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by regularization 8d ago
Because 5 companies control 80% of movie box office in the US and that number is about to shrink to 4? Not only making the profits and doing massive layoffs, but deciding what content we can see? When purchasing Paramount, David Ellison pu
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by regularization 13d ago
She started her activism spying on European progressive groups for the CIA. You take it for granted that she is the representative of the women of the world. Thus any critique of this woman the establishment foisted on us is misogynistic.
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by regularization 13d ago
The CIA sent her to Europe to spy on progressive groups. She talked about it long ago. She says the CIA was progressive and liberal (her words. not mine). https://youtube.com/watch?v=4HRUEqyZ7p8
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by regularization 17d ago
The US and Europeans did not make decisions to "keep" countries under subjugation - they were tossed out - in Ireland, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Vietnam, Indonesia and so on. The US lost 50,000 soldiers trying to subjugation the Vietna
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by regularization 18d ago
> Loss of sovereignty' for some reason is perfectly fine for Iceland, Switzerland and Norway, but not UK or others wanting to leave. Kind of rich to say after the "Labour" PM of the UK said he would not allow the six occup
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by regularization 23d ago
The most cogent reply I have seen here. She and/or you have a false conception of what a big five corporation is, or how it works. Yous probably also have a false conception of how relations of production under capitalism work as well.
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by regularization 24d ago
The inflation adjusted hourly production/bonsupervisory wage in the US in 1972 was $31.10 an hour. That wage is currently $32.40 an hour. A half century of productivity growth is 5% gains for those who work for a living in the US. M
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by regularization 1mo ago
The slaves in Jamaica had a radically different experience then the slaves of America? The colour bar. Colored Alien Seaman's Order, Kelso Cochrane, Bristol Bus Boycott Could go up to Brixton incidents or all the attacks on this profes
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by regularization 1mo ago
As the article talks about Marx, let us consider the falsifiable predictions of Narx, who died in 1883. * Economic crises (recessions, depressions) would continue, and becone worse over time (example: subprime crisis of 2008) * profitabilit
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by regularization 1mo ago
> Suppose you become politically radicalized and become a Marxist. You get convinced that the labor theory of value is correct. > The number of people in the general population who will know enough about the history and philosophy of
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by regularization 1mo ago
> Trickle-down economics has never been a real economic policy, and never been seriously advocated by federal policy-makers. It is an entirely pejorative term created by detractors of supply-side economics. https://thehill.com
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by regularization 1mo ago
The US Department of Labor measures wages, and adjusted for inflation the hourly wage is below what it was in 1973. It is even lower if you are only counting non-management roles then and now. Wages have not gotten better over the past ha
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by regularization 2mo ago
Even more $859 billion to DoD $339 billion Veterans benefits Then when we look at the $952 billion in interest, a good chunk of that is due to past military spending. Plus even more - tens of billions of the military nuclear budget is done
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by regularization 2mo ago
And what happened before then? Iran had a secular prime minister, Mossadegh, but the UK and US supported, among others, conservative clerics to overthrow that elected government to put in a dictatorship. Then in the 1970s the CIA provided
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by regularization 2mo ago
> So if we use Google as a case study for "progressive business", having mostly succeeded at giving the poorest people one Earth an equal product to the richest people on Earth, what is the takeaway? How should the people of Ga
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by regularization 2mo ago
There really hasn't been a heretical witchhunt in the US in recent times like against those who do not want US aid to Israel. BDS resolutions and state employees across the country having to sign pledges they won't boycott Israel
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by regularization 3mo ago
> there is no free market here whatsoever. The fact that BYD's cost structure is what it is is the direct result of Chinese industrial policy. Aside from countless other ways before and after this, the US government handed over tens
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by regularization 3mo ago
> the baby which merely inherited the money How many babies inherit money? The earliest heirs usually get access to their inheritance is when they choose to at eighteen.
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by regularization 3mo ago
> According to the LVT, capital costs are not real. Capital costs are not real in LTV? A carpenter takes wood, nails and hammer and creates value making tables. Hammers are a capital cost and are made the same way - workers are a factory
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by regularization 4mo ago
> an enemy that isn't concerned with civilian casualties You mean like when the Zionists openly stopped food from getting into Gaza, while the western governments were backing the Zuonists? Those people concerned with civilian casu
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by regularization 4mo ago
This happened two years after the US invaded. In fact the US had encouraged religious Shiite uprising in the south, which is universally acknowledged. The US military invasion shifting power to mullahs, the Baathist has to make concession
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by regularization 4mo ago
Isn't this the country the US and UK invaded in 2003 because of non-existent WMDs (shades of Iran today) and overthrew the nationalist, secular leader, so that it has now fallen more into the hands of Islamists? Incidentally Iraq'
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by regularization 4mo ago
Right, but the CalPERS is sliced into over 2 million pieces, whereas a family office or gulf sovereign wealth fund has much less divvying up. It looks big until you see it has to be divided 2 million ways, as opposed to maybe 20 ways with
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by regularization 4mo ago
> Pensions fund a significant part of PE and they do so because they need around a 7% return in order to look solvent. Pensions fund PE because PE can do a short term cooking of the books in order to smooth out the growth curve. So the
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by regularization 4mo ago
That data centers are burning fossil fuels and burning up the earth is not FUD.
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by regularization 4mo ago
> Taiwan is not simply an island claimed by Beijing Yes, China claims Taiwan and China are the same country. Not mentioned is that US policy also says that Taiwan and China are the same country. In fact Taiwan policy is that China and
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by regularization 4mo ago
Interesting how politicians, preachers and consumers are the powers in the world but rich people are missing from the equation.
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by regularization 4mo ago
Here is cabinet minister and minister of National Security publishing a video of him smacking around the people on the flotilla who were trying to bring food to Gaza. They were seized in international waters incidentally. He also has them
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by regularization 4mo ago
> never once actually did any work I work at a company creating wealth, and heirs who own stock collect dividends from the company. What work did they do? You're talking about the guy sitting near you who you don't feel is wo
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by regularization 4mo ago
If we roll back 10,000 years, people often worked less hours per week. No class society where we have to serve the rich. Drinking alcohol, painting caves. Sounds pretty good.

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