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https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/913224469019205632 Basically passing the buck off onto the senate but goddamn how much of an asslicking dog do you have to be to continue on with this farce.
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Office Pig posted:Basically passing the buck off onto the senate but goddamn how much of an asslicking dog do you have to be to continue on with this farce. As an Objectivist, he's willing to stand tall and proud as an individual... so he can reach Trump's chocolate starfish with his tongue a bit better.
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Office Pig posted:https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/913224469019205632 Ryan must have a pee tape as well.
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Office Pig posted:https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/913224469019205632 I think the leadership he is referring to is Trump's ability to steer the media narrative away from the horrible and unpopular poo poo that his insane ideology requires he force through into law. He'll pass a huge giveaway to the rich that explodes the deficit before anyone notices because Trump called for firebombing of mosques or something.
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Sep 28, 2017 05:42
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Office Pig posted:https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/913224469019205632 Is anyone really surprised that Paul Ryan is an accelerationist? Gotta collect all of the bankrupt ideas.
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Taerkar posted:Is anyone really surprised that Paul Ryan is an accelerationist? Gotta collect all of the bankrupt ideas. If a Koch told him to piss on Ayn Rands grave he would. His spine is a bunch of nylon wrapped around rolls of cash.
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Sep 28, 2017 05:47
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Pembroke Fuse posted:(Is this a good post? I can't tell.) three stars
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Look at this. https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/912689727513513985 Look at it. Don't avert your eyes. Look at it. Puerto Rico should be the focus of the biggest humanitarian and development effort since the Dust Bowl & New Deal, and instead this is happening. I keep having to bite back some choice words since the Internet remembers everything. So many people in Puerto Rico are going to die and there is nothing we as citizens can do about it. This feeling is singular.
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R. Guyovich posted:three stars Out of what? Like, three stars out of all the stars in the observable universe? The range man, what's the range?
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Pembroke Fuse posted:Out of what? Like, three stars out of all the stars in the observable universe? The range man, what's the range? They'll never tell.
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Sep 28, 2017 06:08
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Office Pig posted:https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/913224469019205632 Republicans in Congress have lost a lot of what little credibility they had left among their base over the past couple months. Ryan's desperately grasping for whatever wreckage will keep him afloat.
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Something? What could it be? 
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Mischalaniouse posted:Something? What could it be? Goblins. Sent by Obama. In the Study.
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happy birthday manoli!
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lol
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It rhymes with fapitalism.
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Pembroke Fuse posted:It rhymes with fapitalism. Finally an explanation redditors will understand
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https://twitter.com/samstein/status/913365876187045888
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Flake is gonna lose his primary right?
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Badger of Basra posted:Flake is gonna lose his primary right? Depends how much republicans are tired of Trump.
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apparently fox news has been whining that jimmy kimmel has been slagging the graham-cassidy bill on his show with facts courtesy of schumerquote:"Think about this. For months, a network evening show has been talking to one side of the aisle to get their talking points on a bill. If you want confirmation that the so-called mainstream media is actually the opposition party in bed with the Democrats, there you have it," the Fox News host said. 
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Pembroke Fuse posted:It rhymes with fapitalism. Are Norway, Sweden, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, and New Zealand no longer capitalist countries?
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Are Norway, Sweden, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, and New Zealand no longer capitalist countries? Are you implying income inequality doesn't exist in those countries?
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MizPiz posted:Are you implying income inequality doesn't exist in those countries? The article quoted specifically mentions most Western economies and excludes those.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The article quoted specifically mentions most Western economies and excludes those. They also excluded Greece, Poland, and various other Eastern European and Balkan states.
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Sep 28, 2017 14:36
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Are Norway, Sweden, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, and New Zealand no longer capitalist countries? Countries with strong welfare states tend to have lower Gini coefficients. This isn't always the case, but tends to be the general trend (although I see that he does mention France). Capitalism and its political allies do work to erode the welfare state over time however (see defunding of NHS in the UK, attempts to privatize education in Sweden, privatization of parts of the energy sector in Canada, etc). I found the article, but can't seem to find the original data it's based on, though.
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MizPiz posted:They also excluded Greece, Poland, and various other Eastern European and Balkan states. And they are also capitalist states...?
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Pembroke Fuse posted:Countries with strong welfare states tend to have lower Gini coefficients. This isn't always the case, but tends to be the general trend (although I see that he does mention France). Agreed, but I was just making fun of the guy who was quoting the Professor saying, "Most Western economies lead to large wealth inequalities. But we haven't been able to identify a single factor that is present in all of them that has statistically significant impacts on their different performance." and responding to him with, "Lol, it's capitalism you moron."
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I know your entire gimmick is 'willfully dense trolling' but countries with stronger welfare states don't tend to have as many problems with income inequality as those that don't do as much for their citizens. In modern political rhetoric, at least in the US, those states are often considered 'more socialist' due to the stronger social safety net. I could certainly be wrong, but this is a very simple and surface level reading of the single quote you decided to post like 6 or so times arguing against trying to score cool points or whatever it is you do when you decide to misinterpret something on a technicality.
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Captain Monkey posted:I know your entire gimmick is 'willfully dense trolling' but countries with stronger welfare states don't tend to have as many problems with income inequality as those that don't do as much for their citizens. In modern political rhetoric, at least in the US, those states are often considered 'more socialist' due to the stronger social safety net. It's not a technicality. Read the paper. Literally no economist in the world would call Japan, Canada, or Taiwan a "socialist economy." Words mean things and in an academic study trying to identify international economic common threads with statistical impacts on inequality, they are not using "political rhetoric that is often considered accurate in the United States." Saying, "What an idiot this professor is! The common thread is capitalism." is surface level reading and not understanding the actual problems being discussed. You can never make an effective change if you don't even know what is being discussed.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:It's not a technicality. Read the paper. The study was specifically focusing on European countries. You clearly don't care about the data as much as you pretend to.
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MizPiz posted:The study was specifically focusing on European countries. You clearly don't care about the data as much as you pretend to. It was examining why most Western Countries have different performances. The answer is not capitalism, because capitalism exists in non-western countries and some Western countries don't see GINI coefficients as high as others. Calling the Professor an idiot for not saying capitalism is very silly and implies a surface-level understanding.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:It's not a technicality. Read the paper. it is a good thing you were here to police a throwaway post on somethingawful.com, the international economic community would never survive without your policing of this thread. thank for your service leon trotsky 2012
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I don't think even the most hardcore tankie would say it's impossible to reduce inequality in a capitalist economy so I'm not sure what your point is. They would say it's impossible to eliminate it, because inequality is inherent in capitalism!
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Captain Monkey posted:it is a good thing you were here to police a throwaway post on somethingawful.com, the international economic community would never survive without your policing of this thread. "I was wrong and didn't understand, but perhaps you were more wrong for noticing? Hmmm...?"
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Badger of Basra posted:I don't think even the most hardcore tankie would say it's impossible to reduce inequality in a capitalist economy so I'm not sure what your point is. They would say it's impossible to eliminate it, because inequality is inherent in capitalism! Yeah, this is the reading literally any functional human being would've gotten from the post. Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:"I was wrong and didn't understand, but perhaps you were more wrong for noticing? Hmmm...?" please re-read the posts calling you an idiot by me and other posters and you might figure out where you are wrong here. Probably not though.
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isnt arguments like this the whole point of the thunderdome thread
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Condiv posted:apparently fox news has been whining that jimmy kimmel has been slagging the graham-cassidy bill on his show with facts courtesy of schumer Thank you both for this story and quote, but also the presentation. Post is 10/10, would read again.
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