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by Helmet 9y ago
> Because people who are food insecure don't have savings to relocate, or the ability to take the income they have with them, generally. B.S. If they cannot afford it, they can move. My parents moved, I have moved, it f'ing suc
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by Helmet 9y ago
Yes, she can move. If she cannot afford to live there, she can move. It sucks, but life sucks and sometimes it means you can't live exactly where or how you want to. My parents worked as "pickers" for the Home Shopping Networ
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by Helmet 9y ago
There is no such thing as "fair redistribution" - it's theft through political means and it will just further obscure the market. You will end up exacerbating the problem. The solution is to build more housing and stop subsid
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by Helmet 9y ago
No one is forcing them to do it. Anyone would much prefer to have an evening with their friends or family. But if they need the money, then it's a job. And it's probably a better job than most jobs.
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by Helmet 9y ago
My logical brain goes: I bet these women are getting paid a pretty penny to go to some stupid party and mingle with the patrons. Probably get drinks and food on the house too. Lucky bastards!
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by Helmet 9y ago
You keep regurgitating this line of reasoning like it's some sort of profound "gotcha" logical trap. We worry because we do not wish for things to escalate. And I can assure you, they will escalate, as armed separatism would
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by Helmet 9y ago
All that technology, and yet a bunch of Vietnamese living in small villages and mud huts put up enough of a fight to create a permanent sore spot in US military history. Also, those guys we've been trying to kill for the past 15 years
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by Helmet 9y ago
Both the Russians and Chinese had big civil wars in which the governments you mention eventually came into power. The question of armed resistance isn’t a hypothetical. It was tried and it failed. This has nothing to do with my point, or
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by Helmet 9y ago
The Civil War was, essentially, fought to preserve the institution of slavery. The period after the Civil War was marked by incredible violence against blacks by the KKK and racist whites and white mobs. Blacks protected themselves, their f
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by Helmet 9y ago
How is it mad? Government's are capable committing atrocities of unprecedented scale against their own citizenry. I wonder if the Russian Kulaks could have organized an armed resistance, or perhaps the Chinese peasants during Maosism.
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by Helmet 9y ago
Yes, many of us do. The vast majority of US gun-owners are not criminals, and the social problems that gun ownership seems to correlate with can be argued, debated, and squared away with "other" strong correlations, so the debate
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by Helmet 9y ago
I live in a stereotypical flyover area, and the sentiment is spot on. As have I, and the sentiment is a silly caricature. People vote against things that would clearly help them, because that's what everyone at church is doing. Can
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by Helmet 9y ago
Yeah, I'm always a bit dumbfounded when I hear the communal/polyamory argument. It seems to go against the observed behavior of almost every major society across the world. Exceptions are rare, and the ones I've read about d
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by Helmet 9y ago
Can you name some of these unjust laws?
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by Helmet 9y ago
You can get a iPhone SE (essentially a 6S) which is a great phone perfectly capable of running any app for $150.
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by Helmet 9y ago
It will be interesting to see how well the HomePod will integrate with other devices. It will most likely integrate perfectly and seamlessly with other Apple devices, and maybe not so much with other manufacturers. I have fiddled some wi
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by Helmet 9y ago
Careful now, this is HN, the standard mainstream liberal orthodoxy still applies: diversity at absolutely ANY cost!
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by Helmet 9y ago
OK. On social issues I support the general liberal consensus. I'm in favor of more financial regulation (although this stance is embraced by both the far left and right), a one payer healthcare system, and free/cheaper access to c
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by Helmet 9y ago
Why would r/The_Donald be neutral? It's literally called "The_Donald". It's like expecting r/hillaryclinton to be neutral. r/politics is for all political discussion, but it's just a left-wing echo ch
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by Helmet 9y ago
What about r/The_Donald violates the rules other than going against your political preferences? There are left-wing sub-reddits that openly call for armed revolution, violence against the "bourgeoisie" and the police, destruc
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by Helmet 9y ago
All I saw was a large picture below the article and didn't scroll all the way down. I've updated my comment after this was raised to my attention.
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by Helmet 9y ago
EDIT: The article does break down the purpose of Section 1615, and shed light on its context - I did not see that the article continued beyond the massive picture below the blurb that I quoted.
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by Helmet 9y ago
The "point" of weakening the social safety net is not to "hurt" people in a downturn, but to shift economic incentives by changing a reward structure from non-work/non-productive behavior to work/productive beh
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by Helmet 9y ago
In my view wages of the middle class should grow at the same rate the top incomes grow. What does this mean? What do you mean should and who is in the "top"? By should, you mean we should peg "middle-class" wages to so
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by Helmet 9y ago
Small business employ the plurality of Americans. Also, you made a disparaging comment towards Republicans earlier, and I just want to point out that Google, MS, Apple, etc. etc. are virtually all staffed by liberals and Democrats. Oh, and
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by Helmet 9y ago
Just let people's incomes rise at the same rate the economy grows What do you mean? Have you considered the relationship between income and the "rate the economy grows"? funneling all gains to the business owners Yes, the
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by Helmet 9y ago
It isn't ill defined. Ideally, and I would argue in most circumstances, wages are a strong approximation of the marginal revenue product, just as neoclassic theory states they should be.
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by Helmet 9y ago
I know this is all anecdotal so my input is ultimately useless and not applicable to society at large, but I grew up poor and am now "successful" (by conventional standards). There was no specific program that inspired me or gave
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by Helmet 9y ago
This shouldn't be surprising because despite what you are told day-in-day-out by the media, Americans, and Western European society in general, are extremely progressive on race relations, especially compared to other societies around
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by Helmet 9y ago
So you want an entire rundown US history post-1865? If you want a social critique of the modern liberal "Euro-Critical" conception of racism and slavery, I'll refer you to Thomas Sowell's excellent collection of essays i

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