run4yourlives

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by run4yourlives 13y ago
>what does the military have to do with socialism, anyway? How, exactly do you pay for a military? How, exactly do you pay for universal healthcare? Why is the implementation of one okie-dokie and the other the "path to tyranny&quot
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
You make some great arguments, even as devil's advocate, so I feel the need to offer as much of a rebuttal as I can. linking health care to your job means that productive citizens are being taken care of Assuming productivity is rela
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
If you want my answer, I think your opinion is ignorant and ignores basic fact in favour of ideology for ideology's sake. Unless of course you also support disbanding the entire US Armed Forces (you know, those guys with guns and stuff
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
Yes, but given that variants of this system are in place all over the world, your questions have already been answered a hundred times over, should you choose to look for the answers.
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
Have you lived outside of the US at all? Perhaps in a country with universal health care? I only ask because anyone who has knows that in a vast majority of examples, the simple act of guaranteeing basic care has nothing at all to do with t
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
I simply don't trust our (the USA's) federal government to handle a socialized system with any amount of efficacy or competency. You would have to be astoundingly incompetent to make a socialized system more expensive for the US
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
I'm not sure where I made the argument that heath care wasn't available.
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
Disclaimer: I work in the health insurance industry in Canada, for a Third Party Provider. Canada and Australia are basically the same, but in Canada there is a default understanding that most employers will help to sponsor an extended heal
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
Linking basic* health care to employment as a default is ridiculously stupid. There is no real relation between a person's health and their job. You can either view basic health care as a benefit to society as a whole, like a highway o
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
I'm pretty sure it is because of two reasons: 1. More people have read 1984 than have read Brave New World. 2. Brave New World is so ridiculously accurate that most people are too afraid to think about what this means. We fear 1984 w
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
... that can be referred to in front of a judge and supersedes everything else.
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
If this is the case it should be rather straightforward for you to provide an answer to the question I posed in the previous comment, which you have yet to do.
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
I think a vast majority of people in this world would never feel eating to be such a tedious task.
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
I'm curious as to how I'm being insulting when the other commenter was the one calling me a troll. Not pumping the latest SV (or YC backed, for that matter) fad is not being "overly critical and insulting". Stop drinking
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
Your synical tone, mocking comments, and blatant insults - Examples of this would be nice. If you want everyone to pat you on the head and tell you how special you are you should stay in grade school. IMO, the Soylent product is a nonsens
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
I appreciate what you are saying, but my point was more that having sex is a lot more than making a baby, in the same way that eating is a lot more than refueling your body.
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
Tell you what, when you point to at least 4 countries that are significantly different than the US that do not have defined constitutions, I'll concede to your argument. Do you really think that something magical happened in 1775 for t
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
Ergo it doesn't have the same thing the US does.
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
I'd love to respond, and have, but it seems these days HN doesn't want me to say too much, and for the second time in a week has automatically killed my comment.
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
Stop Trolling? Not everyone has access to proper ingredients/tools/knowledge that are required for maintaining a proper diet. Actually, everyone does have this. Whether they choose to use it is another story. I've yet to m
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
Those rights on that piece of paper have saved us from much government tyranny. Really? Have you lived outside of the USA at all? Because I fail to see how anyone who has can make this statement. Life is no better or worse. The constituti
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
I really don't understand this Soylent nonsense: 1. I like food. The smell, experience and taste. Why in god's name would I eat powder to save myself the "hassle" of eating food? That's like promoting adoption as a
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
The US is a lost cause for anyone on the bad side of the government for any particular reason, crimes committed or not. What really gets me though is that people are truly shocked that the piece of paper held up as some illusion of rights i
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
Canada and the US share data. It may be possible but that probably depends on your personal situation. If you can get across the border you'd be okay I would guess, although you better hope the flight doesn't fly into (or over) US
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
>Actually large private enterprises don't usually make this kind of mistake. Are you new or something? Do you know how many projects I've been brought in to rescue? Do you know how many times my advice to "Stop throwing go
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
Is it always raining where you live or something?
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
Yeah, when you've been here more than a year you can lecture me on "courteous discourse". Making a comparison equating a US spy/wire tapping program to a homicidal antisemitic lunatic that played a major role in extermin
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
If you think that was a substantive comparison, you are a fool.
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
It's not world-weariness as much as it is US politics weariness. If I wanted to know what the major current events were in a foreign country I'd turn on CNN.
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
Now there's proof. So. Fucking. What. Call me cynical, I don't care. I've grown out of my desire to completely change the world. Right now I want a nice safe place for my family to be allowed to go about its business. I hav

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