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by jahaja 6y ago
> Voter “suppression” insofar as it exists works at the margins So gerrymandering, 55% voter turnout, long queues, voting on a working day, having felons not being eligible, the electoral college system etc. isn't indicative of vote
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by jahaja 6y ago
> My point is that people are voting in their own interest. Even if that would be true, The elephant in the room here is the abysmal participating rate of US elections and general voter suppression. There's no way the Republican par
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> I also suspect that the degree of 'respect freedom of speech' content would be far higher, and the degree of skepticism expressed in this thread would be far lower, Certainly, I remember that "Rationalist" blogger t
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by jahaja 6y ago
I think it's telling that conservatives seem to have shifted from sowing doubt regarding the very existence of climate change to now "there's no point, it's already too late!". The primary goal of status-quo remains
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by jahaja 6y ago
Yes, and it might be very reasonable that some areas of those are underfunded while other are wasteful. The reasons for this discrepancy might very well be policies that are upheld by republicans, like inflated healthcare costs, who knows
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by jahaja 6y ago
What's even the point of this "one should be more balanced, both sides!" etc etc. From my EU/Nordic perspective the US right-wing are more or less "crazy-right" (I mean just look at the Trump administration?!).
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by jahaja 6y ago
What nations spend and what the people actually receive are two different things and you know it, yet you keep repeating this time and time again.
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by jahaja 6y ago
> But I think if you are smart about environmental problems, you recognize that to resolve climate change, you either need a cataclysmic fall in living standards This seems to be just another way of saying: "I'll rather go down
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by jahaja 6y ago
> Sure people can work less hours, but right now people choose to want more things - better healthcare, larger houses, more entertainment and choose to work more hours. That has not been proven. If anything the opposite. I'm sure t
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> Those displaced (50% in the example above) can go and provide services in another area... Why should only the pin producers get 4 hour weeks. What about those have to toil in the field for 8 hours a day to produce food? So for the sake
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by jahaja 6y ago
This makes me think of this passage by Bertrand Russell wrt. increases in efficiency and working hours: "The War showed conclusively that by the scientific organization of production it is possible to keep modern populations in fair c
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by jahaja 6y ago
> When you’re backed into a corner Don't flatter yourself. > I’m directly addressing your arguments You haven't directly addressed anything. I just gave you two very clear examples where you just change the subject to someth
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by jahaja 6y ago
> Economics is an objective science, every bit as scientific as medicine. Economists have by and large concluded that a market unencumbered by restrictions on mutually voluntary economic interactions and protective of people's righ
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by jahaja 6y ago
Your just being deliberately obtuse as always. I make a statement that countries have realized that the free market is harmful in certain spheres and you go on about the economy as a whole instead, which I have never claimed to not be capit
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by jahaja 6y ago
This is pointless, you're just going around in circles and adding some "please learn [free market] economics" bullshit to it. You think that economics (only the free market version ofc) is an objective science like vaccines a
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by jahaja 6y ago
> I'm in agreement with you that this needs to be fixed. However the fact that these problems exist in the US but not elsewhere suggests that it also has very little to do with "free market ideologies", and your insistence
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by jahaja 6y ago
I didn't expect you to double-down on "well, it's just the poor anyway" but I probably shouldn't be surprised by now. I wrote "over emphasis". Then you just go on about some irrelevant stats regarding the
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by jahaja 6y ago
Why would the "free market" be the most important in the first place?
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1. Maybe not devastating to your particular class of society. Motor accidents are not as strongly linked to economic despair either, and certainly not an effect of ideological choice. 2. It's hard to deny that the cause of this is not
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by jahaja 6y ago
To assert that being skeptical towards economists bias amounts to the same thing as being an anti-vaxxer is just another level of free market fundamentalism. So your honest opinion is that every socialist alive is at the level of an anti-va
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by jahaja 6y ago
> I don't see how you can even disagree with this, regardless of how you want to define 'extreme poverty'. I don't disagree that this would be an improvement, neither did Hickel in my first quote. However it's v
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by jahaja 6y ago
> if you think the scale and severity of economic deaths of despair caused by 2008 can be compared with the civil wars There's more people dying each year due to lack of health care access in the US alone than multiples of the Kos
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by jahaja 6y ago
Can't you see that you're going in circles using the same flawed World Bank $1.90 number for all of your links and arguments? People under e.g. $5/d have not been raised from extreme poverty if the $1.90 should be said $5 t
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by jahaja 6y ago
Sigh, I just can't understand why I keep trying to discuss anything with HN's resident Propertarians and their dogmatic private-property theology. > private property rights - people keeping what they earn Interesting rhetoric g
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Both articles can be found within seconds by selecting the text, right-clicking and clicking "Search Google". The tweets you are linking are summarizing cherry-picked data that itself would require much more effort to figure out.
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by jahaja 6y ago
> But tepid compared to what? Compared to the fact that this is not an issue of a lack of resources? Extreme poverty in the midst of an extremely rich world. That should be pretty humbling and not a cause for celebration. It's an em
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by jahaja 6y ago
I asked you to google a quote which take a minute to find at most. In this topic you consistently require folks to spend much more time to even come close to interpreting your links. Axe to grind? Yes. I do notice patterns that I don't
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by jahaja 6y ago
Out-argued? Don't flatter yourself. You're only spamming links in the hope that no one will bother looking them up. It's the same MO that your fellow status-quo apologist raynier and refurb do, in every. Single. Thread. Sugge
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Uhm? It's a google away
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by jahaja 6y ago
> I'm not convinced you actually read through either of those sources, especially considering that none of your quotes actually ever appear in them. Of course I didn't? That would require me to spend several hours to go throug

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