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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans have been trained to hate foreigners by Fox News, owned by a foreigner.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s called something like closing the door behind you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  American Capitalism, with its abundance of neoliberalism, works on the premise that given no external involvement, the market will take care of itself. Companies will make products that people like, or will be out competed.

  The American dream extends from that idea that workers can work wherever they want and have completely free movement. So if someone is smart or a hard worker, they have plenty of opportunities and will eventually be successful.

  In reality, neither of the above are true. Markets are not capable of taking care of themselves because there is inertia, inelasticity, and barrier to entry for many high-capital businesses. Most “desirable” large industries are or were heavily subsidized like oil, farming, telecom, and tech. Workers do not have free movement, some from self inertia to want to stay close to roots, family, friends, but mostly from the same neoliberal policies that remove social safety nets, or link healthcare to jobs.

  Add to that the fact that a solely money based capitalist system has no ability to measure environmental degradation, wealth inequality, or population satisfaction. And the government is more than happy to step in when its businesses being hurt vs people - think too big to fail or propping up businesses during covid/after natural disasters.

  Even if a true capitalist system were allowed to exist, it is ultimately anti-competitive. A business in a segment that’s doing well will slowly acquire other businesses in the segment to become a monopoly. Eventually the monopoly will keep growing and acquire the largest businesses in other segments. Besides regulations, technology disruptions can break this cycle but those are fairly rare, and are mostly a recent and likely short lived phenomenon.

  Anyway, I think you are both right and wrong. Capitalism as people imagine it to be feeds into the ideal of the American Dream. But both true capitalism and its reality actively thwart it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google quietly released an app that lets you download and run AI models locally⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Censoring is model dependent so you can select one of the models without the guardrails.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BBC staffers reveal editor's 'entire job' to whitewash Israeli war crimes⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Israel is the Nazi Germany of the 2020s with the Germans replaced by Jews and the Jews by Muslims. The cognitive dissonance is so strong - “We didn’t know there were war crimes happening in our backyard. We were just following orders.”