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Retarded is people who opine about things they have zero degree of expertise in. It's nice to see that you came back to take another intellectual beating just in time for the holidays.

That's not a result of capitalism at all. It's a direct result of capital barriers to market entry created by regulation. There's a reason industry loves regulation: it's a guarantee of market share. This directly leads to instances of predatory oligopoly. Again, they aren't capitalists. They are political entrepreneurs, and yes, they do a remarkable job of convincing the populace that we have a capitalist system when we have anything but.

I'm almost tempted to start a new board with better moderation, and rules akin to those of SonsofSamHorn.net, which is a Red Sox fan site, and has the very best team sports board I've ever come across. New members are restricted from posting in the main Red Sox sub forum until they have achieved a reasonable post count, and have been sponsored by an existing member with main board posting privileges. Bans are regularly handed out for LAMP posting, redundant posting, and hot take threads. The place is eminently readable and informative.

I can live with that.

Also important to note (I've made this point before, but it's worth doing again): monopolies are created, almost exclusively, by the government. Monopolies are created through the state action of legal preference, or capital barriers imposed by regulation, not through free markets. Monopolists are political entrepreneurs who garner market share by enticing government to subsidize their specific business within their industry, or their specific industry within the larger economy; or, conversely, to pass legislation which directly or indirectly harmed competing interests.

Most of those people are morons, and you aren't. If you were a dope, it wouldn't bother me because I'd expect it.

I don't dislike you, Jim. I'm frustrated by you, and I'm honest about why.

You do you, Jim.

I'm old enough to remember when you weren't such a useless net negative. Not only do you foul the place up by indulging gator, you've also started to post like him. Congrats.

Was I supposed to have more? Stop being a *****, Jim.

https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/white-liberals-present-themselves-as-less-competent-in-interactions-with-african-americans

You're not multiple racists? Roses are red, violets are blue. I'm a schizophrenic, and so am I.

I thought I remembered you being a libertarian leaning moderate. When did you become a race-baiting leftist moron?

Why are you trying to recruit new forms of stupid to come down here and further ruin this place? We're already stocked up on stupid. We don't need any more.

I know this is photo-shopped because Hillary Clinton would never let half naked toddlers escape from Comet Pizza.

Fair enough. I'm very much in the same camp, though the comic book geek in me insists on watching all the content from the Marvel Universe in my home theater.

You expressed the story line of the villain in the most recent Avengers movie. That gif is the scene in the movie in which he kills half the population of the universe in order to "save the other half" as he expressed it.

Well yeah, minorities don't view themselves as being less than whites, liberal whites do.

Nope. She's trying to back away.

She knows she's ***** up the ass, and this time not even by strangers for money. You know what they say, "Live by the whored..."

Again, polling is not used to gauge opinion. Polling is used to drive opinion. You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what it is used for, and as such are engaging in a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, and are not even doing it very well. Polls are a psy-op control mechanism. There is a natural tendency amongst humans to reflexively do what is popular, because humans are social pack animals who fear being ostracized; and there is a sizable portion of the country who have, unwittingly in many cases, outsourced their critical thinking to propaganda outlets posing as news media. Polls are a tool used by these propaganda outlets to back their narrative/agenda with "data" in order to manipulate that portion of the public. These propaganda outlets told you that there was "no electoral path to a Trump presidency" and that "Brexit was an unpopular impossibility". So again, no, polling data is not accurate. It is not intended to be accurate.

What will it take for you to come to the realization that polling data isn't accurate. Further, that it isn't intended to be accurate. It is a mechanism used to drive narrative, nothing more.