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@3RU7AL
BRIBE CORPORATE EXECUTIVES !!!!
Executives have no power outside of monopolies.
Try again fuzzball.
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@3RU7AL
MAKE ALL BRIBES LEGAL !!!!
Bribery is only feasible when the people vote to give the government power.
Nobody rationally bribes a government official that has no power to regulate.
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@3RU7AL
Let me emphasize, the problem is not that bureaucrats are bad people. The problem, as
the Marxists would say, is with the system, not with the people. The self-interest of the people in
government leads them to behave in a way that is against the self-interest of the rest of us.
You remember Adam Smith’s famous law of the invisible hand: People who intend only to
seek their own benefit are “led by an invisible hand to serve a public interest which was no
part of” their intention. I say that there is a reverse invisible hand: People who intend to serve
only the public interest are led by an invisible hand to serve private interests which was no
part of their intention.
I believe our present predicament exists because we have gradually developed governmental
institutions in which the people effectively have no voice. A recent study by James Payne
brought this home to me very clearly. Examining fourteen different government hearings
dealing with spending issues, Payne found that “1,014 witnesses appeared in favor of the
spending. Only 7 could be classified as opponents. In other words pro-spending witnesses
outnumbered anti-spending witnesses 145 to 1.” Striking as that is, an even more important
finding was that “of the 1,060 witnesses who appeared, 47 percent were federal
administrators, and another 10 percent were state and local officials. An additional 6 percent
were congressmen themselves.” Thus 63 percent of the witnesses in favor of the spending
were from government. They were telling us that they should spend our money, I won’t say
for their benefit but for what they believed, or said they believed, was our benefit. Payne
added, “Overwhelmingly, Congress’s views on spending programs are shaped by government
officials themselves.” What is true of spending proposals is equally true of other
governmental measures: sugar quotas, the tax exemption of medical care provided by
employers, the agricultural subsidies, and so on down the line.
Milton Friedman.
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@3RU7AL
USA ranks dead last in media trust with 29% of Americans trusting elite run media.
That means 29% of the country is stupid enough that they need government to step in.
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@Dr.Franklin
Radicals against the establishment.
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@Dr.Franklin
Bill Maher is considered far-right by some Democrats.
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@Dr.Franklin
He was a contrarian and a classical liberal...not the dumbfuckery that passes for a Democrat today.
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@Double_R
I'm really not partisan.
Really. I would rate you as the most partisan person on this site. Your level of party worship and demonization of all opposition to your party is without peer. The only authority you seem to trust always has a D. And you trust with groupthink without question. That is hyper-partisan.
If you are not partisan, you give zero indication of it here. Trusting or questioning Fauci should not be a partisan issue, yet you see it as such.
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@Dr.Franklin
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@Conway
I'd have a preference to be where people drive safely because they value other members of their community. I suppose the metric this would translate to is having less traffic accidents, but accidents are also associated with the infrastructure and type of vehicle people are using, so maybe it's more practical to just base it off perception.
George Carlin noted that if you really wanted people to drive safely and stop texting and drinking, the government would mandate iron spikes installed in the center of the steering wheel instead of a forgiving airbag.
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@Double_R
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Democracy is irrelevant because you just stated most people are too stupid to make democratic choices, about themselves OR you.
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@Double_R
Fauci was saying that the points he is making are consistent with science, so to disagree with one is to necessarily disagree with the other.
Says Fauci? Why is appeal to authority so rampant among Marxists?
turned into a right wing talking point
Why do you have to be so insufferably partisan? Is that a prerequisite for defending Authority?
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@fauxlaw
Dr Fauci: "I am Science."
"If you disagree with me you disagree with science."
Talk about the ultimate scam of appeal to authority.
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@Dr.Franklin
People are too stupid to even know when the government is controlling them.
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@Double_R
And BTW, people are often too stupid to make their own decisions. That’s just a fact.
That's why democracy isn't a thing.
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@Double_R
Any time the government can make the case that you are too stupid to take care of yourself, democracy is irrelevant.
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@Intelligence_06
Did you personally know the Chinese woman that took Swalwell's load?
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@ILikePie5
Forcible removal of political opposition is the hallmark of a totalitarian fascist society. I am done apologizing for these Democrat retards.
