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BlueTsunami2018

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2. Yeah, that's called capitalism.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Jun 4, 2026, 08:42 PM

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Extracting every last penny you can from the working class and placing it all into the pockets of the owning class is called capitalism. Otherwise known as “freedom.”

You notice whenever these thugs and thieves oppose literally anything that will help people, they call it socialism. They never say “I’m against socialism, I’m for capitalism!” They say “I’m against socialism, I’m for FREEDOM!” Which, of course, makes capitalism synonymous with freedom.

Which, of course, it’s not.

So people are mad and rightly so but they’re conditioned not to be mad at thing that’s causing all the problems. Because that would be anger at freedom.

And freedom can’t possibly be the problem.

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