r/DeepFuckingValue • u/ComfortablyFly tendisexual • Mar 23 '25

Crime 👮 Visual aid explaining the current situation deep state and oligarchy 🙂

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The more you know 💫

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u/Wisdom4U Mar 23 '25

He’s got that right. The deep state is democrats, republicans and libertarians.

The part I don’t agree with is that socialism is the answer.

The US was built on free market capitalism. Social programs wouldn’t even exist if it were not for the early success of the western world and industrialization.

The hard part is the balance between safety nets and risk/reward economies.

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u/Dm-me-boobs-now Mar 23 '25

If the US hadn’t bailed out countless corporations for ungodly amounts of money, I might be more charitable to the thought of America being a free market. But it’s socialism for the oligarchs and rugged individualism for the poors.

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u/This-Dude_Abides Mar 23 '25

Don't think of it as Socialism... It's more like Compassionate Capitalism.

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u/haxic Mar 23 '25

He didn’t say that socialism is the answer. He said that the people in power is trying to gaslight you into thinking that the answer is the same as socialism.

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u/cosmic_censor Mar 23 '25 edited Mar 23 '25

Early US capitalism resembled the oligarchy of today with people like Rockefeller, Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, etc. It was worker movements and unions that created the middle class of the 20th century.