Forget who is speaking here and instead focus on what is being said: I know that's very hard in general and almost impossible on Twitter but I believe in asking a lot of people.
Now, with that done, is this a right-wing message, a left-wing message, both, neither, who cares? https://t.co/DI9Q6WDYmh
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 6, 2023
I found it incoherent and rather paranoid.
And the 2008 financial crisis was not caused by “the Western regime’s pursuit of power.” It was caused by an enormous real estate bubble fueled by lax mortgage regulations that collapsed catastrophically, and financial instutions who got lazy and often outright unethical.
It wasn’t the financial institutions. It was government pressuring them to give mortgages to people who couldn’t pay them.
That would be correct Dirtman.
It’s what people like Marmot will never admit
For centuries banking had a very simple business model. Take deposits from people who want a safe place to store their money and pay them a small amount of interest. Take most of that money and lend it to people WHO YOU DEEM HAVE THE ABILITY TO PAY IT BACK, and charge them a higher rate of interest. The difference in the interest rate is the bank’s revenue.
It worked, and only the government deciding they had a problem with the words I capitalized broke the model.
Dirt
1000% correct.
Isn’t it amazing Dirtman … just how thoroughly the government media complex … that spawned No-no mortgages … No down payment, no job mortgages … did a bang up job on concealing the simple, fundamental cause of the collapse by blaming “credit default swaps” and other such RESULTS of their brain dead “proooooooogressive” banking policies?
They’ve papered over the simple cause of it all with gobbledegook… confusing an easily confused public.
I think it’s unfair to the legacy of President Jimmy Carter’s incompetence to not mention his part of the 2008 financial crisis.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2016/01/12/the-big-short-falls-short-on-explaining-the-housing-collapse/?sh=14b1fb902134
I’m not going to blame “greedy capitalists” for all the problems in Ukraine prior to knowing what is to be told of the Biden Crime Syndicate’s involvement there, as well as the possibility of semi secret labs creating new toxins in Ukraine.
There are simply too many unknowns as of yet, and the fat lady hasn’t even warmed up.
When the US sends expert military hardware (Abrams tanks, F-16’s) to Ukraine, what is the US going to do if/when Russians shoot some of them dead? It may not be certain, but it’s a possibility, and the US isn’t going to “just take it”.
It isn’t going to be Ukranians flying those jets.
Biden hasn’t gone to Congress and asked for a declaration of war, and hasn’t offered any plan on Ukraine.
Yet another “expert” that chimes in on Ukrainenwithout even doing any research.
We notice
Free Speech means constantly exercising your critical thinking skills. It’s the price we pay for sometimes allowing the truth to be spoken.
Expert.
Like say you on US aircrews. NOT!
Our your vast medical training. Covid.
My first response would be “Define ‘Western Regime'”. I’m sure that term has meaning in the local politics being discussed but without an internal scoreboard to keep straight the players being discussed the message may as well be in Sanskrit. 😛
I’ve seen some stupid crap in here but this one takes the cake
One thing about stupid stuff is that the world is full of it.
The US MSM has ADHD. It is OCD.
BTW, Ukraine literally means on the border.
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I found it incoherent and rather paranoid.
And the 2008 financial crisis was not caused by “the Western regime’s pursuit of power.” It was caused by an enormous real estate bubble fueled by lax mortgage regulations that collapsed catastrophically, and financial instutions who got lazy and often outright unethical.
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In other words, it required focus, comprehension and a bit of scholarship.
Just off the top, what enabled the bubble?
Billy
It was by design.
Ok.
Not the mystery I’m hoping to solve with the assessment of the ferocious killer rodent.
Facts wrong
Understanding of human nature wrong
Start date for conflict in Eurasia wrong
Interesting. It was no longer feasible to see dead and broken “brown” bodies in the desert sands of the Middle East … but now The Daily Mail (and others) happily show white skinned Russians getting blown up by noble Ukrainian soldiers fighting for our “International” Institutions.
Reminds me of when Bill Clinton ordered NATO jets to blow up white Yugoslavians to appease their brown-skinned, Muslim enemies. Clinton decided to take the side of “the browns” in a thousand year conflict in Kosovo. He used WHITE ethnic cleansing to solve brown ethnic cleansing. None of our involvement there meant anything to me … until we suddenly had a Muslim POTUS.
I get his point.
Vietnam, and all the conflicts were a search for an ideal proxy war against an ever hated boogie man. They had been searching and now they found it. He’s right.
They can fire off all the ordnance they want, experiment any untested military device they want on live humans all they want with no repercussions or oversight.
AND….. have idiots cheer it on.