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@ILikePie5
"No evidence of collusion" is just a dogwhistle for partisan hacks for racist.
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@drlebronski
Which blacks are you talking about? The ones raised in Democrat urban dystopias or the Nigerian immigrants that earn far above the median household income?
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@ILikePie5
fine
VTNL
so we can confirm if oro is scum or town
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@Wylted
Biden clearly gets a hardon for young women. I'm glad we have an alpha chad in the whitehouse, even if his brain is fried.
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@Wylted
Consensus opinion is the last refuge of a person incapable of understanding science.
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@Wylted
I'm absolutely sure a partisan hack like Double R didn't give the source material a passing glance, assuming he has the capacity to understand it.
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@Wylted
Are you surprised at all that the crony US government after knowing for more than a year that obese people are at risk have issued NO health mandates for obese people? Either the government wants to kill obese people or the lobbyists that run government want people to stay dumb and fat and dead.
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@Wylted
Consensus opinion is objectively anti-science.
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I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.
Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period.
In addition, let me remind you that the track record of the consensus is nothing to be proud of. Let’s review a few cases.In past centuries, the greatest killer of women was fever following childbirth. One woman in six died of this fever. In 1795, Alexander Gordon of Aberdeen suggested that the fevers were infectious processes, and he was able to cure them. The consensus said no.
In 1843, Oliver Wendell Holmes claimed puerperal fever was contagious, and presented compelling evidence. The consensus said no.
In 1849, Semmelweiss demonstrated that sanitary techniques virtually eliminated puerperal fever in hospitals under his management. The consensus said he was a Jew, ignored him, and dismissed him from his post. There was in fact no agreement on puerperal fever until the start of the twentieth century. Thus the consensus took one hundred and twenty five years to arrive at the right conclusion despite the efforts of the prominent “skeptics” around the world, skeptics who were demeaned and ignored. And despite the constant ongoing deaths of women.
There is no shortage of other examples. In the 1920s in America, tens of thousands of people, mostly poor, were dying of a disease called pellagra. The consensus of scientists said it was infectious, and what was necessary was to find the “pellagra germ.” The US government asked a brilliant young investigator, Dr. Joseph Goldberger, to find the cause. Goldberger concluded that diet was the crucial factor. The consensus remained wedded to the germ theory.
Goldberger demonstrated that he could induce the disease through diet. He demonstrated that the disease was not infectious by injecting the blood of a pellagra patient into himself, and his assistant. They and other volunteers swabbed their noses with swabs from pellagra patients, and swallowed capsules containing scabs from pellagra rashes in what were called “Goldberger’s filth parties.” Nobody contracted pellagra.
The consensus continued to disagree with him. There was, in addition, a social factor-southern States disliked the idea of poor diet as the cause, because it meant that social reform was required. They continued to deny it until the 1920s. Result-despite a twentieth century epidemic, the consensus took years to see the light.
Probably every schoolchild notices that South America and Africa seem to fit together rather snugly, and Alfred Wegener proposed, in 1912, that the continents had in fact drifted apart. The consensus sneered at continental drift for fifty years. The theory was most vigorously denied by the great names of geology-until 1961, when it began to seem as if the sea floors were spreading. The result: it took the consensus fifty years to acknowledge what any schoolchild sees.
And shall we go on? The examples can be multiplied endlessly. Jenner and smallpox, Pasteur and germ theory. Saccharine, margarine, repressed memory, fiber and colon cancer, hormone replacement therapy. The list of consensus errors goes on and on.
Finally, I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.
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@Wylted
Science has nothing to do with consensus. Schooling has failed every American.
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@Wylted
Did you read the source article? Scary.
Guess a vaccine still won't protect you from old age or obesity making you a victim of the next strain.
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@Wylted
Since everyone at some time has had the flu, we can say that 100% of the people will die having tested positive at some point with the flu.
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@Wylted
I think scum is fishing for a way to fake their justifications, pie is definitely going to jail.
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@whiteflame
You guys are ridiculous with this justification bullshit on DP 1.
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I was a bully to Zak Jensen.
Hope that info helps town find scum, but I am sure it wont.
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