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    Just remember that you're complicit in supporting a man who has created a policy to separate children as young as 2 months old from their parents, who has banned people from traveling to the US, claiming national security concerns that are baseless - causing all kinds of issues for no reason other than looking strong to his idiot supporters. Who has introduced trade tariffs on canada and the EU claiming national security concerns. Who praised the Tiannamen square massacre as a strong move.

    Here's what a strong move looks like in Trump's eyes:
    https://www.quora.com/Tiananmen-Squa...efore-Tank-Man

    He pulled out of the Iran deal in which Iran agreed on having on-site foreign inspectors to verify that they are no longer developing nuclear weapons. On the other hand he made absolutely no deal at all with NK, giving them way more than they asked for, for nothing. We didn't even get an accounting of their actual nuclear capability. Imagine being a citizen of NK, hoping that with a meeting with the american president would come human rights concessions, maybe you have family members abroad, or in concentration camps, or you don't know where they are, and what you get is absolutely no talks about human rights violation, instead Trump is singing praises about KJU, because obviously forced abortions, rape as punishment for defectors, and watching your people starve to death while you build yourself a dolphinarium is strong leadership to a fucking retard.

    And talking about taxpayer money... Who do you think is paying for the trade war? Is it mexico?

    I know you two are a lost cause, but I think everyone who has some common sense left and isn't actively fighting against this administration should be held accountable.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post
    ... causing all kinds of issues for no reason other than looking strong to his idiot supporters ...
    Bolded and indented for you from your response. They are getting exactly what they want.
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    yeah Oskar, but what about Hillary's emails?
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    Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post
    Just remember that you're complicit in supporting a man who has created a policy to separate children as young as 2 months old from their parents,
    He didn't create the policy. It's always been the policy, for everything, that you can't take your kids to jail with you when you're convicted of a crime. Whatever policy action Trump took, I see no evidence that it's sole motivation was to separate kids and parents. It seems pretty clear to me that the intent is to prosecute criminals. The left keeps presenting this like it was purely an exercise in racist cruelty. He got elected to secure the fucking border. Did you really expect that exercise to be all rainbows and lollipops??

    who has banned people from traveling to the US, claiming national security concerns that are baseless
    Baseless? Intelligence agencies, under the Obama administration, conducted an audit of security threats and vetting procedures. The result was a list of countries that were known sources of terrorism, and with which we did not have adequate diplomatic relations to conduct thorough vetting of travelers. That all happened before Trump ever announced his candidacy. You can debate whether or not there was a better way to react to the intelligence agency's reports. But what you can't do, is call the policy baseless. It clearly has a basis.

    - causing all kinds of issues for no reason other than looking strong to his idiot supporters.
    See above, re: basis

    Who has introduced trade tariffs on canada and the EU claiming national security concerns.
    I'm waiting to hear why that's a bad thing.

    Who praised the Tiannamen square massacre as a strong move.
    Source? Is "praise" your word, or Trump's? Why does strong=praise? There are lots of terrible things in this world that could be called "strong moves". I could say it was a "strong move" when Montgomery Burns tried to expand the market for nuclear power by blocking out the sun. That doesn't mean I support the policy. Strength can be described independently of morality. In fact, I'm not sure why you insist on synonomizing the two in the first place.

    He pulled out of the Iran deal in which Iran agreed on having on-site foreign inspectors to verify that they are no longer developing nuclear weapons.
    Oh PUH-LEEEEEZE. Can the inspectors go anywhere they want? Any time they want? Unannounced? Do you know what "verify" means?

    On the other hand he made absolutely no deal at all with NK, giving them way more than they asked for, for nothing. We didn't even get an accounting of their actual nuclear capability.
    LOL, yeah and if we did it would be announced in a press release to CNN.

