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21 sats \ 14 replies \ @TNStacker OP 19 Jul \ parent \ on: Are we seeing the unraveling of MAGA over Epstein? Politics_And_Law
Pure hyperbole for effect.
Think about how many people emptied their savings into MAGA on completely false promises.
I don't think it's the worst political movement, even just in American history, but as a scam specifically, the scale is crazy.
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Beg to differ!! Perhaps the progressive/marxist/socialist/communist scam had a scale that was even larger. It certainly killed a lot more people!
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As a scam, though, it has to be evaluated by how greatly it intentionally duped the marks.
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I don’t know for sure but duping all the people in all the nations that it duped people in is quite a lot of marks. Of course, they killed an awful lot of those marks, too. Just think of all the countries that have gone Marxist/socialist/communist!
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How cynically implemented was communism, though? I think statist central planners do often believe in their ability to design society.
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Is there anything that is not cynical about any communist implementation? Sharing amongst everyone equally? No, that has never happened and never will happen in a communist situation.
I think statist central planners do often believe in their ability to design society.
Oh, I don’t think they would take any action unless they had huge plans for what they were going to do to society vis-a-vis radical changes, however, they run up against Hayek’s limits to knowledge problems and Mises economic calculation problems as soon as they take to power. From there, everything goes downhill every time and everywhere
The ability to scale continues to grow geometrically.
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If you consider the progressive scam, then the scale of the scam seems to be lessening.
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