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One should be put down for equivocating lowering the price of medication and genocide
step right into the estimation chamber for big smart boysHe can take “The Storm Saxon”
with himWe need
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beaming “I am Adolf Hitler” at each other.They should totally be split into a left and right emoji so you can change and showcase the clown ideas
This account has to be doing rage bait.
George Mason University
No, I don’t think it’s a bit
I’m terrified by the concept of a university where this kind of behaviour is considered to be plausible.
When I see shit like this, it makes me fully support forced re-education camps
That or
There will be some people that won’t go willingly into communism
I tend to go from zero to “Mao did nothing wrong sparrows deserved worse.”
GMU is heavily funded by the Koch brothers, and is one of the only schools that teaches Austrian economics.
One of the economics professors Tweeted some racist shit and didn’t even get a slap on the wrist.
They also have their law school named after Antonin Scalia, if that gives you a metric of how disgusting they are.
They ALSO coordinated a police raid on the houses of two students who were part of Students for Justice in Palestine, and banned them for 4 years without any due process.
Let alone how they have their police surround the pro-israel demonstrations but let the pro-Palestine demonstrators get rocks thrown at them without any intervention.
People like this idiot are a byproduct of what the school represents, yet they want want to be seen as a bastion of progressive thought.
I was at this conference back in my academic days dinner with a cluster of GMU junior faculty and researchers. luckily zero economists, all pretty firmly left politics. the most outspoken one introduced his school as being “the modern proving ground of all academic and scientific corruption in the US. when you look at a map of how right-wing dark money from the Kochs flows through the academy, GMU is always where the process is prototyped and developed for mass replication elsewhere.”
he was pretty funny in that deadpan. he had spent the last several years looking at the political economy and critical geography of energy leases or something grim like that in central Appalachia.
It is pitiful, their engineering department also has a pretty direct pipeline to defense contractors / 3-letter agencies.
Was going to say, GMU is as bad as it gets for libertarian econ
Austrian economics is barely more fantastical than mainstream bourgeois economics
Good old George Mason University. If you see anyone with a law or economics degree from there, know that they are very unserious at best. Other departments there aren’t so bad, but the university is located in Raytheon Acres, Virginia, and relies on its tight connections to the feds and warlords for funding and employment for their graduates.
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Everything is Genocide unless it’s actual genocide, which is complicated
wait, isn’t this the kid who wrote “when must we kill them?”
edit: yeah, that’s him lol https://nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/when-must-we-kill-them
lmao he left up the top comment calling him an f-slur. dog of us empire indeed.
warning for r-word, but this exchange made me lol
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This dog needs deworming ASAP
Liberalism is a malignant disease on the human soul.
He has to be doing a bit. Otherwise, I hope someone slaps him right in the mouth.
This is your brain on splitting people into “the protagonists of irl” and “the background characters”.
Price caps are genocide, Hamas is doing genocide, Uyghurs are being genocided. They say this shit so when actual, real genocide gets pointed out (as perpetrated by Israel) they can pretend the word doesn’t mean anything anymore because of “both sides” so people can just ignore it.
Insidious shit, and absolutely intentional. They know what they’re doing.
Hey, it’s corporate genocide of poor innocent healthcare industries. It’s just a new type of genocide after cultural genocide. You know the one perpetrated on evidence based science (climate change) and liberal values (equality).
Genoc- wha, how? HUH?!
Kind of embarassing that I even know this, but their reasoning goes
- Lower prices => lower profits
- Lower profits => lower quantities supplied
- Lower quantities supplied => people will die from lack of medicine
And if you assume that the supply is lowered enough, then tons of people die and it becomes genocide. Of course, the flip side of this that this person completely ignored is that price distortions can also occur in the other direction, where prices are high enough to entice more than sufficient production, but so high that it limits purchases from consumers. Currently, the American medical industry is firmly in that side of pricing (as evident by the fact that the rest of the world has much lower drug prices* and no shortages of drugs).
*even if you account for wage differences.
This is all econ 101 theory. Often times, you barely need to remember 101 shit to dunk on these so called “economics students”, who didn’t even properly learn the bourgeois version of the theory, only how to party and act arrogant online.
If something like that happens, it’s not the price control doing morally reprehensible killing, it’s the system and ownership of the means of production using them irresponsibly doing the killing. Maybe things that save lives don’t need a market to tell you they’re an important societal good.
If I try to escape an open air prison so you start doing an ethnic cleansing of that prison, we’re not in equal footing in terms of being bad.
The biggest selling point for a command economy is literally the housing crisis.
: “Can someone care to explain to me why we have a ‘housing shortage’ and rampant homeless problem yet as far as commodities go, housing is one of the most in-demand products? What do you mean market forces are stopping construction companies from making a killing and also lowering housing costs for everyone this should be a labor and capital win-win!”How is the housing crisis real? Just plan your economy lmao.
Well there’s plenty of planning that goes into it, it’s just in the direction of capital concentration at the expense of people being dignified
We already live in a planned economy (the free-market absolutists will tell you all about government interventions in the housing market). In fact, pretty much all modern large scale industry runs on the principles of planned economy. The problem is that the economy is planned by the capitalists and their lackeys. What we need is nationalization.
You will always have a planned economy. The only real question is “planned by whom?”
Obviously that goes without saying. The best solution is single payer healthcare and a nationalised pharmaceuticals industry.
However, a poorly implemented price control will fuck your economy and general welfare unless you have a communist economy and transcended money.
Maybe Trump will do a well implemented price control
I want to provide a bit more insight to the brain of this guy. They really beat the 1970s oil crisis into you at GMU as an example of price controls creating shortages. On top of this, the negotiating power of pharmaceutical companies is usually greater than a governments. Drugs are priced not by how much a consumer is able to pay but by how much the government doesn’t want their population to die, which is why you see drug prices in the $100k range. Pharmaceutical companies will happily let people die to get a better bargaining position.
They’re genociding the profit margins
I’ve got this one. Money is a proxy for race, and therefore lower prices mean Black people benefit. Therefore, Black people living longer is a genocide to
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You add up all the lost utils on both sides and see which number is bigger and also a single dollar of forgone profit is like a gazillion utils.
: “Well you see, you’re hurting porky’s freeeeeeeeedumz! It’s his property and he has every right to do whatever he pleases! You gotta learn to live and let live, man!”Also
:“Racism is bad? Who cares about icky morals! According to my calculashunz, giving the specials like me privileges over you yucky untermench, if not removing you entirely makes the good results happen! You can’t let sentimental morals get in the way of The Objective Reality^TM”Also also
: “ Why yes, I also think that integrity is for the weak and that it’s only logicalTM to embrace lies that serve your interests, why do you ask?”
God damn I feel bad for kids trying to build their personality these days. Wildly alienated with just the shittiest building blocks to work with, so half of them pick a set of deliberately incoherent politics as their bio because they want you to think they have some secret wisdom that makes it make sense, and so they can imagine your monocle popping out in shock upon reading it. This sucks man, just get a hobby and pick a musical genre, because everybody has been sick of the Benedict Bandersnatch counterintuitive genius shtick for like 8 years now and doing it about how poor people should just die is genuinely fucking repulsive.
Addendum: I have viewed the other screenshots in this thread and no longer feel bad for this person in particular
I’m not like other guys, I like Metal AND Taylor Swift. Isn’t that unique and special? Tell me you think I’m cool.
Unfortunately that was unique and special for my generation. It’s a lot more common now. For a while it was shorts, tall socks, sandals at the death metal show too. Now those are both just normal occurrences.
I think it should be legal to kill this person 🩷🩷🩷
Rare trump W, even a broken calendar is right once a year
He realized lowering drug pricces would trigger the libs
I legit think it would be fascinating if he tried for Medicare for all.
Which liberal reflex would be stronger? Immediatly smothering any possible progressive legislation or immediatly surrendering to republicans.
Is it time to dust off the “healthcare pls” memes?
Kingdom hearts fans
American progressives.“Heal me, Donald!”
What the fuck is a broken calendar lmao I love this
That was the joke, but then I remembered that my grandparents friends had one of dem bois (pic not mine)
Which could absolutely be broken, although it would then be right once every 7 years on average.
It’s because Trump is not a Neoliberal, like Reagan, Clinton, and every president since them from either party. Biden, Bush, Obama…
Trump is a Fascist. He can throw white working people a bone every now and then because he is not beholden to the Capitalist class to the extent other leaders were and are.
I prefer the explanation some others have said which is Trump was also a Democrat earlier in life and this is partialy him reverting to easiest and simplest ideas that “sound” good to him because at one point he wasn’t completely unaware or opposed to them.
I don’t think Trump particularly cares about drug company CEOs or executives, like at all because they’re alien to him. He was a TV celebrity and in real estate etc, he only ever cares about other “rich” people when it is either personally convenient(e.g tax cuts etc) or they flatter him somehow.
Trump is a fascist but not a coherent one, therefore it can’t be the only reason.
In the first week he scrapped the order that put a cap on drug prices.
He got rid of so ething that actually reduced drug prices, prices shot up, and now he’s declared the prices have to go down with zero enforcement.
The “broken callendar” threw itself i to a shredder as soon as it got hung up.
The only econ students I’ve met who actually had a material understanding of economy had it despite their education, not because of it
So did trump actually lower the prices or was it bullshit like always?
Bullshit like always
Y’know what’s really great about takes like this? All of the LLMs that will incorporate it and then dumbass users will uncritically accept the fact that Grok said so to further reinforce it
- find out where grok scours data from
- make a spambot that talks about chud stuff but also talks about eating tide pods and really toxic elephant dewormer
- ???
- profit
Man, I remember getting SpongeBob meme font replies whenever I brought up the Palestinian genocide
Shit, my package didn’t arrive today…
… is this genocide?
