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Old 09-24-2016, 08:25 PM
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ITT Lune is taking no shit.

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ITT Lune is taking no shit.

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ITT hitler-worshipper brings his anger and butthurt from another thread over here.
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Old 09-24-2016, 08:25 PM
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Do you actually believe this shit?
Yep. Our life expectancy is directly related to our wealth and abundance which allow us to make choices which may adversely affect our health.

Feel free to pretend what he said isn't mostly demonstrably true but all you're actually doing is showing your aversion to facts, reason and logic.
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Old 09-24-2016, 07:53 PM
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I watch merger after merger after merger happening at a quickening pace over the last 10-15 years. Every industry is quickly being conglomerated into as few as 1-3 entities, eliminating competition and fucking over consumers, small businesses, and labor. Even fiscal conservatives and trickle down dipshits will admit that monopolies are antithetic to fair and prosperous free market capitalism, and that the free market has no natural resolution for monopolies.

And yet the only entity capable of trust-busting activity, of shattering these monopolies and ensuring fair and healthy competition, is a strong federal government. Maybe you should pick up a history book and read about what capitalism was like before the government began actively breaking up monopolies, and why we're in a state of crisis precisely because our government is no longer doing this.
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Old 09-24-2016, 08:29 PM
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I watch merger after merger after merger happening at a quickening pace over the last 10-15 years. Every industry is quickly being conglomerated into as few as 1-3 entities, eliminating competition and fucking over consumers, small businesses, and labor. Even fiscal conservatives and trickle down dipshits will admit that monopolies are antithetic to fair and prosperous free market capitalism, and that the free market has no natural resolution for monopolies.

And yet the only entity capable of trust-busting activity, of shattering these monopolies and ensuring fair and healthy competition, is a strong federal government. Maybe you should pick up a history book and read about what capitalism was like before the government began actively breaking up monopolies, and why we're in a state of crisis precisely because our government is no longer doing this.
The problem isn't a natural monopoly, but rather when monopolies are protected by government, or when regulation favors big old companies. As companies become bigger, they have more clout with politicians and are able to lobby for regulations that are a hindrance to potential startup firms, artificially increasing barrier to entries and this also means that they have less of an incentive to innovate in industry and simply become rent seekers.

One can look at alcoa and standard oil examples where these companies were convicted of monopoly practices, yet production increased every year up until that point and prices dropped every year as well, hardly the behavior you'd expect from a predatory monopoly. An angle you can look at is if the effects they had on the environment were detrimental and going unchecked I guess.
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Old 09-24-2016, 08:32 PM
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TIL only USA has freedom

time to repost this i guess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4r7hIWln7Q
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I watch merger after merger after merger happening at a quickening pace over the last 10-15 years. Every industry is quickly being conglomerated into as few as 1-3 entities, eliminating competition and fucking over consumers, small businesses, and labor. Even fiscal conservatives and trickle down dipshits will admit that monopolies are antithetic to fair and prosperous free market capitalism, and that the free market has no natural resolution for monopolies.

And yet the only entity capable of trust-busting activity, of shattering these monopolies and ensuring fair and healthy competition, is a strong federal government. Maybe you should pick up a history book and read about what capitalism was like before the government began actively breaking up monopolies, and why we're in a state of crisis precisely because our government is no longer doing this.
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Ya, the video I linked actually addressed that video showing it to be mostly self-loathing emotion-driven bias, misinformation and outright debunked myths.
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Old 09-24-2016, 08:47 PM
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Ya, the video I linked actually addressed that video showing it to be mostly self-loathing emotion-driven bias, misinformation and outright debunked myths.
Haha guess what, i didnt even click it since i was sure it was a breitbart article or something of that kind

i wasn't wrong
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Old 09-24-2016, 08:51 PM
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USA have speeding limits, germany don't

so USA is a dictatorship because you're not free to drive as fast as you want

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