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[–][deleted] 11 insightful - 4 fun11 insightful - 3 fun12 insightful - 4 fun -  (5 children)

They'll complain all day about how hard it is to be LGBT in the US, but God forbid they call out Saudi Arabia for literally executing gay people. I've seen people on the populist left call them out, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a mainstream Democrat who ain't been bought by the Saudis; they own just about every politician on both sides of the isle.

[–]Node 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Would be interesting if there were a way to see how many shares the saudis, jews, chinese, and whoevers own of each politician, and what the breakdown is.

For all the jews in our government, it's probably more like different classes of stock, where the primary class is all owned by jews/israel, but the secondary classes are available for purchase by the saudis, chinese, or whoever.

There's probably a lot of unexpected or surprising stuff in that 'whoever' group. The 13 families, the catholics, satanists, intelligence agencies, and what other powerful groups?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Would be interesting if there were a way to see how many shares the saudis, jews, chinese, and whoevers own of each politician, and what the breakdown is.

How would you even calculate that? It's relatively easy to tell who owns them, but quantifying that is the difficult part; it ain't just donations to their re-election campaigns. Even then, you'd need proof that they acted in reciprocity, and that the bribe wasn't turned down.

It's definitely possible, but the question is if it's feasible.

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It's more of a science fiction fantasy out of the Black Mirror, but it would be cool. Of course our current society wouldn't survive that level of reality.

[–]Trajan 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The UK left is a wonderful example of this, particularly the Labour Party. They embrace anything any-Western or anti-majority, leading to these awkward coalitions of mutually antagonistic groups. They end up having to say one thing to one group, another to others, and then try to ensure none of these groups ever meet.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

And they're anti-Semitic.