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  Why the NFL Protest Is a Massive and Insulting Failure

  by freemindfade in

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  i think everyone has the freedom to protest, they also have freedom of speech, these are two fundamental things that make america amazing.

  but thinking rationally about what is going on with the nfl, therefore, i have an unfavorable opinion of the league, and the players, not their right to free speech, but their motive and execution of it.

  constitutional freedom to protest ends at the workplace door too.

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  @Brokeback: not "who". Rather, "what". "What perspective"

  Answer: The objective one. The one that isn't racially charged. The one backed up by facts instead of "feels".
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  JW Elder fired from bank for privacy violation regarding fellow JW employee

  by Zoos in

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  "thou shalt spy on and report your brothers and sisters to hq.".

  https://www.tv6tnt.com/news/local/industrial-court-finds-there-are-limits-to-freedom-of-religion/article_5a485b94-a327-11e7-9c32-57b15184bc6a.html.

  editor's note: due to the nature of this story we've changed the names of the parties involved.

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  The more I think about this, the more unlikely this guy's story is. He was looking at this lady's backup set specifically - then he comes across these pics and has to dream up some excuse : "oh yeah, we were just looking for ... ummm ... the cheque register... yeah that's it."

  Wait.... he confronted her about the pics several times in private?? Yeah, this guy is a stalker and probably wanted to fool around on the side too. She turned him down.

  Yep... horn dog.

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  Why the NFL Protest Is a Massive and Insulting Failure

  by freemindfade in

  1. social
  2. current

  i think everyone has the freedom to protest, they also have freedom of speech, these are two fundamental things that make america amazing.

  but thinking rationally about what is going on with the nfl, therefore, i have an unfavorable opinion of the league, and the players, not their right to free speech, but their motive and execution of it.

  constitutional freedom to protest ends at the workplace door too.

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  @Brokeback: blacks are not being hunted. It's not an interpretation. It's not happening. The stats don't bear it out. Not even close.

  I got that these players have their own world view. OK. No problem. However, their world view (in this case) is like having the "view" that 2+2 = 5.

  It is corrupt human reasoning. It is not honorable. It is incorrect.
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  Why the NFL Protest Is a Massive and Insulting Failure

  by freemindfade in

  1. social
  2. current

  i think everyone has the freedom to protest, they also have freedom of speech, these are two fundamental things that make america amazing.

  but thinking rationally about what is going on with the nfl, therefore, i have an unfavorable opinion of the league, and the players, not their right to free speech, but their motive and execution of it.

  constitutional freedom to protest ends at the workplace door too.

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  But Brokeback - the point is: that's not happening. It is propoganda. Whites are more likely to be shot and killed (because cops are extra careful around blacks). It's just like the pussy hat protests that were for women's rights when everyone knows full well that women have all the rights of men.

  In any case, any fatal shooting by a police officer is not "policy".

  And even though it is a nonsensical protest, you don't see laws being passed or Orange Hitler cracking skulls. Trump isn't censoring anyone.

  This is all leftist nonesense.
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  Why the NFL Protest Is a Massive and Insulting Failure

  by freemindfade in

  1. social
  2. current

  i think everyone has the freedom to protest, they also have freedom of speech, these are two fundamental things that make america amazing.

  but thinking rationally about what is going on with the nfl, therefore, i have an unfavorable opinion of the league, and the players, not their right to free speech, but their motive and execution of it.

  constitutional freedom to protest ends at the workplace door too.

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  @Brokeback:

  Questions:

  In this case, what government policies are being protested?

  In this case, what sort of government censorship has there been?
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  JW Elder fired from bank for privacy violation regarding fellow JW employee

  by Zoos in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "thou shalt spy on and report your brothers and sisters to hq.".

  https://www.tv6tnt.com/news/local/industrial-court-finds-there-are-limits-to-freedom-of-religion/article_5a485b94-a327-11e7-9c32-57b15184bc6a.html.

  editor's note: due to the nature of this story we've changed the names of the parties involved.

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  Why were there pictures of this woman's affair on the bank's backup drives?

  I assume it is because the woman has a work PC on the network and the bank backs up all files from all workstations...

  But if that is true, then the elder would have to go into the backup specifically for this woman's machine - not some general search for a cheque register. Doesn't seem right.

  Why do people take pictures of their affairs? And why store these at work of all places?!

  So weird.

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  Why the NFL Protest Is a Massive and Insulting Failure

  by freemindfade in

  1. social
  2. current

  i think everyone has the freedom to protest, they also have freedom of speech, these are two fundamental things that make america amazing.

  but thinking rationally about what is going on with the nfl, therefore, i have an unfavorable opinion of the league, and the players, not their right to free speech, but their motive and execution of it.

  constitutional freedom to protest ends at the workplace door too.

