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So if your side really believes in markets, self-reliance, and building your own, why does Black self-help suddenly become a problem?
Under normal circumstances it wouldn't be, but these are not normal circumstances, and you have a pretty terrible recent history of playing anti-white anti-capitalist grievance politics, so for the time being we have to spy on you.
As long as you hold Bitcoin and avoid the DSA you'll be fine.
By your own logic, you’re getting screwed too. Deficits are still piling up, long-term rates are near multi-decade highs, Bitcoin is getting hammered, and you think your agenda is winning?
Everyone is screwed in the short term. We're trying to speedrun this, but my agenda could take some 5-10 years of pain to get done.
The reason Bitcoin down is because I'm trying to maintain a route to the sea on the west coast and it's expensive. Fighting the communists for territory is expensive. If they would just surrender and/or leave this would go a lot smoother.
“spy on you.”
Once again, you chose soft words. Let me translate:
“stop you from using your own energy to overcome historical racial wrongs.”
Okay I'll try to use harder words then. I don't trust your community to organize peacefully, so the state is going to disrupt those efforts until the communist threat is resolved. I don't know what that disruption looks like. It depends.
What's clear is you're going to complain about oppression regardless of what I do, so I have absolutely no incentive to hold back from any force necessary to get laissez-faire jammed into a reformed constitution reigning from coast to coast.
“I don’t trust your community to organize peacefully.”
Considering Black Americans have spent centuries organizing peacefully, I don’t know what to make of that claim.
What’s remarkable is using distrust of an entire community with a long record of peaceful organizing and advancement to justify state interference from institutions with a long record of abusing power.
Raising taxes is not peaceful.
Did Black Americans fighting in the American Revolution raise taxes? No. They fought in it.
Did Black Americans fighting for the Union in the Civil War raise taxes? No. They fought in it.
Did organizing for the 14th Amendment raise taxes? No. Black Americans organized for equal citizenship.
Did the Civil Rights Movement raise taxes? No. Black Americans organized and marched peacefully, often in the face of violence.
Did Black churches, mutual-aid societies, HBCUs, and civil-rights organizations raise taxes? No. Black Americans built institutions for themselves.
Do Black self-help scholarships and programs raise taxes? No. They use private money to help people overcome documented disadvantages.
Do corporate diversity programs raise taxes? No.
So “raising taxes is not peaceful” does not answer what we were discussing.
You need to get your voting percentage for Democrat down below 60% for me to not view you as a threat. That's the threshold.
So your argument is that when Black voters help elect Democrats who raise taxes, that taxation becomes a form of violence attributable to Black political power, and therefore our efforts to organize and advance should be thwarted.
So you’re willing to endure what you call 5–10 years of “short-term pain”, including 5%+ long-term Treasury yields, to get there.
All the while trusting this same sloppy, sprawling government to wield that power responsibly.
By your own logic, you’re getting screwed too. Deficits are still piling up, long-term rates are near multi-decade highs, Bitcoin is getting hammered, and you think your agenda is winning?
Asset owners will win. Builders will win. People who can accumulate capital and build institutions will win.
So if your side really believes in markets, self-reliance, and building your own, why does Black self-help suddenly become a problem?
If Black people raise money, build institutions, fund scholarships, and help each other accumulate wealth, why are you trying to stop it?