#  @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. ### Engagements: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::1060661430008115200/interactions)  - [--] Week [---------] +22% - [--] Month [---------] -5.50% - [--] Months [----------] +610% - [--] Year [----------] +7,309% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1060661430008115200/posts_active)  - [--] Month [---] -38% - [--] Months [-----] +289% - [--] Year [-----] +336% ### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::1060661430008115200/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.69% - [--] Month [------] +8.70% - [--] Months [------] +188% - [--] Year [------] +1,044% ### CreatorRank: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::1060661430008115200/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) 16.56% [countries](/list/countries) #6808 [celebrities](/list/celebrities) 4.91% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) 1.84% [stocks](/list/stocks) #675 [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) 1.23% [social networks](/list/social-networks) 0.61% **Social topic influence** [money](/topic/money) 8.59%, [if you](/topic/if-you) 6.13%, [in the](/topic/in-the) 4.91%, [business](/topic/business) #2434, [food](/topic/food) #5246, [more than](/topic/more-than) 3.07%, [education](/topic/education) 3.07%, [debt](/topic/debt) 2.45%, [ai](/topic/ai) 2.45%, [pay](/topic/pay) #775 **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@davidlewis6689](/creator/undefined) [@kforrestsmith](/creator/undefined) [@1kawiguy](/creator/undefined) [@marxoidness](/creator/undefined) [@michaelsimm_f](/creator/undefined) [@zephyrcheez](/creator/undefined) [@camelialovesu](/creator/undefined) [@south_23rd](/creator/undefined) [@stabbythecrab](/creator/undefined) [@dumboodaking](/creator/undefined) [@shanehollowayvs](/creator/undefined) [@libertyfrk](/creator/undefined) [@calibr8d_wolf](/creator/undefined) [@caraal26949](/creator/undefined) [@food4js](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@thegringo68](/creator/undefined) [@paracetamol2127](/creator/undefined) [@david_fawcett](/creator/undefined) [@anthony45149308](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Uber Technologies, Inc. (UBER)](/topic/$uber) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Socialism doesnt fail because America interferes. It fails because it contradicts reality. An economic system cant work when it severs effort from reward replaces prices with politics and treats production as something that can be commanded rather than earned. More importantly socialism isnt just impractical. Its immoral. It treats individuals as means to collective ends turns need into a claim on other peoples lives and justifies force as compassion. You dont need sanctions coups or foreign villains to explain its failure. A system built on coercion collapses under its own logic. Socialism" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020679327340429803) 2026-02-09T02:01Z 16.5K followers, 122.6K engagements "Were told that rich countries shouldnt have poor people as though wealth were a national crop and not something grown by individuals who stubbornly insist on keeping it. Poverty is relative and therefore immortal. Double everyones income and well still locate the poor before dinner just better dressed. There is a sense in which free countries should have fewer poor people. Not because anyone is owed prosperity but because freedom removes many excuses. One may trade work build fail try again and keep what one earns. When force retreats ambition becomes the largest limiting factor. Countries" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2021320855154798800) 2026-02-10T20:30Z 16.5K followers, 12.4K engagements "The issue isnt that some people are wealthy and others arent. The issue is the belief that wealth itself creates an automatic claim on someone elses labor. Taking more out of a system than you put in and calling it justice doesnt become moral just because the numbers are big. No one owes you sacrifice because youve decided they have something to spare. Need is not a lien on another persons effort. You can argue about incentives taxation levels or policy efficiency. But once the moral premise becomes some must contribute more so others can contribute less youve shifted from voluntary exchange" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2021954152172073454) 2026-02-12T14:26Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "Sanctions dont create bad governments. They respond to them. Iran Syria Cuba and Venezuela were authoritarian failures before sanctions. They crushed dissent nationalized industries destroyed property rights and drove capital and talent out long before the U.S. tightened financial pressure. The claim that the U.S. caused the suffering only works if you pretend regimes have no agency. These governments choose repression militarization and corruption over reform. They choose to fund security services and foreign proxies instead of food medicine and infrastructure. Sanctions dont force those" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2011217119959003255) 2026-01-13T23:21Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "Even granting their premise for the sake of argument it still collapses. If the claim is true and foreign intelligence is helping Iranians bypass censorship coordinate or resist a regime that jails tortures rapes and executes its own population the only honest question is: so what Since when did helping people escape a totalitarian theocracy become immoral Notice how the outrage is never aimed at the regime that: kills protesters hangs dissidents shoots women in the streets cuts off the internet to hide mass murder. The outrage is aimed at anyone who interferes with that. That tells you" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2011410047448793322) 2026-01-14T12:08Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "The government assures us a program is temporary in the same tone a polite guest assures us he wont stay long. He arrives with a suitcase labeled emergency explains that circumstances require flexibility and promises to be gone once things return to normal. Time passes. The emergency grows familiar. The guest learns the layout of the house begins offering advice on its management and eventually suggests that charging rent would be unreasonable since hes already made himself so useful. At last the homeowner notices that what was meant to solve a problem has quietly become a resident and that" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2011875442773414078) 2026-01-15T18:57Z 16.4K followers, 13K engagements "Communists dont take pride in building creating or producing. They take pride in banning censoring and enforcing obedience. Thats the whole ideology in one screenshot. Yes we will ban anime. Yes we will ban Reddit. Yes we will ban video games. Yes we will ban Lord of the Rings. Yes we will ban Star Wars. Yes we will ban Harry Potter. Yes we will ban Marvel. https://t.co/d1EDB6D443 Yes we will ban anime. Yes we will ban Reddit. Yes we will ban video games. Yes we will ban Lord of the Rings. Yes we will ban Star Wars. Yes we will ban Harry Potter. Yes we will ban Marvel. https://t.co/d1EDB6D443" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2014826317611401680) 2026-01-23T22:23Z 16.4K followers, 56.5K engagements "Names are not arguments. North Korea is not a democracy because it says so in the title and Nazi Germany was not capitalist because some businesses technically existed. Labels are propaganda. What matters is structure and behavior. So ask the only relevant questions. Were individuals free to own property as an absolute right or was property subordinate to the state Were prices wages production and investment set by voluntary exchange or dictated by political authority Could businesses operate independently or only so long as they served a collective national plan In Nazi Germany the answers" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2015442259140051317) 2026-01-25T15:10Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "This line is a triple confession. First its anti-American. Taxes arent a buy-in. Theyre the price the state charges to protect rights not a loyalty fee to fund whatever politicians feel like calling the future. Framing taxation as moral tribute flips citizens into subjects. Second its an admission of incompetence. California already taxes heavily and spends catastrophically. If decades of record revenue still produce homelessness decay blackouts fires and mass exit the problem isnt funding. Its governance. Saying we just need more is the excuse of people who cant manage what they already" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2016417026718269865) 2026-01-28T07:44Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "Socialism defines exploitation as voluntary trade with unequal outcomes. If one person earns more than another through consent value creation risk or skill thats labeled exploitation by default. Then it proposes to solve this by doing something far worse and very real: taking wealth by force rather than trade compelling labor under threat rather than consent treating productive individuals as means to others ends making need a claim on someone elses life and effort That isnt a correction of exploitation. Its the definition of it. So the pattern is always the same: First they redefine" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2016488187657322805) 2026-01-28T12:27Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "The everything is too expensive now claim falls apart once you separate politicized goods from market goods. The things that exploded in price are exactly where government intervenes most: housing healthcare education childcare energy. Subsidies inflate demand regulation restricts supply and prices rise. Meanwhile in areas left mostly to markets prices fall while quality explodes. Electronics communication entertainment data and consumer goods are cheaper and vastly better. The past is also romanticized. Many basic needs didnt exist were luxuries or were outright inaccessible. Which is why" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2016514254069805166) 2026-01-28T14:10Z 16.4K followers, 13.3K engagements "Pretty sure this is an unpopular opinion: We cant allow immigrants because theyll vote for welfare. Meanwhile fewer than 10% of citizens favor abolishing welfare. It doesnt survive or expand because of immigrants. It survives because Americans want it and politicians promise more of it regardless of what immigrants want. And the data makes this even clearer. Immigrants use about 24% less welfare per capita than native-born Americans while paying into the same tax system. That makes them net contributors relative to citizens not drains. So no matter where you stand on welfare the conclusion is" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2016531754920665482) 2026-01-28T15:20Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "Cancel the debts means voiding contracts retroactively. Crush the creditor/rentier class means punishing people for owning property or lending capital. That isnt anti-establishment. It is the establishment instinct taken to its logical end: rule by force instead of consent. Debt isnt a trap imposed on the innocent. Its a voluntary agreement. No one is forced to borrow. The people screaming about debt trapping are really angry that reality enforces consequences. Land ownership isnt oppression either. Its what makes improvement maintenance and long-term planning possible. Abolish ownership and" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2016694903049506939) 2026-01-29T02:08Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "This pitch boils down to a simple inversion. Everything they dislike is labeled capitalism even when its clearly state power: surveillance censorship asset seizures bailouts debt enforcement regulatory capture. None of that is market behavior. Its government authority being abused. Then communism is sold as giving power to workers which has never happened once. Workers dont get authority under communism. Planners do. Someone still decides jobs pay production housing and speech and its always the party not the people. The examples they cite as proof of capitalist tyranny are actually the" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2016856769813713100) 2026-01-29T12:51Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "A communist quoting Orwell about war being peace while reflexively siding with every anti-American dictator on earth isnt a warning. Its a confession. The pattern is always the same: If America opposes a regime they defend it. If a dictator chants the right slogans they excuse everything. If civilians suffer under socialism its blamed on sanctions capitalism or the West. If force is used by their side it magically becomes anti-imperialism. So when they invoke Orwell theyre not criticizing doublespeak. Theyre using it. To them: Dictatorship is resistance. Aggression is self-defense. Oppression" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2016861944305561712) 2026-01-29T13:12Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "If you celebrate being the boot when your side is wearing it youve surrendered the right to complain when the other tribe does. Power doesnt become moral because you like whos holding it. You dont oppose tyranny. You just want a turn enforcing it. Liberty isnt dont tread on me unless I approve. Thats just tribal authoritarianism with different colors. The reason this is retarded is that MAGA is the boot. ICE isn't treading on MAGA The reason this is retarded is that MAGA is the boot. ICE isn't treading on MAGA" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2016886117807657197) 2026-01-29T14:48Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "Marx didnt predict this moment. He misidentified it. What he described as capitalism was cronyism and state favoritism which is exactly what Marxism produces by design only magnified and enforced by absolute power. When the state controls property planning and production favoritism isnt reduced it becomes total. Every Marxist system ends with political elites allocating resources to friends loyalists and enforcers. Worse Marx inverted rights. He replaced rights as protections from coercion with entitlements obtained by violating them. Abolish private property and you dont liberate anyone you" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2016953695171199478) 2026-01-29T19:16Z 16.4K followers, 21.7K engagements "Wow Trump: "People that own their homes -- we're gonna keep them wealthy. We're gonna keep those prices up. We're not gonna destroy the value of their homes so that somebody who didn't work very hard can buy a home." https://t.co/FlyaHZAspa Trump: "People that own their homes -- we're gonna keep them wealthy. We're gonna keep those prices up. We're not gonna destroy the value of their homes so that somebody who didn't work very hard can buy a home." https://t.co/FlyaHZAspa" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2017000593513193494) 2026-01-29T22:23Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements "Saying some people are too stupid for liberty is a slope that doesnt stop at IQ. It establishes the principle that rights are conditional on someone elses standard. Once that door is open youve handed your enemies the moral permission to invent criteria that eventually disqualify you. Intelligence today conformity tomorrow. Rights only protect you if theyre universal. The moment theyre conditional they arent rights at all. Is liberty for dogs How about fleas Liberty is clearly for my [---] IQ Anglo neighbor. We can respect each other's property discuss when we disagree or use a court as last" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2017299075910009187) 2026-01-30T18:09Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "Liberty does require people to want it because free people can and do vote it away. But that fact does not justify preemptively denying rights to those you distrust or deem unfit. The moment rights are conditioned on intelligence culture or capacity to handle freedom they cease to be rights and become permissions. That move doesnt protect liberty. It destroys the very principle that could protect it. Once you establish that someone may decide who qualifies for freedom youve handed that power to whoever wins next. Intelligence today conformity tomorrow. And eventually you. The real answer isnt" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2017304171507032323) 2026-01-30T18:29Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements "Schiff isnt attacking capitalism at all. Hes pointing at its absence. What hes describing isnt markets failing. Its central planning failing: fiat money credit manipulation interest rate fixing and political allocation of capital. Thats the predictable result of replacing price signals with committees. Calling this capitalisms inherent crisis is like blaming free speech for censorship. The instability comes from the part socialists openly glorify and always demand more of: monetary control debt expansion and state managed outcomes. When you rig money distort prices and socialize risk you get" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2017329679167066552) 2026-01-30T20:10Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "Schiff isnt attacking capitalism at all. Hes pointing at its absence. What hes describing isnt markets failing. Its central planning failing: fiat money credit manipulation interest rate fixing and political allocation of capital. Thats the predictable result of replacing price signals with committees. Calling this capitalisms inherent crisis is like blaming free speech for censorship. The instability comes from the part socialists openly glorify and always demand more of: monetary control debt expansion and state managed outcomes. When you rig money distort prices and socialize risk you get" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2017329697357533594) 2026-01-30T20:10Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "Hamas isnt in the Epstein files isnt the win you think it is. When exploitation is illegal it leaves flight logs court records and cover-ups. When its legalized normalized and enforced by religious courts and armed men there are no scandals to uncover. Theres just policy. Under Hamas rule girls (children) can be forced into marriage with guardian approval. If refusal isnt legally decisive isnt socially safe and isnt enforceable then consent doesnt exist. Thats forced marriage regardless of how politely its framed. Absence from a criminal file doesnt mean moral innocence. Sometimes it just" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2017635240286568790) 2026-01-31T16:25Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "Hamas isnt in the Epstein files isnt the win you think it is. When exploitation is illegal it leaves flight logs court records and cover-ups. When its legalized normalized and enforced by religious courts and armed men there are no scandals to uncover. Theres just policy. Under Hamas rule girls (children) can be forced into marriage with guardian approval. If refusal isnt legally decisive isnt socially safe and isnt enforceable then consent doesnt exist. Thats forced marriage regardless of how politely its framed. Absence from a criminal file doesnt mean moral innocence. Sometimes it just" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2017635260901564460) 2026-01-31T16:25Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "The claim collapses the moment you leave capitalist countries. Labor movements only exist where workers are allowed to speak organize strike and refuse. Look at what actually happens under communism: In the Soviet Union independent unions were illegal. Strikes were treated as sabotage against the state. Workers who protested wages or conditions didnt win concessions they were arrested exiled or shot. The unions job was to discipline workers on behalf of the state not defend them. In People's Republic of China independent labor organizing is banned. The only legal union answers to the" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2017647488774086829) 2026-01-31T17:13Z 16.4K followers, 87.6K engagements "Funny thing about outrage. When a business makes money people say its taking too much even though no one was forced to buy a thing. When the state takes half your earnings by default misses every budget and sends you the bill for the interest forever thats called necessary. A shop has to please its customers or go broke. The government can fail openly and charge you more for the privilege. So one middleman only gets paid if you choose him. The other gets paid even when hes incompetent. And somehow the voluntary one that actually delivers value by the consumers own standard is the villain." [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2017649337707467022) 2026-01-31T17:21Z 16.4K followers, 15.7K engagements "Socialism and feudalism arent opposites. Theyre variations of the same structure. Feudalism said: you dont own your life or land a lord does. Socialism says: you dont own your life or labor the collective does. Different rhetoric. Same outcome. Capitalism wasnt designed to benefit a class. It wasnt designed at all. It emerged when people were finally allowed to own property trade voluntarily and keep the results. The benefit to the masses wasnt an accident. It was the consequence of removing permission and privilege. Feudalism and socialism both rely on hierarchy obligation and enforced" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2017689309592350905) 2026-01-31T19:59Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "Sometimes its hard to decide whether to feel disgust or second-hand embarrassment. To dismiss freedom as choosing toothpaste is the kind of argument you make when you have to reduce reality to nonsense just to avoid admitting whats actually being defended. Capitalism isnt about brands on a shelf. Its about choosing your work your employer your customers your home your doctor your school and whether you associate at all. Its about having exits. Its about being able to say no without asking permission. What they call self-determination always means fewer choices enforced by someone else then" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2017754096191557845) 2026-02-01T00:17Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "This meme only works if you pretend markets and competition dont exist. Capitalists dont pay as little as possible. They pay what they must to attract and keep workers against other employers. If wages could be suppressed at will labor shortages and job hopping wouldnt exist. Profit doesnt come from starving customers. A business that underpays loses workers. A business that overprices loses buyers. Both get punished. The cartoon assumes a feudal world with trapped workers and monopolist bosses. That isnt capitalism. Thats a fantasy used to erase choice and consent. The real system where" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2018368655415996481) 2026-02-02T16:59Z 16.4K followers, 39.2K engagements "Marxism isnt discredited because Marx was a bad husband or father. Its discredited because the theory collapses the moment its applied to real human behavior. Marx says exploitation is immoral yet his system requires some people to be compelled to produce for others. Marx condemns living off others labor yet his framework has no moral defense for earning versus claiming. Marx attacks dependency yet his solution institutionalizes it. The problem isnt that Marx failed to live up to his ideals. Its that his ideals deny the moral legitimacy of independence trade and earned reward. So yes Marx" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2018402013566939412) 2026-02-02T19:11Z 16.4K followers, 16.9K engagements "I cant claim the benefit of several centuries of firsthand observation but it does appear that the modern communist faces a rather steeper intellectual climb than his predecessors. Earlier believers had the excuse of novelty. The experiment was new the outcomes unwritten the wreckage not yet catalogued. Todays believer by contrast must step over quite a lot of history to reach the same conclusion. Empires collapsed famines documented prisons counted and graves carefully numbered. None of this is hidden. It is simply inconvenient. One suspects this explains the steady refinement of the" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2018428044298612861) 