Aqueducts that fed the public baths were also public works.
Roman socialists - who knew?
I read somewhere that Nero was a closet Marxist. Had a Carl Marx poster hidden under his bed.
Aqueducts that fed the public baths were also public works.
Roman socialists - who knew?
I don't accept that services like police is socialist because it's not. I listed some of the ones that are socialist. BTW, Rome, for example, did provide a lot of government services. Public bath houses among them.
Aqueducts that fed the public baths were also public works.
Roman socialists - who knew?
To me it's like people not wanting to call the Boston Tea Party a terrorist attack, but that is exactly what it was. It also happens to shine a very bad light on folks we want to adore and so folks are reluctant to see it that way.
By the way, what is so wrong with accepting that services provided by the government as socialist in nature? I think a large part of that answer is that folks don't want to acknowledge how socialist we already are.
Regards,
Doug
PS - I feel truly sorry for the folks in Venezuela. Maduro is a buttnugget and I hope he is removed from power as bloodlessly as possible. I also hope whoever takes his places cleans it up and makes it the most prosperous and happy country that it can be.
Also agreed that the folks of Venezuela have gotten a y taste of the joys of socialism. I pray they don't have to go too much deeper into the abyss, as they are yet far from the bottom.
I don't know. When you can't buy toilet paper, you're pretty close to the bottom.
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“The Americans threw the tea overboard thus making the tea undrinkable – even for Americans.” - George Banks, Mary PoppinsWhile your point about the tea party is well taken (yes, it was a criminal act), I think terrorism is a stretch.
So we're hoping to induce/ control geopolitical regional stability, ok got it .
My history sucks but I'm pretty sure both Russia and China haven't had too much trouble controlling their regions and maintaining stability.
I'm thinking we pull everything outa that region, take that money and spend it on preparing our country for the inevitable day when they and their friends detach from the petro dollar .
A soften the blow kinda thing .
“Plebeians of Rome, arise! You have nothing to lose but your togas!”Aqueducts that fed the public baths were also public works.
Roman socialists - who knew?
It's funny how a couple dozen belligerent drunk guys in Boston changed the course of world history.
US withdrawing remaining staff from embassy in Venezuela
Venezuela is now several days into a national blackout that the government is trying to blame on US sabotage. People dying in hospitals with no power, widespread looting, food supplies ruined by loss of refrigeration, looters being rounded up and disappeared to parts unknown.
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/11/702179263/this-is-going-to-end-ugly-venezuela-s-power-outages-drag-on
An interesting retraction this week. Remember those aid trucks that were supposedly torched by the regime? Turns out the trucks were actually set on fire by opposition protesters, possibly by accident.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/world/americas/venezuela-aid-fire-video.html
Eventually Maduro gets the Ceausescu treatment. That or he flees to Cuba.
Follow the power.What I find hard to understand is why these people want to steal and amass fortunes worth billions, but they never want to retire to some nice mansion on the cote d'azur. If you pack up before you commit any crimes against humanity, you should be able to live the good life and if you leave peacefully you can probably negotiate a back room agreement with the US and Interpol
I just don't see the endgame for literally being a dead-ender
End stage socialism: people loot the bank, but leave the cash behind all over the street.