I had this conversation with him before. I asked if he might be suppressing his bisexual sexuality. He believes straight dudes can be convinced or propagandized to enjoy penises up their pooper. I'm like.... Dude you might be gay... And that's okay.
Ohhh, I was just making a joke. But to be clear, in case this is serious: Be whoever you are. It’s really none of our business.
It isn't. But dude believes he can be convinced to enjoy sexual stimulation with men which is perfectly fine but that makes you bisexual and is again, perfectly fine. It isn't fine being bigoted towards the lgbtq community because you are angry at your internal desires that your upbringing taught you is evil.
Here's a Marxist perspective: https://jacobin.com/2022/02/price-controls-supply-chain-economic-policy-free-market-inflation
I love when @Os Trigonum tries to actually put his own thoughts in rather than just reposting an article and it's just the blandest, coldest, weakest gruel sopped up from the abandoned soup bowl of CNBC Squawk Box or something. Get more words, preferably better words. They have computers that do this now old man.
A kind of jumping-the-gun fear-mongering on the right is going on here with the comparison to Stalin and the like—the type of fear-mongering that suggests it will persist no matter the details. We have price controls. They come into play every time there’s a hurricane or some other emergency. Details will tell us how smart or potentially dumb this is. Excessive price gouging happens every time there’s an emergency until laws are passed to ban it. Consumers are protected, and the companies do just fine. There’s room to extend these practices for longer-duration emergencies.
why would she send a sign that she believes there has been a long-duration inflation "emergency" during the Biden administration's time in office?
(Off the top of my head) COVID distorted everything. Prices naturally went up, but they stayed elevated for far too long because it distorted the free market. No one dares to raise prices due to competition, but when circumstances (a god-like event) force everyone to increase prices, they do. Once prices are up, as long as consumers are buying, there’s no immediate incentive to lower them. Some might eventually decrease their prices, but it could take a long time (years). There is room for some regulation here. Potentially smart regulation could allow price increases when necessary but require reductions when operations return to normal. A metric for this might be some type of profit margin. Prices affected by market distortions could be subject to a profit margin cap on a temporary basis until the free market returns to normal.
I'm with you so far. not sure I see it, I'm willing however to be entertained biting tongue against oxymoron quip I just don't see the federal government having much of a role in fixing prices. like non
normally I ignore your dumb comments . . . but wow. this one is an all-time great! gonna retreat to my fascist libertarian hell-hole now. have a nice day!
Regulation can be smart! You aren't winning that one The federal government is the only entity that can play this role when the impact is nation-wide. But, there could also be a regional scheme or one where the federal government allows states to tune the cap and duration, for example, since pricing is local. (this might just be all political messagging, but it would be interesting to see how such a model works)
Is this like a allegory of the cave thing where you are born into this free market concept where you just refuse to ignore all the holes because it is so foreign to you due to being born into it? If the free market told society we need this many homeless people, this many people who can't afford visiting doctors because their premiums are already to high etc, then we just accept it I guess.
on a case-by-case basis, I agree completely. What case are you specifically referring to re: price controls on the scale Harris appears to be proposing?
