jerhomey
Jerhomey
jerhomey

That’s not fair, and it’s a common mistake.

I saw it going this way:

The REAL tragedy would be if we did anything to stop another tragedy like this from occurring.

So how is the NRA going to spin this one?

I didn’t catch on to the metaphorical language at first so I thought they literally murdered the character on the show and there was going to be some joke about her corpse being under the floorboards.

I just tell these assholes that our country was founded on disagreement.

I’m so tired of this fake-ass “patriotism” bullshit. It attempts to shut down any discontented discourse by making someone feel like a traitor for a thought or disagreement. It’s basically passive-aggressive censorship and I’m done with it. It’s like anytime someone calls someone an anti-Semite when you voice

Unfortunately, most of the econ faculties have been overrun by these wannabe Chicago School fuckwits.

The foundation of all that economic theory relies on negotiating power of both buyers and sellers. This is the same reasoning why we have anti-monopoly rules. This situation in Texas is not manmade like Venezuela. A natural disaster is an exception to the rules of economics. Otherwise, you can just as easily say we

Plenty of assholes out today who think their freshman Economics class makes them a expert on the subject.

You’re assuming that the market is equal in a disaster - which it isn’t. All the rules of a fair market and the invisible hand change during a disaster, where asset allocation, opportunity, choice and willingness to travel are all upended. Thus, where before you would’ve had, say, 15 places you could have bought water

Yes, why don’t flood victims just act like rational consumers and comparison shop for the best deal on water between price gougers? Let the free market decide who dies of thirst!

So you’re familiar with the writers of the show

So the only way to see new comments is to reload the whole page, then scroll down to see what’s new? It feels as if it’s designed to discourage active discussion. I’ll miss the live conversations that used to happen on the AV Club.