Folks may want to follow Brivael on X. He is fantastic. He is a proud capitalist that can describe the nonsense of liberals like no other. Here is an example.
A dialogue in X between this goofball and Brivael.
Gilles Gautier – Comment from a X participant
Having a left-wing sensitivity is widely understandable, even necessary. We can’t let people die of hunger. The social system in the USA is just a disaster.
But today, the people who call themselves left-wing aren’t left-wing. It’s a swarm of locusts, people corroded by envy who think they should have everything without making the slightest effort. Would-be totalitarians who would want to seize everything just to destroy it with glee.
Brivael Le Pogam – An X member responds.
Gilles, I’m going to dismantle your starting premise, because the rest of your argument collapses with it.
You start from the assumption that it takes a “left-wing sensitivity” to keep people from starving to death. That’s the total opposite of what the economic history of the last 50 years says.
The raw numbers.
1990: 2.3 billion people in extreme poverty. 38% of humanity.
2025: 831 million. About 10%.
1.5 billion human beings lifted out of absolute misery in 35 years. The greatest reduction in human suffering in the entire history of the species.
Who did that?
Not international aid. Not NGOs. Not redistribution programs. Not “left-wing sensitivity.”
The market. Trade openness. Deng’s China in 1978 abandoning Maoism. India in 1991 liberalizing. Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh opening up to capitalism.
The only places where extreme poverty EXPLODED over the same period? Socialist Venezuela: from 27% poor in 2008 to over 80% in 2018, with 130,000% inflation and the average Venezuelan losing 11 kilos from malnutrition. North Korea. Cuba. Mugabe’s Zimbabwe.
The left doesn’t feed the poor. It manufactures them.
Capitalism produces so much wealth that even its American “losers” live better than the Soviet middle class. A poor US citizen has a fridge, a car, a phone, air conditioning, internet. A poor Cuban waits in line for rice.
Your argument that “the social safety net in the US is a disaster” repeats a French legend. The reality: American GDP per capita is $80,000. French: $45,000. A Mississippian—the poorest US state—has a median income higher than the average French person.
The truth that the French left refuses to face: in a liberal system, more wealth is created, more widely distributed, and there are far fewer poor people. Everywhere. Without exception. Across all measured periods.
Being on the left in 2026 in the face of this data isn’t having “sensitivity.” It’s ignoring 35 years of overwhelming evidence. It’s preferring moral posturing to results.
Compassion without results—that’s called vanity.
