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It's always going to be less effort to repeat something than to reason about it.

Satan is the father of lies.

Capitalism often operates in regulated markets, including those with price controls.

The pricing mechanism in (nominally) communist countries is generally not based on price caps, but instead a mix of political expedience and an attempt to implement the labor theory of value (which is fallacious and therefore unworkable).

Something that Mussolini actually didn't do.

Handwavey bullshit is not a solution. Trump is not a broken clock, he's an anti-clock. If he's doing it, you have 100% assurance that it's wrong.

Why would they tell him anything unless he's done something for them?

Scams are never job-producing schemes. The scammers want to extract the maximum amount of cash from the rubes with the minimum of overheads.

Why is it so hard to get rid of that knobhead?

I suspect picking a non-MAGA American was a deliberate choice.

The Pope really needs to force the retirement of some of the more reactionary cardinals and archbishops in the US, who openly defied Francis in some cases.

That may be true for a different reason. The Vatican may have selected Prevost because he's anti-MAGA, but blocking some of Trump's bleating by having chosen an American.

If it prevents progressive ideas from ever being implemented, they'll think it's worth it.