@MarkRPellegrino@Now_we_Revolt That's the thing with X.
Yes, they are immoral and wilfully stupid - but it's the exposure to the sheer infantilism which chips away at one's soul - Robert Reich et Al....
Geezer's simply making the case for deregulation and supply side econ.
That's the problem when you're on the left: you HAVE to use "pick n choose" versions of econ, history and geopolitics.
Everything but reality complies with their worldview.
If leftists understood econ, they simply wouldn't be leftists.
Important to understand that 2/3rds of FDI is foreigners buying up assets that already exist.
Not only is this not good for the economy, it's actively bad because it's often driven by 'investors' buying up assets to extract economic rents.
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@cjsnowdon Recently received a text from a friend who has given up vaping: says she's going to smoke occasionally though.
She's 45 and never used combustible tobacco before.
It is a very satisfying video, and I implore everyone to watch it. But what is really fascinating is not that @DanNeidle and Gary disagree over wealth taxes. It's that they approach public policy from completely different *mindsets*.
Dan is fairly ruthless in separating morally appealing policies ('vibes') from their real-world effects. He asks: 'Will this do what it says on the tin?' 'What are the unintended consequences?' 'What does the evidence say?' and 'Could this be counterproductive?'
Gary asks none of those questions because, in my view, he fails to distinguish between good intentions and real-world outcomes. If something feels good and righteous, then the evidence must support it and nothing can possibly go wrong.
To me, that is a big problem with much of the Left's approach to economics. There is an assumption that moral feelings and good intentions naturally translate into good outcomes in the real world. THEY DON'T.
@DanNeidle Symptomatic of a landscape where left and right compete to offer the simplest slogan. Get rid of capitalism v send them back. Yawn. And no, Gaz isn't an economist
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In 1981, Mahmoud Tarigholeslami, an Iranian left-wing political activist, was arrested during the Islamic Republicโs brutal purge of opposition groups.
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But once the Islamic Republic consolidated control, it turned on many of the same leftist revolutionaries who had helped overthrow the monarchy.
Before his execution, the regime arranged what Mahmoud believed was a private final meeting with his mother.
Crying and desperate, he pleaded with her, believing she had come to save his life.
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It was all a lie.
Mahmoud Tarigholeslami was executed by firing squad shortly afterward.
His mother later suffered a nervous breakdown.
For more than four decades, the Islamic Republic has repeatedly aired this footage on state television to glorify ideological loyalty over family, intimidate political prisoners, and teach that devotion to the regime must come before oneโs own child.
It remains one of the clearest examples of how the Islamic Republic weaponized family, faith, and grief as instruments of propaganda and repression.
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@MarkRPellegrino@ItsLulu_7 They are all willing participants and beneficiaries of capitalism.
Why, ffs, are there pretty much no examples of these lunatics moving to commie paradises? The only notable exceptions are traitors who would have faced prison or worse had they stayed.