History shows examples of authoritarian leaders being blindly followed.

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

And that's different from Biden ineffectiveness?

We are talking about Trump not Biden. Your 'whataboutism' fails.

 

[TruthNotBS]

Why do you think that it should be a democracy?
That's my question.

Because those who work the productive enterprise collectively, producing all of its goods and services, should own it collectively and run it democratically, without being exploited or reduced to a commodity in a "labor market". Mass production is a social endeavor, not a private one. It takes a community of human beings working together, to produce the goods and services that everyone uses. From the miners in the mines who extract the raw materials to the staff in a retail outlet, the whole process of production and delivery is carried out by human labor, hence it's the working class that should own the facilities and machinery of production, not a privileged socioeconomic class of wealthy parasites and exploiters.

Adam Smith called capitalists "masters" and that's what they are, in view of the fact that capitalism concentrates wealth and power at the top, resulting in gross inequality, unsustainable business cycles that require government bailouts (public funds), and the undermining of democracy (cronyism is endemic to capitalism). The wealthy elites privatize profits and make public their losses.

RANK	PARENT	SUBSIDY VALUE.	NUMBER OF AWARDS
1	Boeing	$15,136,286,466	946
2	Intel	$8,371,896,017	133
3	Ford Motor	$7,761,916,195	815
4	General Motors	$7,594,509,872	990
5	Micron Technology	$6,785,681,915	18
6	Alcoa	$5,798,600,778	160
7	X-Energy LLC	$5,661,511,202	17
8	General Atomics	$5,465,529,295	438
9	Cheniere Energy	$5,431,565,870	41
10	Amazon.com	$5,051,773,349	332
11	Foxconn Technology Group (Hon Hai Precision Industry Company)	$4,827,036,483	76
12	Sempra Energy	$3,835,098,001	53
13	Southern Company	$3,783,360,569	130
14	NRG Energy	$3,586,516,301	268
15	Venture Global LNG	$3,285,883,566	6
16	NextEra Energy	$3,003,823,754	117
17	Tesla Inc.	$2,836,366,619	116
18	Sasol	$2,836,049,845	72
19	Stellantis	$2,800,442,867	230
20	Volkswagen	$2,740,983,143	222
21	General Electric	$2,529,193,561	1,668
22	Nucor	$2,514,358,340	158
23	Walt Disney	$2,421,304,588	248
24	Brookfield Asset Management	$2,339,430,278	304
25	Iberdrola	$2,285,768,043	112
26	Summit Power	$2,240,568,236	8
27	Shell PLC	$2,184,517,527	141
28	Oracle	$2,167,890,528	88
29	Mubadala Investment Company	$2,124,035,097	62
30	Nike	$2,104,917,829	138
31	Hyundai Motor	$2,072,957,848	27
32	SCS Energy	$1,927,236,683	10
33	Archer Daniels Midland	$1,920,305,787	1,099
34	Exxon Mobil	$1,891,153,489	207
35	NuScale Power	$1,880,780,589	34
36	Toyota	$1,864,826,689	198
37	Berkshire Hathaway	$1,859,775,471	1,158
38	Nissan	$1,842,314,165	86
39	Alphabet Inc.	$1,832,565,977	116
40	Paramount Global	$1,751,801,882	317
41	Apple Inc.	$1,750,043,420	36
42	Comcast	$1,722,467,426	376
43	JPMorgan Chase	$1,663,890,873	1,129
44	Cleveland-Cliffs	$1,654,401,303	137
45	Energy Transfer	$1,634,074,422	106
46	Samsung	$1,586,310,806	70
47	PG&E Corp.	$1,568,027,901	27
48	IBM Corp.	$1,562,738,626	387
49	SkyWest	$1,550,492,958	683
50	Rivian Automotive Inc.	$1,532,854,012	3
51	OGE Energy	$1,427,570,182	15
52	Panasonic	$1,385,969,341	61
53	Raytheon Technologies	$1,322,899,721	952
54	Duke Energy	$1,318,084,164	69
55	Lockheed Martin	$1,302,847,415	337
56	Corning Inc.	$1,272,628,059	395
57	Northrop Grumman	$1,266,804,354	266
58	Vingroup	$1,254,000,000	1
59	Continental AG	$1,244,875,478	111
60	Vornado Realty Trust	$1,243,857,336	32
61	Microsoft	$1,153,690,869	103
62	Jefferies Financial Group	$1,120,662,497	18
63	Meta Platforms Inc.	$1,105,098,844	53
64	Dow Inc.	$1,091,152,544	686
65	Abengoa	$1,082,660,583	63
66	LG	$1,055,690,737	103
67	Valero Energy	$1,054,520,860	199
68	Exelon	$1,040,601,369	98
69	AES Corp.	$1,010,194,632	132
70	CF Industries	$982,271,715	129
71	Pyramid Companies	$966,050,097	91
72	EDF-Electricite de France	$940,247,983	65
73	Texas Instruments	$940,071,436	60
74	Mazda Toyota Manufacturing, U.S.A., Inc.	$900,000,000	1
75	Air Products & Chemicals	$897,651,105	248
76	Delta Air Lines	$876,412,623	14
77	Centene	$875,064,432	54
78	Bayer	$849,175,809	202
79	Honda	$846,026,154	91
80	Enterprise Products Partners	$826,988,371	83
81	Shin-Etsu Chemical	$826,062,285	104
82	SunEdison	$812,753,318	119
83	Apollo Global Management	$804,565,970	471
84	Goldman Sachs	$801,573,386	255
85	E.ON	$782,609,880	38
86	Wolfspeed Inc.	$773,681,732	88
87	Triple Five Worldwide	$748,000,000	4
88	EDP-Energias de Portugal	$733,674,868	14
89	Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.	$725,632,525	206
90	Gotion	$715,000,000	1
91	American Electric Power	$699,673,821	92
92	Bank of America	$698,760,073	919
93	Johnson Controls	$691,180,720	144
94	Related Companies	$687,200,000	1
95	Caithness Energy	$670,379,738	28
96	Hyannis Air Service Inc.	$667,928,778	296
97	Koch Industries	$662,557,530	486
98	Sagamore Development	$660,000,000	1
99	Dominion Energy

