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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. I wanna eat goddamnit
  2. Beautiful series before the penalty. Happy for the points, no complaints with Sark. You can’t call it better than that.
  3. I’m really surprised and saddened to see excuses for sexual abuse of minors from the, uh, Catholic League.
  4. Obligatory
  5. Good thing the SC players came out quickly. If they had stayed in there for 45 minutes and murdered some kids DPS would have been waiting outside with a swat team.
  6. No, I’m talking about ā€œcapitalismā€. You know what ā€œutopiaā€ means.
  7. Come for the ratio, stay for the comments
  8. No, because that makes it not capitalism anymore. What you are saying is like calling a car-jacking ā€œunrestrained capitalismā€ because the gun used to commit the crime was privately owned.
  9. The common meaning- unrestrained or uninhibited. So you can’t have uninhibited capitalism because the economic system we refer to as capitalism (like civilization itself) is a product of social and legal inhibition and restraints. To clarify- I’m not saying capitalism is a legal construct or abstraction because it’s not. But you can’t describe the degree of a thing is allowed to be itself by the extent to which it becomes its own opposite.
  10. Disagree. rent seeking and regulatory capture are the two greatest threats to the economic system capitalism, precisely because they stifle competition in the first place and inhibit efficient price discovery and cost allocation in the second. And again- it’s not pedantry. The general public and the media has largely been conditioned by propaganda into an Orwellian condition of describing anti-capitalism as capitalism. So to answer your question, @Sawbonz the phrase ā€œunfettered capitalismā€ is a sort of oxymoronic irony, like ā€œlawless state.ā€ What we put fetters on and why is the distinction between capitalism and socialism.
  11. I disagree. It’s not pedantry. In the first place, it’s simply incorrect to say that ā€œunfettered capitalismā€ tends toward monopoly. But more importantly the kleptocracy relies on linguistic constructs for control, because it allows them to rig the discourse against you. When you call what they are doing ā€œunfettered capitalism,ā€ a meaningless expression which to a layperson sounds like you are saying ā€œletting markets work,ā€ you’ve already lost the argument, because that’s not what’s happening at all. When a company bribes a president for an exclusive government contract, that’s not ā€œunfettered capitalism.ā€ A far more accurate statement would be to say that unpunished corruption leads to monopoly.
  12. 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 ā€œcapitalismā€ and people who just don’t want to get fucked over not having the vocabulary or conceptual framework to understand it.
  13. I said goddamn
  14. Capitalism is the opposite of corporate power. What people call capitalism in this context is not capitalism, but successful rent seeking and regulatory capture.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Wordle 1,610 3/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  18. 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 ā€œschools of thoughtā€ (or ā€œwider interestsā€) 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 ā€œwider issuesā€ 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.
  19. 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:
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