It doesn't matter whether or not small businesses don't get taxed in Venezuela

What matters is that people don't have the money due to the socialist economic system to start a small business

Also, the excessive government regulation means that money you save on not getting taxed still goes to the government(by paying for other fees and the like).

I still believe that democracy is life and communism is death.

>implying there will be a race war

@king I think someone( @Zerek44 ) needs a cucking

^this is why

The New Deal didn't change working conditions for workers.

And slowed the rebuilding of the American economy post-Depression.

The progressives in the Republican party - who ironically would be more conservative than the current 'progressives' - were the ones who drew those boundaries

The irony being that 25 cents an hour would be worth about $25 an hour today

It wouldn't be a bad thing because the dollar wouldn't have become massively devalued.

The dollar would in fact have stiill been worth so much more than it is today

Yeah, that's what they would pay us because the dollar would be worth that

The currency is devalued tremendously compared to what it used to be.

FDR was the one who started the inflation of the currency by forcibly confiscating private gold

then Richard Nixon made the biggest mistake of all time and took us off the gold standard.

True, and our currency isn't so devalued that an American could be a millionaire there(like Zimbabwe)

Yeah, he did it on purpose to fuck the value of the dollar up.

Even at the absolute worst period of the Great Depression, where the economy was at its worst, the dollar was worth more then than it is now.

The irony being that the Chinese companies are watched by the government, who simply don't care enough to implement safety protocols

I mean, when human lives are just assets of the state, when one dies, you just replace him with another one

Correction.

They are bribed by officials in the communist party who have connections to these businesses and stand to make lots of money from them.

That's not the definition of right-wing and left-wing politics.

You're thinking of authoritarian and libertarian

centralized power=authoritarian, decentralized gov=libertarian.

True, as socialism existed well before Marx came up with his ideas

Not necessarily true, @Clonemaster™ 6.41

A lot of the anarchists are aligned with the communists

Antifa, for example, is an anarchocommunist group

There isn't a crisis, though, when the corporations also have increased purchasing power with the same amount of money due to the increased value of the dollar

@Blood if you have an issue with anything in our food, I recommend writing your local congressman about it and attempting to make change instead of complaining about our political and economic system.

Of course I do

With enough public pressure, anything is possible.

Nothing is being done with your food to somehow manipulate the population.

Also, almost every nation on the planet is involved in some sort of armed conflict one way or another.

Mostly in Africa, South America, and the Middle East.

Better too little health concerns than too many.

Let me tell you a story about my visit to California.

Honestly, even though they were leftists, the people were pretty nice.

It was actually quite idyllic all things considered when we weren't discussing politics.

Then I saw a sawblade for sale in a store.

You know what the sawblade said on it?

"This product is known by the state of California to cause cancer."

A FUCKING SAWBLADE.

I shit you people not, it was there.

It was a deliberate attempt to falsely claim that sawblades can cause cancer.

Thereby using the claim that it causes cancer to dissuade people from ever purchasing it.

And thus impacting the potential profit that can be made from the sale of that item.

I challenge anyone in this chat to indisputably prove to me that sawblades cause cancer.

@futurestorms It ended up in Mexico

in Mexican Coke.

Mmm...

Honestly, real sugar sodas do taste a lot better than sodas with corn syrup.

I can't distinguish specifically what it is about the taste, but it's just better.

It's like how diet sodas suck - you can't put your finger on why they taste so bad, but they just do

>addictive chemicals

They already have that

it's called cigarettes.

Personally think cigarettes have no purpose.

The tobacco in them could be used for poultices instead of smoking.

Reminder, though, that initially people made the decision to start smoking

@xX NegroSaki Samurai Xx I would like to be readded to the mod team.

I also support futurestorms getting mod.

@xX NegroSaki Samurai Xx Sounds like moderator bias. Something I'll have to talk with your superiors about.

@Composers Read my PM, please.

When they don't.

What resources?

To use a common Soviet joke, they pretend to pay us, so we pretend to work.

There are no products being produced

and if products do end up being produced, they are of drastically inferior quality to products produced in capitalist nations.

Good to see @🚂Quatroking🚂 (🇳🇱) here. I thought you were voice chat mod, though.

And if the regional elections result in non-socialists being elected?

Then socialism stops existing.

I mean, Pef is trying to pull all the stops to prevent me from regaining the admin role I had prior to the shoahing of CC

I would at the least prefer to see @🚂Quatroking🚂 (🇳🇱) back on the mod team. Never had any issues with him, either as a user or a moderator.

Was a chill guy.

Read: Holodomor

This is basically CC 3.0

So

@Composers Pef and I are agreeing on something - make @🚂Quatroking🚂 (🇳🇱) a mod again, please

Shouldn't be.

I mean, I like Quatro

He's a calm, level-headed, rational user and former moderator who knows how to adequately handle situations as they come up.

He's also good at accurately utilizing the necessary talking points and information in discussions with leftists.

And is, in my opinion, a stable moderator.

Unlike some others.

Where did you find that picture of Quatro's mother, @futurestorms?

@futurestorms You need to get yourself checked.

You may be turning blue yourself.

@🚂Quatroking🚂 (🇳🇱) You know, I just realized something, what with the whole CC getting ganked and this place replacing it.

Remember what I said in the old CC mod chat a couple days ago?

About how we all are friends to one another to each others' faces, but we secretly are planning on backstabbing one another?

This was in reference to the moderating team of CC, on which there were no marxists.

Trust me, Brit may be a furry degenerate, but even a furry degenerate realizes how imbecilic it is to give a Marxist any sort of power.

That said, there are also people on the extreme opposite end of the spectrum who should not be given any sort of power.

Charlemagne was such an example.

His moderating style effectively consisted of the following:

"Are you a Jew?"