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That was just a sensationalized story - they sealed the extra doors on a building but left one open, so they could do controlled screening. I think it was actually just that one building too. They didn't weld people inside buildings to die 🙄

As a result they had one of the best COVID responses in the world and saved countless lives.

Life in China is immensely better now than it was in 1999, what are you talking about?

In terms of larger countries, it has been beneficial for France and Germany, less so for Italy

It's just a way for the wealthy metropoles to turn poorer members of the EU into neocolonies. Yeah, it's great for rich Europeans! Not so much for everyone else. Without the ability to deficit spend (because they lack currency sovereignity) they are forced to do austerity and privatization. It's just financial imperialism.

It's a bad system and it will collapse.

There are plenty examples of communal matriarchal preindustrial societies, enough that anthropologists suspect that was the norm for prehistory. It's the invention of property, and thus inheritance and wealth accumulation and lineage, that leads to patriarchy and domination.

“I just found that very unprofessional, very rude, especially when I was just a journalist who’s trying to do his job,” he said of Omar’s response.

Aww. Gonna cry? Gonna shit your pants?

Fuck off.

Ask Greece or the other Mediterranean nations if they are better off without their own currency (hint: they absolutely aren't)

Death to US is a basic statement of understanding that the US empire is the primary contradiction.

The EU as a whole is an interesting project, but the Eurozone currency bloc was a mistake. All it did was surrender everyone else's currency sovereignty to Germany and France.

And death to the US.

The end of the US empire.

Don't give up sovereignity, even to allies! Alliances change, but even ignoring that, it's akin to letting allies run your infrastructure or make your policies or own your water. It's giving part of yourself away.

Data sovereignty is going to be key to maintaining any sovereignity going forward, it's so vital to the function of society and the economy that outsourcing it to another country is just giving part of yourself away.

He's not spineless! He stands up to his constituents for his donors every day. 😉

Inshallah

Uprisings eminent.

How would it encourage the behavior? If they fire and forget, they aren't looking at downvotes anyway.

Sure, the working class is huge. There's all kinds of people.

Still not the norm. Normal workers do not know or care who Soros is, what Davos is, or who the email recipient's husband is.

I wonder how Trump will actually respond to this. He can't just "make a deal" so will he become belligeren/vengeful towards Russia for humiliating him or will he lose interest entirely?

I expect him to lose interest, he doesn't care about geopolitics, but predicting Trump is a fool's game lol

Conspiracy theorists are generally small business owners or retirees living off investments; people with lots of leisure time to drive themselves nuts. The working class usually doesn't have time to go down these conspiracy rabbit holes (it happens, but it's not the norm)

That's literally multiple people conspiring in secret to achieve an illegal goal.

And it's just not necessary.

We're more alienated and isolated than pretty much any time in history, they really could just tell their base "go arrest your neighbor for woke and await further orders" and they would do it. There's just no need for a conspiracy to manufacture riots, their loyalists will happily kill their neighbors. They can just do this whenever they want.

The cruelty is certainly the point, though, and that contradicts your own conspiracy theory. They aren't trying to manufacture riots per se, they just want to make people suffer. Even if there are no riots they get what they want.

manufactured riots come hell or high water. “marshall” law by mid-terms, mark my word.

This conspiracy never makes sense to me.

If they want martial law they can just do it. Just lie and say there are riots, boom. There's no need to manufacture actual riots.

The rich will throw away their perfectly fine boots after a few years because they aren't in style anymore.