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# ![@RockChartrand Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1060661430008115200.png) @RockChartrand Rock Chartrand🤑

Rock Chartrand appears to be involved in discussions about economics, socialism, and capitalism, although specific details about him are not provided in the tweets. The conversations mostly revolve around criticisms of socialism and praise for capitalism, with users arguing that socialism leads to inefficiencies and stifles innovation, while capitalism promotes freedom, progress, and wealth creation. Key points include the perceived failures of socialist systems and the benefits of private ownership and free markets.

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### Top Social Posts
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"Capitalism is value creation through rational self-interest. It rewards the people who produce innovate and trade. Prosperity becomes the natural outcome of ability. Socialism is value destruction dressed up as short-term compassion. It trades production for entitlement incentives for envy and responsibility for dependence. The result is always the same: decay resentment and eventual self-destruction. One system builds. The other consumes. Only one can sustain a civilization"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996238448395452497)  2025-12-03T15:21Z 10.5K followers, XXX engagements


"Its hilarious watching people say we need to pirate again when the only reason you dont need to pirate is that access has never been easier or cheaper. You can stream more content than ever for a few bucks or literally for free if youre willing to watch ads. But somehow paying $X is oppression. Thats not rebellion. Thats entitlement dressed up as moral outrage. When you hate creators and companies simply for succeeding piracy stops being about access and turns into envy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997361304378417517)  2025-12-06T17:43Z 10.5K followers, 26.3K engagements


"Taxpayers are capitalists. They earn before anyone takes. They produce before anyone consumes. Every dollar taxed comes from someone who worked traded built or invested someone who participated in voluntary exchange. So when someone says taxpayers funded the internet what they really mean is: capitalists created value government confiscated part of it and then claimed credit for spending it. The producers are the taxpayers. The dependents are the ones living on their output"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997362269806854447)  2025-12-06T17:47Z 10.5K followers, 1830 engagements


"Socialism is a luxury belief. It only appears in societies after capitalism has made people rich enough to pretend redistribution doesnt hurt anyone. Welfare climate politics free programs guaranteed income none of these existed when people were poor because survival left no room for fantasy. Capitalism produces the surplus; socialism spends it while condemning the system that created it. It is the moral hobby of a society whose prosperity has lasted long enough for people to forget where it came from"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997711689911824606)  2025-12-07T16:55Z 10.5K followers, 32.8K engagements


"What Reich is doing here only works if nobody runs the math. Take his exact premise and calculate it honestly: Say a company has 500000 employees making $8/hr and they all get bumped to $15/hr. Thats a $7/hr increase. $7/hr 2080 full-time hours = $14560 more per employee 500000 workers = $XXXX BILLION per year Now compare that to the CEOs shocking $150M salary. If the CEO worked for free not $X literally $X youd still be short $XXX billion. Raising wages is not funded by cancelling an executive paycheck. It requires massive recurring revenue increases higher prices layoffs or business"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998043591243919832)  2025-12-08T14:54Z 10.5K followers, 10.3K engagements


"Countries arent rich. Individuals are. The wealth youre pointing at isnt sitting in a vault labeled America. It belongs to the people who earned it and they dont owe you anything just because you exist. Capitalism is amazing for people who want to earnless so for those who feel entitled to what someone else earned. A food bank line doesnt prove capitalism failed. It proves a lot of people want the benefits of production without participating in it. Need doesnt create a right. And heres the part you never admit: even if you hate capitalism you still need enough of it to subsidize every"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998369553294770355)  2025-12-09T12:30Z 10.5K followers, 7752 engagements


"They want to eat the rich for the same reason children want to smash a vending machine. Its easier than paying and they assume someone will refill it afterward. Their fantasy depends on someone else continuing to produce while they destroy the producers. History already proved what comes next: The rich get eaten The system collapses Blame shifts to saboteurs Rationing begins Dissent becomes treason Hunger becomes normal And then this part they always forget someone new becomes the rich even at $X of wealth because someone must be blamed for the lack. So yes despite depending on them they"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998780009662562581)  2025-12-10T15:41Z 10.5K followers, 40.8K engagements


"The most consistent implementation of communism was Pol Pots Cambodia. Those guys didnt moderate it reinterpret it or sanitize itthey enforced it exactly as its core principles demand: abolish property abolish markets abolish class distinctions abolish individual achievement abolish private ambition abolish independent thought. They didnt fail because they got it wrong. They failed because they took it seriously. Communism works like acid: the more thoroughly you apply it the more rapidly everything dissolves. The tragedy isnt that communism hasnt been tried properly. The tragedy is that when"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998837148393562443)  2025-12-10T19:28Z 10.5K followers, 25.8K engagements


"Youre not studying capitalism. Youre studying a caricature of capitalism that already assumes what you need to conclude. Capitalism doesnt give anyone control over resources without voluntary exchange ownership investment and production. What youre really describing is political power which can only exist through force not through markets. Under capitalism: No one can stop you from producing earning owning or trading. Under socialism: The state explicitly controls who can produce who may own and who must hand over what they create for society. So when you say powerful elites control resources"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997197171846709346)  2025-12-06T06:51Z 10.5K followers, 14.2K engagements


"The government bailed out businesses and thats bad says the guy who doesn't pay for a fraction of what tax revenue already provided him while fighting obsessively to live off the government for life. These are the same people who treat the entire federal budget as one giant bail-me-out fund. They rage at corporate bailouts while demanding: Medicaid Medicare Food stamps Section X housing WIC TANF SSI Unemployment insurance Public housing authorities Utility assistance Child care subsidies Low income energy programs Free school lunches Free school breakfasts College loan forgiveness College"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1999124814724845968)  2025-12-11T14:31Z 10.5K followers, XXX engagements


