Mark G @_LiquidIce

Economist. LVT+UBI=42. Joined June 2009

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Mark G @_LiquidIce

6 months ago

@DanielJHannan @Ed_Miliband It's a convenient shorthand for policies that provide concrete, instant benefits to the rich and theoretical, abstract benefits for everyone else.

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@LibertyLuxe1 @elonmusk @FedorovMykhailo @Gwynne_Shotwell Russians going to Ukraine to kill Ukrainians is what prolongs the war. You seem to be placing the obligation to end the war on the defender and not the attacker.

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Mark G @_LiquidIce

9 months ago

@grok @owenjonesjourno @grok_wingman @beverleyturner @WhiteHouse @PressSec @GBNEWS @MichelleDewbs @grok Just mentioning issues like that doesn't prove Trump's claim is true. His claim was that the distortions favored Democrats over Republicans, and that they swung the election result. What is the proof for that?

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Mark G @_LiquidIce

10 months ago

@VladVexler This could be a good video - most of us haven't really considered the different pieces that already exist in the world now and what political forces have the potential to combine them. In the US Bernie Sanders or Andrew Yang probably came closest.

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Mark G @_LiquidIce

a year ago

@VladVexler I hope you can recover soon and give us many more fascinating takes on this world.

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Mark G @_LiquidIce

a year ago

@Horizon_News_ @iamyesyouareno Why isn't the US included on that chart?

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Mark G @_LiquidIce

a year ago

@OdysseusBlue @levelsdennis @eyeslasho @dwizoop @CruelPhilosophr A lot of people are trying to pass off Russian government claims about the causes of the war as 'nuance and facts'. For actual nuance and facts there are independent experts on Russia who can help, i.e., youtube.com/watch?v=017WGz…

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Mark G @_LiquidIce

a year ago

@OdysseusBlue @levelsdennis @eyeslasho @dwizoop @CruelPhilosophr You can criticise Ukraine for dealing too roughly with seperatists but it's absurd to claim it as justification for the invasion. It's a non-sequitur and also mad hypocrisy given how Putin has handled seperatists in Russia.

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Mark G @_LiquidIce

a year ago

@yonn565 @PunishedCHJ @wil_da_beast630 WTF BBQ

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Mark G @_LiquidIce

a year ago

@SlavoZizek @PunishedCHJ @wil_da_beast630 So no-one said it and it was just made up. Latvia etc don't have 'bases on the border'.

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Mark G @_LiquidIce

a year ago

@PunishedCHJ @wil_da_beast630 "NATO did by saying they were going to build bases near Russians border in ukraine". Who said this specifically? It sounds made up.

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Mark G @_LiquidIce

2 years ago

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Mark G @_LiquidIce

2 years ago

@JJ_McCullough Diversifying trade was a political vanity project in the past. This time there's real need. There must be other comparative advantages that could emerge with the right incentives.

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Mark G @_LiquidIce

2 years ago

@ChrisEconomist Has productivity dropped by 10.5% over the last two years? Or have productivity and living standards disconnected from each other?

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Mark G @_LiquidIce

2 years ago

@DrCameronMurray 'Wrong' by what measure? There was certainly a drastic change in house prices post-Ralph review and various bad (but predictable) outcomes stemming from that.

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Mark G @_LiquidIce

2 years ago

@DrewPavlou The outer forms of government change, but the core (corrupt elites blaming outsiders to distract from theft and tyranny) never changes. Same since the Mongols founded it.

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Mark G @_LiquidIce

2 years ago

@StevenGWalker74 @DylanBurns1776 @PostLeftWatch NATO rejected Ukraine out of fear that that Russia would be provoked. But Russia decided to be provoked anyway. What can you do?

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Mark G @_LiquidIce

2 years ago

@StevenGWalker74 @DylanBurns1776 @PostLeftWatch 'NATO expansion' is just independent countries making extremely rational decisions about their security. Do you see the inhabitants of those states as your equals in humanity, with the same soveriegn rights you have?

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Mark G @_LiquidIce

2 years ago

@StevenGWalker74 @DylanBurns1776 @PostLeftWatch Ukraine already got security guarantees from Russia and Western countries when they gave up their nuclear weapons. So the 2022 'deal' was to give up sovereignty in exchange for nothing.