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    Obviously it has markets of various sorts, but among other things: state ownership and direction of an extremely large part of the economy, massive restrictions on private and especially overseas ownership of assets and companies, frequent and largely arbitrary government interventions in corporate affairs, strict capital and slightly less strict currency controls, a legal system which is not friendly to private property interests, especially those of overseas persons.

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      Those (nearly) all sound like good things. Shame about the human rights violations.

      It's mostly all about degree though isn't it? Every country is sort of beholden to the markets on some level with varying degrees of government regulation and control. So this would be about where the line is drawn on the continuum (as opposed to some kind of clear black and white division)

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        Those things all sound good in theory, but in practice they're closer to feudalism when you mix them up just right. Though that's more a function of the underlying society more than anything else.

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          Originally posted by ursus arctos View Post
          Indiana does have an oversize pharma sector.

          Trade deals such as this have about 1% of the impact on mid-term voters that Tubbs seems to think they do.
          Yeah. Tubbs, I think at this point at least 90% of the American electorate is set on knowing what side they'll vote for in any major election, and the rest of the 10% are motivated by anger, spite, and/or perceived resentment of the person they are voting against. People aren't paying attention to things like trade deals when they decide to vote.

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            I'll go with you and Ursus on this, on reflection.

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              Those (nearly) all sound like good things.
              It's not about whether they're good or bad, it's about whether they make China amenable to US investment and exports, and hence something the US trade representative wants to encourage.

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                https://twitter.com/7im/status/1046861519147819008

                https://twitter.com/7im/status/1046861519147819008

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                  Trump going after Blumenthal

                  And looking to send the boys round. This is a Mafia White House, don't forget.

                  https://twitter.com/joshscampbell/status/1046798381379551234

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                    Sidney? No great mischief if he fell.

                    Ah, Richard. Heel spurs is some fucker
                    Last edited by Lang Spoon; 01-10-2018, 21:30.

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                      He’s obsessed with Blumenthal at the moment because Blumenthal is the named plaintiff in the second of the emoluments cases that he is now going to have to defend after court shat on his motion to dismiss last week.
                      Last edited by ursus arctos; 01-10-2018, 21:38.

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                        I’ve been thinking about this since the hearing, and the linked article does a good job of examining the issues

                        https://twitter.com/zoetillman/status/1046866956450717696?s=21

                        https://twitter.com/zoetillman/statu...450717696?s=21

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                          That's Grampy Kavanaugh on that Yale year book. He went there. Quite an achievement seeing Young Brett had "no connection" to Yale.

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                            Originally posted by Bruno
                            Trump sounded awfully hedgy at his press conference today. They know they're trapped in a sunk cost fallacy and the perjury stuff is sticking.
                            Jesus Christ was he absurdly, OTT rude to that woman trying to pin him down to an actual answer. Unbelievable.

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                              https://twitter.com/nycjim/status/1046723055018536961?s=21

                              https://twitter.com/nycjim/status/10...018536961?s=21

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                                At no point was Mr Kavanaugh a douchey, fighty, belligerent drunk...

                                https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/u...bar-fight.html

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                                  Man, the standard at the time for a bunch of Yalies to get questioned by the New Haven Police was very high.

                                  This was at a time when the Harvard Police's major purpose was to keep their precious charges out of the hands of the Townie constabulary.

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                                    https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1046934656178884608?s=21

                                    https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/10...178884608?s=21

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                                      I don't care if he was drunk or in a fight, nobody is qualified to hear complex cases of law if they can't even understand the simple lyrics of a band they like:

                                      Poor man's anger rising
                                      The ostrich hides his head
                                      Soon the red blood will be boiling
                                      And blue blood will be dead
                                      While we say
                                      Little by little by little,
                                      And stone by stone
                                      Rich man's mountain comes crumbling down


                                      (Yes, I know UB40 have been shit for decades, but they had a couple of good albums out in the early 80's, and they weren't about red wine).

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                                        Trump admin to start denying partner visas to same-sex partners of foreigners working in the US.

                                        And that will be able to get past the Supreme Court that legalised marriage equality if the Kennedy swing vote is replaced by somebody like Kavanaugh.

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                                          Specifically the same sex partners of diplomats and UN employees.

                                          It’s just unspeakably cruel, particularly as their “justification” rests on the availability of same sex marriage in the US.

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                                            And how exactly do you get married in the US if you don't have a visa to get there?

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                                              An excellent question

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                                                Go Home, Federalist. You're Drunk.

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                                                  What's a Soren Midgley?

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                                                    Soren Midgley is a pen name the writer uses because he works for the administration of a top 50 U.S. university, and thus prefers to keep his political leanings private due to political bias inside the office environment
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