tit-for-tat works in a larger setting as well, in fact it works better because you can ostracize and punish.

you know, like WHAT IS LITERALLY HAPPENING AS WE SPEAK!? do you think greed-flation just happened out of nowhere?

but no, like every libertarian, you propose the destruction of regulation because you promise yourself that somehow people will be better off if they need to waste their lives on crap. “you didn’t put weeks of research into the three bio-med testing labs to ensure they wouldn’t lie about the insulin, I guess you should die now, lol”, and you know how I can tell you’re an American? BECAUSE LITERALLY NO NE ELSE HAS THIS ISSUE. yes, this issue is entirely an American thing because you’re the main drivers of the deregulation and reactionary enforcement that has lead to insulin costing you $500 for a 2-week supply, and your reaction is to make the US into more of a banana republic by destroying the goverment even more.

Not sure what consequences you are talking about

my point exactly, and no libertarians outside the USA still advocate for low government interference

I think what the person you were replying to was trying to say was, that land is an investment platform, and nobody better touch his stuff, or he will enact capital punishment as judge jury and executioner

so you fall into the camp of not knowing the consequences.

the issue inherently is that the power imbalance of stuff like wealth inequality, coupled with material conditions, always end up curtailing the freedoms of those who are not on top, ironically making them less free (bit of an irony, eh?)

Are we discussing a situation in which only the FDA is gone, or complete anarchy?

the premise was no government services paid for by taxes, and without taxes there are no government anything.

Do you believe that regulatory capture is bullshit?

regulatory capture is commonly trodden out by people as an example of big government bad, when it doesn’t happen as often as these people like to pretend it does (take, for example, your misconception that the FDA is the cause of high insulin prices), not the fact that it is just a failure to deal with corruption.

People knowing about a prisoner’s dilemma doesn’t make it go away.

that’s the fun part tho, both parties knowing about the prisoner’s dilemma DOES make it go away, as the most successful models, over a longer set of games, tend to be Tit-for-Tat models

ah yes, use the totally legit bio-med test service down the road, due to the FTC not being a thing they can totally and without any repercussions just lie to you because they have a deal with the person selling you the insulin.

Then again, you have been hoodwinked into some “regulatory capture” bullshit, in reality, insulin is so expensive in the USA because no one has the capital wants to sell it cheap, it’s a risk for minimal rewards, the demand is literally your life, so the cost can be as high as anyone wants it.

as for the whole “but the free market” and “supply/demand”, do you think the people setting these prices don’t know what the prisoner’s dilemma is?

[starts to stretch insulin with paint thinner]

every day it seems like people forget what things like the FDA are for, but hey, the snake oil salesmen love this state of affairs

but the hospital even had a room filled with red barrel explosives!

I have the feeling you don’t know what libertarianism is, or you are one of the guys who dosn’t understand the consequences of your actions

the concept of “biological race” only exists within the framework invented by white supremacists and no-one else.

Why is it the people who knows the least about this that are always the first to argue vehemently about it, eh?

the concept of race and racism in general predates the concept of white supremacy by a long, long time, Aristotle described the Asian race as having low spirit etc…

the idea of the “white race” didn’t exist until very late 17th to 18th century America, coming about primarily as a way to distinguish oneself from outsiders, hence many groups you would consider “white” weren’t even part of it, e.g. Italians and Irish, Germans until the 19th century (yes the confederates)

Fundamentally, Race is a pre-nation state notion that many of the modern nation states are built on, so if you see a 800BCE righting talk about a group of people, it’s basically always race and racism, scientific racism is just a continuation and further attempt to justify this and not inherently special in terms of racism, because fundamentally it’s just the application of the currently accepted idea of how you describe the world onto racism.

you realize that racism isn’t just white supremacy?

and no, divine right on a national basis IS the same thing as race science, race its self is a social construct that isn’t actually representative of reality, and generally speaking was/is/will be used as a pseudonym replacement for nationality.

it seems to me that you have a half-baked understanding of racism, nationalism, and discrimination

and thus you justified the 14 words.

“We must secure the existence of our people and a future for Jewish children”

we must slaughter Palestinians, because only then can we be safe!

magnet schools are fine, they generally tend to be put up in low income neighborhoods and act as one of the very few social aid programs to these regions, as the local populace often get’s accepted before the more well off outside district children

to be fair, the numbers are a bit sus, 13/50?

Then this should be easy for you - prove the existence of this “yellow supremacy” that (somehow) grew up independently from the west’s (yes - as in the West’s) “race science.”

we got:

The Japanese, whose racism dates back several hundred years before they had any meaningful contact with “the west” (for example the heavenly blessed Japanese being aided by the divine wind to stop the invading mongols TWICE).

The Chinese, Han suprematism played a key part in the overthrow of the Mongol Yuan dynasty and lead to the Ming dynasty.

the Ottoman Empire was literally controlled by an “elite race” of people who were decedents from the original Osman tribe

and that’s just off the top of my head, all race science did was take the same societal structures that used to be “divinely ordained” and use pseudo-science to legitimize them since the power of individual religious group tended to decline

To be fair, how many secular leaders can you assassinate before they stop?

money = speech

what are you talking about, in Europe it’s center right

you think this is insane? a 24h time span in ww1, the Germans shot more artillery rounds than all the Ukrainian Army has since the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian war. We arn’t even close to the shit from those days

go read rand, her books literally advocate for an anti-social world order, where the rich and powerful have the ability to do whatever they want without impediment as the “workers” are described as parasites that should get in line or die