peisistratos

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by peisistratos 6y ago
Almost all access to the media, access to the Internet and so forth in the US has been consolidated into the control of six corporations: AT&T/Warner, Comcast, Disney, Newscorp, Sony, and ViacomCBS. As control of almost all commun
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by peisistratos 6y ago
> Fiat currencies (that is, currency that has no intrinsic value) has existed for at least 1300 years, if not longer. They are not based on air If paper currency got bootstrapping 1300 years ago, then why were American and European curre
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by peisistratos 6y ago
As currencies have existed for thousands of years, then I guess it took all that time to bootstrap to a half century ago, where the currency started running on air. Or - A few years or decades from now, our post Bretton Woods, post Gold Sho
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by peisistratos 6y ago
The a priori to all of this current hubbub is a large number of people who are not of an upper class or upper middle class white American background, who are not even heard at all. One example would be Tulsi Gabbard. We do not hear what sh
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by peisistratos 6y ago
So your counterpoint is that the call to genocide was one he relayed directly from the president of the USA? The "I was only following orders" defense did not fly at the Nuremberg trials.
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by peisistratos 6y ago
Kissinger's documented order was "anything that flies on anything that moves". While the Nuremberg trials had a lot of evidence, they never had such direct documentary evidence of a call for genocide like that. (or is that ov
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by peisistratos 6y ago
The US tends to play word games to where they never armed the Taliban, Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda in the 1970s and 1980s. In the same manner its easy to play word games to where after years of screaming headlines about genocide (which I g
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by peisistratos 6y ago
Then Nigeria and Bangladesh have a significant advantage over Japan, Germany, France and the UK.
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by peisistratos 6y ago
There used to be local record shops and big ones downtown - music distribution has since become pretty automated. There used to be many bookstores around - book distribution has become fairly automated. Gamestop has been closing stores and
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by peisistratos 6y ago
> The Covid-19 pandemic has provoked a wide range of lurid conspiracy theories in countries whose governments are hostile to the United States, notably Russia, China, Iran, and Venezuela... authoritarian regimes have exploited widespread
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by peisistratos 6y ago
Hong Kong was broken off of China so that the British could push heroin opium on Chinamen. It's a laugh that westerners think they still have some colonial claim at what goes on in Hong Kong, based on their old drug pushing operation.
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by peisistratos 6y ago
Hong Kong is a colonial relic, it makes all the sense in the world for China to reintegrate this former imperial outpost now.
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by peisistratos 6y ago
The web site this comes from is named for someone who said about Israeld killing of hundreds of children in Gaza bombings "Israel cannot have a proportional response" against the Palestinians.
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by peisistratos 6y ago
The 2nd largest company on the Fortune 500 has its executives doing major business with a government that dismembers Washington Post employees in foreign embassies. In fact, US defense contractors were profiting off their slaughter of Yeme
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by peisistratos 6y ago
Looking at the examples Delong gave 25 years ago, history has been much kinder to Hobsbawm's bleak vision than Delong's. > What has happened in the past decade that has so darkened his vision of our human future? > The past
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by peisistratos 7y ago
"heroic defender of Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion" Kind of a deluded notion - 40 years after the US and UK fought the First and Second Opium war to steal Hong Kong and push opium and heroin on the Chinese population, Chiname
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by peisistratos 7y ago
> His work is a criticism of Adam Smith's theories Marx's work is a continuation of Adam Smith that the subject of inquiry was political economy (not "economics"), that value derived from labor and so on. Modern estab
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by peisistratos 7y ago
As workers tend to have one goal, to have less of their labor time expropriated, there really isn't a reason to have more than one global union. Walmart has over half a trillion in revenue and over two million workers, and it makes se
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by peisistratos 7y ago
> I think every time there is a big peak, or a big valley, some percentage of people are always peddling "but this is different" When stocks crashed in 1929, it was different. In the US we got the New Deal, which still exists
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by peisistratos 7y ago
> I attempted to see a specialist for a condition that I had maybe two or three times, I ended up giving up every single time after I was told the wait time is between 3-4 months. I keep my American employer sponsored private insurance a
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by peisistratos 7y ago
People have been saying the CCP is on its last legs for over 70 years.
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by peisistratos 7y ago
> a member of the plot to murder four exiled opposition leaders in a Berlin restaurant in 1992; and the father of Imad Mughniyeh, the Hezbollah commander believed to be responsible for the bombings that killed more than two hundred and
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by peisistratos 7y ago
> OP: In the 20th century, a lot of very smart people were Marxists — just no one who was smart about the subjects Marxism involves. In 40 years, the USSR, whose economy was about the size of Brazil's in 1917, and who waged a civil
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by peisistratos 7y ago
Struggle sessions aren't analogous, as they were held against class enemies (out-group). More akin are the self-criticism sessions that Maoist cadre held. Communist cadre criticized themselves. Which, if you want another analogy str
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by peisistratos 7y ago
> Volcker showed that focusing on and killing inflation by raising interest rates, even to extreme levels (briefly up to ~20%), you end both inflation and stagnation. Another thing jacked up was the unemployment rate - to 11%. Bad for t
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by peisistratos 7y ago
> Meanwhile, the overall job market is fine... In constant (inflation-adjusted) dollars, according to the US government's Bureau of Labor statistics, current earnings for production, nonsupervisory employees on private non farm payr
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by peisistratos 7y ago
> You mean other than Bin Laden being there, of course. The Taliban provided shelter to a guy who committed a terrorist attack on the US, and refused to give him up. We would never have gone in otherwise. The US was involved in large sca
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by peisistratos 7y ago
> gumming up the negotiating process The negotiation process is the workers trying to keep more of the wealth they themselves create. "Gumming up" is when the people parasitically appropriating surplus labor time from those wo
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by peisistratos 7y ago
> The fact is that Canada spends almost exactly the same percentage of GDP on social welfare as the U.S. If by spending social welfare you mean transfering taxpayer dollars to big health corporation dividends, then yes, the US and Canada
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by peisistratos 7y ago
A famous economist predicted 130 years ago that this would happen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit...

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