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It's not that complex - there are workers who work and spend their hours creating wealth, and there are heirs who expropriate surplus labor time from those who do work. It's a parasitism of a class of parasitic heirs on those of
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It was called "From the Killing Fields".
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That's kind of the point - the US and Russia were doing the same thing. In 1961 in tge US, mobs repeatedly formed with implicit police backing and beat the hell out of white and black passengers for daring to sit next to each other, f
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> Communism would have been a far bigger disaster for Germany than fascism - which is really saying something given that the outcome of fascism was the destruction of the nation and decades of foreign military occupation. Huh? Chemnitz,
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The Wikipedia article you linked to mostly goes against what you said. I urge people to read the link which you yourself posted - people can learn about the US arming the so-called "Khmer Rouge".
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The KPNLF were in a coalition government from 1982 on with Sihanouk and the communists, whom you call the "Khmer Rouge". In fact the coalition with the communists happened as soon as the US began funding them - it was probably or
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When Sihanouk and the communists are in alliance in 1975, and the head of state is Sihanouk - everything is blamed on the "Khmer Rouge", whatever that means. When the US begins arming the coalition of Sihanouk and the communists i
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When the US invaded Cambodia in 1970, Prince Sihanouk was ousted and Lon Nol took charge. Sihanouk then allied with the independent Cambodian communists, and after a war in which the US bombed Cambodia more than Europe was bombed in WWII,
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> This line from the article seems to misrepresent Orwell...He makes it clear in his book that he initially had little understanding of the differences in ideology among the various left-wing groups, and chose to join the anarchists rath
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You apparently didn't read carefully yourself. The names were never published. That the logs exposed their names to Wikileaks and other reporters is known. If many names were published, what is one name?
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> people died as a result Who died? Who was even named?
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The web site you link to says information about Afghanistan was leaked, and no informant names published.
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If it has been leaked, then show me the name of one of the hundreds of names of Afghan informants that has been leaked. You can't because no Afghan informant names were leaked.
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Is this the Hamas that the New York Times and Haaretz said Netanyahu sent the head of the Mossad to Qatar to encourage Hamas funding last Autumn? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/i
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One part of the drivel - he says don't let the government inhibit the invisible hand of the market that Adam Smith discusses in The Wealth of Nations. But in The Wealth of Nations, the invisible hand is the hand of the government inhi
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The person who wrote this article has been on a Twitter tear for months about how the police (and not the campus police) need to shut down campus Palestinian protests. The chutzpah to turn around and bash Canada's government for outla
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Obviously people who believe people can magically turn water into wine, or that virgins give birth, or that they can walk on water etc. have better "mental health" than those who are skeptical of all of this.
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> The khmer rouges were primarily China and North Vietnam backed. Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1979 and China invaded Vietnam in 1979. What are you talking about?
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The US began arming the "Khmer Rouge" (whatever that means) in 1979 as well as protecting them in the UN, so the equivalence seems pretty valid to me. Not to mention the US 1970 invasion of Cambodia and concurrent CIA-backed overt
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Especially considering that the US began arming the "Khmer Rouge" in 1979, and then began heavily arming them a few years later.
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The responses to your observation are hilarious. They'd have you think that the mass hiring by FAANG in 2021 and early 2022 followed by layoffs was a good thing. You accurately observe it as being screwy, which it is, but people are
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/marc-andre...
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It seems to me that the tech money people and executives have become nuts in the past few years. This, the YIMBY (really YIYBY, NIMBY) movement, /e/acc, the VCs going to war with San Francisco politicians (including the drunken t
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> The ICC document describes Israel as a "territory" and Palestine as a "State" (capitalised). "...the territory of Israel and the State of Palestine" - the word and appears after the word territory. It me
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How about Israel take them as refugees. After all, some of them still have the keys to their homes which were stolen in the Nakba.
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> Broadly I think Israel has the right ambition (the destruction of Hamas) Well a few months ago Netanyahu sent the head of the Mossad to Qatar asking them to fund Hamas ( https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10&#x2F
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Well the parent said there are no restrictions and there are restrictions.
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The reader should take note that when those celebrating "the only democracy in the Middle East" shutting down a news organization, and blocking Israelis from accessing their web site - when they talk about Hamas and the political
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> Another is the low-paid jobs done without proper employee registration by immigrants. Because construction, lawn care, and sweatshop jobs by immigrants is all registered in the US.
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As opposed to the US, where the heirs who don't work live in mansions, living on the handouts of expropriated surplus labor time of those who do work and create wealth.

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