Welfare and socialism for the rich and pick yourself up by your bootstraps "free-market", "fiscally responsible" capitalism for the rest of us.

​

They now have us at the brink of fighting WW3 with Russia, selling tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons to the US federal government, to send to Ukraine. In pursuit of profits, they fuel the fires of war. They keep us on fossil fuels when we could very easily rely on safe, clean, and inexhaustible nuclear energy.

If capitalism is to survive in America, it has to become much more democratic and begin serving the public good, rather than the vested interests of a few wealthy elites, who care about nothing more than their private profits.

 

[fncceo]

Trump has all of the characteristics of a despot.

Despite his four years in office without committing a single despotic act.

 

[scruffy]

Trump minions are all alike in they will never criticize Trump. Whatever he does is right.Anyone who criticizes Trump is the enemy whether they are Republican, Democrat or independent.
You are a cult. A cult should not be part of the US political leadership.
Get help
How do you get out of cultism?
Work on your boundaries. Stay strong in your decision to leave the cult. Remind yourself why you wanted to get away, and tell any current members of the group that you don't want to talk to them. Practice making your own decisions, and work on rediscovering your personality.

You stupid hypocrite, if we disconnected you from DU you'd be brain dead.

 

[scruffy]

You want to be culled, MAGA, then go for it.

‘We Need to Start Killing’: Trump’s Far-Right Supporters Are Threatening Civil War​

Within minutes of Trump’s indictment, supporters lit up social media platforms with violent threats and calls for civil war.

By David Gilbert
June 9, 2023, 7:33am

FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AT HIS TURNBERRY COURSE ON MAY 2, 2023 IN TURNBERRY, SCOTLAND. (PHOTO BY ROBERT PERRY / GETTY IMAGES)
In what is becoming a now all-too-familiar trend, former President Donald Trump’s far-right supporters have threatened civil war after news broke Thursday that the former president was indicted for allegedly taking classified documents from the White House without permission.

“We need to start killing these traitorous fuckstains,” wrote one Trump supporter on The Donald, a rabidly pro-Trump message board that played a key role in planning the January 6 attack on the Capitol. Another user added: “It's not gonna stop until bodies start stacking up. We are not civilly represented anymore and they'll come for us next. Some of us, they already have.”

That's because YOU STUPID LEFTARDS ARE THREATENING PEOPLE. You're threatening the entire fucking country with your stupid bullshit.

And yes, if you don't stop you'll be put down. Mark my words. You are threatening CHILDREN and this country won't stand for it.

