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> There's no smoky backroom where Biden and Macron and Sunak and Scholz sit in high-back leather chairs with glasses of whisky scheming about how to counter eac
by tekknik 4y ago
> There's no smoky backroom where Biden and Macron and Sunak and Scholz sit in high-back leather chairs with glasses of whisky scheming about how to counter each threat to their power
Why whenever anybody says anything that can be construed as conspiratorial do we automatically assume it is? World leaders can meet without the conspiracy, they do it all the time.
- stametseater 4y agoWhy do we automatically assume that people conspiring is a farcical premise? Common criminals conspire with each other all the time. Business leaders conspire with each other when they form illegal cartels. Why can't politicians or even heads of state conspire? Why is that considered so outlandish? For instance, the leaders of prominent American tech companies conspired with each other to suppress wages. Should this be laughed at? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt#Role_in_illegal_non-recruiting_agreements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt#Role_in_illegal_n... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...