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[–]GST893 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Mini Mussolini deserves the same fate as the original.

[–]JoeyJoeJoe 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Has the ever been a time in history with more obvious conflicts of interest and more hideous entanglement between government and industry?

This corruption all stems from a rotten monetary system, though it's hard to know what to replace it with.

[–]Tarrock 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's not the monetary system. It's fucking court cases and legislation that allows politicians to be in bed with corporations and other countries like Israel, Corporate lobbyists writing all the legislation, and 0 ways to hold anyone accountable.

[–]JoeyJoeJoe 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

All motivated by.... the quest for more currency.

[–]StillLessons 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Money must be tied to some item humans cannot "define into existence". In other words, when it was the gold standard, humans cannot manufacture gold without actual work accomplished. Thus gold defined the quantity of work required per unit of gold extracted. The "barrel of oil" system actually created a similar system, though it was less tightly tied, with relatively informal connection between oil price and dollars. Current money (pure printing press) comes from zero work. It has zero value, yet is accepted for goods requiring work to create/extract. Thus the extreme chaos economically. Whatever system replaces the current system must be based on some item that represents inherent work. Only when the currency represents actual work accomplished can it be used as a stand-in for other items also representing work accomplished.

This is what "hard-money" means.

[–]passionflounderIndependent 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Recent history has demonstrated that, not only will those who aid and abet the hard leftist agenda NOT be held accountable for their crimes, but they will be given cover to continue their assault on out economic and political system.

I have "smoking gun bombshell fatigue" and am nearly as weary of the manipulative false hope campaign as I am the political war being waged against us that it purports to oppose. I'll alter my view once decisive justice is delivered for things like Hillary's careless handling of classified information while SoS, Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch's suspicious tarmac meeting, James Comey's blatant lies before Congress, etc., etc., etc., etc...

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

I agree. The problem is not that we don't know what they've been doing; it's that we've been trained for decades that the AIC (Assholes In Charge) can do whatever the fuck they please and they will get away with it. Until there is concrete evidence of criminal accountability for their fuckery, we may as well stop talking about it. If the universe does contain any actual moral balance, then the consequences representing actual justice - when they do finally arrive - are going to be beyond ugly to witness. If this does occur, however, those receiving this very ugly justice will deserve every lick of it. The horrors they have been allowed to commit for 110 years now require one hell of a balance...

[–]proc0 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's just unbelievable, the same asshole who funded the whole mess, is the one telling the whole country how to respond to it. I would think a movie with this plot is too dumb and unrealistic.