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Cake day: November 9th, 2023

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  • authoritarian nature of capitalism

    Plenty of instances of communists doing the same shit. Please refer to my original post.

    Authoritarianism is not tied to political ideology. Authoritarianism takes advantage of whatever the political environment is. To think one environment doesn’t allow for authoritarianism while the other does is extremely naive. This isn’t a “both sides” argument, this is an argument that you incorrectly associate authoritarianism with only capitalism.

    I don’t know how else I can explain this to you, so this will be my last response.








  • The part I have a hard time wrapping my head around is the fact that we all saw this coming for the last 4 years, and yet here we are…

    I hope/choose to believe that the reason we’re here is that those leading the charge in our justice system knew they not only had to have an airtight case, but it also had to slowly tear him down and erode his support.

    There are plenty of leaders throughout history who were exiled, deposed, or voted out only to come back stronger than ever. By taking an extremely methodical approach to all of the legal challenges against Trump, they’ve forced him to spend the majority of his time, energy, and money on those battles.

    As always, time will tell…


  • It makes you wonder why he needs the payout. I just listened to a podcast about Michael Jackson (Timesuck if you’re curious, highly recommend it) and he talked about how Jackson was in massive debt by the end and was prepping for a tour to make money to pay back his debts right before he died. The host pointed out it doesn’t matter how rich you are, you can always overspend.

    Obviously, at billionaire level the debt isn’t going to be with luxuries and goods. Could it be debt to other billionaires or countries made under the table? He’s shown in recent years that he’s not the business genius he tried to pretend he was, so it wouldn’t be that far fetched.