The original statement. And what's the proven alternative to the stock market?

The response. Not having capitalism.

That is the context in which my response, and yours, have to operate in. 'Not having capitalism' as stated proven alternative.

Theoretical models are irrelevant when the discussion is proven options.

Not to mention your response is likely an attempt at "Communism bad"

It wasn't an attempt, nor was it limited to communism. Anarchism and feudalism, if we're for traditional marxist classifications but I'm more inclined to the arguments that feudalism isn't actually an economic system myself, don't have a better track record than capitalism either.

which stems from a complete lack of understanding of what those governments actually were - authoritarian, not communist.

Appealing to a definition will not help you. Words mean what people use them to mean. They claimed they were communist. Everyone else said they were communist. What they were is what communism is. It may not be exhaustive of what communism could be, but they were and are the most prominent and successful examples of it.

Instead, you could ask for studies that show the potential has value.

Nope. Because the discussion is proven alternatives. If I ask you for proven alternatives to a medical procedure, you don't get to evade the issue by saying I should be asking for theorized treatments.

Or are you a coward?

Eh.

Iron?

Take an iron supplement.

Even more so if you have heavy bleeding.

Again, take a supplement.

Great, show us examples. Go on. Show proven examples of non-capitalist states that are better.

At least try coward.

But you won't, because you can't.

Very difficult to replace all US trade with EU trade.

The EU won't be able to replace all trade, but increased trade can mitigate the damage.

That's the play here, harm reduction.

It's a big club, and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club.”

And MAGA ate this up. Carlin fueled the problem.

It's all corrupt. They are all in on it. This fuels the distrust of institutions and conspiracy thinking that drives MAGA.

You cannot argue that burning everything down is bad, after you've spent years telling people that the system is hopelessly corrupt and needs to be torn down.

Well, the 'corrupt' system under Biden looks pretty damn good in comparison now doesn't it.

No, try bother reading the article.

The error the article focuses is they used the wrong price variable. They used retail rather than import.

That's going to help the housing affordability issue in the US.

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We had several hundred show up to the one I attended. Deep red district far from the capital and population centers of a uncompetitive blue state. Everyone here 'knows' that they don't matter.

But people still showed. More than I've ever seen before.

Perfect is the enemy of good. Reduce your use of American services where it makes sense.

I've read arguments in favor of that, but the big problem is it still leaves the mines intact and in place. And anyone who is doing EOD activities in a minefield has to assume that all devices found are still functional. Just because the explosive should be inert doesn't mean the people clearing the minefield can assume it is. They have to treat it as though it were deadly.

This significantly increases the time and cost of clearing the minefield in the future. Whereas self-detonating mines leave the cleanup crew to only need to worry about the duds.

or automatically after a certain elapsed time

These already exist and have for a long time. The best form of which is automatic detonation. The problem is the failure rate. 0.5% failure rate is incredibly good, but if you're laying 100,000 of mines that still means thousands of mines that didn't deactivate. And clearing them is very expensive and laborious.

And glide bombs aren’t guided

Yes, they are

Guided bombs aren’t cheap

Yes, they are

And really only the most easiest swayed and dazzled people are susceptible to it.

If it can get you 90% approval then no. It's not only the most easily swayed people. It's almost everyone.

The Netherlands are the second largest exporter of agriculture food products.

This is somewhat misunderstood. Netherlands is the second largest exporter by value of agricultural products.

One of the ways they do this is by focusing on the processing of agricultural products. So wheat grown in France is exported to the netherlands for processing and then sent back to france as flour. Same with a lot of other agricultural products, import the raw material, export the intermediary or final product.

And you can see this in the trade data. For #2 exporter in the agricultural sector, you'll find the Netherlands surprisingly absent any of the other traditional agricultural powerhouse rankings, such a top wheat or beef producers.

Don't get me wrong, Dutch greenhouses are really cool, but that's not what's pushing the numbers so high. It's the mills and refineries. And being a little country surrounded by big markets.

my Bush-era GOP neighbors like Bernie and AOC a hell of a lot more than Trump and Elon right now.

I'm in a similar place. Voted for Romney over Obama, but I'd rather have AOC in charge than any current national Republican.

Very cool. Thanks for sharing here.

It is.

Even when it's not intentional office power pissing, this sort of thing is the inevitable result of having 10 different offices in charge of writing regulations.

To avoid this sort of misalignment, you have to have one overriding authority who can make universal rules, which is the reason it hasn't happened yet. No one wants to give up power. Even if that power is just deciding how long truck trailers can be. Better to have 10 different incompatible rules than allow those freaks in province X tells us what to do! It's asinine office politics, but at the national level, with $100s of billions of dollars worth in consequences.

They might take issue with the idea of Canada being the 51st state, but Greenland and Panama are apparently fair game to them.

Panama is the most likely. Trust me, your average America would have little problem invading panama and seizing the canal. As long as, they personally didn't have to do it, it didn't affect their shipping, and it wasn't on the news too much.

Canada is a neighbor. Greenland is part of Denmark. Those might be troublesome, plus they're white.

But Panama, it's small, not part of major alliance network, and full of brown people. They'd swallow that one easy.

Australia has a Constitutional clause that outlaws barriers to free trade between Australian States and Territories.

But is a emission regulation in British Columbia that just so happens to prevent almost all Alberta truckers from taking contracts in BC a barrier to free trade, or is it a legitimate environmental policy?

Is it a trade barrier that Quebec, a french speaking province, has labeling regulations that require the french name/title of a product to be placed first/above the English one, necessitating an entirely different label for products being sold in Quebec, or is the simply exercising their right to protect their minority culture?

This is the sort of stuff that stands in the way of Canadian trade.

They were allowed, but since each province writes its own regulations on most things, it's easier to just worry about accessing the big market, USA, rather than each.

For example, province A says tanker trucks can be up to 53 feet long, but province B says the maximum length is only 50 feet, and your tanker just so happens to be 51 feet. So you can't carry cargo between provinces A and B. This is the sort of stuff that makes trade in canada not 'free'.

There is free trade, in that there aren't tariffs and such between provinces.

There is not free trade in that most regulations are done at the province level and aren't aligned with each other. For example, different provinces have different regulatory requirements for freight trucks. So a truck from Alberta might not be able to carry cargo to Ontario. That's the part that isn't free.

The children didn't vote for it.

And? The people in red states voted for this. Their children suffer the consequences. That's how societies work.

What about states like Mississippi? Arkansas? West Virginia?

These already benighted regions will continue to make eastern europe and the balkans look good in comparison.

but if we're being honest stuff like the internment camps were fairly likely to happen no matter who was in charge

But if we're honest things like deporting non-citizens to foreign gulags was fairly likely to happen no matter who was is charge. Not trying to whitewash Trump here.

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