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Re:Pelosi defends stock trading by lawmakers. ‘We are a free... by ClumsyPilot on Thursday December 16, 2021 @12:55PM (#29581345)
"don't appreciate this kind of cheap pedantry. Does it feel good"

I think this is extremely unfair, as in your own pedantry seems fine, where you are correct only for very spesific and us-centric definition of 'force' and 'snakeoil'.

You free market people can't even agree if patents and copyright are part of free market. I had one of you tell me that endentured servitude was part of freedom of contract.

You seem to think we should leave snake oil salesmen alone, so it seems free market includes freedom to defraud the customer. Does it also include freedom to defraud the company?

This 'free market' is a spherical cow and would collapse into anarchy from pissed off people shooting each-other, it's no more viable than communism is.

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Re:Pelosi defends stock trading by lawmakers. ‘We are a free... by Karrot_Kream on Thursday December 16, 2021 @03:35PM (#29583528)
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

Assuming good faith keeps discussion here at a high level. Let's not descend to strawmen. If you disagree with javert but do not wish to engage the argument, you do not need to respond.

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