    Imagine being a citizen of NK........
    Is that a violin I hear? Imagine being the widow, or child of an MIA Korean War vet. Trump came home last week with his remains. You call that nothing? Imagine being a citizen of Seoul or Tokyo worried daily about a mid-air explosion turning you into vapor. Then one day an orange haired blob shows up and suddenly there hasn't even been a single missile tested in over half a year. You call that nothing?

    And talking about taxpayer money... Who do you think is paying for the trade war? Is it mexico?
    You answered your own question already. Canada and the EU.

    I know you two are a lost cause, but I think everyone who has some common sense left and isn't actively fighting against this administration should be held accountable.
    So, out of curiosity, what exactly are you doing to "actively fight" this administration? Other than educating the 8 or so people here.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post
    Just remember that you're complicit in supporting a man who has created a policy to separate children as young as 2 months old from their parents, who has banned people from traveling to the US, claiming national security concerns that are baseless - causing all kinds of issues for no reason other than looking strong to his idiot supporters. Who has introduced trade tariffs on canada and the EU claiming national security concerns. Who praised the Tiannamen square massacre as a strong move.

    Here's what a strong move looks like in Trump's eyes:
    https://www.quora.com/Tiananmen-Squa...efore-Tank-Man

    He pulled out of the Iran deal in which Iran agreed on having on-site foreign inspectors to verify that they are no longer developing nuclear weapons. On the other hand he made absolutely no deal at all with NK, giving them way more than they asked for, for nothing. We didn't even get an accounting of their actual nuclear capability. Imagine being a citizen of NK, hoping that with a meeting with the american president would come human rights concessions, maybe you have family members abroad, or in concentration camps, or you don't know where they are, and what you get is absolutely no talks about human rights violation, instead Trump is singing praises about KJU, because obviously forced abortions, rape as punishment for defectors, and watching your people starve to death while you build yourself a dolphinarium is strong leadership to a fucking retard.

    And talking about taxpayer money... Who do you think is paying for the trade war? Is it mexico?

    I know you two are a lost cause, but I think everyone who has some common sense left and isn't actively fighting against this administration should be held accountable.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
    I've learned that if my description is a laundry list of grievances, I probably have more thinking to do.
    I find that when people respond to a list of grievances with a non-sequitur, it's usually because can't defend their position.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Poopadoop View Post
    I find that when people respond to a list of grievances with a non-sequitur, it's usually because can't defend their position.
    What do you think would have been a useful response in this situation?
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    Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
    What do you think would have been a useful response in this situation?
    Why do you answer so many points with questions of your own?
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    Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
    I've learned that if my description is a laundry list of grievances, I probably have more thinking to do.
    I have learned that if someone responds with empty generalities, they probably have nothing of value to say.
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    NO WAY!

    B-b-b-but total denuclearization, and Wuf predicted it months ago when noone would believe him!

    I am shocked. Kim Jong Un not valuing a non-binding contract... what an unprecedented turn of events.

    I am actually kinda surprised by the speed of which the dprk doesn't give a fuck. Done with photo-op, continue with business as usual.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post

    I am actually kinda surprised by the speed of which the dprk doesn't give a fuck. Done with photo-op, continue with business as usual.
    Ya, but we had a great deal for those two glorious weeks. Too bad the Great Negotiator just got played bigly time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post
    NO WAY!

    B-b-b-but total denuclearization, and Wuf predicted it months ago when noone would believe him!

    I am shocked. Kim Jong Un not valuing a non-binding contract... what an unprecedented turn of events.

    I am actually kinda surprised by the speed of which the dprk doesn't give a fuck. Done with photo-op, continue with business as usual.
    It says in the article that there isn't a non-binding agreement about production of fissile materials.
    There's a non-binding agreement about testing nuclear missiles.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey View Post
    It says in the article that there isn't a non-binding agreement about production of fissile materials.
    There's a non-binding agreement about testing nuclear missiles.
    Yeah, I feel like this is just blood in the water for liberal media sharks. What sensible person really thought that KJU would go back to NK and just say "Alright boys...shut it down!"

