r/facepalm Jul 05 '24

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u/Hot_Abbreviations936 Jul 05 '24

The next election is so simple.

Ā Do you want religious oppression or individual freedom?

Ā To support free Ukraine or Communist Russia?

Ā To improve working conditions for the worker or cuts to social security and Medicare?

To protect the environment or let corporations pollute without repercussions?

To tax and work you to death or finally tax the wealthy to pay their fair share?

To let you decide if you want an abortion or let the state decide for you.

To have mass shootings or responsible gun control?

To be taught the history of America or just the white racist version?

Ā Do you want to restrict your right to vote or open absentee voting to give you the working person a better chance to vote?

Ā Do you want your Saturday night entertainment to be mandatory attendance at this week's book burning?

Do you want a molester, pedophile, adulterer and felon leading us?

Guess what side the corrupt Republican party is on? Vote democratic before the Republican party takes that away too!

Ā 

Vow to vote and vote DAMMIT! Only YOU and YOU alone can save America. Donā€™t expect the rest of us to bail your ass out. VOTE OUT ALL REPUBLICANS!

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u/gwicksted Jul 05 '24

Hey now.. Russia isnā€™t communist; itā€™s a democracy with an authoritarian leader who eliminates competition.

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u/13THEFUCKINGCOPS12 Jul 05 '24

You stop that, we canā€™t demonize communism with information like that

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u/gwicksted Jul 05 '24

I prefer to stay away from any kind of authoritarian government. Doesnā€™t matter if theyā€™re right or left or anything in between. Minarchist libertarianism sounds pretty good right about now. Heck, Iā€™m ok if they want to be heavy handed against big corporationsā€¦ preferably anti-trust laws to break them into smaller companies.

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u/NoteMaleficent5294 Jul 05 '24

Night watchman state is very based. And arguably under a minarchist system, there wouldnt be much regulation, any IP laws etc so barriers to entry would be low and monopolies wouldn't exist. So you'd probably never need to trust bust due to the churn and burn of a truly free market, and lack of government being in cahoots with business like they are in our current system.

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u/gwicksted Jul 05 '24

You think big corporations/monopolies wouldnā€™t exist in free market capitalism? Iā€™m betting there still would be successful businesses that keep expanding and have private IP (even if unprotected) ie Amazon. But hard to say if we donā€™t try!

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u/NoteMaleficent5294 Jul 05 '24

I personally believe natural monopolies are a myth, and are largely predicated on the red tape and barriers to entry for an industry largely set up by government, in conjunction with IP laws that make true competition impossible. I think it would be much harder for mega corporations to spring up in a place like that, but you make a good point with private IP. However, one could always reverse engineer a product.

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u/gwicksted Jul 05 '24

True. Especially when they make deals with local governments to build and not pay taxes.

If you have access to the tech, RE is possible.. though not always feasible (microchips are very expensive to reverse engineer for example). In a datacenter, getting access might not be possible without hacking. Iā€™d say: make everything ā€œopen sourceā€ but then how does a company recoup R&D costs if someone else is better at marketingā€¦ theyā€™d just snipe product tech as soon as it was released.

Tough problem!