Fuck this genocidal scumbag.

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While I agree with @dystopianfuturetoday about Milton Friedman, I think that the right's demigod stating that criminalizing drugs has harmful effects on society is something which needs to be promoted.

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No brainer.

If the essential goal of free markets is to conquer competition to ensure your own survivability & market dominance then how come Friedman also acknowledges at the end of this video that monopolies are a negative influence?, if the market REALLY worked in the manner in which he claims then wouldn't these monopolies be nothing but 'The Best Companies?'.

This viewpoint of only caring about markets because supposedly markets are the best option to help individuals forgets the key problem that 'people create markets' & people are greedy (basically the same problem as communism) 'power corrupts', and this ideology has zero respect or tolerance for the people it claims to be helping while also making them support big business unquestioningly being made into pawns of ITS GAME. To believe that the leaders of these companies main concern is to serve the interests of the individual is nothing short of nonsensical and taps into an egocentric self-focused Gordon Gekko like system while group worth is tossed aside in favour of profit at any cost.

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....for anyone unfamiliar with Chile 1973.

In 1973 he collaborated with brutal Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet to force 'free market' reforms on the country by way of a coup. The coup used murder and torture to terrify opponents into silence. Business owners sympathetic to the coup allowed their warehouses to be used as impromptu torture centers to torture union members that had previously been employees. The national futbol stadium was transferred into a massive torture/rape/prison/execution complex where tens of thousands of Chilean citizens died. Milton said his coordinated economic plan for the coup would require some 'shock therapy'.

For more on this, read The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein. It details this incident and dozens of similar ones to impose 'free market' capitalism on the people by way of fear, torture, force, bribery and blackmail. http://www.amazon.com/Shock-Doctrine-Rise-Disaster-Capitalism/dp/0805079831

related sifting:

http://videosift.com/video/Sept-11-The-start-of-a-dark-era-for-Chile
http://videosift.com/video/USA-commits-911-attrocities-on-Chile
http://videosift.com/video/The-War-On-Democracy-by-John-Pilger

"Only if the word 'no-brainer' appears in it somewhere..."


>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

No brainer.



P.S. Seriously with the Philip Glass music?

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Fuck this genocidal scumbag.


Dude, we all hate Friedman, and with good reason. However, I don't disagree with this line of argument. I think the resurgence of true libertarians in the republican party makes this one of the few issues we could get bipartisan agreement on. I'd just as soon pursue it than malign their ideologues.

Also, I think some of what happened in Chile is overly associated with Friedman. He wasn't Pinochet himself. I don't think he was "disappearing" women himself. While it was a horrible blemish on human history, it's hard to say what exactly his involvement was.