It's not secret that it's happening. Palintir is well known to have the contract to built the list. The secret is who's been flagged as scheduled for termination or deportation out whatever.
I really loved when, a few years ago, he fell ill and flew to France (IIRC) for medical treatment. His family was so sure he wouldn't make it, they filled a commercial airliner with people ready to flee the country.
Then he bounced back! GD Methusala over here. And they all had to go home and pretend like nothing happened.
Yesterday Miller said on CNN that Trump has plenary power. That's the legal term for full, absolute, total control of the country. A literal king. Miller then shuts down because he's a clown that realizes that he isn't above the law.
We are there kiddos. It's just a matter of who is willing to say it out loud.
When "Fuck" has all the offensive heft of "dang", the young will sort through the linguistic trash for anything that makes people feel worse. And they have it.
100%. I don't hate Massie at all. We disagree on policy matters and methods. I don't expect he's going to throw me in a gulag for disagreeing with him.
Massie is super libertarian, but often his criticism of these people is based. What he does as a Representative, I'm not a huge fan, but it is a nice sanity check.
OK, I will absolutely apologize for assuming you were American. I try not to creep on people's post history unless necessary, and didn't double check. That's on me, and I'm genuinely sorry for that.
Though, I'm not defending capitalism, other then to try and find the minimal threshold necessary to fulfill it in the original comment. I respect you sticking to whatever politicial or economic stance you want, and I was being a dick yesterday and I'll blame wine and sun for that. Mostly wine.
As a sorta-kinda economist, the point on which I have settled from seeing a lot of people on several continents live their lives, is that communal living and resource allocation is suitable for emergencies and basic survival in small and rudimentary settings. That is well documented in the anthropological record.
Beyond that, humans have a tendency towards transactionalism, often somewhat incorrectly termed capitalism, because transactions don't require saving money for capital to be used later. There's a great book called African Friends and Money Matters that is a frustrating look at a Westerner in Senegal trying to explain how the fundamentals of resource application work. It summarizes perfectly how most of African village level communities work, and I hope fascinating to someone who wants to start from a point of communal resource allocation.
But, my personal opinion is that we grow from that point outward to transactions while luxuriated and well-resourced, and capitalism past that in habitual abundance. So Marx proposing such limitation and hemming people in to a command economy seems counterintuitive simply from the perspective of trying to get people to participate willingly.
That's not a defense of capitalism, but simply pointing to where it naturally crops up. I can't abide Marx, so if there's a third option other then radical agrarian anarcho-syndicate communes and basic cooperatives, that has seen success, I would be interested to hear it. But those, much like Yugoslavia, are also very personality dependent and so not likely to last longer than 60-80 years or so.
It's not secret that it's happening. Palintir is well known to have the contract to built the list. The secret is who's been flagged as scheduled for termination or deportation out whatever.