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Hong Kong’s freedom is being extinguished. The UK must not turn her back on British nationals in need.
We are reiterating our decades-long call that Hong Kongers be given residency rights in the UK.
RT & tag your MP to show support.
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|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣|
It is not from the benevolence of
the butcher, the brewer, or the
baker, that we expect our dinner,
but from their regard to their
own interest.
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"It is not an exaggeration to say that today might be my last chance to speak in public as a free man... Hong Kong is now again at a crossroad."
@joshuawongcf
on the ASI's Hong Kong webinar.
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I’m calling for rent controls in London so that private tenants won’t have to live with the fear of their rents rising by unpredictable amounts, at a time of their landlord’s choosing.
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...and everybody else too, far too much. The tax burden is higher than it has been since 1995!
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"(1) The right of any person, and of the people, to freedom of speech shall not be violated by the state."
- ASI Legal Fellow
@prestonjbyrne
's draft UK Free Speech Act.
Read more:
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Words matter, and as our understanding of anti-mercantilism evolves, our language evolves along with it. Here’s how to remove speciesism from your daily conversations.
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Find the neoliberal one:
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First up is
@benedictrogers
, Chair and Co-founder of Hong Kong Watch giving us a rundown of the new security law being imposed by China.
It could become illegal to host this webinar as China cracks down on free speech and criticism of the regime.
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Ladies, if he:
- ignores text messages
- spends all of his time at work
- insists he can see phantom limbs
- has encyclopaedic knowledge of ancient physics, logic and astronomy
He's not your man. He's the father of modern economics, Adam Smith
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We have a special announcement for anxious parents of neoliberal teens.
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＿| ⊃／(＿_ butcher, the
／ └-(＿＿_／ brewer or
￣￣￣￣￣￣ baker that we
expect our dinner, but from their
regard to their own interest
💤
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We need a Disney princess who reduces taxes
We need a Disney princess who reduces taxes
We need a Disney princess who reduces taxes
We need a Disney princess who reduces taxes
We need a Disney princess who reduces taxes
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"I'm an economist"
- boring
- who cares
- what does that even mean
"I am here to regard the interest of the butcher, the brewer and the baker"
- mysterious
- ominous
- maybe you've been sent by an oracle
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Sadiq Khan: So where has rent control failed in the past?
Me:
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{\__/}
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/ >🌐💰 u want wealthy nations?
{\__/}
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💰🌐< \ then stop being a mercantilist bitch
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The ideal size of government 😄
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Why would the alt-right insult us by calling us "cucks," when we would NEVER call them "incel weeaboos"? Oh well, we try so hard to redeem them - and maybe someday that will happen!
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To the mercantilists: NEVER EVER THREATEN FREE TRADE AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES OF WHICH MANY THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE SUFFERED BEFORE. WE WILL NO LONGER STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF TARIFFS, RENT-SEEKING & BULLIONISM. BE CAUTIOUS!
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Based on my calculations:
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Good grief, would you look at the time!
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9 ⊙--> Mercantilism doesn't work
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Happy New Year to all--even the rent-seekers and mercantilists!
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We have an important & detailed announcement to make.
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My wife & I never baby talk to our kids. We speak in long quotations from The Wealth of Nations.
My son is 3 & has already founded a pin factory. Last night he paid us £5 for his dinner, saying to us "it is not from the benevolence of the parents that I expect my dinner,"
My wife and I never baby talk to our kids. We use full sentences and a wide vocabulary including complex words.
My son is 3 and can carry a full conversation. Adults at family gatherings are shocked at his social aptitude. My daughter isn’t even 2 and she uses 4-syllable words.
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Did you even READ The Wealth of Nations, you FOOL?!
....I am a Tariff Man. When people or countries come in to raid the great wealth of our Nation, I want them to pay for the privilege of doing so. It will always be the best way to max out our economic power. We are right now taking in $billions in Tariffs. MAKE AMERICA RICH AGAIN
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SPECIAL WEBINAR: Doing our Duty by Hong Kong
with
-
@joshuawongcf
,
@demosisto
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@lisanandy
,
@LabourParty
-
@TomTugendhat
,
@CommonsForeign
-
@benedictrogers
,
@hk_watch
hosted by ASI's
@MacdonaldJam
.
Register:
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When we're genuinely arguing for cannabis legalisation but people call us the Adam Spliff Institute
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I am a:
⚪️ Man
⚪️ Woman
🔘 Nation
Looking for:
⚪️ Men
⚪️ Women
🔘 Wealth
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We
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really
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
really
need to accept Venezuelan refugees
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We need to colonise Mars. It's about protecting the NHS.
'It's about protecting the NHS.'
The world's first Salt and Sugar Reformulation tax could be added to food sold in shops, cafes and canteens in England.
@DrHilaryJones
explains we need to cut back on certain foods to protect the NHS and the environment.
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⊂_ヽ Don't
＼＼
＼( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
> ⌒ヽ
/ へ＼ be
/ / ＼＼
ﾚ ノ ヽ_つ a
/ /
/ /|
( (ヽ mercantilist
| |、＼
| 丿 ＼ ⌒)
| | ) /
ノ ) Lﾉ
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Here's your reminder that it only takes a few seconds to say
• I'm sorry
• Can we talk?
