Amber Naslund @ambercadabra THEY MET IN THE FUCKING SITUATION ROOM TO DISCUSS COVERING UP THE PRESIDENT RAPING AND MUTILATING CHILDREN YOU DO NOT DO THAT IF THERE IS NOTHING TO HIDE WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE WE DOING THEY ARE ALL COMPLICIT FUCK
Ted Cruz The Republican Party is the party of truck drivers, steel workers, cops, firefighters, waiters & waitresses - men and women with calluses on their hands. The Democrat Party is the party of rich coastal elites that sip soy lattes with their pinkies in the air. Laura Bassett Trump was born with a silver spoon in New York City. You went to Harvard and Princeton. What the f**k are you talking about?
Watching people cheer for Elon Musk becoming the world's first trillionaire is like watching passengers on the Titanic cheer for the iceberg.
Bes D. Socialist @besfort all the billions the rich are accumulating every day are hours you could've spent not working, - hours, days, months, and years stolen from your life
FactPost @factpostnews The Trump administration has moved to allow dumping of toxic coal waste, shielding corporations from water pollution lawsuits
I'm going to tell men a hard truth they all need to hear - pedophilia is far more common than any of us want to believe. Ask any woman how old she was the first time she was sexualized.
emily minarik @emily_minarik "universal healthcare is bad because what if the wait times for specialists increase?" The wait times for specialists in the US right now: Rush: Emily, your visit is scheduled for Feb 5, 2029
Brave New Films @bravenewfilms Attacking the rich is not envy, it's self defense. The hoarding of wealth is the cause of poverty. The rich aren't just indifferent to poverty; they create and maintain it.