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Who runs the world?
- mattmaroon 18y agoThe freemasons.
- omouse 18y agoVery possible. Have you seen the list of famous Freemasons? Some crazy influential people there!
- xlnt 18y agoAmerica
- xlnt 18y agopg
- nazgulnarsil 18y agoif computer scientists were in charge things would be nearly so fucked up.
- ahold 18y agoThe Jews.
- xlnt 18y agoanti-semitism isn't funny because it's still killing people.
- echair 18y agoIt's a bit much to jump on someone for giving a frivolous answer when you've posted 2 on this thread yourself.
- xlnt 18y agowhat i said does not apply to either of my other comments. and even if it did, that would not change its truth. also i didn't jump on or even directly mention the OP, nor did my post have anything to do with frivolity. edit: btw your post "jumps on" me for "jumping on" someone else, and also complains that i shouldn't criticize others for doing things i did myself. by your own criterion your post is bad.
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- tx 18y agoI like the bias of the article that becomes apparent from the beginning: "Leaders of seven of the world’s richest democracies, plus oil-and gas-fired Russia" First, these "richest seven" aren't really the richest if judged by their GDPs, even among democracies. Second, there was no need to put Russia into special case: it also is a capitalism-fueled democracy (despite media's preference to suggest otherwise) and their GDP is bigger than Italy, UK and France. And finally, this G8 thing makes no sense without India and China in it, both are nuclear powers with economies that are in top 5 largest.
- ardit33 18y agomaybe it is a mix between GDP and GDP per capita, and sheer product output. If you count GDP per capita, then Qatar should be there, but honeslty they are not an industialized country, they just have oil. So, if you count by GDP, then china, should be there, but it can barely feed its own people and its GDP per capita is in 100th place. Heck even my country is better than China. I am not sure what the exact formula is, but I bet is it is a combination of GDP, GNP, PPP(GDP per capita), and Nuclear Capability Like every velvet club, if you don't care about it, than it doesn't matter. Actually if you are cool enough, then you can open your own club, and the other people will start comming to you. China would be smart to create some kind of economic bllock in east and south-east asia, to give it even more clout. But other countries just don't trust them that much.
- nazgulnarsil 18y agopeople constantly ask this question because the idea that no one is running things is too scary to contemplate. this is the reason for both organized religion and conspiracy theories.
- eyudkowsky 18y agoThe Conspiracy