 

[scruffy]

We are talking about MAGA ineffectiveness in anything it tries.

No, we're talking about commies you dumb fucktard.

Try to keep up.

 

[Vastator]

If being employed by a capitalist dictator was truly a matter of choice for most people, then I would be more inclined to agree with you. But in view of the fact that work is a life requirement, that we must do to survive and avoid starving to death, I believe all productive enterprises should be owned and run by those who work them. The workers should elect their leaders and then work under that elected authority, which as you say, takes care of all of the complicated stuff that most workers don't want to deal with.

When 1/3rd of our workforce was unionized, work conditions were much better, including salaries and benefits. But unfortunately, the capitalists will always eventually have their way by bribing politicians and making it impossible for their employees to form unions. So rather than continue with this battle, of trying to keep unions alive in the face of capitalist power and legal opposition, we should just establish democratically run enterprises. Capitalists have rigged the system to only favor those with capital, rather than workers (those who sell their labor power to capitalists).

If workers go to the SBA (Small Business Administration), with a business plan to start a worker-owned, democratically run cooperative, they will almost always get turned down. If they go directly to the bank with excellent credit and a well-written business plan for a cooperative, they also get shot-down. This system is completely on the side of the capitalist-lords, at the expense of workers, who want to free themselves.

Under our present capitalist system, the only option to job and financial security, is to become self-employed, but if everyone becomes self-employed or a capitalist, where are the Indians? Only the "chiefs" can secure a source of income and live a good life? Who's going to extract the raw materials from the mines? Who's going to do all of the work, to make stuff? The goods that we consume require workers, not a bunch of people who want to spend their day playing golf while others do all of the needed work. We need a better way of organizing production and making the workplace a lot more democratic than it is today. We need democracy in politics and in the productive enterprise. Mass production has always been a social endeavor, it's never private.

Then start your own business.

 

[scruffy]

We are talking about Trump not Biden. Your 'whataboutism' fails.

You're a complete fucking idiot.

Best to ignore you.

 

[TruthNotBS]

Then start your own business.

First of all, this isn't just about me personally, but society in general. I believe everyone is negatively affected by a form of capitalism, that is undemocratic and owned by a small, privileged socioeconomic class of unelected parasites, exploiting the labor of others for their own personal gain. If capitalism is to survive, it should turn the productive enterprise into a worker-owned and democratically run cooperative, from the mining of raw materials, to the retail outlet store, at every stage of production and distribution. The mass-scale creation of goods and services has always been a social endeavor, never a private one. It takes an organization of workers to produce all of the products and services that we use.

 

[Vastator]

First of all, this isn't just about me personally, but society in general. I believe everyone is negatively affected by a form of capitalism, that is undemocratic and owned by a small, privileged socioeconomic class of unelected parasites, exploiting the labor of others for their own personal gain. If capitalism is to survive, it should turn the productive enterprise into a worker-owned and democratically run cooperative, from the mining of raw materials, to the retail outlet store, at every stage of production and distribution. The mass-scale creation of goods and services has always been a social endeavor, never a private one. It takes an organization of workers to produce all of the products and services that we use.

Expoiting the labor of others, for personal gain? Lol! Grow up. I don't hear you whining about employees exploiting the risk, time, investment, and success a person invested to give them a place to work. Typical commie neer do well whining...

 

[TruthNotBS]

Expoiting the labor of others, for personal gain? Lol! Grow up. I don't hear you whining about employees exploiting the risk, time, investment, and success a person invested to give them a place to work. Typical commie neer do well whining...

The workers are the ones who really risk everything, including their lives. The capitalists are unnecessary middlemen and parasites, whining about workers not considering their personal financial "risk" as if that justifies their unelected leadership in the enterprise, which requires the actual risk and labor of others to function and produce. If you want to eat and have a roof over your head, pull up your sleeves and get to work you leech.

 

[Vastator]

The workers are the ones who really risk everything, including their lives. The capitalists are unnecessary middlemen and parasites, whining about workers not considering their personal financial "risk" as if that justifies their unelected leadership in the enterprise, which requires the actual significant human risk and labor of others. If you want to eat and have a roof over your head, pull up your sleeves and get to work you leech.

