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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Capitalism can’t really exist without various artifacts of state, eg private property and state power to enforce it. There’s a much longer explanation here beyond the scope of this thread, but a lot of our political discourse revolves around rent seekers and bad actors looking for state support hiding behind the word “capitalism” and people who just don’t want to get fucked over not having the vocabulary or conceptual framework to understand it.
  2. I said goddamn
  3. Capitalism is the opposite of corporate power. What people call capitalism in this context is not capitalism, but successful rent seeking and regulatory capture.
  4. No. That’s a widely held misconception. Market competition in large, mature industries with declining, or low but stable margins often consolidates around a small number of players as a result of economies of scale and expense capital, until they are disrupted by paradigm shifts and innovation, at which point those large players and industries typically cease to exist. Market competition rarely produces *monopolies* without state intervention. Monopoly inherently socializes risk, and Capitalism *requires* risk and cost to be fully assumed by private capital. However, a small number of players in a consolidated market is an effective monopoly if they are working together. Thats why laws and enforcement of laws against things like collusion, price fixing, and other anti-competitive practices are so important. They protect the freedom of the market and allow the invisible hand to do its thing.
  5. Man. Terrible. It sounds like a hyperbolic cliche, but he was one of the great American song writers- he definitely wasn’t as famous and he probably wasn’t as accessible, but imo he was every bit the equal of John Prine, Tom T Hall and Kris Kristofferson. It seems like his demons took him and that’s a shame. He went way too soon.
  6. Wordle 1,610 3/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  7. Oh Jesus this is like the least slippery slope of all time. No, I won’t define a well understood, widely used concept. Google is your friend. Here’s how this goes: I think representative democracy should involve competition to represent the real interests of actual people. You have indicated that parties represent “schools of thought” (or “wider interests”) and therefore people should be structured into prepackaged tranches to produce a partisan result that conforms to their party preferences as expressed across the widest political subdivision available, ie, the state. My view is that “wider issues” will remain in play but compact districts composed of actual places where people have things in common will also weigh those issues against local ones and produce a more nuanced and fulsome consideration of candidates, and that candidates will therefore represent their constituents. You contend those local considerations don’t matter or at best should be distinctly secondary. The parties agree, which is why we have nationalized basically all federal races. In other words want shitty government that disrespects your intelligence and robs you blind while offering you no choices that matter. I don’t. That’s where we disagree.
  8. The only thing I need less than Stephen A Smith talking about the Epstein files is Stephen A Smith talking about sports. This reminds me of @Pescado_Rojo’s story about the worst blow job he ever got:
  9. What about Salmon P Chase? What are you trying to hide?
  10. They also weren’t on any sense moderate or centrist. They were just principled by the standards of politicians and not pussies. This isn’t directed at you, but it’s uncanny the way we’ve adapted words like “conservative” to mean the degree to which a Republican pays fealty to Donald Trump, regardless of circumstances.
  11. The “victim” singular? My dude there are as many as 1000 victims. And you’re saying the victims are less credible than a deceased convicted pedophile sex trafficker and a convicted sex trafficker/perjurer negotiating for a pardon? That’s … quite a take. Ok, well in that case, the emails of the dead pedophile along with the president’s own sworn deposition pretty clearly implicate that the president, at the very least, had real-time knowledge of criminal sex trafficking and did nothing to stop it AND ALSO did not terminate his personal association with the pedophile sex trafficker. It really is good
  12. Tough week Wordle 1,609 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  13. <:-)>
  14. Don Bongiorno
  15. Interesting. What are the gloves ostensibly for?
  16. If they do I can’t think of any examples since 23
  17. Revisiting the original post for posterity 1) The Democrats didn’t help them, for 6 weeks. The longest shutdown in history. During that time they swept elections, their numbers went up, and they came back at the end with the Epstein bomb to take control of the news. I criticize Democrats nonstop, but this was flawless weathermaking. 2) The GOP did wear it, and their president wore it more than either House or Senate Leadership, and it did seem to surprise him, and he did throw it in Congress lap when it didn’t go the way he wanted. Nothing they tried for 6 weeks worked. Now he’s rattled, the base is rattled, Thune is rattled, and everyone is mad at Mike Johnson. And on top of all that, because the oversight Dems were apparently sitting on the Epstein emails for this moment, Trump was unable to take a victory lap at his signing ceremony ending the shutdown and had to run from questions. 3) The Democrats did find a way to cock this up, by setting the bar for success awkwardly high, but didn’t pay any price for it and are coming out in better shape than they went in. Correct. Despite coming out ahead, Democrat base voters are still convinced their leaders chickened out, because they did! But honestly, that anger is a great outcome. Democrats won the shutdown, QED:
  18. Inshallah!
  19. Maybe we beat them 30-20
  20. You are incorrect. It came to me as in a dream. We will win. Let it be written.
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