ericmay

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by ericmay 3mo ago
It doesn't matter what the media publishes, it matters what blue-collar former democrats vote and they vote Trump. You are claiming that unions are what push the country forward, you claim the current state is the country is regressing
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by ericmay 3mo ago
> I don’t want my tax dollars wasted. We do agree on that, right? The government does waste some money. We agree on that too, right? Yes, so why are you arguing with me? The specific claims aren't what matter (goat yoga) because y
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by ericmay 3mo ago
> Yes, I think the question of whether or not the US is living above its means is settled. Where you cut is a political decision. I certainly think the US can reduce its military spending, with an emphasis on reduce. It's not quite
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by ericmay 3mo ago
> The comparison is the unambiguous gains for society union labour organisation achieved through industrial history, which was a clear public good, and what is lost if there are no longer unions to defend those gains. It's a loose c
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by ericmay 3mo ago
> Perhaps. However, there are many alternatives to "attack" besides "do nothing". Yes, and we've tried lots of different things. > You can't defend Taiwan, full stop. If and when China decides to attack,
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by ericmay 3mo ago
It's not a good analogy though. Unions aren't a clear public good. > The way those arguments are made is similarly ignorant of history, is the simple point. Yes and that point is rejected by me.
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> Don't do these silly bad faith, straw man characterisations. I reject the association literally or otherwise.
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> The constitution of the United States explicitly describes it as a union in the preamble. No, there's no relation.
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I reject the notion that the public is the same thing as a union in the manner you are describing.
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> I literally did not say that vaccine and vaccine adoption has anything to do with unions. Why would you ever think I did? It's an analogy. ??? > we don't need unions anymore are engaging with the status quo in the same way
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by ericmay 3mo ago
I know history better than you do, generally speaking. You cherry-picked the wrong comment. Vaccines and vaccine adoption has nothing to do with unions nor are they even remotely comparable.
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Not really. At least not in the way that matters.
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Thanks for sharing. I’ll take a look!
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> The non partisan source is the history of the industrial revolution itself. I think that’s less of a factor of unions existing themselves and more so the public realizing the need for stronger labor laws. Though certainly unions were a
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> Lots of research shows that generally places where unions exist have better work conditions and perform better over the long term. Do you have any non-partisan sources for this? Genuinely curious. When you say perform better what do yo
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by ericmay 3mo ago
Sorry, I don't agree with you at all and continuing to argue about it just makes me more convinced the OP was right to point out those specific items. I'm not interested in complaints about the GDP to debt ratio being too high if
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Sounds like an excuse for anyone to justify their spending, ergo American debt-to-GDP ratio continues to increase
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> Getting bogged down in line item spending is a trick politicians use to divide us. Politicians? You're sitting here arguing about the line item spending instead of just admitting we should cut obviously bad spending. That's t
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by ericmay 3mo ago
> * really cheap, making it possible to saturate target's defence Which is precisely the reason to attack now before this problem becomes much worse and then Iran adds in nuclear weapons too. > However, right now Iran seems to
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by ericmay 3mo ago
Again you can do both - you can cut these wasteful programs, you can have a well-funded government that's already well-funded with trillions of dollars, and then also reform healthcare all without raising taxes. Use your imagination.
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by ericmay 3mo ago
> I didn't do anything, that wasn't me. Ok you're defending it. > I don't claim anything, but if this isn't overspending then I think we agree to disagree. Ok if it's over-spending then let's cut the
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by ericmay 3mo ago
> It's funny you go within a single paragraph from You made a general, pedestrian claim about spending, I questioned your claim based on what you wrote. That's all. I wouldn't read in to it more than that. > But more on
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by ericmay 3mo ago
> No, snide and wrong is extremely different! Snide and wrong! You must be talking about the OP then and not me. > Social Security spending is already funded by a separate tax and currently running a surplus. If someone doesn't w
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by ericmay 3mo ago
"All organizations waste money, therefore organizations should keep wasting money and it's actually fine" doesn't sound very compelling to me.
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> Most of that money is wasted on keeping the military industrial complex fat and happy, it's not going into soldier's pockets. And I say this being pro-US and indeed seeing the world as a dangerous place. Hi former active duty
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by ericmay 3mo ago
No you forgot the wasted spending on Social Security, Medicaid, and other subsidies! See, other people can throw in snide remarks too. There's room to debate military spending, but if you view the world as a dangerous place and that th
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by ericmay 3mo ago
But they're still wastes of money, and based on the one-line description provided by the OP, they are rather absurd. A few others I can think of: Government insurance/funding for homes destroyed by natural disasters - why am I
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You can be a drug and human trafficker and operate your boat when trafficking drugs and your van when trafficking people. Or you can have your drug traffickers under your command operate your boat while you the drug and human trafficker han
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Yea but all other countries would have to pay for the C02 emissions of their militaries too. I bet many would not be able to afford to have one anymore - might be a good thing.
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You can traffic drugs on your boat and people on land. Who would have thought? Why are you over-indexing on whether the US allegedly killed people being trafficked? Why would that thought even come to your mind? Can you share a news article

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