Nonsense. Save the commie apologetics. The employees are the beneficiaries having the privilege to choose amongst the winners who risked their own time commitment, and personal wealth. Many don't make it. In fact most don't. And if a person doesn't like the culture, or pay offered by one company; they can walk right out, and go to work for another. Or... they can start their own business. They can even model its leadership however they want to.

 

[toobfreak]

History shows examples of authoritarian leaders being blindly followed.​

I can think of a few:

1. Caligula
2. Ivan The Terrible
3. Fidel Castro
4. Bashar al-Assad
5. Hugo Chavez
6. Pol Pot
7. Barry Hussein Obuma
8. Joseph R. Bidden

NO ONE ever blindly followed Trump, not even his own party or administration.

 

[BertramN]

Just more incitement for the rubes.

She's putting them up to murdering people, having them thinking they're doing it because they're patriots.

Eventually, one (or more) of the mindless trump Nazis will take Lake's or another trump sycophant's encouragements seriously. It's unfortunate the trump Nazis permit themselves to be brainwashed by trump and/or his collaborators, too many innocent lives hang in the balance.

Had prosecutors taken the 1/6/20 insurrection seriously, the four deaths of people that day would have been considered in the sentences of those convicted for their parts in the violence. For the most part, the failed insurrection has been treated more like a big fraternity prank.

In all except a few cases, the sentences for the insurrectionists will hardly deter any future violence by the trump Nazis.






.

 

[Mac1958]

Eventually, one (or more) of the mindless trump Nazis will take Lake's or another trump sycophant's encouragements seriously. It's unfortunate the trump Nazis permit themselves to be brainwashed by trump and/or his collaborators, too many innocent lives hang in the balance.

Had prosecutors taken the 1/6/20 insurrection seriously, the four deaths of people that day would have been considered in the sentences of those convicted for their parts in the violence. For the most part, the failed insurrection has been treated more like a big fraternity prank.

In all except a few cases, the sentences for the insurrectionists will hardly deter any future violence by the trump Nazis.

.

We already know the template: Pretend all evidence is phony, threaten violence, ignore the rule of law, attack all American institutions.

There's a finite amount of short term variables right now, with more indictments probably on the way:

1. Will Cannon (or another True Believer) be the judge on his case(s), and will they be able to torpedo the case(s)?
2. Can Trump delay cases until after the election, hoping he can win even with more evidence of wrongdoing on the way?
3. Will there be any actual violence, instead the standard bullshit threats?

MAGA, fueled by manipulated rage, misinformation and paranoia, is now completely removed from the country's electoral and legal institutions. They will not recognize anything that is contrary to their goal. And Trump -- a mentally ill megalomaniac -- is playing the biblical "The Final Battle" war cry because he knows the rubes will buy it. Elements of the law, the military and law enforcement are with them. We're revisiting Europe, 90 years ago.

Time is now compressing. Things are now going to speed up dramatically.

 

[TruthNotBS]

Nonsense. Save the commie apologetics. The employees are the beneficiaries having the privilege to choose amongst the winners who risked their own time commitment, and personal wealth. Many don't make it. In fact most don't. And if a person doesn't like the culture, or pay offered by one company; they can walk right out, and go to work for another. Or... they can start their own business. They can even model its leadership however they want to.

Nonsense. Save the commie apologetics.

The employees are the beneficiaries having the privilege to choose amongst the winners who risked their own time commitment, and personal wealth.

Your view overlooks the foundational role of labor in any economy. The creation of goods and services, is not a solitary endeavor achieved by capitalists, but a cooperative process involving workers (HUMAN LABOR).

MASS PRODUCTION = SOCIAL ENDEAVOR
Not A Private One.

It's important to recognize that the ability of any business to generate profit fundamentally relies on the labor of its workers. Without the work carried out by employees (i.e. exploitees), no goods or services would be produced, no value would be added, and therefore, no wealth would be created for their profit-pursuing, capitalist employers (i.e. exploiters and parasites). It is the labor of the workers that directly results in the products or services that generate a company's revenue.

As pointed out earlier in a previous post, capitalists aren't needed. They're unnecessary middlemen and parasites, that only corrupt democracy and live off of other people's labor. Society can organize the production of goods and services that people use through their government, in collaboration with worker-owned and democratically-run cooperatives. Both the worker-state and the worker-run mines, processing plants, and factories can produce everything, employing the latest technology. That includes all of the devices that entertain us like smartphones, PCs, radios..etc.

