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@Danielle
You didn't ask a yes or no question. You just said Right? As if you needed validation from me when I know you clearly do not.
Here's a goal for you in 2022. Frame your questions like this: Do you support the repeal of section 230?
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@Danielle
I think Government needs to get out of the business of business. Don't you think so?
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@bmdrocks21
Otherwise, you could not have any website that allows individuals to post their thoughts without thousands of lawsuits being filed every time someone says something defamatory or false about another.
That's a ridiculous statement. Colleges aren't sued for defamation when students yell nigger on their campus. They have a code of conduct like any other speech venue that protects them from liability for defamation.
We don't have a section 230 for private colleges.
When colleges start censoring is the point at which they get sued. It's not frivolous liability lawsuits that colleges need government protection from.
The entire 230 deal is one big marketing scam; that's all it is. Period.
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@bmdrocks21
It's a fundamentally dumb philosophy to think private business needs the government's intervention to protect them from liability lawsuits. Private industry is far more capable at protecting itself on an individual basis than any government agency, no matter what the promises are.
From what I know of the capabilities of private industry, the entire genesis of the 230 scenario seems to be mostly a marketing plan using the government as cover for their shareholders as they went ahead with censorship they planned long before 230. As I said before, private industries certainly didn't need 230 to shield themselves from lawsuits. They never needed it in the past.
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@Danielle
Twitter doesn't need section 230 to post a TOS clause protecting themselves from lawsuits. It's a bogus issue.
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Nikki Knows how to rage against the machine properly. Not rage on behalf of it.
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@thett3
How DARE you question the CDC!
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@bmdrocks21
I don’t know anything about this guy. Did he in some way organize the protest on Jan 6th or coordinate anything with the rest of the people?
Jan 6, the day we celebrate not formally charging hundreds of political trespassers for insurrection while also calling them insurrectionists.
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It should never have been the children's responsibility to protect the at-risk adults. Society is doomed. These kids are going to grow up and resent you for what you did to them.
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Right. A progressive society sacrifices the children for the Adults like the Aztecs did.
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I'm pretty sure what parents and teachers did to children for the past 3 years classifies as sadistic.
Not one science study that says Covid was a meaningful threat to kids under 18, even the super fat ones.
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@ILikePie5
I like how a floyd rioter has the same severity of crime as a political trespasser. That's some felony jogging I tell you.
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@Mikal
can I mail in my vote early? I will allow you to harvest my ballot.
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But you're saying he purposefully wants to kill Americans just for the fun of it? That's cool. So he's like Hitler but less charismatic.
Eh, not purposefully. More along the lines of negligence.
The link doesn't say that. It does say the 2020 numbers were probably underreported.
Just did quick math using generous estimates about how many times more effective the vax was at preventing death. It's prolly a lot higher accounting for the variants that the original vacc wasn't designed for. Almost 3 years in and the govt still won't admit to the people that losing weight (for people under 60) prevents death from Covid far more than getting a vaxx... probably because most people can't lose weight fast enough to get out of the at-risk category, so they need the vaxx now asap.
Covid killed 600,000+ people in a year; the chicken pox kills, like, five newborns a year and that's it
Wait...more newborns died from chickenpox than Covid? Source?
I think it's weird that people suddenly care about vaccine mandates.
People are getting nervous about the mixed messaging, and then you have people like Fauci that claims he is the undisputed champion of science and shouldn't be questioned. If the govt wasn't pushing so hard, I bet more people would choose to get it.
This is a weird time when the government is discouraging free speech on this. It's making people hella nervous.
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@Double_R
The 30 percenters aren't about approval. It's the amount of people who insist Biden is mentally sharp. A clear indicator of self-delusion.
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@badger
I got the early shots and told the boosters to fuck off after getting Delta immunity and seeing first hand how fucking useless Moderna was at keeping me healthy.
Watching my weight now so I don't end up a statistic like the rest. Pretty sure there's no vaccine in the near future for being morbidly obese.
Love you too Mr. Badger.
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@badger
Lol, even if that would be my legacy, it wouldn't last as long as the stone walls your grandfather made.
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@badger
I got natural immunity from Delta. I'm good bro. Survived the culling as a farmer would say.
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@FLRW
Why would you guess that? Many of the people that died were in full compliance with every mandate and still died, including the 30,000 that disgraced ex-governor Cuomo murdered with the mandates everyone followed without question.
You don't seem like the kind of person to question authority when it comes to shocking your friends to death per the original Milgram experiment. Shameful.
