• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 hours ago

    Most headlines about America in the international press in the last month could just have been “Liar lies” and “Liar was once again proven to have lied”

    • mountainbear49@programming.dev
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      8 hours ago

      who “we” ? You probably meant their own monopolist media lies about them. Those are servile servants of a few genocidal feudalist monopolists with real names, addresses, and private property on grounds nearby and bank accounts hidden behind a few layers of fraudulent abstraction accounts in places of the like of Panama and Luxembourg. With a wave of privatization of collective-use property (a.k.a. rich elite robbing low and middle revenue classes) from the 1970’s ‘neo-liberal’ doctrine monsters (e.g. Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, etc.), in the 2020’s now almost every industry market has an infection of 3-4 corporations owning more than half of the market share, in some cases up to 90%. This problem is known to have happened 3 times so far in recorded history of income and wealth distribution, and every iteration yielded an approximately very similar result: (1) the French Revolution of 1789 from a society where approximately 3% of the population (mostly aristocrats and clergy) owned most of the wealth of France, (2) World War I, from a society where, in most European countries, up to 90% wealth was under gunpoint-based ownership of as few as 10% of the population, and (3) World War II from a society with a distribution of income and wealth similar as that of the development of WWI, where in many European countries, the richest 10% owned up to approximately 90% of national income and wealth. Every iteration where income and wealth distribution became so inequitable and unequal, inequality came back down to normal levels by war. For example, in French society of the early 1900s, a lawyer or a doctor fresh out of studies would earn approximately 12x LESS THAN AN INHERITOR of one of the top 10% wealth family estates doing VACATIONING ALL YEAR LONG, collecting interest on capital ownership, i.e. from having a name on a paper. ALTERNATIVELY, societies and countries with more livable and defendable REGULATION of excesses of capitalist feudalism, i.e. social democracy societies and countries, have had much smoother, respectable, defendable, and remarkable trajectories. (Reference: Thomas Piketty, 2013, “Le Capital au 21e siecle” (“Capital in the 21st Century))

  • Ech@lemmy.ca
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    15 hours ago

    “Questioned”?? The motherfucker has literally said he’s after the oil. How stupid are these people?

    • Town@lemmy.zip
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      8 hours ago

      Right before he started the war the files were really heating up. People already forget.

  • tirateimas@lemmy.pt
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    13 hours ago

    Just an incoherent, senile idiot. He started a mess and doesn’t know how to end it.