• mechoman444@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Actually, I do. It has a definition, one that all of you seem eager to twist and reshape into whatever suits your narrative.

    In reality, you’re the one who doesn’t understand it. You’re so far removed from the mechanics that you can’t even see what’s actually happening. Instead, you just blame “the system” and an amorphous blob of people you call “the rich.”

    It’s the worst kind of idealism, screaming at windmills while pretending to have some enlightened grasp of “what’s really going on.”

    You’re no different in rhetoric or philosophy from a MAGA supporter—just flipped to the opposite pole.

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      5 hours ago

      Oligarchy and capitalism are in no way incompatible.

      One is a form of governance, one is an economic system.

      That you would pose the notion of “we don’t have capitalism, we have oligarchy” shows that you don’t seem to know the definitions.

      You’re no different in rhetoric or philosophy from a MAGA supporter—just flipped to the opposite pole.

      MAGA has a lot more to do with hate for others and retribution for perceived slights than any coherent take on policy.

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        41 minutes ago

        Out of all the idealistic head in the clouds idiots under my original comment you by far take the cake you are alone on a pedestal of stupid.

        You claim that I don’t know the definitions of capitalism and oligarchy when you can’t even use the words correctly.

        If anything you have no clue what those words mean nor have you understood a single word that I said.

        Capitalism and oligarchy are of course compatible which is why I called our current system of economics a corporate oligarchy.

        Please don’t respond there is no way you can save yourself.

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      7 hours ago

      It has a definition

      Care to share it with the rest of the class?

      Also, do you have any examples of this ‘real capitalism’? Or at least a plan to keep capitalism ‘real’?

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      7 hours ago

      Monopolizing of certain productions, rabid financialization of the economy and extreme wealth agglomeration at the top, combined with rampant poverty at the bottom have been the go to in the US capitalism. There was only a relatively brief period in between, when the scare of communism forced the oligarchy to give some concessions before people get too angry.