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    Quote Originally Posted by Heathen Hammer View Post
    I always thought he was an American, oh well, then he has a point, I guess.
    I am quite curious on his stance on the neoliberal oligarchies in Western Europe in North America.
    He is an American, but he lives in Brazil. I think he fled there out of fear of a backlash from the US after assisting Snowden in publishing leaks. Read his Twitter account for his stance on Anglo-American liberals.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Infidel144 View Post
    You do realize that the "neocons" had supported Biden, don't you?
    Some of them, you are completely right. BUT (there is always a but), on the other side, the populist far-right, oh dear, wow!wow!... well... everyone has a right to say what they believe and what they don't.I completely disagree with H.H.,
    Quote Originally Posted by Heathen Hammer View Post
    .. United Nations, organization mainly famous for its corruption and pandering to dictators and authoritarian undemocratic regimes..."Freedom House" is also a biased source... and is basically just praising regimes that do the globalist elites' bidding.
    "Democratic socialism" is basically an anti-democratic, anti-working class movement aimed at justifying dictatorship by finance elites via use of pseudo-egalitarian rhetoric.
    One thing leads to another: the populist alt right, highly praised by HH. Because one thing leads to another.. a very interesting article about the American far-right,
    Juan Williams: The GOP is an anti-America party | TheHill
    In the last year, every congressional Republican voted against a bill to help the country recover from the economic damage caused by COVID-19.
    Republicans also overwhelmingly opposed an infrastructure bill favored by most Americans.
    Now the GOP is opposed to President Biden’s Build Back Better bill to lower taxes for the middle class and help with child care.
    Doesn’t it infuriate you to see so many Republicans make lying about the winner of the 2020 election a test of party loyalty?...
    Biden recently hosted the first ever White House "Summit for Democracy."
    He warned of threats to global democracy that include “voices that seek to fan the flames of societal division and political polarization.”
    He had every right to include Republicans in the United States.
    Well, I can’t disagree with Biden on that.
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    Unemployment is low and inflation is sky high. The idea that opposing massive Democrat spending bills is “anti-America” has not aged well. Biden and Democrats have been meeting with allies in the press in an effort to control the narrative, but haven’t succeeded so far given all they can do is gaslight people with brilliant messaging like “record inflation is actually good” and “government spending doesn’t cost anything.”
    The CBO score requested by Republicans, which used slightly different methods than previous estimates of the bill, found that the legislation’s provisions, if extended, would add roughly $3 trillion to the deficit over a decade. As currently written, with many of its provisions set to expire some time over the next 10 years, the bill would add about $231 billion to the deficit over a decade, the CBO analysis also found.

    https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/dem...an-11639172824
    * Wall Street expects the the consumer price index on Friday to reflect a 0.7% gain for November, which would translate into a 6.7% increase from a year ago.
    * If that is accurate, it will mark the highest year over year level since 1982.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/09/inve...-40-years.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cope View Post
    He is an American, but he lives in Brazil. I think he fled there out of fear of a backlash from the US after assisting Snowden in publishing leaks. Read his Twitter account for his stance on Anglo-American liberals.
    Greenwald is leftist. As you already now, even the democratic left (generally speaking) has never been in love with the corporatocracy, the political global power of the corporations.
    The Daily Beast asks "Is Glenn Greenwald the New Master of Right-Wing Media?
    Hmm, I don't think so.

    Edit, the power of the global corporations..and the power of the Aristocratic families
    The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy - The Atlantic
    The meritocratic class has mastered the old trick of consolidating wealth and passing privilege along at the expense of other people’s children.
    Its hard to disagree with that.That's the reason why Piketty suggests, we need an internationally enforced capital gains tax. Wealth and Inheritance in the Long Run - Thomas Piketty
    As he has rightly pointed out, we live in an "inequality trap". Until World War I, Piketty notes, British and French elites refused to address inequality, a refusal that rested on sophisticated ideological constructs, as is also the case in the US today.
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    As he has rightly pointed out, we live in an "inequality trap". Until World War I, Piketty notes, British and French elites refused to address inequality, a refusal that rested on sophisticated ideological constructs, as is also the case in the US today.
    Yes inequality is hard to swallow in a nominally meritocratic society, and its the most natural thing in the world to want to pass your resources on to your children. The US remains a decent place with a few problems but Sleepy Joe isn't here to fix them really (any more than the Orange Idiot was), I think he's a placeholder president (unlike the orange Idiot, who was more like an oil stain on your drive way, a bad sign).

