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by gottorf 2y ago
Basic principles that change with the time aren't basic principles at all. Is the First Amendment guaranteeing freedom of speech irrelevant now because we aren't communicating via handwritten letters and bulletin boards anymore?
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Heck, less than half of Western Europeans would fight to defend their own country[0]. In the UK, only a third of people surveyed would do so. That's less than those who believe that the US would come to their aid! I don't think th
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> society create the überman myth to keep the working class down, thinking they will never be the top of their game What? The distribution of talent and grit being what it is, ubermen do exist. Some people are naturally tall, good-lookin
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Virtually everyone living in a developed country has resource security to do this. Even in America, with its relatively poor levels of social assistance, you could live off of the dole as long as your expectations on quality of life are low
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> from Lagos to those destinations, Joburg or Cape Town are actually double the distance As the crow flies, Lagos is slightly closer to Cape Town than London, though Marseille is indeed closer than virtually any part of South Africa (tho
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> AWS surely has Nigerian datacenters too AWS's only African presence is in Cape Town.
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Besides all this stuff, New Mexico is just an absolutely breathtaking state in terms of its natural beauty. I highly recommend a visit!
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> an actual dashboard My biggest dislike in Teslas. I won't entertain buying one until they decide that an iPad is not in fact an appropriate way to handle user interface in a car...
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> a well-intentioned reformer with great power that was used in a reckless manner The road to hell...
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Stepped-up basis is weird, I agree. I don't see any good reason for it to stay, other than reducing overall tax burden. On the other hand, I don't see any good reason to be strongly against it, either, other than believing in prog
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by gottorf 2y ago
> Everybody knows "state rights" imply conservative policies, but don't apply to anyone else. Is that right? Has there been a widespread backlash on the states' rights grounds against, say, Colorado or Massachusetts l
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If it's usually not for a good reason, then it follows that sometimes it is for a good reason.
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There's this idea that America's prisons are full of people like you describe, which really isn't borne out by reality at all.
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I agree that the moral hazard is there, and it's fraught with potential for abuse[0]. But prison labor also has the potential to teach convicts skills and discipline that would be useful after their sentence. > Not all agree that po
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Have you met children? They're total psychopaths.
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> They are very much non-tech normal people and considering options to emigrate Normal people don't consider leaving their country over losing one job.
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> In tech, you get absurd salaries that mean even if you get laid off, you would still take home a lot more than your average government employee. Apparently, as of late 2023, the average federal employee made over $101k[0]. "Tech&q
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I'm sure there are bright and talented government workers, but it's not a stretch of the imagination to say that a lot of factors make government employment cushier for some people than they might otherwise find in private employm
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I do not find it strange or otherwise see it as a loophole that duly convicted prisoners pay some of their debt to society by being forced to do labor.
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That states' rights were claimed to keep slavery, or any other morally reprehensible thing, does not mean that the concept of states' rights is wrong. It means slavery and other morally reprehensible things are wrong. Of course, a
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Economies (and diseconomies) of scale exist, of course, but aren't central to what is the responsibility of the federal government and what is the responsibility of the state governments. That, of course, is laid out rather plainly in
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by gottorf 2y ago
> I do benefit if he just paid an equivalent amount into the general tax fund Questionable. Tax receipts that get spent on roads, bridges, other infrastructure that over time increase your and everyone's standard of living? Sure. Fu
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It seems that way because Republicans control most of the state legislatures at the moment. The term itself refers to a Massachusetts governor, a member of the predecessor of the current Democratic Party, who started the practice. The minut
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Or, from another perspective: the "disenfranchised rural white[0] working class" was so abandoned by the Democratic Party, which previously represented that class, that a reality TV start from NYC with all of his flaws came to cha
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by gottorf 2y ago
My candidate winning reflects the legitimate will of the people, and your candidate winning is solely due to gerrymandering. Of course. Both parties[0][1] in fact do engage in gerrymandering. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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> lawmakers rightly recognized that they are neither environmental scientists, nor economists of the industries those acts regulate The problem that this EO may be trying to address is that environmental scientists and economists aren&#x
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Singapore is probably the world's only extant benevolent dictatorship, with two out of four prime ministers being father and son. It remains to be seen how stable it will be in the coming generations.
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> rank file and employees of these agencies must now rely on the sole interpretation of the law by either the president or the AG instead of themselves. These _were_ independent agencies who handled their own interpretation of the law At
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> if the law defines how an agency is staffed and makes policy Strongly contingent upon this, right? Wasn't the whole "administrative state" / "Chevron deference" argument that Congress did the bare minimum
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> You may want to scroll up and read Article I, which constrains Article II (that’s why it comes first) What in Article I imposes constraints on the presidency? It's almost all about the legislature itself, and hardly mentions the e

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