Sure about that? They were on my trust lists for a long time and I was not aware of any of this so I removed them. Funny how you and Pharmie are aching for more conflict.
Speaking of that, interesting timing to exclude me isn't it The Pharmacist? I guess you just didn't find me untrustworthy until I was back on DT1. Amazing coincidence. I guess that is what I get for removing you from my exclusions.

Huh. Look at that they aren't on DT2 any more. Amazing how that works.

Did I say Lauda negative rated CryptopreneurBrainboss? I don't know R0ach from a hole in the ground, and I am not white knighting for anything other than principles. This is not a question about how liberal this forum is, it is a question of this negative rating being abusive. I don't think people should be able to negative rate people just because they don't like something that they said, as I have explained before I advocate for a standard of evidence of theft, violation of contractual agreement, or violation of applicable laws to be the standard for negative rating. He may be a racist asshole, but that doesn't make it open season on him for trust system abuse.

How many months did it take for abuse of the merit system to become a joke? That has to be record time for a new feature. This is yet another example of Theymos wanting to have his cake and eat it too. You want to remove merits you think are invalid, but then you don't want to apply that rule universally, only for the people who are "more equal than others". I see him moving in the right direction, but I think he still doesn't quite get the dynamic at play here.

I appreciate the effort and the kind words. Some people refer to me as a broken record. I prefer to refer to it as having principles. It still amazes me we are repeating all the same patterns around here with very little changed after all of these years.

I have a feeling this is being pushed in retaliation for this:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germany-should-pay-poland-1-trillion-reparations-world-war-ii-government-a7929561.html

Also Poland is not submitting to being overrun with hoards of barbarians pushed by the EU, so they have even more reason to sandbag Poland.

Funny how everyone stands on the sideline until it is their own ass isn't it?

Given that Nutilda actively supports this kind of trust rating for everyone else, I don't see any issues here. I would be happy to reconsider my position if Nutilda can explain why this rating is invalid though.

I see, so some one disagrees with your burn them all attitude and they are automatically spreading misinformation and get a negative rating. You believe whatever serves you at any given moment. The tide is changing around here, and you aren't going to like the way you look, I guarantee it.

You would think by now people like you would stop placing the blame on red and green numbers and instead admit the fact that ultimately it is all meaningless if the account changes hands. We should be teaching people to do due diligence, not setting the entire forest on fire to kill a few invasive weeds. You have fun with that flame thrower, that is until it is pointed the other direction. Then I am sure it will be a tragedy.

This is the result of having unwritten rules and no standards for rating. People want to follow the rules (usually) but if they aren't actually written down then how exactly are they supposed to follow them? This is a well known precedent in law, that in order to convict some one of a law it has to be available to the public for review, for this exact reason. Since the rules are not written what we have instead is a patchwork of OCD vigilantes looking to increase their own profiles by throwing a few hundred people under the bus whether they deserved it or not. They are free to interpret the unwritten rules as widely as possible.

They don't have any standards, no proof needed, it is just a matter of convincing enough people to not be called out on it. Even if some one wanted to call them out on it they would simply be dismissed, much like everyone is doing here. Then of course the user gets increasingly frustrated and more vocal as anyone accused of a crime they did not commit would. You poo poo the annoyance of all the threads while never legitimately addressing any of these people then wonder why they never shut up. Because you are fueling them by being dismissive retards.

I too find these posts annoying, I find it annoying to have to post them myself some times, but just because you find it annoying doesn't mean it does not serve a purpose. Theymos thinks having no official rules is helpful some how. He is wrong. I sympathize with his intent, but the result is worse than what he is trying to avoid by not having set rules. The presence of these kind of threads is continual proof of it.

They didn't just become dictatorships magically. Socialism and Communism were the preferred methods of usurpation for many of these dictatorships. You simply lack the intelligence to understand this process of degradation and what causes it. You think you have the answer but all you have is the same old genocidal dictatorships with a new face and an Instagram page.