Secondly, asserting that workers under capitalism, have the privilege to choose among capitalist entities neglects the significant imbalance of power within capitalist systems. In practice, workers often lack the luxury of choice, being forced to accept whatever employment is available to survive. When an individual's survival is at stake, it is questionable whether such 'choices' can be considered a "privilege".

Thirdly, the 'risk' taken by capitalists often amounts to potential financial loss, while workers risk their physical and mental health, their time, and even their lives. Workers, particularly in hazardous industries, risk permanent injury or death, risks that are far more substantial and personal than financial loss.

Moreover, the capitalist system wouldn't function without the state or government. Capitalists rely on the government to protect their property rights, enforce contracts, and maintain a stable currency for transactions, among other things (government bailouts every few years, regular subsidies, grants, loans, contracts..etc). They benefit from the infrastructure provided by the state, like roads, bridges, ports, and utilities that are necessary for businesses to operate.

All participants in an economy take risks, including workers who risk their time and energy with no guarantee of job security or fair remuneration. The rewards for these risks, however, are disproportionately distributed in favor of capitalists. Even Adam Smith admitted that in his work, the "Wealth Of Nations":

It is not, however, difficult to foresee which of the two parties must, upon all ordinary occasions, have the advantage in the dispute, and force the other into compliance with their terms. The masters (capitalists), being fewer in number, can combine (organize, unionize = super-PACs, chambers of commerce, industry specific associations, armies of lobbyists, think/stink tanks) much more easily; and the law, besides, authorizes, or at least does not prohibit their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen.

Emphasis Mine

Therefore, instead of viewing capitalism as a system where the so-called 'winners' are privileged to commodify and exploit others, it may be more accurate, and fair, to acknowledge the indispensable role of workers in creating wealth and driving the economy. Like I said in my previous posts, capitalists are unnecessary middlemen, that could very easily be taken out of the picture and replaced with worker-owned, democratically-run cooperatives.

Today if workers unite and go to the SBA (Small Business Administration), with a well-written business plan and excellent credit, to start a worker-owned cooperative, they will be denied the loan and assistance. The same will happen if they go directly to a bank. This capitalist system is rigged for the wealthy elites, not working-class people. This needs to change, and it will, in the not-too-distant future:

​

Advanced automation and AI will end capitalism as we know it today.

Many don't make it. In fact most don't. And if a person doesn't like the culture, or pay offered by one company; they can walk right out, and go to work for another. Or... they can start their own business. They can even model its leadership however they want to.

While it's true that people can theoretically move jobs or start their own businesses, this is rarely feasible in practice for most working-class people. Firstly, the option to switch jobs is not equally available to all. Socioeconomic, educational, geographical, and other factors often limit people's ability to change jobs at will. The job market is competitive, and opportunities are not evenly distributed.

Secondly, the notion that anyone can simply start their own business overlooks significant barriers. Starting a business requires capital (capitalism is primarily for those who have capital, not for those who sell their labor-power), a level of risk tolerance ("they gots a lot of money"), business acumen, and often privileged access to networks and opportunities, which most people, especially those from underprivileged backgrounds, lack. Unfortunately, you forgot to factor that into the equation.

Again, in regard to the 'risk' aspect, it's important to remember that, in capitalist economies, the financial risk of business failure falls largely on individual entrepreneurs. While some thrive, many more fail. The consequences of business failure are often severe and can lead to financial ruin, which disproportionately affects the disadvantaged. So no, it's not as easy for a working-class person to start a business. It's quite hard and unlikely, for the vast majority of people.

I know a couple of people who take loans out to start businesses with the intention of going bankrupt if their businesses fail. There are a lot of people like that as well, who are essentially immoral and willing to become thieves to start a business. How are such people "winners"? They're losers, not winners.

It’s worth noting that in a capitalist society, a small number of large corporations tend to dominate the market, setting standards and shaping the business environment, which can restrict the freedom of smaller businesses to operate as they wish. That's another "barrier" to entry for working-class people to become your so-called "winners", whereas for someone like Trump who had a wealthy daddy, or Musk, Bezos, and many others, who got large sums of cash from their upper-middle-class families, to start their businesses, it's less of a hindrance.

