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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 7 Jul 2015

    Aral Balkan Retweeted Dimitri Lascaris

    Our generation will have to make a choice: democracy or capitalism. I know where I stand on that, do you?https://twitter.com/dimitrilascaris/status/618048473531682816 …

    Aral Balkan added,

    Dimitri Lascaris @dimitrilascaris
    It is an affront to democracy that #Greece's fate now lies in the hand of an unelected ex-Goldman Sachs banker: http://nyti.ms/1H1euCR 
    5:22 AM - 7 Jul 2015
    • 11 Retweets
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    4 replies 11 retweets 14 likes
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      2. Ignatius J. Reilly  🇪🇺 🧣‏ @erlik 7 Jul 2015
        Replying to @aral

        .@aral if you don't like capitalism there are a few paradises you can go. Cuba, North Korea... hi quality democracy over there :)

        1 reply 3 retweets 2 likes
      3. neil manuell‏ @neilmanuell 7 Jul 2015
        Replying to @erlik

        @erlik @aral - or you could simply stay and make it better here.

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Ignatius J. Reilly  🇪🇺 🧣‏ @erlik 7 Jul 2015
        Replying to @neilmanuell

        Ignatius J. Reilly  🇪🇺 🧣 Retweeted ian bremmer

        @neilmanuell @aral capitalism is already making this world better, but it's easier to do propaganda & shout sloganshttps://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/618481455124074496 …

        Ignatius J. Reilly  🇪🇺 🧣 added,

        ian bremmerVerified account @ianbremmer
        Developing world extreme poor 1990: 47% 2015: 14%
        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 7 Jul 2015
        Replying to @erlik

        @erlik @neilmanuell Meanwhile, 85 of the richest people in the world have as much wealth as half of the world’s poorest (3.5 billion people)

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Ignatius J. Reilly  🇪🇺 🧣‏ @erlik 7 Jul 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @neilmanuell stop the propagandistic BS. You said there's a choice between democracy and capitalism. And that's an outright fallacy.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      7. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 7 Jul 2015
        Replying to @erlik

        @erlik @neilmanuell BS, you say? :) http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/20/oxfam-85-richest-people-half-of-the-world …

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      8. Ignatius J. Reilly  🇪🇺 🧣‏ @erlik 7 Jul 2015
        Replying to @aral

        .@aral @neilmanuell how does that make the supposed choice between democracy and capitalism less of a fallacy?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      9. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 7 Jul 2015
        Replying to @erlik

        @erlik @neilmanuell Systemic inequality, innit? Go read some Piketty.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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      2. Dean Bubley‏ @disruptivedean 7 Jul 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @dimitrilascaris Yes I stand on the side of "fewer logical fallacies". You've posed a false dichotomy

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 7 Jul 2015
        Replying to @disruptivedean

        @disruptivedean Capitalism gives us the monopolies of a new corporate feudalism. That’s diametrically opposed to democracy.+@dimitrilascaris

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Dean Bubley‏ @disruptivedean 7 Jul 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @dimitrilascaris No, capitalism gives a business Enlightenment, enabling entrepreneurs, SMEs & self-employed to challenge corporates

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      5. End of conversation
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      2. StJohnDeakins‏ @StJohnDeakins 7 Jul 2015
        Replying to @aral

        Hi @aral, in the West we've settled on a "market driven social democracy" model. Are u saying they're contradictory terms? @dimitrilascaris

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 7 Jul 2015
        Replying to @StJohnDeakins

        @StJohnDeakins That may be the theory, in practice we have monopolies and unsustainable systemic inequality. +@dimitrilascaris

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. StJohnDeakins‏ @StJohnDeakins 7 Jul 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral we always have (East India Company) - democracy *should* evolve to be far more representative http://www.parliament.uk/documents/speaker/digital-democracy/Digi001_StJohn_Deakins.pdf … @dimitrilascaris

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Francesco Ponzin‏ @FrancescoPonzin 7 Jul 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral if you make referendum in entire UE, Greeks will simply be kicked out: choice is "democracy or solidarity"

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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