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I don't understand how you can see videos like https://youtu.be/925wmb-4Yr4 of skid row and conclude, y'know what? American Capitalism is the best thing ever and there's no possible way theres anything wrong with it so anybody trying to say that, hey, it's not perfect, is automatically a Stalinism Communist because that's the only way there could remotely be any sort of problems with American Capitalism.

There's a housing problem everywhere and your vaunted free market hasn't been able to solve the problem, but that's okay because we can just blame the victims for wanting life, liberty, and the pursuit of their happiness in a place of their choosing, in a manner of their choosing. As if anyone in their right mind would choose to live like they do in the video linked above.



The free market in the US turned the country from subsistence farming to superpower.

It's been very successful.

A video of skid row doesn't change that.

Drunks and drug addicts choose their poor lives.


Allow me to introduce you to the Sackler family.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sackler_family


> Drunks and drug addicts choose their poor lives.

You are a despicable person, Walter Bright.




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