2026-02-02T20:55Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "Socialists don't want Mother Earth. They want the products and services only capitalism creates without earning them or paying for them. So they invent strawman versions of capitalism to justify seizing control of its output. Under nature there is no free healthcare no welfare no UBI and no free lunches. There is only scarcity exposure and a short brutal life that often ends painfully. Every comfort they moralize about is a man made achievement. And every one of those achievements requires production before distribution effort before reward and value before entitlement. They aren't rebelling" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2018702221899125037) 2026-02-03T15:04Z 16.4K followers, 13.5K engagements "The greater good is never judged by individual choice. It is judged by the standard of authoritarian politicians and it is always paid for by someone else. What is never said out loud is that it is meant to be greater than your freedom your right to your own life. Your choices values and effort are subordinate to political whim. Suffering is reframed as virtue forced sacrifice as compassion and obedience as goodness. The standard of good becomes whatever expands power not whatever respects consent or produces value. And the people defining that standard never bear the cost. They do not suffer" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2018709581350776954) 2026-02-03T15:34Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "This is pure authoritarian projection wrapped in economic illiteracy. Bernie Sanders calling private ownership authoritarianism is either dishonest or incompetent. Authoritarianism is about who has the power to use force. Billionaires cannot arrest you tax you conscript you censor you by law or jail you. The state can and Bernie has spent his entire career trying to expand that power. Owning a company is not control over your life. It is ownership of their property. You are free to leave ignore it compete with it criticize it or build an alternative. That's the opposite of authoritarianism." [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2018871426749497593) 2026-02-04T02:17Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "Whats embarrassing isnt that leftism gets called extreme. Its that its supporters cant see the coercion and contradiction at the core of their own demands. They pretend ownership itself is an injustice. Simply having something is framed as immoral if the wrong person has it. Yet those same people are expected to pay for everything. Billionaires are denounced as predators for existing but also treated as an endless funding source for every social ambition. Theyre supposed to finance society but never act within it. Produce but dont decide. Pay but dont use. Exist but only as wallets. Thats why" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019041723117109591) 2026-02-04T13:33Z 16.4K followers, 10.9K engagements "When someone says we need to raise taxes so the government can fix our problems the translation is simpler than it sounds. It means you should pay eight or ten times more for the same things lose any choice over how your money is used and then be told to pay even more once those problems become permanent and more expensive. History is fairly consistent on this point. Government programs do not solve the problems they are created to address. They formalize them bureaucratize them and raise the cost of living around them. Failure is not a signal to stop. It is treated as proof that funding was" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019052462582206671) 2026-02-04T14:16Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "The oldest political trick is to redefine force so it only counts when someone else uses it. Here ownership is called violence jobs are declared a myth and scarcity is blamed on enclosure. But the cure is always the same: confiscate redistribute and compel. Somehow that part never counts as coercion. This isnt an attempt to abolish power. Its an attempt to move it. Away from voluntary exchange and into the hands of those who promise protection in return for obedience. People dont eat rhetoric. Someone has to organize capital take risk and build alternatives. Calling that weaponized enclosure" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019059692656300258) 2026-02-04T14:45Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "People should have is doing a lot of work here. Shelter food and electricity dont exist by moral declaration. They have to be produced maintained and delivered by someone. If access is guaranteed regardless of contribution then production must be guaranteed regardless of consent. Theres no escape from that. A system that treats labor as an obligation turns everyone into a servant then calls it compassion. Refusing to acknowledge this is labeled not being brainwashed because once you trace cause and effect the fantasy collapses. Forgetting where things come from isnt moral clarity. Its the" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019068681356030315) 2026-02-04T15:21Z 16.4K followers, 195.9K engagements "Seize is just theft with a costume. Nothing was stolen from them in the first place. No one took their wages their time or their property. What theyre calling theft is simply the fact that other people produced value they didnt. So the language has to be softened. Stealing becomes taking back. Robbery becomes justice. Envy becomes liberation. This kind of rhetoric isnt careless its deliberate. Once you convince people they were robbed of something they never owned you give them moral permission to take what exists. Words are chosen to dull resistance and make violence sound administrative." [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019087183810887833) 2026-02-04T16:34Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "@DeBallsac @mcsquared34 Hard work being rewarded means more capitalism not a further escape from it" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019118131617079731) 2026-02-04T18:37Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements "This isnt leadership. Its confession. When a politician suggests citizens should work longer to offset government debt what hes really admitting is this: we spent irresponsibly we wont restrain ourselves and you will absorb the cost. From a Machiavellian lens thats not incompetence. Its clarity. Power is preserved by externalizing failure. Debt becomes a moral obligation of the ruled never a restraint on the rulers. Notice whats absent. No talk of shrinking the state. No talk of abandoning failed programs. No talk of politicians sacrificing power perks or control. Only the public is asked to" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019143467583037802) 2026-02-04T20:18Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "You can criticize America for racism bigotry and prejudice. Thats fair. Whats rarely asked is: relative to who and relative to what Compared to communist states theocracies and authoritarian regimes where discrimination is legal enforced and unchallengeable the claim of American uniqueness collapses. Without a baseline criticism is moral posing. Every society has prejudice. The real question is where its protected by law and where it can be challenged openly. Refusing comparison doesnt expose injustice. It hides it" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019181229598286145) 2026-02-04T22:48Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "@dk2852 So under communism magic provides for everyones needs" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019183872282390926) 2026-02-04T22:58Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "Communism doesnt end mass death. It just reclassifies it. When the state controls food labor movement and speech killing doesnt need gas chambers. Bureaucracy and famine work just fine. If your ideology requires ignoring tens of millions of dead to stay pure thats a confession" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019190136160788546) 2026-02-04T23:23Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "@OneBadDude_ Snowflake" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019208481153200515) 2026-02-05T00:36Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements "Elizabeth Warren is trying to morally shame Jeff Bezos for acting like an owner instead of a caretaker. Two unrelated facts are being stapled together on purpose. The Washington Post is losing money Bezos is wealthy The implied rule is this: If youre rich enough you lose the right to make rational business decisions. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019245411739869215 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019245411739869215" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019245411739869215) 2026-02-05T03:03Z 16.4K followers, 12.4K engagements "Marx defines capitalism as cronyism and then treats that corruption as inevitable. Cronyism is what happens when political power is allowed to override voluntary exchange. And that dynamic isnt eliminated by socialism its guaranteed by it. When the state controls resources access to power replaces production as the path to wealth. Favor replaces value. Loyalty replaces competence. Marxs predicted collapse doesnt describe late stage capitalism. It describes what happens after capitalism is abandoned. Every historical collapse he pointed to followed the same pattern. Markets constrained." [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019396115469070481) 2026-02-05T13:02Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "Marx defines capitalism as cronyism and then treats that corruption as inevitable. Cronyism is what happens when political power is allowed to override voluntary exchange. And that dynamic isnt eliminated by socialism its guaranteed by it. When the state controls resources access to power replaces production as the path to wealth. Favor replaces value. Loyalty replaces competence. Marxs predicted collapse doesnt describe late stage capitalism. It describes what happens after capitalism is abandoned. Every historical collapse he pointed to followed the same pattern. Markets constrained." [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019396138676195580) 2026-02-05T13:02Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "Everyone agrees governments are increasingly corrupt authoritarian and incompetent. They chase power through favoritism unequal law and political patronage. Reasonable people respond by saying: limit the state to one job protecting individual rights as it was sworn to do. Socialists see the same corruption and draw the opposite conclusion. Instead of wanting less power concentrated at the top they want access to it. They dont oppose the system. They want their turn at the lever. What they call justice is just redistribution of favor. Thats why this kind of governance is a lifeline to them. It" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019400413158535454) 2026-02-05T13:19Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "@BattlementLK Its not obsolete. Its alive and well despite being a dishonest method of exerting control over morons with no self esteem while being incompetent corrupt and evil" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019417074804678836) 2026-02-05T14:25Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "Data centers dont suck up electricity for nothing. They convert energy into value: productivity infrastructure cloud services AI tools medical research logistics finance and national competitiveness. Complaining that they use electricity is like complaining that factories use steel or hospitals use power. Capital investment creates jobs directly indirectly and downstream. Construction maintenance engineering security utilities suppliers local services and the businesses that rely on the compute those centers provide. By that logic ports power plants and telecom networks also dont create jobs." [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019427835102769575) 2026-02-05T15:08Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "Data centers dont suck up electricity for nothing. They convert energy into value: productivity infrastructure cloud services AI tools medical research logistics finance and national competitiveness. Complaining that they use electricity is like complaining that factories use steel or hospitals use power. Capital investment creates jobs directly indirectly and downstream. Construction maintenance engineering security utilities suppliers local services and the businesses that rely on the compute those centers provide. By that logic ports power plants and telecom networks also dont create jobs." [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019427920461156449) 2026-02-05T15:08Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "One might ask with sincere curiosity and no small amount of innocence: If politicians were removed from the equation who exactly would be left to forbid you from earning a living by offering better cheaper or more efficient products and services Who would retain the authority to ban alternatives cripple competitors or declare innovation unsafe right at the moment it threatens established interests Its a curious thing that the loudest warnings about greed and harm always arrive hand in hand with demands for bans favors and exemptions. Almost as if the danger they fear most isnt exploitation by" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019430084210205169) 2026-02-05T15:17Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements "Under Kim Jong-un credible reporting from the UN Human Rights Watch and defectors documents executions labor camps or torture for things like: Watching South Korean movies or TV shows Listening to foreign music Owning a Bible Practicing Christianity or any unsanctioned religion Attempting to flee the country Helping someone else escape Making a joke about the leadership Failing to cry convincingly enough at state funerals Possessing a foreign USB drive Smuggling food or goods to survive Trading privately outside state control Accessing foreign news Speaking to foreigners without permission" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019446841931145367) 2026-02-05T16:23Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements "You flip a descriptive claim about human variation into a prescriptive claim about political legitimacy. Saying people are different does not logically lead to political systems must be tailored to the lowest common denominator or we must curate populations to preserve liberty. That move replaces rights with compatibility. And compatibility is just an opening for collectivism. Once you say liberty requires a compatible population youve already abandoned libertarianism in principle. Youre no longer asking what rules respect individual rights youre asking what kind of people must exist for our" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019471388810309685) 2026-02-05T18:01Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "Unpopular opinion: Most opposition to progress isnt about safety or dignity. Its fear and its useful. Voters fear losing familiar mediocre jobs for better ones that require change. Politicians exploit that fear by promising protection instead of progress. Lobbyists do the rest. Ranchers oppose lab grown meat unions oppose automation manufacturers oppose AI cab drivers oppose Uber not because these make life worse but because competition threatens incumbents. To sell this success is demonized. If achievement is greed then failure can feel virtuous. That makes it easier to punish the productive" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019754636534513729) 2026-02-06T12:46Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "What I'm increasingly seeing on the right and in certain libertarian circles isnt a revival of liberty. Its nationalism adopting socialist structure while denying the label. Socialism isnt defined by slogans about workers. Its defined by subordinating individual rights and private property to a collective goal enforced by the state. Nationalism increasingly accepts that premise outright with only the justification changed. Class interest becomes national interest. The mechanism stays the same. Both systems treat property as conditional. Both justify state direction of industry. Both demonize" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019762960030196008) 2026-02-06T13:19Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "When people say this is exactly what I want my tax dollars going to its often a sleight of hand. It sounds like generosity but it isnt voluntary. Its volunteering other peoples money while pretending its your own. If someone genuinely wanted to fund a cause they wouldnt need the state as an intermediary with enforcement powers. They could already be donating sponsoring or directly supporting it. The fact that it requires taxation isnt incidental. Its the point. Taxes remove consent from the transaction. Once the money is taken saying I support this use is just retroactive approval of coercion" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019767067793101116) 2026-02-06T13:36Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "The claim that capitalism is evil because crimes occur under it collapses the moment you look at what state-approved evil looks like today. In North Korea slavery is not a scandal. Its policy. Entire families are born into forced labor camps worked to death and punished across generations. This isnt criminal behavior slipping through the cracks. Its enforced by the state openly and proudly. In China millions of Uyghur Muslims are held in labor camps subjected to forced work surveillance and reeducation. This is done by a government that claims solidarity with the oppressed while running one" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019771093653823979) 2026-02-06T13:52Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "The claim that capitalism is evil because crimes occur under it collapses the moment you look at what state-approved evil looks like today. In North Korea slavery is not a scandal. Its policy. Entire families are born into forced labor camps worked to death and punished across generations. This isnt criminal behavior slipping through the cracks. Its enforced by the state openly and proudly. In China millions of Uyghur Muslims are held in labor camps subjected to forced work surveillance and reeducation. This is done by a government that claims solidarity with the oppressed while running one" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019771123773137210) 2026-02-06T13:52Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "This response proves the point better than any critique could. Liberty isnt a status you earn by geography and it isnt revoked because someone lives under a worse regime. If freedom only applies to people who already have it then it isnt a principle its a club. More importantly telling someone to recognize your betters or we wont let you in isnt libertarian language. Its authoritarian language. It asserts submission not individual rights. Pointing out that Canada is less free doesnt refute the argument. It confirms it. Thats exactly what nationalism does: it replaces rights with loyalty and" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019772581465694348) 2026-02-06T13:58Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "@true_nof1 @LPNH Its in your interest to judge people as individuals instead of as a fearful xenophobic ignorant bigoted racist and that's not how individual rights work. That's collective entitlement enforced by violating rights" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019775242948788416) 2026-02-06T14:08Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements "What I find amusing about the pushback is that Im not criticizing the right for being too right. Im criticizing it for drifting toward positions it would have openly condemned as leftist less than a generation ago. Ideas like state direction of industry national interest overriding property rights punishing success for collective goals or restricting speech and trade in the name of security or unity werent conservative principles. They were precisely what the right claimed to oppose. The resistance to that criticism isnt really about disagreement on substance. Its about discomfort with being" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019794882504638586) 2026-02-06T15:26Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "I want to thank the people whove offered support especially those willing to engage with ideas that challenge familiar narratives. Its genuinely encouraging to see that some are still willing to keep their minds open rather than default to reflex or tribal loyalty. Unconventional thinking isnt comfortable and it isnt supposed to be. But progress in understanding only happens when people are willing to question assumptions tolerate disagreement and follow arguments to their conclusions instead of stopping where it feels safe. That kind of intellectual honesty is rare and its appreciated" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019816742093222192) 2026-02-06T16:53Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "I find it telling how people pretend billionaires only exist under capitalism. Capitalism doesnt eliminate power. It constrains it with law. Wealth gained through fraud coercion trafficking or corruption is illegal under capitalism by definition. Thats why scandals exist at all. Alternatives dont eliminate elites. They create oligarchs by design then place them above the law. Under communism and authoritarian systems wealth and power are acquired openly through confiscation force and political favoritism. There is no separation between ruler and criminal because the state sanctifies the" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019850801720533441) 2026-02-06T19:08Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "If businesses leave well seize them and run them ourselves is just an admission that you dont know how to create value only how to confiscate it. Production is treated as an accident that happens automatically while ownership is treated as optional. The mindset is simple: If someone can earn they should be controlled. If someone cant they should rule. Its resentment elevated to policy and incompetence promoted to authority. When the answer to failure is always take what works and force it to serve us youre not building a city. Youre announcing why it will collapse. Supporter of Zoharn Mamdani" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019853459688718685) 2026-02-06T19:19Z 16.4K followers, 29.9K engagements "While true that Christianity doesnt mandate socialism it can supply the moral vocabulary that makes socialism feel righteous to those who promote it" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019870643928334352) 2026-02-06T20:27Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "Not all billionaire wealth is deserved. Fine. Even if we grant that it doesnt answer the crucial question: how does that make you entitled to it Saying their wealth isnt fully deserved doesnt explain why its suddenly deserved by the uninvolved" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019881331568832737) 2026-02-06T21:10Z 16.4K followers, 13.4K engagements "A question asked only in the spirit of clarity: If no law compels you no force is used and no one claims to make you comply yet the stated consequence of refusal is eternal punishment how voluntary is the choice meant to be At what point does youre free to choose stop meaning freedom and start meaning compliance under threat just with the threat moved from this life to the next Im not asserting an answer. Im only wondering how much daylight there really is between coercion by law and coercion by infinity" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019883310835540478) 2026-02-06T21:18Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "While I disagree with the proposed remedy its hard not to notice that modern politicians seem unintentionally determined to make the case for anarchy themselves. When their actions consistently make life worse and then openly promise more of the same indefinitely the reaction shouldnt be surprising. If a system delivers declining outcomes while demanding permanent obedience it inevitably invites the question of why anyone should continue tolerating it at all. You dont have to endorse anarchy to understand why people start looking for an exit when failure is treated as a