"Let it sink in that Liz has built a career on redefining theft as compassion. She demands the power to seize what people earn funnel it through bureaucrats and then take credit for giving a fraction of it backwhile calling it care. And when someone simply keeps what they produced she frames it as a handout. This is the ideology that views taxpayers not as individuals with rights but as public property and livestock to be milked for the political class. The only billionaires she wants funded are the ones attached to her agenda the ones she doles subsidies and favoritism to through force. Let"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997719805848371266)  2025-12-07T17:28Z 10.5K followers, 8007 engagements


"North Koreas darkness isnt voluntary energy discipline. Its the result of: mass starvation forced rationing collapsed infrastructure chronic power outages military-first allocation of resources no private industry to generate wealth When youre forced to eat tree bark and powdered cornmeal that isnt resilience. Its the absence of alternatives. South Korea wasnt given prosperity. It built it. Same geography. Same war. Same starting point. Same ethnic makeup. One embraced markets innovation private ownership and global trade. The other criminalized profit collectivized agriculture and enslaved"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998818425657847889)  2025-12-10T18:13Z 10.5K followers, 1513 engagements


"If anything Amish life exposes socialisms flaw. A small culturally unified voluntary group can sustain mutual aid because they all share chosen values. Socialism tries to impose that same model on millions of unwilling people through force entitlement and confiscation. It collapses because you cant scale self-sacrifice by decree. The Amish show that community works only when its voluntary which means their system isnt socialism at all because the minute you add force it stops working"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1999103333005463841)  2025-12-11T13:05Z 10.5K followers, 67.5K engagements


"Capitalism like China is everything socialists claim to hate about capitalism in America amplified and enforced at gunpoint. Cheap labor Weak worker protections State backed corporations No independent unions No environmental veto power No democratic pressure No liability for the ruling party No freedom to protest the system No rights against state seizure If thats the model theyre pointing to theyre not praising socialism or capitalism. Theyre praising authoritarianism with markets strapped to it. The joke isnt that people cant label China. The joke is that socialists want capitalisms"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1999122378962469010)  2025-12-11T14:21Z 10.5K followers, 22.9K engagements


"Communal ownership always means state ownership dressed up as a warm slogan. If you truly owned the means of production you wouldnt need anyones permission to use it change it or profit from it. Ownership without control isnt ownership. When something is declared to belong to everyone it inevitably belongs to the one group empowered to decide for everyone: the state. And when the state owns it the individual doesnt and instead the state owns the individual"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1999149909220446631)  2025-12-11T16:10Z 10.5K followers, 1516 engagements


"Capitalism is the system of consent. You arent trapped in voluntary exchange. You choose your job you choose your employer you choose what to buy you choose what to offer. The only thing you never consented to is the state taking your money regulating your life and forcing you into systems you didnt want. The irony is that the people who scream about non-consensual capitalism always defend the one thing that actually removes consent. They want a system where your work your time and your property are taken from you by force and they call that liberation. Nothing reveals the mindset faster than"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1993459860781097336)  2025-11-25T23:20Z 10.5K followers, 99.1K engagements


"It isnt the rich hoarding wealth. Wealth doesnt vanish into a vault like communist cartoons. It circulates through investment payroll savings loans and production. Profit only exists by creating more value than you started with. The only institution that actually hoards and destroys wealth is the government. It confiscates what others built wastes most of it on bureaucracy and then blames the people it loots for the stagnation it caused. If anyone is sucking resources out of the economy and sitting on them its the state. And unlike the rich it produces nothing to refill the pot. The idea that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1994451175232389167)  2025-11-28T16:59Z 10.3K followers, 32.3K engagements


"Only a government agency has the audacity to demand more money while its results fall every single year. Funding has gone up. Quality has gone down. Any private institution that performed this badly wouldve gone bankrupt and disappeared long ago and rightly so. The only reason government education exists at all is because youre forced to fund it. Theres no accountability no competition and no feedback except political excuses. Thats why it keeps failing. When you remove consequences you remove competence. Maybe the whole point was to make people stupid enough to take Patty seriously"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1995150723844030667)  2025-11-30T15:19Z 10.3K followers, 1566 engagements


"If taxing rich people didnt affect job creation then higher taxes wouldnt affect anyones behavior at all. But the same people who say this also demand higher cigarette taxes to reduce smoking and higher carbon taxes to reduce energy use. They understand incentives perfectly until it threatens their envy. If billionaires made up the idea that taxes change behavior then so did every economist every socialist government that uses taxes to control consumption and every politician who tries to punish actions they dislike with higher taxes. They claim taxing investors has no downside yet taxing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1995232839046926847)  2025-11-30T20:45Z 10.3K followers, 36K engagements


"Money isnt a source of corruption. Its a mirror. It reflects the character of whoever uses it. If you earned it by creating solving problems and offering value money becomes a symbol of your achievement. If you chase it by manipulating coercing or living off others money exposes that too. So when someone calls money evil theyre confessing far more about their own motives than about the nature of money. Because a tool cant be moral or immoral. Only the person holding it can"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1995263838283858121)  2025-11-30T22:49Z 10.3K followers, 1557 engagements