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  MeanMrMustard

  Perhaps the protest message would be cleared up a bit if the players wore pussy hats while they took a knee.

  This is all leftist nonsense.

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  Karl Marx Genius Of The Modern World

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  he was all for getting rid of religions and their delusions for the betterment of mankind.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mydmc1wio8.

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  So I've thought about this more... Marx did get it wrong when he thought that people could be forced (or would all be willing) into adopting socialism. Socialism requires people to change how they think about things and what they value. Forcing this to happen is a bad idea.

  I agree it is not a good idea. The only way to force stuff like that is "re-education" camps. Or just gunning the dissidents down as they try to run away.

  But my main point is that it doesn't matter even if everyone got along and *wanted* to be communists/socialists.

  Independent of the incentive problem is the calculation problem. As soon as you remove free market prices, you lose information needed to allocate resources. The population of a communist country could be quite sincere. It doesn't matter. The economy will fail.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alqUqdbfxhk
  

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  Karl Marx Genius Of The Modern World

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  he was all for getting rid of religions and their delusions for the betterment of mankind.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mydmc1wio8.

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  It is indeed very hard to fault the Scandinavian countries, both in their economic development and with their social successes. (Although Norway has been helped immensely by its off-shore oil industry). The example of countries such as Sweden and Denmark tends strongly to suggest that a Mixed Economy works best.

  It is not what you think. Sweden was very open and laissez-faire for about 100 years before the government interventions. You get the best growth, the best standard of living increases with free markets. Take a look at the video below. The Swedish economist jokes in relation to Sweden: ‘How do you get a small fortune? Start out with a big one and make mistakes.’

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gvVPBBDpV8
  

  And this one:
  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9WOMQMkMQc
  

  That contrasts with the disastrous attempts in the late 1980s / early 1990s to implement a Free Market Economy in this country. (An experiment that is still often referred to as "Rogernomics", after the then minister of finance, Roger Douglas). During the 1980s, economist Milton Friedman gave a series of rather forceful lectures on TV about the virtues of the "Free Market". After that, wondrous claims were made about what it was going to achieve - and for a few years, many people actually believed it, too!
  However, the reality was quite different; with just one example of many being the "Leaky Homes" debacle.

  Again, this is not what it appears to be. There was a huge government manual that described all the building standards for New Zealand. It was called NZ Standard 3604. It was not the case of deregulation. The author of the source below mentions the creator of the new regulations by name and tends to think he knew nothing about construction. I'm sure he had good intentions though. Everyone followed them because…well, that’s the government’s standard. More government failure being passed off as the market’s fault. Since the new regulations happened around the same time as the deregulation in other things, well, post-hoc ergo propter hoc. Take it from a NZ builder:

  http://pc.blogspot.com/2009/11/leaky-homes-part-1-myth-of-deregulated.html

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  Karl Marx Genius Of The Modern World

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  he was all for getting rid of religions and their delusions for the betterment of mankind.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mydmc1wio8.

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  MeanMrMustard

  But it does not take away from the fact that at the start of this village's development all the labour was internal to the village. The use of non-village workers only came with success. But yes, you're basically correct in saying that the village became a corporation.
  And whether, a business enterprise is owned by one individual, or by a company or by the government is not particularly important. What's important is that has the following:
  1. Access to adequate capital.
  2. Skilled management.
  3. Skilled technicians.
  4. Good accounting practise.

  I disagree. The most important factor is not on your list: The members of the town/corporation can make decisions on what to produce because they have prices – prices that come from everywhere else around them. They have prices for their inputs and a good idea of what they can get for their outputs at home and abroad. They are swimming in a sea of market information. This town is just like a large company, giving housing away for their investors as a perk.

  It does work. There is no dispute there. But it works, not because it shares the profits. Rather, it works because this one corporation is functioning as a supplier of goods within a market, and from that market information the town, just like a board of directors, can make decisions on resource usage to gain profits, which is the signal that they are moving resources into higher level goods.

  The point: This little town doesn’t bolster the socialist’s argument. The socialist notes: “there is no private property”. Answer: sure there is. The corporation/town is basically like a private actor.

  It may be noted in this discussion that government ownership was common in the past.

  Why is that important to note?

  Right across Asia there is evidence that governments initiated production facilities. For the reason already stated, that there was insufficient private capital available for the project. Not surprising when you consider that most of the population (say 80% to 90%) was engaged in agriculture. Only the state had the resources to inject capital into some enterprise.

  Not having the needed capital to undertake a venture implies something about undertaking that venture. What is so important about venture XYZ that you have to steal capital from everyone (taxes), pool it, and start the venture? When the government bureaucrats make that decision, how do they really know that more agriculture wouldn’t be the best thing right now? Why not steal money from people and create carrot juicers instead?

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