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Is it from back in old boomer times or before?
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I don't know entirely why, but I get really annoyed when people talk about "trickle down economics" like it was Reagan's platform and not a smear term. Reagan/Republicans never claimed to support something by that name.
The other thing that annoys me is that "trickle down economics" actually works, at least in the sense that policies supporting free market behavior tends to make the rich a lot richer but everyone somewhat richer, too. !neolibs
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It's older than Reagan. Will Rogers used it as a puncline. You might as well claim that MLK was in favour of whatever stupid shit his enemies said he was.
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Yes which is why ancient kingdoms were the most prosperous time to be poor people.
People are an in group species. If you went free market all the way what would happen is rich people would get rich enough that they would stop seeing half the population as people. The ones considered people will 100% get richer over time but every human alive will not be on that list.
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Indian dabbles with communism
Wants to see if his country can get ever poorer
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What?
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um...k
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Ancient kingdoms were anything but free market, kings and other nobles invented gorillion ways to tax or regulate their ways to wealth.
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This time if we try free market/ communism/ libertarianism it will work out into a perfect society bro. All the other times it wasn't the ideology bro it was the people in charge bro but we will be different bro.
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Ancient kingdoms: famous paragons of free market rights
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Yes.
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The same people whining about Reagan shutting down mental institutions are the ones who'd protest any form of involuntary commitment, there's a reason nobody's suggested a better solution in the last 40 years.
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It's a bad faith argument unironically
There's no way they'd ever support involuntary commitment since these are the people who think the homeless should be free to stab and r*pe whoever.
So they intentionally leave out the details there and make it sound like Reagan somehow shut down every mental health clinic in existence. Except there are still plenty of those around. America's free market principles are precisely what allow people to create them
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Hack their brain to turn them into worker bees
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IDK about any of that but the AIDS bit and that was the execrable dr. fauci's doing
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