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> which they used to help establish friendly dictatorships across Eurasia, from East Germany, to China (simultaneously, the US put an arms embargo on the legitimate government who were fighting the communists) How did…
The New York Times and Haaretz reported in the summer and autumn of last year (just prior to the current flareup), Netanyahu had sent the Mossad head to Qatar in order to convince them to send money to prop up the Hamas…
Very narrowly defined the DoD spent ~$750 billion in 2023 (over 800 billion). This doesn't count over $300 billion in veteran's benefits. Nor does it count Department of Energy military nuclear expenditures, nor tens of…
Should point out the PM for Pakistan who spoke out about religious extremism, Imran Khan, was jailed after "Lettergate", the US's efforts to have him ousted as PM (which succeeded, he is in jail now). The crackdown on…
Dictatorship of the proletariat
Hey taxpayer! You don't like the estimated $1.5 trillion going to Lockheed Martin for their hunk of junk F35? Then you're just like Forbes, Bloomberg, the Washington Post and the other anti-American ChiComs who are…
Lenin did pretty good with "Peace, Land, Bread"
Read about commodity fetishism, relations of production, alienation etc.
When the wealth created by those who work at the New York Times is sent out in dividends to those who do no work or create wealth there, what is performance of these rentiers? You're arguing on the side of the rentiers…
> Striking during election week is kind of a crappy move to pull. Yes, heaven forbid the people doing all the work and creating all the wealth actually use their leverage against the heirs collecting NYT dividends.
The redcoats left in the 18th century. The Russuan military was, and has been, in the Crimea since before that.
> And it might start when they seize Taiwan like Russia Ukraine, how would we stop them in the slightest when we can't stop the seizure of Ukraine? Russian troops were in the Crimea back when British redcoats were…
> Adults often come to see small-scale solutions to major problems as childish. Yeah, you could make a couple of sandwiches for the hungry—but there are billions of people who need better access to food. Maybe your…
Not really. When counting not just DoD spending but DoE nuclear weapons spending, NASA (now Space Force) and satellite spending, VA and veteran's benefits, interest on past military spending and so forth, military…
It's great that the subcontractors and executives and day traders who own the stock for a few seconds care so much about "what the future of Boeing is past their retirement".
People were saying when the PRC was founded 75 years ago it would collapse any day now. They were saying this during the cultural revolution. They were saying it earlier this year, as China sent a robot to the far side…
Egypt is an autocracy because the US sends it billions of dollars to keep it an autocracy. Neither the US nor Israel want Egypt to be anything other than an autocracy. Regarding organ harvesting, the FBI arrested…
How ludicrously blind are the heirs who collect dividends on Oracle stock to how good they have it? I guess the workers doing the work and creating the wealth are lucky that Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt etc. illegally…
How does Victor Ambros and his wife sending money to a school educating Arabs and whoever else make him a Zionist? He and his wife sent money to a school educating Arabs seven years ago, and you stretch that to mean he…
It's great the scientific HN crowd realizes the truth of this very scientific research report, which also flatters the preconceptions of the class they were born to. Rivals those intelligence studies which magically…
> Marxism (or any other such system) has never been tried" is such a tired and pointless argument. > There have clearly been repeated attempts to implement it. To implement what? People at the time of Marx asked him…
> There have been 17 attempts that I'm aware of to create a government based off of the ideals that Marx preached. What does Marx say in the Communist Manifesto? "The Communists turn their attention chiefly to Germany,…
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> which they used to help establish friendly dictatorships across Eurasia, from East Germany, to China (simultaneously, the US put an arms embargo on the legitimate government who were fighting the communists) How did…
The New York Times and Haaretz reported in the summer and autumn of last year (just prior to the current flareup), Netanyahu had sent the Mossad head to Qatar in order to convince them to send money to prop up the Hamas…
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Very narrowly defined the DoD spent ~$750 billion in 2023 (over 800 billion). This doesn't count over $300 billion in veteran's benefits. Nor does it count Department of Energy military nuclear expenditures, nor tens of…
Should point out the PM for Pakistan who spoke out about religious extremism, Imran Khan, was jailed after "Lettergate", the US's efforts to have him ousted as PM (which succeeded, he is in jail now). The crackdown on…
Dictatorship of the proletariat
Hey taxpayer! You don't like the estimated $1.5 trillion going to Lockheed Martin for their hunk of junk F35? Then you're just like Forbes, Bloomberg, the Washington Post and the other anti-American ChiComs who are…
Lenin did pretty good with "Peace, Land, Bread"
Read about commodity fetishism, relations of production, alienation etc.
When the wealth created by those who work at the New York Times is sent out in dividends to those who do no work or create wealth there, what is performance of these rentiers? You're arguing on the side of the rentiers…
> Striking during election week is kind of a crappy move to pull. Yes, heaven forbid the people doing all the work and creating all the wealth actually use their leverage against the heirs collecting NYT dividends.
The redcoats left in the 18th century. The Russuan military was, and has been, in the Crimea since before that.
> And it might start when they seize Taiwan like Russia Ukraine, how would we stop them in the slightest when we can't stop the seizure of Ukraine? Russian troops were in the Crimea back when British redcoats were…
> Adults often come to see small-scale solutions to major problems as childish. Yeah, you could make a couple of sandwiches for the hungry—but there are billions of people who need better access to food. Maybe your…
Not really. When counting not just DoD spending but DoE nuclear weapons spending, NASA (now Space Force) and satellite spending, VA and veteran's benefits, interest on past military spending and so forth, military…
It's great that the subcontractors and executives and day traders who own the stock for a few seconds care so much about "what the future of Boeing is past their retirement".
People were saying when the PRC was founded 75 years ago it would collapse any day now. They were saying this during the cultural revolution. They were saying it earlier this year, as China sent a robot to the far side…
Egypt is an autocracy because the US sends it billions of dollars to keep it an autocracy. Neither the US nor Israel want Egypt to be anything other than an autocracy. Regarding organ harvesting, the FBI arrested…
How ludicrously blind are the heirs who collect dividends on Oracle stock to how good they have it? I guess the workers doing the work and creating the wealth are lucky that Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt etc. illegally…
How does Victor Ambros and his wife sending money to a school educating Arabs and whoever else make him a Zionist? He and his wife sent money to a school educating Arabs seven years ago, and you stretch that to mean he…
It's great the scientific HN crowd realizes the truth of this very scientific research report, which also flatters the preconceptions of the class they were born to. Rivals those intelligence studies which magically…
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> Marxism (or any other such system) has never been tried" is such a tired and pointless argument. > There have clearly been repeated attempts to implement it. To implement what? People at the time of Marx asked him…
> There have been 17 attempts that I'm aware of to create a government based off of the ideals that Marx preached. What does Marx say in the Communist Manifesto? "The Communists turn their attention chiefly to Germany,…