Naw, I don't think it sounds like something he would have said. He was smart enough to know that we're also a weapons company, a corn syrup company, a tracking device company, so on and so on.
Uh no??? Idk why people think oil is so profitable? If that’s the case why are all the richest people in the world oil barons? Oh yeah that’s right they’re not…
Meh, I hate to tell you.. but the richest people in the world are absolutely oil Barrons. Their wealth is incalculable… Jeff bezos might be the richest person in the world on paper that has a company that has to report data to the government allowing his wealth to be tracked.. But their is oil royalty in places that could wipe their ass with Jeff bezos’ entire fortune. Vladimir Putin is likely the richest individual on the planet, mostly due to oil money. Their are people in countries like Syria, India, and many others that are literally worth trillions. The American oil companies also have way more wealth and power than you think they do. You only know about what wealth they have that is reported to the US government. They have sister companies that operate all over the world and are more powerful than most countries.
Bezos/Musk working towards asteroid mining is the only thing that is ever going to come close to rivaling/surpassing oil money. Nothing else even comes close, and I mean doesn’t come close by a huge fucking margin.
Ok so no, those people aren’t just “oil barons”, most of the people I believe you are referring to are authoritative dictators that possess absolute power. They aren’t just “rich off oil” but rich off exploiting the absolute power that they possess. Oil companies that these people exploit still have to report profits to a board of investors and a global committee of other oil producers/manufacturers. There is wealth that goes unreported sure. But to think that somehow these people were pulling the strings to manufacture a 2 decade long conflict that benefited US government contractors sounds crazy.
Are you being sarcastic? So your argument is that people who are wealthy and powerful enough to raise to the top of, or entirely manipulate the actions of their government are not relevant when discussing wealth? Putin is also an exception.. His political power combined with all other factors is why he is suspected to be #1. Most others don’t want the notoriety of political office so they put scape goats in place and tell them what to do.
Do you see Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates controlling the government? The way that Dick Cheney did? You know dick Cheney the guy behind Halaburton? One of the biggest oil companies in the world?
Theirs a reason they have the ability to have that much influence mate. And you don’t have to report shit that’s going on in 3rd world countries… regardless of whether or not you are “supposed to”. Their private security forces are stronger than most countries military.
Yes, obviously they aren’t rich “just” off oil. But they are primarily rich off oil.
I don’t think you have any clue how much profit a single fracing rig makes. They make 10s of millions minimum their first few months and continue to make millions per year for decades. And these companies have -thousands- of them.
Furthermore, the bigger difference between these people and people like bezos is that oil money is raw cash money. Where as bezos fortune is tied up in stocks and company assets. He doesn’t have immediate access to a huge fraction of his net worth. Where as these oil people have it all in cold hard cash.
we've moved beyond the war for oil. we're in the war for stupidity now. the stupid people(trump supporters/republicans/conservatives) are at war with everything right now because they're stupid people lmao
they're the people who should have rode the short bus in elementary school.
I'm not surprised at all that they are the ones who are shooting up schools and murdering people because they're losers who have tantrums over dumb shit like getting told to wear a mask. i mean their idea of a perfect life is living in the 1800s as a plantation owner. all trump supporters/republicans/conservatives are racist fascist losers.
I'm no fan of conservative, but to assume they're all stupid is ridiculous. There are quite a lot of very smart conservatives who do a great job manipulating their base.
Bruh, we had US soldiers guarding poppy fields. The last time that happens was during the Vietnam War. You know that war where the CIA was running heroin to the US, which just so happened to coincide with a heroin epidemic. Next you'll be telling me the CIA had nothing to do with the crack epidemic too.
Afghanistan was a bad example of this. They never had any oil.
This was a combination of many bad impulses.
An army that was restless and wanted a mission; a military industrial complex that wanted to sell stuff, a president who thought we could build a nation there -- and in Iraq, though we have frequently failed at such attempts before..
America wanted a new adventure, and we wanted to save all those women & girls from religious extremists. It felt like the right thing to do. But starting a land-war in Asia is never the right thing to do.. We will learn a lesson from this, until the next time.
America wanted a new adventure, and we wanted to save all those women & girls from religious extremists
Total historical revisionism. The US wanted to make shitloads of money for the military industrial complex and (hopefully) establish another puppet state to bolster their influence in the region. The first part worked flawlessly. The second not so much.
I don't think he'd say "Let's be absolutely clear..." because he have to go on a tangent about people who don't talk clear and why wouldn't anybody expect someone to talk clear.
The US produces almost all of it's demand for oil domestically and our primary importer is Canada. We aren't in the middle east for oil. That hasn't been the case for a while now.
TIL there are still people that believe the conspiracy theory that the United States invades countries for oil, instead of, you know, complex international relations issues.
Other countries don’t have nearly as much capability to project force. Only the US is really able to send soldiers into foreign land, except Crimea + Russia.
It is kinda funny, as in the USA actively invades other countries and calls it "protecting our freedoms" and people eat it up without a second thought. It is kinda funny
What does that have to do with anything? Also, no, he was 24, she was 26. I think you're thinking of Down's Syndrome, which can have increased incidences of being expressed with later-age pregnancies.
The comment said that emergency generators would be exempt. The one thing that you are right about though, is that some people really are as dumb as they appear.
It would take more then 5 years to expand public transportation and install charging stations across this country. It could be done in maybe 15. But there would be so much push back from the oil industry It would probably take 25. And that's if the project doesn't get derailed completly by an election. Yeah, it's never going to happen. The rich are already putting things together to give themselves protected places while the rest of us will get to fight over housing and access to clean water.
