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Why do you believe any of that marketing? Rogue states? Terrorist groups? It's about power. If the US government cared about its people, then there would be rea
by engineeringwoke 5y ago
Why do you believe any of that marketing? Rogue states? Terrorist groups? It's about power. If the US government cared about its people, then there would be real regulation to protect them. There isn't any because it's profitable to exploit them, not because of any libertarian ideal.
Meddling in the affairs of any corporation that handles just a single US dollar transaction is the opposite of interpersonal freedom. I am not sure how you can get this far into thinking about the subject while holding such a bizarrely cognitively dissonant belief.
- ethanbond 5y agoThese sanctions are frequently a point of negotiation against our adversaries. That’s my evidence that they matter. Unless you think they’re just wasting their asks on things that they don’t care about? What evidence do you have for it being profitable (to whom?) to exploit (how?) the American people (by whom?)?