Is it just me? or has the progressive castration, pacification, and fear-training of society that has been going on for decades here in 'Merica spread to other countries,...?
It is just you. This has nothing to do with the United States.
And then what? Mail them a fine for noncompliance? And if they don't pay, then what? In order to enforce a law, at some point you must involve law enforcement. And if your response to that is going to be, again, that police abuse their power, that doesn't solve anything. That means your answer to how to enforce Covid restrictions is to not have Covid restrictions. And we see how well that is working in places in the US.
A company like Comcast will obviously beg to differ with such an assessment.
Comcast is not in a competitive market.
Any "free market" will tend towards monopoly in the long term, because that is precisely what greed does.
If you scroll up a bit, you'll see that is what I mentioned earlier.
And if you add checks on that greed, such as through enforcement of competition law, then what you have is technically not a free market.
What I mean by a free market is one with a lot of competition, where competitors can freely enter. This often, perhaps usually, requires some degree of regulation by government. Apparently you are referring to a market with no governmental interference.
i.e., There really is no such thing as a free market.
That is not what I said. There is no such thing as an unregulated free market.
What most pundits call a "free market", we call "unchecked greed".
Speak for yourself. A free market is one with lots of competitors (actual competitors, not colluders). Their greed is checked by the necessity to compete with one another for customers. If greed is unchecked, that means there are no forces requiring them to provide good service or fair prices, which means it's not a free market.
Does Taylor supply the machines at low cost for the corporation, and gouges the franchisees to make up for it? That sounds right - McDonald's and Taylor colluding to make money for themselves at the expense of those further down the chain. I guess McD's has decided the money is worth pissing off their customers on the regular.
600K+ dead we still have people convinced that Drs are classifying all deaths as covid because that gets them paid more.
Which also twists the numbers in the wrong direction. If that were really happening, we should see 600,000 fewer deaths than normal from all other causes, as those deaths were miscounted as Covid deaths. Instead, we're seeing excess deaths beyond normal even in addition to the 600,000 Covid deaths, indicating that Covid deaths have been undercounted, not overcounted.
In addition to the non-linear scaling introduced by the need for management:
Even with good managers, those moderators are not all going to be on the same page to the extent 25 moderators can be.
This is 25 moderators moderating one group with 70,000 members. They're not moderating everything those 70,000 people do, just their contributions to that one group. I don't know what that scale factor would be, as probably most of the 2.8 billion people post little or nothing to FB, and a lot of them post constantly. But it's probably greater than one.
It is pretty strange that such a powerful company has let this go on for so long.
I understand that many are franchise holders but that is the point of franchising isn't it, collective bargaining power?
I thought the point was to be able to benefit from the parent's brand identity and marketing. If all you wanted was collective bargaining, you'd be better off forming a coalition of locally owned restaurants to bargain with suppliers.
Men were obliged to cut their beards, women could not wear a chador, and mosques were placed off limits. The PDPA made a number of reforms on women's rights, banning forced marriages and giving state recognition of women's right to vote.
But apparently it didn't go that well.
At the same time, the PDPA imprisoned, tortured or murdered thousands of members of the traditional elite, the religious establishment, and the intelligentsia. The government launched a campaign of violent repression, killing some 10,000 to 27,000 people and imprisoning 14,000 to 20,000 more, mostly at Pul-e-Charkhi prison. In December 1978 the PDPA leadership signed an agreement with the Soviet Union which would allow military support for the PDPA in Afghanistan if needed. The majority of people in the cities including Kabul either welcomed or were ambivalent to these policies. However, the Marxist–Leninist and secular nature of the government as well as its heavy dependence on the Soviet Union made it unpopular with a majority of the Afghan population. Repressions plunged large parts of the country, especially the rural areas, into open revolt against the new Marxist–Leninist government.
The market in the USA is strictly regulated by the state so as to stifle all competition.
