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> Isn't it just as crazy how much people care about Palestine when much worse atrocities are happening around the world? What are the much worse atrocities than Gaza that are happening? > Why do they care so much about just that
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> We don’t know how to value the work of a corporate employee but we’re simultaneously all being paid less than we’re worth. A number of people do work and create wealth, and then every quarter a dividend is sent off to some heir. &quot
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The entire world was socialist from the time of the Lubang Jereji Saleh cave paintings 40,000 years ago until 10,000 years ago. Societies with different classes only sprung up 10,000 years ago. They only scaled with force, and the liter
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As the chart shows, the real spike in grade inflation is when the US government effectively used GPA as a measure for whether or not young men were sent off to patrol villages next to rice paddies in Vietnam.
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> X Edward Guo, a professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, said that part of the problem is that, unlike in the US, military research does sometimes take place on university campuses. “ Yes those dastardly Chinese univ
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> fiat money is granted value by the assent of all (backed by the monopoly on violence of the government) But most left economists do not think this. I think the modern idea is that "fiat" currency has been implicitly backed by
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> The problem is that Hamas fighters don't wear uniforms Hamaa doesn't wear uniforms because Hamas is a political party. The al-Qassam Brigades do wear uniforms, as I have seen in GoPro and other footage from October 7th and a
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> Which US military intelligence offices were those? I don't recall anything of that sort from the 9/11 Commission report. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-cia-lost-office-in-wtc/
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> I don't see why we should let a small group of people hold the whole economy hostage just to enrich themselves. So you're against capitalism
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So Musk whose father owned diamond mines is not an heir. Arnault whose father owned Ferret-Savinel is not an heir. Gates father was a prominent lawyer, his mother was an heiress who was on a board with the chairman of IBM. Even looking at t
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I find the level-headed realism and appreciation of those of us who work in OP's post refreshing, and the solipsism and wishful thinking of your post depressing.
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Of course you're correct, but forget about that - two thirds of the team that started Viaweb and then Y-Combinator crashed, according to then contemporary reports, 10% of the machines on the Internet for the fun of vandalism or a prank
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Being as an article was just posted talking about an Economics Nobel Prize in its title, the comment seems certainly needed, and if it is not novel, then its repetition would seem necessary.
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There is no Nobel Prize in Economics. 67 years after the Nobel Prizes were given out, the bank that Alfred Nobel entrusted his estate to started handing out prizes to Milton Friedman, Fredrick Hayek and so forth. Even the bank doesn'
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I spent much of 2020 trying to find things like bread in US supermarkets. It's funny how people harken back to Russia 40 years ago as if I was not walking through empty supermarkets four years ago.
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I've been reading endless headlines about how hard it is to do business in China because the Chinese courts subpoenaed business records from Bain's China offices etc., wonder if I'm going to see endless articles about how ha
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> The situation for Arab Israeli citizens, fraught as it may be, is not comparable to that of Black Africans under Apartheid, or that of Black Americans in the 1950s. There are Arab Israelis in the Knesset. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and Wi
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We see endless posts about the Chinese, the Russians and so on - now it is about Israel though so no more "political posts".
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Perfect encapsulation of this lack of sovereignty - not only is OP not sovereign, for all the reasons they mentioned, but OP is being imperially instructed that they are not even allowed to mention that they are not sovereign any more.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_army_of_labour
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> I could have said something in my talk about the Uyghurs What a laugh to point a finger at Chinese treatment of Muslims when the NATO countries are arming the genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
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The original Likud charter said from the river to the sea should be Jewish domination. Netanyahu recently affirmed that. Funny to speak of genocide when the self-described Jewish state is committing genocide in Gaza and is being brought up
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Where is the freedom in China. Could you imagine if the US Congress called the heads of its most prominent universities in, and lambasted them for not cracking down on student groups critical of US imperialism, and then those university hea
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> The core problem we face is overproduction. Vastly more can be produced than can be consumed. Varoufakis agrees overproduction is a problem and alludes to it in many places. The Global Minotaur - "Profit can only be envisaged if
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Luckily I live in the US - you'd never see things like the government demanding the heads of our most prominent universities be fired because they're not cracking down on anti-imperialist student groups hard enough.
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Europeans crossing the oceN, committing genocide against the native population and having a slave and Jim Crow society in the resource rich third biggest land mass country in the world is what made America rich. (China has the fourth larges
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This is the argument conservatives made in the 1950s and 1960s against blacks having the right to vote, drink from water fountains, swim in public swimming pools, sit anywhere on a bus etc. They said they were not against blacks per se, bu
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> The workers of the world may think the chains were made to bind them, but in truth the chains bind the military and security apparatus. The last quarter millenia of history stands in contradiction to this. The country with the most e
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That's right there are no differences. The UK nabbed a 17 year old English girl named Carole Richardson in 1975 and tortured her until she confessed to bombing pubs that soldiers frequented in Guildford. Her detention without charge
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Glad the New Yorker is going through the dirty linen and family tabloid stuff of a foreign writer who has been dead for over a half century. Harold Ross never ran a great magazine, but even he kept such dreck out. This is more of that post

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