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@ILikePie5
Matt Lee To Ned Price:
"I remember you said Kabul was not going to fall, so where is your evidence for this allegation?"
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@Double_R
The southern border is a crisis of people trying to escape the hell hole they live in, it’s a humanitarian issue.
It's ridiculous (and lazy) to reduce the general problem of resource shortages to "humanitarian issues." If that were the case, Ukraine could be judged to be oppressing Russia by not sharing it's bounty with Russia; and Ukraine is, of course, "guilty" of said humanitarian crimes. In a meritocracy, individuals are responsible for creating their own wealth and shortages. In an egalitarian world, nobody is responsible for contributing anything productive to society. It's always some scapegoat at fault or responsible.
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@Double_R
This false flag is a pretext for that.
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@Tejretics
I think most occupational licensing should be abolished, and that zoning regulations in major coastal U.S. cities are among the most significant factors driving costs of living that shut off economic opportunity to the middle class.
While minimum wage doesn't affect the market value of labor, the restriction of job opportunities does. Friedman described the role of Labor Unions as minimizing the amount of jobs in order to inflate the market value of labor due to scarcity. This kind of monopolistic behavior destroys upward mobility.
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@Tejretics
I generally agree with most of your response but I do take issue with this.
The fact that recessions even exist for fairly prolonged periods of time is evidence that there are sometimes large-scale coordination failures that markets are bad at adapting to. For example, unemployment wouldn’t be very high for any long period of time, because workers looking for work would simply accept lower wages, and the invisible hand of the market would either find them jobs or cause them to quit the labor force (rather than stay unemployed and looking for work)
This presents a false dichotomy that a person has only 2 choices, be unemployed or work for pay at a rate that is worth less than the market value of their work output. In a free market, there would be few barriers to competition and incentives for workers to choose the obvious third option, work for themselves.
The only barrier to this 3rd option is a government that passes the regulations preventing competition. (such as the situation in California where it is illegal to transport goods piling up on the docks if you are a non-union worker)
Setting a minimum wage doesn't affect your market value of your labor. It just raises the prices.
I guess you could argue that in a world with free banking, the market’s rate of interest would become the actual interest rate, and maybe that’d make prices way more flexible. I’m not sure how you feel about the existence of central banks, but my intuition is that free banking would be pretty bad (even if I think central banks are often not responding to market signals fast enough and end up accidentally being too tight/too loose.
The functionality of a central bank ended when it became a tool for the political elites and neutral in name only. The fact that it took so long to relax QE in an obvious inflationary period as we have today demonstrates that we might be better off with decentralized currency. It's entirely possible much of the world will run on a decentralized currency in the future.
I think central banks are often not responding to market signals fast enough and end up accidentally being too tight/too loose
When the Central bank messes the calculations up, the result (penalty) is far worse than a market driven recession. And longer lasting.
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@n8nrgim
Honestly, I am so sick of hero worshippers blaming Americans when your hero fucks up. These are supposed to be your countrymen. If you care so little for them, you should find a new country to live in.
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@n8nrgim
but biden gave warnings earlier in the year that people should be leaving so the usa could withdraw from afghanistan,
Cool story bro. Like he warned Americans that Kabul was going to fall quickly after the withdrawal.
Let's hear more storytime.
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@cristo71
A new report released by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee found that as many as 9,000 Americans were left in Afghanistan during the Biden Administration’s disastrous withdrawal. Secretary of State Antony Blinken originally claimed that number was closer to 100-150.
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Biden in a race to the bottom now has a majority of Americans declaring him the worst president ever after only one year. Next 3 years should be fun as hell.
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@bmdrocks21
It's the age of virus. They can smell fear.
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@ILikePie5
Im not playing unless badger is playing.
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@zedvictor4
.Plant processes are vital to a good life sustaining ecosystem.
There are plenty of plants in the top 25 vital list. None of them are rainforest trees.
People just don't care enough to cultivate them. If humans found them useful, they would have been exploited like corn rice and wheat are.
pine, cedar, oak, maple, orchard trees, all are more vital.
About acquired human greed for chicken flesh, and the purpose thereof.
