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  • Israel launches strike against Iran, declares state of emergency across country

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  • This is the method to convince selfish Americans that don't have empathy for others to understand how it hurts them too.

    It sucks that those people exist, but any support you can eat away at is a good thing.

  • Israel launches attack on Iran

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  • Modern day fascist. This time the "in group" is defined as Jewish Israelis.

  • Israel launches attack on Iran

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  • Have you seen Gaza bro?

  • That's How

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  • Tell that to conservatives that say to cut taxes and social services.

  • seriously

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  • Let's take a famous adage of "teach a man to fish" and attempt to demonstrate these two business strategies. Let's bend this metaphor to the point of breaking. Fish are the analog for energy.

    Business model #1: (solar panels) You make fishing poles so that people can fish on the lake for themselves. After you sell someone a pole, you no longer have that person paying you more money unless they break it. It's a fairly straightforward business that allows people to get their own food.

    Business model #2: (oil) You own the lake, you own the boats and fishing poles. You pay people a wage to fish, that are yours too. You pay people to sell your fish, you build infrastructure to wall off the lake. You pay guards a wage to protect your lake from people that want "free fish". If people want food, you have leverage over people through ownership of all the assets and lake. You can raise prices when you want. As your fish business is successful you buy up all the lakes around and get a monopoly. Maybe you intentionally don't merge with 1 or 2 other companies to prevent government regulation against monopolies and effectively raise prices in unison (it's called price leadership). A freer market will just make this control worse and more pronounced. A new fuedalism will emerge of a few kings and serfs that own nothing and rent from people that own.

    It's more expensive, less efficient, less egalitarian, but it will be more profitable because you own it.

  • seriously

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  • OK. Oil is only profitable for a select few people now. Why don't we rise up in arms to change production and seize the means of production now? More people have incentive to now than not (most people are not oil billionaires), why doesn't it change?

    Coercion through state violence, a propaganda apparatus telling you the only way to structure society is through capitalism, and treats to sedate the masses from revolting against their living conditions.

    A magic nebulous "more free" market doesn't change that.

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  • Exactly? Of course not

    Almost exactly? Yes

  • seriously

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  • That's... the point

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  • Cheaper is not the same as more profitable. It's an important distinction. You can't own and control the sun and charge people to harvest the energy. Monopolizing and gatekeeping are the end goals of capital owners.

    Unless you think the Chinese market is more free. They're producing solar panels like crazy.

  • seriously

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  • Kind of. It's the system they operate under, capitalism.

    Get rid of those specific people and you would have others people take their place.

    However, not to say that it isn't worthwhile to also bust out the guillotines

  • U.S. military pushes more weaponry into the Middle East for possible strikes on Iran

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  • Light the region's oil fields on fire and mine the straight of hormuz.

  • Promise to compromise

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  • Liberals seething rn

  • We do what we must to keep going

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  • Yeah... Why punch up? We should leave old rich white people alone!

  • Tibet: Chinese author refutes People's Republic of China narrative, confirms historical independence of Tibet

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  • The confederacy also didn't want to be occupied and some people would like to go back to pre-invasion confederacy.

    Tibet as localized governance and a federal government. They have some control, similar to how the US has a federal government. Obviously the government structure is different and China has more control at the federal level. I don't care.

    The US killed far far more people during the Civil War. Still justified.

  • Tibet: Chinese author refutes People's Republic of China narrative, confirms historical independence of Tibet

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  • Gonna give you a hint about what was going on in Tibet before reunification with China...

    It was slavery. 95% of the population was a peasant class.

  • The (rule) realisation

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  • Fascism is just capitalism in crisis, imperial boomerang shit.

    It's just visible now to Americans now that the guns are being turned inward

  • Tibet: Chinese author refutes People's Republic of China narrative, confirms historical independence of Tibet

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  • There are some people that want to bring back the confederacy in the United States... so what?

  • You are strong

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  • Thanks for the tip FartMaster69

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    Fuck Jews Free Palestine Rule

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  • Not jews, Israel. It's an important distinction.