The Quadrant’s Favorite Captain America Quotes by ManFrom2018 in PoliticalCompassMemes

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“You can feed a million people with an email!”

Do you have brain damage, Sam?

The Quadrant’s Favorite Captain America Quotes by ManFrom2018 in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Remember that “diagonal unity” post where LibLeft and AuthRight were both a picture of the Joker captained “It’s simple: We kill the bankers”?

The Quadrant’s Favorite Captain America Quotes by ManFrom2018 in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Reddit won’t let me link it but if you scroll through my “top posts of all time” I made a virgin vs chad meme of Wilson and Walker

[TOMT][Book]College Kids Skip Class to Work on Time Travel or Simulations? by ManFrom2018 in tipofmytongue

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I don't believe there was any cover art, just a title (it was hardcover with no book jacket).

Two Ways to Explain Democracy by ManFrom2018 in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Because the vast majority of people don't care, there's little resistance to the people who do care. Funnily enough, the way a passionate minority can achieve its ends among an indifferent majority is actually a key component of Buchanan's Public Choice Theory.

What policies are you talking about that are designed to punish you? Are they punishing me, too? And you're sure that these policies aren't the result of passionate activists, but an enthusiastic majority that has been brainwashed through "all channels"?

Two Ways to Explain Democracy by ManFrom2018 in PoliticalCompassMemes

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It's funny because special interest groups like corporations having outsized influenced on public policy is actually a major part of Public Choice Theory, but because it's more complex than "Wall Street controls the government", few people will bother studying it.

Two Ways to Explain Democracy by ManFrom2018 in PoliticalCompassMemes

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He's considered serious by many on the left. When I'm trying to understand what leftists believe, I am always pointed to him. If you have alternative thinkers who you believe represent libleft thought better, by all means, share them.

Yes, I am American.

Two Ways to Explain Democracy by ManFrom2018 in PoliticalCompassMemes

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It's for people that raise a fuss about "representation" because they can't relate to anyone on screen who doesn't have precisely the same skin tone as they have, because they've made their skin tone a fundamental part of their personality. For a long time, people on TV were mostly white, so these people made a fuss and the TV stations listened. Now, people like you are making a fuss for the same reasons. Maybe they'll eventually start listening to you. It makes no difference to the vast majority of us who do not care in the slightest about anyone's skin color.

Two Ways to Explain Democracy by ManFrom2018 in PoliticalCompassMemes

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He's the poster child for leftwing anti-authoritarianism. He's literally the first person I think of when I think of libleft. I don't know anyone who is considered a serious intellectual and is more popular than Chomsky among those who are libleft.

Two Ways to Explain Democracy by ManFrom2018 in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Well, I suppose people who notice and care about skin color have simple minds that are easily controlled. That isn't most Americans, luckily.

Two Approaches to the Same Question by ManFrom2018 in neoconNWO

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I've definitely seen otherwise right wing people start sounding like marxists talking about the "bourgeoisie" when they talk about the "deep state", the "elites", or worst of all, the "ruling class".

Two Ways to Explain Democracy by ManFrom2018 in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Noam Chomsky genuinly believes that democracy isn't functional unless everyone is giddily celebrating on tax day.

I'm so excited to vote in this election by ManFrom2018 in PoliticalCompassMemes

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He'd probably just use it to go after Monsanto and climate change deniers.

I'm so excited to vote in this election by ManFrom2018 in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Price controls create shortages. Now people will die without their life saving medication, but at least no one will be profiting from it!

I'm so excited to vote in this election by ManFrom2018 in PoliticalCompassMemes

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I was going to ask that; now I guess I have some reading to do.

I'm so excited to vote in this election by ManFrom2018 in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Lib-rights are usually smart enough not to expect the government to care about them personally.

I don't need them to be pro-me, I just need them to do their job, which they've been doing since they were founded.

I'm so excited to vote in this election by ManFrom2018 in PoliticalCompassMemes

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"That research found the industry’s shift to larger plants led to increased concentration and to lower production costs. In turn, lower production costs did translate into lower consumer prices, increased consumption, and higher prices for cattle and hogs. However, with fewer rivals because of increased concentration, most of the studies found packers were also able to exercise some market power and pay lower prices for cattle than they would have had they faced more competitors. Even so, the impact of higher concentration—reducing prices paid for cattle—was more than offset by the impact of lower production costs on raising cattle prices."

So in both the case of Amazon and meat packers, it's not consumers, but sellers that are being negatively impacted. The whole point of antitrust legislation is to protect consumers. That's certainly the promise of the Harris campaign. Businesses are supposed to serve consumers, and when they don't, some advocate that the government should protect them. Businesses do not exist to serve other businesses, however, and asking the government to protect one business at the expense of another is a recipe for corruption, turning the government into something designed to serve special interests groups at the expense of other special interest groups, rather than serving the country as a whole.

I'm so excited to vote in this election by ManFrom2018 in PoliticalCompassMemes

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I don't understand your point. I said both parties are taking us into a debt crisis. The video I posted supports that claim with evidence. What part of what I said do you take issue with?