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    … conforming to whatever billionaires say does not make you credible.

    It is a fact the US economy is built on consumer debt, there is more unsecured credit card debt in the US than the rest of the world combined.

    It is a fact the FDA directly, explicitly, and knowingly caused the opioid crisis.

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      5 hours ago

      I agree with you completely, but the meme is making much more sweeping generalizations which are a bad look. It feels less like the substantive arguments in your comments and more like the Tea Party.

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        It’s from shitter or bsky, There’s a character limit. It is, however, largely correct.

        The tea party had the right words, with the wrong intent, like the Nazi party when they pretended to be socialist. Libertarianism is a socialist ideology, the name was just coopted.