long term policy" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019888184541474880) 2026-02-06T21:37Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements "Whats funny is that if the people repeating this actually believed it they wouldnt be whining online. Theyd just bypass their so called enemy. If ten people really had godlike control over eight billion the obvious move wouldnt be protests or slogans. It would be building competing businesses alternatives and exit paths. Capitalism allows that. Nothing stops them from doing it. But that isnt what they want. What they really mean is: we want the outcomes without producing the inputs. They want wealth without risk results without effort and power without competence. The billionaire isnt feared" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019891148786106429) 2026-02-06T21:49Z 16.4K followers, 41.6K engagements "With very few exceptions it does seem that most people dont actually want freedom. They want dominance or failing that protection under someone elses dominance. Freedom demands responsibility uncertainty and self-authorship. Dominance promises relief from all three. Where it gets uncomfortable is assigning blame. Its tempting to say politicians made it this way but politicians are downstream. They dont create demand out of nothing. They read incentives. If voters reliably punished those who sold control and rewarded those who defended liberty the political class would adapt quickly. At the" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019895765636903284) 2026-02-06T22:07Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "America had child labor because families were poor. It faded because productivity rose wages rose and parents could afford to keep kids out of factories. Wealth made it obsolete. No decree required. The Soviets had child labor and slave labor at the same time. Not as a temporary response to poverty but as state policy. They didnt outgrow it. They enforced it. And while claiming moral superiority they starved millions by design through central planning and confiscation. One system made people rich enough to stop doing desperate things. The other kept people desperate forever then collapsed" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020130610140827710) 2026-02-07T13:40Z 16.4K followers, 14.5K engagements "Its insane this can even be said out loud by an elected official without being disqualified from holding office. The moment a politician argues for punishing people for leaving taxing without jurisdiction or seizing businesses by force theyve crossed from policy into authoritarianism. Exit is a basic American right. If you cant leave you arent free. The logic is simple and ugly: leave and be fined resist and be expropriated comply and be controlled. Any system that has to trap people to survive has already admitted its a failure" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020158695124946977) 2026-02-07T15:32Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "Im told that if I would only read the book Id finally understand why communism works. This is said with great confidence usually by someone who appears to have read exactly one book and then misplaced every other one ever written. Curiously the people who read that book the most carefully economists historians former believers defectors tend to reach the opposite conclusion and quietly abandon the faith altogether. This is explained of course by declaring that they didnt really understand it despite having spent their lives studying it. Communism is the only idea that grows clearer the less" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020169211964735496) 2026-02-07T16:14Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "That logic is just moral laundering. If I can point to someone you hate who did something bad then everything on my side magically disappears. Its excuse making. And it gives the game away. Anyone pushing that move never cared about the evil in the first place. If they did theyd condemn it consistently. People with even a basic moral compass can hold two thoughts at once: this is bad and that is bad too. Only people blind to morality need to invent heroes out of monsters. They dont defend them because theyre good. They defend them because admitting the truth would indict their own worldview." [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020174302910300439) 2026-02-07T16:34Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "Im told communism only fails because the capitalists wont trade with it which makes me wonder: if communism is the superior system why does it sound so unwell the moment its left alone with itself If two systems stop dealing with one another shouldnt the stronger one thrive on its own virtues rather than complain about the absence of its alleged enemy And if refusing to trade with capitalists is enough to doom communism does that mean the problem lies with the blockade or with the patient who cant survive without his doctor" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020191542325985354) 2026-02-07T17:42Z 16.5K followers, 36.5K engagements "@strike_dr What's tanking the American economy is a drift in the direction of an economy you favor while china sustains itself by allowing some abandonment of that model" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020207061091381314) 2026-02-07T18:44Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "@LarryDJonesJr aYn rAnD vIlLaInS aRe uNrEaLiStIc" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020209123481026708) 2026-02-07T18:52Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "aYn rAnD vIlLaInS aRe uNrEaLiStIc NYCs socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani is doubling down on his previous statement that if a company leaves NY find them and tax them anyway. Now he is saying: "We should take businesses from owners who want to leave due to the tax increases and run them for the city https://t.co/cPZ6kF83aw NYCs socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani is doubling down on his previous statement that if a company leaves NY find them and tax them anyway. Now he is saying: "We should take businesses from owners who want to leave due to the tax increases and run them for the city" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020209169127637057) 2026-02-07T18:52Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "People dont tolerate smokestacks because theyre familiar. They tolerate them because theyre cheap reliable and scalable. Wind and solar arent criticized for being new. Theyre criticized because theyre intermittent land-intensive subsidy-dependent and still parasitic on the very fossil systems they claim to replace. Change doesnt look ugly to habits it disrupts. Bad solutions look ugly to people who still care about results. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020259670636785988 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020259670636785988" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020259670636785988) 2026-02-07T22:13Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "Only one system is accountable. Private prices must justify themselves or lose customers. Public taxes answer to no one so they pile cost upon cost congratulate themselves for the burden and call it service all while wondering aloud why the public seems so ungrateful" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020283124626628668) 2026-02-07T23:46Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "When a business cuts what isnt profitable you can sneer and call it selfish profit-seeking. But what it actually reflects is millions of individual choices. People voting with their own money voluntarily every day. That isnt the death of democracy. Its the absence of compulsion. Contrast that with political democracy where programs never die because they failed people. They survive because they failed loudly built a constituency of dependents and insulated themselves from exit. Markets say: convince me. Politics says: comply. Calling that undemocratic only works if you think democracy means" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020487735874666742) 2026-02-08T13:19Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "@patriach2051 What's being left out here is that the only thing anti fascist about antifa today is their label" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020491813203669409) 2026-02-08T13:36Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "What's being left out here is that the only thing anti fascist about antifa today is their label that should make socialists stop and reflect. Oof https://t.co/2LmlWjTwzQ Oof https://t.co/2LmlWjTwzQ" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020491965071011997) 2026-02-08T13:36Z 16.4K followers, 11.8K engagements "@RTSG_News The Chinese characteristics are fascism" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020492170281525526) 2026-02-08T13:37Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "Law exists to stop force and fraud not to guarantee cultural outcomes. Selling a book you dislike isnt aggression because no one is forced to buy it. The same applies to peaceful immigration. Discomfort isnt coercion. Once aggression means anything that threatens my preferred outcomes youve abandoned libertarianism and embraced preemptive force. If your system only works when everyone thinks and behaves the same the problem is that the system depends on conformity not consent" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020500171105132556) 2026-02-08T14:09Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements "If this were true and you honestly believed the same outcome could be achieved without work youd do it yourself. You dont because you know it cant. So instead of producing you moralize looting. Instead of creating value you attack those who did. The goal is exemption from effort altogether. Thats why the argument never ends with heres how well produce the same results and always ends with hand it over. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020514279175184791 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020514279175184791" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020514279175184791) 2026-02-08T15:05Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "@VinodBhardwajUS Why is capitalism bad at distributing things" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020518783043993747) 2026-02-08T15:23Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements "Squid Game isnt capitalism. Its fiction. Its exaggerated drama written by free people who can log off go home and criticize their society without being punished. North Korea isnt a show. Its reality. And its still far worse than anything Netflix could depict. When your worst example of capitalism is a TV series and your best example of socialism is a prison state people risk death to escape the comparison is already over. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020584087266967699 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020584087266967699" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020584087266967699) 2026-02-08T19:42Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "The financial crisis wasnt capitalism failing it was capitalism being overridden by state guarantees distorted interest rates and bailouts that protected losses and citing Das Kapital to explain it is just an excuse to replace markets with control rather than admit government broke the price signals. "After the global financial crisis many Western scholars began studying Marxist political economy and Das Kapital again for the purpose of reflecting on the deficiencies of capitalism." - President Xi https://t.co/ACPCRCjCjs "After the global financial crisis many Western scholars began studying" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020614538962280737) 2026-02-08T21:43Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "Socialism doesnt fail because America interferes. It fails because it contradicts reality. An economic system cant work when it severs effort from reward replaces prices with politics and treats production as something that can be commanded rather than earned. More importantly socialism isnt just impractical. Its immoral. It treats individuals as means to collective ends turns need into a claim on other peoples lives and justifies force as compassion. You dont need sanctions coups or foreign villains to explain its failure. A system built on coercion collapses under its own logic. Socialism" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020679298764476614) 2026-02-09T02:01Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "Whats telling is that your entire list describes state violence coups intelligence operations and authoritarian regimes and then casually labels all of it capitalism. None of that is capitalism. Capitalism doesnt mean a superpower doing geopolitics. It means private property voluntary exchange profit and loss and the rule of law. If your definition of capitalism requires secret police death lists regime change and military-backed dictatorships then youre not critiquing capitalism. Youre just calling statism by a different name. Saying capitalism is when America does stuff is a category error" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020685602719441128) 2026-02-09T02:26Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "When someone collapses capitalism imperialism and Zionism into a single word salad it reveals that words have stopped meaning anything to them. Its what happens when education fails and propaganda replaces definition. Distinct concepts get flattened into emotional placeholders used to signal resentment rather than explain causation. When everything you dislike becomes the same thing the problem is that youve abandoned thinking in favor of slogans. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020850746959303128 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020850746959303128" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020850746959303128) 2026-02-09T13:22Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "When someone collapses capitalism imperialism and Zionism into a single word salad it reveals that words have stopped meaning anything to them. Its what happens when education fails and propaganda replaces definition. Distinct concepts get flattened into emotional placeholders used to signal resentment rather than explain causation. When everything you dislike becomes the same thing the problem is that youve abandoned thinking in favor of slogans. Capitalism imperialism Zionism. All three of these things are the same. Capitalism imperialism Zionism. All three of these things are the same" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020850774209651063) 2026-02-09T13:22Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements "If communists spent half as much effort on producing value as they do on propaganda to justify living off other peoples work most of their grievances would disappear and the world would be vastly better off. Wealth isnt blocked by exploitation. Its created by effort. And no amount of slogans can substitute for earning" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020859948847034724) 2026-02-09T13:58Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "Its a curious thing how politicians insist a public service is both better and cheaper yet somehow forget to ask whether youd like to buy it. One would think that a bargain of such miraculous quality could survive without a tax collector standing nearby with a clipboard and a threat. As a rule of thumb anything that must be taken from you at gunpoint probably wasnt the deal of the century. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020862996096950423 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020862996096950423" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020862996096950423) 2026-02-09T14:10Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements "@grok @DecolonialFeIIa @__mike91 Yemen and Somalia are capitalist Really" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020988316078797141) 2026-02-09T22:28Z 16.5K followers, [--] engagements "@RTSG_Main Freedom to them meant obedience. What Stalin and Mao fought for was the freedom of the state to own your labor your speech and your life while a small political class lived off the product. Its turning people into managed livestock with flags and slogans" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2021030282581745732) 2026-02-10T01:15Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "Freedom to them meant obedience. What Stalin and Mao fought for was the freedom of the state to own your labor your speech and your life while a small political class lived off the product. Its turning people into managed livestock with flags and slogans. Stalin and Mao fought for our freedoms. https://t.co/QAWthDH8wz Stalin and Mao fought for our freedoms. https://t.co/QAWthDH8wz" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2021030306363400265) 2026-02-10T01:15Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "The real distinction is initiation of force versus retaliation against force. A right to healthcare would require compelling doctors to serve you even if they choose not to. Thats initiation. A right to property requires that if someone initiates force against you others may retaliate against the aggressor. Thats defense. Those are not morally equivalent. Both require labor. Only one requires forced labor" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2022108828456607789) 2026-02-13T00:41Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "This only sounds clever if you quietly assume that coercion is the only way services can exist. Where there is demand there is incentive to supply. Snow removal is not a philosophical mystery. Its a service responding to a predictable need. The question isnt whether it can exist but under what incentives it operates. A private provider has to deliver value or lose customers. Reputation matters. Performance matters. Cost matters. If they fail people stop paying them. A government provider faces none of that discipline. Funding is guaranteed by taxation not earned by satisfaction. If service is" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2015499863325057466) 2026-01-25T18:59Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "Whats always evaded when people say capitalism is about profit not needs is that profit is the signal that a need was actually satisfied by voluntary choice. No one earns profit unless others judge the product or service worth more than the money they give up. That judgment is the only non coercive standard that exists. When they say capitalism fails to supply needs that arent profitable what theyre really admitting is this: People do not value those needs enough to sacrifice their own resources for them. If you claim to want a green energy revolution but only if someone else is forced to" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2018418292713726359) 2026-02-02T20:16Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "This is pure authoritarian projection wrapped in economic illiteracy. Bernie Sanders calling private ownership authoritarianism is either dishonest or incompetent. Authoritarianism is about who has the power to use force. Billionaires cannot arrest you tax you conscript you censor you by law or jail you. The state can and Bernie has spent his entire career trying to expand that power. Owning a company is not control over your life. It is ownership of their property. You are free to leave ignore it compete with it criticize it or build an alternative. That's the opposite of authoritarianism." [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2018871404494504192) 2026-02-04T02:17Z 16.5K followers, 12K engagements "Fair share is a fascinating phrase once you check the numbers. It almost always means someone else should pay for everything preferably the people already paying a thousand or a million times more than the speaker. The audacity is impressive. Point at the largest taxpayers in the system and declare the arrangement unfair to the people contributing almost nothing. Call what they keep a gift then complain you are owed more of it. They also insist they are struggling though the comparison is never stated. Compared to which century. Which generation. Which standard of living. The complaint floats" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019050276062113906) 2026-02-04T14:07Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "Communism doesnt end mass death. It just reclassifies it. When the state controls food labor movement and speech killing doesnt need gas chambers. Bureaucracy and famine work just fine. If your ideology requires ignoring tens of millions of dead to stay pure thats a confession. FACT: Communism is the ONLY political system that has NEVER caused a genocide. Instead it ends them. https://t.co/TK6SC4Nv8d FACT: Communism is the ONLY political system that has NEVER caused a genocide. Instead it ends them. https://t.co/TK6SC4Nv8d" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019190155932799283) 2026-02-04T23:23Z 16.5K followers, 22.6K engagements "Elizabeth Warren is trying to morally shame Jeff Bezos for acting like an owner instead of a caretaker. Two unrelated facts are being stapled together on purpose. The Washington Post is losing money Bezos is wealthy The implied rule is this: If youre rich enough you lose the right to make rational business decisions. Jeff Bezos just fired hundreds of reporters at the Washington Post including the Amazon reporter holding his OWN company accountable. Reminder: Jeff Bezos' net worth is nearly $250000000000. Jeff Bezos just fired hundreds of reporters at the Washington Post including the Amazon" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019245434808480085) 2026-02-05T03:03Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "Im not a fan of Jordan Peterson and I preferred his work when he first emerged more than what he later became. But one point he made is worth keeping: you should be more afraid of the consequences of not speaking up than of being criticized for speaking. Silence has a cost even when it feels safer in the moment. Criticism is temporary. Letting bad ideas go unchallenged compounds. Over time the price of staying quiet is paid in lost ground lowered standards and assumptions that harden simply because no one objected. Fear of backlash keeps people polite. Fear of consequences is what keeps" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019821196049518823) 2026-02-06T17:11Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "Its insane this can even be said out loud by an elected official without being disqualified from holding office. The moment a politician argues for punishing people for leaving taxing without jurisdiction or seizing businesses by force theyve crossed from policy into authoritarianism. Exit is a basic American right. If you cant leave you arent free. The logic is simple and ugly: leave and be fined resist and be expropriated comply and be controlled. Any system that has to trap people to survive has already admitted its a failure. NYCs socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani is doubling down on his" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020158718633988508) 2026-02-07T15:32Z 16.5K followers, 170.4K engagements "When I say communism is a system for losers I dont mean people who try and fail. Failure is part of earning. Anyone who makes an honest attempt isnt a loser in any meaningful sense. Communism is a system for people who want to preserve loser victimhood as a permanent moral shield. It exists to let them guilt or force others into sacrifice so they never have to try at all. Not to improve not to compete not to take responsibility but to convert resentment into entitlement. It isnt about helping the poor. Its about protecting stagnation and weaponizing it against those who refuse to carry them." [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020185412828831828) 2026-02-07T17:18Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "Socialists central planners and pathetic emotional economic illiterates (but I repeat myself) would rather keep people working at jobs producing things no one is willing to pay for than let them be laid off to find better opportunities. To them a job existing matters more than whether it creates value. Employment becomes a moral ritual not a means to produce what people actually want. So when innovation reduces the number