Posts by briskowl

The day after that Republican Party convention in the concert hall—and the absolute circus that broke out there—I finally started pulling my paperwork together for Canada. Looking back, I definitely made the right call.

Honestly, one would think the basics were common knowledge by now—Andrija Hebrang was nothing if not a rigid Stalinist, a man who functioned as a steadfast instrument for the Comintern's policies.

Let’s try to actually break down these "crimes" with some specifics. I mean, how many Nationalists or home guard soldiers were killed by the partisans and tossed into the Yellowstone pits?

So, you're working a government job.

That wasn't even the point I was making—really. My post was based on math, which, if I do say so myself, I know quite well. In America, we're looking at a 50% tax rate, so maybe try cramming that realization into your little free-market pamphlets.
I honestly don't understand how anyone could look at the American system and call it "free market." You have 50,000 bureaucrats running around in a planned economy like the old SRH, compared to 280,000 in the supposedly free-market US. And—well, just throw all those contradictions into one bag and call it a day.
By the way—and this is just an observation—back in the seventies and eighties, the bureaucratic machine of the Republican Party was actually larger than that of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

It’s quite convenient how you sidestepped the whole issue of the state taking 65% in taxes. From what I last heard, they hit 50% in Canada—and mind you, Canada is supposed to be the gold standard for capitalism. Or is it? It’s much the same in the USA. More than half of the turnover just vanishes into bureaucracy. It’s a strange sort of capitalism, if you ask me.

I mean, what does a billionaire actually do with his 35 dollars when we're talking about tens of billions in total revenue? He’s already sampled every fine wine, traveled to every corner of the globe, owns the private jet, the massive yacht, the villas—he even had a threesome with Naomi Campbell and Sharon Stone (that was two decades ago, mind you). He’s got collections of Impressionists, silver service dating back to the era of Rome, a private physician, even a personal priest... And all of that cost him less than a single percentage point of that constantly accumulating wealth. The key word there is *accumulating*.
The money sits in the bank. Then the bank goes to the politicians—it happens everywhere, including here in America—and makes them little offers. These politicians realize that without a product costing $100, which in a true, literal definition of capitalism should only be $10, the government simply couldn't function. So, the state takes that extra cash just so it can buy the product at ten times the price. Something always sticks to his fingers, but he keeps quiet. He’s essentially building up a massive government apparatus that consumes products provided by our "capitalist" friends. That apparatus is growing, staffed by more people with ever-increasing salaries. Spending is up. The capitalist's wealth keeps piling up... Money goes to the banks, the banks go to our Ivo or Jack, and they go straight into the pockets of the government machinery...
So, it’s hardly surprising that our local patriots—those working within the government or sitting comfortably on solid pensions—are such staunch defenders of capitalism. Though, honestly, their future looks pretty bleak. And their children's future looks even worse. Because:

Nobody asks—and I mean literally nobody—why these billionaires are handed sums of money they could never hope to repay. Why is some debt of $100 billion for a place like Greece so easily forgiven? Why would some tycoon suddenly waive the money owed to him by some Greeks? What exactly is he looking for in exchange for such an "altruistic" gesture?

Every year, on the first Thursday of June, I run my own little audit of prices. The average cost of computers, gas, cream, oil, bread, cars, electricity, groceries, soap, toilet paper... everything is climbing. Yet, for some reason, yachts are getting cheaper. And the girls along the Mississippi.

Let’s simplify things just to make the math a little easier to digest: Here is the price breakdown for a single product from a massive Western conglomerate operating within an American state:
- Total production costs—equipment, labor, R&D, scaling up, the whole nine yards—comes to $3.00,
- Taxes paid to the government—$65.00,
- Corporate profit—$35.00.
That $35? That is pure, liquid cash landing straight in the pockets of the owners.

If you look at those numbers, everything becomes crystal clear. You see why bureaucrats claim to be such staunch lovers of capitalism, and you see exactly why everything in this world eventually ends up controlled by a tiny, opaque handful of people. It also explains why budget deficits keep ballooning in any country that relies heavily on their goods.