These factors make the reality of 'choice' in a capitalist system more complex and less accessible than it might initially seem. To ensure that all people genuinely have the opportunity to thrive, we must address these systemic challenges and strive for an economy that prioritizes social equity and collective well-being over individual profit. According to Jesus, the wealthy are hardly defined as "winners", on account of their worldly wealth:

Luk 6:24-26 But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation. (25) Woe unto you, ye that are full now! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you, ye that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep. (26) Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for in the same manner did their fathers to the false prophets.

 

[Kruska]

Are you trying to make the argument that fascism can be good for a country and it's people?

You stated that Mussolini was a bad person - and I stated he was not, but that he was very much liked in Italy, until his own party knew the war is lost, arrested and disposed of him in 1943 - therefore enabling the Communists to revive from practically zero, and thus taking over most cities in Italy by military force before the Allied troops arrived.

As for your question:
Certain countries beholding certain cultures are indeed suitable towards an autocratic government - e.g. Singapore, Russia, or China, etc. etc.
Fascism, has nothing to do with Hitler or the Nazi's (just in case you will throw that nonsense in next). Fascism was basically developed out of the unfeasible concept, of Socialism. Fascism therefore stands for: (propagating and promoting a more equal wealth distribution), parts of the economy controlled by the government, (Therefore making a government independent or rather protecting it from $$ manipulation and interference from outside power circles) but allows for a basic democracy on community level and promotes free market rules and thus private enterprises.

If Fascism becomes too dictatorial or subjected to a mindless/ruthless dictator - it will eventually fail, just as any other political system.

 

[Vastator]

Because those who work the productive enterprise collectively, producing all of its goods and services, should own it collectively and run it democratically, without being exploited or reduced to a commodity in a "labor market". Mass production is a social endeavor, not a private one. It takes a community of human beings working together, to produce the goods and services that everyone uses. From the miners in the mines who extract the raw materials to the staff in a retail outlet, the whole process of production and delivery is carried out by human labor, hence it's the working class that should own the facilities and machinery of production, not a privileged socioeconomic class of wealthy parasites and exploiters.

Adam Smith called capitalists "masters" and that's what they are, in view of the fact that capitalism concentrates wealth and power at the top, resulting in gross inequality, unsustainable business cycles that require government bailouts (public funds), and the undermining of democracy (cronyism is endemic to capitalism). The wealthy elites privatize profits and make public their losses.