Communism at best is "successful" until it runs out of resources and a way to motivate its people to produce resources. Once the resources are gone and there is no work incentive, guess what? You are now all slaves and you go to forced work camps or else the country collapses. This is the guaranteed outcome EVERY. FUCKING. TIME.

Communism has its pros like cocaine has its pros. It feels awesome for like 20 minutes then you feel like shit and you want more. You get addicted to it, burn through all of your savings, and now you are blowing people on the street for crack rocks. That is Communism in a nutshell. So if by pros you mean you have a tiny moment of euphoria before a horrible grotesque world is imposed upon you then, sure it has pros.

You know what really destroys lands? Communism. Take a walk around China and tell me what you see. In a place where the government runs everything, commonly owned wealth such as land is stripped of any value and abused maximally because that is literally one of the only opportunities they have to make their lives better. They see it and they take it. They waste it and abuse it because it is not their personal responsibility to maintain it. Much like a rental car you have it for a short time and people are free to beat on it and abuse it until it is returned. This is a well known pattern often referred to "the tragedy of the commons".

"People like me do not see intelligence as virtue."

We kind of figured that as much Captain Postmodern. It is just sad that you think logic and intelligence are only for conservatives, but who am I to argue. I never once said "All of psychology is illegitimate.", I said social sciences are BARELY within the realm of science, and Critical Theory is illegitimate being the lowest tier of this lowest form of "science", not actually being science at all but political ideology with a thin superficial veneer of science.

Academia can go fuck itself, they have shown themselves repeatedly to be infested with the enemies of the people and this nation. They will be lucky to be free and breathing in another 10 years once people realize what they have been doing to their children. No one would dare make any of those admissions in academia because they would instantly lose their careers and be blacklisted by the new brown shirts that call themselves academia. You live in an echo chamber. You poo poo at intelligence then proceed to claim to be on the side of science. You claim to want the betterment of the common good but you promote totalitarian policies. If a word challenges your world view, you invent a new definition for it. You don't need debate, you need a therapist.

Yeah, after all why would a doctor who runs his own lab know anything about medicine right? The mainstream media are reliable and trustworthy, and anyone who doesn't repeat what they say is misleading. The answer is right in your quote but you want it to not be true. Indistinguishable is a very choice word.

Even better. Every word he speaks is a brick in his own ideological tomb. Some times it is not about convincing your debate partner but rather every one else reading.

Explain to me what about the words inflation and money printing do not describe MMT. We have had fractional reserve fiat since 1913. The ability to claim gold and silver was only phased out completely in 1971 making it 100% fiat.

What evidence? Your shitty meta-study about welfare which doesn't once mention universal basic income within it? This is totally irrelevant as these programs are not equivalent to UBI. Furthermore they are small subsets within a market economy that would be no where near reflective of the true results of a national or global scale UBI system. In summary "all evidence" is no evidence.

So is your argument that all the other times Socialism and Communism failed they all sat around and said "Hey you know what would be great, if we had a Communist totalitarian dictatorship!". No. They all thought they were making an improvement just like you, and they all lacked basic understanding of economics and human nature that tell them this system ALWAYS leads to this result. What you want is irrelevant. The outcomes of your attempts to attain your goals are relevant, and history has filled entire libraries with the documentation of the failures of your ideology.

There is nothing to learn. "MMT" is just a re-branding of the same broken system we have been using since 1913. Suggesting we keep doing the thing which is already breaking the economy is showing down right mongoloid levels of comprehension of economics. The government can print money forever, but it can not maintain a usable fiat note or functional economy while doing so perpetually. Eventually supply and demand become more powerful than your idiotic top down centralized control command economy as hyperinflation takes hold.

Nice false equivalency and projection combo. You have a lot of nerve talking about semantics Captain Postmodern. I have forgotten more about economics than you will ever know.