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by esarbe 5y ago
That's ridiculous law; you can discriminate by age, because this only applies to transient population groups, but you cannot discriminate by year-of-birth. I doubt this will hold up in court.
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by esarbe 5y ago
> No, what was a disaster was the economic policies that proceeded Reagan. I think you have to be a bit more specific here, otherwise you're just blowing hot air without anything worth discussing. I provided several reasons and sour
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by esarbe 5y ago
Thanks for the clarification! I might not agree with your conclusion but I appreciate the effort to explain the point your making.
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by esarbe 5y ago
You mean the Biden-Ukraine conspiracy theory [0]. That one's is bogus. Trump even got in trouble for trying to get Zelensky to publicly announce an investigation. > The story, broke by the NY Post, was factually correct, I wouldn&
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by esarbe 5y ago
Fair enough.
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by esarbe 5y ago
I don't think that this is actually a thing that's happening, in schools. Do you any reporting or study in that regard?
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by esarbe 5y ago
> To argue Regans policies didn’t bring the economy out of that mess is just being dishonest. It's only dishonest if I actually thought that Reagan's policies did any good, isn't it? Joking aside, I actually think Reagan&#
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by esarbe 5y ago
No, you are being fallacious. There are many thousand ways of "giving people money". Supply-side economics prescribes exactly one way of "giving people money", that's by lowering taxes. You cannot claim that because
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by esarbe 5y ago
> Huh. Supply side economics is exactly giving more people money to spend”. You even admit that. What, no! Here, let me quote myself from the previous answer I gave you. >> But "Give people more money and they spend it" n
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by esarbe 5y ago
> wow. just wow. So morally a person should only be paid what the need to live Do you want me to hold that strawman while you give it a real good bashing? It can be satisfying, strawman bashing. It would however be more productive it yo
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by esarbe 5y ago
> Supply side is a valid economic theory. I presume that actually think that this is the case and that you didn't just forget the /s. Supply-side economics has been thoroughly debunked, again and again[0]. Just look the current
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by esarbe 5y ago
What do you mean? That 'Trickle Down' was a satirical term coined to disparagingly talk about supply-side economics? Sure, I know. That doesn't mean that there aren't more than enough people still clinging to supply-side
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by esarbe 5y ago
> I did not earn any of that? >> A doctor's wage is earned. Your wage is earned. > invested most of my income in that 20 years in to dividend paying stocks Whether that one is 'earned' is debatable. From a neolib
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by esarbe 5y ago
That's probably a good part of it, yes.
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by esarbe 5y ago
Sure sounds like you swallowed the neo-liberal arguments bait, hook and sinker. Let me guess; you probably find 'Atlas Shrugged' to be a profound work of reason? > 1. Should we trust the government to spend the money more wisel
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by esarbe 5y ago
The frustrating thing is that this kind of rhetoric actually works. They call themselves "the makers" and "job creators" while all they are doing is leveraging their upbringing in a wealthy social environment that provid
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by esarbe 5y ago
I agree that the whole thing is horribly broken. The two party system, the gerrymandering, the legalized bribery of congresspeople, the influence of the media in deciding who's going to participate in debates, ... The list goes on and
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by esarbe 5y ago
The US electorate is pretty substandard. I blame the horrifyingly bad educational system for that; it's hard to have any functional democracy when most of your voting population is under-educated and has an active disdain for scientifi
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by esarbe 5y ago
> I think a lot of this is perhaps a function of the fact that the US electoral system is really only built to support 2 parties. As far as I know, the electoral system wasn't built to support two parties. George Washington famously
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by esarbe 5y ago
Since the DNC is organizing the Democratic primaries and therefore makes the rules, it - by definition - cannot "cheat" in the primaries. Did the establishment use every available lever to ensure that their preferred candidate had
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by esarbe 5y ago
Well, no wonder. "The other side" in this case supported a misogynistic, conspiracy-theory spewing, authoritarian grifter with a publicly acknowledged disdain for scientific consensus for president that was disregarding any establ
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by esarbe 5y ago
I don't know about the moderation tools for large channels, but bots should be possible: https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli
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by esarbe 5y ago
Why not just use Signal instead?
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by esarbe 5y ago
I don't buy it. The premise is that the Linux desktop developers were just just follow these concepts or to follow that strategy, Linux would all of a sudden achieve desktop supremacy. There's no such thing as an 'intuiti
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by esarbe 5y ago
That's just ridiculous. "Make America Great Again" doesn't reference anything in particular. It is just a catch-all phrase that captures the emotions of nostalgia, a remembrance of a better place that never was. But - as
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by esarbe 5y ago
Right? I mean, how can someone disagree with giving the most exploited members of our society a little bit more leverage?
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by esarbe 5y ago
That's the gist of it.
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by esarbe 5y ago
I guess it's too much to hope for a general reevaluation of our consumerism. It would be so nice for people to accept that their value is not defined by the things that they own, that the "status" the gain by buying cool stuf
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by esarbe 5y ago
> There are many good reasons not to get vaccinated, some of them even officially recognized as medical exceptions. Having already had COVID is of at least as much if not more value than a vaccination; IMO, and the debates still rage the
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by esarbe 5y ago
> This specific case is an example of rationing medical services; if we accept that's OK now, what's the next class of people no longer worthy of treatments? The obese? How about we extend it to anybody who'se been chronic

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