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[–] CutieBootieTootie@hexbear.net 112 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

One should be put down for equivocating lowering the price of medication and genocide

[–] Posadas@hexbear.net 80 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 102 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

barbara-pit shrug-outta-hecks step right into the estimation chamber for big smart boys

[–] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 62 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He can take "The Storm Saxon" hitler-detector with him

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 47 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We need clown-to-clown-communication clown-to-clown-conversation with i-am-adolf-hitler beaming "I am Adolf Hitler" at each other.

[–] uSSRI@hexbear.net 30 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

They should totally be split into a left and right emoji so you can change and showcase the clown ideas

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[–] sodium_nitride@hexbear.net 49 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This account has to be doing rage bait.

[–] TrustedFeline@hexbear.net 57 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

George Mason University

No, I don't think it's a bit

[–] sodium_nitride@hexbear.net 21 points 3 weeks ago

I'm terrified by the concept of a university where this kind of behaviour is considered to be plausible.

[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 55 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

When I see shit like this, it makes me fully support forced re-education camps

That or gulag

[–] OldSoulHippie@hexbear.net 37 points 3 weeks ago

There will be some people that won't go willingly into communism

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 35 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I tend to go from zero to "Mao did nothing wrong sparrows deserved worse."

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 79 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

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.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 51 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 3 weeks ago

It is pitiful, their engineering department also has a pretty direct pipeline to defense contractors / 3-letter agencies.

[–] Biddles@hexbear.net 28 points 3 weeks ago

Was going to say, GMU is as bad as it gets for libertarian econ

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 25 points 3 weeks ago

Austrian economics is barely more fantastical than mainstream bourgeois economics

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[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 66 points 3 weeks ago

Everything is Genocide unless it's actual genocide, which is complicated

[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 65 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

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

[–] falgscode@hexbear.net 40 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

lmao he left up the top comment calling him an f-slur. dog of us empire indeed.

[–] very_poggers_gay@hexbear.net 34 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

warning for r-word, but this exchange made me lol

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[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 62 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

This dog needs deworming ASAP

[–] Posadas@hexbear.net 51 points 3 weeks ago

Liberalism is a malignant disease on the human soul.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 36 points 3 weeks ago

He has to be doing a bit. Otherwise, I hope someone slaps him right in the mouth.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 17 points 3 weeks ago

This is your brain on splitting people into “the protagonists of irl” and “the background characters”.

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 53 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 49 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)
[–] sodium_nitride@hexbear.net 64 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Kind of embarassing that I even know this, but their reasoning goes

  1. Lower prices => lower profits
  2. Lower profits => lower quantities supplied
  3. 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.

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 54 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The biggest selling point for a command economy is literally the housing crisis.

goku-halal: “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.

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[–] dumpster_dove@hexbear.net 37 points 3 weeks ago

They're genociding the profit margins

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 34 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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 cracker. hitler-detector us-foreign-policy

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago

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.

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[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 44 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Real_User@hexbear.net 37 points 3 weeks ago

I think it should be legal to kill this person 🩷🩷🩷

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 36 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

Rare trump W, even a broken calendar is right once a year

[–] TrustedFeline@hexbear.net 37 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He realized lowering drug pricces would trigger the libs cri

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 31 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What the fuck is a broken calendar lmao I love this

[–] Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 35 points 3 weeks ago

The only econ students I've met who actually had a material understanding of economy had it despite their education, not because of it

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 33 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So did trump actually lower the prices or was it bullshit like always?

[–] Posadas@hexbear.net 35 points 3 weeks ago

Bullshit like always

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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 doomjak

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[–] OldSoulHippie@hexbear.net 32 points 3 weeks ago

Man, I remember getting SpongeBob meme font replies whenever I brought up the Palestinian genocide

[–] D61@hexbear.net 27 points 3 weeks ago

Shit, my package didn't arrive today...

is-this

... is this genocide?

[–] corvidenjoyer@hexbear.net 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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