of workers needed to meet demand they react the same way. Not by celebrating higher productivity and freed human potential but by treating efficiency as a crime and change" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020496231848440285) 2026-02-08T13:53Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "Youre arguing like a collectivist hostile to the American legal tradition where law exists to stop force and fraud not to engineer people into producing preferred outcomes. That's the aim of socialists. If outcomes are justified by majority preference why stop at immigration Why not strip political opponents of the vote outright If your fear is that immigrants will change the country then restricting votes would address that directly" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020532169257476278) 2026-02-08T16:16Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements "Socialism doesnt persist because people were never taught economics. It persists because they were taught a morality that makes economics irrelevant. From an early age people are trained to see self interest as guilt sacrifice as virtue and the individual as something subordinate to the collective. Theyre taught that need creates entitlement and that other peoples lives are a resource to be claimed. A society educated this way doesnt accidentally drift toward socialism. It demands it. If living for your own sake is treated as immoral the only acceptable system becomes one that forbids anyone" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020643374504513970) 2026-02-08T23:38Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "@The_red_spectre When you want to live as a parasite with no shame you obsess about other people paying more taxes" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020686212277641394) 2026-02-09T02:28Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "Climate change was addressed long before it became a political slogan. We mitigated natures dangers with fossil fuels: heating cooling irrigation flood control resilient infrastructure and abundant food. The reason climate change is even a luxury concern today is because capitalism made people rich enough safe enough and long-lived enough to worry about it instead of freezing starving or dying from floods and droughts. There is no real way to address climate change without addressing the hoarding of the super rich. There is no real way to address climate change without addressing the hoarding" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020904024287936837) 2026-02-09T16:54Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "If the claim is that ordinary people are subsidizing billionaires then the obvious solution isnt more taxation. Its no taxation. Abolish subsidies. Abolish welfare. Abolish corporate favors. Let everyone pay for their own choices their own consumption and their own risks. Funny how that solution is never proposed. Because the truth is the opposite of the slogan: the largest government expenses are welfare and subsidies flowing downward not private jets flying upward and theyre overwhelmingly funded by high earners. If you really believed people were being forced to bankroll the rich the first" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020929071429857389) 2026-02-09T18:33Z 16.5K followers, 12.8K engagements "This isnt an argument. Its mysticism dressed up as inevitability. Declaring communism a cosmic force doesnt explain history. It replaces evidence with mythology and substitutes assertion for persuasion. Real ideas persuade by showing how they work in reality. Communism doesnt do that. It doesnt demonstrate success it declares dissent illegitimate and treats disagreement as blindness or heresy. When an ideology stops arguing and starts proclaiming itself inevitable its because it cant survive voluntary acceptance. Coercion becomes the only remaining language. Reality doesnt need to announce" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020966663014011169) 2026-02-09T21:02Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "The its just a name argument falls apart the moment you look at how the system actually functioned. The Nazis abolished independent unions imposed state control over industry fixed prices and wages directed production criminalized disobedience and subordinated property to political loyalty. The state decided what was produced in what quantity at what price and for whose benefit. Ownership without control is compliance. You can argue they werent Marxists. Fine. But they were absolutely collectivists who rejected individual rights and treated the economy as a tool of the state. Different" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020967495713292413) 2026-02-09T21:06Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "Inflation is the hidden tax governments impose so they can claim compassion while quietly making the poor poorer. It lets politicians spend print and posture as helpers while eroding wages savings and purchasing power. The needy arent helped by inflation theyre manufactured by it. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021288600965423178 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021288600965423178" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2021288600965423178) 2026-02-10T18:22Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "He never touches her ideas. No engagement with reason individual rights capitalism or her actual moral claims. Just aesthetic disgust and dehumanization. Rands philosophy is poison to Dugins worldview. She defends the individual as an end in himself. Dugins entire project is blood soil sacrifice hierarchy and mystical collectivism. He cant refute her so he has to animalize her. The Epstein reference is especially weak. Its not an accusation its a vibe. The modern version of witch. Say the word and hope the crowd fills in the blanks so you dont have to prove anything. This is how" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2021380766085570831) 2026-02-11T00:28Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "@RTSG_Main This is like saying "I don't beat my wife on Sundays" see Im a good person. 🤡" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019777865412125183) 2026-02-06T14:19Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "America didnt abandon poverty insurance because it failed. It abandoned it because the state crowded it out. Voluntary mutual aid once provided unemployment relief sickness coverage disability support and burial insurance at scale. It was local accountable and tied to contribution. It worked because it had to. The modern welfare system didnt outperform it. It replaced it by force. Mandatory payroll taxes regulatory barriers and political control made voluntary alternatives economically irrational. What exists now is the predictable result: centralized programs that are expensive unaccountable" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020880678762467734) 2026-02-09T15:21Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "If this were true and you honestly believed the same outcome could be achieved without work youd do it yourself. You dont because you know it cant. So instead of producing you moralize looting. Instead of creating value you attack those who did. The goal is exemption from effort altogether. Thats why the argument never ends with heres how well produce the same results and always ends with hand it over. Who are the productive classes again https://t.co/sm0dRZ16FP Who are the productive classes again https://t.co/sm0dRZ16FP" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020514304387170591) 2026-02-08T15:05Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "Translation: I dont understand profit risk contracts or voluntary exchange but I do understand resentment. He says a guy makes all the money as if wages rent inputs taxes and bankruptcy dont exist. As if businesses dont fail every day. As if employees are chained to their desks. You dont work under a guy. You sell your labor because its better than your alternatives. Thats called choice. And if its so easy to make all the money heres a wild idea: start a business. Capitalism lets you. No permission required. What hes really saying is simple: If someone has more authority or profit than me" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2021569023264141542) 2026-02-11T12:56Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "Karl Marx was the first contradiction of his own philosophy. He condemned exploitation while living off Engels money for decades and refusing steady work. He preached moral critique of capitalism while fathering a child with his familys maid then having Engels claim the child to avoid scandal. The maid was abandoned. The child erased. His wife Jenny endured years of poverty illness and instability while he wrote about human liberation. This wasnt theory failing in practice. It failed at home first. Two of his daughters died by suicide. Eleanor Marx his closest intellectual ally killed herself" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2017671514632409144) 2026-01-31T18:49Z 16.5K followers, 411.7K engagements "They show up after incentives technology and productivity have already made something possible then claim credit for fighting for it. Its post-hoc moral theft. Shorter hours and weekends didnt appear because someone waved a red flag. They became viable because productivity rose. When one worker can produce more value per hour employers can offer fewer hours without collapsing the business. Same with child labor. It didnt end because of slogans. It ended because rising capital mechanization and wages made child labor inefficient unnecessary and socially intolerable. Poor societies use child" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2018077803837579488) 2026-02-01T21:43Z 16.5K followers, 262.7K engagements "Marxism isnt discredited because Marx was a bad husband or father. Its discredited because the theory collapses the moment its applied to real human behavior. Marx says exploitation is immoral yet his system requires some people to be compelled to produce for others. Marx condemns living off others labor yet his framework has no moral defense for earning versus claiming. Marx attacks dependency yet his solution institutionalizes it. The problem isnt that Marx failed to live up to his ideals. Its that his ideals deny the moral legitimacy of independence trade and earned reward. So yes Marx" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2018401993924985303) 2026-02-02T19:11Z 16.5K followers, 73.6K engagements "Under Kim Jong-un credible reporting from the UN Human Rights Watch and defectors documents executions labor camps or torture for things like: Watching South Korean movies or TV shows Listening to foreign music Owning a Bible Practicing Christianity or any unsanctioned religion Attempting to flee the country Helping someone else escape Making a joke about the leadership Failing to cry convincingly enough at state funerals Possessing a foreign USB drive Smuggling food or goods to survive Trading privately outside state control Accessing foreign news Speaking to foreigners without permission" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2019446868594336039) 2026-02-05T16:23Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "People dont tolerate smokestacks because theyre familiar. They tolerate them because theyre cheap reliable and scalable. Wind and solar arent criticized for being new. Theyre criticized because theyre intermittent land-intensive subsidy-dependent and still parasitic on the very fossil systems they claim to replace. Change doesnt look ugly to habits it disrupts. Bad solutions look ugly to people who still care about results. We criticize whats clean because it stands out & ignore what pollutes because were used to it. Wind turbines are called eyesores while smokestacks get a free pass. Thats" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020259691943592123) 2026-02-07T22:13Z 16.5K followers, 28.1K engagements "Squid Game isnt capitalism. Its fiction. Its exaggerated drama written by free people who can log off go home and criticize their society without being punished. North Korea isnt a show. Its reality. And its still far worse than anything Netflix could depict. When your worst example of capitalism is a TV series and your best example of socialism is a prison state people risk death to escape the comparison is already over. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020584138902823195 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020584138902823195" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020584138902823195) 2026-02-08T19:42Z 16.5K followers, 20.3K engagements "This collapses on first contact with definitions. Capitalism is private property voluntary exchange and consent. Fascism is state control of the economy compulsory coordination and political obedience enforced by force. What youre actually describing is state power foreign policy intelligence agencies wars and dictatorships and then slapping the word capitalism on top to avoid naming the real actor. If genocide repression or exploitation requires governments armies police and decrees it isnt capitalism by definition. And dragging in Antifa doesnt rescue the argument. Violent street movements" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020844758285906156) 2026-02-09T12:58Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements "This collapses on first contact with definitions. Capitalism is private property voluntary exchange and consent. Fascism is state control of the economy compulsory coordination and political obedience enforced by force. What youre actually describing is state power foreign policy intelligence agencies wars and dictatorships and then slapping the word capitalism on top to avoid naming the real actor. If genocide repression or exploitation requires governments armies police and decrees it isnt capitalism by definition. And dragging in Antifa doesnt rescue the argument. Violent street movements" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020844778632421882) 2026-02-09T12:58Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "The its just a name argument falls apart the moment you look at how the system actually functioned. The Nazis abolished independent unions imposed state control over industry fixed prices and wages directed production criminalized disobedience and subordinated property to political loyalty. The state decided what was produced in what quantity at what price and for whose benefit. Ownership without control is compliance. You can argue they werent Marxists. Fine. But they were absolutely collectivists who rejected individual rights and treated the economy as a tool of the state. Different" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2020967521621508341) 2026-02-09T21:06Z 16.5K followers, 134.7K engagements "Complaints about inequality of outcome are most often voiced by people near the top of that very inequality. They demand sacrifice from everyone else never from themselves either to purchase unearned moral status or to justify controlling those who are richer or more independent than they are" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2021281069551472687) 2026-02-10T17:52Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements "The state doesnt provide anything in the economic sense. It confiscates resources produced by others and then redistributes a fraction of them back branding the transaction as provision. Calling that provision is like calling a mugger generous because he buys you a coffee with your own money. Worse the deficit line is pure economic illiteracy. Printing money isnt giving you more its diluting what you already earned. Infrastructure courts schools armies none of these appear by magic. They are built by individuals paid for by individuals and delivered less efficiently precisely because force" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2021297663644144055) 2026-02-10T18:58Z 16.5K followers, 10.7K engagements "He never touches her ideas. No engagement with reason individual rights capitalism or her actual moral claims. Just aesthetic disgust and dehumanization. Rands philosophy is poison to Dugins worldview. She defends the individual as an end in himself. Dugins entire project is blood soil sacrifice hierarchy and mystical collectivism. He cant refute her so he has to animalize her. The Epstein reference is especially weak. Its not an accusation its a vibe. The modern version of witch. Say the word and hope the crowd fills in the blanks so you dont have to prove anything. This is how" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2021380796859236427) 2026-02-11T00:28Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "Translation: I trusted politicians to make things affordable and now Im shocked that everything costs more. You handed zoning to the state. You handed healthcare to the state. You handed money printing to the state. You handed education to the state. You handed energy to the state. Then youre stunned when scarcity inflation and artificial shortages show up like clockwork. Forty hours used to build a house feed a family and leave room to save. What changed Human productivity didnt collapse. Government control expanded. When you let people who never produce set prices restrict supply and debase" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2021601085786320919) 2026-02-11T15:03Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "If you want to stretch the word slavery until it means I have to work to live then nature is the slave master. Reality requires production before consumption. When you argue that people should be able to consume without producing you are arguing that someone else must produce without full claim to what they earn. You aren't against slavery you just want to be the master" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2021618355581460716) 2026-02-11T16:12Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "If you want to stretch the word slavery until it means I have to work to live then nature is the slave master. Reality requires production before consumption. When you argue that people should be able to consume without producing you are arguing that someone else must produce without full claim to what they earn. You aren't against slavery you just want to be the master. Slavery never ended it was just disguised as employment. Slavery never ended it was just disguised as employment" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2021618369699418464) 2026-02-11T16:12Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "Socialism: Working for a wage is slavery. Also socialists: Everyone should have to work so everyone gets free stuff. Socialism: No one should be forced to labor for someone elses profit. Also socialists: Youre morally obligated to labor so I can have healthcare housing food and student loan relief. Socialism: Employment is exploitation. Also socialists: Production is mandatory were just going to vote on who does what. They call voluntary work slavery. Then they demand compulsory redistribution. They hate bosses. So they propose a universal boss called the state. Apparently its slavery when" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2021621119296458960) 2026-02-11T16:23Z 16.5K followers, 12.4K engagements "Libertarian nationalist is a contradiction. Nationalism elevates the collective above the individual. Libertarianism elevates the individual above the collective. Assuming the right stands for capitalism and freedom nationalism isnt right wing. Its just socialism with a flag. You cant defend individual rights while subordinating them to the nation. I am a Libertarian Nationalist. Repost. I am a Libertarian Nationalist. Repost" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2021644522740928767) 2026-02-11T17:56Z 16.5K followers, 26.2K engagements "Were not living in capitalist decay. Were living in the age of managed capitalism. Regulated. Subsidized. Inflated. Distorted. Politically steered. When housing is strangled by zoning energy by mandates money by central banks healthcare by bureaucracy and education by state monopolies calling the outcome capitalism is convenient branding. https://t.co/mIZs9YP4ne https://t.co/mIZs9YP4ne" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2021668731756130565) 2026-02-11T19:32Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "If greed were the problem the fix would be obvious. Undercut them. Start a business. Pay workers more. Take only the acceptable profit by your own standard. Charge less. Win customers. Put the greedy firms out of business. If price gouging were real and systemic that strategy would dominate. Capitalism allows exactly that. Nothing stops worker owned co ops from competing today. So why is the solution always regulation price controls and redistribution instead of competition If the goal is worker ownership build it. If the goal is lower prices offer them. When the answer is force instead of" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2021693997647827150) 2026-02-11T21:13Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "If greed were the problem the fix would be obvious. Undercut them. Start a business. Pay workers more. Take only the acceptable profit by your own standard. Charge less. Win customers. Put the greedy firms out of business. If price gouging were real and systemic that strategy would dominate. Capitalism allows exactly that. Nothing stops worker owned co ops from competing today. So why is the solution always regulation price controls and redistribution instead of competition If the goal is worker ownership build it. If the goal is lower prices offer them. When the answer is force instead of" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2021694033442353490) 2026-02-11T21:13Z 16.5K followers, 19.6K engagements "@Calibr8d_Wolf What regulation and what predatory actions" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2021695040834130129) 2026-02-11T21:17Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements "This big tent anti corruption coalition collapses under its own contradictions. Limit all federal agencies. Cancel all household debt. You cant shrink the state while using it to erase trillions in obligations. That requires enormous centralized authority. Abolish lobbying Theres no such thing while the state controls and distributes vast resources. As long as government decides who gets subsidies contracts regulatory favors bailouts debt relief and market protections people will try to influence it. Power creates pressure. The larger the states role in allocating wealth the more everyone" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2021697537300701496) 2026-02-11T21:27Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "@CptAncapistan Why" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2021935590372217006) 2026-02-12T13:13Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements "What if I want to hire someone outside the border what if I want to sponsor someone How do you determine whos allowed in How do you know whos pro liberty simply by basing it on race or geographical location Do you not think that it could be possible that some outside the border are more pro liberty than some of those inside. Most of the people inside the border now are authoritarian already" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2021940595011305504) 2026-02-12T13:32Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements "Legalizing a [--] hour workday isnt the same as forcing anyone to work [--] hours. It removes a restriction. It doesnt impose a command. Slavery is when you are compelled to work under threat and cannot refuse. A voluntary contract even for long hours is not slavery. The defining feature of slavery is the absence of consent. If anything the person who is legally forbidden from working more hours even if they want to is the one being controlled. Telling adults how long they are allowed to trade their time is regulation not liberation. Calling voluntary labor slavery cheapens the word and erases" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2021952816059732368) 2026-02-12T14:21Z 16.5K followers, 101.9K engagements "Legalizing a [--] hour workday isnt the same as forcing anyone to work [--] hours. It removes a restriction. It doesnt impose a command. Slavery is when you are compelled to work under threat and cannot refuse. A voluntary contract even for long hours is not slavery. The defining feature of slavery is the absence of consent. If anything the person who is legally forbidden from working more hours even if they want to is the one being controlled. Telling adults how long they are allowed to trade their time is regulation not liberation. Calling voluntary labor slavery cheapens the word and erases" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2021952865489559990) 2026-02-12T14:21Z 16.5K followers, 155.5K engagements "Calling voluntary labor slavery isnt just hyperbole. It shows a fundamental confusion about rights. A right is a protection against coercion. It is not a guarantee of specific benefits hours severance packages or wage structures. When the state removes a mandate it is not removing a right. It is removing a rule. You dont lose a right when youre allowed to negotiate your own hours. You lose a right when youre forced into terms you cannot refuse. Slavery is forced labor. A voluntary [--] hour contract is not slavery. A legal maximum that forbids you from working more even if you want to is" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2021965368110063795) 2026-02-12T15:11Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "The question isnt whether capitalism works. Of course it works. The real question is whether individuals have the right to own trade and keep what they produce. Socialism doesnt just fail economically. It fails morally because it treats production as a public resource to be allocated rather than a private achievement to be respected. If you argue only on efficiency youre debating spreadsheets. If you argue on rights youre debating first principles. When someone asks whether capitalism is fair what they usually mean is whether outcomes are equal. But fairness in a rights based system isnt" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2021966738892509509) 2026-02-12T15:16Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "If winning requires sacrificing individual rights then what are you winning Libertarianism is about limiting power to protect the individual. Nationalism elevates the collective above the individual. Refusing to rubber stamp nationalism isnt sabotage. Its consistency. Diluting principle for short term political gain is surrender. The only thing you're winning on is to kill the word libertarian so you can resurrect as anti liberty nationalists. A substantial portion of libertarians have no chance of winning no strategy for winning and they know it. Which is precisely why they focus their" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2021978516024066499) 2026-02-12T16:03Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "@Maelle_IRL Like in America and Canada" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2021987765601157612) 2026-02-12T16:40Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "There is truth in that. Coordination is powerful and groups that align around shared goals will usually outcompete scattered individuals. At the same time there is a difference between voluntary cooperation and tribal conformity. Alliances built on shared values and mutual benefit are strength. Tribes built on loyalty tests and ideological pressure can just as easily crush independent judgment. The real question is not whether to organize but how to do it without surrendering principle. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022013227136074002 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022013227136074002" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2022013227136074002) 2026-02-12T18:21Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "Im not a libertarian and neither are you but for very different reasons. Im not a libertarian because too many who claim the label cant clearly define liberty let alone defend it as a principle grounded in individual rights and property. Youre not a libertarian because once liberty is treated as secondary to strategy tribe or winning it stops being liberty at all. If power borders or cultural cohesion justify overriding individual rights that isnt libertarianism. Its conditional freedom. When liberty becomes negotiable authoritarianism isnt an accident. Its the destination. Keeping the label" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2022021837262119335) 2026-02-12T18:55Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "Would you rather work [--] hours a day [--] days a week with [--] days off or [--] days a week [--] hours a day with [--] days off Personally I'd rather be able to sleep in more commute less and have more free time for hobbies. [--] long workdays [--] shorter workdays [--] long workdays [--] shorter workdays" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2022033628092563807) 2026-02-12T19:42Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "@commiepommie Reducing geopolitics to one event in [----] while ignoring present-day military expansion territorial claims and coercive diplomacy is selective memory. Nations arent judged only by what they did once. Theyre judged by what theyre doing now" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2022035182526820593) 2026-02-12T19:48Z 16.5K followers, 12.5K engagements "Libertarian nationalism is what happens when fear replaces confidence in liberty. When persuasion feels too slow and freedom too uncertain the temptation is to reach for centralized authority to force cultural or political outcomes but once you empower the state to impose national goals over individual rights the means are no different from socialism because the collective overrides the person. Expanded power wont stay in your hands. It will eventually belong to your opponents. Surrendering liberty out of fear creates something far more dangerous than freedom ever was" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2022044761226400242) 2026-02-12T20:26Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements "@AggregateHuman @Ace_Archist Capitalism is the enemy of nationalism" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2022054455420842346) 2026-02-12T21:05Z 16.5K followers, [--] engagements "Funny how the people claiming were forced to subsidize billionaires through taxes never argue for abolishing the taxes that supposedly fund them. If the problem is that your earnings are being taken and redirected upward why defend the taking at all A minority group is destroying America demanding billions in government handouts refusing to pay taxes taking jobs away from Americans and making housing unaffordable. Theyre called Billionaires the minority group destroying the American dream for you and your family. A minority group is destroying America demanding billions in government handouts" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2022063351279595912) 2026-02-12T21:40Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "@AP4Liberty So why would anyone have to vote for a libertarian" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2022063920584773691) 2026-02-12T21:43Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements "The real distinction is initiation of force versus retaliation against force. A right to healthcare would require compelling doctors to serve you even if they choose not to. Thats initiation. A right to property requires that if someone initiates force against you others may retaliate against the aggressor. Thats defense. Those are not morally equivalent. Both require labor. Only one requires forced labor. i have never seen any of these people grapple with the fact that when their property rights are violated they expect the labor of the police to rectify it i have never seen any of these" [X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2022108849189134457) 2026-02-13T00:41Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"Socialism doesnt fail because America interferes. It fails because it contradicts reality. An economic system cant work when it severs effort from reward replaces prices with politics and treats production as something that can be commanded rather than earned. More importantly socialism isnt just impractical. Its immoral. It treats individuals as means to collective ends turns need into a claim on other peoples lives and justifies force as compassion. You dont need sanctions coups or foreign villains to explain its failure. A system built on coercion collapses under its own logic. Socialism"
X Link 2026-02-09T02:01Z 16.5K followers, 122.6K engagements
"Were told that rich countries shouldnt have poor people as though wealth were a national crop and not something grown by individuals who stubbornly insist on keeping it. Poverty is relative and therefore immortal. Double everyones income and well still locate the poor before dinner just better dressed. There is a sense in which free countries should have fewer poor people. Not because anyone is owed prosperity but because freedom removes many excuses. One may trade work build fail try again and keep what one earns. When force retreats ambition becomes the largest limiting factor. Countries"
X Link 2026-02-10T20:30Z 16.5K followers, 12.4K engagements
"The issue isnt that some people are wealthy and others arent. The issue is the belief that wealth itself creates an automatic claim on someone elses labor. Taking more out of a system than you put in and calling it justice doesnt become moral just because the numbers are big. No one owes you sacrifice because youve decided they have something to spare. Need is not a lien on another persons effort. You can argue about incentives taxation levels or policy efficiency. But once the moral premise becomes some must contribute more so others can contribute less youve shifted from voluntary exchange"
X Link 2026-02-12T14:26Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Sanctions dont create bad governments. They respond to them. Iran Syria Cuba and Venezuela were authoritarian failures before sanctions. They crushed dissent nationalized industries destroyed property rights and drove capital and talent out long before the U.S. tightened financial pressure. The claim that the U.S. caused the suffering only works if you pretend regimes have no agency. These governments choose repression militarization and corruption over reform. They choose to fund security services and foreign proxies instead of food medicine and infrastructure. Sanctions dont force those"
X Link 2026-01-13T23:21Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Even granting their premise for the sake of argument it still collapses. If the claim is true and foreign intelligence is helping Iranians bypass censorship coordinate or resist a regime that jails tortures rapes and executes its own population the only honest question is: so what Since when did helping people escape a totalitarian theocracy become immoral Notice how the outrage is never aimed at the regime that: kills protesters hangs dissidents shoots women in the streets cuts off the internet to hide mass murder. The outrage is aimed at anyone who interferes with that. That tells you"
X Link 2026-01-14T12:08Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"The government assures us a program is temporary in the same tone a polite guest assures us he wont stay long. He arrives with a suitcase labeled emergency explains that circumstances require flexibility and promises to be gone once things return to normal. Time passes. The emergency grows familiar. The guest learns the layout of the house begins offering advice on its management and eventually suggests that charging rent would be unreasonable since hes already made himself so useful. At last the homeowner notices that what was meant to solve a problem has quietly become a resident and that"
X Link 2026-01-15T18:57Z 16.4K followers, 13K engagements
"Communists dont take pride in building creating or producing. They take pride in banning censoring and enforcing obedience. Thats the whole ideology in one screenshot. Yes we will ban anime. Yes we will ban Reddit. Yes we will ban video games. Yes we will ban Lord of the Rings. Yes we will ban Star Wars. Yes we will ban Harry Potter. Yes we will ban Marvel. https://t.co/d1EDB6D443 Yes we will ban anime. Yes we will ban Reddit. Yes we will ban video games. Yes we will ban Lord of the Rings. Yes we will ban Star Wars. Yes we will ban Harry Potter. Yes we will ban Marvel. https://t.co/d1EDB6D443"
X Link 2026-01-23T22:23Z 16.4K followers, 56.5K engagements
"Names are not arguments. North Korea is not a democracy because it says so in the title and Nazi Germany was not capitalist because some businesses technically existed. Labels are propaganda. What matters is structure and behavior. So ask the only relevant questions. Were individuals free to own property as an absolute right or was property subordinate to the state Were prices wages production and investment set by voluntary exchange or dictated by political authority Could businesses operate independently or only so long as they served a collective national plan In Nazi Germany the answers"
X Link 2026-01-25T15:10Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"This line is a triple confession. First its anti-American. Taxes arent a buy-in. Theyre the price the state charges to protect rights not a loyalty fee to fund whatever politicians feel like calling the future. Framing taxation as moral tribute flips citizens into subjects. Second its an admission of incompetence. California already taxes heavily and spends catastrophically. If decades of record revenue still produce homelessness decay blackouts fires and mass exit the problem isnt funding. Its governance. Saying we just need more is the excuse of people who cant manage what they already"
X Link 2026-01-28T07:44Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Socialism defines exploitation as voluntary trade with unequal outcomes. If one person earns more than another through consent value creation risk or skill thats labeled exploitation by default. Then it proposes to solve this by doing something far worse and very real: taking wealth by force rather than trade compelling labor under threat rather than consent treating productive individuals as means to others ends making need a claim on someone elses life and effort That isnt a correction of exploitation. Its the definition of it. So the pattern is always the same: First they redefine"
X Link 2026-01-28T12:27Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"The everything is too expensive now claim falls apart once you separate politicized goods from market goods. The things that exploded in price are exactly where government intervenes most: housing healthcare education childcare energy. Subsidies inflate demand regulation restricts supply and prices rise. Meanwhile in areas left mostly to markets prices fall while quality explodes. Electronics communication entertainment data and consumer goods are cheaper and vastly better. The past is also romanticized. Many basic needs didnt exist were luxuries or were outright inaccessible. Which is why"
X Link 2026-01-28T14:10Z 16.4K followers, 13.3K engagements
"Pretty sure this is an unpopular opinion: We cant allow immigrants because theyll vote for welfare. Meanwhile fewer than 10% of citizens favor abolishing welfare. It doesnt survive or expand because of immigrants. It survives because Americans want it and politicians promise more of it regardless of what immigrants want. And the data makes this even clearer. Immigrants use about 24% less welfare per capita than native-born Americans while paying into the same tax system. That makes them net contributors relative to citizens not drains. So no matter where you stand on welfare the conclusion is"
X Link 2026-01-28T15:20Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Cancel the debts means voiding contracts retroactively. Crush the creditor/rentier class means punishing people for owning property or lending capital. That isnt anti-establishment. It is the establishment instinct taken to its logical end: rule by force instead of consent. Debt isnt a trap imposed on the innocent. Its a voluntary agreement. No one is forced to borrow. The people screaming about debt trapping are really angry that reality enforces consequences. Land ownership isnt oppression either. Its what makes improvement maintenance and long-term planning possible. Abolish ownership and"
X Link 2026-01-29T02:08Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"This pitch boils down to a simple inversion. Everything they dislike is labeled capitalism even when its clearly state power: surveillance censorship asset seizures bailouts debt enforcement regulatory capture. None of that is market behavior. Its government authority being abused. Then communism is sold as giving power to workers which has never happened once. Workers dont get authority under communism. Planners do. Someone still decides jobs pay production housing and speech and its always the party not the people. The examples they cite as proof of capitalist tyranny are actually the"
X Link 2026-01-29T12:51Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"A communist quoting Orwell about war being peace while reflexively siding with every anti-American dictator on earth isnt a warning. Its a confession. The pattern is always the same: If America opposes a regime they defend it. If a dictator chants the right slogans they excuse everything. If civilians suffer under socialism its blamed on sanctions capitalism or the West. If force is used by their side it magically becomes anti-imperialism. So when they invoke Orwell theyre not criticizing doublespeak. Theyre using it. To them: Dictatorship is resistance. Aggression is self-defense. Oppression"
X Link 2026-01-29T13:12Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"If you celebrate being the boot when your side is wearing it youve surrendered the right to complain when the other tribe does. Power doesnt become moral because you like whos holding it. You dont oppose tyranny. You just want a turn enforcing it. Liberty isnt dont tread on me unless I approve. Thats just tribal authoritarianism with different colors. The reason this is retarded is that MAGA is the boot. ICE isn't treading on MAGA The reason this is retarded is that MAGA is the boot. ICE isn't treading on MAGA"
X Link 2026-01-29T14:48Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Marx didnt predict this moment. He misidentified it. What he described as capitalism was cronyism and state favoritism which is exactly what Marxism produces by design only magnified and enforced by absolute power. When the state controls property planning and production favoritism isnt reduced it becomes total. Every Marxist system ends with political elites allocating resources to friends loyalists and enforcers. Worse Marx inverted rights. He replaced rights as protections from coercion with entitlements obtained by violating them. Abolish private property and you dont liberate anyone you"
X Link 2026-01-29T19:16Z 16.4K followers, 21.7K engagements
"Wow Trump: "People that own their homes -- we're gonna keep them wealthy. We're gonna keep those prices up. We're not gonna destroy the value of their homes so that somebody who didn't work very hard can buy a home." https://t.co/FlyaHZAspa Trump: "People that own their homes -- we're gonna keep them wealthy. We're gonna keep those prices up. We're not gonna destroy the value of their homes so that somebody who didn't work very hard can buy a home." https://t.co/FlyaHZAspa"
X Link 2026-01-29T22:23Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Saying some people are too stupid for liberty is a slope that doesnt stop at IQ. It establishes the principle that rights are conditional on someone elses standard. Once that door is open youve handed your enemies the moral permission to invent criteria that eventually disqualify you. Intelligence today conformity tomorrow. Rights only protect you if theyre universal. The moment theyre conditional they arent rights at all. Is liberty for dogs How about fleas Liberty is clearly for my [---] IQ Anglo neighbor. We can respect each other's property discuss when we disagree or use a court as last"
X Link 2026-01-30T18:09Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Liberty does require people to want it because free people can and do vote it away. But that fact does not justify preemptively denying rights to those you distrust or deem unfit. The moment rights are conditioned on intelligence culture or capacity to handle freedom they cease to be rights and become permissions. That move doesnt protect liberty. It destroys the very principle that could protect it. Once you establish that someone may decide who qualifies for freedom youve handed that power to whoever wins next. Intelligence today conformity tomorrow. And eventually you. The real answer isnt"
X Link 2026-01-30T18:29Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Schiff isnt attacking capitalism at all. Hes pointing at its absence. What hes describing isnt markets failing. Its central planning failing: fiat money credit manipulation interest rate fixing and political allocation of capital. Thats the predictable result of replacing price signals with committees. Calling this capitalisms inherent crisis is like blaming free speech for censorship. The instability comes from the part socialists openly glorify and always demand more of: monetary control debt expansion and state managed outcomes. When you rig money distort prices and socialize risk you get"
X Link 2026-01-30T20:10Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Schiff isnt attacking capitalism at all. Hes pointing at its absence. What hes describing isnt markets failing. Its central planning failing: fiat money credit manipulation interest rate fixing and political allocation of capital. Thats the predictable result of replacing price signals with committees. Calling this capitalisms inherent crisis is like blaming free speech for censorship. The instability comes from the part socialists openly glorify and always demand more of: monetary control debt expansion and state managed outcomes. When you rig money distort prices and socialize risk you get"
X Link 2026-01-30T20:10Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Hamas isnt in the Epstein files isnt the win you think it is. When exploitation is illegal it leaves flight logs court records and cover-ups. When its legalized normalized and enforced by religious courts and armed men there are no scandals to uncover. Theres just policy. Under Hamas rule girls (children) can be forced into marriage with guardian approval. If refusal isnt legally decisive isnt socially safe and isnt enforceable then consent doesnt exist. Thats forced marriage regardless of how politely its framed. Absence from a criminal file doesnt mean moral innocence. Sometimes it just"
X Link 2026-01-31T16:25Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Hamas isnt in the Epstein files isnt the win you think it is. When exploitation is illegal it leaves flight logs court records and cover-ups. When its legalized normalized and enforced by religious courts and armed men there are no scandals to uncover. Theres just policy. Under Hamas rule girls (children) can be forced into marriage with guardian approval. If refusal isnt legally decisive isnt socially safe and isnt enforceable then consent doesnt exist. Thats forced marriage regardless of how politely its framed. Absence from a criminal file doesnt mean moral innocence. Sometimes it just"
X Link 2026-01-31T16:25Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"The claim collapses the moment you leave capitalist countries. Labor movements only exist where workers are allowed to speak organize strike and refuse. Look at what actually happens under communism: In the Soviet Union independent unions were illegal. Strikes were treated as sabotage against the state. Workers who protested wages or conditions didnt win concessions they were arrested exiled or shot. The unions job was to discipline workers on behalf of the state not defend them. In People's Republic of China independent labor organizing is banned. The only legal union answers to the"
X Link 2026-01-31T17:13Z 16.4K followers, 87.6K engagements
"Funny thing about outrage. When a business makes money people say its taking too much even though no one was forced to buy a thing. When the state takes half your earnings by default misses every budget and sends you the bill for the interest forever thats called necessary. A shop has to please its customers or go broke. The government can fail openly and charge you more for the privilege. So one middleman only gets paid if you choose him. The other gets paid even when hes incompetent. And somehow the voluntary one that actually delivers value by the consumers own standard is the villain."