• I love you
• I was wrong
• It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner but from their regard to their own interest
•You were right
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Retweet to feed the cat a serving of neoliberalism.
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＼二つ
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I saw a guy crafting one pin today.
No specialisation.
No division of labour.
No pin factories.
He just sat there.
Crafting one pin.
Like a psychopath.
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Find the mercantilist:
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Can’t find them?
That’s because they live among us, looking like normal people. The only real difference is they're going to be slapped by my invisible hand.
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You've arrived at Club Neoliberal. What policy do you say you support to get the bouncer to let you in?
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"We in the global community are in danger of forgetting the key insight of those Scottish thinkers: the invisible hand of Adam Smith,"
@BorisJohnson
says that the "mercantilists are everywhere".
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At the baker's and some bozo was talking to his friend about wanting free food 🙄
A 296-year-old man interrupted and said it is not from the benevolence of the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. A cheer went up from the whole bakery! 😍
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Are your children texting about The Wealth of Nations? Learn the signs!
IIRC: Incredible Industrial Revolution Coming
IMHO: Invisible Mysterious Hand Observed!
TLDR: Time to Divide Labour Rapidly
BTW: Balanced Trade = Worthless
YMMV: Your Mercantilism Must Vanish
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We have the receipts
Rishi just claimed that "as a backbench MP I came up with the idea of Freeports". Given they have existed around the world since before he was born, I doubt that. They were pushed domestically by the Adam Smith Institute in the 80s as I recall.
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Yer man Adam Smith vs. all the mercantilists + socialists
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Mercantilists delivering their promises of wealth to nations
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our winner, but from their regard to their own interest.
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There is no credible evidence that sin taxes have any impact on obesity rates. There is evidence that they pinch from the poorest's pockets.
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By the age of 35, you should expect your dinner not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, but from their regard to their own interest.
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We've been recognised as the best domestic & international economic policy thinktank in the UK & ranked 2nd globally among Independent Think Tanks by the University of Pennsylvania!
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We have choked off the supply of housing.
Millions have been priced out.
This isn't because of a shortage of land.
We have a shortage of permissions to use it.
We need your help to change the rules.
Enter the consultation to Give Streets a Say >
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Top 10 WORST economic practices ranked:
10. There are
9. Too
8. Many
7. Criteria
6. That
5. Need
4. To
3. Be
2. Considered
1. Mercantilism
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\ a tax on /___/
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I'm an economist!
I don't break windows.
I don't support mercantilism.
I don't make pins on my own.
I don't disregard the interests of the baker.
I don't have visible hands.
Yes, we exist! 🙂
I'm a girl!
I don't smoke.
I don't drink.
I don't party every weekend.
I don't wear 3 inches of makeup.
I don't put sultry pictures of my bra showing online.
I don't make out with loads of guys,
Or other girls, to get attention.
Yes, we exist!🙂
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Me:
┻┳┻┳┻┳┻┳┻┳┻┳
┳┻┳┻ ⌌ ⏠ ┳┻┳┻
┻┳┻ ᕕ( •,• )ᕗ ┳┻┳
┳┻┳┻ / ⌣ \ ┳┻┳┻
—𝕒𝕓𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕙 𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕕𝕖 𝕓𝕒𝕣𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕣𝕤—
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
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HER: He's probably thinking about other girls.
HIM: Why doesn't anyone else acknowledge that hospital car parking charges act as a rationing device to allocate scarce parking spaces to those who need it the most?
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A decade of nothing offered by separation has left Scotland poorer, unhealthier, and more divided than ever.
Hannah Ord says we should focus on the things that matter like health, education and the economy to enrich the lives of Scots.
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CAR SALESMAN: *slaps the cover of The Wealth of Nations*
This bad boy can fit so many timeless economic insights within it.
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Oh, you think you understand neoliberals? Name five of our albums.
If you are a prominent political commentator and you seriously don't know what a neoliberal is at the ass-end of 2017, then chances are, you are one.
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A reminder that more people applied for Love Island this year than read The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759, Part I, Section I, Chapter III: Of the manner in which we judge of the propriety or impropriety of the affections of other men by their concord or dissonance with our own
A reminder that more people applied for Love Island this year than Oxford/Cambridge University.
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I feel sorry for pin-factory era kids. They will never know the painstaking work of drawing out wires, straightening, cutting, pointing, & grinding them.
Instead of contributing to the production of 4800 pins/day, they won't experience the joy of having made just a single pin.
I feel sorry for Netflix era kids. They will never know the high stakes adrenaline of running to the bathroom/fridge/bedroom in a single ad break, with the beckoning call of a sibling screaming “It’s ONNNNNN” to send you hurdling over furniture to get back in time.
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So it’s official. As of today we are no longer a libertarian think tank. We’re neoliberals. And maybe you are too.
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🏠Your reminder that the average house price in the 80s was 3x the average salary.
Today it is 9x the average salary.
Young people do work hard- but our economy and planning system are stifling their ability to get on in life
✍️ 'We should welcome rising house prices as a much needed incentive for the workshy generation' | Writes
@MrTCHarris
Read his comment here ⤵️
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I am a:
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🔘 Adam Spliff Institute
Looking for:
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⚪️ Women
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"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."
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