Liardo

The Sandwich Maker.

[Liardo @Liardo1]

@cline_collier @ifmcknight @mattyglesias @PEWilliams_ It's fine, build a coalition. But then apportion power accordingly to please each faction when you do win, don't spit in the face of the people who got you there

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@_Credible_Hulk Speaking of counterexamples, Slovenia is above both the UK and Germany

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@BryantSmit51765 @SwannMarcus89 Idk when shit hits the fan who delivers the goods? It can do massive economic coordination and leverage huge scale to crush a problem, while suppressing costs to do so

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@cline_collier @ifmcknight @mattyglesias @PEWilliams_ It does, but this hostage-taking cannot continue forever, and basically does not in any other democratic systems. Only the US centre-left considers this normal expected behaviour

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@ifmcknight @mattyglesias @PEWilliams_ Could be, but then you need to throw a bone to the left commensurate with their electoral weight when it comes to legislation, expecting a vote without providing anything (or even showing open contempt) is crazy behaviour and unsustainable

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@ifmcknight @mattyglesias @PEWilliams_ As Matt Bruenig has said, this hostage-taking is a stupid way to manage a coalition and is only really expected in the US Dems for some reason, most normal parties accomodate factional requests according to electoral weight

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@mattyglesias @PEWilliams_ Because voters with left-wing views just owe fealty to dems, you see, so if they join the coalition they can be ignored and if they don't join they deserve scorn (unlike right-wing dems who we must keep happy at all times)

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@cellis212 @cccvb90482622 @SwannMarcus89 Private companies also and do run with losses for years, through financing. I think you need to scope out to other countries, in Europe experience with government-owned industry is overwhelmingly positive, and the private sector is an inefficient mess for the overpaying rich

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@SRamirez68083 I think the point is even if you have some stock, most people have to work for a living to actually cover their costs. That is hugely different from a stock-owner that derives so much income through ownership titles that they don't need to provide anything of value in the market

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@cellis212 @cccvb90482622 @SwannMarcus89 Yeah, in education, electricity providers (TVA in the US), some airlines, housing supply, rail... government provision crushes the private sector on cost-efficiency, mainly through reducing admin overhead and trading higher labour stability for lower salaries

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@cellis212 @cccvb90482622 @SwannMarcus89 Governments absolutely have a huge incentive to cut healthcare costs, look at the UK or Spain, way less costs than a Netherlands or Switzerland model! I think you are just drawing on ideological axioms that having a market always makes things more efficient, which is not true

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@cellis212 @SwannMarcus89 What are you talking about, single payer (or even better socialized medicine) does a better job reducing admin expenses, preventing fraud and holding down provider prices than having a do-nothing mesh of private companies pushing identical government-written plans

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@cellis212 @cccvb90482622 @SwannMarcus89 A single payer system absolutely does those things, delivers lower admin costs, prevents fraud,... even better if it was a socialized medicine system, all these privare insurers bring nothing but more middlemen mouths to feed

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@mattyglesias It's almost like running natural resources through arbitrary contract law and first-movers advantage private property rights is stupid

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@jmhorp Weird how people try to gain anything meaningful from these indices, does anyone believe Japan is richer than Norway or Israel was ever richer than Belgium?

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@MichaelAArouet Bad stupid comparison, everyone who looked at this tweet has been made dumber by having to read it

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@DrewPavlou Mosley spent less than 4 years in prison and was released in 1943, in the middle of the war. He was also the leader of a fascist political party seeking power, not an independent writer

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@NeilThin I think this shows you don't understand academia very well, he was funded to pursue a specific research line, you can't just pocket the money and spend your academic time doing something else (especially if they clash with the profile you presented for the grant application)

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@DarRamesnis Poland invaded and helped Hitler dismantle Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe