"Democracy" in the US is not tenable so long as the government spreads disinformation on the issues on which "the people" are supposed to decide.
— Jason Smith - 上官杰文 (@ShangguanJiewen) June 17, 2024
The US is using tax payer dollars to propagandize the American people on the topics including China.
US citizens are literally… https://t.co/vhc4Q8Ynbw pic.twitter.com/97iVcQ0v3A
Western GDP measurements are so absurdly inflated.
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) June 17, 2024
The UK counts illegal drug trafficking and prostitution in GDP data.
The US counts imputed rent (the rent a homeowner would hypothetically pay) in its GDP data.
Western neoliberal economies are just a financial house of cards. https://t.co/0mIeYR5Zk7 pic.twitter.com/UJcceuxzd4
"The affordability crisis in Western economies, the US in particular, is largely driven by inflation of necessary services – rent, healthcare, education, childcare – not by manufactured goods"
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) June 17, 2024
When those costs go up, US GDP goes up.
This is why "number go up" is not always good
Predatory Capitalism started with chattel slavery, a European invention. Started by Portugal in São Tomé e Príncipe and later perfected by the British Empire.
capitalism for the win...
— Maurizio (@Maurizio) June 17, 2024
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