Message from @Kaiser (ICFD)

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2019-09-24 05:08:39 UTC  

yes, they are pissed at him because he is essentially a massive roadblock to their plans

2019-09-24 05:08:51 UTC  

that alone makes him very good, in my opinion

2019-09-24 05:09:06 UTC  

Hope Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Italy and a few other stand by them too, but am not yet too big on that promise.

2019-09-24 05:09:31 UTC  

ew taiwan

2019-09-24 05:09:37 UTC  

Yes, they will.

2019-09-24 05:09:45 UTC  

they rely on America for basically everything, and they are used to America just bending over. With Trump, they're not getting that nearly as much

2019-09-24 05:09:46 UTC  

Cause they just hate the CCP.

2019-09-24 05:09:49 UTC  

and they fucking hate it

2019-09-24 05:09:55 UTC  

It's cultural thing, too.

2019-09-24 05:10:34 UTC  

but yeah the "free market" as we describe it is not a traditional american value

2019-09-24 05:10:41 UTC  

neither the jeffersonians nor hamiltonians supported such a thing

2019-09-24 05:10:53 UTC  

jefferson was an outright anti-capitalist

2019-09-24 05:11:01 UTC  

opposing generalized wage labor

2019-09-24 05:11:17 UTC  

what would you support then? mixed economy?

2019-09-24 05:11:23 UTC  

I think it is completely in the spirit of classical American liberalism, so it is as conservative as it gets.

2019-09-24 05:12:20 UTC  

i would support a variant of national syndicalism

2019-09-24 05:13:09 UTC  

I would argue from a cultural standpoint free market liberalism is closer to the American core values than syndicalism.

2019-09-24 05:13:18 UTC  

i don't see why

2019-09-24 05:14:00 UTC  

Because it is quite literally build on the value of liberty which runs deep in all other aspects of the classical American cultural tradition.

2019-09-24 05:14:07 UTC  

free market to support competition and innovation, with some government balances in place to stop monopolies or cabals

2019-09-24 05:14:12 UTC  

small business oriented

2019-09-24 05:14:40 UTC  

Why won't you support the most liberal economic system out there when your entire culture is based on the idea of liberty?

2019-09-24 05:14:43 UTC  

the dominance of vast holdings of capital concentrated in private hands directly contravenes what the founding fathers advocated for

2019-09-24 05:15:18 UTC  

This is why there is anti-trust regulation.

2019-09-24 05:15:33 UTC  

There just must be someone willing to actually implement it.

2019-09-24 05:15:34 UTC  

it's not particularly useful

2019-09-24 05:15:54 UTC  

especially when we consider that economies of scale are a reality

2019-09-24 05:16:11 UTC  

Cause the power elites are corrupt, not because the legislation itself is in any way, shape or form wrong by default.

2019-09-24 05:16:13 UTC  

the centralized political power afforded by the concentration of production power into a single body is a reality

2019-09-24 05:16:36 UTC  

the only question is how it is to be organized

2019-09-24 05:16:59 UTC  

It is a reality which the disregard of laws made happen.

2019-09-24 05:17:12 UTC  

Just implement the laws that already exist.

2019-09-24 05:17:22 UTC  

You don't need a system change for that.

2019-09-24 05:17:22 UTC  

no it's a reality by virtue of technological progress dictating that this is what a state needs in order to stay competitive

2019-09-24 05:18:35 UTC  

You must very well know that capital concentration can be offset by lowering the entry requirements for an industry, right?

2019-09-24 05:18:55 UTC  

Just get back to the old ways by stripping down unnecessary regulation.

2019-09-24 05:19:11 UTC  

even if you lower the entry requirements you still have economies of scale to deal with

2019-09-24 05:19:17 UTC  

Which was put there by lobbyists at the first place.

2019-09-24 05:19:36 UTC  

And even in the economies of scale you can have competition.

2019-09-24 05:20:04 UTC  

Why there are Microsoft and Mac and Linux?

2019-09-24 05:20:12 UTC  

yes but you will also have capital concentrated into a centralized body, necessarily entailing the concentration of political power