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Are these policies being wielded on purpose to identify people who can be controlled easily?
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@Double_R
to project seriousness and stability.
Why do the 30 percenters need the illusion of this? You can see with your own eyes how shitty life is in the city of DC for anyone outside of the elite cabal.
Do any of these poor residents take DC elites as seriously as you do? After all, they live there, they know better than both of us.
If ignorance is bliss, every one of the 30 percenters are living in a Matrix-like fantasy land where "seriousness and stability" are never questioned.
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@FLRW
You are literally hitler for even knowing the book exists by that logic.
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@Double_R
I'm sure the rosy rhetoric about your state of mind will put you at ease when Lindsey and McConnel take control of judiciary investigations.
At least I am prepared for the worst here, you don't even see the danger.
Orwell's 2 minutes of hate relived daily isn't exclusive to any party, just the ones sitting in the seat at the time. After 2022, it will be 2 minutes of hate observed for the evil leftists that ran the economy into the ground, even though they actually had nothing to do about it. Every illegal invader will now be a political trespasser destroying democracy for example. It's just another scapegoat to rage over while business continues as usual in DC.
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@Danielle
He did not get millions lol. He probably got like 50-100 K per settlement and then had to give his lawyers 1/3 of whatever he got after taxes.
We really don't know, but CNN paid a lot more than 100 k in lawyer fees before the settlement. Maybe even millions depending who they hired to saved their asses.
I don't really care as much that Sandman or Sandman's lawyers became millionaires as seeing a trash racebaiting outfit like CNN lose millions. In the end, CNN had to pay 3 parties. 2 sets of lawyers and Sandman. Get cucked CNN. Get cucked.
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@Danielle
There were no damages done to me.
I'm sure a lawyer would have given you a finder's fee cut. Not sure what the going rate is though.
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@Danielle
That's why people made a big deal over Trump taking out a full page ad in the New York Times to falsely accuse the Central Park 5 of murder. His supporters were like "meh" but think disparaging Nick Sandmann's name is just awful. Just the worst. Just unforgiveable.
So why didn't you (or anyone) contact the CP5 and file a lawsuit then? You could have made millions too while making a "big deal" in an undisclosed settlement, not just the typical relative chump-change most racebaiters get.
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@Double_R
No, because our justice system is not as easily corruptible...
Lol, Virginia parents and political trespassers jailed for a year with no trial date want you to hold their beer.
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@Double_R
You're just proving my point that when all those people you quoted get power in 2022, it will be Democrats in jail for political trespassing with no trial date, and 30 percenters won't be able to do a thing but wonder why.
Surely you know in your quiet moments that 2022 is going to be a year of absolute GOP congressional power.
Are you not the least bit afraid of what they plan to do to people like you?
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@Double_R
It's not Trump that's going to start all sorts of political investigations into political enemies in 2022 though. Nor will he start impeachment hearings.
Can you guess who will be doing it? Likely not. Most Jan 6 hyperventilators think Trump is running for Congress in 2022.
Tyranny from one side used to justify it when the other side gets power, just like the tyranny of the treaty of Versailles was used to justify all the crap Germany did.
Jan 6 and DC gutting the political and economic freedoms of every American is the modern Treaty of Versailles, who knows what shit Jan 6 and DC tyranny will spawn? There's nobody left to stand up for the hundreds of people jailed for political trespassing.
It's most likely not going to be Trump again since his role is more related to this guy. It's the next tyrant that's going to be the doozy. The one the 30 percenters are helping to pave the way for by backing and accepting all this tyrannical shit.
When generations look back and ask the same question they asked Germany "Why did you guys let this happen?" It's always the same answer. They trusted the same people that created the problems in the first place to fix them.
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@dfss9788
We can only gauge the amount by Sandman's notorious smile.
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@ILikePie5
I'm looking forward to the 2022 circus impeachments and political investigations from the GOP after they seize complete power of the Congress.
Tyranny from the left mirrored on the right because the people are dumb as hell.
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@ILikePie5
It's funny about the things we now know, like some of the inciters (Ray Epps and others) given prosecutorial immunity due to likely working for the FBI. (guy is walking free and clear despite being filmed inciting a riot and politically trespassing)
A full year of incarceration for political trespassing. That's 2022 tyranny.
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@badger
Wheel of time is foggy for me
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@zedvictor4
Left and right are both liberals.
One side wants freedom from government
The other side wants freedom from individual responsibility.
