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by mason240 11y ago
Just to add to your comment, I've always thought of plantation owners more like feudal lords, or the large estate nobility of the Roman era than farmers.
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by mason240 11y ago
1) Graft is common, with charter school administrators sometimes taking home ludicrous salaries ($500k+ for schools with ~1,000 students) True for public schools. 2) Funding often comes directly from the local school district, most of which
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by mason240 11y ago
All three of those are true with public schools systems.
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by mason240 11y ago
It's a political problem, not science problem. We could have already completed the Yucca Mountain project, if not for the anti-science anti-nuclear fear mongers and NIMBYs.
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by mason240 11y ago
Do you have a point?
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by mason240 11y ago
So you are claiming that schools are forcing people to commit crimes?
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by mason240 11y ago
I'm not sure who else would be to blame. I would like hear your theory on who is committing crimes if it's not the criminals themselves. Since you accusing me being a simpleton, you are going to have to explain what you mean.
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by mason240 11y ago
>and the prisons are privatized. That is not true.
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by mason240 11y ago
The criminals committing the crimes.
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by mason240 11y ago
So you would require all online activity be done through "identity verifiers" such as Facebook? You have probably seen how many issues Facebook's Real Name policy has caused, and that doesn't even come close that level.
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by mason240 11y ago
That's pretty similar to what my response was going to be. - a white collar crime probably doesn't have direct victim A victim of robbery will initiate the police to act. A violated regulation can't do the same.
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by mason240 11y ago
And then we decided that having government, taxes, social programs, ect were necessary. You are free to feel otherwise, but the issue of society vs anarchy has been firmly resolved.
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by mason240 11y ago
No, it's not. It's enforcing current immigration policies. Moving towards an open borders would be changing restrictions on immigration.
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by mason240 11y ago
Almost no one in the US is calling for restrictions on immigration.
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by mason240 11y ago
Then post your name and address.
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by mason240 11y ago
One thing to keep in mind is that this is a manufactured issue used by people who refuse to accept election results they don't like, and they use to it delegitimize the outcome. You'll find that the same people who go on about it
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by mason240 11y ago
They were also living as hunter gathers in very sparsely populated areas. The earth can't support 8 billion people with berry gathering and deer hunting.
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by mason240 11y ago
I think it's actually against the law in the US as well. There has been a big push back against video game journalists not disclosing when they are paid for their reviews, and the FTC regulations have been why they are citing.
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by mason240 11y ago
They have made it pretty clear over the last couple of years that want to jettison their original userbase for a much larger, more mainstream userbase. There is more money in it so I can't say I blame them, but they had better hope the
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by mason240 11y ago
The Constitution is pretty explicit in stating that it limits the scope of government, which is the opposite of being a starting point.
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by mason240 11y ago
Because national defense is one of the few actual responsibilities of the US Federal government.
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by mason240 11y ago
365 acres = .570 mi². NYC population density = 27,858/mi². That's space for 15,723 (living) people. There are approx 3M people buried there.
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by mason240 11y ago
That's the distributors/manufacturers, we are talking about the consumers.
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by mason240 11y ago
>when heroin users know where their next hit is coming from (the clinic) they are better able to handle their addiction and able to make some progress in the rest of life (hold down a job, etc). That's extremely wishful thinking. We
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by mason240 11y ago
>How many are there for crimes that were committed to feed drug habits? Legalizing drugs will not make them free, and they will still lead to addiction.
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by mason240 11y ago
There is a weird resurgence of the 80's moral panic against pornography and the 90's moral panic against video games.
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by mason240 11y ago
That's part of the appeal of UBI - we just accept that we are moving into a gig/freelance economy and these new jobs (and old jobs that have new conventions, like 3 day workweeks) are there to supplement UBI. As a believer in capi
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by mason240 11y ago
Just one example is the "Cars for Clunkers" program, where the government bought old cars just to destroy them. It was supposed to be both an environmental and economic stimulus, but in reality was bad for the environment and is j
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by mason240 11y ago
> young white males who have unhealthy attitudes towards women due to the abundance of porn You sound just like the fundamentalist Evangelicals I grew up with.
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by mason240 11y ago
What a colossal waste of resources.

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