Message from @Undead Mockingbird

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2019-01-04 20:44:36 UTC  

In Canada, dairy, poultry, eggs and grain are subsidized

2019-01-04 20:53:50 UTC  

and highly regulated as a monopoly

2019-01-04 21:02:03 UTC  

Of course, we hate monopolies, though.

2019-01-04 21:02:23 UTC  

When the state has a monopoly, though, we call it a social program and it's just great.

2019-01-04 21:11:18 UTC  

@Beemann define subsidized. Subsidized by the consumers dollar? All of these industries pay exhorbitant fees to the government in order to maintain market protection.

2019-01-04 21:34:55 UTC  

The meat and dairy industries greatly influence US governmental policy, from my understanding. Also, pharmaceutical companies.

2019-01-05 00:11:09 UTC  

What a joke. It shouldn't cost anyone more money to eat less crap.

2019-01-05 01:01:03 UTC  

They could just stop subsidizing the crap.

2019-01-05 01:43:05 UTC  

Supply management is an indirect subsidization scheme that heavily regulates the aforementioned products to control pricing and reduce foreign competition artificially @Joe_Limon

2019-01-05 01:54:42 UTC  

Indeed. I still think that subsidization is a misleading word for it. These industries subsidize the government with their regulatory payments. Indirect taxation. On par with the government profiting off of spectrum sales.

2019-01-05 02:04:03 UTC  

It's still ultimately an anticompetitive practice, which is the larger issue

2019-01-05 03:31:07 UTC  

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11702
See, don't think of this as "those nutty indoctrination centers" think of what the social justice crowd is doing: appropriating resources and funding it's advancement. They're also discussing how to advance their objectives and interests. Do those of use on the Free speech side do this? How do we push freedom of speech?

2019-01-05 08:39:26 UTC  

but it is like we need someone to rally people like SJWs do and to not make it about hate is really hard because look what they are doing ... @pratel

2019-01-05 10:06:25 UTC  

Yes, but organization is important. Ground game matters. Let's not pretend they haven't been successful. And the libertarian excuse of 'get woke go broke' hasn't yielded results in the 30 years this diversity stuff has been around. And losing more ground is losing in total.

2019-01-05 10:07:55 UTC  

There really needs to be a strategy discussion. Small things people can do to stem the tide and fight back. Hitting the problems at the from the top and from the bottom. Not just yielding turf and disengaging slowly one-by-one. There's strength in numbers and purpose in strategy, and this needs to be formulated and rallied.

2019-01-05 11:21:44 UTC  

like international movement for free speech?

2019-01-05 12:19:45 UTC  

@Undead Mockingbird how dare you... 😄

2019-01-05 12:20:31 UTC  

naturaal monopolies are ok, but only few non-natural monopolies make sense, very few

2019-01-05 13:11:45 UTC  

There was a very important thing that Thomas Sowell had mentioned:

2019-01-05 13:12:16 UTC  

Not all markets that are occupied by a single supplier are monopolies.,

2019-01-05 13:12:33 UTC  

The important distinction is whether their presence keeps others out of the market.

2019-01-05 13:13:28 UTC  

It's also not clear what percentage of a market must be cornered, or even what a market is.

2019-01-05 13:13:45 UTC  

If people can wear either sneakers or boots, are boots and sneakers the same market?

2019-01-05 13:14:38 UTC  

Or are there certain boots that cannot easily be substituted? More generally, if one product can be substituted with another, it's not always obvious who constitutes competition for you.

2019-01-05 13:15:55 UTC  

I deeply appreciate Sowell because he is very good at pointing out unintended consequences of public and economic policy.

2019-01-05 18:06:52 UTC  

Sowell is an American treasure. Greatest economist still alive probably, the man is too dangerous for media to still talk about him

2019-01-05 18:08:19 UTC  

doesn't get better than seeing those videos of young Sowell in his prime. Especially ones with Milton smiling at what he had created

2019-01-05 18:30:19 UTC  

I love how he fucked over that Feminist bitch back in 1980

2019-01-05 18:30:34 UTC  

They spoutet the same "wagegap" shit even then.

2019-01-05 18:30:52 UTC  

And Thomas debunked it! Violently and beautifully

2019-01-05 19:27:47 UTC  

milton?

2019-01-05 19:27:52 UTC  

did he study under him?

2019-01-05 19:27:59 UTC  

i know they were both at chicago

2019-01-05 19:28:05 UTC  

but i thought he had a different mentor

2019-01-05 19:28:24 UTC  

eh, not important

2019-01-05 19:29:06 UTC  

@Stefan Payne Yes, but it's also depressing how long this nonsense has been debunked now. We've been refuting this for 40 years or so.

2019-01-05 19:29:39 UTC  

Yes and our best black dude has given an awesome explanation.

2019-01-05 19:29:49 UTC  

...and Jordan seems to have found that....

2019-01-05 19:29:55 UTC  

and is parroting his statements

2019-01-05 19:30:04 UTC  

thing is: Jordan is more known than Thomas I think.