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Yeah... no. You shouldn't overestimate these intelligence agencies. The Nazis never got wind of the Warsaw Uprising and the US never got wind of the Tet offensive... they are simply not that infallible.

The whole problem with this theory is that Israel has gone to great lengths to "stabilize" the imprisonment of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank in the hopes of normalizing the situation even further - a very important requirement for Israel's attempts to normalize relations with it's neighbours. That's what their precious "Security Barrier" was all about. That "stability" is now shattered - probably forever - and so are their hopes of getting Arabic nations permanently on their side. That's why the US is suddenly shifting carrier groups into the area - this could be the beginning of the end of the current status quo, and the US knows that.

This whole obsession with policing people's nationality came about because states were trying to clamp down on the massive amounts of working-class agitation that erupted across the world straight after WW1 - but all that history has essentially been scrubbed out from the "official" narratives.

Better for whom? Tell that to all the people doing the heavy lifting under capitalism.

Besides... a "communist" dictatorship isn't communist - it's just a dictatorship. If you're doing dictatorship, you're not much of a communist.

We did the same in 2016

Nope. Not yet. The right-wingers thought they could install overt fascism without the help of liberals - they thought wrong. They tried to win the streets - antifa beat booted them off it. They got their Great Orange Fuhrer into the Waffle House - liberal disdain isolated him and booted him out. What needs to happen is liberals being frightened to such an extent of working class revolt that the violence fascists offers becomes the "lesser evil" - and a good first step is to find hysteria "hot button" issues that liberals are too ignorant and naive to see through... like above-mentioned "protect the children" trope.

Modern economists don’t normally align themselves with simplistic ideologies

Yeah... there's just a whole bunch of them whose sole purpose seems to be coming up with simplistic fairy tale narratives to brainwash the masses with. After all... what would Reagen have been without Hayek, or Pinochet without the Chicago Boys?

Ooooh... the liberals are about to hand the fascists the keys to the tanks.

When they remove old.reddit it's over for me - there is no browser I've tried that new.reddit hasn't managed to crash within a few minutes of using it.

But I'll stay on old.reddit for as long as possible... there are just too many nazis and fascists waiting in the wings to hijack the communities I've put a lot effort into. It's better to just milk them for as long as possible.

Koreas "chaebol" system isn't just any kind of conglomerattion, though... it was based on the system the Japanese used to dominate Korea during it's colonization of that country, which the US simply encouraged after the war. The dictatorships that followed basically ran with it... and now you have these gigantic, government-subsidized "chaebols" that is the epitome of "too big too fail." South Korea is about as oligarchic as it gets.

It's utterly hilarious to me when "free market" cultists try to use South Korea as an example of how miraculous their fairy tale economic ideology is.

The suspect, who was not identified by officials, fled was allowed to flee the scene on foot.

Fixed that for 'em.

Gardening is more dangerous than being a cop. It's not a high bar.

Also, i thought ghengis khan was all about meritocracy.

No... Genghis Khan wasn't a joke. Meritocracy is.

Lol!

Found another fascist!

Putting everything in the hands of the State is a recipe of disaster.

Tell me you don't understand what the word socialism means without telling me you don't understand what the word socialism means.

Whether they should is a thing unworthy of consideration - if they don't it means we have no use for states at all. The interesting thing is whether they could if they wanted to. And the answer to that is yes - they could. The fact of the matter is that they do not want to.

And if it does everything, it's communist-er.

If a socialist calls you a dickhead, it means they're still trying to spare your feels.

A socialized economy would pretty much result in everything else being socialized.

Not socialism.

There is such a thing as a "non-extremist" right-winger?

Fun fact... lobster and crayfish were so disdained once that it was literally only used to feed prisoners.