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by antidesitter 7y ago
How did Citizens United “make bribery legal”?
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by antidesitter 7y ago
> Pay your membership fees The top 1 percent of taxpayers pay roughly 37 percent of all income taxes, while the bottom 90 percent pay roughly 30 percent. Do you consider that an equitable “membership fee”?
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by antidesitter 7y ago
Because in a free society you can donate your property to whomever you please.
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by antidesitter 7y ago
> I also have no problem with tax increases, as I am well aware that the overall benefit I receive from increased contribution greatly outweighs having that money in my bank account. Why don’t you just write a bigger cheque to your tax c
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by antidesitter 7y ago
> If we make it as easy as we do to become incredibly wealthy, we should make it just as hard to stay wealthy. What possible reason could one have for making it “hard” to stay wealthy, other than pure spite and jealousy? How does it bene
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by antidesitter 7y ago
> I can’t think of a statement - beyond, perhaps, the Universal Declaration on Human Rights - that I have agreed with more. That Beyonce is the most talented and hardworking person? That no one should have a higher net worth than her? Yo
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by antidesitter 7y ago
> But you can’t choose not to treat sepsis. You can't choose not to eat food either. > So why does our literature usually assume that both are the same? What literature assumes they're the same?
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by antidesitter 7y ago
> idiosyncratic computer-programmer wishful view What did you mean by this nonsense?
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by antidesitter 7y ago
I agree, but what’s the relevance of this to my comment?
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by antidesitter 7y ago
According to what legislation? Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act states [0]: No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information
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by antidesitter 7y ago
How so?
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by antidesitter 7y ago
> what is and is not within the boundaries of nutritional theories that have been studied I don’t think this is clear to the average person at all.
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by antidesitter 7y ago
> the issue is granting extra free speech rights Nope. It is about prohibiting corporations and unions from using their funds to make independent expenditures for speech [1]. > In fact, some companies having a tendency to curb free
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by antidesitter 7y ago
Refer to the article of this thread.
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by antidesitter 7y ago
> It's just an in-your-face reminder of how much you're paying in taxes But that’s just going back to my comment 4 levels up this thread. If it’s an issue of tax amount visibility and not tax filing pain, the latter is not nee
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by antidesitter 7y ago
> The author's generalisation is that society (i.e. everyone) doesn't respect authors over 70 Nowhere does the author say that. Your whole comment is a strawman.
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by antidesitter 7y ago
Where does the article engage in hasty generalization?
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by antidesitter 7y ago
Your comment is a hasty generalization combined with a red herring. You don’t know that the author painted your generation with an overly broad and negative brush. And even if he had done so, it wouldn’t render the article “pointless”
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by antidesitter 7y ago
Ok, but why does making the process more painful make people lobby for lower taxes? The connection isn’t obvious to me. To make this more explicit, presumably the chain of reasoning is as follows: 1. Make tax filing more painful. 2. As a ge
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by antidesitter 7y ago
This argument never made sense to me. How is the amount on a check or bill, if made clearly visible, somehow “not visible”?
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by antidesitter 7y ago
A factually-correct statement isn’t “propaganda” just because you don’t like it.
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by antidesitter 7y ago
Agreed. Browsers need better default stylesheets so authors can focus on content.
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by antidesitter 7y ago
> that the 'dark ages were not dark' is in this day and age a revisionist argument aimed at diminishing the role and impact of the European Renaissance What's your evidence for this claim? > this topic is (unexpectedly)
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by antidesitter 7y ago
> shaming people for not communicating the way you want is wrong No. It's not always wrong.
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by antidesitter 7y ago
> Let a corner store charge different people different prices and let me know how far you get. Well, under your proposal they can’t know how far they’ll get. > Yes, developers had to think through design decisions, stick to well def
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by antidesitter 7y ago
> So your position is that the US government can't be trusted on anything so there's no point in justice or laws? This is so comical I actually laughed out loud. How did you arrive at this conclusion based on their comment? Wal
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by antidesitter 7y ago
Can you explain why disseminating this information “didn't align with the best interests of the American people”?
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by antidesitter 8y ago
> Or can we admit that he had an agenda in all of this that didn't align with the best interests of the American people? What agenda would that be? Edit: It’s a sad state of affairs for HN when a question like this immediately gets
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by antidesitter 8y ago
> it's right-libertarian policies that tend to transfer wealth from those at the bottom of the pyramid who work to those at the top of the pyramid who do not work Historical experience suggests the opposite.
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by antidesitter 8y ago
Can you explain what you mean? Sounds like hot air.

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