X Link 2026-01-31T17:21Z 16.4K followers, 15.7K engagements
"Socialism and feudalism arent opposites. Theyre variations of the same structure. Feudalism said: you dont own your life or land a lord does. Socialism says: you dont own your life or labor the collective does. Different rhetoric. Same outcome. Capitalism wasnt designed to benefit a class. It wasnt designed at all. It emerged when people were finally allowed to own property trade voluntarily and keep the results. The benefit to the masses wasnt an accident. It was the consequence of removing permission and privilege. Feudalism and socialism both rely on hierarchy obligation and enforced"
X Link 2026-01-31T19:59Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Sometimes its hard to decide whether to feel disgust or second-hand embarrassment. To dismiss freedom as choosing toothpaste is the kind of argument you make when you have to reduce reality to nonsense just to avoid admitting whats actually being defended. Capitalism isnt about brands on a shelf. Its about choosing your work your employer your customers your home your doctor your school and whether you associate at all. Its about having exits. Its about being able to say no without asking permission. What they call self-determination always means fewer choices enforced by someone else then"
X Link 2026-02-01T00:17Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"This meme only works if you pretend markets and competition dont exist. Capitalists dont pay as little as possible. They pay what they must to attract and keep workers against other employers. If wages could be suppressed at will labor shortages and job hopping wouldnt exist. Profit doesnt come from starving customers. A business that underpays loses workers. A business that overprices loses buyers. Both get punished. The cartoon assumes a feudal world with trapped workers and monopolist bosses. That isnt capitalism. Thats a fantasy used to erase choice and consent. The real system where"
X Link 2026-02-02T16:59Z 16.4K followers, 39.2K engagements
"Marxism isnt discredited because Marx was a bad husband or father. Its discredited because the theory collapses the moment its applied to real human behavior. Marx says exploitation is immoral yet his system requires some people to be compelled to produce for others. Marx condemns living off others labor yet his framework has no moral defense for earning versus claiming. Marx attacks dependency yet his solution institutionalizes it. The problem isnt that Marx failed to live up to his ideals. Its that his ideals deny the moral legitimacy of independence trade and earned reward. So yes Marx"
X Link 2026-02-02T19:11Z 16.4K followers, 16.9K engagements
"I cant claim the benefit of several centuries of firsthand observation but it does appear that the modern communist faces a rather steeper intellectual climb than his predecessors. Earlier believers had the excuse of novelty. The experiment was new the outcomes unwritten the wreckage not yet catalogued. Todays believer by contrast must step over quite a lot of history to reach the same conclusion. Empires collapsed famines documented prisons counted and graves carefully numbered. None of this is hidden. It is simply inconvenient. One suspects this explains the steady refinement of the"
X Link 2026-02-02T20:55Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Socialists don't want Mother Earth. They want the products and services only capitalism creates without earning them or paying for them. So they invent strawman versions of capitalism to justify seizing control of its output. Under nature there is no free healthcare no welfare no UBI and no free lunches. There is only scarcity exposure and a short brutal life that often ends painfully. Every comfort they moralize about is a man made achievement. And every one of those achievements requires production before distribution effort before reward and value before entitlement. They aren't rebelling"
X Link 2026-02-03T15:04Z 16.4K followers, 13.5K engagements
"The greater good is never judged by individual choice. It is judged by the standard of authoritarian politicians and it is always paid for by someone else. What is never said out loud is that it is meant to be greater than your freedom your right to your own life. Your choices values and effort are subordinate to political whim. Suffering is reframed as virtue forced sacrifice as compassion and obedience as goodness. The standard of good becomes whatever expands power not whatever respects consent or produces value. And the people defining that standard never bear the cost. They do not suffer"
X Link 2026-02-03T15:34Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"This is pure authoritarian projection wrapped in economic illiteracy. Bernie Sanders calling private ownership authoritarianism is either dishonest or incompetent. Authoritarianism is about who has the power to use force. Billionaires cannot arrest you tax you conscript you censor you by law or jail you. The state can and Bernie has spent his entire career trying to expand that power. Owning a company is not control over your life. It is ownership of their property. You are free to leave ignore it compete with it criticize it or build an alternative. That's the opposite of authoritarianism."
X Link 2026-02-04T02:17Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Whats embarrassing isnt that leftism gets called extreme. Its that its supporters cant see the coercion and contradiction at the core of their own demands. They pretend ownership itself is an injustice. Simply having something is framed as immoral if the wrong person has it. Yet those same people are expected to pay for everything. Billionaires are denounced as predators for existing but also treated as an endless funding source for every social ambition. Theyre supposed to finance society but never act within it. Produce but dont decide. Pay but dont use. Exist but only as wallets. Thats why"
X Link 2026-02-04T13:33Z 16.4K followers, 10.9K engagements
"When someone says we need to raise taxes so the government can fix our problems the translation is simpler than it sounds. It means you should pay eight or ten times more for the same things lose any choice over how your money is used and then be told to pay even more once those problems become permanent and more expensive. History is fairly consistent on this point. Government programs do not solve the problems they are created to address. They formalize them bureaucratize them and raise the cost of living around them. Failure is not a signal to stop. It is treated as proof that funding was"
X Link 2026-02-04T14:16Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"The oldest political trick is to redefine force so it only counts when someone else uses it. Here ownership is called violence jobs are declared a myth and scarcity is blamed on enclosure. But the cure is always the same: confiscate redistribute and compel. Somehow that part never counts as coercion. This isnt an attempt to abolish power. Its an attempt to move it. Away from voluntary exchange and into the hands of those who promise protection in return for obedience. People dont eat rhetoric. Someone has to organize capital take risk and build alternatives. Calling that weaponized enclosure"
X Link 2026-02-04T14:45Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"People should have is doing a lot of work here. Shelter food and electricity dont exist by moral declaration. They have to be produced maintained and delivered by someone. If access is guaranteed regardless of contribution then production must be guaranteed regardless of consent. Theres no escape from that. A system that treats labor as an obligation turns everyone into a servant then calls it compassion. Refusing to acknowledge this is labeled not being brainwashed because once you trace cause and effect the fantasy collapses. Forgetting where things come from isnt moral clarity. Its the"
X Link 2026-02-04T15:21Z 16.4K followers, 195.9K engagements
"Seize is just theft with a costume. Nothing was stolen from them in the first place. No one took their wages their time or their property. What theyre calling theft is simply the fact that other people produced value they didnt. So the language has to be softened. Stealing becomes taking back. Robbery becomes justice. Envy becomes liberation. This kind of rhetoric isnt careless its deliberate. Once you convince people they were robbed of something they never owned you give them moral permission to take what exists. Words are chosen to dull resistance and make violence sound administrative."
X Link 2026-02-04T16:34Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@DeBallsac @mcsquared34 Hard work being rewarded means more capitalism not a further escape from it"
X Link 2026-02-04T18:37Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements
"This isnt leadership. Its confession. When a politician suggests citizens should work longer to offset government debt what hes really admitting is this: we spent irresponsibly we wont restrain ourselves and you will absorb the cost. From a Machiavellian lens thats not incompetence. Its clarity. Power is preserved by externalizing failure. Debt becomes a moral obligation of the ruled never a restraint on the rulers. Notice whats absent. No talk of shrinking the state. No talk of abandoning failed programs. No talk of politicians sacrificing power perks or control. Only the public is asked to"
X Link 2026-02-04T20:18Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"You can criticize America for racism bigotry and prejudice. Thats fair. Whats rarely asked is: relative to who and relative to what Compared to communist states theocracies and authoritarian regimes where discrimination is legal enforced and unchallengeable the claim of American uniqueness collapses. Without a baseline criticism is moral posing. Every society has prejudice. The real question is where its protected by law and where it can be challenged openly. Refusing comparison doesnt expose injustice. It hides it"
X Link 2026-02-04T22:48Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@dk2852 So under communism magic provides for everyones needs"
X Link 2026-02-04T22:58Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Communism doesnt end mass death. It just reclassifies it. When the state controls food labor movement and speech killing doesnt need gas chambers. Bureaucracy and famine work just fine. If your ideology requires ignoring tens of millions of dead to stay pure thats a confession"
X Link 2026-02-04T23:23Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@OneBadDude_ Snowflake"
X Link 2026-02-05T00:36Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Elizabeth Warren is trying to morally shame Jeff Bezos for acting like an owner instead of a caretaker. Two unrelated facts are being stapled together on purpose. The Washington Post is losing money Bezos is wealthy The implied rule is this: If youre rich enough you lose the right to make rational business decisions. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019245411739869215 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019245411739869215"
X Link 2026-02-05T03:03Z 16.4K followers, 12.4K engagements
"Marx defines capitalism as cronyism and then treats that corruption as inevitable. Cronyism is what happens when political power is allowed to override voluntary exchange. And that dynamic isnt eliminated by socialism its guaranteed by it. When the state controls resources access to power replaces production as the path to wealth. Favor replaces value. Loyalty replaces competence. Marxs predicted collapse doesnt describe late stage capitalism. It describes what happens after capitalism is abandoned. Every historical collapse he pointed to followed the same pattern. Markets constrained."
X Link 2026-02-05T13:02Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Marx defines capitalism as cronyism and then treats that corruption as inevitable. Cronyism is what happens when political power is allowed to override voluntary exchange. And that dynamic isnt eliminated by socialism its guaranteed by it. When the state controls resources access to power replaces production as the path to wealth. Favor replaces value. Loyalty replaces competence. Marxs predicted collapse doesnt describe late stage capitalism. It describes what happens after capitalism is abandoned. Every historical collapse he pointed to followed the same pattern. Markets constrained."
X Link 2026-02-05T13:02Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Everyone agrees governments are increasingly corrupt authoritarian and incompetent. They chase power through favoritism unequal law and political patronage. Reasonable people respond by saying: limit the state to one job protecting individual rights as it was sworn to do. Socialists see the same corruption and draw the opposite conclusion. Instead of wanting less power concentrated at the top they want access to it. They dont oppose the system. They want their turn at the lever. What they call justice is just redistribution of favor. Thats why this kind of governance is a lifeline to them. It"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:19Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@BattlementLK Its not obsolete. Its alive and well despite being a dishonest method of exerting control over morons with no self esteem while being incompetent corrupt and evil"
X Link 2026-02-05T14:25Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Data centers dont suck up electricity for nothing. They convert energy into value: productivity infrastructure cloud services AI tools medical research logistics finance and national competitiveness. Complaining that they use electricity is like complaining that factories use steel or hospitals use power. Capital investment creates jobs directly indirectly and downstream. Construction maintenance engineering security utilities suppliers local services and the businesses that rely on the compute those centers provide. By that logic ports power plants and telecom networks also dont create jobs."
X Link 2026-02-05T15:08Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Data centers dont suck up electricity for nothing. They convert energy into value: productivity infrastructure cloud services AI tools medical research logistics finance and national competitiveness. Complaining that they use electricity is like complaining that factories use steel or hospitals use power. Capital investment creates jobs directly indirectly and downstream. Construction maintenance engineering security utilities suppliers local services and the businesses that rely on the compute those centers provide. By that logic ports power plants and telecom networks also dont create jobs."
X Link 2026-02-05T15:08Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"One might ask with sincere curiosity and no small amount of innocence: If politicians were removed from the equation who exactly would be left to forbid you from earning a living by offering better cheaper or more efficient products and services Who would retain the authority to ban alternatives cripple competitors or declare innovation unsafe right at the moment it threatens established interests Its a curious thing that the loudest warnings about greed and harm always arrive hand in hand with demands for bans favors and exemptions. Almost as if the danger they fear most isnt exploitation by"
X Link 2026-02-05T15:17Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Under Kim Jong-un credible reporting from the UN Human Rights Watch and defectors documents executions labor camps or torture for things like: Watching South Korean movies or TV shows Listening to foreign music Owning a Bible Practicing Christianity or any unsanctioned religion Attempting to flee the country Helping someone else escape Making a joke about the leadership Failing to cry convincingly enough at state funerals Possessing a foreign USB drive Smuggling food or goods to survive Trading privately outside state control Accessing foreign news Speaking to foreigners without permission"
X Link 2026-02-05T16:23Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements
"You flip a descriptive claim about human variation into a prescriptive claim about political legitimacy. Saying people are different does not logically lead to political systems must be tailored to the lowest common denominator or we must curate populations to preserve liberty. That move replaces rights with compatibility. And compatibility is just an opening for collectivism. Once you say liberty requires a compatible population youve already abandoned libertarianism in principle. Youre no longer asking what rules respect individual rights youre asking what kind of people must exist for our"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:01Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Unpopular opinion: Most opposition to progress isnt about safety or dignity. Its fear and its useful. Voters fear losing familiar mediocre jobs for better ones that require change. Politicians exploit that fear by promising protection instead of progress. Lobbyists do the rest. Ranchers oppose lab grown meat unions oppose automation manufacturers oppose AI cab drivers oppose Uber not because these make life worse but because competition threatens incumbents. To sell this success is demonized. If achievement is greed then failure can feel virtuous. That makes it easier to punish the productive"
X Link 2026-02-06T12:46Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"What I'm increasingly seeing on the right and in certain libertarian circles isnt a revival of liberty. Its nationalism adopting socialist structure while denying the label. Socialism isnt defined by slogans about workers. Its defined by subordinating individual rights and private property to a collective goal enforced by the state. Nationalism increasingly accepts that premise outright with only the justification changed. Class interest becomes national interest. The mechanism stays the same. Both systems treat property as conditional. Both justify state direction of industry. Both demonize"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:19Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"When people say this is exactly what I want my tax dollars going to its often a sleight of hand. It sounds like generosity but it isnt voluntary. Its volunteering other peoples money while pretending its your own. If someone genuinely wanted to fund a cause they wouldnt need the state as an intermediary with enforcement powers. They could already be donating sponsoring or directly supporting it. The fact that it requires taxation isnt incidental. Its the point. Taxes remove consent from the transaction. Once the money is taken saying I support this use is just retroactive approval of coercion"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:36Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"The claim that capitalism is evil because crimes occur under it collapses the moment you look at what state-approved evil looks like today. In North Korea slavery is not a scandal. Its policy. Entire families are born into forced labor camps worked to death and punished across generations. This isnt criminal behavior slipping through the cracks. Its enforced by the state openly and proudly. In China millions of Uyghur Muslims are held in labor camps subjected to forced work surveillance and reeducation. This is done by a government that claims solidarity with the oppressed while running one"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:52Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"The claim that capitalism is evil because crimes occur under it collapses the moment you look at what state-approved evil looks like today. In North Korea slavery is not a scandal. Its policy. Entire families are born into forced labor camps worked to death and punished across generations. This isnt criminal behavior slipping through the cracks. Its enforced by the state openly and proudly. In China millions of Uyghur Muslims are held in labor camps subjected to forced work surveillance and reeducation. This is done by a government that claims solidarity with the oppressed while running one"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:52Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"This response proves the point better than any critique could. Liberty isnt a status you earn by geography and it isnt revoked because someone lives under a worse regime. If freedom only applies to people who already have it then it isnt a principle its a club. More importantly telling someone to recognize your betters or we wont let you in isnt libertarian language. Its authoritarian language. It asserts submission not individual rights. Pointing out that Canada is less free doesnt refute the argument. It confirms it. Thats exactly what nationalism does: it replaces rights with loyalty and"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:58Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@true_nof1 @LPNH Its in your interest to judge people as individuals instead of as a fearful xenophobic ignorant bigoted racist and that's not how individual rights work. That's collective entitlement enforced by violating rights"
X Link 2026-02-06T14:08Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements
"What I find amusing about the pushback is that Im not criticizing the right for being too right. Im criticizing it for drifting toward positions it would have openly condemned as leftist less than a generation ago. Ideas like state direction of industry national interest overriding property rights punishing success for collective goals or restricting speech and trade in the name of security or unity werent conservative principles. They were precisely what the right claimed to oppose. The resistance to that criticism isnt really about disagreement on substance. Its about discomfort with being"
X Link 2026-02-06T15:26Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"I want to thank the people whove offered support especially those willing to engage with ideas that challenge familiar narratives. Its genuinely encouraging to see that some are still willing to keep their minds open rather than default to reflex or tribal loyalty. Unconventional thinking isnt comfortable and it isnt supposed to be. But progress in understanding only happens when people are willing to question assumptions tolerate disagreement and follow arguments to their conclusions instead of stopping where it feels safe. That kind of intellectual honesty is rare and its appreciated"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:53Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"I find it telling how people pretend billionaires only exist under capitalism. Capitalism doesnt eliminate power. It constrains it with law. Wealth gained through fraud coercion trafficking or corruption is illegal under capitalism by definition. Thats why scandals exist at all. Alternatives dont eliminate elites. They create oligarchs by design then place them above the law. Under communism and authoritarian systems wealth and power are acquired openly through confiscation force and political favoritism. There is no separation between ruler and criminal because the state sanctifies the"
X Link 2026-02-06T19:08Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"If businesses leave well seize them and run them ourselves is just an admission that you dont know how to create value only how to confiscate it. Production is treated as an accident that happens automatically while ownership is treated as optional. The mindset is simple: If someone can earn they should be controlled. If someone cant they should rule. Its resentment elevated to policy and incompetence promoted to authority. When the answer to failure is always take what works and force it to serve us youre not building a city. Youre announcing why it will collapse. Supporter of Zoharn Mamdani"
X Link 2026-02-06T19:19Z 16.4K followers, 29.9K engagements
"While true that Christianity doesnt mandate socialism it can supply the moral vocabulary that makes socialism feel righteous to those who promote it"
X Link 2026-02-06T20:27Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Not all billionaire wealth is deserved. Fine. Even if we grant that it doesnt answer the crucial question: how does that make you entitled to it Saying their wealth isnt fully deserved doesnt explain why its suddenly deserved by the uninvolved"
X Link 2026-02-06T21:10Z 16.4K followers, 13.4K engagements
"A question asked only in the spirit of clarity: If no law compels you no force is used and no one claims to make you comply yet the stated consequence of refusal is eternal punishment how voluntary is the choice meant to be At what point does youre free to choose stop meaning freedom and start meaning compliance under threat just with the threat moved from this life to the next Im not asserting an answer. Im only wondering how much daylight there really is between coercion by law and coercion by infinity"
X Link 2026-02-06T21:18Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"While I disagree with the proposed remedy its hard not to notice that modern politicians seem unintentionally determined to make the case for anarchy themselves. When their actions consistently make life worse and then openly promise more of the same indefinitely the reaction shouldnt be surprising. If a system delivers declining outcomes while demanding permanent obedience it inevitably invites the question of why anyone should continue tolerating it at all. You dont have to endorse anarchy to understand why people start looking for an exit when failure is treated as a long term policy"
X Link 2026-02-06T21:37Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Whats funny is that if the people repeating this actually believed it they wouldnt be whining online. Theyd just bypass their so called enemy. If ten people really had godlike control over eight billion the obvious move wouldnt be protests or slogans. It would be building competing businesses alternatives and exit paths. Capitalism allows that. Nothing stops them from doing it. But that isnt what they want. What they really mean is: we want the outcomes without producing the inputs. They want wealth without risk results without effort and power without competence. The billionaire isnt feared"
X Link 2026-02-06T21:49Z 16.4K followers, 41.6K engagements
"With very few exceptions it does seem that most people dont actually want freedom. They want dominance or failing that protection under someone elses dominance. Freedom demands responsibility uncertainty and self-authorship. Dominance promises relief from all three. Where it gets uncomfortable is assigning blame. Its tempting to say politicians made it this way but politicians are downstream. They dont create demand out of nothing. They read incentives. If voters reliably punished those who sold control and rewarded those who defended liberty the political class would adapt quickly. At the"
X Link 2026-02-06T22:07Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"America had child labor because families were poor. It faded because productivity rose wages rose and parents could afford to keep kids out of factories. Wealth made it obsolete. No decree required. The Soviets had child labor and slave labor at the same time. Not as a temporary response to poverty but as state policy. They didnt outgrow it. They enforced it. And while claiming moral superiority they starved millions by design through central planning and confiscation. One system made people rich enough to stop doing desperate things. The other kept people desperate forever then collapsed"
X Link 2026-02-07T13:40Z 16.4K followers, 14.5K engagements
"Its insane this can even be said out loud by an elected official without being disqualified from holding office. The moment a politician argues for punishing people for leaving taxing without jurisdiction or seizing businesses by force theyve crossed from policy into authoritarianism. Exit is a basic American right. If you cant leave you arent free. The logic is simple and ugly: leave and be fined resist and be expropriated comply and be controlled. Any system that has to trap people to survive has already admitted its a failure"
X Link 2026-02-07T15:32Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Im told that if I would only read the book Id finally understand why communism works. This is said with great confidence usually by someone who appears to have read exactly one book and then misplaced every other one ever written. Curiously the people who read that book the most carefully economists historians former believers defectors tend to reach the opposite conclusion and quietly abandon the faith altogether. This is explained of course by declaring that they didnt really understand it despite having spent their lives studying it. Communism is the only idea that grows clearer the less"
X Link 2026-02-07T16:14Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"That logic is just moral laundering. If I can point to someone you hate who did something bad then everything on my side magically disappears. Its excuse making. And it gives the game away. Anyone pushing that move never cared about the evil in the first place. If they did theyd condemn it consistently. People with even a basic moral compass can hold two thoughts at once: this is bad and that is bad too. Only people blind to morality need to invent heroes out of monsters. They dont defend them because theyre good. They defend them because admitting the truth would indict their own worldview."
