"And quite frankly, that's good for capitalism because it will consolidate power and become more authoritarian. It's weaker than it's ever been. Everyone sees through the veneer."
"What's happening right now over in Iran, it's not just something that's happening in the Middle East. It is the total failure of a moment of capitalism. The contradictions of capitalism have come to bear and it's going to fall apart in some shape or form."
~ Jared Yatex Sexton
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz
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https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/were-reaching-the-moment-of-truth
A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
"It’s not that Trump and Hegseth and executives of the major oil companies sat down and plotted this thing together to seize the oil. But it’s been clear all along that current U.S. government is much more comfortable with petro-state oligarchs, whether it be Vladimir Putin or Mohammed bin Salman, that those are more their kind of people than, you know, basically American workers…."
Paul Krugman tells Heather Cox Richardson that Trump thought he'd waltz into Iran and find a pliant new regime ready to hand over oil as in Venezuela. But he miscalculated:
"The current management of the United States is continually surprised to learn that other countries are real, have real ideology and nationalism of their own."
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-america-is-losing-the-world-lunch
A recording from Paul Krugman and Heather Cox Richardson's live video
Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself?
https://github.com/gastownhall/gastown/issues/3649
#HackerNews #Gas #Town #LLM #credits #usage #theft #AI #ethics #user #privacy

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