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by hayst4ck 3y ago
When power is taken into account the federalist society is the most effective anti-rule of law organization in the US. The federalist society is a lynch pin in the plan to gridlock congress and then rule from the judicial branch.
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
This seems like the type of thing that feels good, but I don't buy that it is good without more justification. I've never read any compelling support for the idea, it is almost always presented as obviously a good idea with little
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
I think the dissent was prescient: From Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC ): He argued that the court's ruling "threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions across
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
> In a democracy, the voters are responsible for that difference. Yes and no. We delegate power to representatives to mediate that difference, and they ultimately delegate it to a bureaucracy, hopefully filled by experts in a particular
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Because OP is not critically thinking. They have a very simple idea of market mechanics with very simple ideas of market manipulation. If our market isn't working, it's just not "pure" enough, right? https://e
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
> In a purely capitalist economy a lack of supply would cause prices to go increase and the market would respond accordingly. In a purely capitalist economy, those with capital would have the easiest time getting more capital, as they ge
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Blaming political bias denies actual objective truth. Calling something bias is not very different than saying "well, it's the other teams idea." Rather than saying something is wrong, it is instead called bias. Calling it bi
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
I am a liberal, and you also sound liberal, I am critiquing you from the context of seeing you as a trench mate in our impending civil war. I hope you understand that appeals to "racism" aren't winning you many friends. It&#x
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
I used to be as cynical as you, but after extensively traveling around Asia, I think you underestimate how important ideas truly are. "live free or die," the golden rule (kant's categorical imperative), rule of law. The idea
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Buy a large dumb screen, hook it up to a mac mini and keep all the pages open with an auto-refresh plugin, alternatively there are plugins that cycle through web pages.
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
The opposite of tyranny is not freedom. The opposite of tyranny is solidarity. Freedom is the state of people in power acting responsibly and it can only be expected that they act responsibly if there are consequences for not doing so. If y
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
I would argue it is already legal. Politicians being able to trade stock on private information, supreme court justices getting lavish vacations and book deals, citizens united allowing unlimited cash to be spent getting people to positions
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
It is a libertarian argument. The weaker the government, the stronger individual power, and therefore freedom is. We had some founding fathers who were libertarian in nature, but today's crop of libertarians don't have the same ed
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
I think this is a deeply grey issue. As a philosophical exercise, how dangerous is "banning" fentanyl? Treating it as a criminal issue rather than a health issue is arguably quite bad. Giving the government control to suppress wha
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Did the American revolutionary war require violence? Who chose to be violent? Violence is not bad. Violence to oppress is bad. Violence to seek justice is good. That's why the 2nd amendment exists. > Something that is non-consensual
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Merit is close to the idea of investment. Everyone deserves equal investment, yet investment is not distributed equitably at all. Education, internships, mentorship, etc are all investments, but more importantly, they snowball. An executive
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Housing policy is dead simple (not easy): build more homes. The problem is, when you build more homes, the price of homes go down. Great for people that want homes and people who are just joining the workforce. Not great for grandma and h
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
> not even be successfully treated (i.e. divorce) If one of the partners is narcissistic then one of the partners probably is the problem and divorce is the right solution. You can't really treat narcissism. You can't make a
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
> Frameworks' key trait is that they impose limitations on the programmer. Rather than providing a set of new things the programmer can do, they establish a boundary on the things the programmer can do. Simply stated and very insigh
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
I'm not a huge fan of these pieces that don't speak to why frameworks are created in the first place. The counter point to this is that the purpose of frameworks is to turn O(N) problems into O(k) problems by implementing a seam i
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
> The US isn’t an abstract ‘democracy’, it’s a functioning democracy with a specific set of rules. Democracy isn't something you "are," democracy is something you do. Democracy is the sum of beliefs, actions, and understan
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Your lack of solidarity for others means they will have a lack of solidarity for you. The mindset guarantees your exhaustion, loss, and ultimately your oppression. You don't have to fight the battle, but you should at least support tho
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Our founding fathers made the distinction between civil law and natural law. Rights are granted by natural law. If rights were granted by civil law then they would not be rights, they would be privileges and privileges can be taken away. Th
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Positive change starts with someone acting on the thought "it doesn't have to be this way." Fatalism and cynicism are comfortable because they don't ask you to do anything. Cynicism is ultimately resigned consent. How ma
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
It will be interesting to see how the union goes. The quality of the union and happiness of it's members directly reflects the quality of Stanford's liberal arts personnel and especially the quality of their political science and
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
What happens when there is no where left to move, or the cost of moving is too high? Solidarity, not freedom, is the opposite of tyranny. Neutrality and running away implicitly supports the injustice you are running away from. Flight-ing in
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Institutional ethics are a counter force to tyranny. In a democracy a professional organization does have a right to check power as does every individual citizen. Where do you think checks and balances come from? A two party state defeats
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Just because you perform the rituals of democracy doesn't mean you get democracy. If voting doesn't result in representation, then the act of voting is just a ritual and not an exertion of political power. You're saying becau
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Cigarettes are a counter example to this idea of "prohibitionism" not working. It took incredible societal level effort to change the culture around cigarettes. Most anyone who thinks something is bad and wants that behavior red
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
This website claims they would like old machines, although I have not interacted with them myself: https://www.old-computers.com/corporate/donate.htm > In our effort to preserve old-computers, and everything related

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