When humans evolve a taste for rainforest trees, then maybe they will cultivate them. You want to save a species or ecosystem? You better sell it to the humans, cause it's a human dominated planet. No purpose means it aint vital. Most people don't buy it. Certainly not worth 10 dollars a month.
life sustaining ecosystem, and the purpose thereof.
Life will be on this planet long after we are gone. I am not worried about sustained life. Neither was George Carlin.
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@zedvictor4
Nonetheless, the vitality of the rainforest within a life sustaining ecosystem is well understood.
Bullshit. If that was the case we would have cultivated 30 billion rainforest trees instead of 30 billion chickens.
Though one always questions whether we are simply stupid, or are we just doing what we were programmed to do.
According to Carlin, it's both. Our choices are mostly driven through chemical stimulation. Call it biological programming, instinct, feelings, whatever. Man was doomed the day he was born.
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because our collective feelings about what is important is critical to determining actions.
Absolutely not. If you have defective brain chemistry and you have chemical impulses that lead to your extinction, what you feel isn't important at all.
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@Ramshutu
“Importance” is a human concept that we attribute to things.
Has no bearing on natural selection. It either survives or it does not. Your feelings don't matter.
Case in point, lots of people felt eating whatever they felt like was important until Covid proved that feelings don't matter in the end. Especially on what you feel is important. All of our choices are constrained by chemical stimulation. It's a biology thing. Either we adapt or we die.
The end result is more viruses in the future will consume people who can't control their appetite and take them out of the gene pool. It doesn't matter how you feel about it. It's not important.
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Whether or not we are hypocrites about anything doesn’t impact whether various things are important or not.
Important things survive, that's the end of the discussion really. Your feelings don't matter.
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People lie all the time about what they really want and what is "vital." It's how they resolve dissonance. The proof is in the pudding as they say.
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It is also unrelated to whether an ecosystem is important to us as humans (which is based on economics, culture, carrying capacity and logistics).
lol wrong.
Do I want to lose weight: yes. Is fitness and decreasing my BMI important for my long term fitness: yes. Do I exercise enough: no. Do I eat too much pizza: yes.
People lie all the time about what they really want. It's how they resolve dissonance. The proof is in the pudding as they say.
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@Incel-chud
Because they are priming America for war before it's even started. Thanks Brandon. Prolly get a Nobel for this.
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@ILikePie5
Border security is a catch all for “keep the scary dirty brown people out”.
I love how Whoopi is upset she got canceled for saying Jews are not a race because they don't have brown skin. To some people, it's the only race.
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are we destroying important ecosystems
According to natural selection, the answer is clearly no.
When are you going to stop consuming the top 25 of that list? Until then, it's all empty platitudes and bullshit.
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Carlin and his enlightened audience knew this, much to the consternation of the monkeys that would criticize him.
Nobody in their right mind would destroy any of the top 25 plants and animals grown on the list I posted to save "coral reefs" or the "amazon forest" or whatever fad biome that looks fancy this year.
It's all virtue signaling until you stop consuming everything on that list. Then you can come back and say we don't need anything on the top 25 list and they are not vital, but the reefs are. Until then, the only ecosystems that matter are the ones that support the top 25 list of natural selection winners. Every other system is a loser. boo hoo.
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@Mikal
lol, I was trying to give town a chance but none of them are even close to my scum reads.
Like I said, I'll hammer a mislynch if I see an opportunity and town screws up.
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It's fine. there's plenty of people that find Carlin's humor exposing climate fraudsters and prophets of doom. But don't forget to drop your offering into the collection plate on your way out. Al Gore needs a new solar panel for his mansion. The grand poobah of the religion of climate doom.
protecting ourselves from nature and destroying an entire ecosystem
Ecosystems have been destroyed long before humans, and will continue to be destroyed. You don't get to choose. Natural selection chooses. And man is part of nature.
Carlin and his enlightened audience knew this, much to the consternation of the monkeys that would criticize him.
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@Mikal
We can also myslynch a town too I can hammer that.
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@Mikal
Like I said town isn't going to figure out who skum is...not likely
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@zedvictor4
How about corn?
None of these things grow in a rainforest. Imagine that.
Maybe if they did, natural selection would have preserved the rainforest.