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@badger
I honestly think thett is one of the best people in the entire world.
You're the runner up though. Nobody better to get drunk with and get in a fight with than the Badger.
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Well, it's a war against conservatives more than white people. If recent immigrants were an overwhelmingly GOP group Biden would be bringing the hammer down on legal and illegal immigration, regardless of race. What would you call it if one group subverts the law whenever they are in office, for the purpose of damaging the prospects of another group? And a lot of the stuff I hear is very racially coded. Idk how else I should be expected to feel about it.
Brown Cubans can get fucked if you are a Democrat.
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@zedvictor4
And Ronnie was a liberal conservative.
Most conservatives believe in freedom from government and are the most liberal people on the planet.
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Here is what confuses me about San Francisco.
We have the most liberal, left-wing government & population in the country. We have a $13B budget. And we have 8,000 people sleeping in the rain this week. Can someone please explain this to me?
What do progressives stand for, exactly? I thought it was about making things more fair. About standing up for the little guy. About human rights, equality (equity?), compassion. San Francisco (to me) looks like the least compassionate city on the planet.
The slums of Mumbai look cleaner than the streets of downtown SF. This isn't just the Tenderloin - it's SOMA, parts of the Mission, Dogpatch... We have thousands of people wandering around - looking like they are on the brink of death. This is why ppl use the term Zombie.
I've been a registered democrat for 18 years. I grew up in a Progressive family and went to a Progressive school, and have mostly Progressive friends. Yet what I see in SF - if this what Progressive stands for - I want the opposite.
The words used here: "harm reduction", "housing first", "criminal justice", "social justice", "equity" -- they don't align with what I'm seeing at all. Our strategy might as well be called "harm increased", "housing last", "victim injustice", "social injustice", "unfairness".
Where is our $13B going, exactly? How do we only have 3,000 shelter beds when 8,000 are unsheltered in the streets? How is this an American city.
I'm starting to develop a seriously dark view of the Progressive politicians in charge of our town. They have absolute power - act like a regime, and talk often of how "broken" the system is. Are the homeless their foot soldiers? Mascots? Mercenaries?
You have to wonder, with the funds we have as a city, state & nation - is this situation... on purpose? We saw what SF was capable of when pandemic hit. We had testing sites up in days. Hotels converted into shelter. Funds flowing. Yet here we are... Is this nefarious?
Progressives tend to blame Republicans for almost everything. Yet here we are - not a Republican in sight - and I think we may be the most deranged city on the planet. Nowhere is there such inequality. I have never seen destitution at this scale.
So here are my questions to Progressives -- + What do you stand for? + What do you believe? + What are your strengths as a political group? + Weaknesses? Why, after decades of Progressive rule in SF are 8,000 people in the streets? + Why do we have the highest overdose rate in the nation? + Why do we have the highest property crime rate? + Why do we have fewest children per capita? + What are the biggest "wins" of progressives in SF? + What are progressives most proud of here? + Who are the strongest public servants of the progressive party? + Why do you think we should continue on this path?
Recently I have been having flashbacks to Junior year when I ran for class representative and lost by five votes. My opponent promised candy vending machines, parties - all kinds of fun things. He won, and didn't do a darned thing all year.
Thought experiment -- what would San Francisco look like if Republicans were in charge? If moderates ran things? If we had two party rule instead of one?
Downtown is boarded up. The children of the Tenderloin are begging the Mayor to arrest drug dealers. Our school system is on the brink of state takeover. Our DA is completely over his skis and a defender at heart. We are in crisis. And - yes, we voted for this. We KNOW!
We probably have more "Black Lives Matter" signs up than any city in the nation. 40% of our homeless people are Black. Do their lives matter...? Or is this just about virtue signaling and moral grandstanding?
This past Thursday afternoon I dialed into the Board of Supervisors meeting about the emergency order to refund the police. Our board sat through 10 hours of debate & public comment. It was astonishing. Caller after caller saying "defund the police."
The #1 "advocate" for the homeless, Jennifer Friedenbach - called in to say "Vote no on black lives don't matter!" She is the head of @TheCoalitionSF -- and has for decades fought against shelters - saying they warehouse people. She is for "housing first". Well - here we are.
I would really like to know if @fbach4 stands by her advocacy. I personally believe she is the person most responsible for this tragedy unfolding in our streets. But we are all responsible. We are allowing this insanity.
I'd also like to know why the loudest voices right now against changing our approach are all white progressive women. We have Kate Chatfield from the DA's office, Jennifer Friedenbach from COH, Hilary Ronen of D8. All yelling about defunding the police. What is this about?
