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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Looks at instance…

Go fuck yourself hexbear Russian apologist. US fuckery internationally did nothing to build the middle class at home any more than Putin’s war crimes are helping the Russian economy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah I’m sure it didn’t, they were just meddling in other countries’ politics just for fun

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They were meddling for corporate profit. And if you think corporate profit helps the middle class then I’ve got a bag full of pigshit called “trickle down economics” to sell you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

bruh what

How, in your mind, was the middle class in the first world created?

How did the great depression end?

Did Keynesianism not rest upon massive military spending as laid out in NSC-68?

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