    This process will take a long time. People who shit on Trump because he didn't get it done in one sitting sound like jack-asses. Trump's made more progress on this than anyone. Respect
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    https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/dprkchron

    Scroll down for a timeline of denuclearization deals with NK.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post
    https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/dprkchron

    Scroll down for a timeline of denuclearization deals with NK.
    Kind of a noticeable lull in activity there between 2009 through 2016. Wonder what that's about....
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    There are much better, and funnier, cut ups of juxtaposed fox news statements on this topic on YouTube.

    Go get yourself some lotion and a box of tissues and have yourself a great afternoon watching Hannity and Geraldo cram their feet in their mouths.

    When you're done, and cleaned up, maybe do a deep dive into the entire commentary and see if the two situations are really the same, or if the words "without preconditions" make one situation unique.
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    At the end of the day, the US can't do jack shit about NK. Their trade partners and bordering countries: russia, china, and potentially SK can implement sanctions and force concessions. All the US president can do is his funny little cowboy dance to impress his voter base for the midterms.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post
    At the end of the day, the US can't do jack shit about NK. Their trade partners and bordering countries: russia, china, and potentially SK can implement sanctions and force talks. All the US president can do is his funny little cowboy dance to impress his voter base for the midterms.
    What were saying before...about empty generalities...?
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    Your grasp on the english language is as tenuous as your grasp on reality.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post
    Your grasp on the english language is as tenuous as your grasp on reality.
    I feel I've responded to your points with clear and specific language, in English. Your response has been empty generalities mixed with derogatory banter. Do you have anything intelligent to say? Or is it really all just regurgitated demagoguery with you?
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    https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...rference.shtml

    Seeing that she leaked something that never happened, this should be a clear cut case for a presidential pardon, don't you guys think?
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    When did you start realizing that? Was it when I said you and wuf were begging to get sodomized? I only respond for my own entertainment. That said: claiming the stating of facts is an "empty generality" is not the most cunning comeback, even by your standards.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post
    That said: claiming the stating of facts is an "empty generality" is not the most cunning comeback, even by your standards.
    Post #2773 is pure demagoguery, not facts. You really should learn the difference.
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    Seems like someone could use a dictionary.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Poopadoop View Post
    Seems like someone could use a dictionary.
    Indeed
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    I would be embarrassed if someone spoke a non-native language better than I speak my native language.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Poopadoop View Post
    I would be embarrassed if someone spoke a non-native language better than I speak my native language.
    Lots of Africans speak better French than Canadians.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Savy View Post
    Lots of Africans speak better French than Canadians.
    I would not be embarrassed if someone spoke better French than me. I grew up 3000 miles from French Canada and had about as much use for French as you have for Russian.

    But I would be embarrassed if an Austrian spoke better English than me 'cause I speak English every day of my life. See the difference?
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    Most of the people I've met from the scary african rape invasion that is currently sweeping europe, speak at least 3 languages. Afrikaans is very close to dutch, which is close to german, and french and/or english are the most common official languages in africa. They tend to learn really fucking quickly. I've never had a good reason to go and I'm not much of a vacation person, but my mom has been to Namibia, and Rwanda recently - she was surprised that regular people would just respond in german when they hear a german accent, which is something you come to accept in italy and france, but you don't expect it when you're on the opposite side of a different continent.

    I can't hold it against native english speakers when they don't learn a second language unless they're working abroad, so I think that's kind of a cheap shot. You're just not going to need it. Me personally, I generally prefer to keep the insults groin based.
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    http://thehill.com/latino/394563-mig...eedings-report

    I guess you can't have baby jails without baby courtrooms. That would be unconstitutional. Next up: marsupial judges in literal kangaroo court.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post
    http://thehill.com/latino/394563-mig...eedings-report

    I guess you can't have baby jails without baby courtrooms. That would be unconstitutional. Next up: marsupial judges in literal kangaroo court.
    If a 3 year old can't defend his actions in court he needs to go to jail really. A very small jail with a booster seat.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post
    What do you think the effects of a ban policy on this type of thing are and what effects of a non-ban policy are?
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    Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
    What do you think the effects of a ban policy on this type of thing are and what effects of a non-ban policy are?

