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The person with no pride can have no self esteem. Self esteem is the reward for recognizing and valuing your own character, choices, and achievements. Without pride, confidence becomes either pretense or dependence on the approval of others.
Rock Chartrand
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Rock Chartrand
@RockChartrand
Freedom. Reason. Pride.
Anti tribal. Anti authoritarian.
Pro individual.
- Socialism isn’t rising because capitalism failed. It’s rising because capitalism succeeded so well that people forgot what failure looks like. Capitalism created prosperity, comfort, innovation, and freedom on a scale humanity had never seen. And now, ironically, people raisedLife under socialism is more miserable than life under capitalism.
- You want it like you're 9? Fine. Marxism says: “You don’t own yourself. The workers do.” Fascism says: “You don’t own yourself. The nation does.” Marxism takes your stuff for the poor. Fascism takes your stuff for the flag. One worships the collective based on class. The otherReplying to @Baconator098 and @RockChartrandHow is Facism = Marxism. Explain like I am 9.
- Capitalism has been so successful at eradicating poverty, hunger, and hardship that it gave rise to a generation utterly detached from the realities of production, trade, and effort. They’ve grown up in comfort, surrounded by abundance, and instead of gratitude, they respond with
- Replying to @LBC and @lewis_goodallObserve the modern moralist: he sneers that no man’s child should inherit his fortune, then calmly asserts that he should. The parent has no right, the child has no claim, but the state has every title. It is robbery parading as ethics, expropriation sanctified by jargon. To call
- That quote was Orwell’s warning against your side. ‘All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others’ wasn’t a libertarian slogan. It was his satire of collectivists who preach equality, then grab privilege for themselves. You’re the pig, not the farmer.Replying to @RockChartrand"All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." -- the "libertarian" slogan.
- In no version of Marxism have “workers” ever kept the fruits of their labor. Not even close. Under Marxism, the state seizes the product, rations the reward, and criminalizes profit. You don’t own your labor, your time, or your output. The collective does. Which means the ruling
- Replying to @BrandonLBradforIf the government’s job is to feed and house you, then you’re not a citizen, you’re livestock. A free government protects your right to earn a living, not to live off the earnings of others. Only a parasite could look at men and women who produce, build, and create, and decide
- The people who've lived under socialism will risk barbed wire, bullets, and oceans to escape it. Meanwhile, the loudest advocates for socialism live in capitalist nations, sipping Starbucks, tweeting from iPhones, and whining about “late-stage capitalism” while enjoying its
- “late-stage capitalism.” The phrase whispered by those who spent decades begging the state to interfere in every market, regulate every exchange, and tax every success, only to discover that when the state intervenes, it intervenes for someone. You demanded control, and you gotReplying to @RockChartrandBullshit. It’s the late stage of capitalism
- Capitalism’s greatest problem isn’t that it leaves people behind. It’s that it lifts so many ahead that envy replaces gratitude, and people start thinking wealth just falls from the sky.
- Karl Marx was economically illiterate. He misunderstood the nature of value, ignored the role of time, risk, and innovation, and treated the reward for creating what others voluntarily buy as exploitation. He never grasped that wealth is produced, not stolen. His labor theory of
- Replying to @Sassafrass_84If a person doesn’t want to eat lab-grown meat, they already have the right not to buy it. Nobody is forcing them. A ban isn’t about protecting consumers, it’s about protecting entrenched producers from competition. This isn’t freedom, it’s protectionism. Freedom lets better
- If all wealth is created by labor alone, grab a shovel, dig a hole, and wait for prosperity. Labor is not wealth. It’s effort. You can dig trenches or build pyramids all day. Without ideas, capital, coordination, and risk, you’ve produced sweat, not value. Jobs don’t existReplying to @RockChartrand @jacobin and @ZohranKMamdaniAll wealth is created by the working class. We don’t need capitalists to create jobs. There is plenty of labor to be done. Please stop buying into American propaganda. It’s far too illogical. Look for the contradictions and follow the money. Capitalists are a parasitic class.