    Gasping outrage (OMG [other party] did something hurtfeelings.exe!) aside, the US established a strong position through competition with other systems like Monarchies and Communist states, its hard for the elite not to take advantage of a period of success to exploit the opportunities for personal acquisition.

    Dogwaggers like to present [other party!] as the enemy, or Chynah, or Russia, or femenazis, or whatnot, what we really need is a genuine enemy, say an evil alliance of corporations bent on destroying the environment for profit. Where could we find a group like that to unify the free world?
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    "Equality" has always been the favorite concept of pseudo-egalitarian demagogues, but just like "superiority of X Race" and "dictatorship of proletariat", it is an intentionally vague notion that could mean literally anything - and on practice has always been about promoting interests of the parasitical elites at the expense of everyone else.
    In case of neoliberal regime in Murreka going on spending spree during hyperinflation, it is pretty much bordering the whole "let them eat cake" thing and could end up with similar results.
    Both left and right need to realize that elites are the real enemy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Heathen Hammer View Post
    "Equality" has always been the favorite concept of pseudo-egalitarian demagogue.
    An ignorant comment, between demagoguery and populism. Inequality has been always the favorite concept of neoliberalism.

    ...just like "superiority of X Race"
    Isn't the white race in danger of extinction due to a rising "flood" of non-whites? wasn't African colonialism good for development of Africa?as you said "Western colonization... spread civilization", and good Muslim is a dead Muslim, yes? there is no such a thing as systemic, structural racism, right? and let’s keep in mind that the African slaves in the the US were happy and well-treated.

    Quote Originally Posted by Cyclops View Post
    Yes inequality is hard to swallow in a nominally meritocratic society, and its the most natural thing in the world to want to pass your resources on to your children
    Published a few days ago,
    The new global inequalities
    Read the whole article before commenting.




    ...Faced with this observation, several attitudes are possible. We can wait patiently for growth and market forces to spread the wealth. But given that more than two centuries after the Industrial Revolution the share held by the poorest 50% is barely 4% in Europe and 2% in the United States, we may be waiting a long time. It can also be argued that the current situation is the best we can do, and that any attempt to redistribute wealth would be economically dangerous. The argument is weak. In Europe, the share held by the richest 10% was 80-90% of total wealth until 1914. It has fallen in a century to less than 60% today, mainly to the benefit of the 40% of the population between the top 10% and the bottom 50%. This wealthy middle class was thus able to acquire housing and set up businesses, which greatly contributed to the prosperity of the Trente Glorieuses, (the period from 1945 to 1975 following World War II).
    What can be done to prolong this long-term movement towards equality, which is historically inseparable from the evolution towards greater prosperity? Ideally, a redistribution of inheritance should be considered. At the very least, we need to stop promising tax giveaways to the wealthiest and focus on reforming the property tax, which is a very heavy and unfair tax for people on the way to home ownership, and which should become a progressive tax on net wealth...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ludicus View Post
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    The new global inequalities
    Read the whole article before commenting.
    ...
    Don't tell me what to do YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD!

    Jokes aside, that's staggering that Latin America has such a poor subclass, is that indigenous groups in subsistence/more or less traditional circumstances? Not surprised by MENA and SSA, I guess Australia is in Asia and the various nationalist projects in the region are trying to establish their industrial economies, and need a fatter middle class to tax for this purpose.

    Its always a nice moment when low tax nitwits realise the US and Europe established as powers through high tax regimes, and switched to low tax right about the moment of perceived national decline that lOwEr TaXeS wOuLd FiX.

    No surprise supposedly post-industrial societies pollute the most, Reddit and Parler and NFTs are filthy y'all.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cyclops View Post
    that's staggering that Latin America has such a poor subclass, is that indigenous groups in subsistence/more or less traditional circumstances?...US and Europe established as powers through high tax regimes...
    If I understood correctly... also through European colonialism and neocolonialism. I invite you to read the "Open Veins of Latin America".

    Quote Originally Posted by Cyclops View Post
    ...and switched to low tax right about the moment of perceived national decline
    Well, there is no national decline in Scandinavian countries, for example,which provide a broad scope of public services. Such programs, of course, necessitate higher levels of taxation on labor and consumption. But why is so hard to tax the rich? also, is there any good reason for the existence of fiscal paradises? tax heavens impact in the world economy.
    The new German chancellor said recently he does not expect hurdles to moving ahead with a planned global tax reform, so that it becomes international practice in 2023:"The tax-cutting race will come to an end." In fact, from the news,
    Last week, 130 countries, representing more than 90% of global GDP, backed the biggest changes to cross-border corporate tax in more than a generation with new rules on where companies are taxed and a tax rate of at least 15%.It's really about billions.
    Quote Originally Posted by Cyclops View Post
    ...trying to establish their industrial economies, and need a fatter middle class to tax for this purpose.
    Indeed. And the rich, of course.And again, why a wealth tax for rich is so hard to pull off?
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    Indeed. And the rich, of course.And again, why a wealth tax for rich is so hard to pull off?
    I think its always been so. I mean once the old senatorial class died of money related impotence the equites basically evaded the Roman Empire to death (it might have been a tiny bit more complicated than that, obviously Obama was to blame as well).