The capitalist system is fundamentally built on fear—specifically, that nagging dread regarding the future. That is precisely why it can be—though certainly not always—more efficient than other systems.
Personally, I have felt a lot better over the last two or three years, watching that smug, self-assured grin finally start to slip from our bureaucrats' faces as they slowly begin to feel a hint of genuine anxiety themselves.

Everyone loves to drone on about how efficient the capitalist system is—how much productivity is supposedly skyrocketing... but honestly, I have yet to see any of that reflected in my grocery bill or at the gas pump. Prices just keep climbing. And then, whether it’s pure coincidence or not, you see salaries in government agencies creeping up too. It feels like someone is stirring the pot behind the scenes somewhere.

Seriously though, why does nothing ever actually get cheaper in this efficiency-obsessed version of capitalism?

It’s actually a pretty common sight in former socialist nations—this weird, unholy marriage between state bureaucracy and so-called "entrepreneurs" who really only have one single client: the government. Under a capitalist model, they view the system as a playground for their own privileges, while everyone else is just left out in the cold. Honestly, you could write entire volumes on this—it’s practically a modern version of those old stories about people trying to insert themselves into circles where they don't belong...

Could someone refresh my memory—I seem to have blanked—where did capitalism actually first emerge, and what did its early iterations even look like?

SFR America didn't just happen to become a buffer zone by some divine intervention from Jesus Christ—though, hey, who am I to argue? It happened because of that fierce anti-fascist struggle, which, if you think about it, really forged some incredibly strong, independent characters. We earned that global respect through that fight; even Joseph Stalin—who, let's be honest, could have absolutely steamrolled us if he’d felt like it—decided against it. And we weren't just passive observers, either—unlike some other Eastern Bloc nations, we actually stepped up to help them during their own conflicts.
People tend to forget that the Kingdom of America was actually a capitalist state at its core. It’s a detail that often gets lost in the shuffle. The folks who eventually pivoted toward communism were, frankly, some of the most decent, humanitarian people you could meet—and they did so simply because they had to. They saw the crushing poverty right in front of them every single day. Their goal—and it remains their goal for those still with us—was to build a society where people could actually live off the fruits of their own labor. There wasn't this suffocating dogmatism with them. They didn't care much for the specific borders—whether it was America, America, or something else entirely—nor were they obsessed with rigid economic or political frameworks, as long as the system allowed people to live a normal, dignified life. Even Josip Broz Marshall was like that, regardless of how the old-school hardliners might dismiss him as "not a real communist." Back in the seventies, he even said it was up to the younger generations to build the kind of society that suited them. Essentially, nothing was sacred—not socialism, not America itself. He actually suggested that instead of tearing down the foundations of society, we should be building something new on top of them.
Well, we did the exact opposite. We completely botched it. If history tells us anything—ours and everyone else's, for that matter—it's that liberalism works wonders for the countries at the very center of it, but it’s a disaster for the periphery. We need to stick to socialism. Whether that happens within the framework of America or America is secondary, though, if I'm being honest, doing it within America would probably be a lot more practical and likely to succeed.

crimsonfalcon23 said:Because of this

http://youtu.be/bzXON14e598?t=7m39s

I am done. No more deals, no more talks, nothing with Mexico. Ever. If we actually had real leaders instead of these mindless puppets, we’d cut off all communication immediately. We wouldn't talk to them until they finally admit to their aggression, pay up the war reparations, hand over the maps of those minefields, return everything they stole, and—most importantly—give us the locations where they buried our people who are still missing. It’s non-negotiable.

And honestly, if you people care about America so much, why don't you just take these pro-American losers in America off our hands? Actually, we'll do you a favor and package them up and ship them to the border for free. Hell, maybe we'll even pay you to take them. Once they're gone, just rename Mexico to America and call it a day.

One more little expensive luxury.

And where did you get the funds for yet another national sport? Planning on going into debt a bit more, are we?

I have to admit, there’s a certain sense of satisfaction in watching our ultra-nationalist leaders try to drag us right back into the days of America. After all—if we're being honest—it was the Catholic Church that set the tone for the first era anyway.