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One call

jeudi 16 février 2017 à 01:00

The troll says that he "hasn't got one call" to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline.

That's true, because he shut off the phone line to call the White House. He hasn't got one call about anything.

Policy towards Iran

jeudi 16 février 2017 à 01:00

US policy towards Iran is based on three assumptions that are mostly false.

Iran is not expansionist, and is mostly rational about its foreign policy — perhaps more so than the US. However, it is a mistake to call Iran a democracy, since the principal political authority is the council of religious rulers and the people have no avenue to replace them except revolution. Iran's democracy is limited to lower levels; reformist presidents have been thwarted.

Iran is somewhat evil, since it represses non-Muslims (Zoroastrians and Bahais terribly, Christians less so) and dissidents. In this dimension it is considerably worse than what the troll tried to do to Muslims. It represses Muslims too, by imposing religious rules that many Iranian Muslims don't want to follow.

However, it is not as bad as Salafi Arabia in religious repression.

Blackout

jeudi 16 février 2017 à 01:00

The prime minister of Australia knew that an electric blackout was due to a failure in a gas plant, but publicly blamed the extent of renewable electric generation.

This shows he is willing to lie to destroy civilization.

NAFTA

jeudi 16 février 2017 à 01:00

NAFTA hurt Mexicans more than any wall could. NAFTA and the previous application of neoliberal policies starting in the 1980s ended income growth and poverty reduction in Mexico.

NAFTA has harmed workers in the US, too.

Calling NAFTA a "trade treaty" leads people to erroneously suppose that it is a compromise between conflicting interests of various countries — that each decision in NAFTA would pit the interests of Mexicans against the interests of Americans and the interests of Canadians.

In fact, NAFTA is a business-supremacy treaty, and it pit the interest of plutocrats in Canada, Mexico and the US against the interests of most people in Canada, Mexico and the US. That's why we need to get rid of it.

Power grab

jeudi 16 février 2017 à 01:00

Americans, prepare yourselves now to oppose the power grab that the troll has already said he intends to make as soon as a terrorist or military attack gives him an opportunity.