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foreseeablebananas46 karma

Not a pansy, that's actually a perfect description of their two styles. You have just explained to me why I prefer Stewart over Colbert (by a very tiny margin).

foreseeablebananas34 karma

You can easily choose Rush Holt over Cory Booker because Booker is in deep with Wall Street, anti-labor charter schools, and other influential special interests. Cory Booker's defense of vulture capital groups is particularly disgusting.

foreseeablebananas19 karma

Doesn't this undercut what you said earlier about competition being the key industry regulator?

We compete on price and service. If another video provider rolled in, I would just have to adapt.

If barriers to entry are so high, how can consumers reasonably expect enough companies to enter the market and ensure that those bad actors won't be able to restrict internet access to increase their profit margin? It seems that government regulation—or a public option for internet access—would be the answer to such market conditions.

foreseeablebananas16 karma

Many progressives are very concerned with your recent meetings with business elites and your self-branding as "a fiscally responsible progressive". Andrew Cuomo said similar things in his run for governor, but what we ended up with was a conservative Democrat who was incredibly hostile to labor unions in an effort to please big business.

How do you reconcile your progressive alliances among those who are entirely fine with raising taxes and spending more in order to achieve a greater net social utility over recent rhetoric involving pedantic economic efficiency?

foreseeablebananas16 karma

The pacing of this response makes me think of an Old Spice commercial with its constant random happenings popping up.