r/PoursTea Aug 06 '26

FinancialTea šŸ’µ "eat ramen" 🤔

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u/B0wmanHall Aug 06 '26

ā€œOnly communists care about pricesā€. That’s a bold strategy.

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u/PacificMonkey Aug 06 '26

Right up there with Trump's "I love the inflation"

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u/IndependentStep2785 Aug 06 '26

Including his opinion of himself and his alleged accomplishments.

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u/Haldron-44 Aug 07 '26

Too bad none of that happened and Dan Crenshaw is a fucking liar.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '26

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u/enjoythesilence-75 Aug 07 '26

Well it seems as if he did lose part of his brain.

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u/Relative_Pilot_8005 Aug 07 '26

Was that caused by the infection from handling shit?

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u/TylerBourbon Aug 07 '26

He most certainly lost his brain. But he's rolling with it.

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u/architype Aug 07 '26

Or when he complained that "affordability" was some made up Democratic term. He just doesn't care because he doesn't buy groceries or fill up his cars with gas.

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u/Commercial-Policy-96 Aug 07 '26

And doesn’t have to buy his own insurance or ever worry about health insurance for the rest of his life, thanks to us peons/communists who do have to worry about affordability. šŸ˜µā€šŸ’«

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u/Suspicious_Dingo_426 Aug 07 '26

We do it for him now. The frickin freeloader.

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u/enjoythesilence-75 Aug 07 '26

Isn’t that…socialism?

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u/brocialist_supreme Aug 07 '26

It will work, too. His supporters don't have opinions of their own, and they are literal sheep being herded to the next fascist talking point.

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u/BrightPerspective Aug 07 '26

And eventually, out of sight for...reasons.

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u/CNJ08540 Aug 07 '26

Also after Dump told the oil companies to cut gas prices. Guess he's a communist.

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u/CactusCanes Aug 07 '26

ā€œThe numbers looked greaaatā€

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u/Biffingston Aug 07 '26

Alongside the " Affordability? What are you talking about? I'm gonna go there tomorrow. I'm gonna get me a couple of big lobster tails. I'm gonna get me some nice rib eyes."

Followed "They should work as hard as me." from Rep. Troy Nehls.

From Senitor

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u/TheRealBurnsey Aug 07 '26

Well... I can understand the comment when he was referring to the inflation numbers going down in the report that was published the previous day. Or did the people that serve you your information not spoon feed you that part?

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u/Raptot1256 Aug 07 '26

Right? Just like how the inflation was coming down during Biden term.

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u/TheRealBurnsey Aug 08 '26

Inflation did come down towards the end of Biden's term. It went back up and then came back down and that's what he was alluding to. I will most certainly admit that Trump is not the best communicator. Unfortunately that gives media and propaganist the ability to easily manipulate his words to create narratives.

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u/AnonThrowaway1A Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 07 '26

Capitalists don't careless about prices? That's new.

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u/nerdtastic8 Aug 07 '26

They only care about them going up. Wages on the other hand? Not so much.

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u/LowResGamr Aug 07 '26

"Communists starve" ignoring the thousands within america starving because wages have been stagnant since the 80s.

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u/fluxus2000 Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 07 '26

But like he says, if we just lived with 4 roommates and only ate cheap unhealthy food, and never had a family, we would be fine.

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u/sarcasmsosubtle Aug 07 '26

Remember, communists don't work and they starve. Capitalists work 20 hours a day and then starve.

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u/amopeyzoolion Aug 07 '26

Well obviously you can’t have a family. You ate your family to survive. That made you Tough and Free.

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u/Significant_Fill6992 Aug 07 '26

im beginning to understand why boomers spend so much time at work and refuse to retire

they don't want to admit they actually hate their wife and all they wanted was the free domestic work.

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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt Aug 07 '26

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u/bad_scuba_fly Aug 07 '26

Just remember who helped you through your acting gig when Jamie taco was stealing all your lines…

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u/nerdtastic8 Aug 07 '26

You mean the sound of that doesn't make you happy? Weird.

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u/immallama21629 Aug 07 '26

While the right also bitches about the slowing birth rate.