That isn't generally necessary. Without regulation, markets often devolve to oligopoly or monopoly on their own, because it's more profitable that way. The government really just needs to do nothing to prevent it, and that's what happens (not always, but a lot).
I liked the Stargate TV shows because Samantha was a smart, capable woman who didn't die and didn't have to have love affairs with her colleagues to be an equal protagonist.
Well she did die that one time. But of course everyone else on the team died too.
I didn't read through the whole comment, but the biological thing is called sex, as in "would you like to know the sex of the baby?" Gender and gender identity are the same thing.
Almost everything you wrote about CRT is false, including the idea that it is taught to children. If your child is learning CRT, congratulations, your child was accepted to law school.
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It is just you. This has nothing to do with the United States.
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And then what? Mail them a fine for noncompliance? And if they don't pay, then what? In order to enforce a law, at some point you must involve law enforcement. And if your response to that is going to be, again, that police abuse their power, that doesn't solve anything. That means your answer to how to enforce Covid restrictions is to not have Covid restrictions. And we see how well that is working in places in the US.
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Did it take very long to build that straw man?
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Facebook's announcement about it:
https://about.fb.com/news/2021/06/facebook-response-to-oversight-board-recommendations-trump/
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They initially suspended him indefinitely, and the oversight board said they had to either permanently ban him or give a fixed term to the suspension.
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Comcast is not in a competitive market.
If you scroll up a bit, you'll see that is what I mentioned earlier.
What I mean by a free market is one with a lot of competition, where competitors can freely enter. This often, perhaps usually, requires some degree of regulation by government. Apparently you are referring to a market with no governmental interference.
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That is not what I said. There is no such thing as an unregulated free market.
Speak for yourself. A free market is one with lots of competitors (actual competitors, not colluders). Their greed is checked by the necessity to compete with one another for customers. If greed is unchecked, that means there are no forces requiring them to provide good service or fair prices, which means it's not a free market.
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Does Taylor supply the machines at low cost for the corporation, and gouges the franchisees to make up for it? That sounds right - McDonald's and Taylor colluding to make money for themselves at the expense of those further down the chain. I guess McD's has decided the money is worth pissing off their customers on the regular.
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Which also twists the numbers in the wrong direction. If that were really happening, we should see 600,000 fewer deaths than normal from all other causes, as those deaths were miscounted as Covid deaths. Instead, we're seeing excess deaths beyond normal even in addition to the 600,000 Covid deaths, indicating that Covid deaths have been undercounted, not overcounted.
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Maybe they don't use the Taylor machines in Brazil.
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In addition to the non-linear scaling introduced by the need for management:
Even with good managers, those moderators are not all going to be on the same page to the extent 25 moderators can be.
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It is pretty strange that such a powerful company has let this go on for so long.
I thought the point was to be able to benefit from the parent's brand identity and marketing. If all you wanted was collective bargaining, you'd be better off forming a coalition of locally owned restaurants to bargain with suppliers.
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I believe FB has suspended Trump for 2 years, as opposed to banning him permanently. That may be what the AC meant.
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Interesting.
But apparently it didn't go that well.
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That isn't generally necessary. Without regulation, markets often devolve to oligopoly or monopoly on their own, because it's more profitable that way. The government really just needs to do nothing to prevent it, and that's what happens (not always, but a lot).
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1) many compared to what? How often does this happen compared to the number of women who want abortions, or who want them but can't get them?
2) is forcing a woman to have an abortion not already illegal? Is there anyone in favor of allowing this? Is not your question a straw man?
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300% increase in IRS funding with a mandate to audit the rich would be a good start.
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Well she did die that one time. But of course everyone else on the team died too.
Cathy, did you ever get to order that bra?
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I didn't read through the whole comment, but the biological thing is called sex, as in "would you like to know the sex of the baby?" Gender and gender identity are the same thing.
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Almost everything you wrote about CRT is false, including the idea that it is taught to children. If your child is learning CRT, congratulations, your child was accepted to law school.
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