"Let the free market decide!"

Dec 30, 2020 5:45 PM

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Authoritarians don't want rules that apply to everyone. They want rules that are used as weapons against the current out-groups.

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See. You’re just not hurting the right people.

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Blacks and gays

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Also GOP: No abortions for you, but my mistress gets to have one.

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Businesses can choose to serve whomever they want. Your freedom of speech is only in regard to the government. Not private entities

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Republicrats are the worst

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No sense trying to point out hypocrisy when everyone knows that was just code for no blacks no gays no jews

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I want to open a hot dog stand. "Oh, I'm sorry, we don't serve Republicans, Christians, MAGAts or homophobes. Sincerely held beliefs. "

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Please don't call them Christians. They are evangelicals, true believers, organized religion, etc.. Real Christians act differently from t

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and where did this happen? or is this another strawman meme implying this occurs a lot and people jsut believe it?

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Just hang a "No C*nts" sign. someone complains? "See sign. Please leave." Any other reason? "See sign. Please leave."

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"YoURe DeScRiMiNaTiNg AgAiNsT... CiViL rIgHtS aCt Of... DoNt HaVe To WeAr A...!" "Yeah, unhuh. See the sign; legal order. Please leave."

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Calling a Republican a hypocrite is like calling a fish wet. They know and they like it

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Depends on the business and which regulatory body or law has oversight. Shit isn't that simple.

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That goes for basically everything Republicans believe.

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Bunch of snowflakes

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#3 You have to be a hypocrite to be a republican

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That’s why you need to use your guns to kick em out.

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"But I meant you could refuse service to gays, non-Christians, and brown people" -Republicans.

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I know what you meant, everyone knows what you meant, and now you know why I'm telling you, and won't tell you again. GET. OUT. NOW!

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If you want to have a business in 'Merica then follow our laws. Your business is not your sovereign nation where you get to hate on whoever

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Says the guy selling Nazi, KKK, and white supremacist/nationalist stuff at the county fair ground small business event.

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I mean...I think it is. Isn't that what Hobby Lobby and Mike Pence's dumbass anti-gay wedding cake in Indiana laws are all about?

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A business has the right to refuse service to anyone since no contract(payment) has been made. I’d like to see you try and buy a Ferrari.

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Do they have a layaway plan?

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GOP: "No, against them." *points to Hispanic couple in the back of the store.* Clerk: "Oh so the owners?"

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No mask, no shoes, no pants, no non-GOP registration, no service

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This is the original American Dream. Fleeing religious persecution meant going to a place where they could impose their version on 1/

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Everyone in the community. So, it's not surprising that the mentality survived to the present.

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"Business can discriminate against you if you're gay or colored but dont dare tell me I cant come in here without a mask" - those shitstains

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Sure but pandemic and belief are different ya feel? Lol

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Ya feel?

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The funny thing here is a business could easily get away with discriminating against POC or LGBTQ people. Basically the only ones that...

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...get caught and punished are ones that go way, way out of their way to make sure the people they are denying service to know exactly why.

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GOP: "Hypocrisy - it's our middle name. It's what we do."

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Racist Hipocryt Biggot - white male - rep.

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and they're proud of it

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Indeed.

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Well it would be if they knew what it meant.

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Grand Old Hypocrisy Party, the H is silent.

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HYUCK

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If it werent for double standards, Republicans would have no standards at all

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When they say you can't say some things anymore because of the PC police, ask them vehemently WHAT you can't say anymore. Ask for detail.

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Oh so the racist, misogynistic, and bigoted views then?

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"Social media is censoring conservatives!" He whines, on social media.

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Lisa Kudrow did this perfectly on "death to 2020" on Netflix, it was so fucking satisfying. "I WENT ON TUCKER CARLSON TWICE! THEY'RE CENSORI

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ING CONSERVATIVES! "

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Yep -- I've never even seen a legitimate case, it's always say on Reddit them violating the rules of a sub or because they were downvoted.

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"Do your own research. Everyone's talking about it."

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My brother says that when I question some of the pollical/racial things he says. If Trump tweeted it then "twitter is blowing up" uggg

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Funny that people who spout unreasonable claims get angry when you question them on their logic.

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You must be my brother

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My dads go to? “Just wait. You’ll see. Just you wait.” First of all, that’s condescending AF, second... just tell me NOW, sir?

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"So you've got nothing /right now/ in reality, then? Just talkin out your ass?"

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I think we might have the same father (in law*)

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Yikes, I hope he doesn’t have more kids than my brother and I. He himself has bothers and sisters popping up all the time.

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It doesn’t count if the market goes against them.

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Libertarians, eating FDA approved food, driving NTSB approved cars, on state-built roads, bitching about how we don't need gub'ment.

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Libertarians proudly declaring how libertarian they are is like someone proudly declaring they failed government and economics. Baffling.

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The same could be said for Democrats and Republicans. Until the US gets universal healthcare you wont convince me otherwise.

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Nah those two groups are just corrupt. Libertarians are just dumb

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....

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Which ones? Libertarian is a big pool but everyone focuses on the anachro-capatalists for some reason.

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Libertarians are the stupidest fucking people on the planet. Deregulation PREVENTS a free market because monopolies prevent people 1/

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From being able to buy from other places. Jesus christ, how dumb do you have to be to realize poor people can't spend several hours 2/

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Driving to the nearest town that sells the thing in person instead of buying it off Amazon? Or that they can't afford hybrids instead of 3/

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Buying old gas guzzlers?

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Is it libertarian to not bailout corps? I could probably get behind that, at least not ones that bailout and shed a shit ton of employees.

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Libertarian as an ideology varies from area to area. It was once mainly a left leaning form anarchism. The the US came along...

