@thehill Capitalism is commonly marketed as being a synonym for freedom and democracy. Blockades and threats of war to try to force Capitalism onto others is a clear example of when that’s simply false advertising.
@THR Ending funding for Public Broadcasting probably makes sense to anyone that believes an accessible secular education often leads to an increase of liberal voters.
@politico This is a fallacious narrative. There will invariably be plenty on the left that support psychedelics. And this apparently exclusive to Conservatives brand of common sense isn't a credible counter to science or anything else.
@arstechnica Alsup wrote. "The Act seeks to advance original works of authorship, not to protect authors against competition."
Except that's exactly what Government-protected monopolies do — preclude competition. Besides, human-based originality is an indulgently-deluded hubristic myth.
@JonathanTurley In this divisive age of Trumpism, options for the news have broadly taken the form of ratings-keen, integrity-subservient, profit-based media or journalism that does its best to focus on facts whilst often free of obligations to pretend fictive narratives are valid counterpoints.
@SteveKrak@thehill Congratulations! You deftly put all those people in their proper places by prioritizing a sense of respect and the personal feelings of those living today over the well-being of future generations.
@thehill In other words, the relentlessly mighty Free Market demonstrably needs the assistance of the reputedly consistently counterproductive U.S. Government in order to complete on the global — not everyone plays by the “right” rules — stage.
#OutsourcingCommonSense
@thehill In other words, many Ohioans can't reliably make up their own minds — at least not in the ways that in-state Republicans can afford and/or put forth the effort to firmly "influence" as a result of inconvenient out-of-state competition. Therefore, long-term democracy must suffer.
@thehill Some Republicans really do live in their own Realities. But, that’s just another example of them preferring privatization over the public sector.
@thehill "Instead, they’re focusing on trying to level the political playing field by finding a “game changer” they hope will..."
That's because it's all about competition for them — a game of winning and losing — as opposed to what's best for their constituents or the entire Nation.
@arstechnica@BethMarieMole "As for the quadrupling of the US's discount price, Bancel argued that the simple bulk orders for the gov't were wholly different in nature than the messiness of the commercial market..."
Uh Oh! He’s gone off script in terms of the supposed benefits of Free Market Capitalism.