RANK	PARENT	SUBSIDY VALUE.	NUMBER OF AWARDS
1	Boeing	$15,136,286,466	946
2	Intel	$8,371,896,017	133
3	Ford Motor	$7,761,916,195	815
4	General Motors	$7,594,509,872	990
5	Micron Technology	$6,785,681,915	18
6	Alcoa	$5,798,600,778	160
7	X-Energy LLC	$5,661,511,202	17
8	General Atomics	$5,465,529,295	438
9	Cheniere Energy	$5,431,565,870	41
10	Amazon.com	$5,051,773,349	332
11	Foxconn Technology Group (Hon Hai Precision Industry Company)	$4,827,036,483	76
12	Sempra Energy	$3,835,098,001	53
13	Southern Company	$3,783,360,569	130
14	NRG Energy	$3,586,516,301	268
15	Venture Global LNG	$3,285,883,566	6
16	NextEra Energy	$3,003,823,754	117
17	Tesla Inc.	$2,836,366,619	116
18	Sasol	$2,836,049,845	72
19	Stellantis	$2,800,442,867	230
20	Volkswagen	$2,740,983,143	222
21	General Electric	$2,529,193,561	1,668
22	Nucor	$2,514,358,340	158
23	Walt Disney	$2,421,304,588	248
24	Brookfield Asset Management	$2,339,430,278	304
25	Iberdrola	$2,285,768,043	112
26	Summit Power	$2,240,568,236	8
27	Shell PLC	$2,184,517,527	141
28	Oracle	$2,167,890,528	88
29	Mubadala Investment Company	$2,124,035,097	62
30	Nike	$2,104,917,829	138
31	Hyundai Motor	$2,072,957,848	27
32	SCS Energy	$1,927,236,683	10
33	Archer Daniels Midland	$1,920,305,787	1,099
34	Exxon Mobil	$1,891,153,489	207
35	NuScale Power	$1,880,780,589	34
36	Toyota	$1,864,826,689	198
37	Berkshire Hathaway	$1,859,775,471	1,158
38	Nissan	$1,842,314,165	86
39	Alphabet Inc.	$1,832,565,977	116
40	Paramount Global	$1,751,801,882	317
41	Apple Inc.	$1,750,043,420	36
42	Comcast	$1,722,467,426	376
43	JPMorgan Chase	$1,663,890,873	1,129
44	Cleveland-Cliffs	$1,654,401,303	137
45	Energy Transfer	$1,634,074,422	106
46	Samsung	$1,586,310,806	70
47	PG&E Corp.	$1,568,027,901	27
48	IBM Corp.	$1,562,738,626	387
49	SkyWest	$1,550,492,958	683
50	Rivian Automotive Inc.	$1,532,854,012	3
51	OGE Energy	$1,427,570,182	15
52	Panasonic	$1,385,969,341	61
53	Raytheon Technologies	$1,322,899,721	952
54	Duke Energy	$1,318,084,164	69
55	Lockheed Martin	$1,302,847,415	337
56	Corning Inc.	$1,272,628,059	395
57	Northrop Grumman	$1,266,804,354	266
58	Vingroup	$1,254,000,000	1
59	Continental AG	$1,244,875,478	111
60	Vornado Realty Trust	$1,243,857,336	32
61	Microsoft	$1,153,690,869	103
62	Jefferies Financial Group	$1,120,662,497	18
63	Meta Platforms Inc.	$1,105,098,844	53
64	Dow Inc.	$1,091,152,544	686
65	Abengoa	$1,082,660,583	63
66	LG	$1,055,690,737	103
67	Valero Energy	$1,054,520,860	199
68	Exelon	$1,040,601,369	98
69	AES Corp.	$1,010,194,632	132
70	CF Industries	$982,271,715	129
71	Pyramid Companies	$966,050,097	91
72	EDF-Electricite de France	$940,247,983	65
73	Texas Instruments	$940,071,436	60
74	Mazda Toyota Manufacturing, U.S.A., Inc.	$900,000,000	1
75	Air Products & Chemicals	$897,651,105	248
76	Delta Air Lines	$876,412,623	14
77	Centene	$875,064,432	54
78	Bayer	$849,175,809	202
79	Honda	$846,026,154	91
80	Enterprise Products Partners	$826,988,371	83
81	Shin-Etsu Chemical	$826,062,285	104
82	SunEdison	$812,753,318	119
83	Apollo Global Management	$804,565,970	471
84	Goldman Sachs	$801,573,386	255
85	E.ON	$782,609,880	38
86	Wolfspeed Inc.	$773,681,732	88
87	Triple Five Worldwide	$748,000,000	4
88	EDP-Energias de Portugal	$733,674,868	14
89	Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.	$725,632,525	206
90	Gotion	$715,000,000	1
91	American Electric Power	$699,673,821	92
92	Bank of America	$698,760,073	919
93	Johnson Controls	$691,180,720	144
94	Related Companies	$687,200,000	1
95	Caithness Energy	$670,379,738	28
96	Hyannis Air Service Inc.	$667,928,778	296
97	Koch Industries	$662,557,530	486
98	Sagamore Development	$660,000,000	1
99	Dominion Energy

Welfare and socialism for the rich and pick yourself up by your bootstraps "free-market", "fiscally responsible" capitalism for the rest of us.

​

They now have us at the brink of fighting WW3 with Russia, selling tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons to the US federal government, to send to Ukraine. In pursuit of profits, they fuel the fires of war. They keep us on fossil fuels when we could very easily rely on safe, clean, and inexhaustible nuclear energy.

If capitalism is to survive in America, it has to become much more democratic and begin serving the public good, rather than the vested interests of a few wealthy elites, who care about nothing more than their private profits.

Why haven't you started a successful enterprise based on this model? It's completely doable, even within our capitalist system.

 

[Billiejeens]

You stupid hypocrite, if we disconnected you from DU you'd be brain dead.

He's already brain dead, but I see your point.

 

[22lcidw]

You all want to know what privilege is and is not? In Philly, an overpass collapse on a major highway I 95 occurred due to a truck on fire happened. The corruption of unions, politicians and everything in between will determine the time it takes to repair it. Manly men over a century ago would do it in a couple of weeks at most. This a federal highway. Mayor Pete and Joe promoting their greatness should know this from their pronunciations of prog greatness. Honestly, many decades ago corruption in these matters took over the comforts of the peasants unless there were concessions for the problem. To not look bad perhaps the federal government will spend countless extra millions of dollars to get this repair done more quickly.