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iwannalinger.bsky.social @iwannalinger.bsky.social

Your ignorance is staggering. The transatlantic slave trade was a capitalist project. Westward expansion in the US was a capitalist project. Upwards of 2.4 million people died in the crossing alone. Not even counting the folks who died before they got in the ship.

jun 25, 2025, 11:52 am • 1 0

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sb805.bsky.social @sb805.bsky.social

You clearly don't understand what "free market" means. Note the word "free". Free is where people FREELY trade with each other. Do you think people were freely enslaved? Seriously, how dumb are you? You struggle with simple words and concepts.

jun 25, 2025, 5:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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sb805.bsky.social @sb805.bsky.social

Are you off your meds? Read a little history, there was always population expansion. History was a bitch for everyone - if you couldn't create a society that could defend itself, you lost.

jun 25, 2025, 2:20 pm • 0 0 • view
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iwannalinger.bsky.social @iwannalinger.bsky.social

There are estimates that another 5 million Africans died in the "seasoning" camps after their arrival. Especially those in the Caribbean. Now let's talk about the indigenous folks who died to make way for capitalism. 56 million across the Americas.

jun 25, 2025, 11:57 am • 1 0 • view
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sb805.bsky.social @sb805.bsky.social

You clearly don't understand the Free Market system. It means people trade without coercion. Slavery and forced labor is not "free". Go join one of those socialist utopias. Oh, I forgot, they don't exist.

jun 25, 2025, 2:20 pm • 0 0 • view
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iwannalinger.bsky.social @iwannalinger.bsky.social

But if you want to argue that, oh, not all those societies were strictly capitalist...we can just focus on North America where the native population was cut in half from 8 to 4 million by 1776 and decreased to 250,000 by 1890. You do that staggering math.

jun 25, 2025, 12:03 pm • 1 0 • view
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iwannalinger.bsky.social @iwannalinger.bsky.social

Shall we talk about the imperialist wars that the US engaged once they ran out of space and people to genocide at home? Or all the meddling they did in other countries elections that led to fascist governments that massacred/disappeared their own people? Or can we just talk about Iraq?

jun 25, 2025, 12:07 pm • 1 0 • view
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iwannalinger.bsky.social @iwannalinger.bsky.social

Or Afghanistan? Or Vietnam? Or all the kids dying in mines right now in the Congo digging minerals for our phones? Capitalism is a murderous system and always has been.

jun 25, 2025, 12:11 pm • 2 0 • view
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sb805.bsky.social @sb805.bsky.social

You're right, we need to bring back the Stalins, Maos, and Hitlers to usher in socialist utopias. You really are clueless you commie asswipe.

jun 25, 2025, 2:21 pm • 0 0 • view