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Cotton

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Stupid bitch.
 

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Unfuckingbelievable.

When Biden said, "We choose truth over facts," I'm not sure his brain was shoring out. Maybe he meant it. As in, The Ministry of Truth over facts.
That is dead on exactly what he meant. He meant "OUR truth" not "THE truth".
 

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Too many people are ignorant to the beauty of the free market & too trusting of government to understand the implications of this.

There's a great show called Commanding Heights that showcases what happened in Poland after the USSR fell and Poland went from a state controlled market to a free market. Under the state controlled market, supplies were short and prices were high. Then the government gets out of the way and prices drop and supplies rise as this guy says rather eloquently:

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One of the leaders of the new independent Polish government decided to do shock therapy by removing government controls and let the market do its magic but wasn't sure how to tell if it was working so they focused on the price of eggs. In short order, farmers who no longer had to sell their eggs at a set price to the government brought their eggs to markets that were set up on the streets. It wasn't long before there was an abundance of eggs at prices far lower than the price controlled by the government. Its discussed at the 1:05 mark here:


sadly, it appears we're moving in the opposite direction
 

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Too many people are ignorant to the beauty of the free market & too trusting of government to understand the implications of this.

There's a great show called Commanding Heights that showcases what happened in Poland after the USSR fell and Poland went from a state controlled market to a free market. Under the state controlled market, supplies were short and prices were high. Then the government gets out of the way and prices drop and supplies rise as this guy says rather eloquently:

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One of the leaders of the new independent Polish government decided to do shock therapy by removing government controls and let the market do its magic but wasn't sure how to tell if it was working so they focused on the price of eggs. In short order, farmers who no longer had to sell their eggs at a set price to the government brought their eggs to markets that were set up on the streets. It wasn't long before there was an abundance of eggs at prices far lower than the price controlled by the government. Its discussed at the 1:05 mark here:


sadly, it appears we're moving in the opposite direction
I had saw this tweet earlier today that really shows how govt intervention in anything fucks it all up

 

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Stengel offered two examples of speech that he has an issue with: Quran burning and circulation of “false narratives” by Russia during the 2016 election.

“Even the most sophisticated Arab diplomats that I dealt with did not understand why the First Amendment allows someone to burn a Koran. Why, they asked me, would you ever want to protect that?” Stengel wrote.
As long as burning the American flag and the bible are protected under the 1st so is burning the koran, deal with it you fucking fascists
 

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I had saw this tweet earlier today that really shows how govt intervention in anything fucks it all up

Hey Tom, go give your money direct to the poor, no one is stopping u, the $$ will go straight to a need w/o a chunk chewed up by gov bureaucracy but I'm sure you won't b/c thats not as fun as feeling smug about a donation to the dems I'd be unsurprised to find out you never made
 

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You guys do realize that they don't actually think a command economy works better, right? There are too many examples throughout history where it doesn't. They just want power, plain and simple. That's all this is about.

Again, these people are sick. We saw it during Covid plain as day. They don't actually care one bit about average people.
 

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