So let me get this straight. According to MAGA climate change isn't to blame for the LA wildfires even though it's our reality, capitalism isn't to blame even though it's our economic system, & the GOP shares no blame even though they're the most powerful political faction on Earth. 🙄 - ThreadSky

drsocialism.bsky.social • 50 days ago

So let me get this straight. According to MAGA climate change isn't to blame for the LA wildfires even though it's our reality, capitalism isn't to blame even though it's our economic system, & the GOP shares no blame even though they're the most powerful political faction on Earth.

🙄

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billwalter.bsky.social•50 days ago

Trump and Musk are fake capitalists who use captive underpaid H1B workers to avoid paying the going wage in the American labor market - workers who are free to quit and take better positions elsewhere. That's real capitalism, and they hate and cheat it.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/01/so-pay-them-more/

trotskyist.bsky.social•50 days ago

Oh they're very real capitalists, that's the problem.

billwalter.bsky.social•50 days ago

No. Capitalism is a system, that, when working properly, demands mutual and willing benefit from all participants in a transation. It is the opposite of any system that works by exploitation, force, or deception.

When it doesn't work that way, it's not really capitalism anymore.

trotskyist.bsky.social•50 days ago

That's just capitalism dude. The invisible hand is superstitious nonsense, just like the rest of capitalism.

billwalter.bsky.social•49 days ago

LOL. A metaphor is not superstition. It is an aid to help you understand a concept, something you, apparently, willfully refuse to try to do.

If you want to rail against capitalism, it would be to your credit if you understood it.

masamerica.bsky.social•50 days ago

That's just capitalism.

billwalter.bsky.social•50 days ago

Who tells you that? Without real competition - free and fair and honest - it's not real capitalism. It's corrupt oligarchy/monopoly.

https://www.businessinsider.com/monopolies-resulted-in-myth-of-capitalism-2019-1

masamerica.bsky.social•50 days ago

Oligarchs are capitalists. Capitalism has monopolies and oligopolies all of the time.

billwalter.bsky.social•50 days ago

No. Oligarchs fashion themselves as lords and royals, over peons. That is not capitalism.

masamerica.bsky.social•50 days ago

No. Oligarchs fashion themselves as autocrats through capitalist autocratization of the workplaces, living spaces, learning spaces, and institutions. That's literally capitalism.

solarpunknation.bsky.social•50 days ago

I really wish we could be unified & unwavering in not sharing & reposting Republican commentary and opinion on ANYTHING. We already know the next 4 years is going to be completely fact free, gaslighting rubbish. We’re not helping by amplifying them. We’re being complicit in the downfall of America.

hero-cletus.bsky.social•50 days ago

Remember, these are the people who elected a man who bankrupted casinos, to run their economy.

None of it will make sense.

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