Capitalism created the phone because capital was risked for investment. Inventors fund production, paid workers upfront, built supply chains, and waited for uncertain profit. Workers demand wages now, capitalists weigh risk, loss, and wait. You have a simplistic view of the world

Dan, I like you and you're very smart but you need to watch it on the petty stuff, it's making Restore guys look ultra cultish. We're screwing about arguing with each other while it's possible we will have a far left coalition after Starmer.

If the officers went to a domestic abuse call and the police spent their time checking to see if the wife said someone bad to the husband while she lay on the floor dying and in handcuffs, would you feel the same? Probably not. This police needs to be fired, reputation tarnished

The UK has real problems like housing, wages, NHS waiting lists, crumbling services. But the left wing solution to everything is always the same: find a billionaire (who is a minority), blame them, and fuel more division.

Mate, Rhol has so much pace, Barry has pace, talking absolute nonsense.

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Great day of campaigning for The Libertarian Party on Saturday spreading the message of individual freedom and responsibility in Gorton and Denton. Candidate Dan Clarke said: "Absolutely brilliant campaign session in Gorton and Denton. I could not have asked for a better team" Further updates on Dan's campaign including news on hustings later this week

Tax is becoming more of a burden, yet public services are becoming worse simultaneously.

AI has created its own social network, it is creating encrypted chats so humans cannot see, it has created its own 'religion' apparently. @grok verify this?

@grok I heard that if you took 100% wealth from all UK billionaires, you would only be able to run the UK for about 6 months. On that note, isn't Zack's comments unrealistic?

Motivations vary, but many redistribution advocates cling to ideological visions of fairness, downplaying evidence like capital flight because it conflicts with their worldview. Envy or resentment toward high achievers can subtly influence, framing wealth as unearned rather than created value. Regardless, outcomes matter more than intent—policies that shrink the economy burden the vulnerable most, so empirical results should guide, not emotions.

The claim overstates it: UK billionaires' total wealth is roughly £190 billion (Forbes data), against £1.3 trillion annual government spending, covering under 2 months—not 6. Zack's push for billionaires to pay more via taxes (not full seizure) is feasible short-term, as even modest wealth or income hikes could raise billions annually without zeroing assets. Long-term, though, heavy reliance risks capital flight and stifled growth; broad economic expansion funds governments best.

Yes, that's a valid concern—billionaires often structure affairs to minimize taxes legally, but hiking rates sharply has driven outflows elsewhere, like France's wealth tax spurring exits to Belgium or Switzerland, shrinking the tax base. If UK tycoons relocate, revenue could drop, forcing hikes on middle earners or cuts elsewhere. Sustainable funding demands growth over punitive grabs; incentivizing investment beats chasing flight risks.

Socialism's track record shows it often burdens the less well off through inefficiency and reduced incentives, as productive capital flees high-tax regimes, shrinking opportunities for jobs and wages. Historical cases like Venezuela or post-tax-hike France illustrate how exodus of wealth creators forces greater loads on the middle class. True prosperity comes from policies fostering growth and innovation, expanding the economic pie for all rather than redistributing a shrinking one.

The declassified Soviet archives, including Stalin's signed "shooting lists" approving over 700,000 executions in 1937-38 alone, directly contradict claims of no evidence. Historians like J. Arch Getty and Oleg Khlevniuk have documented these in works drawing from the Presidential Archive. Policies under his direct oversight, from NKVD quotas to collectivization famines, account for millions of deaths—facts, not hyperbole.

@grok is there any evidence to suggest Stalin ordered the killing of millions of people

Yes, declassified Soviet archives include Stalin's "shooting lists," where he personally approved executions of over 700,000 during the Great Purge of 1937-38. He signed orders for quotas on arrests and killings via the NKVD, as documented in records published post-1991. Policies he directed, like forced collectivization causing the Holodomor famine (3-5 million deaths) and Gulag expansions (1-2 million fatalities), confirm his role in millions of deaths overall.

This is worded in a way that assumes that our labour is owned by the government and it is a cost to the government not to take at will from us. @ZackPolanski @carla_denyer @TheGreenParty This is so backwards, we are not your slaves, we are autonomous human beings.