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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • You’ve ended with the conclusion without the evidence to actually back things up. It presupposes that these people aren’t capitalists, so therefore they aren’t capitalists. Which is a bad argument. You need to look at the Chinese economy and how it’s structured.

    This doesn’t address that politicians are big business magnates are usually two different groups of people even if they’re working together. But the heads of Tencent, Alibaba or other Chinese tech giants aren’t going to show up there.

    Let’s go back to Obama. Was the US not capitalist in 2010 when billionaires didn’t have direct power in the USA? No. It was indeed capitalist back then. That’s what the economy looks like. (Well it’s a mixed market economy, but that’s another discussion, and yes I’m aware of the vast indirect power the billionaires have.)











  • One can’t just quit the National guard. There’s a contract that holds them for a period of time. Imagine somebody signs a 6-year contract in 2022. I don’t think they can be held liable for Trump’s actions when it wasn’t even clear he was going to actually run again. I signed a 4-year contract as an active duty service member in 2021. I got out in January last year and so I’m thankful for that. But every day or so I have to think about what my colleagues would have to decide. They’re not in it to subjugate people. They’re in it for a steady career and because they believed in a liberal America and looking to make the world a more stable place. The military is a sword and it really depends on who’s using it, whether it’s good or bad.