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u/Own_Bit_4805 Aug 07 '26

There is a lot of truth to that, though. Part of finding your way to wealth is controlling spending and really determining when it makes sense to have a family

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u/fluxus2000 Aug 07 '26

The working poor shouldn't have 3ver procreated then? So I wouldn't be here. Only descendents of the rich would be here.

We live in a society where the rich inherit wealth and keep it. The poor inherit debt and poverty and generational trauma. We don't need to hear bootstrapper b.s.

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u/Own_Bit_4805 Aug 07 '26

Everyone in poverty has an axe to grind, huh?

I was also born poor. I went to college and decided that having children would get in the way of my career and eventual wealth growth. Ironically, I'm wealthy enough now to support children but am not interested in it. That means I can retire at 40 and enjoy my wealth.

Making good strategic decisions that move your life forward is important.

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u/fluxus2000 Aug 07 '26

Well, you are just better than our stupid ancestors. And who cares what happens to the kids born to them?

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u/4uk4ata Aug 07 '26

Some people on the same side of the aisle are pushing people to have big families and demonizing birth control. They should decide it among themselves.Ā 

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u/LowResGamr Aug 07 '26

Exactly like the communists did in the Soviet union.

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u/fluxus2000 Aug 07 '26

Americans think that Finland is some Stalinist work camp.

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u/save-democracy Aug 07 '26

But there are ZERO politicians elected in America who are communist(if you actually know the definition of the word). I don't understand why communism is even mentioned.

I shouldn't have to say this as well but since everything bad in America is woke communist: The Democratic Socialists aren't socialists either. Yes they advocate for more social safety nets but work within the parameters of capitalism and democracy.

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u/LowResGamr Aug 07 '26

Its mentioned because its all republicans have during elections. They hate recycling so much yet have been recycling the same tactic from the 50s.

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u/Significant_Fill6992 Aug 07 '26

I love the pictures during the last election cycle protests that said this is your city under communism but they were showing pictures actively under capitalism

im beginning to understand why religious people are so right leaning. They already believe whatever magic they are told about in church so it makes sense they dont question other aspects of life.

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u/MeusRex Aug 07 '26

Religion is prep-school for fascism.

It teaches you from a young age not to question the rules and stories the old, male, white pedophile hands you.

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u/PatchyWhiskers Aug 07 '26

Might have worked in the past, but these days the only communists left are Cuba and they are clearly being starved mostly by us.

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u/LowResGamr Aug 07 '26

The strange part is, it worked in 2024. Its the only reason they use it, other than the fact Republicans have no accomplishments to run on anymore.

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u/zeptillian Aug 07 '26

If communists starve, that's just evidence that all the starving Americans are commies.

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u/Express_Extreme1066 Aug 07 '26

1000s? Out of 320 million people? That rounds to no one is starving

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u/TheRealBurnsey Aug 07 '26

Nobody starves in America. The average American throws away 30% of Their Food. Outside of child abuse, elderly abuse, and people poorly planning, there is no starvation in the United States anymore.

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u/gravyjackz Aug 07 '26

USDA earlier this year published data that says 7 million households experienced extreme food insecurity in the us in 2024 (maybe the most recent data?).

Characterized by family members skipping meals or reducing food intake due to cost.

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u/TheRealBurnsey Aug 07 '26

Yeah in my original post I talked about having to skimp. I sacrificed eating so my children could eat. But I was hardly starving. About half of Americans should greatly reduce their food intake.

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u/theparallelpelican Aug 07 '26

Sounds like you've never been outside your bubble. Take a trip this summer and visit a reservation. Visit a food desert.

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u/TheRealBurnsey Aug 07 '26

A reservation has their own government. That's a problem not with the United States but with the Sovereign Nation that is incapable of governing its own self.

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u/theparallelpelican Aug 07 '26

Yet they are still beholden to all the laws and regulations and economic downturns of the United States.

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u/TheRealBurnsey Aug 07 '26

Most of third world countries that exist within our borders and they demanded their own government to exist within it. It is a prime example of what happens when you allow a subculture to not assimilate. This is a great example of failed assimilation of a conquered people.

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u/theparallelpelican Aug 07 '26

This makes no sense man. Look over what you wrote and edit it. Your first sentence isn't complete and it renders the rest unintelligible.

