Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "ReasonTV" channel.

  1. Horse's mouth? That sounds a little backwards.
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  2. I've heard this one for years. It's perfectly true, of course---but it's also perfectly obvious. So obvious that everyone gets it. No one actually thinks health care can be free, any kind of health care. It's just a manner of speaking. There's no need to put a stamp on a letter to your member of parliament. But even though the postal service incurs a cost to deliver it and that cost is covered by tax revenues, it's not in my view incorrect to say that sending a letter to an MP is free. Likewise, a phone call to a government information line incurs a cost fro labour and phone service, but it's fair to say it's a free service or a free call. I think if you want to criticize publicly-funded health care or its proponents you should find another way. Cheers.
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  3. Oh my god, what a putz.
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  4. Yes. I've listened to him for a few hours altogether and this was the best yet. I hope he hasn't let up in the year and a half since.
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  5. Unless it's ours. Who can say?
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  6.  @1texasminer  I'm irreligious myself but am nonetheless inclined to your view of things. I see you've been paying close attention for a long time.
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  7. Have the Far Left started calling Glenn Greenwald right-wing yet?
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  8.  @emeraldwolf7920  Horse's ass. ;)
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  9. Over and over this video repeats the common and tedious error of calling vapour smoke. Breaking news: vaping does not produce smoke, as the temperature is far too low to do so. More breaking news: those clouds up in the sky aren't smoke either. They're vapour.
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  10. Freedom has limits. If it didn't, everyone would have the freedom to shoplift, stand on a street corner to incite a riot, or to yell 'Fire!' in a crowded theater. An elected government has the right to enact laws which are constitutional and pass legal challenges in the courts. Any law is nothing more nor less than a limitation on freedom. Any and all laws. That said, it's also clear that not all the laws are automatically rendered just by the fact that clean elections fall on time. And no one ought to claim the constitution is perfect. But it's the only one we have and there are ways to amend it. Governments can be wrong but they have the right to be wrong. These limits on freedom of course include economic freedom. A business owner doesn't have the right to hire someone for a dollar an hour. In my view the law which penalizes this is not only legitimate, but just and beneficial as well. I doubt what I've said so far has roused any disagreement. But now I'll go just a bit further and assert that the $15 law is just and beneficial too, for the same reasons. I assert that $9 an hour is destructive to society in ways that are worse than the disappearance of the lowest paid jobs. It leads to inequalities that are dangerous to democracy by eventually filling the workers who earn that amount with, first, disillusionment, then hopelessness, then desperation. True, unemployment can do these things to people, but not as badly. It has in my view less power to foster hopelessness because there will remain some hope of finding work -- and it has the added consolation that, if the minimum wage is not too meagre, it will pay enough to avoid abject poverty. Try a thought experiment: Would we pass a law cutting the minimum wage to $6 so that an extra 50,000 jobs could possibly be created? It depends on what kind of country you want. My feeling is that one of the chief advantages of living in the West over other places is the relative rarity of desperate and hopeless people. The ratio must be kept down.
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  11. This attempt at reductio ad absurdum doesn't work. All it does is emphasize that setting the minimum wage is a line drawing exercise. The costs and benefits must be weighed by people with the overall interests of the state or country in mind. Boring to some, but there you have it. Just where the wage is set is everything. The very best expert opinion of the most talented economists is indispensable. And don't forget that the money from a wage increase doesn't vanish into thin air. Poor people spend their money in a hurry. Directly after a minimum wage hike, while weak and mismanaged businesses relying on extremely low-cost labor begin to shrink or fold, consumer spending rises by dint of larger paycheques. While the disruptive dust is settling, increased consumer spending creates jobs. Libertarian leanings have a bit of a tendency to indicate really admirable strengths of personal morality and character, I'll grant that with no feelings of stinginess. But they only go so far as a viable system for the whole society, which is unavoidably stuffed with many others not quite so perfect.
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  12. And an interrupting machine. [Sideshow Bob shudder]
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  13. The fact that any threat was not followed through on hardly proves that no threat was made.
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  14. What are some of the best books on it?
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  15. Greenwald is not a boomer. Check your assertions against the facts. Greenwald is also such a newcomer to elite status and has earned it to such a degree independently that it seems like a dumb thing to call him. His mother was a customer service person at a manufacturing company, e.g. The interviewer qualifies as elite even far less. Your "worldview" is clearly "skewed."
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  16.  @scott96999  You do not.
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  17. ​ @brit1066  I am in basic agreement with you about science, theism, and politics. But Raymond Babcock is clearly a nicer and more grown-up guy. Your conduct here is appalling, and that's not something any correctness of opinion can ameliorate. Try to remember you're in a public space. Also, please stop YELLING in caps. To add emphasis, just use italics .
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  18.  @hydrolito  Lol. Ok. Their country having a privately-owned rail network didn't work out well for them either. Wtf is your point? You know, you don't put an end on things just by saying "Nazi Germany." Making a reasoned point is still part of the deal. :)
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  19. Shows you what POSs they are. I love the way you put that.
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  20. Under capitalism there is continual exploitation of man by his fellow man. Under socialism, the reverse is true.
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  21.  @Redmow51  It's a joke. You see, it unwittingly says the same thing about both systems. So I was making fun of socialists.
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  22.  @Redmow51  There's a better (funnier) way to phrase it, I admit, but I've forgotten it. Cheers.
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