    A ban means fewer Americans will go to Africa to kill elephants because they can't bring back trophies.

    Lifting the ban means Don Jr. can go and kill some elephants and bring back their heads to add to his collection of large animals he's bravely killed.

    What do you think it means?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Poopadoop View Post
    A ban means fewer Americans will go to Africa to kill elephants because they can't bring back trophies.

    Lifting the ban means Don Jr. can go and kill some elephants and bring back their heads to add to his collection of large animals he's bravely killed.

    What do you think it means?
    Thanks for the response, and thanks for asking.

    An increase in desire for trophies increases the desire for the animals, thereby incentivizing increasing and protecting the populations. A ban has an antithetical effect: reducing the desire for trophies, reducing the desire for the animals, and reducing the desire to increase and protect the populations.

    There is a wealth of history of this playing out, and it is an area where there is little disagreement among economists.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
    Thanks for the response, and thanks for asking.

    An increase in desire for trophies increases the desire for the animals, thereby incentivizing increasing and protecting the populations. A ban has an antithetical effect: reducing the desire for trophies, reducing the desire for the animals, and reducing the desire to increase and protect the populations.

    There is a wealth of history of this playing out, and it is an area where there is little disagreement among economists.
    I don't see how having more elephants or any other trophy animal is necessarily a positive for the animal (assuming we're interested in their collective happiness or whatever you want to call it). Certainly not if some proportion of them are going to get shot and killed every year.

    I think the idea of 'let's look after these animals so we can shoot them for fun' is kind of perverse really. How about looking after them and not shooting them?
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    Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
    There is a wealth of history of this playing out, and it is an area where there is little disagreement among economists.
    citation needed

    Seemed to have the opposite effect on dodo birds, wild buffolos, the passanger pidgeon, tasmanian tiger, white rhinos and a couple hundred other species.
    500 tons of ivory were imported to London annually before the ban on ivory trade. Elephant population dropped from 25 million to well under 1 million during the industrialization of the ivory trade. Thanks to massive conservation efforts the population is now stable, if only a fraction of what it once was. Wildlife rangers and animal protectionists get murdered every year by ivory traders and poachers.



    Another good reason to ban elephant trophies specifically is that elephants are among the smartest animals. They are one of only a couple species who can recognize themselves in a mirror, something humans can only do starting age 2 and up, and only a couple of primate and dolphin species can do. Killing an elephant should be (and mostly is) illegal. The hunting permit $$$ argument you're likely referencing is mostely horseshit. The countries involved make vastly more money from wildlife tourism than from shitheads like this one:

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    You should really consider being less smug about things you know nothing about.
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    You could start by digging up some sources for any part of this pile of shit:

    An increase in desire for trophies increases the desire for the animals, thereby incentivizing increasing and protecting the populations. A ban has an antithetical effect: reducing the desire for trophies, reducing the desire for the animals, and reducing the desire to increase and protect the populations.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post
    You could start by digging up some sources for any part of this pile of shit:
    I have a bachelor's degree in economics, am an avid student of philosophy of economics outside of that, and read (used to read) many different economists discuss these things as well as discussed similar with some of them.

    My research at university never encompassed this specifically, so I'll go to google. Here's a part of an abstract: "Trophy hunting is thus of major importance to conservation in Africa by creating economic incentives for conservation over vast areas"

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...06320706003831
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    Without wanting to pay to read the whole thing, it sounds like there's both positives and negatives to the idea of conserving animals for the purposes of killing them. Who'da thunk it.
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    Restaurant-gate spreads to Canada. So fucking stupid. "I'm not serving you because I don't like what your hat says."

