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    Uncommon words and their meanings.
    3 days ago3d

    Posted by Marionville
    LAISSEZ-FAIRE - Noun…the policy of leaving things to take their own course, without interfering “a laissez-faire attitude to life” In Economics - the abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free markets ...
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    Trump Pinata
    1 week ago1w

    Posted by EricJones
    trump wants to reopen Alcatraz. Good idea-he can be prisoner 1 and the rest of his family follow right behind him, followed by his government appointees (including doge) and all the other grifter hangers on. Then keep it open as a tourist ...
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    Quotes
    2 weeks ago2w

    Posted by Marionville
    “History shows that attacks on general freedoms often begin with an attack on the freedom of a minority. It teaches us that we should never allow a government to divide and rule. An attack on one is an attack on all”…………….George ...
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    Quotes
    2 weeks ago2w

    Posted by zeuser
    My favorite economist. His theories say that countervailing institutions - government primarily, but labor unions too - as a balancing agents against the nasty power of corporations. And he despised mindless consumerist greed. A Canadian, so my ...
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    Progressives, Socialists, and Black/Palestinian Lives Matter
    3 weeks ago3w

    Posted by William_Mary
    In Ukraine, Ultra-Nationalists Are the ‘Good Guys’ Neo-Nazism’s rise in Ukraine is due to the silent approval of Ukraine’s political and military elites who prefer to turn a blind eye because they rely on the far-right for their military...
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    Quotes
    4 weeks ago4w

    Posted by Marionville
    “When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects. - this you may not read, this you may not see, this you are forbidden to know - the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the ...
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    Quotes
    1 month ago1m

    Posted by Marionville
    “Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; and in its worst state an intolerable one”…………..Thomas Paine.
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    Trump Pinata
    Mar 27Mar 27

    Posted by zeuser
    The point, I guess, is that it's hard to spot a journalist in a list of government officials if you aren't looking.
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    Trump Pinata
    Mar 20Mar 20

    Posted by EricJones
    trump and all the minions he has running (ruining) the government are living proof that this country so desperately needs the department of education.
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    Trump Pinata
    Mar 14Mar 14

    Posted by EricJones
    I've been listening to Canadian government leaders, both national and provincial, talk about tariffs and it's nice to hear somebody who gets to the point, knows what they're talking about, and not going on about how the European Union was formed to ...
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    General & Hellos
    Mar 12Mar 12

    Posted by Flyingsaucesir
    "When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits—despotic in his ordinary demeanour—known to have scoffed in private at the ...
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    Progressives, Socialists, and Black/Palestinian Lives Matter
    Mar 12Mar 12

    Posted by William_Mary
    Over the past 2 and a half decades, our governments has thrown several trillions of our tax dollars into wars and manufactured chaos across the globe. We are currently supporting and funding at least 2 wars, argument-ally, genocides {Gaza-Lebanon and...
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    Trump Pinata
    Mar 11Mar 11

    Posted by EricJones
    Old donnie boy keeps saying the American economy is headed in a different direction. He's right-it's going from low unemployment, lowering inflation, lowering interest rates, slow but steady growth. And now he's going to totally destroy all of it. ...
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    Progressives, Socialists, and Black/Palestinian Lives Matter
    Mar 8Mar 8

    Posted by William_Mary
    Washington’s IMF Stranglehold In the deeply undemocratic institution, the U.S. effectively holds a veto over any major changes and molds policies according to its whims. As a result, the IMF senior staff defers to any policy made by the U.S. ...
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    Progressives, Socialists, and Black/Palestinian Lives Matter
    Mar 2Mar 2

    Posted by William_Mary
    Socialism against oligarchy, fascism and war In the period of crisis the hegemony of the United States will operate more completely, more openly, and more ruthlessly than in the period of boom. The United States will seek to overcome and ...
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    Progressives, Socialists, and Black/Palestinian Lives Matter
    Mar 2Mar 2

    Posted by William_Mary
    Trump-Zelensky shouting match exposes clash between US and European powers In publicly berating Zelensky, Trump sought to appeal to domestic disillusionment with the Ukraine war, which enjoys no significant support outside of the affluent ...
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    Out Of The Illusion
    Mar 2Mar 2

    Posted by William_Mary
    Trump-Zelensky shouting match exposes clash between US and European powers In publicly berating Zelensky, Trump sought to appeal to domestic disillusionment with the Ukraine war, which enjoys no significant support outside of the affluent ...
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