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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> And a rate of a trillion worth of goods per year will stop flowing into USA A 1% tax would not cause a trillion worth of goods per year to stop flowing into the USA. Honestly, I think you are reacting too emotionally. The nice thing ab
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I am still confused about what "fast fashion" actually is. Does it mean "cheap clothes that wear out quickly"? Clothes that are made quickly? How does it differ from normal fashion?
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> at some point USA needs to start to deliver value back to the rest of the world First they already receive something of value, which is our money. No one forces them to sell their stuff for our money. Nor does selling us $1 of goods en
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Posted this as Orwell is one of my favorite essayists (along with Gore Vidal). It's rare to see a free work like this, and it's a great essay.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Chesterton's quote is a nice one, but that doesn't mean that the GP is "spouting nonsense". They may be focused more on outcomes rather than Chesterton's focus on maintaining national traditions and sovereignty. Bot
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> Natural gas extremely expensive? Let me introduce you to renewables, which btw are getting better and better every year. Shutting down a natural gas pipeline that people depend upon just before winter, and then lecturing them about sol
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Oh wow. It almost feels like the structure is missing a house underneath it.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Yes, I know the point you were making and it's a fair one. I was just elaborating. It's unfortunate that your post was downvoted, there is nothing wrong with it, IMO. I was taking this as a discussion.
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Crude Awakening on Line 5(politico.com)
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Shooting an Elephant (1936)(orwellfoundation.com)
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The Green movement needs to be called out specifically here.
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Adding a tariff to goods has three drawbacks 1. very easy to cheat. E.g. during Trump's tariffs on China, there was mass cheating as goods were imported into Vietnam, relabelled as made in Vietnam, and exported to the U.S. When there i
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
That's definitely part of it. But the flip side of that is that as the U.S. tightens emissions, production outsources elsewhere, possibly where emissions standards and many other environmental standards are much lower, which could lead
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Hey, I'm all for reducing the presence of U.S. bases abroad. I don't think we should be policing the world. But at the same time, let's not kid ourselves - this will result in more wars, except it wont be U.S. ships and plane
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
TIL WW2 was fought for oil. I guess Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan were about oil, too? I'll grant that Iraq was about oil. More likely, if the world was run on Uranium and Thorium then people wouldn't be able to blame wars on oil.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Well yeah, they fire up the coal and gas plants at night or when it's cloudy. No blackouts.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> They also made me install --no bullshit-- 64000 lbs of concrete footings and design the array and structure for 200 mile per hour winds. Wait, what? Can you elaborate on why this was necessary? Thank you also for the useful data.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Everyone suspended convertibility during WW1. The U.S. also in the Civil War.
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> If the US military were its own country, it would rank 55th in terms of global greenhouse gas emissions, beating out 140 other countries It's a valid point about the military, but all militaries run on fossil fuels and a handful o
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> Developing economies will of course grow faster. No, they don't. Their GDP is more volatile, but over prolonged periods of time, they do not grow any faster. Most developing nations do not grow any faster at all. Very few do (only
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I don't think that's the correct law -- Federal Property and Administrative Services Act, 40 U.S.C. 101 is about managing of Federal contractors and property. That is a separate vaccine mandate, which isn't really a mandate b
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I think some workplace health measures are constitutional and others aren't. Just the general category of workplace health measures is too broad and ill-defined to specify whether it is constitutional or not. Particularly when you star
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
The Federal government can't just pass a law on anything it wants. The law has to be about some power explicitly granted to the Federal government in the constitution - an enumerated power. https://legaldictionary.net/e
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> And the laws upon which EOs are based have to exist. Yes! They have to exist and also be constitutional themselves.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Friend, we're still running COBOL. There are still shops with computers running windows XP, performing various scripted automation or batch tasks. The idea that some running system will be taken offline just because the language is old
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
The 10A says "for anything not mentioned previously in the constitution, it goes to the states". So when you say "I can't find where public health is mentioned in the constititution", well then there's your ans
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If they are constitutional, yes.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> What I do not see is where these specific responsibilities are laid out and clearly delegated to the states Let me help you with this: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the Stat
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
They don't need to get appreciation, they just need to have the home be less costly than renting. Once you throw in the mortgage interest deduction that's a pretty low bar.
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That's extremely unlikely, but let's hypothesize a situation in which 70% of the states are rural Republican and 30% are urban Democrat. So the GOP always controls the senate and Dems always control the House. Then you either form

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