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...ouse-1.4728720

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    Meanwhile in the immigrant child prisons:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Poopadoop View Post
    Without wanting to pay to read the whole thing, it sounds like there's both positives and negatives to the idea of conserving animals for the purposes of killing them. Who'da thunk it.
    I would imagine so. Few things are wholly positive or wholly negative.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Poopadoop View Post
    Without wanting to pay to read the whole thing, it sounds like there's both positives and negatives to the idea of conserving animals for the purposes of killing them. Who'da thunk it.
    I'm just going to assume it is probably going to reference the 1977 trophy hunting ban in Kenya. If you put your horse blinkers on, you could look at that and go: Omg, if I don't shoot that elephant, I'm killing it! So you would expect that after the 2014 trophy hunting ban in Botswana, it would have the same outcome, but then you remember Botswana's wildlife tourism industry is roughly 1000x it's trophy hunting industry.

    But whatever arguments you could find for very limited cases, this:

    An increase in desire for trophies increases the desire for the animals, thereby incentivizing increasing and protecting the populations. A ban has an antithetical effect: reducing the desire for trophies, reducing the desire for the animals, and reducing the desire to increase and protect the populations.
    is still just as wrong, as evidenced by the hundreds of species that were hunted to or near extinction with no hunting bans to somehow accelerate their demise.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post
    is still just as wrong, as evidenced by the hundreds of species that were hunted to or near extinction with no hunting bans to somehow accelerate their demise.
    I could have been more clear that when there is no infrastructure for a market, then what I described doesn't work. Tons of extinctions have happened because of that.
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    This happened recently, and was a big deal when it happened:

    An African rhino of an endangered species was killed by a hunter. There was great outrage that this happened by those whoe live half a globe away and feel rather than think.

    The rhino was old and was attacking/killing younger breeding rhinos of the species. Killing him was best for the conservation of the species. His body was donated to a nearby village for food. The hunter was one of many who paid a lot of money to the conservation institution to enter a raffle for that opportunity.

    A whole lot of good came out of that.
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    The point is, the trophy trade legitimizes "trophies" as something of value, which is something countries like Kenya and Botswana are actively fighting. They burned 100 tons of ivory in 2016 alone - for the same reason the DEA destroys heroin. If they sell it, they legitimize the trade. They don't think it should be something of value, therefore they destroy it. I'm sure the Trump bill includes some things I don't give a shit about like zebra skins, but specifically regarding elephant and rhino parts, it undermines the effort of countries like Kenya and and Botswana and plays well with kleptocracies like Zimbabwe that allow trophy hunting.
    Of course I don't believe for a second that this is something that Trump thinks of in conservationist terms. This is a gift for his son because that's how politics work now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post
    The point is, the trophy trade legitimizes "trophies" as something of value, which is something countries like Kenya and Botswana are actively fighting. They burned 100 tons of ivory in 2016 alone - for the same reason the DEA destroys heroin. If they sell it, they legitimize the trade. .
    I find this interesting because aren't they just increasing it's value and in turn doing the exact opposite that they want. I agree it shouldn't be happening but it's a complete waste to then not use it for beneficial purposes.

    Ivory being different to heroin in that heroin is abundant and not going anywhere whereas ivory literally is running out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Savy View Post
    I find this interesting because aren't they just increasing it's value and in turn doing the exact opposite that they want. I agree it shouldn't be happening but it's a complete waste to then not use it for beneficial purposes.

    Ivory being different to heroin in that heroin is abundant and not going anywhere whereas ivory literally is running out.
    There are two ways to devalue something that is of no inherent value: increase the supply, or convince people that it's worthless. You can do the latter by stigmatizing it.
    Heroin was a bad analogue because heroin has an inherent value.

    Ivory prices have fallen sharply since 2016, and since then China flollowed suit and burned their ivory reserves.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post
    There are two ways to devalue something that is of no inherent value: increase the supply, or convince people that it's worthless. You can do the latter by stigmatizing it.
    Heroin was a bad analogue because heroin has an inherent value.