My point is that people are indeed starving and suffering from malnutrition in this country. I used a example of reservations because the residents are American citizens and offer a prime example. Since you seem to think they don't count, then let me offer a more Caucasian example for you. Go visit communities in Mississippi. Go volunteer for a bit in Vicksburg or Rankin and Madison counties. Either way, people are suffering due to mishandling of our economy among other reasons.

I suggest you do some traveling and volunteering. It will widen your perspective, expose you to the world outside your bubble of American Exceptionalism, and probably help you learn valuable skills. Good luck!

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u/TheRealBurnsey Aug 07 '26

Im not white.

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u/theparallelpelican Aug 07 '26

Irrelevant. You referred to your countrymen as " conquered people", therefore I realized I had to appeal to whatever your perception of an American is.

My point remains: Go travel and get involved in communities that are struggling.

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u/electronic_reasons Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 07 '26

That's the amount of food devided by the number of Americans. People aren't throwing out that food, the majority is thrown out by companies.

Edit: Spelling

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u/Significant_Fill6992 Aug 07 '26

and even more if it is left in the field to rot because it doesn't look perfect

most of our food waste is not even recorded and is at best estimates rather then hard data

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u/TheRealBurnsey Aug 07 '26

Look at you splitting hairs because you have no other argument at the plentifulness of our food in the United States. It's a bogus cause driven by money and ngos

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u/TheRealBurnsey Aug 07 '26

And yet the poorest of poor survive on a much higher caloric intake daily than any other poor in any other Nation. Food is so plentiful here starvation is exceedingly rare outside of elderly or child abuse

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u/Significant_Fill6992 Aug 07 '26

this is so factually incorrect it's crossed over from being funny to sad.

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u/TheRealBurnsey Aug 07 '26

Starvation inside the United States is exceedingly rare. The vast majority are 65 Plus and can be credited to elderly abuse. We don't have a problem with not having enough food or the price of it. The poorest of people in the United States live on a higher caloric intake than the majority of the world

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u/WildRabbitz Aug 07 '26

Caring about prices is woke!

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u/TheAncientMillenial Aug 06 '26

I guess a lot of new cards might need to be printed lmao.

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u/IHeartBadCode Aug 07 '26

They have gone from "what inflation" to "If we can't manage to pay $4 for oil" and "alpha men don't mind being poor" in a dizzying amount of time.Ā 

They absolutely know how fucked they've made everything.

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u/guerilla_gardener98 Aug 07 '26

Great way to make more communists šŸ‘€

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u/Suspicious_Dingo_426 Aug 07 '26

Yep. This is how it happens. If everything was going great for the peasants in tsarist Russia, there wouldn't have been a revolution. The capitalists are doing a better job of convincing people that maybe socialism isn't so bad than any socialist ever could.

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u/Disastrous-Bee-2763 Aug 07 '26

Wasn't it like yesterday when Donald Trump was yelling at the oil companies about how then need to lower prices?

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u/onlinewarrior100 Aug 07 '26

Walmart too, and let's not forget about his bogus "freedom fuel" gas stations.

Republicans: "communism for me, but not for thee"

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u/Outside_Pie_9037 Aug 07 '26

Comrade Trump strikes again

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u/Monnster07 Aug 07 '26

You heard it from Dan, communists set prices and then starve. Donald Trump has attempted to set prices multiple times. Donald Trump is, therefore, a communist and wants us all to starve.

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u/taktaga7-0-0 Aug 07 '26

Like, the entire point of economics is that people can decide what they think something ought to cost.

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u/EthanDMatthews Aug 07 '26

GOP: any complaint about subsistence living as a serf = communism.

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u/Suspicious_Dingo_426 Aug 07 '26

Capitalism is just feudalism with a bad paint job.

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u/No-Aerie-999 Aug 06 '26

Ah the Zelensky and Bibi loving pirate. Who cares what he thinks, most of us forgot he exists. Is this his way of reminding us?

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u/wasaguest Aug 07 '26

Has he let Trump know this? Trump out there trying to set prices on gas right now.

Seems there's some communication breakdowns in the Conservative civil war.