"They always blame corporate greed because it keeps them from having to explain the one thing actually raising your cost of living. Governments print money restrict supply inflate your currency tax everything you touch regulate production into scarcity and then call the consequences greed. If billionaires had the power they claim prices would be falling not rising. Competition forces businesses to earn your dollar by making things cheaper and better. Its only when the state steps in that you get rising costs shrinking value and politicians pretending theyre saving you from a crisis they"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1995526191353143755)  2025-12-01T16:11Z 10.3K followers, 2761 engagements


"Confiscate every dollar of the Starbucks CEOs XX million and hand it to the workers and you get maybe XX to XX cents more per hour for a year. The math says the CEO is not the problem. But Robert prefers to deal in emotion particularly envy entitlement and resentment rather than actual numbers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1995593591637655592)  2025-12-01T20:39Z 10.4K followers, 4284 engagements


"Socialism is the belief that your personal inconveniences are moral emergencies that justify violating other peoples rights. Instead of solving their own problems socialists demand the legal power to conscript other peoples time money and effort. Every frustration becomes a claim on someone elses life. Every need becomes a pretext for coercion. Then they have the audacity to accuse others of exploitation while living off what they never earned"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1995926981050048867)  2025-12-02T18:44Z 10.3K followers, 14.9K engagements


"This is a lie. Billionaires arent buying the government. The government is whoring itself out. When politicians control trillions and can destroy businesses on a whim people will pay to protect themselves. That isnt corruption by the rich. Its extortion by the state. The only reason lobbying exists is because the government has the power to punish whoever refuses to play. Take away that power and billionaires go back to building things instead of bribing tyrants"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1995960767787442401)  2025-12-02T20:58Z 10.5K followers, 4693 engagements


"If youre arguing that China is socialist because its run by central planning and state ownership then you cant also claim socialism is for the working class or about worker ownership. China proves the opposite. The state owns everything the political class controls everything and the working class owns nothing. That isnt empowerment. Its nationalized dependence. And the irony is brutal. The same people who scream about crony capitalism in mixed economies turn around and praise the purest form of cronyism on earth. They condemn private influence while worshipping a system where all influence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996196224425181616)  2025-12-03T12:34Z 10.3K followers, 26.1K engagements


"You can't be robbed of a wage no one ever agreed to pay you. You applied for a job accepted the terms and got exactly what you voluntarily signed up for. That isn't robbery it's trade. And calling it exploitation because you can't dictate terms after the fact turns your own lack of leverage into someone elses moral crime. This entire worldview depends on pretending that effort skill and value don't exist so that failure can be blamed on anyone except the person who failed. Socialists keep inventing new words for my choices have consequences and then insist someone else has to carry those"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996293820514971954)  2025-12-03T19:01Z 10.3K followers, 6511 engagements


"Zero sum envious parasitic economic illiteracy is the greatest trick. They look at how much others have and decide that must be the reason they struggle as if wealth is a fixed pie and someone else having more means you have less. The richest become wealthy by creating things people willingly buy. The reason gas groceries rent and healthcare cost more isnt because billionaires exist. Its because politicians inflate the currency restrict supply mandate costs and regulate entire industries into dysfunction. The real trick is blaming creators for the damage caused by the people who control money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996585887618970098)  2025-12-04T14:22Z 10.3K followers, 3169 engagements


"Matt loves to posture as the rugged tough minded truth teller but his worldview is indistinguishable from the leftist snowflakes he condemns. They both start from the same premise that life is getting worse that modernity is decay that prosperity is an illusion and that someone else needs to fix it for them. The only difference is the branding. It is especially rich coming from a man who lives better than ninety nine percent of the country and better than any human being who lived before cellphones. He has instant access to food medicine entertainment global communication on demand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996667895544205597)  2025-12-04T19:48Z 10.5K followers, 45.9K engagements


"Socialists love to say if wages kept up with inflation minimum wage would be $25/hr today. Great. So who caused the inflation The same politicians they vote for. The same spending they demand. The same free handouts they celebrate. The same regulations that suffocate productivity. The same monetary policy that prints trillions to subsidize dependence. Businesses didnt inflate the currency. Politicians and voters did. If you believe inflation robbed your wage value then you're admitting that government theft destroyed your purchasing power. So why is your anger aimed at the employer who"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996940085640446264)  2025-12-05T13:49Z 10.5K followers, 6138 engagements


"Communism is the political ideology built on forcing winners to subsidize losers. It punishes achievement by declaring that those who produce are morally obligated to carry those who refuse to. It calls failure a claim on someone elses effort and treats success as guilt that must be corrected. In the end no one is allowed to rise because the moment someone does they become the designated source of fuel for everyone who didnt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996942909526995143)  2025-12-05T14:01Z 10.5K followers, 2232 engagements


"@MikeCanning7 Why is it your business what they do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996954832096104905)  2025-12-05T14:48Z 10.5K followers, 1628 engagements


"Unpopular opinion You dont have to agree with the accuracy of their interpretation to notice this: many justify sacrificing the individual to the collective using religious morality. The language changed common good public interest but the ethic remained: virtue means self-denial duty and service to something outside yourself. When morality starts with sacrifice coercion becomes moral and freedom becomes immoral. Thats why collectivists never argue from rights or earned value they argue from obligation. Their politics is just theology without the pulpit. Once public good is accepted as"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996967819607445614)  2025-12-05T15:40Z 10.3K followers, XXX engagements


"You could add 70000 workers and Social Security still wouldnt work. A system that requires endless new bodies just to postpone collapse isnt working its a Ponzi scheme propped up by paperwork. Only in government can insolvency be treated as success as long as we keep paying more people to shuffle forms. You dont fix structural deficit by hiring clerks you fix it by ending an entitlement that mathematically cannot sustain itself"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997093583027839037)  2025-12-05T23:59Z 10.3K followers, 1200 engagements


