Ron Paul, Glen Beck, Sean Hannity in ATLAS SHRUGGED III

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[Beethoven]

Well that certainly says something about you now doesn't it

[Orruar]

In fact, if an industry is completely unregulated, then special interests have no way to really use the power of government to their advantage. Regulatory capture is real and is one of the biggest dangers we face. When you give the government the power to regulate an industry, what you're really doing is allowing the biggest players in that industry the power to destroy their competition with regulation. Why do you think the banking industry is actually become more consolidated, with fewer small banks, since the most recent round of disaster/regulation? This is something you would have understood if you had actually read Atlas Shrugged.

[Nihilist_santa]

The recent film adaptations parts I and II are a snooze fest. The production value is decent for the budget but the acting is so flat.

I have to disagree with Lune we don't have anything approaching a free market. We have a central bank basically with the federal reserve which is one of the planks of communism. I would say it is actually closer to a fascist economic system or corporatism similar to Mussolini and his parties ideas though where the govt and big business are working together to screw everyone. Destroying labor and propping up big business. The gov and the big players are all the same people anyways at this point. Sort of a fascism 2.0 where they still pretend to uphold private property and "capitalism" but remove autonomy at every turn.

[Kekephee]

Yeah, ok, we're talking about how things should be so you tell me "THAT'S NOT THE WAY IT IS". Of course this is a fucking idealistic conversation, you cunt, we're talking about what things SHOULD be like.


And in all that condescending cuntery in your second point, you seem to have forgotten a very simple thing: The whole point of not wanting one corporation to control everything is, yes, as a matter of fact, they DO NOT have to provide the best service to their customers if they are THE ONLY PEOPLE providing that service. So, yeah, smart guy, if you have one company that is the only company providing the service- that's a monopoly, try to keep up- they have no incentive to care. As an example, in my parents' neighborhood right now there's only one cable company that provides service- the others don't "reach" into where my parents live. Since there's only the one company, get this, they don't give a fuck and their service is garbage. Peoples' options are, "don't have cable" or "have this shitty, extremely overpriced cable."

Try not to be such a raging fucking cunt next time if you want to talk like grownups, I'm done with you now.

[Orruar]

Originally Posted by Kekephee [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

... Of course this is a fucking idealistic conversation, you cunt, we're talking about what things SHOULD be like.
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So in your ideal world, we have people spending their time/energy as regulators? If we're talking an ideal world where men are angelic enough to write/enforce regulations in a perfectly fair way, then we could expect that world to have business men angelic enough to not need regulations at all. Why waste extra time/resources on regulations in a world of angels? Even your fantasy world makes no sense and is hopelessly inefficient.

[Champion_Standing]

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[Kekephee]

Wish there was an edit button. Dick move to pull that "you didn't graduate from 8th grade" bullshit when all I wanted was a fun thread about how crazy it is to put Ron Paul in a movie, but I overreacted. That's my bad.


But I am done with debating this shit, I hate talking about politics because people get so lame.

[cs616]

Originally Posted by kekephee

And in all that condescending cuntery in your second point...

Originally Posted by Kekephee [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

But I am done with debating this shit, I hate talking about politics because people get so lame.

You realize you made a series of condescendingly cunty post attacking a political ideology and then accused people defending that ideology of doing the same, correct? If you want to have civil conversations about politics, don't start them out by making quips about the other side.

[Kekephee]

Originally Posted by cs616 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You realize you made a series of condescendingly cunty post attacking a political ideology and then accused people defending that ideology of doing the same, correct? If you want to have civil conversations about politics, don't start them out by making quips about the other side.

Not really. Maybe my "buy ammo sheeple" post could be interpreted as being a little snarky, though I meant it in fun, but the whole "cunt" post was in response to him coming at me with both barrels.