X Link 2026-02-07T16:34Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Im told communism only fails because the capitalists wont trade with it which makes me wonder: if communism is the superior system why does it sound so unwell the moment its left alone with itself If two systems stop dealing with one another shouldnt the stronger one thrive on its own virtues rather than complain about the absence of its alleged enemy And if refusing to trade with capitalists is enough to doom communism does that mean the problem lies with the blockade or with the patient who cant survive without his doctor"
X Link 2026-02-07T17:42Z 16.5K followers, 36.5K engagements
"@strike_dr What's tanking the American economy is a drift in the direction of an economy you favor while china sustains itself by allowing some abandonment of that model"
X Link 2026-02-07T18:44Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@LarryDJonesJr aYn rAnD vIlLaInS aRe uNrEaLiStIc"
X Link 2026-02-07T18:52Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"aYn rAnD vIlLaInS aRe uNrEaLiStIc NYCs socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani is doubling down on his previous statement that if a company leaves NY find them and tax them anyway. Now he is saying: "We should take businesses from owners who want to leave due to the tax increases and run them for the city https://t.co/cPZ6kF83aw NYCs socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani is doubling down on his previous statement that if a company leaves NY find them and tax them anyway. Now he is saying: "We should take businesses from owners who want to leave due to the tax increases and run them for the city"
X Link 2026-02-07T18:52Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"People dont tolerate smokestacks because theyre familiar. They tolerate them because theyre cheap reliable and scalable. Wind and solar arent criticized for being new. Theyre criticized because theyre intermittent land-intensive subsidy-dependent and still parasitic on the very fossil systems they claim to replace. Change doesnt look ugly to habits it disrupts. Bad solutions look ugly to people who still care about results. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020259670636785988 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020259670636785988"
X Link 2026-02-07T22:13Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Only one system is accountable. Private prices must justify themselves or lose customers. Public taxes answer to no one so they pile cost upon cost congratulate themselves for the burden and call it service all while wondering aloud why the public seems so ungrateful"
X Link 2026-02-07T23:46Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"When a business cuts what isnt profitable you can sneer and call it selfish profit-seeking. But what it actually reflects is millions of individual choices. People voting with their own money voluntarily every day. That isnt the death of democracy. Its the absence of compulsion. Contrast that with political democracy where programs never die because they failed people. They survive because they failed loudly built a constituency of dependents and insulated themselves from exit. Markets say: convince me. Politics says: comply. Calling that undemocratic only works if you think democracy means"
X Link 2026-02-08T13:19Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@patriach2051 What's being left out here is that the only thing anti fascist about antifa today is their label"
X Link 2026-02-08T13:36Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"What's being left out here is that the only thing anti fascist about antifa today is their label that should make socialists stop and reflect. Oof https://t.co/2LmlWjTwzQ Oof https://t.co/2LmlWjTwzQ"
X Link 2026-02-08T13:36Z 16.4K followers, 11.8K engagements
"@RTSG_News The Chinese characteristics are fascism"
X Link 2026-02-08T13:37Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Law exists to stop force and fraud not to guarantee cultural outcomes. Selling a book you dislike isnt aggression because no one is forced to buy it. The same applies to peaceful immigration. Discomfort isnt coercion. Once aggression means anything that threatens my preferred outcomes youve abandoned libertarianism and embraced preemptive force. If your system only works when everyone thinks and behaves the same the problem is that the system depends on conformity not consent"
X Link 2026-02-08T14:09Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements
"If this were true and you honestly believed the same outcome could be achieved without work youd do it yourself. You dont because you know it cant. So instead of producing you moralize looting. Instead of creating value you attack those who did. The goal is exemption from effort altogether. Thats why the argument never ends with heres how well produce the same results and always ends with hand it over. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020514279175184791 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020514279175184791"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:05Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@VinodBhardwajUS Why is capitalism bad at distributing things"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:23Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Squid Game isnt capitalism. Its fiction. Its exaggerated drama written by free people who can log off go home and criticize their society without being punished. North Korea isnt a show. Its reality. And its still far worse than anything Netflix could depict. When your worst example of capitalism is a TV series and your best example of socialism is a prison state people risk death to escape the comparison is already over. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020584087266967699 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020584087266967699"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:42Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"The financial crisis wasnt capitalism failing it was capitalism being overridden by state guarantees distorted interest rates and bailouts that protected losses and citing Das Kapital to explain it is just an excuse to replace markets with control rather than admit government broke the price signals. "After the global financial crisis many Western scholars began studying Marxist political economy and Das Kapital again for the purpose of reflecting on the deficiencies of capitalism." - President Xi https://t.co/ACPCRCjCjs "After the global financial crisis many Western scholars began studying"
X Link 2026-02-08T21:43Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Socialism doesnt fail because America interferes. It fails because it contradicts reality. An economic system cant work when it severs effort from reward replaces prices with politics and treats production as something that can be commanded rather than earned. More importantly socialism isnt just impractical. Its immoral. It treats individuals as means to collective ends turns need into a claim on other peoples lives and justifies force as compassion. You dont need sanctions coups or foreign villains to explain its failure. A system built on coercion collapses under its own logic. Socialism"
X Link 2026-02-09T02:01Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Whats telling is that your entire list describes state violence coups intelligence operations and authoritarian regimes and then casually labels all of it capitalism. None of that is capitalism. Capitalism doesnt mean a superpower doing geopolitics. It means private property voluntary exchange profit and loss and the rule of law. If your definition of capitalism requires secret police death lists regime change and military-backed dictatorships then youre not critiquing capitalism. Youre just calling statism by a different name. Saying capitalism is when America does stuff is a category error"
X Link 2026-02-09T02:26Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"When someone collapses capitalism imperialism and Zionism into a single word salad it reveals that words have stopped meaning anything to them. Its what happens when education fails and propaganda replaces definition. Distinct concepts get flattened into emotional placeholders used to signal resentment rather than explain causation. When everything you dislike becomes the same thing the problem is that youve abandoned thinking in favor of slogans. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020850746959303128 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020850746959303128"
X Link 2026-02-09T13:22Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"When someone collapses capitalism imperialism and Zionism into a single word salad it reveals that words have stopped meaning anything to them. Its what happens when education fails and propaganda replaces definition. Distinct concepts get flattened into emotional placeholders used to signal resentment rather than explain causation. When everything you dislike becomes the same thing the problem is that youve abandoned thinking in favor of slogans. Capitalism imperialism Zionism. All three of these things are the same. Capitalism imperialism Zionism. All three of these things are the same"
X Link 2026-02-09T13:22Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements
"If communists spent half as much effort on producing value as they do on propaganda to justify living off other peoples work most of their grievances would disappear and the world would be vastly better off. Wealth isnt blocked by exploitation. Its created by effort. And no amount of slogans can substitute for earning"
X Link 2026-02-09T13:58Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Its a curious thing how politicians insist a public service is both better and cheaper yet somehow forget to ask whether youd like to buy it. One would think that a bargain of such miraculous quality could survive without a tax collector standing nearby with a clipboard and a threat. As a rule of thumb anything that must be taken from you at gunpoint probably wasnt the deal of the century. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020862996096950423 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020862996096950423"
X Link 2026-02-09T14:10Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@grok @DecolonialFeIIa @__mike91 Yemen and Somalia are capitalist Really"
X Link 2026-02-09T22:28Z 16.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@RTSG_Main Freedom to them meant obedience. What Stalin and Mao fought for was the freedom of the state to own your labor your speech and your life while a small political class lived off the product. Its turning people into managed livestock with flags and slogans"
X Link 2026-02-10T01:15Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Freedom to them meant obedience. What Stalin and Mao fought for was the freedom of the state to own your labor your speech and your life while a small political class lived off the product. Its turning people into managed livestock with flags and slogans. Stalin and Mao fought for our freedoms. https://t.co/QAWthDH8wz Stalin and Mao fought for our freedoms. https://t.co/QAWthDH8wz"
X Link 2026-02-10T01:15Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"The real distinction is initiation of force versus retaliation against force. A right to healthcare would require compelling doctors to serve you even if they choose not to. Thats initiation. A right to property requires that if someone initiates force against you others may retaliate against the aggressor. Thats defense. Those are not morally equivalent. Both require labor. Only one requires forced labor"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:41Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"This only sounds clever if you quietly assume that coercion is the only way services can exist. Where there is demand there is incentive to supply. Snow removal is not a philosophical mystery. Its a service responding to a predictable need. The question isnt whether it can exist but under what incentives it operates. A private provider has to deliver value or lose customers. Reputation matters. Performance matters. Cost matters. If they fail people stop paying them. A government provider faces none of that discipline. Funding is guaranteed by taxation not earned by satisfaction. If service is"
X Link 2026-01-25T18:59Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Whats always evaded when people say capitalism is about profit not needs is that profit is the signal that a need was actually satisfied by voluntary choice. No one earns profit unless others judge the product or service worth more than the money they give up. That judgment is the only non coercive standard that exists. When they say capitalism fails to supply needs that arent profitable what theyre really admitting is this: People do not value those needs enough to sacrifice their own resources for them. If you claim to want a green energy revolution but only if someone else is forced to"
X Link 2026-02-02T20:16Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"This is pure authoritarian projection wrapped in economic illiteracy. Bernie Sanders calling private ownership authoritarianism is either dishonest or incompetent. Authoritarianism is about who has the power to use force. Billionaires cannot arrest you tax you conscript you censor you by law or jail you. The state can and Bernie has spent his entire career trying to expand that power. Owning a company is not control over your life. It is ownership of their property. You are free to leave ignore it compete with it criticize it or build an alternative. That's the opposite of authoritarianism."
X Link 2026-02-04T02:17Z 16.5K followers, 12K engagements
"Fair share is a fascinating phrase once you check the numbers. It almost always means someone else should pay for everything preferably the people already paying a thousand or a million times more than the speaker. The audacity is impressive. Point at the largest taxpayers in the system and declare the arrangement unfair to the people contributing almost nothing. Call what they keep a gift then complain you are owed more of it. They also insist they are struggling though the comparison is never stated. Compared to which century. Which generation. Which standard of living. The complaint floats"
X Link 2026-02-04T14:07Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Communism doesnt end mass death. It just reclassifies it. When the state controls food labor movement and speech killing doesnt need gas chambers. Bureaucracy and famine work just fine. If your ideology requires ignoring tens of millions of dead to stay pure thats a confession. FACT: Communism is the ONLY political system that has NEVER caused a genocide. Instead it ends them. https://t.co/TK6SC4Nv8d FACT: Communism is the ONLY political system that has NEVER caused a genocide. Instead it ends them. https://t.co/TK6SC4Nv8d"
X Link 2026-02-04T23:23Z 16.5K followers, 22.6K engagements
"Elizabeth Warren is trying to morally shame Jeff Bezos for acting like an owner instead of a caretaker. Two unrelated facts are being stapled together on purpose. The Washington Post is losing money Bezos is wealthy The implied rule is this: If youre rich enough you lose the right to make rational business decisions. Jeff Bezos just fired hundreds of reporters at the Washington Post including the Amazon reporter holding his OWN company accountable. Reminder: Jeff Bezos' net worth is nearly $250000000000. Jeff Bezos just fired hundreds of reporters at the Washington Post including the Amazon"
X Link 2026-02-05T03:03Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Im not a fan of Jordan Peterson and I preferred his work when he first emerged more than what he later became. But one point he made is worth keeping: you should be more afraid of the consequences of not speaking up than of being criticized for speaking. Silence has a cost even when it feels safer in the moment. Criticism is temporary. Letting bad ideas go unchallenged compounds. Over time the price of staying quiet is paid in lost ground lowered standards and assumptions that harden simply because no one objected. Fear of backlash keeps people polite. Fear of consequences is what keeps"
X Link 2026-02-06T17:11Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Its insane this can even be said out loud by an elected official without being disqualified from holding office. The moment a politician argues for punishing people for leaving taxing without jurisdiction or seizing businesses by force theyve crossed from policy into authoritarianism. Exit is a basic American right. If you cant leave you arent free. The logic is simple and ugly: leave and be fined resist and be expropriated comply and be controlled. Any system that has to trap people to survive has already admitted its a failure. NYCs socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani is doubling down on his"
X Link 2026-02-07T15:32Z 16.5K followers, 170.4K engagements
"When I say communism is a system for losers I dont mean people who try and fail. Failure is part of earning. Anyone who makes an honest attempt isnt a loser in any meaningful sense. Communism is a system for people who want to preserve loser victimhood as a permanent moral shield. It exists to let them guilt or force others into sacrifice so they never have to try at all. Not to improve not to compete not to take responsibility but to convert resentment into entitlement. It isnt about helping the poor. Its about protecting stagnation and weaponizing it against those who refuse to carry them."
