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Bleach7297
joined 1 year ago
Europe didn't buy the crap sold by 'economist' witch doctors like Milton Friedman and Alan Greedspan. At least, they didn't buy it as much.
The US treats capitalism as a religious absolute. The rest of the world regards the US as a fairly extreme example of laissez-faire capitalism.
Lots of True Believers really thought that if you didn't regulate anything and just let companies become more and more powerful, somehow the world would be a better place for it.
Check out the Chicago School of Economics if you want to know what really has brought us to this point. Hugely influential and hugely misguided, but it made a lot of men very rich and powerful so it was seen as a good thing 🤦
EDIT: Apologies to Witch Doctors everywhere.
I haven't been keeping up with the changes to X but I checked out their videos site (xvideos, I presume) and it seems like it's mostly porn with the occasional Tesla shareholder meeting keynote.
The keynotes seem a bit incongruous and I could do without them. Otherwise, it doesn't seem like it's gone too far downhill.
I think you're being censored not for your views but the way you present them.
You misunderstand or you're being intentionally obtuse.
No, I am not interested in a discussion with you, only in making the observation that your comment prompted.
Bigotry is bigotry no matter the angle.
My boy is almost 18 months.
I'm SO tired.
But it's glorious.
Israel's neighbours have oil, and Israel lets the US keep their guns etc there.
So yes, not directly about oil -- more like 'national security' -- but that ultimately (and increasingly ironically) amounts to oil.
Private interests are the ultimate autocracies.
Let private interests amass huge amounts of resources and you have hugely powerful autocracies.
Let these autocracies hire so-called economists to convince everyone that they will settle into some kind of optimal state if we just let them be and you have the current situation in the USA.
An ally in the middle east, because oil 🛢️ 🌍
I'm not reading into any polls, my good fellow. I haven't seen them and I don't really care to. I'm happy to pay your electoral process no mind at all, except to occasionally reply to a post with some idle speculation and, apparently, piss off a bunch of people.
Of course, I haven't forgetten which country's election I'm talking about, and passionate folks like yourself jumping down my throat is to be expected.
Happy New Year!
Surely it isn't news that these folks are revolting...