    I think the first British income tax system (Napoleonic war era?) came with built in loopholes like no tax on gifts: I have a vague memory of a rort where aristocrats could pay their staff just below the minimum tax threshold and give them an untaxed Christmas bonus (claimable) amounting to their putative post tax former salary; boom double evasion. There was fury in the House of Lords when that one was nipped.

    When you get the rich mobilised to contribute its massive eg Athens but its often short lived. Its usually more cost effective to corrupt a state's policies for private benefit and not pay tax at the same time, Cheney/Clinton double dips ftw.

    In my country we have the usual British rorts of religious exemptions, trusts and offshore holding corporations, and a deliberately complex tax regime that stymies small business and makes evasion a near necessity. My old man began his legal career under a tax regime that asked professionals for 60% of their estimated earnings in advance, except in the first year when it was paid EOFY...meaning a 120% tax bill after your first year in the game. Tough to get ahead as a lawyer unless you came from money. There were deferrals and special pleading allowed, but that's a broken system that someone consciously made.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cyclops View Post
    My old man began his legal career under a tax regime that asked professionals for 60% of their estimated earnings in advance
    Wow, that's unfair!
    I pay 45% in each year. I don't complain, but the rich should pay their fair fair share.H.H. may call me "champagne socialist", I think it's unfair. I quote Piketty,
    ...The « Pandora Papers » also remind us that the wealthiest people manage to avoid taxes on their real estate assets by transforming it into financial securities domiciled offshore, as shown by the case of the Blair family and their 7 million Euro house in London (400,000 Euros in transfer duties avoided) or that of the villas held on the Côte d’Azur via shell companies by the Czech Prime Minister Babis (who is also suspected of embezzling European funds).
    What should be done? The priority should be the establishment of a public financial register and a minimum taxation of all assets, if only to produce objective information about them. Each country can move immediately in this direction, by requiring all companies holding or operating assets on its territory to reveal the identity of their owners and taxing them accordingly, transparently and in the same way as ordinary taxpayers, no more and no less. By abandoning any ambition in terms of fiscal sovereignty and social justice, we only encourage the separatism of the richest and the withdrawal into ourselves.
    Quote Originally Posted by Cyclops View Post
    I think the first British income tax system (Napoleonic war era?) came with built in loopholes like no tax on gifts.
    Right. Also, as Piketty put it, the problem is that the system of registration and taxation of assets has hardly changed for two centuries, even though financial assets have become increasingly important.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ludicus View Post
    Wow, that's unfair!
    I pay 45% in each year. I don't complain, but the rich should pay their fair fair share.H.H. may call me "champagne socialist", I think it's unfair. I quote Piketty,

    Right. Also, as Piketty put it, the problem is that the system of registration and taxation of assets has hardly changed for two centuries, even though financial assets have become increasingly important.
    Blair is a perfect example of the hypocrisy of mainstream social democrats. No idea why he would be introduced as an example to disprove the "champagne socialist" claim.



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    Wow, that's unfair!.
    Australia is a pretty funny old place.

    We used to put sanctions on South Africa for their apartheid regime but we literally have an apartheid regime ourselves.

    We scorn US social inequality and racism but our indigenous population enjoys similar disadvantage to US African-American and Indigenous American populations-usually the numbers are similar to the worst for each.

    We have been ruled for the last 70 years mostly by a centre-right (personal freedom and business) Liberal party that is generally the one that raises taxes and increases immigration.

    We accept a good share of refugees (indeed our growth model is built around refugees and migrants) but if you arrive by boat we will imprison you forever.

    We are world leaders in personal renewable energy system adoption as well as a huge government subsidiser of coal production.

    The old tax regime was swept away by a Labor government in favour of a more liberalised economic model, which led to a recession and a state nearly going bankrupt.

