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But they sure beat terrorism, drugs, and communism. (lemmy.nz)
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[-] harmbugler@piefed.social 13 points 1 day ago

What are you talking about, there are loads of billionaires!

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 7 points 23 hours ago

Exactly. Nothing of value to show for it.

[-] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 17 hours ago

Are there 40000 billionaires?

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 day ago

Cheney’s Iraq fiasco cost 6 Trillion

[-] mHtt@lemmy.ca 3 points 20 hours ago

the lack of accountability was priceless tho

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

The question is how much he personally gained from it

[-] Hamartia@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

They do seem to be hastening the collapse of neoliberal orthodoxy. Which is a good thing. Though we might be falling into a new form of monarchy where billionaire families sit above all else.

[-] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago

Plutocracy might be the word you're looking for.

[-] Hamartia@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

We should never have delisted it as a planet

[-] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 4 points 19 hours ago

Second time I get to use this one this week. did you hear about Pluto? that's messed up, right?

[-] Wilco@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago

The US Dollar is secured on debt. They create debt to print money (simplified explaination).

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 21 hours ago

Huh, yeah

Its an obvious one but I never thought about it like that.

One wonders where those 40 trillion dollars mostly went to....

[-] asg101@lemmy.ca 2 points 21 hours ago

The oligarchs' offshore accounts.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 20 hours ago

They’ll claim it was to defend the free world, a load of countries free-loading off the protection of the carrier groups. Of course it was always “protection” in the same sense as Mafia protection.

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