"I always find it funny when the people who want to rule others confiscate their earnings and live off them in the name of the common good start lecturing anyone about greed. Nothing screams greed more than demanding the right to spend other peoples lives earnings and effort for your preferred version of balance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997109437559894313)  2025-12-06T01:02Z 10.3K followers, 1235 engagements


"Communists reveal more than they intend when they redefine killing as not getting free stuff. If failing to provide someone housing income healthcare or food is violence then their worldview assumes: Your survival is someone elses responsibility Their labor belongs to you Refusing to work for others is aggression Thats a confession that life in their system isnt earned its owed. And once you claim not subsidizing someone equals violence you justify real violence: confiscation coercion force and eventually killing because its now framed as preventing death. They invert reality: People who dont"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997339288057303350)  2025-12-06T16:16Z 10.3K followers, 13.5K engagements


"If private health insurance has no reason to exist then why do people voluntarily buy it Insurance exists because risk exists. People prefer a predictable cost today over catastrophic cost tomorrow. Thats value. What makes insurance look parasitic isnt that it exists its that government destroyed alternatives: no transparent pricing mandated coverage banned cheaper plans restricted competition subsidized demand while shrinking supply Insurance didnt create that it reacts to it. If insurance truly added no value it would die on its own. The fact that statists want it banned proves it does"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997358495713149247)  2025-12-06T17:32Z 10.3K followers, 2684 engagements


"Heres the brutal truth that Reich will never admit: Everything on that list makes life less affordable because everything on that list increases the cost of production housing labor and capital. Point-by-point: Bust up monopolies Give regulators arbitrary power So the politically-favored firms win just like they always do. The government becomes the monopoly. Boost unions Make hiring costlier Which means fewer people hired slower growth higher unemployment and higher consumer prices. $20/hr federal minimum wage Price floor far above market value People whose productivity is below that rate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997410760558067734)  2025-12-06T21:00Z 10.3K followers, 5898 engagements


"@flackospalace Because billionaires get rich by trading value voluntarily. Politicians get rich by legislating with force. One earns. One confiscates. Thats why the meme fits better"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997478247421120964)  2025-12-07T01:28Z 10.5K followers, 11.3K engagements


"A 32-hour work week with the same pay is just demanding more while doing less. Capitalism already turned 80-hour factory weeks into 40-hour office weeks by making more output from fewer hours. Productivity created rest. Socialism is the opposite demanding more without producing more and pretending reality owes you comfort. People dont need the state to remove effort they need freedom to create value and rise. Reality not legislation is the arbiter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997738819857129548)  2025-12-07T18:43Z 10.3K followers, 27.5K engagements


"Nationalising the economy doesnt put the working class in charge. It puts the political class in charge the only group that produces nothing yet gains the power to dictate everything. When the state owns the economy workers dont get ownership autonomy or control politicians do. And the moment the national interest becomes superior to individual rights the individual stops mattering entirely. Youre not empowering workers. Youre replacing voluntary exchange with political coercion and pretending its liberation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997742237086830695)  2025-12-07T18:57Z 10.5K followers, 11K engagements


"Nationalising the economy doesnt put the working class in charge. It puts the political class in charge the only group that produces nothing yet gains the power to dictate everything. When the state owns the economy workers dont get ownership autonomy or control politicians do. And the moment the national interest becomes superior to individual rights the individual stops mattering entirely. Youre not empowering workers. Youre replacing voluntary exchange with political coercion and pretending its liberation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997742253897380158)  2025-12-07T18:57Z 10.5K followers, 4009 engagements


"A man from Vietnam where the ruling party cannot legally be criticized where journalists disappear where elections are theater lecturing Americans about conditional freedom is like someone in a desert complaining that Fiji water isnt cold enough. Heres the reality hes desperately evading: In Vietnam there is a criminal code for criticizing the state. Article XXX of their penal code: Making storing distributing or disseminating information documents and items against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Punishable by up to XX years. That is what conditional freedom actually looks like. Contrast"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997811342699385105)  2025-12-07T23:31Z 10.3K followers, 1812 engagements


"Youre confusing hypocrisy with equivalence. When America acts authoritarian it betrays its own stated idealsindividual rights free speech voluntary association. Thats why people can call it out using Americas own laws and principles. When Vietnam acts authoritarian it isnt deviating from anythingit is simply practicing what its doctrine already demands: the individual is subordinate to the State speech is conditional dissent is illegitimate. One system fails when it violates rights. The other succeeds by violating them. That difference matters. Snowden Assange and protest crackdowns prove"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998088811113328817)  2025-12-08T17:54Z 10.3K followers, 1137 engagements


"Imagine running a basketball team on the same principle socialists apply to economics: Not who can score defend or lead But who needs the playing time the most. The worst shooter starts because he needs encouragement. The slowest defender stays on the court because it would be unfair to bench him. The MVP sits on the bench because he already has enough success. And when the team inevitably loses you blame greed for wanting to win instead of distributing minutes equally. Sacrifice ability to need in the name of equality and you dont uplift the weakyou sabotage the strong and collapse the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998168049887629606)  2025-12-08T23:09Z 10.3K followers, 1264 engagements


