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I don't vote and I'd certainly not vote for a senile fossil like him. Not my side in any case as the Dens and Reps are two sides of the same coin.

They were "through the roof" before that already. The price increases for Obamacare are exaggerated and actually less than historic trends, with possi...

And doesn't act senile for 6 months. "uh. Uh. You know the thing."

I know the Netherlands only tests if they need to know for treatment and to track transmission of the disease. The registered numbers are not accurate...

Corona sex As a species, we're doomed.

You always blame someone else. Common tactic by now. I wasn't cherrypicking, I was picking up on your general stance against journalism and the follow...

Right. So everybody points out your ideas are stupid as fuck but you claim it's because they don't understand you. Or, alternatively, your ideas are i...

Chinese doctors are consulting with European doctors. They stamped a face mask factory out of the ground in 11 days and their production is resuming. ...

Sue me. I have horrible thoughts all the time. Like castrating any man who harms my little girl or wife.

It was never the point I was making and any case worse policy abroad doesn't excuse our own bad policy. It's kind of exclaiming that dying from corona...

You can't have your cake and eat it too with fake news media on the one hand and journalists being the main source of correct information for a pandem...

True. But each day counts.

The Netherlands is not one of them. I've decided to keep my kids home and I'm working from home.

Cynical me: The silver lining is that people at Trump rallies have a higher chance of getting the disease and dying. But seriously I hope it won't ove...

Your description suggests there is a free market system and a command economy existing next to each other. I'm not sure whether you mean that. But if ...

I think you missed this reply to you. I think the definition on which we should agree is "mixed economies".

And pollution in those countries of course has nothing to do with environmental regulations? Every Western government actively pursues growth. When en...

Come home, come to the Netherlands.

Meanwhile, the Fed argues rates should be historically low and the money supply should grow to stimulate the economy because their old fashioned stoch...

Definitely. They also should stop having an education because it doesn't help them get out of poverty thanks to crushing student loan debt afterwards.

Governments actively pursue GDP-growth at the expense of general well being (pollution, living space).

This is another way of saying poor people shouldn't have kids. So that would be another privilege for rich people. Or as a society you can try to prot...

From a certain perspective, centrism looks leftist.

That's not what I'm getting at. I'm very clearly talking about the effects government interference has on the operation of markets, not the oligopolis...

That's probably the 40% of Americans that are one payslip away from poverty.

The liberty they think they're pursuing... ... by resisting a government run solution to healthcare. It's a very specific issue addressing a very spec...

The point being that corporations are a structural effect on markets, just like monetary policy and what not. There isn't "just" demand and supply so ...

There are no free markets. Not in Sweden either. And you're not seeing it because you've grown up with a certain mode of production for quite some tim...

Typical technocratic approach, which isn't necessarily the right approach. It's also rather callous. How many people should have shitty healthcare bef...

The guy who ran on a platform "the US sucks" and we should make it great again is naturally optimistic?

They did in the past and they went underground.

I'm quite optimistic about the approach so far in the Netherlands. Less cases today (which are results from testing on Sunday) than the day before, pe...

Let me help you hate it again. Can't have this country overrun with Americans or we have to build another ocean and have the USA pay for it.

Well, we also had this one; after which the rest of the world followed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k_E8huQR8I

Informative posts by you in this thread. Thanks. It's also interesting that the private calculus about the disease can run against what is socially ad...

German and Dutch bonds trade with a yield now below 0% up to a maturity of 30 years and considering the swapcurve a 40-year bond and possibly even a 5...

Whoossh.

:rofl:

Strong come back. Erudite and all. It's not anti-Trump to point out he's doing a shit job. But if you have TDS, everything is about Trump innit?

It's a rerun from 4 years ago: choosing between two evils.

One word: Senile.

This is just lazy reasoning. The "left" like the right is on a spectrum. Equating it with the worst we've seen is just silly. Most western countries a...

You don't have TDS? Then why go off like a rocket every time I make fun of Trump? :rofl:

If you think a democratic process resulting in a medicare for all solution is authoritarian then the problem is you don't understand the different pol...

In the Netherlands, if your fever status below 38, it is assumed your don't have corona and don't have to call the GP. Strikes me as arbitrary.

A runny nose is nevertheless a symptom.

So the CFR in the US is over 5% now. Not even China's or Iran's is that high. That leaves a couple of possibilities: 1. Not enough testing/leg-work to...

The worst part is that this belief in poverty outcomes being affected by personal behaviour is that it actually compounds low socio-economic status. S...

Dude. You're a joke. I only laugh at you so I'm certainly not offended by anything you say. I thought I was being helpful towards you to let you know ...

You've already said that and it's logically wrong. I'm not conflating. If a certain action doesn't cause a certain consequence then my intent for the ...