    Ivory prices have fallen sharply since 2016, and since then China flollowed suit and burned their ivory reserves.
    The price has bombed because of changing ideals of the market, I still think burning the stuff is counter-productive.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Savy View Post
    The price has bombed because of changing ideals of the market, I still think burning the stuff is counter-productive.
    It probably is. Reducing the supply of something doesn't reduce the demand of that thing. What Oskar is referring to as an effective way to reduce price by stigmatizing it is essentially reducing the demand. The public show of burning the product probably does have some demand reduction attribute, but I'd think effective policing and some other stuff is much better at that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post
    The point is, the trophy trade legitimizes "trophies" as something of value, which is something countries like Kenya and Botswana are actively fighting. They burned 100 tons of ivory in 2016 alone - for the same reason the DEA destroys heroin. If they sell it, they legitimize the trade.
    The type of thing you describe certainly can be an unintended consequence of letting the price system work on the open market. Though, there can be unintended consequences of taking the sort of action you describe as good too.

    In general, taking action like destroying product to deter desire for it doesn't have the intended effect because of how it increases the price on the black market.
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    Maybe the greatest thing ever made

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    Making the world a little less racist

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/tr...D=ansmsnnews11
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    Making the world a little less racist

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/tr...D=ansmsnnews11
    “The whole issue of using race in education is being looked at with a new eye in light of the fact that it’s not just white students being discriminated against, but Asians and others as well,” said Roger Clegg, president and general counsel of the conservative Center for Equal Opportunity. “As the demographics of the country change, it becomes more and more problematic.”
    Translation: It was OK when affirmative action screwed with white people. But now it's affecting non-whites, so it's bad.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BananaStand View Post
    Translation: It was OK when affirmative action screwed with white people. But now it's affecting non-whites, so it's bad.
    How crazy is that?
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    Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
    Making the world a little less racist

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/tr...D=ansmsnnews11
    I like the flip flop, myself.
    In a perfect world, people wouldn't discriminate over stuff that someone can't choose for themselves.
    However, in this world, people do, and it's ugly and inhumane to deny someone education based on stuff that has no bearing on their ability to excel in their field.

    So we want people to stop doing inhumane shit, and they say they will, and we give them the shot to do so.
    Then they don't do what they said, and we step in and say, look... you had your shot and you blew it.
    Now follow these rules for a while.
    Then the rules have unintended consequences, and we lift them.


    It's all fine, IMO.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey View Post
    Then the rules have unintended consequences.....
    I don't think "unintended" is an appropriate word to use here. They knew exactly what they were doing.

    If you have decent grades, but are Asian, your chances of getting into Harvard Medical School is 6%. If you're black, and have the same grades, your chances are 46%.

    That was EXACTLY the intention all along.
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    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.60c3495e013f

    Also worth noting that this is an Obama policy and Trump seems hellbent on reversing every single Obama policy. I would not be surprised if they have a special task force currently trying to resurrect Bin Laden.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post
    I would not be surprised if they have a special task force currently trying to resurrect Bin Laden.
    ^^

    I lol'd
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    Hey, I'm in a movie!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer View Post
    Another butterfly caught in the net! No, that's not it... Fish in the barrel? Witch hunt! Total witch hunt!
    The strengh of a hero is defined by the weakness of his villains.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer View Post
    They should have a sign up in the WH:

    "X days without a resignation, firing, or something retarded."

    They'd never have to change it from 0.
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    What don't you like about him?
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    Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
    What don't you like about him?
    Hint....it starts with T
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    Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
    What don't you like about him?
    LOL is this a real question?

    Quote Originally Posted by BananaStand View Post
    Hint....it starts with T
    And ends with "actical pants"?
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    Cogito ergo sum

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer View Post
    LOL is this a real question?
    I know literally zero about him.

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