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by iammisc 5y ago
If you want to decrease economic inequality, this is not the way to do that. That's even assuming it's worthwhile.
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by iammisc 5y ago
I was going to say... when scary GOP was in power, the largest websites literally censored and removed the GOP president, to the applause of the left, except for the few reasonable people, like Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard.
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by iammisc 5y ago
When the republicans came into power from 2016-2020, they did not use the IRS to harass left-wing groups, which both Obama and Biden did. We can't pretend every party is equal. Things change, and parties obviously violate their princip
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by iammisc 5y ago
> The US has long had profound objections to inter-generational wealth transfer, entirely independent of our conceptions of the relative importance of family vs. individual. No it hasn't. If that were true, we would expect strict in
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by iammisc 5y ago
I think bitcoin is dumb, but this makes me want to buy it just to say a big F U to the central banks. Even stupid fake money should be legal. How authoritarian can we get?
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by iammisc 5y ago
As a former democrat, now republican, I am honesty extremely surprised that it's the right being targeted. In 2002, I would have sworn the citizen databases would have been listing leftists. Reality is stranger than fiction.
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by iammisc 5y ago
> You can either allow inter-generational wealth to build, or claim to be a meritocracy; not both. What has happened in America is a major (and I mean major) shift towards individualism. The 'pull yourself up by the bootstraps'
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by iammisc 5y ago
Anyone with sense knows what will happen. Parents will pay exorbitant amounts for their children to receive accolades, and use up the inheritance before they die. The accolades will serve as signals to other rich as to whom to hire, put in
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by iammisc 5y ago
Sure they are. Individualistic meritocracy and intergenerational wealth are not compatible. But familial meritocracy and intergenerational wealth are self-requiring.
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by iammisc 5y ago
> I can agree that it waggles its eyebrows Most people across the world wouldn't raise their eyebrows, since such claims are pretty much universal throughout most civilizations.
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by iammisc 5y ago
> the ones most people are least likely to be exposed to (thankfully!) Really? Again, using my city of Portland. Whereas murders have always happened, typically it's in places I don't frequent, at times I'm not out, and pe
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by iammisc 5y ago
In general I think most people would be best served by focusing on their own behavior rather than complaining endlessly about the behavior of others while making no changes to themselves. This philosophy extends to all areas of life, whethe
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by iammisc 5y ago
> Your statements about cities "descending into chaos" could have just as easily come from 1995, or 2005, or 2015. Except right now they're backed by an actual recent increase in crime! You yourself said: > ; 3) the ris
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by iammisc 5y ago
https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/men-... Just look at the charts. Honestly, failure to understand this simple aspect of human nature is the reason for a lot of social ill, ranging from &#x27
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by iammisc 5y ago
That doesn't fit in with the empirical data that has shown us that -- country wide right now -- people have fled the cities for the burbs. You can make up an anecdotal poor, but that doesn't mean it matches reality. By and large,
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by iammisc 5y ago
I'm not someone who'd ever engage in 'cycling advocacy', so you haven't lost anyone, believe me.
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by iammisc 5y ago
Okay, but crime is actually rising now in 2021 and late 2020, at least in my city of Portland. Again, I was not part of the people who have said over the last decade that crime is rising, because it's not. I'm just pointing out th
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by iammisc 5y ago
Sure. I agree. But crime is measured by individuals relatively. The cities were very safe until the summer riots and the defund the police nonsense. Now crime is very clearly increasing despite the initial persistent denial of this obvious
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by iammisc 5y ago
Thank you. I agree with the systemic critiques, I just don't see how they move us closer to a workable solution. This is just more of the division that we do to make ourselves feel morally superior. It's the "I don't sho
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by iammisc 5y ago
They're not making more power available to citizens. They're literally trying to silence people they disagree with on Facebook because their ideas are more persuasive than their own. Stop with the moral high horse, the left in thi
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by iammisc 5y ago
None of those things are simple. They require immense top down effort whereas starting a company providing a safer bike is able to be done right now by a small group of individuals without any political approval or lobbying or legislation.
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by iammisc 5y ago
Okay and we can sit here and pontificate on how the way things should have been done or we can think about things we can do today based on what we have. I accept that you want to look back and lament what we didn't do. I find that depr
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by iammisc 5y ago
Well you live in Australia. In Portland where I live, murders have spiked and many of my local businesses have armed security now due to the decline in social cohesion due to the proliferation of false narratives.
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by iammisc 5y ago
Oh goodness that explains all the policies of post covid politicians.
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by iammisc 5y ago
We should reduce crime in our cities and end homelessness so our cities are appealing places to live. As a conservative minded urbanist, it is disheartening to see people leave cities because many american cities are descending into chaos a
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by iammisc 5y ago
Well because it's usually accidental. This idea that every death, including accidents or understandable mistake need to be met with criminal sanctions is just dumb. It's a good way to unnecessarily ruin more people's lives. B
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by iammisc 5y ago
I agree.
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by iammisc 5y ago
Not every person wants to continually climb the ladder. In general men are more likely to value social status because a man with a high career title is more attractive to women, whereas a woman's title does not increase her ability to
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by iammisc 5y ago
Careful, according to the activists on my street in Portland you're literally a Nazi. We must eradicate this misuse of terms to silence people. You are right. We cannot fight racism and sexism with more racism and sexism.
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by iammisc 5y ago
All those blue activists speaking their truth to power took their calling a little too seriously lol

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