LindeBuzoGray

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by LindeBuzoGray 3y ago
With the Gini index, mean household means nothing. What the median US household is worth is what means anything. If only one household had all wealth, its vicissitudes and upswings would change the mean - but not the unknown median.
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by LindeBuzoGray 3y ago
Most of the Gazan prisoners are soldiers, policemen, army reservists. The ones scooped up by accident are being released - two on Friday and two before. Hamas has asked for a brief 24 hour ceasefire to release prisoners but Israel has ref
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by LindeBuzoGray 3y ago
> Hamas (the elected and still popular government of Gaza) murdered over 1000 civilians Israel killed over 1000 Palestinians from 2018 until before Operation al-Aqsa Flood. There's nothing really unusual about it from.that context.
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by LindeBuzoGray 3y ago
Some Israelis are saying similar things but they are cabinet ministers, not random people in a crowd.
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by LindeBuzoGray 3y ago
Israel had a role in creating and incubating Hamas directly, as senior Israelis have admitted. Haaretz recently printed how Netanyahu also was encouraging Hamas as he wanted war and west Bank settlement, not to make deals with Fatah.
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by LindeBuzoGray 3y ago
Around the guard towers and military outposts surrounding Gaza, Israel had villages and concert venues - Israel's human shields.
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by LindeBuzoGray 3y ago
I am watching Israel carpet bomb Gaza right now, I see Israel targeting civilians.
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by LindeBuzoGray 3y ago
How many thousands of Palestinian prisoners has Israel been holding for years?
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by LindeBuzoGray 3y ago
Right. Land and air telecommunications are almost totally controlled by Verizon and AT&T. They are also some of the largest cable companies, although Comcast is a competitor. Although Comcast owns NBCUniversal, and we can start getti
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by LindeBuzoGray 3y ago
> Markets > We believe central economic planning elevates the worst of us and drags everyone down; markets exploit the best of us to benefit all of us > We believe central planning is a doom loop; markets are an upward spiral There
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by LindeBuzoGray 3y ago
> Think of what this woman and many other women trapped in these regimes are going through Iran had a parliament in 1953, when the US and UK launched operation Ajax after the prime Minister nationalized Iran's oil. The prime Minis
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by LindeBuzoGray 3y ago
> Iranian oil was nationalized; in 1951 the National Iranian Oil Company took control, and retained it even after Mossadegh’s ouster (even up to today). Control of oil sales reverted back to British Petroleum (and the Seven Sisters) afte
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by LindeBuzoGray 3y ago
Right, Mandela got it when he was being conciliatory to the government and its Western support, with other ANC elements being less so. The same with Arafat - he was conciliatory to Israel and its western support at Oslo, with Hamas and the
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by LindeBuzoGray 3y ago
Also Iran in 1953 had a prime Minister Mosaddegh, who wanted to nationalize Iran's oil. The UK (and US) sought the support of right-wing mullahs, then overthrew the prime minister and replaced him with a dictator. Then the CIA helped
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by LindeBuzoGray 3y ago
> Difference is that Serbia was actively committing ethnic cleansing I just watched videos today of an ongoing ethnic cleansing of Armenians in Karbakh that is happening today. Although from the mouths of a lot of western governments t
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by LindeBuzoGray 3y ago
> he tried to downplay the genocide and the violence committed by the Khmer Rouge The US carpet bombed Cambodia just like it did Vietnam, and Chomsky condemned this. This nebulous "Khmer Rouge" you refer to was armed by the US
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by LindeBuzoGray 3y ago
Not stealing, but as I said, stealing from one's friends. Most cultures frown on that.
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by LindeBuzoGray 3y ago
It can be seen in an individual. A boy is raised in rural Oaxaca, Mexico. He works on a farm, speaks Copala Triqui and no Spanish. Then when he's 14 his family moves to east Los Angeles. As he adjusts to his new situation, his behav
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by LindeBuzoGray 3y ago
If I add value which management does not approve, then I am met by threats on their end. That is a stunning argument against management. The workers create all the wealth and do all the work. The heirs who own the controlling stake in a b
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by LindeBuzoGray 3y ago
> And no, working 32 hours is not as productive as 40 hours. By this logic, working 48 hours is more productive, working 54 hours even more productive, 62 hours even more productive. It can be cranked up even more - the English did and
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by LindeBuzoGray 3y ago
So the union and company came to a legal agreement about work and your father chose to do work breaking that agreement. What would happen if I began installing or moving pipes at my company that management and ownership told me not to? A &
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by LindeBuzoGray 3y ago
> But no matter how much money is allocated to fix the problem of homelessness, fixing it attracts more homeless. Their feet aren't nailed to the ground on the other side of the continent... if they hear of a magical place that solv
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by LindeBuzoGray 3y ago
> Maybe ask a few South Koreans about that? Like who, the hundreds of civilians the US massacred at No Gun Ri ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Gun_Ri_massacre )? Or all the other civilians shot and bombed by the
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by LindeBuzoGray 3y ago
> try to disincentivize radical politics inside the parties Average inflation-adjusted weekly earnings were higher in the 1970s then now. The average inflation adjusted hourly wage is lower than what it was a half century ago. A the gr
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by LindeBuzoGray 3y ago
Migratory hunter gatherer bands still exist, and no observation of them through history has found kings or slave owners among them. Nor is there historical evidence. I'm not sure how a migratory hunter gatherer band which has few pos
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by LindeBuzoGray 3y ago
> This has been tried, and results in horrible oppression within just a few years of implementation. I can see the appeal, but you have to re-invent humans to make it work. From 50,000 years ago to 10,000 years ago there were no capitali