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by peisistratos 7y ago
> Don't like your boss, get another one. I look out my window and watch the birds fly by and wonder why a human like me needs a boss, or a "job creator" or some other euphemism. It's hard for me to comprehend someone
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by peisistratos 7y ago
As I said, there are limited disclosures, just like the Chinese. In this case meaningless - I ask who owns this and you say "Blackrock" and "Northern Trust" as if you've answered the question. "Northern Trust
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by peisistratos 7y ago
What does "secretly owned" mean? The #2 company on the Fortune 500 is Exxon-Mobil. Who owns it? There are some limited disclosures in various places, but this is the same as Chinese firms. Exxon-Mobil is "secretly owned&qu
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by peisistratos 7y ago
> If we agree that poverty is the problem You must not have read what I wrote. The important thing is the social relationship between those who work and the heirs who don't work and expropriate from those who do. Also, you mention
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by peisistratos 7y ago
> always concentrate to the top Your imagination is limited, especially considering that there was no class system when people were painting caves in Chauvet, nor was there one for the 20,000 years after then. One class of heirs parasit
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by peisistratos 7y ago
> If Britain were putting their dissidents and muslims in concentration camps I would be very vocally criticising my own country The UK did lock up dissidents in a mass internment during the 1970s - in the six counties of north Ireland.
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by peisistratos 7y ago
Most work for wages. Workers work a few hours a day creating wealth and keeping the wealth they create. The last few hours a day, they keep absolutely none of the wealth they keep - it is expropriated by heirs. It is a social relationshi
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by peisistratos 7y ago
Actually some accounts have a lot of people protesting feeling the opposite - that the "capitalist roaders" had gone too far in laying off state enterprise workers. In other words supporters of what are described as "hardline
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by peisistratos 7y ago
The two replies are completely puzzled about what I mean by the US army marching into Los Angeles in 1992, with dozens dead in the wake. It makes me think of people who are "shocked" that Chinese college students don't know a
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by peisistratos 7y ago
I said Los Angeles, not Houston. It was defended at the 1992 RNC as I said - https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/patrickbuchanan199... In fact the Republicans have this speaker saying an almost word for word echo
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by peisistratos 7y ago
It sounds like the US government ministers who defended the 1992 crackdown in Los Angeles at the Republican National Convention and elsewhere. The US army marched in to quell the upset, and dozens were killed. Although we do not hear much
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by peisistratos 7y ago
> if you are going to flag or downvote please tell me what the article gets factually wrong Half the articles on the "Weird Republic" web site you link to are bashing a host of various black people and things. Jesse Jackson, K
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by peisistratos 7y ago
This is basically what I did as well. Worked, went to a nearby good state college at night and on weekends, CS major, no debt. Did as many classes as I could handle per semester. Initially I lived with my parents, but was in my own apartm
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by peisistratos 7y ago
That's correct. If someone wants a vocational program to get a job, they should go to a vocational school or program. I didn't spend four years studying computer science to become a C# or Javascript code monkey. Aside from that,
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by peisistratos 7y ago
> actual data The data is available from the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics https://www.bls.gov . The Economist's gloomy figures were right, but are gloomier if pushed back a few years as 1979 was
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by peisistratos 7y ago
The article text does not really support the headline > By last year, the poorest 10% were still earning only a miserly 4.1% more per hour than they did (in real wages) 40 years ago. Median hourly pay for America’s workers was up a littl
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by peisistratos 7y ago
It's hard for me to read this in a US newspaper and square it with the real world. It bemoans race riots and military police in Xinjiang - in China. From the context of the Baltimore race riots three years ago I cast my mind to Xinji
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by peisistratos 7y ago
> Those conditions had long since been fixed by the government's factory acts, but Marx couldn't mention that without undermining his central thesis that democratic capitalism was in a death spiral and couldn't improve the
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by peisistratos 7y ago
> left wing propaganda rag I guess we are reading different Guardian's. If I go to the Guardian web site and search for "corbyn", the leader of the Labour party, #1, #2 and #4 are articles implying, or saying, that he is
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by peisistratos 7y ago
Today I see the establishment, mainstream media, Republican moderates and Democratic leadership foaming at the mouth with conspiracies about how Trump is a Russian spy, and how Russia controls US elections and other wild conspiracies. Mean
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by peisistratos 7y ago
By the end of 1976, virtually all communists were purged from power in the PRC. Mao Zedong had said Deng Xiaoping wanted to take the capitalist road, and when he took power, that's what he did.
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by peisistratos 7y ago
> blame the US The US seized $1 billion from Venezuela, sent the army to the Colombian border, and is calling for the Venezuelan army to revolt.
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by peisistratos 7y ago
They are not refusing food aid, the Red Cross etc. have been let on all along. The US announced the Venezuelan government had no sovereignty over their border and sent "aid" trucks in, which were blocked. Incidentally, "hum
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by peisistratos 8y ago
Off the coast of Louisiana is the Mad Dog spar oil platform, installed in 2005, which at maximum production is pumping 100,000 barrels of oil a day. Louisiana receives no tax revenue from it.
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by peisistratos 8y ago
It says "Against Civilization" is "spreading versions of his message", meaning Kaczynski. But "Against Civilization" was written by John Zerzan, and Zerzan was saying these things before "Industrial Socie
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by peisistratos 8y ago
About 9% of Lebanon's parliament is the political party Hezbollah. They have a satellite TV station, Al-Manar. Americans hooking up satellite dishes to be able to watch it have been jailed, like Javed Iqbal. As far as what the specif
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by peisistratos 8y ago
The chart is incorrect because it does not take into account hundreds of billions in veteran's benefits, nor interest paid on past military spending (and as there is a budget deficit, the current year's military deficit spending w
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by peisistratos 8y ago
Not quickly, but immediately - the Compromise of 1877 abandoned reconstruction and handed back power to these people - the Redeemers.
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by peisistratos 8y ago
The government and corporate America is winning the war on poverty - in preserving it, as they (somewhat) openly desire to do. Just read Businessweek or the Wall Street Journal when unemployment falls. This is not seen as a good thing but
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by peisistratos 8y ago
I (an American) ran into this. Centcom was (is?) doing things like whitewashing the No Gun Ri massacre on Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=No_Gun_Ri&diff=185... . That IP used to resolve to n

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