#Adam Smith

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Martin Pengelly at The Guardian:

Protesters calling for Israel to cease fire in its war with Hamas who have disrupted US public events and infrastructure are practicing “leftwing fascism” or “leftwing totalitarianism”, a senior US House Democrat said, adding that such protesters are “challenging representative democracy” and should be arrested.

“Intimidation is the tactic,” said Adam Smith of Washington state, the ranking Democrat on the House armed services committee. “Intimidation and an effort to silence opposition … I don’t know if there’s such a thing as leftwing fascism. If you want to just call it leftwing totalitarianism, then that’s what it is. It is a direct challenge to representative democracy now.” Smith was speaking – before the outbreak this week of mass protests on US college campuses, many producing arrests – to the One Decision Podcast and its guest host Christina Ruffini, a CBS News reporter. Ruffini asked Smith about protests in his district, including vandalism at his home and a town hall meeting disrupted by protesters demanding an end to the Israeli bombardment of Gaza prompted by attacks by Hamas on 7 October. Disruptive, aggressive protests are “illegal … completely wrong … and enormously dangerous”, Smith said, adding: “I really want people to understand – and I put out a statement after they shut down a town hall meeting that I was trying to have [in March] – what’s going on here. “And everyone’s like, ‘Well, you understand their passion and all that. And I do understand that, I do. This is a life-or-death situation. It is certainly not the only life-or-death situation that I and all policymakers deal with. But it is one that is important. But that’s not what [the protesters are] doing. “What they are trying to do is they are trying to silence opposition and intimidate decision-makers. I’ve been doing town hall meetings for 34 years now, in some pretty hotly contested environments … [but] I have never had a town hall that I couldn’t keep under control enough so that people had the chance to say their piece. “But [the protesters’] goal and their objective was not to get their point across. It was to silence anyone who dared to disagree with them, to make sure that only one voice was heard. And their other goal was to intimidate. That’s why they’re showing up at member’s houses.”

[...] “I got two words into it and they started screaming at me again. So this is a different thing than your standard protest. In my view, the solution to it is if they are committing a crime – which by the way, shutting down a freeway, shutting down an airport, intimidating people, there’s a crime – [they] ought to be arrested.” Protesting at public figures’ homes should also be subject to arrest, Smith said. “The point of it is intimidation. And I think it is harassment. It’s a crime, and I think [they should] be arrested for it. “… But you know, when you are shutting down freeways, shutting down airports, frankly putting people’s lives at risk – If you’re an ambulance trying to get through to hospital – then that’s going beyond getting your point across, and you’re trying to intimidate and silence people in a way that I think is troubling.”

Excuse me, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA)?! Pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses are not the ones silencing the opposition, but pro-Israel Apartheid apologists like you are the ones squelching freedom of speech.

Your call to arrest the protesters reeks of fascism!

[queercodedangel]

"the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed and demand a rent even for its natural produce.”

- Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

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Something that never seems to get mentioned during conversations about Adam is that he essentially took a large chunk of Ianto's job. Historian and relic keeper. That smacks of archivist to me. I think he'd probably make it into a much cooler job than Ianto ever did, if we're being honest.

Considering that Adam rewrote Cyberwoman so that it was him who executed Lisa, I wonder if his presence in the archives related to that.

He also left Torchwood One in the same year that Ianto started and was probably also in Information Retrieval, although we now know that Ianto was only in that position for a month. I wonder how that played out.

Obviously none of that actually happened, but if he touched enough memories than it could have been real, for all intents and purposes.

I really think that there's so much potential in an Adam and Ianto Big Finish story.

[coffee4harper]

ALL HUMAN RECORD IS A LIE??!??!?!?!?! YOU TWIST IT INTO WHAT YOU WANT TO BELIEVE?!?!??!?!? BUT WE KNOW THE ROT INSIDE YOUR HEART?!?!?!?!??!?! YOU CRAVE FLESH?!?!?!

[elkoko]

Ya lo dijo Adam Smith "Los ancho para mí, lo estrecho para ti"

#neoliberalismo #capitalismo #impuestos #Humor

[canadianabroadvery]

“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind” Adam Smith, renowned economist and philosopher. Adam Smith's critique of self-interest and greed, among the powerful.

[avillainstory]

Took a shit on capitalism quite literally / Edinburgh, Scotland

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The recent roosts about economics, would it be fair to say that you don’t think particularly highly of Adam Smith?

I think Smith's critique of mercantilism was rather unfair, and I think he was deeply self-contradictory, but I would say that he was among the better classical economists. There is a reason why Marx began with Smith.

[yorgunherakles]

bendeki en iyi şey kendime olan hoşnutsuzluğumdur.

saint augustinus - itiraflar

[the-torchwood-archive]

Ianto and Retcon

Here's something to ponder on.

In Almost Perfect, Ianto is administered what they refer to as "anti-retcon", which makes him recall things he has forgotten.

"It'll take a while to start working. If it works at all. Maybe three days. Sooner if there's a trigger. Plus, there's a tiny danger you might remember Everything."

It's never addressed in text, but would that Everything also include Retconned memories?

Memories like Adam? What if both the man and the memories began creeping back in?

All I'm saying is that it's a great opportunity for a Big Finish story. A nice GDL penned dark!Ianto story that brings back the wonderful Bryan Dick. Maybe even Kai, considering that Rhys had seen Adam and wasn't Retconned as far as we saw.

Obviously there's no way BF would write a story that has required reading of a sixteen year old out of print book, but still. A girl can dream.

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Adam Smith Close, Kirkcaldy