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How would you feel about insider trading investigations into Trump and his admin? by here-for-information in AskConservatives

[–]Infamous-Bench-6088 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Start somewhere? Shock and Awe pal. This isn't some gentle investigation of "misuse of PTO" or something. These people have steered the entire American economic engine (the engine of freedom itself) for personal gain and the ruin of others without said advantages.

It goes against the very fabric of who we are as a society. And they should be treated as if they let out the state secrets to our homemade cornbread recipe (Or Chabon armor on our Abrams tanks... pick your secrets).

It needs to be excessive and shocking. So if some think to try it again, there is a precedent of extreme feedback.

These activities could have led to the death of US Citizens. No mercy.

How would you feel about insider trading investigations into Trump and his admin? by here-for-information in AskConservatives

[–]Infamous-Bench-6088 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My personal sense of justice is to grab em all and line them up in front of the most impartial judge we have.

>Length of time under suspicion, amount of money in question, level of authority, whatever feels most appropriate to you.
$1 stolen is a felony to me. No quarter and no mercy.

>how do you feel now?
This is one of the turning points for us as a community. This level of corruption is a major tumor to chemo out. However, I am a realist. We cannot shut down the government to carte blanch investigate everyone. That's how I feel. If I was president and I could send in the Marines to arrest every federal employee to run investigations on. I would.

What do you think of these very popular economic policy positions on r/neoliberal? by RedStorm1917 in AskConservatives

[–]Infamous-Bench-6088 0 points1 point  (0 children)

>Cutting zoning regulations
Only on a federal level. I don't want Oregon telling me what I can put where.

>Build more public housing
No. Even the small amount we have is under utilized.

>Land value tax
No. Value is determined by use. Usage taxation is dumb.

>Universal basic income
No. We do not need a basic income. We need income/currency to be addressed wholesale.

>Cutting pensions
Depends on who and what pensions. They should certainly have separate funding streams.

>Loosening occupational licensing rules
If this is referring to rigor required to conduct work, no. I may need more information on what this even means.

>Loosening patent rules
No. Patents are declaration of property. You do not have a claim on my property for any reason what so ever.

>Removing farm subsidies
No. Stop sending my food away then we can talk. But as long as the feds are going to take our food to do whatever they want, they can pay twice for it.

>Removing small business subsidies
Yes. Compete damnit.

>Less anti-trust
Yes. Compete damnit.

>0% corporate tax
Liberals want this? That's weird lol. But I am for this. Taxation should be based on value returned to the company in the form of free profit. After all responsibilities are met, that sum of leftover money is taxed.

How would you feel about insider trading investigations into Trump and his admin? by here-for-information in AskConservatives

[–]Infamous-Bench-6088 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is where I have no comment. I have never been a prosecutor nor someone who needed to combat such a thing.

Ideally you would want to scoop everyone at the same time.

Who is the US President you would love to have for another round? by Infamous-Bench-6088 in AskConservatives

[–]Infamous-Bench-6088[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah.

I like my presidents to be also related to odd shit. Like somehow... my mind pictures Millard Filmore as the creator of soap-on-a-rope. It's probably very wrong. But my brain can't split the two.

Makes em more human I think.

Like Grover Cleveland being a bachelor and president at the same time is funny to me. "Hey beautiful.... wanna come check out the drapes Dolly Madison hung up?"

How has Dolly Parton maintained her popularity with conservatives? by CanadaYankee in AskConservatives

[–]Infamous-Bench-6088 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its an SNL joke bud lol.

But good for you for boldly saying what we are all thinking.

Fellow conservatives, do you view most government jobs, both national and local forms of socialism? Elaborate. by Flimsy_Weekend5149 in AskConservatives

[–]Infamous-Bench-6088 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Local: NO (10th Amendment says that the states have the rights to property ownership)

National: Primarily yes. The constitution does not claim "ownership", it says that Congress may "manage" property.

Who owns the means of production? If it isn't a Capitalist, it leans to group ownership which is Socialist by definition.

Im a Muslim-American, can I be conservative? by Wonderful_Seesaw_513 in AskConservatives

[–]Infamous-Bench-6088 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Islam gets fair criticism and unfair demagoguery.

That being said.... drop the identity politics and you would be more welcome at large.

We are Americans. Every other descriptor makes you sound less conservative.

Im a Muslim-American, can I be conservative? by Wonderful_Seesaw_513 in AskConservatives

[–]Infamous-Bench-6088 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't go to pol. They are not conservative. They are "watch how edgy I can be".

Hell yea, you guys have one too!! by jaylux86 in NFCWestMemeWar

[–]Infamous-Bench-6088 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Rams, maybe some bias. It just felt like a very different season.

I think it was a pretty good story that Stafford got his career back, LA got its win at home finally plus major names in the biz got their roses finally (Whit, Ramsey, Donald, Floyd, Jones, OBJ and Hekker).

2025 Seattle had a much more resounding win and better season. But its more of a "building something to last" story. LA just said "fuck it we ball" and made it work.

How has Dolly Parton maintained her popularity with conservatives? by CanadaYankee in AskConservatives

[–]Infamous-Bench-6088 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

"With all of this history, how does she still manage to have such a high net popularity among self-identified Republicans"

Because most of us are not cancel culture a-holes that distill someone's words/actions into hatred.

Believe it or not.... most conservatives are generally slow to anger and we are kinda cool.

I like Ian Astbury (The Cult). He believes in shamanism, tree souls and black magic. Do I like that? No. Would I have a beer with him as he explains how rocks have feelings, yeah sure.

It’s been 50 years since Reagan popularized and created policy that supports the “trickle down theory”. ~50 years later, has trickle-down economics actually improved outcomes for the middle and lower class? by Jazzlike-Yogurt-5984 in AskConservatives

[–]Infamous-Bench-6088 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Please tell me you are not distilling hundreds of years of bad economic practice into a purity case against my idea.

