the Fed needs to End

It’s proven that the greatest economic position you can take is removing the Jews from your country.

IE shouldn't be an echo chamber. We can't just avoid discussing anything that two people might disagree about. It's one thing to ban religious discussion, but we can't just keep avoiding every topic until the only thing we're allowed to discuss is our shared distate for diverse communities.

Just keep in mind that attacks on capitalism come across very badly to most of white America and increase your likelihood of being called nazi, fascist, etc. Criticizing "corporatism" goes over fine though

at the very core, you should at least own some physical gold & maybe crypto

You shouldn't criticize "corporatism" as a stand in for "capitalism", because it's an entirely different system and anyone who is educated is gonna give you a weird look @TMatthews

But, besides that, you're absolutely correct, and these are exactly the discussions we need to have

if the USD blows up, it's going to have to find its way back to gold and other hard assets - which is very likely. we should be prepared for this outcome

if the USD blows up we're screwed

economically

I would never go around talking about how we need to smash capitalism, but, at the same time, I would advocate for adopting some left wing policies

all of those white-collar laborers are screwed

not if Trump is refilling Ft Knox as we speak, but that's a big IF

@Jacob I disagree. If you make the distinction that capitalism is private ownership of the means of production, but not corporations running rampant, you can hit an ideal middle ground

BRICS can reset gold price if they want, but the main reason they would do that is doubting size of US holdings

"Corporatism" basically just means that we have oligopolies rather than perfect competition. Regulation is necessary to compensate for that

For the record, socialists didn't bring nationalised healthcare to European countries, it was Christian Democracy parties.

that's my hope, that once BRICS pulls the trigger, we will see Trump stock greenbacks and oust the Fed - and who loves gold more than Trump?

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I mean, you can't really disagree because it's not an opinion. "Corporatism" refers to a specific economic system that has nothing to do with corporations running rampant. Scandinavian countries, for example, use a form of corporatism. The US does not practice corporatism. It's not just a slur, it's a specific economic system, and anyone who is educated in history is going to give you a weird look if you use "corporatism" in that context, because that's literally not what it means. @TMatthews

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism

@Jacob I can because that's not what the ordinary person thinks of when they hear it. Fascism is a specific ideology too, but it basically just means "anything authoritarian that I dislike" in modern American political language

monopolies are ok if they're not inflexible commodities like energy & food, because they will drive competition

government should only be regulating inelastic commodities and leave the rest to free market dynamics

Certain monopolies are natural (like power companies). Those are generally already regulated

@TMatthews what about syndicalism?

We need to guarantee free speech online. That has to come by regulation

Utilities like energy generally are monopolies because it doesn’t make sense to run ten different electric lines to anyone’s house. Same goes for water.

syndicalism is free market

i support syndicalism is we want free market

if we don't want free market

@TMatthews Sure, that's not what the ordinary person thinks, but you can't just automatically assume that everyone is uneducated. There's people who know the actual definition of corporatism, and they're just going to laugh at you, the same way that we laugh at boomers and Antifa members who throw around "fascism".

Do you think Antifa members sounds smart when they call random things "fascism"? That's exactly how it's going to come off when you refer to random things as "corporatism" to an educated person.

I support Stalin's plan economics

5 year plans everybody lessgo

@Nerv - VA that's true in one sense, but it's not optimal if you want to avoid risk. that's where multi corporate structures are beneficial - because of redundancy, not choice