alexanderstears

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by alexanderstears 9y ago
Reversing injustice is still injustice. And why care about the motivation for someone to be against discrimination? I don't think Frederik Douglass was any less legitimate of an abolitionist because he was self-interested in destroying
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
This is why we have to ban welfare for anyone with any sort of post-secondary education. Nothing deradicalizes someone like a job and nothing radicalizes someone like too much free time.
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9SiRNibD14
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
The dissident right holds that this is a good thing - we can't get segregation and a very comprehensive freedom of association from Constitutional conservatives, but progressive leftists are more than happy to do the legwork to erode p
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
I've jumped between a few cities actually. I'll call out the things I wish I would have known: * winter isn't that bad if you have a heated garage at work and at least an insulated garage (if unheated) at home * winter is tha
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
+1 I'm making 80% of the SFBA wages and I live in the rust belt. I had a 1 bedroom, 800 sq. ft apartment a block away from work for <$1000/mo - which is actually pretty high for the area. I can rent a house for ~1,200/mo i
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
I think busting public sector unions would be a good start, making the public employees at-will would be even better. And citizens should have a feedback mechanism - surly DMV clerks and permit granters who don't follow up should hit t
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
Either they give it up or they can get a new job. We have a lot more government than we need and we get a lot less than we pay for.
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
Gatekeeping is the reason we wind up with Harvey Weinsteins and Donald Trumps. People working for the civil government have pretty cushy jobs, it's not too demanding to ask that they make it so non-connected people can achieve the same
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
Why do you think we give Mexico a pass for its election interference?
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
Dumb argument - straight cis white males are agrubly the ones who have to worry about discrimination the most. Why do you think we're seeing articles about ageism in tech? It's because people do care about it. Look at all the ethi
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
You're not wrong, but the 'frightful 5' were all transformative for society. The point is that the big companies quash non-transformative small companies.
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
we know convictions are disproportionate based on race and economic status. we also know that all protected classes are equally likely to murder. The standard for guilt is the same regardless of any protected class status. The executives
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
The "right to earn a living" is a pillar of the common law tradition that hasn't gotten the respect and deference it deserves since at least the 1930s.
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
If there were a way we'd surely see them opt-into that arrangement.
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
I'll give the grand parent that benefit of the doubt - pharmacology research is expensive, there's a reason that most of the companies who develop pharmaceuticals have multi-billion dollar market caps.
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
AD Hominem fallacy - the status of someone has no relation to the outcome of a scientific experiment. That's not what the parent comment is arguing. The parent comment points out that research is expensive and not available equally t
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
That's how price discovery can work in markets. "How much is that tomato?" "$5" "Yikes. Too much for me. Thanks for your time"
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
They do - I'm not sure how they licence it though or what data sources they use but I've seen that their data on high income households is the best in the business and shockingly accurate. However, I can't imagine the complia
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
>though every group that has successfully established a government (whether or not they had a utopian vision) has employed violence Counter example: the peaceful handoff of Hong Kong between the U.K and China - they managed to create a g
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
By all accounts, the Trump administration seems more constrained by the rule of law than the Obama administration. Exhibit A being the DOJ settlement money that the Obama administration steered towards liberal activist groups. Left wing aut
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
Authoritarian violence is absolutely an ideology - every group that's ever employed it has been a group with a political utopia. And every group that's articulated a political utopia has employed violence. Arguing that they'r
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
There's been a pattern of less and less violence in America - until recently that is. Anything that threatens to disrupt the pattern is cause for concern, and the authoritarian leftists seem locked in a mutual radicalization with the a
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
It lets people access healthcare regardless of their ability to pay for it, how is that contrary to the goal of increasing access to healthcare for the poor?
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
Activism is nothing new, the amount of violence certainly is. That's what makes them uniquely scary - violent authoritarianism has a higher body count than any other ideology. They cause effects off campus - look at the reactionary rig
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
I don't know what they call themselves but look at Mizzou, Berkley, and Evergreen.
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
Then you didn't read it very closely, the article devotes a decent amount of space to how to set up the system that ensures people can get care regardless of their ability to pay. It's within the first two pages, look for the para
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
America should lead the world in healthcare and many of those proposals would help us accomplish as much. We're mired in this current system with no rationing, low accountability, and rentiers sucking cash with the Government's ap
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
Does he ever explain why he focuses on right wing authoritarians? Left wing authoritarianism seems at least as powerful but no one seems to address it.
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=231949 The crux is making it easier for consumers to get health care information, putting more choices in the hands of the patient, and creating a mechanism to encourage price sensiti

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