"Only a communist could look at a voluntary exchange and call the gain on one side theft while demanding that everything earned by others be seized and redistributed in the name of justice. Profit is not stolen. It is value left over after paying everyone who participatedthe employees who sell their time the suppliers who sell their goods and the customers who voluntarily pay for the product because they prefer what they receive over the money they give up. What is theft is demanding other peoples earnings simply because you want to spend them. If pubs close it isnt because profits are being"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998821016668131565)  2025-12-10T18:24Z 10.5K followers, XXX engagements


"Confiscate every dollar of the Starbucks CEOs XX million and hand it to the workers and you get maybe XX to XX cents more per hour for a year. The math says the CEO is not the problem. But Robert prefers to deal in emotion particularly envy entitlement and resentment rather than actual numbers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1995593505851261098)  2025-12-01T20:39Z 10.5K followers, 1865 engagements


"1. Trillions in debt Thats socialism. The only reason the US is $38T in the hole is because politicians fund endless free programs socialists demand: free healthcare free college welfare expansion UBI stimulus everything. When taxes fall short they borrow and print more exactly what socialists say to do. X. State owning stakes in companies Thats literally socialism: state ownership of the means of production. Socialists openly call to nationalize energy banking healthcare rail tech and utilities. Bernie even demanded government equity in bailout companies. X. Needing government spending to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1995841229989335441)  2025-12-02T13:03Z 10.5K followers, 6396 engagements


"The only reason Ayn Rand wrote fiction was because she understood something Marx never did. You cannot preach a system built on coercion and envy without disguising it as a fairy tale. Marx wrote a fantasy about a world with production but no producers wealth but no property incentives but no self-interest. The only fiction here is the idea that capitalism needs a novelist while socialism survives without one. Rand wrote novels to dramatize principles rooted in reality. Marx wrote an economic theory that only works if reality is ignored. One side used fiction to illustrate truth. The other"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1995878616974975335)  2025-12-02T15:31Z 10.5K followers, 72.4K engagements


"It isnt that Bernie fears AI will only benefit billionaires. Its that he fears it might benefit billionaires at all. Anything that could raise productivity lower costs or expand opportunities gets treated as a threat the moment it might help the people hes built a career demonizing. If it lifts everyone but also lifts the successful hell still demand it be throttled. His problem isnt AI. Its the possibility that progress doesnt require his permission and doesnt redistribute through him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1995905397597896981)  2025-12-02T17:18Z 10.5K followers, 1336 engagements


"It isnt that Bernie fears AI will only benefit billionaires. Its that he fears it might benefit billionaires at all. Anything that could raise productivity lower costs or expand opportunities gets treated as a threat the moment it might help the people hes built a career demonizing. If it lifts everyone but also lifts the successful hell still demand it be throttled. His problem isnt AI. Its the possibility that progress doesnt require his permission and doesnt redistribute through him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1995905415054246234)  2025-12-02T17:18Z 10.5K followers, 1775 engagements


"Its funny how they say we can afford when the people saying it are already getting more out of tax revenue than they put in. When anyone gets a handout rich or poor its mostly subsidized by billionaires. When a billionaire gets a subsidy its a fraction of their own money. When they demand free healthcare or free education its only free for them because theyd never be able to pay for it so someone else must. Thats representation without taxation which is exactly what theyre demanding"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996636514629914697)  2025-12-04T17:43Z 10.5K followers, 1125 engagements


"Matt loves to posture as the rugged tough minded truth teller but his worldview is indistinguishable from the leftist snowflakes he condemns. They both start from the same premise that life is getting worse that modernity is decay that prosperity is an illusion and that someone else needs to fix it for them. The only difference is the branding. It is especially rich coming from a man who lives better than ninety nine percent of the country and better than any human being who lived before cellphones. He has instant access to food medicine entertainment global communication on demand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996667915819762089)  2025-12-04T19:48Z 10.5K followers, 1437 engagements


"Unrealized gains arent income. Theyre imaginary values that exist only on paper not in anyones wallet. You cant tax something that doesnt exist yet because no one has earned it received it or used it. Taxing unrealized gains means taxing people for wealth they might have someday even though it could vanish tomorrow. It means punishing success before its actually realized before anything is sold delivered or converted into actual income. What youre demanding isnt fairness its emotional retaliation. Its envy dressed up as policy. You want to seize wealth not because value was taken from anyone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996806646320837087)  2025-12-05T04:59Z 10.5K followers, 4665 engagements


"Unrealized gains arent income. Theyre imaginary values that exist only on paper not in anyones wallet. You cant tax something that doesnt exist yet because no one has earned it received it or used it. Taxing unrealized gains means taxing people for wealth they might have someday even though it could vanish tomorrow. It means punishing success before its actually realized before anything is sold delivered or converted into actual income. What youre demanding isnt fairness its emotional retaliation. Its envy dressed up as policy. You want to seize wealth not because value was taken from anyone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996806665362915780)  2025-12-05T04:59Z 10.5K followers, 52.2K engagements


"Communists and socialists only ever fall into two categories: those who dont understand what their ideas produce and those who do. The first group is ignorant blind to history blind to incentives blind to the fact that every system built on coerced sacrifice ends in stagnation resentment and decay. They believe promises not results. The second group is worse. They see the results empty shelves crushed dissent rationing shortages ruined currency mass flight political imprisonment and they still advocate it. At that point its no longer navet. Its malice. They want control dependence and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996964420577030491)  2025-12-05T15:26Z 10.5K followers, 1197 engagements


"An overdraft fee isnt theft its the cost of spending money you dont have. The bank is fronting funds that belong to someone else and charging a fee for taking that risk. Youre not being robbed. Youre being loaned money on demand with instant access and the price for that service was disclosed beforehand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996965216983077078)  2025-12-05T15:29Z 10.5K followers, 43.9K engagements


