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MichiganHerd

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Can make up their own rules, and do whatever they want to do. Agree?

What if McDonald's (being a private company) decided to stop serving Mexicans?
What if State Farm Insurance (being a private company) decided to stop hiring people of color?
What if Rivals (being a private company) stopped allowing gay men to post (sorry Kazzman)?

Everybody down with this, or would you take issue?
 
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MichiganHerd said:
Can make up their own rules, and do whatever they want to do. Agree?

What if McDonald's (being a private company) decided to stop serving Mexicans?
What if State Farm Insurance (being a private company) decided to stop hiring people of color?
What if Rivals (being a private company) stopped allowing gay men to post (sorry Kazzman)?

Everybody down with this, or would you take issue?
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Other than the federal laws they are breaking. lmao. Solid post. :joy: :joy: :joy:
 
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Other than the federal laws they are breaking. lmao. Solid post. :joy: :joy: :joy:
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All hypothetical. Plus, MAGA laws will rule the MAGA country soon. Need to come up with a name of new country though. Any suggestions? I've heard Kingdom of Trump being bounced around, or K.O.T. for purposes of chants at the 2022 Olympics.
 
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I knew when I read OP that chinaCoop would wet himself ITT.
 
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moe

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MichiganHerd said:
All hypothetical. Plus, MAGA laws will rule the MAGA country soon. Need to come up with a name of new country though. Any suggestions? I've heard Kingdom of Trump being bounced around, or K.O.T. for purposes of chants at the 2022 Olympics.
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I think we see who has TDS. Stop embarrassing your family.
 
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moe said:
I think we see who has TDS. Stop embarrassing your family.
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Poor moe couldnt let Coop get too far ahead so he thought he would bring his own special kind of stupid to light.
 
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The same ChinaCoop who gets butthurt because TarHeel won't ban everyone who disagrees with him
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That same coop. Its like Trump **** a whole haterturd down his throat and it got stuck.
 
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dave said:
That same coop. Its like Trump **** a whole haterturd down his throat and it got stuck.
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No doubt that he and the others will long be talking about Trump after next week. Trump is the GOAT for that reason alone
 
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wvu2007 said:
No doubt that he and the others will long be talking about Trump after next week. Trump is the GOAT for that reason alone
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Many others.

The first 100 days of the Kamala admin will be 24/7 Trump.
 
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Big Tech CEOs are getting positions in the BIden cabinet, there is little to no separation between these "private" companies and the government that supports them and help regulate the industry to stifle competition. Kinda like China putting CCP officials on every board of a major company just in reverse.
Big money elects politicians, politicians protect big companies. When it comes to things like AWS, Google, Microsoft controlling a large majority of servers that host most of the internet there need to be some serious conversations on this stuff.
I will be curious to see if the anti-trust stuff against big tech slows now.

 
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MichiganHerd said:
All hypothetical. Plus, MAGA laws will rule the MAGA country soon. Need to come up with a name of new country though. Any suggestions? I've heard Kingdom of Trump being bounced around, or K.O.T. for purposes of chants at the 2022 Olympics.
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I like the Kingdom of Trump. Go for it.
 
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cam_blev said:
Big Tech CEOs are getting positions in the BIden cabinet, there is little to no separation between these "private" companies and the government that supports them and help regulate the industry to stifle competition. Kinda like China putting CCP officials on every board of a major company just in reverse.
Big money elects politicians, politicians protect big companies. When it comes to things like AWS, Google, Microsoft controlling a large majority of servers that host most of the internet there need to be some serious conversations on this stuff.
I will be curious to see if the anti-trust stuff against big tech slows now.

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This is exactly how China is set up. There is plenty of "private" business in China making mad money. You pay your dues to the CCP and do as you are asked by the CCP and they will cover you for anything.
 
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moe

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cam_blev said:
Big Tech CEOs are getting positions in the BIden cabinet, there is little to no separation between these "private" companies and the government that supports them and help regulate the industry to stifle competition. Kinda like China putting CCP officials on every board of a major company just in reverse.
Big money elects politicians, politicians protect big companies. When it comes to things like AWS, Google, Microsoft controlling a large majority of servers that host most of the internet there need to be some serious conversations on this stuff.
I will be curious to see if the anti-trust stuff against big tech slows now.

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Shocking. When Repubs are in power, executives from companies that have close relationships with Repubs get high government positions. Not agreeing with any of it, just pointing out that both sides do it.
 
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cam_blev

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Shocking. When Repubs are in power, executives from companies that have close relationships with Repubs get high government positions. Not agreeing with any of it, just pointing out that both sides do it.
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You're not wrong. It is wrong to wield the power of government to force people (statism) out of markets or industry by either side.
Also one of these groups is in controll of the public discussion platform and is willing to silence those that it doesn't agree with so this is a slightly new circumstance unless I just cant think of a similar situation.
We need to start having more open intellectual conversations about things designed for a pre 2000s worlds.
 
