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Id like to see the Sherman Anti-trust law properly enforced and to do away with Robert Bork's assertion to anti-trust which only cares about profit and consumer price. Bork's theory is a failed understanding of what anti-trust should be used for and has proven to be false in consideration of our ever increasing prices for worse services, i.e. Internet, healthcare, education, transport, food, etc., in regards to other developed nations.

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Bork was always a corporate apologist with a flair for the sound bite at the expense of real intellectual heft. He made his reputation as a Constitutional scholar, but how can you seriously be considered one when you label the Ninth Amendment -- as Bork did -- a "water blot" on the Constitution?

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Apr 26, 2022·edited Apr 26, 2022

Evil Nerds. There's an 80s remake. Revenge Of The Evil Nerds. And why are they always boomers? All this legalese economic psycho-babble reminds me of a scene from the movie "Year One". High Priest of Sodom (Oliver Platt) tells slave (John Cera) if he enters the Holy of Holies he will die instantly, and don't bother trying to under how it works. The then proceeds to attempt to rape John Cera. These ivory tower long robed assholes with their esoteric byzantine explanations for why everyone else has to get screwed have always been around. That's why FDR said, it's high time we kick out the money changers from the high temples of our civilization. Meaning of course "economic royalists". And if we believe Michael Hudson about 2nd Temple Era plutocrasy, FDRs analogy was dead on.

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