"If greedy CEOs really had all the leverage and could pay everyone minimum wage then almost everyone would earn minimum wage. But fewer than X% do. That one fact destroys the narrative. Why Because wages arent donations theyre exchanges. A business must pay less than or equal to the value a worker produces or the job cant exist. A worker making $25/hr is producing more than $25/hr for the business. If they werent theyd be replaced reality guarantees it. And if CEOs were really free to pay the lowest possible amount minimum wage would be the universal wage. Yet XX% of workers earn above it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996977671754977551)  2025-12-05T16:19Z 10.5K followers, 2265 engagements


"Humans didnt pay to live for thousands of years. Correct and for thousands of years humans barely lived at all. They lived short brutal desperate lives. If you believe in the labor theory of value then pre-capitalist humans paid far more than anyone today: They paid with: little to no medical care high infant mortality starvation as a seasonal norm no specialization no mobility no private property no savings no upward progress You want to talk about paying to live They paid everything and got almost nothing in return. Capitalism is the system where: your effort produces exponential results"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997043353251143782)  2025-12-05T20:40Z 10.5K followers, 22.9K engagements


"For socialists the crime is never fraud theft censorship or coercion. The unforgivable sin is success. When two companies voluntarily merge using their own capital to serve customers better its treated as a threat that must be stoppedbecause profit is viewed as exploitation rather than earned reward. Notice what they never say: Who was harmed Who was forced Who was defrauded They dont care. Profit alone is the indictment. There is no field where they wont insert themselvesnot to protect anyone but to control who is allowed to build scale create and succeed. Their logic always boils down to:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997343858535854301)  2025-12-06T16:34Z 10.5K followers, 1198 engagements


"The fact that communists dont acknowledge their atrocities tells you everything. Their loyalty is not to workers not to equality not to humanity its to the ruling class that murders dissenters and calls them enemies of the people. Thats why their followers will call starvation progress call mass graves mistakes and call dissidents Nazis. The lie itself becomes a loyalty test. And thats why they idolize Venezuela North Korea Cuba Maos China or even Iran any regime where obedience matters more than life. They pretend to care about oppression then excuse it instantly when its their ideology"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997345885735223551)  2025-12-06T16:42Z 10.5K followers, 4068 engagements


"Its hilarious watching people say we need to pirate again when the only reason you dont need to pirate is that access has never been easier or cheaper. You can stream more content than ever for a few bucks or literally for free if youre willing to watch ads. But somehow paying $X is oppression. Thats not rebellion. Thats entitlement dressed up as moral outrage. When you hate creators and companies simply for succeeding piracy stops being about access and turns into envy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997361320526549202)  2025-12-06T17:43Z 10.5K followers, 1496 engagements


"A man from Vietnam where the ruling party cannot legally be criticized where journalists disappear where elections are theater lecturing Americans about conditional freedom is like someone in a desert complaining that Fiji water isnt cold enough. Heres the reality hes desperately evading: In Vietnam there is a criminal code for criticizing the state. Article XXX of their penal code: Making storing distributing or disseminating information documents and items against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Punishable by up to XX years. That is what conditional freedom actually looks like. Contrast"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997811324479291540)  2025-12-07T23:31Z 10.5K followers, 36.7K engagements


"Socialism isnt competing with capitalismits confiscating assets. When a government bans private property expropriates businesses cancels contracts and blocks exit thats not competition its force. Capitalism doesnt fear thatit simply refuses to subsidize it. Blockades arent to stop prosperity; they stop regimes from demanding Western credit currency investment and trade while refusing to honor property rights. If someone takes your property and defaults you stop lending. That isnt oppressionits consent. The claims that socialism brings healthcare literacy and housing confuse redistribution"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998030047987356021)  2025-12-08T14:00Z 10.5K followers, 2275 engagements


"What Reich is doing here only works if nobody runs the math. Take his exact premise and calculate it honestly: Say a company has 500000 employees making $8/hr and they all get bumped to $15/hr. Thats a $7/hr increase. $7/hr 2080 full-time hours = $14560 more per employee 500000 workers = $XXXX BILLION per year Now compare that to the CEOs shocking $150M salary. If the CEO worked for free not $X literally $X youd still be short $XXX billion. Raising wages is not funded by cancelling an executive paycheck. It requires massive recurring revenue increases higher prices layoffs or business"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998043605286404175)  2025-12-08T14:54Z 10.5K followers, 71.1K engagements


"Communists post stuff like this to reassure their own side emotionally not intellectually. They need to imply that liberalism is helpless and nave and that fascism is somehow its protectorbecause if they admitted the truth theyd have to acknowledge that: Liberalism (even the watered-down modern version) is what actually gave them every freedom they exploitspeech property due process voluntary association. Fascism is simply their mirror image: collectivist coercion dressed in different symbols. The only distinction is which tribe gets sacrificed and who gets called the enemy. So they turn it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998085802497069417)  2025-12-08T17:42Z 10.5K followers, 21.1K engagements


"Billionaires cant track your calls texts emails or searches without your consent without a contract and without the ability to compel you. Government can. Government already does. The only reason a surveillance state is even possible isnt wealth. Its political power. Who builds the surveillance infrastructure Politicians. Who mandates data retention Politicians. Who forces companies to hand over private data Politicians. Who claims national security to bypass warrants Politicians. Bernie pretends that voluntary services are coercive and that state coercion is protective. If Ellison predicts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998123645504242076)  2025-12-08T20:12Z 10.5K followers, 3072 engagements


