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The profit motive creates perverse incentives, bad outcomes, and inflated prices.

Otherwise cool.
I'm not interested in discussing the question "but is there any place at all for the profit motive within healthcare?" because the reality we are dealing with right now is that there's no place for NOT the profit motive.

The question is designed to avoid solving the question.
You: [starting to pump water out of your flooded house]

Me: oooh but isn't there room for ANY water at all in your home?
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A.R. Moxon
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Any cop who takes the job in order to be respected shouldn't be a cop.
The expectation should be that police respect their community, never the other way around.

A community's respect for police is the *product* of the police's respect for the community, and never the other way around.

Obviously. OBVIOUSLY.
Anyone thinking like William Barr is a fascist.

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A.R. Moxon
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Yeah, Pete is right.
There’s this thing where someone says something that’s been proven true as if it’s obviously ridiculous, as if simply scoffing at truth will disprove it.

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A.R. Moxon
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Donate. To. Julián. Castro.
Or. Corey. Booker.

But. Really. Especially. Julián. Castro.
Not even with your money, dude.
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