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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade?
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
It is, unfortunately an AI generated image.
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Maybe the Johnson Government thought that the British public may also be better off if they had decent access to inexpensive beef?
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
“They”? All Jewish people? The statement is obviously false. You need to take a pause and consider what you say.
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
People who are Jewish are automatically presumed to be serving foreign governments? You are on the wrong platform. Go back to X.
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Right, so it is okay to have a private armed militia protecting cash in transit (security license - class 1F armed guard), but not Jewish people?
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The reason that you find this weird is because it seems you agree with AOC’s political views. Many Democrat and independent voters do not. It can be debated whether a jump to the left will assist the Democrats return to power.
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
A court cannot ‘fund a case’. It has no money to do that. A court rules on the cases brought before it. The ruling that a president has criminal immunity has nothing to do with the present case. The Attorney-General and the Director of the FBI do not have criminal immunity.
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The judge is plainly a county judge, not a federal judge
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The Trump administration has not ignored the Supreme Court yet.
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The Supreme Court are not the police. They do not appear and investigate crimes. The Court can only take action when someone brings a case to it.
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
When the demand for imports in a country declines, the value of its currency (under a free-floating regime) tends to appreciate.
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
If it’s backpackers’ accommodation it is not housing. It is tourist and visitor accommodation. No-one is actually living there.
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
The point is there are many approved developments where supplying the residence ‘at cost’ would deliver a dwelling that would exceed the current borrowing capacity of potential buyers. Hence the apartments do not proceed.
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Developers of residential properties are price takers, not price setters. The ability of people to buy apartments is constrained by what they can borrow, which in turn depends on their income and interest rates.
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Sure. Which hospital upgrades, school openings or public transport projects should the government defer to subsidise loss-making housing developments?
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
If the value of the development project is negative, relative to the value of the land at its current use, the development will not proceed.
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
In February 1933 Nazi leader Hermann Göring ordered the swearing-in of thousands of SA and SS members as auxiliary police officers in Prussia. Other German states soon took this step as well. If Trump is following this playbook, the next step is for the Proud Boys to be sworn in as FBI agents.
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The Republicans control both houses in Congress. Not the Democrats.
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
I don’t have a dog in this fight, but it does seem that this particular group may not be a representative sample of the gen z population at large.
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
When you borrow money from a bank you need to pay interest on the loan. In the same way when you raise equity capital to get/keep a business going you must pay a return, adjusted for the risk of the investment. If you cannot do this the people who have the capital will invest their money elsewhere.
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Similarly, there are more complex products and services that need to be provided by larger businesses. Who cares whether they are motivated by profit? As long as they get the job done. You’re kidding yourself if, for example, you think that govt could make a better (or cheaper) smart phone. 2 of 2
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
The assumption that generation of profits is for ‘a few’ is laughable. The vast army of small business people who drive the economy are motivated by profits, and in pursing profits, end up providing for ‘public needs’. The idea that government could do this better is laughable. 1 of 2
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
However the new proposal does not include the restrictions on investment in China and new rules for social media companies (that were in the bipartisan bill). So this could be a win for Elon.
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Both are breaking norms.
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Yes, there is a fundamental conflict of interest in exercising the pardon power in these circumstances. That is why the holder of public office should never exercise the pardon power to be benefit family or close associates. Of course Trump transgressed in this way. Still doesn’t make it okay.
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The issue is that a key Biden/Democrat selling point over the past six years has been that they are not the sort of people who would suffer Trump-style ethical lapses. Biden has abandoned that position. This is newsworthy. Ethical lapses by Trump are not new. Ethical lapses by Biden are.
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
‘Trickle down economics’ is also a straw man argument. The advocates of lower taxation to argue for ‘trickle down economics’. This is a cartoonish version of their argument that has been constructed by their critics.
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
It is likely that prices would have risen faster in the absence of that technology. In a full employment economy firms will invest in labor saving technology so that they can expand to meet demand and compete with other businesses.
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Merely being in the same room as a person, and being photographed with them, does not make you guilty of any faults that person may have. How many people have you met in your life? Were photographs taken? Are their misdeeds now your misdeeds?
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brickman99.bsky.social @brickman99.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Surely the race and gender of the rich people is not relevant?
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