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Your version is plenty uncut and soggy as well. A significant amount of land buys involved evictions of peasants. There was plenty of violence in the arab revolts against British rule, when Jewish militia acted as British auxiliaries. Pogroms were very rare in pre-modern Arab lands, and usually related to factional politics, since jews often had significant political rights and power. The British suck. Most MENA Jews migrated voluntarily, and there's clear evidence that mossad had projects to heighten tensions in those countries, including even planning the bombing of synagogues.

> But ... what then keeps us in the status quo of fluoridated water supplies?

> ...thinking that everyone who made these claims sounded like General Ripper.

Is milk a brand name? I thought it was just a word for boob juice.

There's definitely more at play than just bad thoughts. Actions result from emotions and expectations that are conditioned by complex patterns of social behavior reinforced by material pressures and legal institutions providing complex feedback to behaviors and all of that is also part of the explanation why memes spread farther and faster in some places, like American schools, than in other places.

Um, have you been to America before, or read any of it's history? Of course we don't openly discuss the racialized class of cheap reserve peon labor that is maintained for everyone else's benefit, that would be super uncomfortable.

Having the global reserve currency is a pretty big difference too. The base economy of the Lebanese government is Lebanon, the base economy of the US government is the world.

Yeah, I hate when woke liberals and college administrators go on about their Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and subverting the bourgeois counter-revolution, good grief.

You realize that historically labor unions predated government laws about labor unions, right?

I'm not sure this is true. I recall from listening to the Blowback podcast that Castro initially tried to align with the US, and there was disagreement among US leaders about whether he was friend or foe. But we had a bunch of people in Florida, among them the dictator he ousted, offering to try and kill him, so we just went with that.

Yeah, that's really not so different from being sold naked in irons at slave auctions for centuries. Also similar is the way everyone can identify jews by the star on their foreheads, and mormons by the bright glow of their genitals.

No, flouride was the chemical they were trying to get rid of.

It's a good thing cavities are the only negative health effect of poverty, just give em fluoride!

In political economy literature, the Soviet Union is often called a "state capitalist" type of economy rather than communist. It functioned as a giant corporation in global capitalism. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism

He might mean energy efficiency. We just have access to way more energy these days, and we've been slurping that milkshake hard.

I'm quite sure the CIA's first choice would be to deny any association and convince the media to downplay it, which they certainly have the leverage to do, especially in this age of fast news.

That's the opposite of anarchy. An-arch-y means a situation without fixed power structures.

What's inexplicable about it? They're called the Labour party, not the Remain party.

I just watched a video where Graeber points out that Boris Johnson himself wrote a novel promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, but not a single article was written about Tory anti-Semitism in prominent papers during the height of that controversy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6oOj7BzciA

I'm not aware of any essential nutrients lacking from a plant-based diet, aside from maybe B12, which is supplemented in animal feed and besides would probably be provided by soil bacteria if agricultural soil was healthier and our produce wasn't washed so well. A few amino acids like taurine aren't in plants but are synthesized from others in the human body.

I'm not an expert on the labor theory of value, but I do know that's not a valid interpretation of it. For one thing, I believe it applies only at a macro, or sectoral, level.

> They have quite an ambitious space program, several successful satellite missions, and 2 astronauts (so far). Their Mars orbiter is launching next month.

When you talk of real wealth being lost, I'm curious how exactly you see that happening. I do agree with your points about exacerbating inequality, but that's as a consequence of the status quo structure of our economy, and going back to work won't fix that. Meanwhile, our factories and equipment aren't going to fall apart in a year, people by and large won't forget how to do their jobs, we were already tossing out 40% of our food, so that's no big change, and the education system, at least in the US, is little more than free lunch and day care for many poor children anyway. It sucks for people entering the job market, but that was the case ten years ago too. I get that the government response is once again failing people (mostly in the US) but do we really want to rush back down the old path when we have a rare opportunity to talk about taking different ones?

I can't imagine there's any healthcare system that has more bureaucracy than the US.

Textbooks get the causation backwards on that, the order of events is actually "economic collapse, hyperinflation, failed state"

The reality is that currency-issuing federal governments everywhere run perpetual deficits (and some economists argue they have no revenue constraints at all.) States can't do this.

We'll, I guess all notions can seem silly from some perspective. Children climbing up chimneys or adults wearing diapers to meet chicken plucking quotas can seen silly from a certain perspective, but usually not a first person one.

Are you saying poor people aren't exploited?

'Authority' is a poor but common translation, 'stewardship' or 'care' is closer to the original meaning of that text

Humans are primates, and most primates of the world are vegan, or nearly so, including our closest relatives. That's not something new.

All primates having forward facing eyes, but lemurs and sloths are only apex predators if you're a berry.