Can you please give your definitions of "Democratic", "Capialism", "Totalitarian", and "Socialism"? Because if I use the definitions I find in a dictionary or encyclopedia, this post is nonsense.

They've been doing that for over three decades, and it's done nothing to prevent Republicans from calling them Socialists.

Trump has broken so many things, and dismantled so many institutions that he will be the correct person to blame for things for decades to come.

What a strange claim. Just because something is inevitable, doesn't mean we shouldn't try to minimize it. It's certainly not an argument in favour of a system that embraces it wholeheartedly.

In this example, neither the bread nor the flour are capital in the Capitalism sense. The oven you used to bake the bread is capital.

Why do you think this? I don't see anything in the article or summary that suggests companies will be taxed per layoff.

Yes, but this is going to happen anyway.

There's a whole wikipedia article about denial of the Gazan genocide. Your post here has a bit of #2 (deflecting all blame to Hamas) mixed with #9 (asserting all civilian destruction is collateral damage), plus a ton of #6 (demonizing Israel's enemies while emphasizing Israel's alleged superior moral character).

Meanwhile, Israeli officials have been saying for years that they want to remove all Palestinians from Gaza. And guess what? Ethnic cleansing is genocide.

I could have given it to you if you'd said the US, but Israel is literally committing genocide in Gaza.

If Porsche or VW were currently making tanks for Nazi Germany, I would certainly boycott them.

Isn't this one of the talking points that conservatives on this very forum regularly use to attack California? If they had any principals or integrity or sincerity, I imagine they'd find this article pretty alarming.

Worse than that. Howard Lutnick (Trump's Commerce Secretary) has been purchasing the rights to the tariff refunds from companies. So it's actually a member of the administration that will be getting that money back.

https://www.wired.com/story/ca...

Non-paywalled: https://www.rawstory.com/howar...

It's called capitalism, not laborism.

You don't get rich by working hard, you get rich by being rich.

Do you have any arguments against using legal immigration to prop up falling birth rates?

Do you think people just sit around and consume services? Where do you think they get the money to pay for houses or products?

People have jobs, and they contribute to society. Each person increases demand, sure, but they also increase supply by being part of the labour force.

If you really believe what you say, you might as well push for a China-style one child per couple policy.