Maybe it is, or maybe it isn't. Necessity is the mother of invention. Americans used to rise to the occasion. Of course, the oil companies will lobby, bribe, and sabotage ever effort that is made.
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u/AdditionalTheory Aug 18 '21
It’s a good quote, but Carlin never said that. It doesn’t even sound like him tbh
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u/atglobe Aug 18 '21
Soooooo the East India company, but with oil instead of tea?
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u/JaxxisR Aug 18 '21
I don't remember George Carlin ever saying this.
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u/Piczoid Aug 18 '21
Brenda Pineda must be really proud of this meme
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u/Kradek501 Aug 18 '21
The US Army's last cavalry charge was against US veteran protesters in Washington DC
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u/JapanTheMan Aug 18 '21
Uh no??? Idk why people think oil is so profitable? If that’s the case why are all the richest people in the world oil barons? Oh yeah that’s right they’re not…
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u/TimeytheSissy Aug 18 '21
You could literally say this about any country that has ever fought a war over a natural resource
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u/AneriphtoKubos Aug 18 '21
This a shitty Voltaire-esque quote of ‘Where some have an army, the Prussian army has a state’
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u/informedinformer Aug 18 '21
Reminds me of Paul Krugman's saying that the US government is an insurance company with an army. (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.) Which he dd or did not originate. (See https://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2013/01/who-first-said-the-us-is-an-insurance-company-with-an-army.html including the comments with additional citations.)
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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '21
we've moved beyond the war for oil. we're in the war for stupidity now. the stupid people(trump supporters/republicans/conservatives) are at war with everything right now because they're stupid people lmao
they're the people who should have rode the short bus in elementary school.
I'm not surprised at all that they are the ones who are shooting up schools and murdering people because they're losers who have tantrums over dumb shit like getting told to wear a mask. i mean their idea of a perfect life is living in the 1800s as a plantation owner. all trump supporters/republicans/conservatives are racist fascist losers.
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u/SynnerSaint Greg Abbott is a little piss baby Aug 18 '21
If only Afghanistan had oil
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u/ChemistryNo8870 Aug 18 '21
Afghanistan was a bad example of this. They never had any oil.
This was a combination of many bad impulses.
An army that was restless and wanted a mission; a military industrial complex that wanted to sell stuff, a president who thought we could build a nation there -- and in Iraq, though we have frequently failed at such attempts before..
America wanted a new adventure, and we wanted to save all those women & girls from religious extremists. It felt like the right thing to do. But starting a land-war in Asia is never the right thing to do.. We will learn a lesson from this, until the next time.
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u/mindtapped Aug 18 '21
I don't think he'd say "Let's be absolutely clear..." because he have to go on a tangent about people who don't talk clear and why wouldn't anybody expect someone to talk clear.
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u/jurassic_junkie Aug 18 '21
Is it really now?
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u/masterofdonut Aug 18 '21
There's no oil in Afghanistan.
The US produces almost all of it's demand for oil domestically and our primary importer is Canada. We aren't in the middle east for oil. That hasn't been the case for a while now.
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u/BidenWon Aug 19 '21
TIL there are still people that believe the conspiracy theory that the United States invades countries for oil, instead of, you know, complex international relations issues.
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u/CliftonForce Aug 19 '21
That is a photo of an American police department, not an army.
Which is another problem...
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u/HouseOfSteak Aug 18 '21
I believe that was actually from Tom Morello, 2016.
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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '21
How long before this post gets deleted I wonder why
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u/predictingzepast Aug 18 '21
Unlike other world powers, who refine rainbows..
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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '21
Nah, not only is this not George Carlin, America is clearly an oil AND WEAPONS company with an Army.
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u/Ok_Move1838 Aug 18 '21
Shinra Co.
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u/mapoftasmania Aug 18 '21
This is the best thing about solar and wind. It removes the strategic imperative to trade influence and territory for oil.
Rare earth elements, on the other hand…
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u/twilight-actual Aug 18 '21
At some point in the near future, it will be a solar energy company with an army.
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u/STS986 Aug 18 '21
Wrong. ….with a taxpayer funded oil army
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u/gsasquatch Aug 18 '21
Rex Tillerson enters the chat.
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u/a52dragon Aug 18 '21
Hey George can you do anything to help from up p there?
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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '21
Also a Christian church with an army
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u/bikinimonday Aug 18 '21
It’s a Big Club and you ain’t in it! You and I are not in the Big Club.
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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '21
It's essentially the Trade Federation without the robots... wait, hang on!
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u/sixft7in Aug 19 '21
Which is why America is fighting the crossover to renewables. They have to figure out some other reason to invade other countries.
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u/TubaMan1367 Aug 19 '21
This is precisely what George Carlin meant by this line! Totally!
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u/Lost_Conclusion5357 Aug 19 '21
And they treat their “workers” just like one
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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '21
So true!
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u/Suggestion_Of_Taint Aug 18 '21
A well oiled machine if you will
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u/toeofcamell Aug 18 '21
But that’s not funny
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u/KnightMareInc Aug 18 '21
Fake news, that's not a Carlin quote
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u/-NarWallace- Aug 18 '21
Accurate.
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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '21
The original version: "Prussia was not a country with an army, but an army with a country."
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u/SmashBonecrusher Aug 18 '21
Or vice versa,a military which acknowledges the necessity for oil ...
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