Meanwhile our Mayor, who grew up in the projects of SF - and our Chief of Police (@SFPDChief) - two of the most thoughtful, kind & pragmatic people in SF - are asking for funds & help. And they are getting shouted down as racists? This is nuts!
Many people in SF came here to "change the world". They start companies, fight for causes they believe in, recycle & compost, invest in "green" products. This is all wonderful, but what about the humanitarian crisis in our backyard?
I've been thinking a lot recently about the concept of "Civic Duty." What is our responsibility as a citizenry? What is "civil society"? What does it mean to "contribute" to your neighborhood, city, state, nation?
One of my friends recently woke up to find a homeless person sleeping on the front step of her multi-million dollar home. I asked her what she did. "We closed the blinds." I think this is such a metaphor for what's going on here. San Francisco is turning its head.
San Franciscans believe they are righteous because they pledge allegiance to the righteous tribe - Democrats. They believe they are moral because they believe in higher taxes. They believe they are virtuous because they believe in big Government.
I am just so confused. If Progressives believe in big government then why aren't they even doing the bare minimum - the minimum that even F.A. Hayek spoke of in "The Road to Serfdom" in 1944? He is a famous Libertarian, and believed in providing food, shelter & clothing.
I get messages almost daily from ppl who say they are afraid to speak up for fear of professional ramifications. Some say they are even afraid to like my tweets. I'm afraid to ask questions about the vaccine on Twitter... What kind of "freedom" do we stand for out here?
In college I studied totalitarian governments and how they came to power. The similarities I see to many elements of society today are harrowing. The cancel culture, the "wrongthink", the adulation of "experts", the cultishness towards "science", the blind support by party.
We're more worked up over gerrymandering than we are about people dying in our streets. My friends in SF read article after article about Trump - and don't even know who their supervisor is. Since when did local politics become so "pedestrian" so as to not warrant attention?
I've been critiqued for showcasing SF's problems - told that I'm "fueling" the "Fox News Narrative." Accused of using "Trump-like" messaging to rile people up. Am I traitorous for drawing attention to our issues? Is my critique of Progressives unwarranted?
I've been tweeting about SF for about two years now. For a long time people kept asking me what my "goal" was. That question died down a while ago. Perhaps it's become clear? In case it isn't - my goal is to inspire civic engagement & interest in local politics.
My goal is to draw attention to San Francisco's government, issues & policies - because I think we can do better. This is my hometown. I think it's a very special place. San Francisco used to mean something. It stood for something. I was proud to be from here.
But today I feel ashamed. I feel ashamed of our values. I feel ashamed of our group think. I feel ashamed of our lack of civic engagement. I feel ashamed of the inequality. Of our wasted budget. Of the corruption, the grift & the greed.
We have some of the most educated people in the world living here. We have some of the wealthiest most productive companies in human history. We have beautiful homes, views, nature, weather... This should be a beacon of liberalism. This should be a city on a hill...
I'm tweeting because I'm trying to understand how things went so wrong. How we earned ourselves the nickname "Gotham." How our downtown streets started to look like a scene out of a dystopian movie. How we labeled a class of destitute people "zombies."
I have a hunch it has something to do with political tribalism... Mark Twain wrote, "To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.” Is this what's happening here...?
I'm exploring these issues because I don't want to see the rest of our country look like SF. What's happening here should be a warning about what happens when people pick a side & hate-vote against others. I'm considering pivoting my company, to focus on "the middle path."
What does it look like to be "radically moderate"? What does it mean to put political tribalism aside & work together? Is it possible? What does it look like to study the other side? To challenge your beliefs?
Why have I never learned about the case for gun rights? Or about the values of Islam? What are the arguments against abortion? Why do so many people not want to take the vaccine? Why am I not allowed to ask these questions without being accused of "doing harm"?
This week I'm doing a lot of thinking, writing & reading. My friends are posting on Instagram from their luxury hotels in Mexico & ski resorts. I put them all on mute. Something called to me this week to hunker down. I've been driving in the rain and thinking...
I'm trying to figure out why I care so much about all this - and why I'm spending so much time on Twitter. I think it's because I am trying to work something out. Trying to figure out how this relates to my company. Trying to see if I can find a way to merge it all together.
I *think* it's something about moderate values or moderation. Perhaps it's about balance, or a "middle path". Civil society? Civic duty? Civilization? Free thinking? Contrarian thought? Discourse?