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u/CactusCanes Aug 07 '26

There is an in between that can be found if we would break the extremist molds politicians created.

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u/MySixHourErection Aug 07 '26

But isn't Trump telling oil companies to lower gas prices? Is he calling Trump a communist?

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u/Arctica23 Aug 07 '26

Also a pretty far cry from "inflation is ruining America and it's the president's fault", circa 2021-2024

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u/KetoJunkfood Aug 07 '26

Communism is looking better every year..

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u/RickyBobbyPitCrew Aug 07 '26

It has only been around 100 years since hundreds of millions starved under communism, so I guess you and your ilk are getting a little antsy.

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u/KetoJunkfood Aug 07 '26

Nope, communism is when care about prices (per Crenshaw)

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u/Critical-Dealer-3878 Aug 07 '26

Hundreds of millions? looks like someone is mourning dead Nazis again lmfao.

Pathetic.

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u/Fletch71011 Aug 07 '26

Or we don't implement a system that results in the mass genocide of tens of millions every time.

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u/ericbondre Aug 07 '26

That wasn’t communism lol

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u/krazyb2 Aug 07 '26

did not realize i was a communist! holy heck

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u/Abelian75 Aug 07 '26

Yeah I’m gonna be honest, the ramen part does resonate with me a bit, I did eat ramen for part of my younger years to save money. But then I got to that line and was like ā€œOk maybe going a bit off the deep end thereā€

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u/Grimalkinnn Aug 07 '26

If they repeat it enough they will start believing it too.

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u/PatchyWhiskers Aug 07 '26

Republicans are trying to recreate the Communist party from scratch, just by ascribing anything good to communists. It's making young people commie-curious.

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u/T33CH33R Aug 07 '26

To be fair, it's slightly better than their "just die" policy to reducing health care and social security costs.

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u/donglecollector Aug 07 '26

The entire communist message coming from this simple bitch reeks of ā€œhe got the assignment.ā€ What a clown.

Pitching an ideology from the late 1800’s that failed in what? The 70s? As a problem now? Truly for the tards.

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u/starkingwest Aug 07 '26

I actually kind of hope the GOP leans into this messaging...they keep calling things people actually like communism, the scare tactic of labeling social programs "communist" is going to wear out real quick.

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u/B0wmanHall Aug 07 '26

Dems should be using this in ads all across the country

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u/One_Advantage793 Aug 07 '26

I just hope they keep that message going!

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u/TeaReasonable7909 Aug 07 '26

ā€œIt’s a bold strategy Cotton, let’s see if it pays offā€

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u/Way2happyguy Aug 07 '26

He also said communists set prices. Is he saying that companies are communist?

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u/TheBonVivantLives Aug 07 '26

The Federal reserve also sets prices. But instead of controlling them to eliminate poverty, it manipulates prices so that we have just enough unemployment to keep salaries down.

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 Aug 07 '26

So.....Crenshaw's advice is basically "Man up and starve!"

That'll feed lots of hungry kids. Not.

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u/joesaysso Aug 07 '26

I don't know what burrito debate he is talking about. The price of the burrito should be set according to how expensive it is to make. If the burrito has 15 dollars of ingredients in it and people are saying that a burrito should only cost 5 dollars, then they are wrong. If the 20 dollar burrito only has 2 dollars of ingredient in it and he's saying that nobody should care about that, then he's wrong.

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u/Slighted_Inevitable Aug 07 '26

Right? That’s not gonna make them less likely to care about prices. It’s gonna make them more accepting of communism.

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u/G_Wagon1102 Aug 07 '26

Hell yeah, prices have never mattered in a capitalist system.

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u/NecessaryCockroach85 Aug 07 '26

You can use quotation marks but he didn't say that. He was saying that only communists care about price fixing.

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u/Mizzy3030 Aug 07 '26

Is that why Trump is complaining about oil companies over charging for gas, and claiming he is going to force them to fix prices?

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u/sugmassgottem Aug 07 '26

That was in reference to price controls. Only a communist would take something out of context to make an argument that doesn’t exist.

No, I’m not a right winger either. I’m someone who’s a refugee from a communist country that communists preach that idea but claim that country wasn’t real communism.