X Link 2026-02-07T17:18Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Socialists central planners and pathetic emotional economic illiterates (but I repeat myself) would rather keep people working at jobs producing things no one is willing to pay for than let them be laid off to find better opportunities. To them a job existing matters more than whether it creates value. Employment becomes a moral ritual not a means to produce what people actually want. So when innovation reduces the number of workers needed to meet demand they react the same way. Not by celebrating higher productivity and freed human potential but by treating efficiency as a crime and change"
X Link 2026-02-08T13:53Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Youre arguing like a collectivist hostile to the American legal tradition where law exists to stop force and fraud not to engineer people into producing preferred outcomes. That's the aim of socialists. If outcomes are justified by majority preference why stop at immigration Why not strip political opponents of the vote outright If your fear is that immigrants will change the country then restricting votes would address that directly"
X Link 2026-02-08T16:16Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Socialism doesnt persist because people were never taught economics. It persists because they were taught a morality that makes economics irrelevant. From an early age people are trained to see self interest as guilt sacrifice as virtue and the individual as something subordinate to the collective. Theyre taught that need creates entitlement and that other peoples lives are a resource to be claimed. A society educated this way doesnt accidentally drift toward socialism. It demands it. If living for your own sake is treated as immoral the only acceptable system becomes one that forbids anyone"
X Link 2026-02-08T23:38Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@The_red_spectre When you want to live as a parasite with no shame you obsess about other people paying more taxes"
X Link 2026-02-09T02:28Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Climate change was addressed long before it became a political slogan. We mitigated natures dangers with fossil fuels: heating cooling irrigation flood control resilient infrastructure and abundant food. The reason climate change is even a luxury concern today is because capitalism made people rich enough safe enough and long-lived enough to worry about it instead of freezing starving or dying from floods and droughts. There is no real way to address climate change without addressing the hoarding of the super rich. There is no real way to address climate change without addressing the hoarding"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:54Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"If the claim is that ordinary people are subsidizing billionaires then the obvious solution isnt more taxation. Its no taxation. Abolish subsidies. Abolish welfare. Abolish corporate favors. Let everyone pay for their own choices their own consumption and their own risks. Funny how that solution is never proposed. Because the truth is the opposite of the slogan: the largest government expenses are welfare and subsidies flowing downward not private jets flying upward and theyre overwhelmingly funded by high earners. If you really believed people were being forced to bankroll the rich the first"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:33Z 16.5K followers, 12.8K engagements
"This isnt an argument. Its mysticism dressed up as inevitability. Declaring communism a cosmic force doesnt explain history. It replaces evidence with mythology and substitutes assertion for persuasion. Real ideas persuade by showing how they work in reality. Communism doesnt do that. It doesnt demonstrate success it declares dissent illegitimate and treats disagreement as blindness or heresy. When an ideology stops arguing and starts proclaiming itself inevitable its because it cant survive voluntary acceptance. Coercion becomes the only remaining language. Reality doesnt need to announce"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:02Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"The its just a name argument falls apart the moment you look at how the system actually functioned. The Nazis abolished independent unions imposed state control over industry fixed prices and wages directed production criminalized disobedience and subordinated property to political loyalty. The state decided what was produced in what quantity at what price and for whose benefit. Ownership without control is compliance. You can argue they werent Marxists. Fine. But they were absolutely collectivists who rejected individual rights and treated the economy as a tool of the state. Different"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:06Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Inflation is the hidden tax governments impose so they can claim compassion while quietly making the poor poorer. It lets politicians spend print and posture as helpers while eroding wages savings and purchasing power. The needy arent helped by inflation theyre manufactured by it. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021288600965423178 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021288600965423178"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:22Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"He never touches her ideas. No engagement with reason individual rights capitalism or her actual moral claims. Just aesthetic disgust and dehumanization. Rands philosophy is poison to Dugins worldview. She defends the individual as an end in himself. Dugins entire project is blood soil sacrifice hierarchy and mystical collectivism. He cant refute her so he has to animalize her. The Epstein reference is especially weak. Its not an accusation its a vibe. The modern version of witch. Say the word and hope the crowd fills in the blanks so you dont have to prove anything. This is how"
X Link 2026-02-11T00:28Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@RTSG_Main This is like saying "I don't beat my wife on Sundays" see Im a good person. 🤡"
X Link 2026-02-06T14:19Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"America didnt abandon poverty insurance because it failed. It abandoned it because the state crowded it out. Voluntary mutual aid once provided unemployment relief sickness coverage disability support and burial insurance at scale. It was local accountable and tied to contribution. It worked because it had to. The modern welfare system didnt outperform it. It replaced it by force. Mandatory payroll taxes regulatory barriers and political control made voluntary alternatives economically irrational. What exists now is the predictable result: centralized programs that are expensive unaccountable"
X Link 2026-02-09T15:21Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"If this were true and you honestly believed the same outcome could be achieved without work youd do it yourself. You dont because you know it cant. So instead of producing you moralize looting. Instead of creating value you attack those who did. The goal is exemption from effort altogether. Thats why the argument never ends with heres how well produce the same results and always ends with hand it over. Who are the productive classes again https://t.co/sm0dRZ16FP Who are the productive classes again https://t.co/sm0dRZ16FP"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:05Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Translation: I dont understand profit risk contracts or voluntary exchange but I do understand resentment. He says a guy makes all the money as if wages rent inputs taxes and bankruptcy dont exist. As if businesses dont fail every day. As if employees are chained to their desks. You dont work under a guy. You sell your labor because its better than your alternatives. Thats called choice. And if its so easy to make all the money heres a wild idea: start a business. Capitalism lets you. No permission required. What hes really saying is simple: If someone has more authority or profit than me"
X Link 2026-02-11T12:56Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Karl Marx was the first contradiction of his own philosophy. He condemned exploitation while living off Engels money for decades and refusing steady work. He preached moral critique of capitalism while fathering a child with his familys maid then having Engels claim the child to avoid scandal. The maid was abandoned. The child erased. His wife Jenny endured years of poverty illness and instability while he wrote about human liberation. This wasnt theory failing in practice. It failed at home first. Two of his daughters died by suicide. Eleanor Marx his closest intellectual ally killed herself"
X Link 2026-01-31T18:49Z 16.5K followers, 411.7K engagements
"They show up after incentives technology and productivity have already made something possible then claim credit for fighting for it. Its post-hoc moral theft. Shorter hours and weekends didnt appear because someone waved a red flag. They became viable because productivity rose. When one worker can produce more value per hour employers can offer fewer hours without collapsing the business. Same with child labor. It didnt end because of slogans. It ended because rising capital mechanization and wages made child labor inefficient unnecessary and socially intolerable. Poor societies use child"
X Link 2026-02-01T21:43Z 16.5K followers, 262.7K engagements
"Marxism isnt discredited because Marx was a bad husband or father. Its discredited because the theory collapses the moment its applied to real human behavior. Marx says exploitation is immoral yet his system requires some people to be compelled to produce for others. Marx condemns living off others labor yet his framework has no moral defense for earning versus claiming. Marx attacks dependency yet his solution institutionalizes it. The problem isnt that Marx failed to live up to his ideals. Its that his ideals deny the moral legitimacy of independence trade and earned reward. So yes Marx"
X Link 2026-02-02T19:11Z 16.5K followers, 73.6K engagements
"Under Kim Jong-un credible reporting from the UN Human Rights Watch and defectors documents executions labor camps or torture for things like: Watching South Korean movies or TV shows Listening to foreign music Owning a Bible Practicing Christianity or any unsanctioned religion Attempting to flee the country Helping someone else escape Making a joke about the leadership Failing to cry convincingly enough at state funerals Possessing a foreign USB drive Smuggling food or goods to survive Trading privately outside state control Accessing foreign news Speaking to foreigners without permission"
X Link 2026-02-05T16:23Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"People dont tolerate smokestacks because theyre familiar. They tolerate them because theyre cheap reliable and scalable. Wind and solar arent criticized for being new. Theyre criticized because theyre intermittent land-intensive subsidy-dependent and still parasitic on the very fossil systems they claim to replace. Change doesnt look ugly to habits it disrupts. Bad solutions look ugly to people who still care about results. We criticize whats clean because it stands out & ignore what pollutes because were used to it. Wind turbines are called eyesores while smokestacks get a free pass. Thats"
X Link 2026-02-07T22:13Z 16.5K followers, 28.1K engagements
"Squid Game isnt capitalism. Its fiction. Its exaggerated drama written by free people who can log off go home and criticize their society without being punished. North Korea isnt a show. Its reality. And its still far worse than anything Netflix could depict. When your worst example of capitalism is a TV series and your best example of socialism is a prison state people risk death to escape the comparison is already over. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020584138902823195 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020584138902823195"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:42Z 16.5K followers, 20.3K engagements
"This collapses on first contact with definitions. Capitalism is private property voluntary exchange and consent. Fascism is state control of the economy compulsory coordination and political obedience enforced by force. What youre actually describing is state power foreign policy intelligence agencies wars and dictatorships and then slapping the word capitalism on top to avoid naming the real actor. If genocide repression or exploitation requires governments armies police and decrees it isnt capitalism by definition. And dragging in Antifa doesnt rescue the argument. Violent street movements"
X Link 2026-02-09T12:58Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements
"This collapses on first contact with definitions. Capitalism is private property voluntary exchange and consent. Fascism is state control of the economy compulsory coordination and political obedience enforced by force. What youre actually describing is state power foreign policy intelligence agencies wars and dictatorships and then slapping the word capitalism on top to avoid naming the real actor. If genocide repression or exploitation requires governments armies police and decrees it isnt capitalism by definition. And dragging in Antifa doesnt rescue the argument. Violent street movements"
X Link 2026-02-09T12:58Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"The its just a name argument falls apart the moment you look at how the system actually functioned. The Nazis abolished independent unions imposed state control over industry fixed prices and wages directed production criminalized disobedience and subordinated property to political loyalty. The state decided what was produced in what quantity at what price and for whose benefit. Ownership without control is compliance. You can argue they werent Marxists. Fine. But they were absolutely collectivists who rejected individual rights and treated the economy as a tool of the state. Different"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:06Z 16.5K followers, 134.7K engagements
"Complaints about inequality of outcome are most often voiced by people near the top of that very inequality. They demand sacrifice from everyone else never from themselves either to purchase unearned moral status or to justify controlling those who are richer or more independent than they are"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:52Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements
"The state doesnt provide anything in the economic sense. It confiscates resources produced by others and then redistributes a fraction of them back branding the transaction as provision. Calling that provision is like calling a mugger generous because he buys you a coffee with your own money. Worse the deficit line is pure economic illiteracy. Printing money isnt giving you more its diluting what you already earned. Infrastructure courts schools armies none of these appear by magic. They are built by individuals paid for by individuals and delivered less efficiently precisely because force"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:58Z 16.5K followers, 10.7K engagements
"He never touches her ideas. No engagement with reason individual rights capitalism or her actual moral claims. Just aesthetic disgust and dehumanization. Rands philosophy is poison to Dugins worldview. She defends the individual as an end in himself. Dugins entire project is blood soil sacrifice hierarchy and mystical collectivism. He cant refute her so he has to animalize her. The Epstein reference is especially weak. Its not an accusation its a vibe. The modern version of witch. Say the word and hope the crowd fills in the blanks so you dont have to prove anything. This is how"
X Link 2026-02-11T00:28Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Translation: I trusted politicians to make things affordable and now Im shocked that everything costs more. You handed zoning to the state. You handed healthcare to the state. You handed money printing to the state. You handed education to the state. You handed energy to the state. Then youre stunned when scarcity inflation and artificial shortages show up like clockwork. Forty hours used to build a house feed a family and leave room to save. What changed Human productivity didnt collapse. Government control expanded. When you let people who never produce set prices restrict supply and debase"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:03Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"If you want to stretch the word slavery until it means I have to work to live then nature is the slave master. Reality requires production before consumption. When you argue that people should be able to consume without producing you are arguing that someone else must produce without full claim to what they earn. You aren't against slavery you just want to be the master"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:12Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"If you want to stretch the word slavery until it means I have to work to live then nature is the slave master. Reality requires production before consumption. When you argue that people should be able to consume without producing you are arguing that someone else must produce without full claim to what they earn. You aren't against slavery you just want to be the master. Slavery never ended it was just disguised as employment. Slavery never ended it was just disguised as employment"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:12Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Socialism: Working for a wage is slavery. Also socialists: Everyone should have to work so everyone gets free stuff. Socialism: No one should be forced to labor for someone elses profit. Also socialists: Youre morally obligated to labor so I can have healthcare housing food and student loan relief. Socialism: Employment is exploitation. Also socialists: Production is mandatory were just going to vote on who does what. They call voluntary work slavery. Then they demand compulsory redistribution. They hate bosses. So they propose a universal boss called the state. Apparently its slavery when"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:23Z 16.5K followers, 12.4K engagements
"Libertarian nationalist is a contradiction. Nationalism elevates the collective above the individual. Libertarianism elevates the individual above the collective. Assuming the right stands for capitalism and freedom nationalism isnt right wing. Its just socialism with a flag. You cant defend individual rights while subordinating them to the nation. I am a Libertarian Nationalist. Repost. I am a Libertarian Nationalist. Repost"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:56Z 16.5K followers, 26.2K engagements
"Were not living in capitalist decay. Were living in the age of managed capitalism. Regulated. Subsidized. Inflated. Distorted. Politically steered. When housing is strangled by zoning energy by mandates money by central banks healthcare by bureaucracy and education by state monopolies calling the outcome capitalism is convenient branding. https://t.co/mIZs9YP4ne https://t.co/mIZs9YP4ne"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:32Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"If greed were the problem the fix would be obvious. Undercut them. Start a business. Pay workers more. Take only the acceptable profit by your own standard. Charge less. Win customers. Put the greedy firms out of business. If price gouging were real and systemic that strategy would dominate. Capitalism allows exactly that. Nothing stops worker owned co ops from competing today. So why is the solution always regulation price controls and redistribution instead of competition If the goal is worker ownership build it. If the goal is lower prices offer them. When the answer is force instead of"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:13Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"If greed were the problem the fix would be obvious. Undercut them. Start a business. Pay workers more. Take only the acceptable profit by your own standard. Charge less. Win customers. Put the greedy firms out of business. If price gouging were real and systemic that strategy would dominate. Capitalism allows exactly that. Nothing stops worker owned co ops from competing today. So why is the solution always regulation price controls and redistribution instead of competition If the goal is worker ownership build it. If the goal is lower prices offer them. When the answer is force instead of"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:13Z 16.5K followers, 19.6K engagements
"@Calibr8d_Wolf What regulation and what predatory actions"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:17Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements
"This big tent anti corruption coalition collapses under its own contradictions. Limit all federal agencies. Cancel all household debt. You cant shrink the state while using it to erase trillions in obligations. That requires enormous centralized authority. Abolish lobbying Theres no such thing while the state controls and distributes vast resources. As long as government decides who gets subsidies contracts regulatory favors bailouts debt relief and market protections people will try to influence it. Power creates pressure. The larger the states role in allocating wealth the more everyone"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:27Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@CptAncapistan Why"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:13Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements
"What if I want to hire someone outside the border what if I want to sponsor someone How do you determine whos allowed in How do you know whos pro liberty simply by basing it on race or geographical location Do you not think that it could be possible that some outside the border are more pro liberty than some of those inside. Most of the people inside the border now are authoritarian already"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:32Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Legalizing a [--] hour workday isnt the same as forcing anyone to work [--] hours. It removes a restriction. It doesnt impose a command. Slavery is when you are compelled to work under threat and cannot refuse. A voluntary contract even for long hours is not slavery. The defining feature of slavery is the absence of consent. If anything the person who is legally forbidden from working more hours even if they want to is the one being controlled. Telling adults how long they are allowed to trade their time is regulation not liberation. Calling voluntary labor slavery cheapens the word and erases"
X Link 2026-02-12T14:21Z 16.5K followers, 101.9K engagements
"Legalizing a [--] hour workday isnt the same as forcing anyone to work [--] hours. It removes a restriction. It doesnt impose a command. Slavery is when you are compelled to work under threat and cannot refuse. A voluntary contract even for long hours is not slavery. The defining feature of slavery is the absence of consent. If anything the person who is legally forbidden from working more hours even if they want to is the one being controlled. Telling adults how long they are allowed to trade their time is regulation not liberation. Calling voluntary labor slavery cheapens the word and erases"
X Link 2026-02-12T14:21Z 16.5K followers, 155.5K engagements
"Calling voluntary labor slavery isnt just hyperbole. It shows a fundamental confusion about rights. A right is a protection against coercion. It is not a guarantee of specific benefits hours severance packages or wage structures. When the state removes a mandate it is not removing a right. It is removing a rule. You dont lose a right when youre allowed to negotiate your own hours. You lose a right when youre forced into terms you cannot refuse. Slavery is forced labor. A voluntary [--] hour contract is not slavery. A legal maximum that forbids you from working more even if you want to is"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:11Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"The question isnt whether capitalism works. Of course it works. The real question is whether individuals have the right to own trade and keep what they produce. Socialism doesnt just fail economically. It fails morally because it treats production as a public resource to be allocated rather than a private achievement to be respected. If you argue only on efficiency youre debating spreadsheets. If you argue on rights youre debating first principles. When someone asks whether capitalism is fair what they usually mean is whether outcomes are equal. But fairness in a rights based system isnt"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:16Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"If winning requires sacrificing individual rights then what are you winning Libertarianism is about limiting power to protect the individual. Nationalism elevates the collective above the individual. Refusing to rubber stamp nationalism isnt sabotage. Its consistency. Diluting principle for short term political gain is surrender. The only thing you're winning on is to kill the word libertarian so you can resurrect as anti liberty nationalists. A substantial portion of libertarians have no chance of winning no strategy for winning and they know it. Which is precisely why they focus their"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:03Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@Maelle_IRL Like in America and Canada"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:40Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"There is truth in that. Coordination is powerful and groups that align around shared goals will usually outcompete scattered individuals. At the same time there is a difference between voluntary cooperation and tribal conformity. Alliances built on shared values and mutual benefit are strength. Tribes built on loyalty tests and ideological pressure can just as easily crush independent judgment. The real question is not whether to organize but how to do it without surrendering principle. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022013227136074002 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022013227136074002"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:21Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Im not a libertarian and neither are you but for very different reasons. Im not a libertarian because too many who claim the label cant clearly define liberty let alone defend it as a principle grounded in individual rights and property. Youre not a libertarian because once liberty is treated as secondary to strategy tribe or winning it stops being liberty at all. If power borders or cultural cohesion justify overriding individual rights that isnt libertarianism. Its conditional freedom. When liberty becomes negotiable authoritarianism isnt an accident. Its the destination. Keeping the label"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:55Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Would you rather work [--] hours a day [--] days a week with [--] days off or [--] days a week [--] hours a day with [--] days off Personally I'd rather be able to sleep in more commute less and have more free time for hobbies. [--] long workdays [--] shorter workdays [--] long workdays [--] shorter workdays"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:42Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@commiepommie Reducing geopolitics to one event in [----] while ignoring present-day military expansion territorial claims and coercive diplomacy is selective memory. Nations arent judged only by what they did once. Theyre judged by what theyre doing now"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:48Z 16.5K followers, 12.5K engagements
"Libertarian nationalism is what happens when fear replaces confidence in liberty. When persuasion feels too slow and freedom too uncertain the temptation is to reach for centralized authority to force cultural or political outcomes but once you empower the state to impose national goals over individual rights the means are no different from socialism because the collective overrides the person. Expanded power wont stay in your hands. It will eventually belong to your opponents. Surrendering liberty out of fear creates something far more dangerous than freedom ever was"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:26Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@AggregateHuman @Ace_Archist Capitalism is the enemy of nationalism"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:05Z 16.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Funny how the people claiming were forced to subsidize billionaires through taxes never argue for abolishing the taxes that supposedly fund them. If the problem is that your earnings are being taken and redirected upward why defend the taking at all A minority group is destroying America demanding billions in government handouts refusing to pay taxes taking jobs away from Americans and making housing unaffordable. Theyre called Billionaires the minority group destroying the American dream for you and your family. A minority group is destroying America demanding billions in government handouts"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:40Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@AP4Liberty So why would anyone have to vote for a libertarian"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:43Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements
"The real distinction is initiation of force versus retaliation against force. A right to healthcare would require compelling doctors to serve you even if they choose not to. Thats initiation. A right to property requires that if someone initiates force against you others may retaliate against the aggressor. Thats defense. Those are not morally equivalent. Both require labor. Only one requires forced labor. i have never seen any of these people grapple with the fact that when their property rights are violated they expect the labor of the police to rectify it i have never seen any of these"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:41Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
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