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#101826: Sep 24th 2015 at 11:43:37 AM

Yes, we did. Often with delightfully colorful terminology such as "N-word turned inside out."

It's easy to forget because over the years, the Irish have been folded into the "white" umbrella. We don't hate them anymore. Our reactionaries are too busy hating blacks and Muslims, as well as the surprising new threat of women, to deal with the Irish anymore.

edited 24th Sep '15 11:44:09 AM by TobiasDrake

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BonsaiForest Since: Jan, 2001
#101827: Sep 24th 2015 at 11:50:04 AM

Even Donald Trump doesn't like Martin Shkreli, the douchebag who jacked up the cost of a drug he'd cornered the market on.

Trump seemed particularly perturbed by Shkreli's inclination to dig in earlier in the week. Trump said Shkreli came off like he thought "he was hot stuff."

"That guy is nothing. He's zero. He's nothing. He ought to be ashamed of himself," Trump said.

Trump noted that he has put hedge funders in his crosshairs. He has said "hedge fund guys are getting away with murder," and he has suggested he would hike taxes on hedge fund managers by eliminating the so-called "carried interest" loophole in the tax code if he were elected president.

"And he's a hedge-fund guy, who, as you know — the only one that I'm raising taxes on. They are going to be paying up," Trump said Wednesday.

I hope the Republican voters aren't buying Shkreli's "free market" shit.

EruditeEsotericist Since: May, 2015
#101828: Sep 24th 2015 at 11:56:23 AM

The BBC's Have Your Say commentators were certainly buying his free market stuff. They even went as far as "If you don't like it you don't have to buy it". Uh, it's medication, you don't exactly have a lot of options.

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#101829: Sep 24th 2015 at 12:02:45 PM

[up][up] That's the thing that makes Trump such an odd duck. He has relatively sensible attitudes when it comes to unfettered free-market capitalism and the evils it creates. He's not particularly religious. He is, however, an unabashed racist and is running almost exclusively on that platform.

[up] And that's another lovely libertarian fallacy: the idea that "buy this expensive, unique thing or die" is a choice in any meaningful sense.

edited 24th Sep '15 12:03:20 PM by Fighteer

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#101830: Sep 24th 2015 at 12:07:51 PM

Anyway, the Dollar to Real rate is steadily reaching 1 to 5, anyone of you guys planning to travel to Brazil?

He have great dentists and consumer goods here!

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BonsaiForest Since: Jan, 2001
#101831: Sep 24th 2015 at 12:09:30 PM

[up][up]I read about George Wallace and his past. It turns out that he ran on a fairly moderate-left platform, talking about the things that people needed, and was even endorsed by the NAACP. However, his opponent just used the N word a lot. His opponent won.

Wallace vowed that he wouldn't lose like that again, and he started throwing all sorts of racism around, and won based on that.

There really are a lot of emotionally-manipulated idiots who let their baser nature control them, and vote based on that.

edited 24th Sep '15 12:09:48 PM by BonsaiForest

EruditeEsotericist Since: May, 2015
#101832: Sep 24th 2015 at 12:12:08 PM

[up][up][up] Oh, it is a choice, there's no question about that. It's just Hobson's choice is all (I'm aware you know this). With literally fatal consequences for not making it. The man in question has blood on his hands and I'd love to see him held accountable for the deaths.

edited 24th Sep '15 12:12:38 PM by EruditeEsotericist

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#101833: Sep 24th 2015 at 12:13:53 PM

Well, the way I see it, a guy who's manipulating the law to create a monopoly on a drug so that they can arbitrarily raise the price isn't actually using a free market. They're un-freeing the market for their own personal gain.

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#101834: Sep 24th 2015 at 12:24:31 PM

if his face wasn't punchable before, it is now

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#101835: Sep 24th 2015 at 12:27:05 PM

Let's put it this way: by declaring himself above morality, governed only by the crab bucket mentality of the market, he has also implicitly declared himself above any protection by government, so anyone who can get past his security could murder him and it would be in keeping with his philosophy.

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#101836: Sep 24th 2015 at 12:31:49 PM

[up][up][up] Have people already died because of the price change? I thought it was already repealed.

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#101837: Sep 24th 2015 at 12:33:55 PM

There were two stories this past week of vultures like him who bought a drug patent and then tried to raise the price of the product by a huge amount. One sold it back to the non-profit he bought it from under media pressure, and the other one (I think it's the HIV drug guy we're talking about) agreed to lower the price.

I am not aware of any stories of anyone who actually died as a result of being unable to acquire the drugs during this brief period of time.

edited 24th Sep '15 12:34:29 PM by Fighteer

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EruditeEsotericist Since: May, 2015
#101838: Sep 24th 2015 at 12:39:16 PM

I'm not saying people have died, or that if they did we would be able to lock him in a cell and throw away the key for it.

But if the former happened and the latter were possible I'd like it, and the former could have happened had the price rise not been reversed.

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#101839: Sep 24th 2015 at 1:05:29 PM

Shkreli got dox'd, btw. Phone and address out on the internet.

Mopman43 Since: Nov, 2013
#101840: Sep 24th 2015 at 1:07:43 PM

Appropriate. He wants the free market, the free market will come to him.

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#101841: Sep 24th 2015 at 2:02:49 PM

Hey, it's not government's job to protect people from the consequences of their voluntary actions, right Shkreli?

edited 24th Sep '15 2:02:58 PM by Fighteer

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#101842: Sep 24th 2015 at 2:04:26 PM

I'm still not a big fan of doxing as a way of punishing people.

Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#101843: Sep 24th 2015 at 2:16:01 PM

I'm pretty sure doxing is illegal, and if it isn't it really should be.

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Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#101844: Sep 24th 2015 at 2:22:50 PM

It's definitely illegal but it's become the method of choice for hacktivists that want to make life miserable for people they dislike.

Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#101845: Sep 24th 2015 at 2:27:36 PM

I'm finding it rather hard to feel sorry for the jerk in this particular instance, though. He's practically begged for that doxxing. -_-

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#101846: Sep 24th 2015 at 2:28:40 PM

Of course it's wrong, and should probably be illegal, but like the other commenters I find myself incapable of sympathy in this particular case.

edited 24th Sep '15 2:28:52 PM by Fighteer

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Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#101847: Sep 24th 2015 at 2:32:11 PM

I've heard of cases in which people are doxxed because of phony charges against them. While that's probably not true with this case it's very easy for this sort of thing to be used to harass innocent people.

PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#101848: Sep 24th 2015 at 3:27:09 PM

Shkreli got dox'd, btw. Phone and address out on the internet.
And he's apparently had the Feds pissed at him for 9 months for other questionable behavior. What goes around, one supposes.

Xopher001 Since: Jul, 2012
#101849: Sep 24th 2015 at 3:39:06 PM

I think I asked this earlier, but are Trump's political leanings more in tune with the Old Left? Before it became associated with social progressivism ?

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#101850: Sep 24th 2015 at 3:43:34 PM

Trump is basically the revival of the Dixiecrats. Very poor white leftists who's main goal is ethnic purity.

Oh really when?

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