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Yes. If the buyers want to save corporations it's on them, not the government to hand them our tax money.

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I hadn't thought of that. See, pretty much every political ideology has *something* it could contribute to a better-functioning whole.

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The libertarians have some really good ideas. They have some really bad ones too, but not bailing out companies with taxpayer money is nice.

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That's not a libertarian idea, that is an opinion held by many people *including* libertarians. They have no good ideas of their own.

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ACTUAL libertarians believe a corporation should sink or swim on its own merits. "Too big to fail" means "will free up a LOT of room for>

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competition to move in, when it goes belly up." Unfortunately the libertarian party got hijacked by Ayn Rand fetishists.

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1) It is libertarian to not bail out corporations. It's also libertarian to not have any workplace safety protections, minimum wages,

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2) quality control of food, drugs, or any other products. It's libertarian not to have public education, or really a government that does

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3) anything other than provide for national defense and protect property rights. Libertarians hate the idea of a driver's license because

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4) it's oppressive government regulation and overreach. (No, really: https://youtu.be/ZITP93pqtdQ )

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No shoes, no shirt, no mask? No service. Public safety isnt discrimination when youre asking the same thing of everyone who wants to come in

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Yea and here in ID the sign says it but fuck if they enforce it we're all gonna die here no one cares anymore

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Pants?

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It's good to come on this site and read some of your comments after being with my Alabama family for the holidays. J.H.C.

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Whoa whoa whoa. I never knew Jesus had a middle name... Jesus Horovitz Christ? Huh, learn something new everyday

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? https://g.co/kgs/CxFoCN - LMFAO nailed it.

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Yeah this would be my response to dumb fucks whining about wearing a mask. It's the exact same thing.

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"My abortion is different, I have to have one" -- hypocritical ultraconservatives

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My daughter HAS to go to college, she can’t be burdened with a child. Your child, however, will become part of her workforce eventually.

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Hell, one could even say that wearing a mask, like a shirt, could be considered public decency.

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THAT'S DISCRIMINATION!!!! - person with all the privileges in the world

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Therein lies the problem: when you have all that privilege, inconvenience feels like oppression.

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How come pants never makes the list?! Dude could bust in hanging beef and it’s cool because he’s got a tank top and crocs?

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You could literally open a business in a not pandemic and if you require a mask, thems the fucken rules. It's still not racial, sexual, or

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identity discrimination of any kind. It's you right as a business owner to set a dress code.

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*r

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I can't wait until all businesses start doing online sales and door to door delivery. The postal service funded and grants for small busines

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I'm over going into businesses. Too many morons with their noses hanging out.

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I order my groceries thru imperfect foods, they deliver weekly "ugly" produce

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Apparently no shoes no shirt was more about hippies and bringing down an establishments reputation not about health code.

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I wouldnt go back to place that had loose mask restriction. It brings down the establishment's reputation to ignore masks

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Fair, I’m just saying it’s a common misconception. there is no regulation in place that requires shoes, but there are that require masks.

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Health dept can require shoes. Shirt is optional.

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You’d be surprised how many places don’t enforce them as much as they should.

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Most of us can't. I'm by myself at night in a big gas station. I literally could not enforce it if I wanted to

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You need the ol' shotgun right below the counter, chkChk enforcement. I'm only kind of kidding. But you don't get paid enough for that shit.

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I work for a company that serves the public on private land. And my new favorite phrase is "Feel free to wear a mask or feel free to leave"

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We arent forcing you to wear a mask just like we arent forcing you to shop here

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Not necessarily. If a person is physically incapable of putting a mask on, you should at least explore an accommodation, for example.

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Sure, i can do the shopping for you and you can pay from outside. Nobody is allowed in without a mask.

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Accommodations like "delivery" or "waiting outside while they give you your thing".

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Also accommodations like not preventing you from shopping somewhere else

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Yeah totally, this is clearly the best alternative option if available

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Like missing an ear?

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There are masks that don't require ears

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Or missing two arms, or quadriplegic, etc. The business can try to service them outside, or during off-hours when they can sanitize after.

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I've seen straw men in arguments before but never straw quadriplegics. Bravo

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Most businesses already have options like this. The off hours idea is stupid though cause it still puts employees in harms way

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Yeah, double amputee quadriplegics are clearly the oppressed class in the mask "debate"

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Well...no... because in Ontario at least pretty much every municipality has access by-laws requiring masks with exemptions for people 1/

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If I owned a place, no shirt would be fine.

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As someone who worked somewhere that allowed no shirts for a time, it's a terrible idea. Majority that do it stink of BO and it lingers.

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Yea but I'm not budging on the shoes

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I'd be fine with 2 out of 3, as long as one of them is the mask (and it goes over the nose)

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the must have good soles

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What about underwear?

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You can't discriminate against the fine men of Scotland in their kilts!

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Fun story: I went to the liquor store after picking up some cases of soda for a party. The clerk was acting weird and avoiding eye contact..

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I realized when i got back in my car that my tubetop had pulled down so it looked like I was only wearing a half zipped up hoodie and bra.

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Agreed. Although I would assume it’s a health code thing cause...holy fuck there are some nasty folks out there.

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I worked at Albertsons in the Deep South in ‘09 in the dead of summer. A big ole girl paid for her groceries with an under boob 20.

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Was it damp?

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Yes. She had to peel it apart. I’m thankful I was just a bagger. I did get to appreciate the horror on the cashiers face though.

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Why do some women think that's acceptable? ??

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It’s definitely a health code thing

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Depends on the business, but yeah

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Not really. It’s why beach restaurants don’t require shirts. And some restaurants allow dogs inside. It’s more a risk/insurance thing.

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Wouldn’t beach restaurants be subject to those same liability/insurance risks? I’m sure it’s also an imagine issue.

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