My mind is swirling a bit. Could use some help & insight. I'm clearly quite upset about what I'm seeing in my backyard - both here in SF - but also more broadly in our country. If you have any ideas, or you relate - please do share. 🙏
Thank you for reading.
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@n8nrgmi
There was a recent interview with Putin who correctly observed that America is slowly regressing into the old Soviet Union with growing government and increasing government meddling with grand plans to centrally plan everything. He noted that America was becoming just as inept and corrupt as the 1990 period that the Soviet Union had to crawl out of.
Even if Reagan were alive today, DC most likely wouldn't allow a hands off approach at this point since the corruption is so great. There probably is no path to the same solutions America used in 1980. We are headed to the same exact fall as the Soviet Union experienced in 1990 for the exact same reason. A mass delusion of trust in government to centrally plan an entire society. It's inevitable.
So I guess you proved an important point in a way. It's irrelevant whether or not Reagan was to be credited or to blame for the recovery of double digit inflation in 1980.
Today's present Government is too far gone down the path of centrally planned socialism to implement any of those solutions. The patient is simply too sick to accept the vaccine.
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@n8nrgmi
but you still shoouldn't have posted an article that was all about praising raeagan,
Setting aside your penchant for hero worship when discussing economic policies,
How did Reagan fuck up the fed policy that stopped inflation? Explain in detail please.
If he didn't fuck it up, given the trend of most politicians in both parties to mismanage policies regarding inflation and other economic policies, shouldn't he be praised for not doing the expected action of a politician and fuck it up?
I think most people are fucktards for not giving Bill Clinton credit for not fucking up sound economic policies while he was in office. That's the high standard bar of achievement for all government servants today. Can they leave things the fuck alone and let individuals prosper?
If you read the article carefully, that's exactly what it said about Reagan. He had an opportunity to fuck it up, and he didn't. That's why we made it through those dark Carter years, because unlike Carter, Reagan knew the inherent dangers of government meddling and the high risks of government fucking up things just by micromanaging everything like the old Soviet era "BIG GOVERNMENT" central planning that ultimately led to the economic collapse of the great socialist nation.
That deserves high praise today in a world where the norm is an expectation of unregulated and unrestricted government meddling fucking up left and right with no end in sight.
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I insulted Reagan
The post wasn't about Reagan. It was about how double digit inflation was solved. You are the one who read a post that was CLEARLY describing anti-inflation policies and then retardedly decided the post was all about "Reagan" and then childishly posted a bunch of irrelevant ad-hom links that had NOTHING to do with inflation policies. GTFO with the pointedly fake sincerity. Nobody is going to fall for your con.
It's rare to ever see you argue anything here in good faith. It far too often has to be about people and not ideas.
If I wanted to engage in a gossip fuckcircle about people instead of ideas with you I would have streamed "The View" for 12 hours straight. But I'd rather just point out your ridiculous behavior and talk with the adults about policies and ideas instead of gossiping over long dead people, as if you (or anyone sane for that matter) would ever think seriously "cloning Reagan" or whatever dumb thesis was behind the 3 ad-hom hit pieces you linked as a contribution to the thread was in any way shape or form a realistic and good faith solution to today's inflation problems.
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There you go, doubling down on the retarded ad-homs instead of fixing the country. You deserve the shit you live in.
Presents proven solution..."reaganmanbad reeeeeeeeeeeee"
Enjoy your dystopia you created with your ad-hom primal thought process.
It's the mental equivalent of an 8 year old holding tiny hands over the ears and screaming "la-la-la" as loud as possible.
RM's knee-jerk ad-hom responses are good examples of troublingly popular reactions to a rational discussion about real solutions we need today, and that social behavior should be shamed without end.
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I don't give a flying fuck about Reagan or what credit goes to who, and neither should you. If you want to stop inflation, read the article and apply the solution to today, or be ready to live in another era of Carter administration inflation.
This whole "attack the man" so we can drown out solutions that historically worked needs to fucking stop.
It's the very reason why we have Biden and the inflation bullshit here today, because retards can't separate sound policies and solutions from people they don't like. It's some seriously myopic association rejecting policies because of ad homs that keeps society from being better.
It's now the norm in liberal dystopialand to present a historical solution that worked to stop double digit inflation, and the IMMEDIATE response is "reaganmanbad"
Fucking retards.
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@thett3
This is the equivalent of Trump saying "let's go cadet bone spurs" live on TV,
There's no good spin on this.
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