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[ScaringChildren]

Oh no, another Women's March is canceled [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[JurisDictum]

Got back in town from the holidays. The news is starting to get a bit more interesting. Over Christmas it was mostly about this on going wall drama. I'll just say now -- Trump just has to play it stubborn to win. Just another example of the (planned and paid for) stupidity of Democratic Establishment political strategy.

I can only to so much fake news, postering and bullshit. So I've been mostly looking at this research site this morning:

https://concentrationcrisis.openmarketsinstitute.org/

Nice little write up about how monopolies control everything and your idiot for thinking the "free market" is at all intact. All the little buttons give you details about who owns everything in certain sectors.

[ScaringChildren]

Originally Posted by JurisDictum [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Nice little write up about how monopolies control everything and your idiot for thinking the "free market" is at all intact. All the little buttons give you details about who owns everything in certain sectors.

I used to be pretty Libertarian when it came to free markets, however, even Libertarians believe monopolies and cartels must be dealt with and they're clearly not. When you have companies like Google who are just as powerful as governments, with the ability to oppress much in the same way, something has to be done.

If fascism comes to the US, it'll be a corporate version of it. Some say we're already there.

[Ahldagor]

Teddy Roosevelt knew what was up.

[JurisDictum]

Originally Posted by Irulan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

How is Google oppressing you? By allowing someone to block or ignore you for calling them insane faggits?

(you may even be right btw, this isn't a relevant point of contention.)

But exactly how are we being oppressed.

If we aren't honest about that. Google will continue to dominate the ISP and advertising and social media world. And one day completely own all of your faggy pix.

BTW there are worse oppressors than Google. "Spectrum" comes to mind and all of the DMCA and net neutrality shenanigans...

Btw I read the package details of the store bought phyllo dough my mother swears by. It's not fucking phyllo. Because I know how to make real phyllo.

TLDR: humans are stupid unaware creatures who can't even ask for search out and demand what they want. They need to be carefully controlled. Less they just kill themselves and everyone around them ignorantly.

Meaning at some point. Oppression is an absolute necessity. It should be illegal to mislable "crusty overly dry sheets of wheet gluten and hydrogenated oil and corn flower" as phyllo.

It's about what's legitimate.

If we wen't to war so that a Nationally-owned Standard Gas company can provide affordable gas to America -- I think most would be on board. But if we go to war so that big gas company number 4 can give their shareholders a big chunk of money -- America losses its legitimacy with it's population in the long run.

We are either all in it together or not. Corporate America wants to play this game where they talk out of both sides of their mouth. On one hand, we are all in this together, support our troops and the international order. On the other, keep your hands off of "my money" you welfare bums!

It can't be both. These people are going to have to fuck off and stop using our government to make money (never going to happen)

or

They are going to have to make sure that what they are doing is best for the entire country not themselves (could happen eventually).

[JurisDictum]

Originally Posted by Ahldagor [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Teddy Roosevelt knew what was up.

I like Teddy too. But all that trust busting was tempory and not good enough in the first place. Its like they handicapped those who were winning and left the system the same.

Time for us to learn from mistakes on trust-busting. We need a systemic solution not another band-aid.

[JurisDictum]

If we wanted a free market we need to get rid of "intellectual property."

That's not a real thing. That's just an invention to create monopolies. No one ever had a patent on growing corn and used the warchief to block other farmers from copying him.

Retarded.

IP rights are for books. We should have kept it that way. We should simply have laws against plagiarism and not this IP abomination we have created.

[Irulan]

Originally Posted by JurisDictum [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If we wanted a free market we need to get rid of "intellectual property."

That's not a real thing. That's just an invention to create monopolies. No one ever had a patent on growing corn and used the warchief to block other farmers from copying him.

Retarded.

IP rights are for books. We should have kept it that way. We should simply have laws against plagiarism and not this IP abomination we have created.

I'm in favor of placing like a max 5 year limit on intellectual 'property' and then shooting everyone else who's abused the game for 50 odd years, but that would result in mass graves and a very very unhappy altrightleft.

we'd also have to nuke disneyland --- admittedly even their broken down old US museum rides are fun

also china tried this, i think they are getting on board with the way things are now with eternal IP but still trying to play the counterfiet game hard.

Also bartering just don't work on a globaluberlyfty amazonian scale, so someones got to own the moneyIP

[Irulan]

^drugs

[mickmoranis]

Originally Posted by JurisDictum [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If we wanted a free market we need to get rid of "intellectual property."

That's not a real thing. That's just an invention to create monopolies. No one ever had a patent on growing corn and used the warchief to block other farmers from copying him.

Retarded.

IP rights are for books. We should have kept it that way. We should simply have laws against plagiarism and not this IP abomination we have created.

Aaaaaaaaand the communist reveals his hand