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Umn55

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    Comment #10557465

    Oswald spengler - decline of the west Spengler on... Democracy, media, and money Spengler asserts that democracy is simply the political weapon of money, and the media is the means…

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    Comment #10557383

    US distribution of wealth https://imgur.com/a/FShfb http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

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    Comment #10551320

    >There's nothing in your parent's comment that indicates they are ignorant to any of the links you provided. You are incorrect, the history of man is one of lawlessness. Anyone who…

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    Comment #10551101

    "I find it shocking the lack of public reaction to the behaviour of various world governments" Human reasoning doesn't work on logic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ So…

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    Comment #10551061

    How would you do different?

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    Comment #10551058

    >I don’t say I disagree, really, but you really ought to dial down the nutty-rant factor just a tad. Only seems nutty because you don't know what is going on in the world. The (mas…

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    Comment #10550893

    >I don’t say I disagree, really, but you really ought to dial down the nutty-rant factor just a tad. Nothing nutty about it, you just don't know what is going on in the world and w…

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    Comment #10550645

    "but that they were launching active attacks and using the results in an unethical manner, i.e. to conduct possibly-illegal criminal investigations." That's the history of the US i…

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    Comment #10527795

    "Media organizations have several proven strategies to push our buttons: voyeurism, outrage, greed, fear, prurience and envious aspiration are at the top." Goes way beyond that... …

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    Comment #10524397

    Perhaps you should look at the data... Correct. US distribution of wealth https://imgur.com/a/FShfb http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

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    Comment #10522504

    Except its much worse... it has always been so, you're just becoming aware of it. You really need to bone up on your history... http://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-othe…

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    Comment #10519094

    Today, in a world of both unheard-of wealth and abject poverty, where the richest 85 people have more wealth than the poorest 3 billion. http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/fi…

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    Comment #10519086

    Today, in a world of both unheard-of wealth and abject poverty, where the richest 85 people have more wealth than the poorest 3 billion. http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/fi…

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    Comment #10518917

    I did give his name, its Zbigniew Brzezinski

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    Comment #10518256

    "The basic idea of how we do democracy is more-or-less sound." Sorry to tell you but... human beings are bad at reasoning: Science on reasoning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYm…

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    Comment #10518225

    >but I do think we have a problem with capital accumulation by the very wealthy. Correct. US distribution of wealth https://imgur.com/a/FShfb http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/p…

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    Comment #10518223

    "Anyway, his theory on capital accumulation is based on a completely flawed framework, and completely useless for understand what's happening today." Sorry but you've never read ma…

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    Comment #10518187

    >I have maintained for a long time that our society should focus on apprenticeships - not education Problem is corporations don't want that. The corporate attack on education: http…

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    Comment #10518158

    The problem you're not seeing is that no law will ever be passed that goes against it because the rich people that have been ruling you for the past 200+ years don't want it. You d…

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    Comment #10462995

    It seems insane to me that we could allow private corporations to buy and sell data that our government would require a warrant or court order to obtain. You're not seeing what is …

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    Comment #10462899

    "Enormous multi-national corporations should not function as an extension of our Government" You've demonstrated you're completely historically illiterate. It has always been thus,…

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    Comment #10462530

    Goes way beyond that... On the NSA/spying... The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against co…

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    Comment #10369341

    >I don't know what dedicated servers has to do with it? First see the science, I can tell you the facts and figures and you won't reason to the conclusion correctly. https://www.yo…

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    Comment #10368407

    " It's really hard to test for all that traffic in advance" There's this thing, they're called dedicated servers. The reality is that game companies CEO's/execs don't want to pay f…

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    Comment #10367099

    "Empires are not monolithic." First see the science on reasoning, your brain is not the reasoning god you think it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ Which is meaningl…