Yeah, there are a lot more than 8 news outlets.
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We have a joke here in Germany. There are 3 guys at a table- a banker, a refugee and right winger. There are 10 cookies on the table. The banker takes 9 and then turns to the right winger and says, " watch out! The refugee is going to steal your cookie! " The problem is that these people not only donāt get it but they repeatedly, year for year, generation for generation elect the cookie stealing banker again and again. And in US, they also apparently forget that they used to be the refugee.
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Itās not just a German jokeā¦
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This is the first and only time Iāve seen it acted out.
The first time Iāve heard the joke, it was in German. Iām hearing it in English more and more, though.
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Iām always boggled by the idea that being a financial conservative somehow involves removing all regulation, reporting requirements and watchdogs, rather than making sure that theyāre working properly.
I suspect people with a vested interest in swindling the public are lying about that.
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Itās important to remember that the GOP arenāt conservatives; theyāre radical fascists. The only conservatives in current US politics are in the centre-left of the Democratic party.
And theyāre still wrong; the current state of the world is not one in which conservative responses are appropriate. Weāre facing multiple existential crises; radical solutions are required.
But the only radicals in play in current US politics are working to make everything radically worse.
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So, to break this down:
- He tried to do something and failed
- He did something that I donāt quite understand, but whatever.
- His pick for Supreme Court (which he didnāt actually pick) was confirmed
- He struck down a regulation that was basically dead and that Clinton would have also struck down
- A cabinet nominee of his was confirmed
Banner presidency for sure!
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At least the /pol/ memes are obvious lies but have to actually be fact checked. Thereās something to be said about a veneer.
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Iām not sure what this says about the state of the world that itās not just German, but with at least better cookies.
Unfortunately there are still people in America who think that being poor is due to laziness or " not trying hard enough" as opposed to it being anchored in a structural system that doesnāt offer a level playing field. In most parts of the world, folks at least know why they are poor. But well how does the expression go? panem et circensesā¦
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I remember having this conversation with my dad when I was young.
Me:: Why do they have such a nice house and nice cars?
Dad: Some people work harder than othersā¦
Me: Then whereās our nice house and nice cars?
Dad: Well, you see, we donāt go into debt. Weāre responsibleā¦
Me SMGDH
Logic so simple a child can see through it, but adults just deny deny deny. Itās not lack of understanding, itās refusing to accept that things are the way they are.
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Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. Thatās the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Not sure how many know this, but /pol/ handed Wikileaks a massive list of emails from Macon (allegedly).
Itās an interesting series showing Wikileaks determining if they feel is is genuine, and then posting links to it anyways:
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Thatās a strange thing for Wikileaks to say.
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Yes, because they want to stick to the globalists, who they blame for all the bad things. Who cares if women and some minority populations get hurt along the way.
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It gets worse than just sticking it to globalist, they have sent antisimetic tweets out and promote outlandish conspiracies on their twitter feed. With this latest release of the Macron pastebin they have made some serious wounds in their credibility to verify authenticity of documents, since they repeatedly said they have found no fakes despite there being at least a couple obviously fake documents in there being passed around.
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Iām not surprised at all, sadly. the more I hear about Assange, the less he seems like one of the good guys.
But Iām just not sure how we can intersection all of this. As long as people arenāt will to acknowledge that the problem isnāt just either class or race/gender, that BOTH factors are at play, weāre all going to keep getting played by those who seek to keep taking from the rest of us.
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canāt remember if this was posted
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A video viewed millions of times on social media since Saturday appears to show a woman reportedly standing in the checkout line at Trader Joeās in Reston, Virginia, as she is being recorded by another customer.
āI shouldnāt have let you in front of me,ā is uttered as the 75-second video begins, with only a grocery cart in the camera shot. Then you hear, āI wish they didnāt let you in the country.ā
The voice of a young woman reacts: āExcuse me? I was born here.ā The camera begins to pan up as the woman responds, āOh, you were? Okay.ā
Thereās a long pause as the camera slowly works up to the womanās smile. āObamaās not in office anymore,ā she says. āWe donāt have a Muslim in there anymore. Heās gone. Heās gone.ā
Now, glancing down at what is likely a camera/phone, the woman says, āHe may be in jail, too, in the future.ā Challenged on her comments, the woman said, āOh, Iām normal. What set you off? āObama?āā
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Still, the nationalist, anti-globalization camp did not lose all hope. āIn France the battle is lost, the war is not,ā wrote Alexander Dugin, a central philosopher of the nationalist right who also lectures periodically in France. āTransnational (and transgender) elites defeated the people.ā
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