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MichiganHerd said:
Can make up their own rules, and do whatever they want to do. Agree?

What if McDonald's (being a private company) decided to stop serving Mexicans?
What if State Farm Insurance (being a private company) decided to stop hiring people of color?
What if Rivals (being a private company) stopped allowing gay men to post (sorry Kazzman)?

Everybody down with this, or would you take issue?
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If Mexicans decided to take to social media and incite other Mexicans to destroy McDonald's....then maybe?

What did the nation do with Japanese-Americans during WWII?
 
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MountaineerWV said:
If Mexicans decided to take to social media and incite other Mexicans to destroy McDonald's....then maybe?

What did the nation do with Japanese-Americans during WWII?
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Nobody incited anyone to destroy anything little fella. Try to be honest.
 
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MountaineerWV

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dave said:
Nobody incited anyone to destroy anything little fella. Try to be honest.
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Referring to the law-breakers as "Patriots" after the damage they did.......hmmm.........

EDIT: If you shake up the bottle before someone opens it, is it your fault or theirs or BOTH?
 
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MountaineerWV said:
If Mexicans decided to take to social media and incite other Mexicans to destroy McDonald's....then maybe?

What did the nation do with Japanese-Americans during WWII?
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There was a lot of support for the summer of rage by Dem politicians.
 
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This thread is what happens when defeated bifftards binge drink to make the sads go away.
 
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cam_blev said:
You're not wrong. It is wrong to wield the power of government to force people (statism) out of markets or industry by either side.
Also one of these groups is in controll of the public discussion platform and is willing to silence those that it doesn't agree with so this is a slightly new circumstance unless I just cant think of a similar situation.
We need to start having more open intellectual conversations about things designed for a pre 2000s worlds.
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Definitely think that Amazon and Google should be split up. They have too much power at this point. AWS has almost nothing to do w/ Amazon.com, Amazon Prime, etc. Both are becoming if no already monopolies. That isn't going to solve everything, but its a good starting point.

I don't think FB and Twitter are there yet...at least in terms of being deemed monopolies. I guess you can split up Facebook and Instagram, but I'm not sure that will do all that much good. Their policies need to be clear and enforced. I don't think anyone here things the government should regulate them...that isn't very libertarian or capitalistic. So, I think you need to rely on them policing themselves or "regulation" via the courts.
 
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How long before Liberals start shutting down your business because they don't agree with you?
 
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Amazon owns over 50% of the cloud computing space...which is scarier than the retail control they have.
 
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Definitely think that Amazon and Google should be split up. They have too much power at this point. AWS has almost nothing to do w/ Amazon.com, Amazon Prime, etc. Both are becoming if no already monopolies. That isn't going to solve everything, but its a good starting point.

I don't think FB and Twitter are there yet...at least in terms of being deemed monopolies. I guess you can split up Facebook and Instagram, but I'm not sure that will do all that much good. Their policies need to be clear and enforced. I don't think anyone here things the government should regulate them...that isn't very libertarian or capitalistic. So, I think you need to rely on them policing themselves or "regulation" via the courts.
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I still have my doubts that government intervention would result in a better situation.
I think it would be better to put an end to corporate welfare and stop regulating competition from the market, but agreeing there is a problem is the only first step to fix it. Unfortunately for us the politicians on the left nor right have the political will to even start opposing the corporations that fund their re-elections.
 
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MountaineerWV said:
Referring to the law-breakers as "Patriots" after the damage they did.......hmmm.........

EDIT: If you shake up the bottle before someone opens it, is it your fault or theirs or BOTH?
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There were hundreds of thousands of Patriots in DC. A small group committed crimes.

Again. Try honesty.
 
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I still have my doubts that government intervention would result in a better situation.
I think it would be better to put an end to corporate welfare and stop regulating competition from the market, but agreeing there is a problem is the only first step to fix it. Unfortunately for us the politicians on the left nor right have the political will to even start opposing the corporations that fund their re-elections.
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Are you saying the Republican Party does not support reigning in Facebook or Twitter? Which party do they give billions to? As far as corp. welfare is concerned...Biden's energy plan is going to rely heavily on corporate welfare to establish the New Green Deal...do you support that type of Corporate Welfare?
 
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Are you saying the Republican Party does not support reigning in Facebook or Twitter? Which party do they give billions to? As far as corp. welfare is concerned...Biden's energy plan is going to rely heavily on corporate welfare to establish the New Green Deal...do you support that type of Corporate Welfare?
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No I didn't say that. I say end all welfare, but at least both sides should be able to agree (at least to a point) on the corporate welfare side, we can worry about the social welfare after at a later date.
I don't believe the Republican Party or the Democratic Party really care what their constituents think and try to do more telling them what they should think
 
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There were hundreds of thousands of Patriots in DC. A small group committed crimes.

Again. Try honesty.
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No one that entered that building was a patriot. Patriot is some BS MAGA word that people on the right have co-opted. It means nothing as its currently used.
 
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