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Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "The real reason Egypt is moving its capital" video.
There never really was a time when governments served the people. Governments throughout history and more or less right now always served themselves and privileged elites with the people being an afterthought.
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@JohnKFossil Same here in Canada with the making of Ottawa as the capital which is situated in between the 2 largest cities in the country, Montreal and Toronto along a river that divides its 2 most populated provinces, Quebec and Ontario.
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Exactly.
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No it's not.
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Since when have governments cared about the people aside from using them to get into and stay in power?
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<China solved their overpopulation bomb by introducing the one child policy... and the result today speaks... > Which is why they ended up scrapping it in 2017. Demographic decline almost on par with Japan's. Now they're trying to encourage citizens to make more babies. LOL
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In the US, it was racially motivated as most of the people with means who moved out were white.
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The military. There's a reason why most dictatorships spending a good portion of their operating budgets on keeping the military happy.
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But Cairo was developed by Britain, not the US.
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@blakedake19 But it worked for the US, because it had plenty of arable land to build big on.
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How? Only the military is in any position to initiate coups. That's how Sisi got into power.
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Tunisia.
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Egypt already is a dictatorship.
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