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		daft_pink 20 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Thomas Piketty: 'The reality is the US is losing c... Reality is that the US doesn’t want control of the world. Why do we want the blame for the world’s problems. Let the world take care of their own problems.

snowfield 20 days ago | [–]

Because your national deficit is 70% of your gdp you kinda have to

aosaigh 20 days ago | [–]

> Why do we want the blame for the world’s problems

Because the US was complicit in creating many of them

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