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I was talking about domestic policy, which is the issue here. There is no doubt that the US government has done a lot of wrong, only much -- if not most -- of it has been done in the name of business. So your defense of Google (as a representative of private business) over the government, is that the government does a lot of bad when it's fighting on Google's side, and that it's not fighting against Google enough? Of course the government fights alongside capitalists most of the time, but the capitalists can do the same harm on their own (which they did when there was little government to stop them). The difference between American corporations and the American government, is that sometimes, when things get bad enough, the government turns against businesses, while the businesses themselves almost never do.


> I was talking about domestic policy, which is the issue here.

I responded to what you wrote, which had no such qualification. And I mentioned several domestic policies.

> So your defense of Google

It wasn't a defense of Google, it was a criticism of the government and a correction on what you wrote.

> Of course the government fights alongside capitalists most of the time

Which is one of its problems.




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