AmarkuntheGatherer
If a wall is structurally faulty it needs to be made anew, simply changing the incidental brown bricks with blue and green bricks will do nothing.
Also Germans are one of the most horrendously propagandised populations. I’m always in awe of the imperialist bootlicking they manage to spew, but never that it’s a German spewing it.
First of all, financial times, please find people who can get to the point in the first 16 paragraphs. Relevant bit:
After Bezos, Amazon’s largest stockholders are BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard. These asset managers are also the largest stockholders in Tesla, after Musk. They are also the largest stockholders in Prologis. And they are likely to be among the largest stockholders in most other companies you might think of. (The equity of AerCap is provided by a slightly different group of asset managers.)
BlackRock and its competitors are not beneficial owners, of course; they run index funds that invest in everything and also offer active management through pooled funds and on behalf of large institutional investors, such as endowments and pension funds. Some of these institutions are large direct investors in equities; organisations such as Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages the more than trillion-dollar sovereign wealth fund of Norway, and Calpers, which funds the pensions of California’s public employees.
One of modern capitalism’s greatest achievements has been convincing workers they really own a stake in their own shackles. If you want to survive in your old age, you need a pension fund, which invests in equity. If you want what scraps you saved not to lose their value, you give your money to someone else to put in an index fund.
“At that point what difference is there between you and Musk or Bezos?” asks some illiterate moron. Well, it’s simple really, even an imbecile writing for FT can get it. As far as a normal person who doesn’t drink children’s blood is concerned, investing in private equity provides lower returns that just playing the stock market after the extract all the hidden fees they want. In some usian states, it’s apparently illegal to disclose the details of an equity’s financials. Furthermore, people who happen to be giving their money to the parasites running this charade through pension funds and whatnot have less say in their running than the homeless guy sitting outside their offices.
The notion ”I own a small part of the firm that owns a small part of the firm that owns this plant and rents it to the airline therefore I’m a capitalist" is so removed from reality that even liberals shouldn’t be falling for this shit. From the same article:
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The number of times greater that Jeff Bezos’ $200bn wealth is than Andrew Carnegie’s. Over the same period, US national income has risen only by a factor of 50
That’s a whole lot of rubbish to say “the rich have gotten richer”
The zionist entity is an apartheid state by any meaningful definition, and it’s white supremacist, not Jewish supremacist. It welcomes non-Jewish whites while the Mizrahim are oppressed because they look more like the Palestinians Zionists are in the process of murdering.
But I see mister man’s point of view as well. After all, what can you politely discuss if not genocide?
Absolutely not, for the sole reason that DPR Korea isn’t a real entity in the minds of liberals. It’s the boogeyman, the place with no democracy, subzero freedoms, more arrests and executions than births and so on. They can’t fathom there being a real, physical thing where DPR Korea is on the map, unless it’s desolate wasteland or the DMZ.
Beyond not being able to truly judge a situation based on so little information, this is the single post of a throwaway account which then made no edits to the post or replies to any of the comments. Maybe it’s just me, but I always assume these cases are someone trying their writing skills or something of the sort.
Thin-like, but not thin. Fat only exists in the mind; it’s always imagined. So what’s the difference between my fat and yours, between you and me?
There is no threshold that makes us skinnier than the sum of our parts, no inflection point at which we become fully slim. We can’t define fat because fat does not exist.
This is not a case of Trump having done bad things and Biden doing nothing. An analogue is if trump were firing a minigun on a bunch of people, he left office, Biden took over and resumed firing.
Also, sanctions by the richest country in history need to be proven to have adverse effects on the imposed in the same way the theory of gravity needs to be proven again: only flat earth type loonies need it so it’s merely an exercise, not an academic necessity.