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Question: If the goal is merit and equal treatment, what evidence would show these agencies are enforcing neutral standards—rather than reallocating enforcement toward one political story?
Well if we measure everyone's test scores, it's going to be Asian, white, light hispanic, dark hispanic, black. That should be taken as evidence of a merit-based non-discriminating system, but the people on the lower range feel differently.
Big Oil US corporates who will suck the wealth from Venezuela
The oil. There is no other wealth in Venezuela because they just endured 20 years of a regime that said "being rich is bad."
Governments are fundamental to the wealth of nations and stupid hysterical cunts like Rand will just never get it.
What did Chavez and Maduro do that created wealth for Venezuela? It's their own fault that the oil became so easy to seize.
Meanwhile, she elevates the industrialist to the state of a god of moral genius but the reality of capitalism and production is that worthy ideas are rare.
I think she acknowledged that there are good and bad industrialists, and showed how governments attempt to elevate bad ones.
- Country votes for socialism.
- Country becomes so dirt poor that the reigning regime can't defend its most important person
- Get rekt.
- Somehow it's the invader's fault that you're poor, even though you just had massive reserves of oil and over 20 years of single-party rule to prepare.
Maybe Maduro should have bought a decent anti-air defense system instead of wasting everyone's money on hookers and blow?
LN is still far from capable of providing a mass scaled alternative to fiat upon any future collaspe of fiat.
Who are you trying to scale it for? It scales enough for everyone currently using it. The people who still don't get it just have to cycle through bankruptcy and accept whatever system they can scramble together in the aftermath. There's no preventing the collapse. The success of BTC and the collapse of government-issued currency are the same process.
If we dont use LN/BTC where and when we can (like on SNs) how the fuck will it ever grow and keep developing?
Because government currency is collapsing and when it does, Bitcoin becomes the only way to afford food and shelter. That's how BTC gets adopted. Stacker News is for spectating.
War with who? The US, Free China, Japan, South Korea vs Red China, Venezuela (✅️), Cuba, and North Korea?
A socialist "mixed" half-free economy is not a new economic model or a new form of governance and is only successful compared to Mao's totalitarianism or pre-industrialized feudalism.
There are many deplorable aspects to the Chinese economy such as organ transplants and the treatment of people in Muslim, Buddhist and other ethnic minorities just as there are many deplorable aspects to western imperialism.
The deplorable aspects are the direct result of taxation and the use of force, which you insist are necessary for economic success.
The point is China now challenges western imperialism
If you by China you mean the PRC, no it doesn't. Not in a military context. It can't finish a civil war and would not survive a world war.
Reminding you of the PRC's organ harvesting industry isn't trolling. I'm just providing context to the economic growth you keep bragging about.
Wanna bet whether we can land a nuke on Beijing?