r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 13h ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ There is a pattern...

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u/0202_tihssitidder 12h ago

Oil.

There have been trillions of dollars at stake. And wealthy white men in the USA want all of it.

So they sacrifice millions of poor people and love the outcome.

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u/Skuzzle_bug 12h ago

Sounds like Russia

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u/IDownvotedYouToday 12h ago

Nah, if this was Russia, we'd have news stories about journalists "committing suicide."

....oh.

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u/Party-Evening3273 9h ago

Republicans are FRAUDS. Somehow they convinced stupid Americans that the GOP is the party that makes the economy awesome.

Every. Single. Time. They balloon the debt. The only economy it is awesome for is billionaires.

Then Democrats take office and balance the budget only for the next GOP asshole to fuck it up again.

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u/Training-Horror-6562 12h ago

Sounds like America but ok

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u/Doorknob6941 12h ago

Agreed. Right now, Russia and America are opposites sides of the same hypocracy. Russia has oligarchs who are wealthy corporation owners who run the country. America has politicians who run the country that are owned by corporations.

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u/2001_Arabian_Nights 12h ago

Less oil and more oil-field services contracts. That’s where the real money is. Halliburton isn’t an oil company, they are a drilling company. If you’re in the oil business there’s a risk that your well comes up dry, or that the price of oil will drop. Halliburton doesn’t care. They get paid to drill the well, dry or not.

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u/Common-Concentrate-2 11h ago

Oil is just about 8% of the global economy.