Comments by "josh fritz" (@joshfritz5345) on "ReasonTV" channel.

  1.  @fevergaming1  It's someone's own decision whether they want to wear a seatbelt, or a mask. We don't need big brother government making our decisions for us. I don't care what stastics or government says is best for us, people have a right to choose for themselves.
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  2. Agreed
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  3.  @mistersaltastic  Communists are scum, no better than Nazis.
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  4. And yet millennials worship socialism and praise Cuba as a utopia.
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  5.  @cowmaneater1243  I'm a libertarian, but I'm not stupid about it.
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  6. @Charles Protectionism, 99% of the time, is the government using taxpayer money to subsidize the mistakes of billion dollar corporations. Protectionism is what led to the bank bailouts that caused the 2008 financial crash. Protectionism is, 99% of the time, a bad thing for the average American.
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  7.  @ElFuego121  I work at a business directly impacted by the repealing of trade tariffs. Within a couple months of Biden taking office, we have lost our most valuable contract. If the US and China were on an even playing field, tariffs would not be necessary. But China has slave labor, extremely low wages and very little safety regulation which allows them to produce material much cheaper than the US (albeit at a lower quality.) I hear stories from our former customer about how bad the quality issues are since they switched over to a Chinese supplier, but the bosses refuse to switch back because the cost savings offset all of the material they have to scrap due to quality concerns. Considering that what they're making are airbrakes for large trucks, if their quality control fails someday, it's entirely possible that lives could be lost. Yes, that is a corporate decision, corporations follow the road of most profit, but none of this would be up for consideration if we didn't make it profitable for US corporations to open plants in China and exploit their very cheap labor.
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  8.  @ElFuego121  To my original point, we don't have a free market system, not even close. Unless we were to de-regulate our markets, having no tarrifs simply leaves us vulnerable to foreign markets which to not face the same self imposed limitations as us. Having a semi-regulated market just means that those not affected by the regulation will dominate the market, that is how systems like cronyism work.
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  9.  @ElFuego121  The government is causing a problem through excessive market regulation. The ideal solution would be de-regulation. The shitty solution is to taylor that regulation to preserve certain parts of US industry. It's not ideal, but it's better than regulation which favors industry of foreign nations over the US.
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  10.  @ElFuego121  Yes, it does exactly that. Welcome to government regulation. Get used to it, because that's the norm.
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  11. Shoot the motherfuckers. Don't let criminals with badges steal your land.
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  12. It's cognitive dissonance.
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  13. Central planning does not work. Central planning has been called many things, socialism, fascism, communism... and every time we have tried it, millions have died.
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  14. I'm glad we have California as part of the US. They make all of the dumbfuck progressive policy decisions that anyone with a basic grasp of economics could tell you is a bad idea so that they have an example to point to when other cities propose implementing similar dumbfuck progressive policies.
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  15. This kind of thing is how communism rises. Simple minded appeals to self interested people to seize private property.
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  16. This is why we need guns.
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  17. I always thought that Star Trek the Original Series had a fairly good set of values. It espoused classical liberalism and self determination, and while the actions of the protagonists didn't always follow this as they frequently broke the non-intervention directive, the philosophies behind the series were quite respectable in my eyes.
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  18. @Synth Enthusiast Heh, good one.
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  19. Hello my fellow socialists. I too, am critical of Israel.
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  20. America, fuck yeah!
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  21.  @bhough410  I agree it's bad that he spent more money, but we did have a booming economy, which kind of canceled out. Yes, the national debt did rise, but that's true of almost every administration. Trump repealed the fine for not having Obama care which is a plus. Yes, I'd love to have seen him repeal it, but honestly, I don't think that's likely to happen ever. Frankly, our society is a spoiled one, and they expect free handouts. I don't think his decisions had much to do with asset forfeiture. I could be wrong, but typically that is something that takes place on a more local level. Make no mistake, I don't love the guy, but I think he was a lot less bad than Hillary or Biden.
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  22. We did it guys! We killed a bunch of jobs!
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  23. Well, I guess I'm a serial micro aggressor. Sue me.
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  24. My home is a sanctuary for undocumented firearms. Unlike these undocumented citizens, my undocumented firearms are not killers.
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  25. Leftists hate Thomas Sowell because he is eloquent, wise, and routinely disproves their narratives with "facts and logic" as a certain Jewish American businessman might say.
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  26. This is why California doesn't let you own guns. They don't want you to be able to shoot back when they send armed men to steal your land and property.
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