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the point here is that these businessmen are not men of conviction, they can be bullied into anything they can be convinced is necessary for them to stay in business.
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@AngryWraith the mistakes really began in earnest when the boomers decided to be extra lazy and let the businessmen manage themselves.
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@sickburnbro White background; red text.
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@sickburnbro Mussolini proven right again and again, All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state
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@eee it doesn't have to be all within, but it needs to be in eyesight.
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@eee and as we've seen with the feddies running wild, "all within the state" isn't even a fix.
All you'd have is chevron on cocaine.
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@eee It's the governmental version of "pick your own cotton"
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@VikingWays not an uncommon vice
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Knowing a lot of them the merchant has plenty of conviction, to eat lavishly at the country club.
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@sickburnbro If anything, that damns the merchant class even more. They support degeneracy, but never out of sincerity. They should not be in a position of power and influence over the population of a nation whatsoever.
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@SuperSnekFriend @sickburnbro Hence the removal of a martial class as a counterbalance to merchant power that has occurred within the west post-WW1. The merchants, both ((())) and otherwise, thrive within systems where force is sparingly used to assert the sovereign powers authority against monied interests, themselves being subject to the whims of the loss and profit.