Go a year without eating anything on this list while living in a rainforest. Then you can tell me how "vital" the rainforest is.
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@n8nrgmi
Strip malls exist... whence, it's totally cool to mow down rain forests
I see you have decided to refrain from letting the rain forest consume you like all reasonable humans. Most of the Earth is toxic to humans.
Now, go plant some more corn to feed the 30 billion Chickens. There's plenty of CO2 to grow corn for your Nuggets.
and vital species exist there.
Nothing is more vital on planet Earth than a chicken according to natural selection. The rest are just pretending to be vital.
Let's see you go a year without eating chicken and we can talk.
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I can only offer you the same advice Carlin gave us. Go spend some time alone with nature. Be a host for the thousands of things that want to consume your body, and then come back with your pretentious bullshit and start talking about how much of a threat to the planet you feel today.
30 Billion chickens agree.
I can tell you are no fan of Carlin because he exposes frauds. In a funny way of course.
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@ILikePie5
Is it 7 or 8 years from now that we’re all gonna be dead according to AOC?
Most people when asked would not donate 10 dollars a month to fight climate change.
That is how thick the Bullshit is on this topic. Prophets of doom insist we live in Luddite caves but the rules are for thee, not for me.
Climate change has and always will be a mechanism of wealth transfer from people trying to make friends to people that are so rich that they don't need friends.
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@ILikePie5
Yup and Biden should get the Trump treatment
Yes, can't wait for the witch hunts and the Kabuki interpretations of intent and motive of political opponents!
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Lol, it's fake intelligence. The Ministry of truth from America reporting on the Russian's Ministry of Truth.
Clearly a false flag in the making.
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That’s about the same temperature which is predicted for the Middle East in the coming decades.
There's no scientist that predicts the middle east is going to be around 160 degrees F due to global warming lol. The bullshit in this thread is so bad.
There's certainly no scientist that says the Earth would have an average of 160 degree temperatures all over the globe due to global warming as if we were in the same orbit as Venus right now with the current atmosphere. Where are you pulling this stuff from? They've even walked back hard claims on the 4 degree rise.
Seems like Alex Jones type hyperbole just to get attention and make friends.
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I don't need to defend George Carlin lol. Enjoy your delusions.
People with basic herd instincts often predictably virtue signal that they are ecological Luddites (lies to get accepted into the herd), but in the end, they all make trips to the same strip malls when nobody is there to call them out on their bullshit.
The Earth is a very hostile place for humans without those strip malls dontchaknow.
I can only offer you the same advice Carlin gave us. Go spend some time alone with nature. Be a host for the thousands of things that want to consume your body, and then come back with your pretentious bullshit and start talking about how much of a threat to the planet you feel today.
Sound words from the great Carlin.
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Lol supa and pie are both town. this games almost over as soon as town mislynches.
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@ILikePie5
Also, General Miley didn't register as a Chinese agent. Neither did Swalwell.
They should all get the Flynn treatment when 2022 flips red.
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@ILikePie5
It could be WF for trying to throw the game for town by lynching third party with 4 town left. Who knows.
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@ILikePie5
Nah town might still figure it out. I have faith in the impossible.
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@TheUnderdog
As George Carlin said, Humans turned the planet into one gigantic strip mall, and they think it's just DANDY!
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@whiteflame
I think they are both town so the game is already over in my eyes.
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@ILikePie5
Also guilty of being the Anti-Christ
Well he was a registered Democrat, so yeah there is evidence for that crime as well.
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But hell, if you think we can all live of battery farmed chicken, and that large scale ecological disruption from climate change is fine, drop your crypto and go for shares in Buy N Large.
That's entirely plausible. Man has been terraforming the planet to become a human biome from the first shelter built, and will continue to do so.
This planet is still entirely hostile to humans and needs further taming.
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@ILikePie5
Trump is guilty of the felonious crime of of literally being Hitler. There, saved this thread from getting thousands of pages long full of bullshit.
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@Mikal
here is my theory as an innocent bystander. The people with the shittiest roles are town. That's what Luna was feeling this week.
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@whiteflame
Fine, kill me off and the game will be over if there is 3 mafia.
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