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Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪

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Anti-Capitalist, kitten parent, election data nerd, and guy trying to help people where I can. I am fine with spirited debate, my ideas can be annoying to many, but I won’t tolerate insults. Columbus Ohio

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Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social · Jun 16

Here is the post WWII vote history in the United States in presidential elections.

Chart 1: partisan vote comparison with eligible non-voters
Chart 2: Democratic margins vs did not vote
Chart 3: partisan vote change from prior cycle
Chart 4: share of partisan vote in post WWII era

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Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social · 14h

You need to read wealth of nations. You really do.

Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social · 15h

Capitalism is the capital holder extracting wealth. It is all it is at its essence. You can throw around words like enterprise or laissez faire or regulated or whatever it does not change what capitalism is.

Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social · 19h

Us are labor of one sort or another.

Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social · 19h

small business where you rent your space, your equipment and so on you are not a capitalist yourself. You are engaged in business activity for certain but you are not a capital holder yourself. Therefor you are not a capitalist. There are few (given our population) actual capitalists. Almost all of

Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social · 19h

A capitalist system is one where the capital holder extracts wealth either through wage labor (since slavery has been outlawed mostly) or rent taking.

The capital holder is the person who owns property available for rent (not a personal home for example) or the means of production.

If you run a

Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social · 20h

I encourage to actually read Wealth of Nations and not just the propaganda excerpts in textbooks and such.

Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social · 20h

Enterprise is not restricted to capitalism. Capitalism is the capital holder extracting wealth. It’s literally what capitalism is. It is the point of owning the means of production.

Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social · 20h

It always ends up here. It has repeatedly in this country and if we “regulate it” again it will return to a similar state some time e on the future. It is the nature and logic of capital accumulation.

Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social · 20h

We heavy regulated it, and the capitalists set holders bought our government and turned it into what it is, just as they did leading to the Great Depression, just as they did in the gilded age just as they did during the founding years through Jackson.

Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social · 1d

Utter nonsense. The capitalists set the rules of the game in our system. That makes it a capitalist system.

Capitalist systems always lead to substantial inequality that gets checked for a time but reasserts itself in the end. We have repeated this cycle constantly in this country.

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Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social · 1d

He also warned that shareholders would not care about the damage done to far away localities so long as they were able to extract wealth. He noted fishing concerns and how coastal villages suffered significant environmental costs that the owners would not tolerate in their own communities.

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Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social · 1d

Utter nonsense. Capitalism was the macro economic system that arose out of the mercantile system. Adam Smith analyzed how it functioned as a system and actually gave extensive warnings about the dangers of the system. One of which included the inevitability of the logic of capital accumulation.

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Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social · 1d

This happened repeatedly before the Great Depression and will happen again if we maintain a capitalist system moving forward.

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Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social · 1d

You are making up your own definition. Capitalism is an economic system where the capital holder derives profit from the labor of others. More capital accumulation is the goal of the capitalist. As capital accumulates it tends to do so in fewer and fewer hands over time, leading to what we have now.

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Jim of Pennsyltucky @jimdigs.bsky.social · 1d

It fits together perfectly when Americans realize for decades we've been an Oligarchy ruled by Plutocrats. Our economic system is Crony Capitalism. Now one thing has changed. The Autocrats are fighting the Plutocrats for power. The people aren't even in the fight. #maga

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Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social · 1d

We saw the bankers get protected for committing crimes while the population was made to suffer for those crimes.

We saw corporations loaned trillions on the premise they don’t lay people off. They took the money and laid people off by the 10s of millions anyway, then had the loans forgiven.

Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah. I remembered them all. If I had to call it more than a few times the pattern was embedded in my brain.

But phone numbers were more geographic. So really most the time you only had to remember the last 4 or 5 numbers mostly.

Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social · 1d

Humans can find a lot of things to do. Can all of them lead to survival in the economy that was created.

Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social · 1d

They like the city. They hate seeing poor people

Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats are liberals not leftists.

You are
Trying to redefine a term.

Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social · 1d

How is it gaslighting. It is fact. We gave corporations more a trillion dollars to not lay people off. Sounds. Equitable, people get to keep their jobs in a trying time. However the corporations took the money and laid off people by the 10s of millions anyway.

Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social · 1d

Aside from that, drop means testing and pursue universal programs. The amount of waste, pain and suffering caused by means testing is a disaster all unto itself. The sheer volume of people who don’t seek help because of the burdensome/humiliating nature of the process is nuts.

Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats need to change course, starting by replacing their leadership.

They need to focus on empowering working people with the ultimate goal being to fully democratize workplaces. How can a supposedly freedom loving people rely on dictatorial systems to run an economy after all?

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Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social · 1d

This is 100% liberalism. Thinking corporations have the best interests of people at heart when you give them money to provide a public good has been proven wrong time and time again.

Same with privatization.

Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social · 1d

Then you are not focused on equity. Giving money to those that have in hopes that something good will happen for the poors is not equity.