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@nickthechad Weirdo

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@LeoPerez_093 @aidaknx @jngo_alt @sigmahamster2 The candidates citizens see on the ballot are pre selected by corporate money. The same corporations fund both Republicans and Democrats to ensure whoever wins serves their interests, all while distracting the public with engineered culture wars. The choice is an illusion.

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@LeoPerez_093 @aidaknx @jngo_alt @sigmahamster2 Steel and railroad monopolies got forcefully dismantled by the government because they ate up all competition and choked innovation. Big Tech is trying the same, but they have way more leverage than rail ever had because their massive capital power controls digital infrastructure

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@LeoPerez_093 @aidaknx @jngo_alt @sigmahamster2 It’s mathematically impossible for groups of citizens to lobby like corporations. You said "vote to change it," but citizens tried that. When voters in South Dakota and Utah passed anti corruption and lobbying limits, state legislatures stepped in and overturned them.

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@LeoPerez_093 @aidaknx @jngo_alt @sigmahamster2 You’re missing the point saying “nothing is free”. Public systems aren’t free they are paid by our taxes. The issue is that corporate monopolies use their cash to legally sabotage those public systems so you're forced to pay a second time to them. That's a double tax.

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@LeoPerez_093 @aidaknx @jngo_alt @sigmahamster2 They don’t just buy advertising. They buy politicians. The top fundraiser wins 92% of the time. A candidate who can’t raise money will drop out. Mamdami is an anomaly who had hundreds of volunteer door to knockers in manhattan

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@LeoPerez_093 @aidaknx @jngo_alt @sigmahamster2 You’re contradicting yourself. You praise the free market for offering consumer choice, but the moment a corporation spends millions to sabotage alternate choices, you blame the consumer. If a company has to lobby to keep alternatives nonexistent, it’s not a free choice

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@LeoPerez_093 @aidaknx @jngo_alt @sigmahamster2 Furthermore, it's never in a corporation's interest for public services to be efficient. Companies like TurboTax spend millions lobbying to block the IRS from making a free tax filing system. Private monopolies thrive by keeping public options broken so you're forced to pay them.

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@LeoPerez_093 @aidaknx @jngo_alt @sigmahamster2 Look at the incentives. Corporate cash buys the ads, gerrymanders the districts, and funds the incumbents. Voters do try reforms but capital will always be more powerful. The solution in my opinion is reforming the rules painfully but surely.

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@LeoPerez_093 @aidaknx @jngo_alt @sigmahamster2 The discipline in business becomes irrelevant once a company gets big enough to buy political leverage. They become too big to fail to the point it could cause recessions which would look awful on politicians that mostly work in self interest to be reelected.

[MAADY @MaadyBK67]

“You’re cheering for Team USA”

Yeah ni**a, I’m American. Wtf?

[ESPN @espn]

Scenes from a special Fourth of July celebration ahead of the Paraguay-France World Cup game 😲🇺🇸

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@LeoPerez_093 @aidaknx @jngo_alt @sigmahamster2 Then you’d agree we should end the billions in bailouts keeping failing monopolies like Boeing alive, right? If a company fails, it should die, not get corporate welfare. When a private monopoly fails, it hurts people for profit. When public services struggle, we can vote to fix

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@LeoPerez_093 @aidaknx @jngo_alt @sigmahamster2 When Boeing fails, you blame the provider (Boeing), not the economic system (Capitalism). But when VA healthcare or a public housing project struggles, you don't just blame the provider, you blame the entire idea of government intervention. That’s the double standard.

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@LeoPerez_093 @aidaknx @jngo_alt @sigmahamster2 What do you mean by “government fails”Is the US Postal Service a failure? Are public libraries or our interstate roads a failure? If a Boeing plane crashes, we blame that specific company, not the entire free market. Why the double standard when a public program struggles?

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THEY TOLD US 'IT'S JUST PARAGUAY' 😭😭😭

BEATING PARAGUAY AIN'T FOR EVERYONE 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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@LeoPerez_093 @aidaknx @jngo_alt @sigmahamster2 You're 100% right that money isn't the issue, efficiency is. The US government already spends more public tax dollars per capita on healthcare than nations with universal systems, yet get worse results. We’re not underfunded, our corporate run model is just pocketing the premium

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@LeoPerez_093 @aidaknx @jngo_alt @sigmahamster2 Soviet was heading towards a successful market socialist economy that allowed private farming and private small businesses while the public owned and operated heavy industries. Stalin saw this as threatening to his dictator control (because more power to workers) and crushed it

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@LeoPerez_093 @aidaknx @jngo_alt @sigmahamster2 If you’re talking about what Cuba and USSR have done I agree that forcing the market to act in unnatural ways is bad. But socialism doesn’t always mean government intervention. Sometimes it can cause less government involvement