    I think I distrust Biden more than Trump because the Orange idiot left us alone and scotched the Pacific "free trade" deal (which would have written US law into our systems) through sheer idiocy: the Dem side of the ascendancy has more control over their boy so I expect the slow encroachment to resume. I mean its already happening in the military sphere and its only been one year.
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    "a fair go for those that have a go..."
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    Inequality has been always the favorite concept of neoliberalism.
    Neoliberals just figured they could pander literally anything to gullible politically immature and pseudo-educated urbanite electorate. Hence why "democratic socialism" stands for same predatory neoliberalism, but sprinkled with some cosmetic woke gobbledygook to make it look presentable to liberal Karens.

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    "democratic socialism" stands for same predatory neoliberalism
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    Blair is a perfect example of the hypocrisy of mainstream social democrats. No idea why he would be introduced as an example to disprove the "champagne socialist" claim.
    Blair is a corrupt (previous post), and in 1998, not all European social democrats were eager to sign on to a British-led ( Blair) and American-inspired (Clinton) redefinition of democratic socialism,the infamous "Third Way", a ideological repudiation of the foundations of social democracy.
    As Jospin in France put it,
    If the Third Way lies between communism and capitalism, it is merely a new name for democratic socialism peculiar to the British. If, on the other hand, the Third Way involves finding a middle way between social democracy and neoliberalism, then this approach is not mine
    In almost all nations, since a long time ago, social democrats moved away from the ideal of public ownership of the means of production to a mixed economy of private and public enterprises, and a welfare state. Here,a social democracy inspired by social values such as solidarity/equality of opportunities/ the right to education/ overcoming poverty and social exclusion.
    It's true that both liberals and social democrats are committed to democracy, but the relation between between liberalism and democracy is not complementary. For true social democrats, (read Piketty) it is not just taking from the rich and giving to the poor. It is about caring about equality all the way down the slope of the income curve. On the other hand, the biggest impact of right populists on social policies can be found in their discourses and authoritarian practices of social exclusion.In Brazil, for example fascistoid Bolsonaro won the presidency with an agenda combining the draconian measures favoured by the dictator Duterte and Trump,
    The 'Populist' Right Challenge to Neoliberalism: Social Policy between a Rock and a Hard Place

    Bye bye Bolsonaro....leftist Lula maintains dominant lead in Brazilian election, poll shows. In 2022 Brazil will enter full-swing election mode,
    Brasil já não pergunta ″quem ganha″ as eleições mas sim “quando ganha”
    Brazil no longer asks ″who wins″ the elections but "when he (Lula) wins"
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    Relatively high living standards in Nordic countries were primarily due to homogenous high-trust nature of their societies as well as comparative isolation from XX century's calamities (white glove Axis occupation of Norway and Denmark don't count), conditions that are practically absent in neoliberal North America.

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    In the roiling cauldron of Republican politics, where one perceived misstep can get a lawmaker scorched by the ex-president or the entire right-wing online ecosystem, Crenshaw's candor stands out. He sparked ire on the right earlier this month for comments — caught on tape in his home state of Texas — that separated his fellow House Republicans into two camps: "Performance artists ... ones you think are more conservative because they know how to say slogans real well,” and “legislators.”

    “I'm not looking for fights here. But if a false narrative is spreading quickly, you have to say something,” he told POLITICO in an interview. “I think politics has changed radically, where people want a freewheeling, authentic person. Fine, that's good. And that's certainly what I deliver. But you also need to be thoughtful and correct in what you say.”

    “Unfortunately, many Republicans you trust are lying to you,” Crenshaw tweeted with an accompanied video explaining what the bill does.

    And after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Crenshaw torched his colleagues' arguments for challenging President Joe Biden’s electoral victory, calling claims of voter fraud part of a “mass manipulation” by members of his own party.

    “They said they were protecting the Constitution. They knew full well they were shredding it,” he said on his podcast, recorded two days after the attack.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2021/1...correct-525829
    I wonder if he paid for this article; it’s very flattering. Nevertheless a good summary of why he’s the only politician I can think of who I would vote for. And not just because he’s a total badass.
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    As a Navy SEAL, Crenshaw was awarded two Bronze Star Medals, one with "V" device, the Purple Heart, and the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with valor.[19] He medically retired from military service in 2016 with the rank of lieutenant commander
    Bonafide patriot, natural leader, proven performance under intense pressure. It’s a shame he won’t throw his hat in the ring for President. Glad the lane he chose for himself seems to be popular with alot of people.
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    Lets go Brandon, I agree!

    Oh God, how demented you must be to say that

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    Well folks, you heard it from the PotUS himself.
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    And here is a link to the video above: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...santa-n1286595
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