"Billionaires cant track your calls texts emails or searches without your consent without a contract and without the ability to compel you. Government can. Government already does. The only reason a surveillance state is even possible isnt wealth. Its political power. Who builds the surveillance infrastructure Politicians. Who mandates data retention Politicians. Who forces companies to hand over private data Politicians. Who claims national security to bypass warrants Politicians. Bernie pretends that voluntary services are coercive and that state coercion is protective. If Ellison predicts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998123664756129803)  2025-12-08T20:12Z 10.5K followers, 4075 engagements


"Any politician screeching about taxing the rich isnt offering a solutiontheyre announcing their own failure. If your job is to manage a system of freedom and opportunity but you cant produce prosperity cant balance a budget cant restrain spending cant streamline regulations cant stop waste and corruptionthen blaming wealthy achievers becomes the last refuge. Thats not leadership. Its scapegoating. A competent politician asks: How do we expand opportunity How do we remove barriers so more people can rise How do we let individuals keep more of what they earn so they can invest grow and hire An"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998156363185180821)  2025-12-08T22:22Z 10.5K followers, 4761 engagements


"Food stamps (SNAP) WIC TANF cash assistance Section X housing public housing authorities Medicaid CHIP LIHEAP utility assistance SSI payments unemployment insurance extended unemployment child tax credit refunds earned income tax credit payouts Head Start programs free school breakfast free school lunch Pell grants federal student grants student-loan forgiveness subsidized student loans childcare block grants housing vouchers rent stabilization programs homeless shelter funding emergency rental assistance programs federal food commodity distribution community-based food programs energy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998171500994580783)  2025-12-08T23:23Z 10.5K followers, 41.3K engagements


"Minimum wage doesnt fail to rise with inflation because of some conspiracy. Its because inflation itself is a cost. When the government inflates the currency every business sees its costs go up: rent equipment energy materials and yeslabor. If wages automatically increased with inflation youd be forcing businesses to absorb two rising costs at once: the inflation they didnt cause and higher wages mandated by law. Its the equivalent of saying: Hey everything costs more now so you have to pay more tooeven though your revenue didnt increase. Thats not economics. Thats emotional wish-thinking. If"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998206493842170345)  2025-12-09T01:42Z 10.5K followers, 1420 engagements


"Its the exact mindset that says youre entitled to someone elses yacht money that puts you in a bread line. If you spend your life believing that other peoples achievement belongs to you that their wealth exists to be redistributed and that prosperity is something you receive rather than earn then standing in line begging for what others produced is a perfectly just outcome. Because heres the reality: The billionaire isnt buying a yacht instead of feeding you. Hes buying it because he already created enough value for millions of people value you clearly didnt produce. Your existence doesnt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998372844892209492)  2025-12-09T12:43Z 10.5K followers, 4024 engagements


"Its the exact mindset that says youre entitled to someone elses yacht money that puts you in a bread line. If you spend your life believing that other peoples achievement belongs to you that their wealth exists to be redistributed and that prosperity is something you receive rather than earn then standing in line begging for what others produced is a perfectly just outcome. Because heres the reality: The billionaire isnt buying a yacht instead of feeding you. Hes buying it because he already created enough value for millions of people value you clearly didnt produce. Your existence doesnt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998372860918652950)  2025-12-09T12:43Z 10.5K followers, 3190 engagements


"If even one person makes more than minimum wage it proves workers arent trapped at some fixed baselinesomeone found a way to rise which means its possible. But its not just one. Its XX% of workers. So when someone is stuck at the bare minimum and wants a villain to blame maybe the system isnt brokenmaybe their ambition is. The existence of higher earners disproves the idea that wages are imposed by force. The fact that upward mobility is happening all around you means the opportunity existsyou just chose not to take it. Complaining that others did what you refused to do isnt a critique of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998377050126635176)  2025-12-09T12:59Z 10.5K followers, 3329 engagements


"Number one this only applies to products and services the government tries to make cheaper housing healthcare education insurance fuel and every sector politicians tamper with becomes more expensive precisely because they tamper with it. Second this mindset is exactly why life feels hard. If your worldview starts with someone else should make my life easier youve already forfeited control of your life. And spare us the moral posturing. You arent innocent of greed just because you disguise it as victimhood. Saying others are greedy because they wont sacrifice themselves to you is greed. Its"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998392306882253068)  2025-12-09T14:00Z 10.5K followers, 1287 engagements


"You frame higher CEO pay as injustice because you start with the assumption that employees are entitled to their bosss productivity responsibility risk-exposure or value creation. They arent. A CEOs earnings arent taken from workers any more than Tom Brady's earnings were taken from the stadium janitors. Different roles create different levels of value. What actually changed between 1965 and today wasnt CEO greed it was scale. A company serving X million customers in 1965 can serve XXX million today with the same workforce. That scale is created by executives not employees. Should"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998480667726770425)  2025-12-09T19:51Z 10.5K followers, 9287 engagements


"Theres nothing more natural than inequality. When people are free they make different choices take different risks work at different levels develop different skills and create different value. Inequality isnt a failure of the system. Its the outcome of freedom. The only way to eliminate inequality is to eliminate the freedom to rise. Reichs real complaint isnt inequality. Its that some people achieve too much without needing him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998665672591655235)  2025-12-10T08:06Z 10.5K followers, 3326 engagements


