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    Yesterday, 08:22 AM
    As I said in the other thread, this does nothing. The settlement resulted in the FDA admitting nothing, they will still claim they did everything right. They had to pull some web pages and social media posts that nobody is looking at currently. Some lawyers made some money, and nothing changed.
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    03-27-2024, 02:31 PM
    Sure, but they can't ban me when I already banned them. Some of these companies act like they're monopolies when in actuality they're small players
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    03-27-2024, 09:14 AM
    Anyone that still uses Airbnb is mentally deficient. The whole advantage at first was that you could get a nice vacation rental for less than the price of a hotel. Now it's usually 4-5 times the price, and have a chance that the owner stacks on crazy cleaning fees.
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    03-26-2024, 09:52 PM
    Where's Mexico getting their parts and materials. If you take anything and break it down enough, you end up with a bunch of Chinese materials and parts. The EU is laughable. About all they can produce is hot air from their politicians. Trying to build up domestic production is going to take many decades. (Not that I'm against trying)
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    03-25-2024, 11:29 AM
    The exporter can simply cut off exports, and the importer figuratively starves. In the case of China versus the US, it took many decades to build up China into the manufacturing superpower it is. It would take many decades to get it back. Even manufactured goods that are listed as "made in the US" are composed of mostly Chinese materials at some point. If China cut off exports, these supplies dry up overnight. I'm all for boosting my domestic production, but let's not live in a fantasy. As for switching to a new exporter, who are we going to buy from, the EU?
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    03-25-2024, 11:02 AM
    The legacy of Rick Snyder continues. I remember during his 2010 campaign, trying to convince Republicans that he's not some savior. His massive failures resulted in Whitmer and company getting into power. Once in, they quickly consolidated power. That was made even easier by the Republican legislature completely abdicating their responsibility of oversight. They're not giving up power now. Hell, Whitmer supposedly won in rural, traditional Republican counties this last election. I guess genocide is very popular there.
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    03-25-2024, 10:36 AM
    It has more to do with Republicans in those areas being more willing to let the swamp status quo continue on the primaries. Look at Wyoming. They finally got sick of Miss Piggy, and now they received a no vote.
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    03-25-2024, 10:20 AM
    Isn't it well known at this point that Turtlemaster McConnell basically gave him the ultimatum that he doesn't pardon Assange and Snowden or the RINOs will convict? He should have done it on day one and then they couldn't hold it over him.
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    03-25-2024, 10:08 AM
    Do you think that the county wouldn't agree to terminate the easement and receive the tax windfall that would be due to them in that situation?
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    03-24-2024, 09:56 AM
    How? What cards does the importer hold? The exporter controls the supply of goods. If you don't produce, you have nothing.
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    03-23-2024, 01:29 PM
    So the FDA knew they were going to lose, but the doctors' lawyers decided to give up? This is how the corruption continues.
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    03-23-2024, 11:44 AM
    It actually doesn't create any precedent. The FDA admitted to nothing and only agreed to pull some social media posts and webpages. I'm very disappointed this did not get adjudicated. A settlement here does nothing. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fda-settles-ivermectin-case-agrees-remove-controversial-stop-it-post Some lawyers made some money. They're going to keep spreading their tyranny.
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    03-23-2024, 11:36 AM
    The only thing I never understand about the free trade uber alles crowd is how you can support free trade with a nation that doesn't have free trade in return?
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    03-21-2024, 09:02 AM
    In Washington State, we used to complain that Inslee never had an original idea and just copies California. Now we yearn for the days where he just copied California. This state has become absolutely out of control.
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    03-19-2024, 07:46 PM
    I still think it's going to be Noem. Trump has to do something about his terrible covid record and try and do something to get women. I hate it because she's had some pretty terrible policies outside of her covid record.
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    03-17-2024, 01:32 PM
    To some extent yes, but not to the level today. Look at how many corporations have their headquarters in the DC metro today. It's astounding.
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    03-17-2024, 01:30 PM
    I don't understand how you could justify paying taxes in Oakland. There's literally zero services that are provided. I had a business relationship in Oakland until last August, and that business was absolutely terrorized. It wasn't far from the in-n-out and other businesses mentioned in this thread. It was the only place I would go, where we brought food back when going out for lunch instead of having a business lunch out.
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    03-16-2024, 10:52 AM
    Good thing we don't live in a country where the government decides who is allowed to run.
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    03-15-2024, 01:43 PM
    You can take over school boards and be publicly against public education. Yup, the two aren't mutually exclusive. The first thing that needs to go is the federal department of education. Even if I was a proponent of public schools, I couldn't justify this useless federal monster. Any justification you could come up for it would involve keeping schools nationwide to a certain high standard. Since that's not even true in any one county they have no justifiable reason to continue.
