@tonyannett Rapid industrialization for the purpose of war production or acquiring specific goods, yes.
But an actual consumer economy that genuinely makes people better off and produces a large variety of niche products? Nope.
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Aetrion
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Nearly every successful case of rapid industrialization - Germany, Russia, Japan, Korea, China - was state directed.
Steve Hanke@steve_hanke
"Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer." – Ludwig von Mises
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@andres20ad Right, now show the rural parts of China, and then we'll talk about "equality".
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Por 17 años, Pinochet vetó a la izquierda y así pudo privatizar derechos, precarizar el empleo y aumentar el costo de vida. Por 80 años, China ha vetado a la derecha y así logró reducir la desigualdad, la delincuencia y hoy es una potencia económica. El problema es la derecha.
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@pepel_klaasa Well, then I forgive you for knowing even less about American politics than most Americans.
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@middle_class_us That's what happens when you create a system that requires a successful, prosperous generation to come after you, and then fuck over the generation that comes after you.
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Social Security might get cut.
After decades of paying in.
After doing everything right.
And people are just supposed to accept that?
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@Michael19896378 @EthanLevins2 Not similar at all. Nobody called the WTC and told them to evacuate.
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This is called terrorism.
No matter if it’s Israel or ISIS.
In this case, it’s Israel.
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@EthanLevins2 Right, why is there always a camera pointed at the building as it gets hit?
Is it maybe because residents are told to evacuate before the strikes to minimize loss of life?
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Right now you’re largely experiencing the economy from a time when the Strait of Hormuz was open, because it takes many weeks for oil tankers to traverse the seas. You still experience the Strait as open, even though it’s been closed for weeks. But once that reality hits…
The Best@Thebestfigen
Paradox: If you see a baby located 90 light-years from Earth, right now it would be a 90-year-old, but you see it in your present, as a baby. While the light takes time to reach you, the baby grows and ages. When you look at the universe, you are always looking at the past.
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@_6signxxx Except Germans renounced the ideology that made them start WW2 an we punished the ones that didn't.
Have we made Muslims renounce the religion that tells them to conquer the world? Nope, we just spread a bunch of propaganda about how nice they actually are.
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Probably because normal people with functioning brains don’t blame every single Muslim for 9/11 the same way I wouldn’t blame my German mate for WW2 you stup!d b*stard.
iza@izamamaa
How the hell does the city that experienced the biggest Islamic terrorist attack in history vote for a Muslim mayor?
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@Lukewearechange "An injured warfighter isn't being turned into a circus animal, clearly there is a conspiracy here!!"
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Where are the pilots and is it strange that we haven't heard from them or is there some protocol that prevents that from happening?
I would think there would be some kind of appreciation of them no? kinda strange how this story just is being dropped and forgotten.
Power to the People ☭🕊@ProudSocialist
Where are the missing pilots? Why hasn’t Trump paraded them around to try to save his sinking approval ratings? Because the whole “rescue” mission story was a lie to cover up a failed mission to steal the Uranium that Iran thwarted.
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@Aetrion @CameronCorduroy Shouldn't have shot first with the Texas redistricting. Sorry, pal.
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correct.
letting you have one district was the compromise.
Benjamin Domenech@bdomenech
The NYT, WaPo, WSJ and Politico referred to Abigail Spanberger as a "moderate" more than 35 times last year. This is what "moderates" do:
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@itisteuvotime86 @CameronCorduroy You mean un-gerrymandering Texas was shooting first? The hypocrisy knows no bounds.
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@daiyanhlover @CameronCorduroy Except they didn't gerrymander texas, they removed a gerrymandered district that democrats forced into texas by using activist judges to pass race based laws. You know... like evil pieces of shit.
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@Aetrion @CameronCorduroy Hilarious how Republicans spent a year celebrating Texas’ gerrymandering and then it turns out they are the ones actually crying about it. Endless hypocrisy, pure evil.
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@MyLordBebo I think they are told not to linger on the stairs.
What I'm wondering is why nobody ever walks directly behind them on those stairs. None of this would look awkward if the guy taking care of the umbrella was two steps behind and it was just a hand-off.
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@rabbriansamuel The first one. Christianity views Judaism as its root religion, but it does not observe the covenant, and it believes the Messiah was already here, so it's a fundamentally different belief system at this point.
They share history, not beliefs.
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In your opinion, which best describes Christianity's biblical relationship to Judaism?
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@GodsgreatG Because it takes hundreds of thousands, if not millions of years, and we've only been looking for it for 147 years now.
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I have a genuine question. Many scientists say humans evolved from apes and other primates. So why don’t we see that kind of evolution happening today? Why does it seem like it stopped?
Apatheia Ⓥ 🇺🇸@DanKellyFreedom
Our evolutionary sibling, with whom we share more DNA than either of us do with gorillas or orangutans.
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@mcsquared34 Universities have endowments so huge they could educate people for free for a century and pay all the loans, but luckily the have "educated" a bunch of stupid people into demanding that we rob the tax payers instead.
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@micah_erfan You will never acknowledge that 40% is below the national average for that time period.
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No Republican will ever acknowledge this reality.
Democrats Deliver@DemzDeliver
🚨 Since Gavin Newsom was elected in 2019, California’s GDP has grown 40%.
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