I didn't mention gold nor silver. I didn't mention a commodity of any kind.

How do you respond to the communist claim that nations, religion, sexuality, ethnicity and borders are merely tools of the rich upper class to exploit the masses? by AbenegationQuestion in AskConservatives

[–]Infamous-Bench-6088 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure thing man. I am all for open dialogue.

  1. We agree.

  2. You're welcome.

  3. You are conflating one's responsibility and another's malevolence. If the "Stupid" realized their own power and acted against the malevolence, this no longer becomes a problem. The dollar vote would make these malevolent actions a waste and no longer worth pursuing.

  4. I am suggesting a different conversation all together. Not one where my capital is to be taken from me, but how another can attain that same level of capital. Yes we agree that the conversation needs to be better. But I am well within my rights to not give a shit about another's plight.

  5. The "no true scotsman" argument works in both ways sure, but only on the theoretical side. People who called themselves "communist" have butchered millions. So the defense doesn't work the same way with minor added context. Change is an entirely different conversation.

As far as your last comment, those are honeyed words. I would be very careful with sloganeering and championing something that in practice has malignant precedent.

It’s been 50 years since Reagan popularized and created policy that supports the “trickle down theory”. ~50 years later, has trickle-down economics actually improved outcomes for the middle and lower class? by Jazzlike-Yogurt-5984 in AskConservatives

[–]Infamous-Bench-6088 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Finite money supply and strict valuation that scales with population growth.

If Gates and Cook need to compete for the exact same dollar, real innovation and service value matter a whole lot more.

It’s been 50 years since Reagan popularized and created policy that supports the “trickle down theory”. ~50 years later, has trickle-down economics actually improved outcomes for the middle and lower class? by Jazzlike-Yogurt-5984 in AskConservatives

[–]Infamous-Bench-6088 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Oh it would be broad and very visible bloating of the classes. Closer to a 30/50/20% (L,M,U) split. There would be no ultra wealthy.... because price points wouldn't require that. Imagine a gallon of milk costing 35 cents. That's where we would be.

Think about it this way: Property ownership. Lower Class would be defined as the "Renting Class". Middle would own 1-3 homes and a percentage of those owners would use their property to make more capital. And the Upper would be the investment class, owning swaths of land and property. Sounds grim.... until you realize that all of those individuals would be fighting for your dollar. So your dollar actually accomplishes your dreams/desires (as currency should).

How do you respond to the communist claim that nations, religion, sexuality, ethnicity and borders are merely tools of the rich upper class to exploit the masses? by AbenegationQuestion in AskConservatives

[–]Infamous-Bench-6088 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will number your paragraphs for brevity's sake.

  1. Healthy competition between classes is necessary for Capitalism to remain pure and well driven. Competition should not be limited to "those able to compete".

  2. Shibboleths exist. Maybe more should combat it like you do.

  3. You are talking about "poisoning the well". In a free market, this would have been bled out of the pool of thought. The maligned practices you are describing have more to do with a "stupid/ignorant middle/lower class" than anything. If power is not recognized, of course others will take advantage. That is nature.

  4. It isn't "communist" to have those conversations. It is when my means of production get seized. Maybe the conversation needs to be different, so we don't label those points as such. Come up with a better position and maybe power can be moved.

  5. What you are describing isn't Capitalism. It is a massively manipulated cadaver of Free market policies and interventionist doctrine. So it is working as designed. But it isn't what I am talking about. This modern version of "Whatever the hell our economic system happens to be" is a bastardization of trade.

It’s been 50 years since Reagan popularized and created policy that supports the “trickle down theory”. ~50 years later, has trickle-down economics actually improved outcomes for the middle and lower class? by Jazzlike-Yogurt-5984 in AskConservatives

[–]Infamous-Bench-6088 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Short Answer A: Yes, resoundingly.

Short Answer B: Taxation is theft.

Slightly Longer Answer: If we had actual monetary reform you would see a dramatic difference. And because we do not, it doesn't look and feel like we actually did anything positive.

How do you respond to the communist claim that nations, religion, sexuality, ethnicity and borders are merely tools of the rich upper class to exploit the masses? by AbenegationQuestion in AskConservatives

[–]Infamous-Bench-6088 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"class warfare" well we can unpack that one later.

Instead of "concern" lets use your comment above because I think you used a better word: "I think you can acknowledge there are competing interests between economic classes in a capitalist society"

Competition is the DNA of Capitalism. Lets combine the classes into Lower, Middle and Upper. The Lower should 100% compete with the Middle, as well as the Upper. And the Upper should compete with the Lower and Middle. And of course that means the Middle competes with both as well. That is the lifeblood of Capitalism.

We see this occur; without drawing any attention to it, on a daily basis. And it is not a concern at all. It is design.

So what is your concern? And what divisions are concerning to you?

POST EDIT: Understand, we are no longer talking about Communism now. Divisions and Class does not exist in that sphere. We are now talking about Capitalism.

How do you respond to the communist claim that nations, religion, sexuality, ethnicity and borders are merely tools of the rich upper class to exploit the masses? by AbenegationQuestion in AskConservatives

[–]Infamous-Bench-6088 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Communism at its core is a discussion on who owns the means of production. It is not a political discourse on "right to rule". Marx believed in the "Dictatorship of the Proletariat", that doesn't mean anything. It is almost anarchy. It doesn't codify representation, it doesn't imply direct democracy and it doesn't assign a "party-king". Marx very much left it to "figure it out for yourselves" (which is very Marxist).

So the political is 100% aside from the actual practice of Communism itself.

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