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Well you see, insurance claim over stolen goods is different from burnt out goods, and if your commie mind cannot comprehend such distinctions (....) ..which is why you can shoot looters using helicopter mounted railgun.

Poor "people" could get good treats

Structural Calvinism.

One time I was walking down the street with an ice cream cone and a propeller hat and Maduro was sitting on a public bench. As I walked past him he tripped me, he lowered his face down to mine on the sidewalk as tears streamed down my face and called me a little "piss baby" and walked away. I am not a piss baby!

It's very common he does this a lot.

To me, all the recent changes look like a desperate but sincere attempt to get the ceasefire agreement to work, with the Lebanese government being pressured to do this by the mediators of the agreement, in the United States and France. After it was initially reported that only 25% of the Lebanese army force that was agreed to showed up, suddenly we get a large ampunt of photo ops or the Lebanese army advancing in South Lebanon and destroying Hezbollah equipment, along with Israeli withdrawals in those areas. And these operations coincide with the election of this new Lebanese president. It seems as if the Lebanese state is desperate to make this ceasefire agreement work to try and buy some peace.

All in all the twitter thread was good until the last tweet, which is honestly just cope. How is the election of a president, to enforce a ceasefire agreement that looks to de-militirise Hezbollah, in any way going to generate any kind of guarantees that would be upheld? The resistance had to fold here to maintain political stability, as mentioned earlier in the thread.

They also learned. No more direct US involvement in major military conflicts apart from auxiliary support role. Importantly, the US stopped Europe from attaining energy sovereignty through buying oil in euro.

It would take another decade before a major energy infrastructure was built to supply Europe with cheap natural gas. The geopolitical vector then turned to the European periphery, but this time, the US would mobilize ultranationalists in Ukraine to do the dirty work.

In the meantime, a full blown hybrid warfare was initiated to destroy the economies of the oil producing countries during the 2010s. Maidan, sanctions from Crimea and MH-17, the shale revolution, Syrian Civil War were all unleashed simultaneously to destroy the oil producing economies of Russia, Iran and Venezuela and permanently put them on the back foot. The strategic goal being to cut Europe off potential energy suppliers and obliterate its status (and the euro currency) as a major challenger to the dollar regime - a thorny problem to the US since the collapse of the USSR.

Even today, the US is no longer directly involved. It is the Ukrainians and Israelis and ISIS/HTS who are dying on the front, while the US slowly drips its military equipments to the frontline to ensure that it will not run out of munitions beyond its capacity to replenish.

Without sacrificing the lives of a single soldier, the US has sunk the European economy. Russian pipeline is dead. Nigeria pipeline is dead. Qatar pipeline is dead. The US remains the sole supplier of natural gas to Europe, and it will have total control over European politics and economy for the foreseeable future.

Yes, much of southern California is receiving record low rainfall. The high mountains have little to no snow, which is unheard of in the historical record. It's really bad. Of course, it's impossible to know what the snowpack and rain season will end up looking like until March/April, but it bodes extremely poorly.

On the bright side, most of the brush in LA will have already burned so it probably won't have an awful fire season. San Diego, on the other hand ...

Kalecki's saying "One of the important functions of fascism, as typified by the Nazi system, was to remove the capitalist objections to full employment." no longer applies

I think you're just landing on how "fascist" isn't the most correct label for the modern far right

Her grandfather Hans Weidel was a Nazi judge, appointed directly by Adolf Hitler. He joined the NSDAP at the end of 1932 and the SS in January 1933.

From 1941 he was an army judge, one of 3,000 judges in the Nazi military justice system, and from 1944 a chief staff judge.

She knows what she is doing, she should hang for it, as her grandpa should have.

Right has whole project to say everything killing people is communism. Average american believes stalin killed 30 million people already, selling that it was inter-leftist beef is relatively easy

they nationalized industries like crazy

lol. The Nazis were the first to re-privatize the economy during the Great Depression after European powers nationalized their economies during WWI, which led to unprecedented socialist movements all over Europe and especially that revolution in Russia.

The mass privatization that begin in the late 1960s-1970s was based on the re-privatization effort of Nazi Germany, where that part of history has been conveniently scrubbed when academics talk about the history of neoliberalism and where the roots of marginalist/neoclassical economics were concerned.

From the Economy of Evil:

In February 1933, as Chancellor, Hitler met with the leading German industrialists at the home of Hermann Goring. There were representatives from IG Farben, AG Siemens, BMW, coal mining magnates, Theissen Corp, AG Krupp, as well as a locust of Bankers, investors, and other Germans belonging to the top 1%. During this meeting, Hitler said, "Private enterprise cannot be maintained in the age of democracy."

In 1934, Nazis outlined their plan to revitalize the German economy. It involved reprivatization of significant industries: railways, public works project, construction, steel, and banking. On top of that, Hitler guaranteed profits for the private sector, and so, many American industrialists and bankers gleefully flocked to Germany to invest.

The Nazis had a thorough plan for deregulation. The Nazi's economist, stated," The first thing German business needs is peace and quiet. It must have a feeling of absolute legal security and must know that work and its return are guaranteed. The interferences in a business which occurred at first, perhaps as a result of too much zeal, have become intolerable."

Germany had the most robust social-democratic movement, and consequently, the best worker protections in Europe codified by law. This was a significant impediment to businesses "operating freely without interference."

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On January 20, 1934, the Nazis passed the Law Regulating National Labor. The act explicitly took power away from the government to set minimum wages and working conditions. The act stated, "The leader of the enterprise makes the decisions for the employees and laborers in all matters concerning the enterprise, as far as they are regulated by this law." Employers lowered wages and benefits. Workers were banned from striking or engaging in other collective bargaining rights. Worker conditions were so deteriorated that with the head of the AFL visited Nazi Germany in 1938, he compared the life of an average worker to that of a slave. Workers in Nazi Germany worked longer hours for lower wages.

“Adolf Hitler was a socialist” lmao