A big fan of capitalist class not even being vague about it anymore

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Clown country speedrunning its demise.
- Jeff’s candor is so refreshing! How charming of him to say yes, we’re a monopoly and the free market has been our key to success. He doesn't complicate things and just states the bleeding obvious that monopolies are a product of free markets, not some aberration.
  
  Being this naked about it is only really possible, I think, in the dying phases of Capitalism. Showing the sharpened contradictions bare can't help maintain them.
  
  very much agree
- this is the biggest kind of hopium ive been huffing lately. a part of me says they can't be that dumb, they must have some 4d chess going on behind their shit. another just wants to unblock us news from my feed and enjoy their waning influence over us.
  
  As someone viewing the Empire from within, the genuine sentiment I feel is that the architects of Empire failed to properly raise successors, and thus now we have a generation of "true believers" in the web of justifications the architects gave to obscure the actual functions of various Imperialist tools like USAID.
  I believe it is being allowed because the US's only chance against China is to successfully re-industrialize or beat them millitarily, and Trump appears to be gesturing towards the former. This, however, will fail without an FDR style Social Democrat dramatically investing in public infrastructure and domestic production from a federal level, such as with a Green New Deal. Or, of course, Socialism, but that would likely not put the US at odds with the PRC.
  Only time will tell, but the far-right admin seems to genuinely be running on copium.

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