They do exist. But not in the real business world.

There are economists that argue (with academic justification) that fewer frictions increase growth. But they usually ignore topics like human rights, environmental impacts, inequality etc.

Oi. Dwayne. You slaaaaaaaaaag.

That list covered both parties, but most times only one side got posted.

This may just mean Republicans are more careless.

True free market libertarians are anti authoritarian. US free market libertarians are always happy to have tax cuts, subsidies, tariffs, regulatory oversight etc. So long as it benefits them.

Don’t say that. Then they’ll buy another safe for the decoy phones.

Youngsters of the internet are unfamiliar with culture.

Ben folds 6

How many changes over the last 20 years have:-

• increased social spending

• reduced wealth inequality

• favored consumers over corporations

• improved environmental protections

• reduced health care costs

• reduced authoritarian power

The problem is I don’t understand how ingredients work in baking. I understand flavours, but not textures.

Also, the gold horse looks a bit melty.

I enjoyed her role in Lucifer.

“… and they have a plan”

But the show’s producers never figured it out

As an amateur cook I can confirm this. The results of my baking experiments all fail disastrously. However I can experiment wildly with starter and main courses and almost always make something edible.

Are you implying that Fauci ordered the Wuhan lab to take unnecessary risks? Where is the evidence?

Gain of function research is an unnecessary risk that, by design, creates more dangerous versions of existing viruses. Darpa refused to fund the research.. Instead it was outsourced to Wuhan, funded by the US and approved by Fauci.

Events have proven Biden to be correct in this assessment.

Because it seems there is actual fire under the smoke.

You are also in no position to claim Fauci is a criminal.

I’m not calling him a criminal at all. I’m saying he may have done incriminating things, which have now been pardoned.

your “logic” says that because you can’t proved you haven’t done anything incriminating, I should assume that you are a criminal.

Not quite. You cannot assume I am not a criminal. We cannot assume Fauci did nothing incriminating.

When are you going to provide me evidence that you aren’t a criminal?

I don’t need to. Whether I am or not has no relevance.

Or will you admit that you only emotionally feel Fauci did something criminal

Fauci has means, motivation, opportunity, conspiracy accused colleagues and a blanket pardon. If the US did fund research that lead to covid, he is right at the top of responsibility with the most to gain from an unlawful cover-up and the protection needed to survive any attack. These are facts, not feelings.

If Fauci has to prove he’s not a criminal, then so do you.

He doesn’t. What you have to do is admit the possibility that he may have done something incriminating.

If you order a product to be delivered to your house and the driver of the delivery truck runs over a kid, then it can be proven that you approved funding an activity that resulted in the death of a child. So what should happen next?

Well. If you ordered the driver to go as fast as possible, take the fastest route by the schools and run every red light, then needlessly excessive risks were taken and the ability for you and your successors to make similar orders should be severely curtailed. If you then tried to hide evidence that any enquiry would be interested in, then that would be illegal and should be lawfully punished.

You’re arguing from emotion and there’s no logic to anything.

Quite the opposite. I’m saying it is logically impossible to claim the negative that Fauci had not done anything incriminating. In fact, given that a blanket pardon was granted, it is highly likely that something undisclosed occurred.

it doesn’t matter if Fauci personally approved the funding

Legally irrelevant but reputationally devastating. More than enough reason for illegal cover ups.

Other than the concept of innocent until proven guilty.

The blanket pardon nullifies this argument. Fauci may have done any number of incriminating acts prior to 2024, but none will ever be proven in court. It is not possible to claim there weren’t any.

I can’t prove that you’ve never done anything incriminating.

Now you’ve got it. This statement can’t logically be made.

is it fair for me to assume you’re a criminal?

You are not in a position to claim I am not a criminal.

how else do you think it’s known that the Wuhan lab got US grant money.

The Gmail conversations used to avoid FOIA disclosure point to a conspiracy.

Do you think he would know about activities China?

Yes, because he (probably) approved funding for the gain of function research that lead to Covid.

It’s about getting revenge on Fauci

Agreed. And his pardon should protect him.

But we still can’t claim that he has not done anything incriminating.

Read the initial statement.

“It’s not that he’s done anything incriminating”.

It is not “we can prove in court he did something indicatable”. This is not a case of innocent until proven guilty.

Are you somehow implicated because you work with the person?

If you are a boss and your subordinate does something wrong that is work related, you are either implicated or negligent. Neither are good.

Neither has Fauci [made a claim].

I’m not correcting Fauci. I’m correcting the inital statement above.

Not at all. I think it’s highly likely everyone involved was working for the betterment of mankind.

However, no person, group, institution or country wants to be shown to be responsible for Covid so it’s in the interests of the Chinese to destroy all physical evidence and for the Americans to destroy all financial records.

…you claim without evidence while accusing me of speculating about his innocence…

The claim above was that “It’s not that he’s done anything incriminating”. We do not know this. The preemptive pardon makes this even less likely.

Is there any reason to believe he [covered up a paper trail].

It depends how linked he is to his aide

We don’t know that you didn’t do anything indictable either.

I have made no claim either way.