🇺🇸 🚨 Riddle me this, capitalist! If capitalism makes nations rich, Why does Appalachia look like this? 🤨❗️

If communism works why does Cuba look like this?

You’re comparing an island under a blockade and trade denial lasting over half a century to a part of the US. Not exactly the W you think it is

@MTJakeEaton @grok who does Cuba trade with?

@KevinCastley @MTJakeEaton Cuba trades with many countries despite the US embargo. Major partners (2023 data): Exports: China ($358M), Spain ($129M), Germany ($68M). Imports: Spain ($938M), China ($504M), Netherlands ($390M), US ($366M, mainly food/agriculture), Canada ($220M).

@BCprecisionreps @KevinCastley @MTJakeEaton @grok does Cuba trade with the US in food and health ?

@BCprecisionreps @KevinCastley @MTJakeEaton Yes, Cuba trades with the US in both sectors despite the embargo. US food/ag exports to Cuba: ~$359M Jan-Sep 2025. Health/medical exports: limited, e.g., $55K in Sep 2025, plus humanitarian donations. Data from US-Cuba Trade Council.

now post pictures of North Korea and Cuba, the compare...

Because climate idiots killed their only viable industry and left millions to poverty and addiction.

Appalachia is richer than 82% of the global population.

GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS

Why does Vancouver look like this midwit:

Socialism has ruined Canada

because we outsourced our sh-t to China. big mistake.

Lol I think you hate capitalism because you suck at it, you ask the same stupid question and are expecting the same amount of engagement as you had yesterday. Which really wasn’t even that much considering. With capitalism you actually have to try.

What is Appalachia's biggest recourse? Coal mining. What is the loonies biggest energy take down? Coal mining. Coincidence? Design? Not sure if anyone with half a brain can call the takedown of the coal industry "capitalism".

Because of the global communist occupation of the last 100 years that increasingly looted America to prop up China and every other nation on the planet with trillions of $, neglecting our infrastructure, inflating our currency, and exporting our jobs and manufacturing base. All so they could make life so hard and miserable people might be confused enough to blame the free market and not the communist subverters robbing us blind.

Appalachia produces the finest medium machine gunners known to mankind. That makes any one of them more valuable than 100 of you.

Wow, what part of Appalachia Cancuck? You realize that Appalachia goes from Alabama all the way up to Newfoundland Canada. This is also part of Appalachia you F’ing tool

This is getting tiresome. Appalachia was built on the mining industry - when this sank into decline, instead of moving, people stayed. Too may people + not enough jobs = poverty. Add mountainous terrain making transport difficult…it’s an area not well suited to industry.

Cause China doesn’t buy our coal

Boo hoo A communist country started producing their own energy so now the capitalist country falls apart Capitalism needs communist countries to trade with is what you’re saying?

@TheDroneDealer China actually completely falls apart if it doesn't trade with the US. The US is mostly fine if China doesn't even exist.. in fact, in a lot of ways we'd be better because they're such shit bags over there.

@TheDroneDealer Wrong Trade with the US accounts for only 14% of China’s exports Meanwhile the US gets 18% of its imports from China The capitalist country needs a communist country moreso than the other way around

@kittredge667871 @TheDroneDealer @grok is this right or just bs?

Based on 2024 data from US Census Bureau and China Customs: - China's exports to the US were ~$500-525B out of $3.58T total exports, or about 14-15%. - US imports from China were ~$439B out of $3.3T total imports, or about 13%. The 14% figure is roughly accurate, but the 18% is overstated. Trade interdependence is mutual, though percentages differ.

Shanghai under a Command controlled economy at the top, vs Shanghai under a somewhat free market below. ~30% of China still doesn't have indoor plumbing...

A slum in Hangzhou, China

Because Appalachians Don't GAF. Especially not about you or your urban ant farms.

You’re free to move to a communist country. That’s the best part of living in America; you can leave whenever you want.

Because stupid commie globalists eco freaks shut down the mines.

Jesus Christ dude. You ever see the outer Oblasts and Duma in the Russian federation or provinces in China? They’re worse than this. Over 50% of RF still doesn’t have working plumbing.

Capitalism also allows people to fail. That’s why anyone bothers working hard. And only some of Appalachia looks like that. So does some of Chicago, LA, SF, DC. Capitalism is not a cure for individual poverty; it is a strong protection against universal poverty.

Easy to cherry pick a single geography and make an argument to support your agenda. Capitalism gives individuals the liberty to choose their outcome. Post a video of Malibu, CA next time. Oh, wait, that doesn’t fit your agenda. I choose liberty over socialism/communism every time

Because your green energy initiatives killed it.

Still richer than any communist country

Riddle me this. Why do I start every post with this sentence? Does it make me seem smart or cool?

Are you serious?

Mind your business 🤫

No.

Stay out. You're not welcome here.

It was actually allowing a communist state (china) with price controls, subsidies, and artificially devalued currency, access to are free markets that ruined their industry and region. You think this is bad, you should see the slums in China, Cuba, and the SSR poverty levels

Appalachians have a different interpretation of rich. They care much more about freedom than riches. And they definitely don't consider flashy lights and big buildings to be wealthy at all.

Because they choose to live like that. Look at our homeless industrial complex; the politicians use it to extort money from is, and the homeless choose to live that way for the “free” stuff

Because the U.S hasn't been a capitalist economy for over 20 years. It has become an oligarchy bordering on corporate induced socialism.