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    03-14-2024, 11:14 PM
    I was going to post that Babylon Bee went really dark with this one.
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    03-13-2024, 11:20 AM
    I understood that. Just saying as an overall response to what's in the Go fund me letter. It's sad for the family, and obviously the response was disproportional, but it is what it is.
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    03-13-2024, 11:09 AM
    Can you really claim assault when you throw the first punch?
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    03-12-2024, 06:26 PM
    Today, everyone has access to an absolute massive amount of information. If fifth century French literature interests you, there's no reason to go to college to study it. College is only necessary for a limited amount of fields, or moving up the corporate ladder. Even then you're way better off getting your entry level position, working your way up, and working towards an easy online degree. Most degrees have zero actual benefit to the student unless their career goal is to be a professor in that subject of study.
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    03-12-2024, 05:48 PM
    This just shows how big of an unforced error his support of the Trump impeachment was. It did nothing to further the anything besides help I'm power the leftists. He completely torpedoed his political career on the Republican side for no logical reason. Pragmatism is required if you're going to be in politics. He should have followed Rand or Massie's lead. Try and get Trump's ear when you can. Support the good and criticize the bad. Imagine if he didn't go scorched earth on the way out. Right now Rogers and Meijer will easily split the the neocon vote. The Trump and libertarian Republicans would easily have supported and Amash against those two. He might have even received Trump's endorsement for whatever that would be worth. I also think that at point he could have easily beaten Slotkin without the mass voter fraud that is sure to happen in Michigan in the general. If I'm back in Michigan in time to be eligible to vote in the primary, I'm probably voting for Amash. There's no better option, but I realize that at this point it's more of a long shot than Ron Paul for the Republican presidential nomination was.
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    03-11-2024, 08:19 PM
    I lived in this neocon's district for most of his tenure in Congress. He was redistricted after Gary Peters wanted more secure and heavily Democrat areas for his. He was one of the worst congressman. He's a clone of Liz Cheney or John McCain. There has never been a war he wasn't for sending someone else's kids to. Unfortunately enough time has passed for this to be ancient history and people idiot Republicans in Michigan will vote for him the way they voted for Rick Snyder.
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    03-10-2024, 10:38 PM
    You're leaving a couple big details out. When Standard oil was broken up, John Rockefeller retained his full ownership of the new new separate oil companies. He actually became even more rich because now he owned 35 oil companies instead of one. The mess that the oil business in the US became afterwards is far from some major success. I'm sure there are others on here that can way better explain the many regulatory problems that started after standard oil was split, so I won't. The one thing that can be said though, private property rights remained as there was no forced ownership change. AT&T was even dumber. Their monopoly privileges were a result of them being a "utility". It's a problem with most utilities. Somehow we allow monopoly privileges so that there's one"reliable" provider instead of multiple competitors competing against each other. The only thing that needed to happen to allow competition was for it to allow competition. It wasn't the divergence of the "baby bells" but finally having other long distance providers like Sprint and MCI popup that allowed for prices to drop. Once reliable broadband Internet and cell phones became the norm, the cost for telephone service became an afterthought. Google along with the other FAANG companies are in their positions because of the partnerships they formed with the government, becoming a defacto government agencies. There's so much wrong there, that conversation has nothing to do with private property and capitalism. There's also affordable competitors to each of Google's services. The problem isn't that they are a monopoly but their cozy relationship with the feds. Private ownership will not lead to council housing. What will is the likely coming bailout of "too big to fail" landlords. Blackrocks BREIT etf is already showing tremendous losses and the the prices are just starting to drop. They're going to continue unless the Fed prints a bunch of money to bail them out. In a free market you need failure to cleanse the malinvestment. When the REPO market was starting to collapse in the fall of 2019, the real estate prices were also dropping. It wasn't until summer 2020 when things exploded because of the money printing bailing the markets out.
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    03-10-2024, 09:27 PM
    Let's reexamine who's being what, and who's saying what. You are proposing basically the same private property rights as communist Czechoslovakia had and probably most other communist nations although I can't confirm that. The only difference is that you would allow ownership of a whole apartment building. Explain how outlawing someone from owning property isn't a Marxist ideal. No spinning that it's free market capitalism. It's the exact opposite if you are taking away property from someone and giving it to someone else. It can't be free market capitalism unless both parties in a transaction are participating voluntarily and have mutually agreed on the transaction. Yet somehow, you think if the seller is forced to give up there property at the behest of government agents with guns is free market capitalist and not Marxist. There's one person that needs to calm down and really rethink this, and it's not me.
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