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2020-04-18 Economy

The Russia-Saudi Oil-Price War Is a Fraud and a Farce

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Posted by Clem 2020-04-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1
Yes, we're so awwwful that we won't play ball with all the state oil companies that have been trying to destroy us for the last fifty years.

The assholes who want absolute socialism use the fact that they haven't personally gotten absolute power yet as the excuse for waging a non-stop century-long war against the working class.

And they don't care that they've spent the last three and a half years issuing fevered rants and raves against the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and Putin, they're going to talk about how bad we are for not cooperating with them enough.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-04-18 10:22|| 2020-04-18 10:22|| Front Page Top

#2
Yes, we're so awwwful that we won't play ball with all the state oil companies that have been trying to destroy us for the last fifty years.

The assholes who want absolute socialism use the fact that they haven't personally gotten absolute power yet as the excuse for waging a non-stop century-long war against the working class.

And they don't care that they've spent the last three and a half years issuing fevered rants and raves against the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and Putin, they're going to talk about how bad we are for not cooperating with them enough.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-04-18 10:22|| 2020-04-18 10:22|| Front Page Top

#3 I agree with #1, but #2 is crazy talk!

Posted by Frank G 2020-04-18 10:55|| 2020-04-18 10:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Dunno what came over me. I wrote something a lot stronger, erased it, wrote the milquetoast thing without any reference to Cultural Revolution Cannibalism or Dignity Canals, and then it posted the milquetoast thing twice.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-04-18 11:28|| 2020-04-18 11:28|| Front Page Top

#5 No sympathy for any oil/energy company, US or otherwise. If they make poor investments or bank on oil being $xx per bbl, then tough titties, let them fail.

Posted by Clem 2020-04-18 11:33|| 2020-04-18 11:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Momma said, son, don't ever let me catch you trading in commodities. And especially don't EVER let me catch you trading oil futures...

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-18 14:48|| 2020-04-18 14:48|| Front Page Top

#7 The whole idea that everyone you don't like should have to go head-to-head against a foreign country's state-owned competitor, while you get to pretend you're a pure capitalist, is kinda-sorta how China was able to pull off this biological agent attack.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-04-18 18:52|| 2020-04-18 18:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Hear, hear. Free trade is a sucker game.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-18 18:59|| 2020-04-18 18:59|| Front Page Top

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