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What Made Marxism So Deadly?

Because autocrats desire centralized control, and Marxism delivers by insisting that the state should own the means of productions. Autocrats also like to pose as populists, and Marxism delivers there too. Even more conveniently, Marx himself said that full communism would take a long time to develop, which provides an endless series of excuses for underachievement. Also conveniently, Marxism contrasts itself explicitly to market capitalism, which provides autocrats in poor countries with an automatic enemy in the capitalist West to keep the masses enthralled.

All in all, if I were an autocrat, I’d probably find Marxism pretty congenial. Would I care about what Marx actually wrote or what his economic ideas really were? Not really. Every autocrat has his own national version of Marxism anyway.

via What Made Marxism So Deadly?

Good point.

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Giant Hog Farms Are Fighting for the Right to Keep Polluting. The Trump Administration Is on Their Side.

If you enjoy bacon or ham, chances are you’ve eaten pork from North Carolina, where about 16 million hogs—10 percent of the US total—are raised each year.

via Giant Hog Farms Are Fighting for the Right to Keep Polluting. The Trump Administration Is on Their Side.

If you insist we need deregulation to create jobs, please let me know how much pig shit you’re willing to have in your water.

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Yogurt is not white enough for these white nationalists

Yogurt is not white enough for these white nationalists

According to the New York Times, the company’s founder, Hamdi Ulukaya, a Turkish immigrant of Kurdish descent, “has stepped up his advocacy” for the rights of immigrants and refugees, by “employing more than 300 refugees in his factories, starting a foundation to help migrants, and traveling to the Greek island of Lesbos to witness the crisis firsthand.”

For his trouble, Ulukaya has inspired death threats…

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Here are the guns the NRA doesn’t want you to get

Here are the guns the NRA doesn’t want you to get

In the 1990s, Colt’s Manufacturing Co. built a prototype smart gun that could be fired only if the user wore a special ring. In 2000, rival Smith & Wesson promised to make all of its guns available with high-tech safety features. But both companies dropped the efforts after facing devastating boycotts led by gun-rights activists. Smith & Wesson was forced to lay off 15 percent of its staff. Ever since, the mainstream gun industry has steadfastly refused to pursue the technologies.

Gun rights activists are anti-gun?

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Mitt Romney Admits Obamacare Was Based on Romneycare—and That It Worked

Mitt Romney Admits Obamacare Was Based on Romneycare—and That It Worked

At some point Obamacare is doomed talk will start being treated as conspiracy theory and GOP will demand that it be called the ACA act and argue that Obama actually had very little to do with the ACA and it works because it’s actually very conservative. No one reversing their position will be called out on it. And we will see people with Keep government out of my ACA signs.