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you know nothing about immigration/labor policies in other places, dgozilla, so i don't know why you'd pretend otherwise. i can tell you for sure that you know nothing whatsoever about the politics of undocumented workers in france. or any of western europe. what you do, of course, is unwittingly or not replicate the neo-fascist position on the question.
the consistencies are remarkable.
as for the financial crisis---if we're going to smear historical reality back antecedent to antecedent so that we can find an origin point that's politically advantageous-seeming (carter explains the 2002 housing bubble? are you fucking serious? why not charlemagne?) it'd make sense to connect it to more empirical connections, like the linkage between the fordist social model and post-fordist modes of using credit to buy social solidarity. which is what happened. which is a far more cogent larger-scale narrative against which to set the specific sequence of terrible choices enabled by republican regulation-phobia. greenspans decisions from around 2002 forward about interest rates and about not requiring derivatives be routed through a market, so the republican-specific total devaluation of transparency, one that goes exactly contrary to the hayek-y notion of why markets can plausibly be seen as useful for capitalism (the history of prices presupposes transparency)...
but whatever. you aren't interested in what actually happened. you're interested in maitaining continuity in your economic ideology. this is a psychological exercise for you, then, not a historical one.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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