For as often as I disagree with Jen on guns, trucks, and big government, her rant at the beginning about feeling uncomfortable at the DNC is why I still respect her opinion.
"Peace fire agreement" feels like when one nation threatens to declare peace during an armed conflict. Like calling timeout during a school yard game of Tag.
Good job on Will for filling in for Justin I also wanted to come in on the stock market debate. If you look at the history of the stock martinet and joint-stock companies it's pretty interesting. The earliest joint-stock companies are thought to have emerged in China during the Tang and Song dynasties. The earliest European ones emerged during the late medieval period or early Renaissance. In both cases these system allowed for larger and more complex enterprises to be formed than what came before. The stock market itself emerged later to allow more people to become involved in these enterprises.
The bit about the stock market resonates a lot. I'm 40 now, and planning for retirement which means investing in retirement savings plans which inevitably gets put in various things including the stock market. There's no other way to sensibly build retirement savings, but it does end up facilitating this bad monetary behaviour.
When it comes to free speech, speaking as a Brit and still a proud European in spite of Brexit, I think the cultural differences have parallels with your gun laws. You need guns in case someone gets power who's a tyrannical fascist / a despotic communist / someone with the wrong-colour socks. Given the possibility of this future dystopia, undersize coffins of school children are deemed a small price to pay while you're waiting for it to happen. On this logic, I guess the guy who recently had his attempt on Trump was just an ordinary citizen exercising his rights. We can see a possible issue should the day ever come, namely that your President would have access to an army, stealth bombers, and tactical nuclear weaponry in his (or her) defence. Similarly, your free speech absolutism lest you ever need to organise a failed coup in this dystopian future means you're willing to put up with disinformation that has around half your population now contemplating voting for a lunatic... but again, better to allow that than run the risk that, come the dark days of some possible future, you won't be able to moan about it in private. (Entirely forgetting, of course, that if a despot DOES take power, an event made way more likely given those conduits for disinformation are operating now, the first thing he (or she) would do is clamp down on those avenues of communication anyway, so when you actually need it you won't have it). The France thing and yes, that does seem a step too far even to me, but let's see what the charges actually are.
Well done, Will! 😊
For as often as I disagree with Jen on guns, trucks, and big government, her rant at the beginning about feeling uncomfortable at the DNC is why I still respect her opinion.
"Peace fire agreement" feels like when one nation threatens to declare peace during an armed conflict. Like calling timeout during a school yard game of Tag.
Literally came looking for a comment on this Heatonism 😂
I love Heaton so much 😂
CONGRATS JRY!!!
We love Will! We need more Will!
When I saw the thumbnail i was really confused how having a kid made Justin look 10 years younger at least...
Good job on Will for filling in for Justin
I also wanted to come in on the stock market debate. If you look at the history of the stock martinet and joint-stock companies it's pretty interesting. The earliest joint-stock companies are thought to have emerged in China during the Tang and Song dynasties. The earliest European ones emerged during the late medieval period or early Renaissance. In both cases these system allowed for larger and more complex enterprises to be formed than what came before. The stock market itself emerged later to allow more people to become involved in these enterprises.
What am I watching? MSNBC?
No offense to our guest host or other hosts but this is literally unwatchable without Justin
So, Jen’s core problem with profits is in fact a problem with rent seeking behavior
Fair enough
The bit about the stock market resonates a lot. I'm 40 now, and planning for retirement which means investing in retirement savings plans which inevitably gets put in various things including the stock market. There's no other way to sensibly build retirement savings, but it does end up facilitating this bad monetary behaviour.
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When it comes to free speech, speaking as a Brit and still a proud European in spite of Brexit, I think the cultural differences have parallels with your gun laws. You need guns in case someone gets power who's a tyrannical fascist / a despotic communist / someone with the wrong-colour socks. Given the possibility of this future dystopia, undersize coffins of school children are deemed a small price to pay while you're waiting for it to happen. On this logic, I guess the guy who recently had his attempt on Trump was just an ordinary citizen exercising his rights. We can see a possible issue should the day ever come, namely that your President would have access to an army, stealth bombers, and tactical nuclear weaponry in his (or her) defence. Similarly, your free speech absolutism lest you ever need to organise a failed coup in this dystopian future means you're willing to put up with disinformation that has around half your population now contemplating voting for a lunatic... but again, better to allow that than run the risk that, come the dark days of some possible future, you won't be able to moan about it in private. (Entirely forgetting, of course, that if a despot DOES take power, an event made way more likely given those conduits for disinformation are operating now, the first thing he (or she) would do is clamp down on those avenues of communication anyway, so when you actually need it you won't have it). The France thing and yes, that does seem a step too far even to me, but let's see what the charges actually are.