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Don't Republicans have better things to worry about?

Sirkickyass said:
You have forgotten what you wrote on the subject:

"In point of fact" the reason nearly everyone on the planet has a cellphone is because Reagan broke up the AT&T monopoly, and deregulated phone service. This produced a competitive phone market and the rest is history.
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Please explain how that can be construed in any way other than "Reagan is directly responsible for the cell phone."
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LOL! It says Reagan broke up at&t to allow for a competitive phone market and now there is widespread use. That don't mean I was claiming Reagan created the cell phone like Algore created the internet.


AT&T was going to be broken up regardless of who won the 1980 election. The process had already been running for six years. Somehow I doubt you'd be crediting Carter in a different historical timeline.
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Okay I'll give credit to Nixon whose justice department started it...still a Republican...still makes my point.


So you're acknowleding here that the break-up of AT&T, which you have cited as a positive event in the market leading to innovation, was due to government mandates.

Now your previous statement in that same post was: "Technological innovations come about because of free market competition not government imposed mandates. The market may come up with awesome things to work around the mandates...like the SUV...but otherwise government is a barrier to innovation."

Do you understand the conflict here? Do you understand how the AT&T breakup illustrates exactly the opposite of the point you were trying to make?

Never mind, I forgot who I'm talking to. Of course you don't understand.
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I guess if you insist that the executive branch breaking up a monopoly to allow for free market competition is the same as the legislative branch interfering in the free market by banning a product in favor of another product then you can say I acknowledged any damn thing you want.
 
The-Joker said:
I'm not gonna throw down a senior thesis to try and beat Mislapper in an argument. Because I don't need to... if you didn't notice I won,
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LOL!

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Millsapa said:
LOL! It says Reagan broke up at&t to allow for a competitive phone market and now there is widespread use. That don't mean I was claiming Reagan created the cell phone like Algore created the internet.
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You're backpedaling here. You wrote: "'In point of fact' the reason nearly everyone on the planet has a cellphone is because Reagan broke up the AT&T monopoly, and deregulated phone service."

Cause: Reagan broke up the AT&T monopoly and deregulated phone service.

Effect: Nearly everyone on the planet has a cell phone.

I know you have linked these two things as cause and effect because you use the linking phrases "the reason" and "is because."

This isn't debateable. Refusing to admit that's what you said both makes you look silly and insults the intelligence of everyone else.

Okay I'll give credit to Nixon whose justice department started it...still a Republican...still makes my point.
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If it is simply about Republican vs. Democrat then you're simply being overtly partisan. I have no problem crediting Nixon, who I believe was a good President that had personal demons that caused him to cheat in an election he should have won anyway. If it was a straight-up vote between Richard Nixon and Obama today I'd vote for Nixon. I don't think it's difficult to argue that Nixon actually governed to the left of Obama.


I guess if you insist that the executive branch breaking up a monopoly to allow for free market competition is the same as the legislative branch interfering in the free market by banning a product in favor of another product then you can say I acknowledged any damn thing you want.
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Well actually it's a court order, which would make it a judicial function on a lawsuit initiated by the executive branch suing under a law crafted by the legislative branch (you see, that's how things work in our system), but yes that is the government "mandating" how a company should or should not do business. Completely irrelevant references to other things entirely, that is exactly the thing that you demonized in your initial post.
 
Sirkickyass said:
You're backpedaling here. You wrote: "'In point of fact' the reason nearly everyone on the planet has a cellphone is because Reagan broke up the AT&T monopoly, and deregulated phone service."

Cause: Reagan broke up the AT&T monopoly and deregulated phone service.

Effect: Nearly everyone on the planet has a cell phone.

I know you have linked these two things as cause and effect because you use the linking phrases "the reason" and "is because."

This isn't debateable. Refusing to admit that's what you said both makes you look silly and insults the intelligence of everyone else.
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Oh you thought that when I said "everyone has a cellphone" that they were just holding them and not using them.

If it is simply about Republican vs. Democrat then you're simply being overtly partisan.
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I was responding to your sheep who was simply being overtly partisan. So what?
 
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