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Poll: Who rules the world?
This poll is closed.
Politicians and Chiefs of State
3.03%
1 3.03%
Religious leaders
0%
0 0%
Capitalists (Corporate leaders, managers, oligarchs, etc.)
57.58%
19 57.58%
Jews
3.03%
1 3.03%
Intellectuals
0%
0 0%
Reptilians/Illuminati
6.06%
2 6.06%
The People
6.06%
2 6.06%
No one
18.18%
6 18.18%
Other (please specify)
6.06%
2 6.06%
Total 33 vote(s) 100%
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Who rules the world?
#11
RE: Who rules the world?
I don't think religious leaders and capitalists are all that different.
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#12
RE: Who rules the world?
The topic presupposes the world is in fact ruled.

This is a nod to the conspiracy theory of history, as opposed to the blunder theory of history.
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#13
RE: Who rules the world?
(April 11, 2015 at 9:32 am)vorlon13 Wrote: The topic presupposes the world is in fact ruled.

This is a nod to the conspiracy theory of history, as opposed to the blunder theory of history.

In a sense it is ruled by a globalised economy. And with all the advantages of getting everything from everywhere it can rapidly get out of hand as has been shown in 2008. The problem is, this kind of market is dominated by relatively few mega players and it defies  checks and balances, especially when it comes to the financial sector.
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#14
RE: Who rules the world?
the ruling class rules.
Money is a tool; government is a tool, co-option is a tool, their tool bag is full.
Their toadies kill one another for the sake of schlepping it for them.

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#15
RE: Who rules the world?
Not who, what; Physics.
Any other answer is just crediting us with infinitely more capacity for control than we have or will likely ever have.
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#16
RE: Who rules the world?
I voted 'no one' I don't even know what it means to 'rule the world' Craft law or is more direct control required? The answer is really probably 'all of them' to a certain degree. Everybody has some control over somebody else various heads of state are powerful and various corporate heads are powerful and various religious leaders are powerful and have control over people. So I think it's silly to just say 'capitalists' even though someone like Kim Jong Un has direct power over many, or someone like the Dalai Lama has indirect influence over many. It's just a complicated system.

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#17
RE: Who rules the world?
The People.

At the end of the day even the capitalist leaders and the politicians come from normal families and are just people like everyone else.
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#18
RE: Who rules the world?
(April 11, 2015 at 5:20 am)Zen Badger Wrote: I understand that the 1100 richest people in the world own 80% of the planet.

I was gonna ask Zen where he's been, then I realised we are having a last minute rush of necros from the newbs!
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#19
RE: Who rules the world?
My goldfish, who after passing from the constraints of this mortal coil now rules this and many other worlds with an iron fin.
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#20
RE: Who rules the world?
I put down Capitalists, because I believe the Monopoly Mindgeek controls the world. What does it have a monopoly over?
The Porn Industry.
Have you ever noticed that all the sites you go to have the same videos? That is Mindgeek. It has thousands of porn sites such as YouPorn, Pornhub and Redtube.
Those sites are notorious for hosting a ton of pirated content. Each website takes individual takedown requests and pirates from many studios that don't have the resources to monitor piracy, meaning that porn start-ups are next to impossible to be successful!  Angry
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