"South Korea actually was bombed into rubble started poorer than the North lacked resources and had no stability and then became one of the richest freest most innovative countries on Earth by opening markets allowing private ownership and trading with the world. North Korea did the opposite. That contrast isnt theory it's visible from space: South Korea = electricity exports technology mobility. North Korea = darkness rationing labor camps sealed borders. And if North Korea is superior why do people risk death escaping into South Korea never the other way around Sanctions didn't cause: no"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998759405915922745)  2025-12-10T14:19Z 10.5K followers, 2179 engagements


"Calling health care a right is not an elevation of morality. Its a demand that someone else be forced to provide it. Theres no such thing as a right to goods or services that require human effort time skill or property. Rights protect actions not outcomes. They protect your freedom to pursue values not to confiscate them from others. If health care is a right then doctors dont own their labor. Taxpayers dont own their income. Hospitals dont own their facilities. And individuals dont own the products tools or discoveries they create. Right becomes a euphemism for compulsory service. A right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998775123315249266)  2025-12-10T15:21Z 10.5K followers, 104.7K engagements


"Calling voluntary lending parasitic is exactly backwards. Youre not mad that money is being stolen youre mad that it isnt. Interest isnt exploitation. Its the price of risk delay and foregone opportunity. A lender sacrifices their own ability to use capital now so someone else can use it instead. The borrower gains immediate purchasing power and the lender earns compensation for postponing their own plans. Thats mutually beneficial trade. What you call usury is simply someone valuing time and risk. Your egalitarian fantasy is that someone should supply you with capital for free absorb all the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998796125973713384)  2025-12-10T16:45Z 10.5K followers, XXX engagements


"Calling voluntary lending parasitic is exactly backwards. Youre not mad that money is being stolen youre mad that it isnt. Interest isnt exploitation. Its the price of risk delay and foregone opportunity. A lender sacrifices their own ability to use capital now so someone else can use it instead. The borrower gains immediate purchasing power and the lender earns compensation for postponing their own plans. Thats mutually beneficial trade. What you call usury is simply someone valuing time and risk. Your egalitarian fantasy is that someone should supply you with capital for free absorb all the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998796142713192560)  2025-12-10T16:45Z 10.5K followers, 1638 engagements


"Only a communist could look at a voluntary exchange and call the gain on one side theft while demanding that everything earned by others be seized and redistributed in the name of justice. Profit is not stolen. It is value left over after paying everyone who participatedthe employees who sell their time the suppliers who sell their goods and the customers who voluntarily pay for the product because they prefer what they receive over the money they give up. What is theft is demanding other peoples earnings simply because you want to spend them. If pubs close it isnt because profits are being"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998821031268536569)  2025-12-10T18:24Z 10.5K followers, 1360 engagements


"People keep saying the problem with private healthcare is that it focuses on profit over people when in reality profit is exactly what guarantees that people get served. Profit is the signal that says: You met someones needs well enough that they voluntarily paid you for it. Profit is not neglectits proof of value delivered. Its the incentive to innovate to cut costs to improve systems to reduce wait times to discover new treatments to increase access and to do more with less. Without profit you dont get efficiencyyou get rationing. You dont get faster innovationyou get political committees"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998829684705132603)  2025-12-10T18:58Z 10.5K followers, 4219 engagements


"The government never makes anything cheaper. At best it makes everything more expensive and hides the bill. Every affordability scheme is just taking from the groups theyre willing to sacrifice to buy votes from the groups they want to control. And they cant even manage that without hurting the very people they claim to protect. The planners get richer the costs balloon the poor get squeezed and the blame always falls on the same target: the people who were forced to pay for it. The accusation is never that government spent too much or regulated too much. Its always that you didnt sacrifice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1999110332594163966)  2025-12-11T13:33Z 10.5K followers, 1564 engagements


"Pull yourself up by your bootstraps is only insulting if you reject the idea that your choices matter. If effort and responsibility are gaslighting then the alternative is believing youre powerless and that someone else should live your life for you. And thats the tell. Hes not angry at the phrase. Hes angry at the premise that youre capable of rising. If encouraging people to improve themselves is abuse then dependence becomes the virtue and failure becomes something youre never allowed to question. A worldview that treats personal agency as oppression defeats itself. It demands the very"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1999119476323680766)  2025-12-11T14:09Z 10.5K followers, XXX engagements


"If thats true then why does your entire worldview revolve around attacking corporate welfare If the existence of welfare recipients has no effect on anyone elses life then subsidies bailouts tax credits loan guarantees and government contracts shouldnt matter either. Yet you treat every dollar that goes to a corporation as a moral crisis. So which is it Either taking money from taxpayers matters or it doesnt. Either redistribution has consequences or it doesnt. Either welfare distorts incentives or it doesnt. You cant say individual welfare is harmless but corporate welfare is catastrophic."  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1999146882136748205)  2025-12-11T15:58Z 10.5K followers, 1717 engagements


"@JoanArendt @investor_chef Rich people pay almost all the taxes. Its not them hoarding"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1999153037470810154)  2025-12-11T16:23Z 10.5K followers, XXX engagements


"@skweeds @NgOtha_deiii @SenSanders ChatGPT"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1999168158037389589)  2025-12-11T17:23Z 10.5K followers, XX engagements


"The government doesnt provide anything. Taxpayers do. You dont want a government that serves people when that service means protecting rights and getting out of the way. You want a government that confiscates from one group to feed another and then calls that morality. That isnt provision. Its sacrifice. And it treats citizens as livestock"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1999199001292472658)  2025-12-11T19:25Z 10.5K followers, 1906 engagements