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"Initially liberal economic and political ideals ended in a plan for U.S. autarchy. Free trade gave way to blocism and protectionism, and open investment policies to controls over international capital movements. -
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It’s “military socialism” or “social imperialism”— or even SUPERIMPERIALISM. We do socialism via imperialism. When you work for the military, they just print you the money.
Power to the People ☭🕊@ProudSocialist
Holy shit! Trump just admitted the US can’t take care of its people because it’s a military dictatorship: “We can't take care of daycare. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, and Medicare. We have to take care of one thing: Military.”
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I never knew that the U.S. subsidizes domestic agriculture by purchasing crops (which keeps the prices high) and then distributes these as foreign aid.
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“The cost of any foreign activity of the United States becomes significant only when it is related to the benefits which the United States receives from that activity.” - 1957, Senate report on the concept, objectives, and evaluation of foreign assistance
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Do fear and envy drive politics? @TylerCowen is more optimistic—he believes politics is driven by people simply trying to make their country better.
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- American planners brought about precisely the drive for Soviet-style self-sufficiency that they had hope to thwart." - Hudson. The deeper revelation of so called "opposition" is that each, in the midst of its contradictions, may produce the very thing it claims to stand against
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"Initially liberal economic and political ideals ended in a plan for U.S. autarchy. Free trade gave way to blocism and protectionism, and open investment policies to controls over international capital movements. -
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"the irony of fate apparently has willed it that the proponents of free international trade, free markets, free competition, and private enterprise will soon find themselves strengthening a global-wide collectivist system of society and rigorous planned economies..."
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NOW - Jerome Powell on the $38,990,000,000,000 U.S. national debt: "We don't have to pay the debt down, we just need to have primary balance and begin to have the economy actually growing better... It will not end well if we don't do something fairly soon."
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Without drugs... what is the greatest weapon against anxiety and depression?
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Modern economic ideology insists on the security of contracts for debt liabilities and today’s economic orthodoxy rejects acknowledging that the exponential dynamics of debt leads to oligarchy if governments do not intervene to write down debt. - Hudson
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The crime is inevitable, so the only thing that matters is who gets to govern it.
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How am I just learning that the Sabbath is connected to Jubilee?
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Contradictions (leading to hypocrisy) are inherent, scale invariant, and infinite. Discourse pointing to contradiction is infinitely layered; there’s always a layer consequently sublated by the next layer. This is also mirrored in the development of the personality structure.
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“No Kings” protesters assembled to form a message reading “TRUMP MUST GO NOW!” at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California today
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@miltonappl3 "Every thing has its Own Vortex; and when once a traveller thro Eternity has passed that Vortex, he percieves it roll backward behind His path, into a globe of itself infolding; like a sun: or like a moon. or like a universe of starry majesty” -Blake
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