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he shoulda done spacex, largely publicly funded enterprise anyway, which is not to say i agree with what they're doing

Broadband should be treated as a public utility, but instead, let’s give out a contract to a private company with no accountability and an unreliable product.

Today's Republicans (and possibly libertarians) discard their "principles" like so many cigarette butts, if there is Profit to be had. Profit and Grievance-Servicing (for those who enjoy seeing brown people tackled and imprisoned...)

Kleptocracy What are think tanks Who uses them Who is The Heritage Foundation What makes them different What could happen if they succeed What's the timeline in months, ...not years Project 2025

The single-word synonym for "Authoritarian capitalism" is *fascism*.

it is just capitalism

We probably should as some Chicago School economists for their response, but no-one has heard from them since we learned their employer followed their investment advice and went bankrupt.

Yep, I too heard those lectures. They also lectured about privacy rights, surveillance, government overreach, yadda, yadda what a bunch of lying wankers.

It's only socialism when others do that

We've spent the last 2 decades (or is it 3) dismantling the USPS, but a stake in private companies is now ok? WTAF?!

They have no principles except what keeps them in power and makes them money.

The sweet taste of cognitive dissonance - when your ideology gets in the way of basic human decency. I'm sure it's just a coincidence that their "minimal government oversight" always seems to benefit the wealthy at the expense of the rest.

If they don't take them into national ownership first, how can they follow Putin's example and make their broligarch pals even richer by giving the companies to them?

ThE pArTy oF sMaLl GoVeRnMeNt!!!!111!

One of the most prominently displayed books in my mom's house is "It Was All a Lie" and it shall continue to be.

I'm having the embolism right now.

Republicans talked about giving too big to fail banks stricter capital requirements like it was the October Revolution!

Imagine the hypocrisy when rural hospitals fail in a few years and Trump starts running them

“Do you want government-sponsored porn?” FFS. Dumbfucks rule the ignorant masses. "Here…drink this beach.”

When it comes to the Greedy Oilsucker Pervs and their cut-rate little brothers the Libertarians -- the hypocrisy boggles the mind. And half of 'em don't realize it IS hypocrisy!

Maybe he’ll just take over a few sports teams that he could never afford to buy, and in leagues that never wanted him as an owner. He could take the Commanders and change the name back. He could take the Yankees and make sure there was no facial hair. He could take over almost any business.

It turns out they had zero principles whatsoever apart from cruelty 🤷🏻‍♂️

The MAGA crowd doesn't see this as socialism, they see it as their all-knowing business guru taking over the management of a failing company (and when Intel tanks they'll blame everyone but their guy like they always do)

No words.

It’s possible THEY just wanted to be the ones to do it so they could take credit for the good things that could potentially come out of these investments. It’s gross.

It’s almost like they never believed what the preached or had any worldview other than lower taxes and being pedophiles.

And I remember when the Feds were supposed to leave the states alone.

nice work

Picking winners and losers is cool if it's a professional child who heads the gop doing it, silly rabbit!

Nationalize the payment processors too

It's socialism if your side doesn't control government. If your side does then it's getting a "fair return" on the "people's money". Many companies don't pay their fair share in taxes anyway. They've been shaking down the US taxpayer since forever. If only we could have a sensible tax policy.

Well now I guess we get to do it so the Dems better not back down.

Multiple discussions today on biz channel about whether top talent will want to work at Intel. And which customers will be willing to step into that mess.

Wait until they pull NBC license

So a combo of fascism-communism? What a nice change of pace after about 250 years. The party of small govt really knows its stuff! Where does this madness end? (It won’t be good)

Follow-up: is this embolism delivery method still known to work? Asking for no reason in particular.

Yes, being rich doesn't mean you have the intelligence to know when you're helping bring down your own country.

But this is different, this is protection money, it's just the cost of doing business, not socialism

Hypocrisy means nothing to disingenuous people

We are a mafia state being ran by a moron who's vested in shit-coins.

The Golden Share is effectively Trump's, not Uncle Sam's.

SAAAAAME

You obviously missed the whole part where they said, out loud, > IF THE DEMS DO IT ITS ALL BAD > but if WE do it it's all fine !

You can't be a hypocrite when all you believe in is power

To me, the irony here is that the government intervening in Intel's business *could* make sense from a nat/sec viewpoint, e.g. if they took over Intel explicitly with intent to enable domestic fabrication of what can currently be done only by TSMC, but that does not seem to be what's going on.

Even though it was sold off. Theres things I think Trump has done that are nakedly authoritarian or fascist.

Turns out everyone is a fucking liar. And lying is evil

Ever since Edmund Burke defined conservatism, and all of the apologists for it which came afterwards, all of them have defined in various ways of "conservatism is about aristocracy and power" and everything else was merely window-dressing.

Yeah but this is NATIONAL socialism

These guys were having absolute screaming meltdowns about government owned grocery stores just ten days ago. Republicans have no principles. None. They are completely full of shit.

Which simply proves libertarians, conservatives and Republicans have ALWAYS been full of shit. Its ALWAYS been about enriching the small minority at the expense of the vast majority.

Where’s the libertarian outrage? Ah nevertheless

Never trust a junkie.