My point was just that this behaviour of excluding and exclusivity is not a new concept to them, saudi arabia is closed for non muslims, judaism tells jews that they are special chosen people, and they have used this to justify their actions. Nationalism isnt that prevalent in arabic countries, they define themselves as shias or sunnis and have attacked each other based on that, like 2 halves of 2 countries attack 2 halves of another country, where its shia and sunni who are at war.

These religions make ethnic groups become ethnoreligious groups because of how much of their identity and culture becomes part of it.

This is where predatory crony capitalism comes in.

Without the west pumping them full of money and weapons they'd be useless shapes in the sand.

They would be better off without the weapons for their oil, while they had horrible dictators, their countries were actually doing something for themselves, with actual nice infrastructure and civilization.

Profits dictate that we cannot sanction them and therefore we continue to fund them equipped morals have no place when the shareholders profits are in danger

But that is why there is a bit of regulation, no market is completely free, not even in the US.

But the regulation does not apply here because of corruption and the high ranking people who are stockholders of the weapons trade.

that is correct. Which is why corporations fund extreme right-wing parties such as the Republican Party in the US to destroy every last bit of regulation possible

Environmental regulations, sanctions against dictatorships at autocratic regimes, basic protections for workers

Lobbyism should be illegal, insulin medicine in the US costs 350 bucks, you can get the same medicine in the UK for 15 bucks, let that sink in.

Trump and the corporate world only cares about growth, only economists believe in infinite growth on a finite planet, therefore they wont have any environmental regulations.

Instead of growth, we should aim at sustainability at a certain point of wealth that is enough to sustain our way of life and the population.

No

lobbyists are good

just like the trilateral commission

and CFR

because we little people who dont want to kill yemeni kids with our taxis have such SMALL brains

cant decide to make BIG profits for COrporate leadership

they have BIG brains

so they control the world through artificial debt

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@EzkealSutekh no, lobbying is necessary. Its how you get your representative to listen. There needs to be a cap on corporate lobbying and how much they can spend

What? Listen to who? The tobacco industry? Big pharma and oil? Do you think the average joe is just going to go in and lobby, normal people dont have the funds.

Which is what there needs to be a cap

The act of even sending a letter to your rep is lobbying

A tiny ass cap.

And there also needs to be complete transparency of public administration.

Most of the US is working poor even though they like to pretend they are "lower middle class"

>lower middle class

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So a cap of $1000 or less

Bam, watch politics change in a heartbeat

Which is why it would never happen

And letters must be read so that someone cant hand over a super yatch to a politician, its not money, but it is a valuable asset.

There needs to be someone to check the letters before handing them over to the rep.

Their staffers

Yeah, hopefully someone independent.

But it will be hard to make that change happen.

We need more Jan Michael Vincent's!