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by shigawire 2y ago
The argument (if you take it in the most charitable light) is that reducing barriers to paying taxes will make people less averse to paying taxes. So they fight any effort to bring sanity to the tax code or tax payment process. So even take
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by shigawire 2y ago
The application process feels arbitrary and antagonistic to many. If that was how one felt, there would be little reason not to game the system.
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by shigawire 2y ago
Drugs are more addictive than guns typically. I am not sure your comparison is useful.
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by shigawire 2y ago
>Following them would include banning the existence of other parties, changing the constitution to give all power to executive, cancelling elections, etc. Let's check back on these in a few years (months?).
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by shigawire 2y ago
As with most Chicago critics, there are valid points to be made but it often feels too gleeful.
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>At the forefront of our politicians’ minds are how many genders there are. This seems so irrelevant. Why do you think reactionary politics will lead to more innovation?
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>What concerns me most about this, is the general attitude of entirely dehumanizing specific groups of people And they are armed to the teeth.
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by shigawire 2y ago
Using Argentina as an example is wild. They have a pretty singular situation.
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by shigawire 2y ago
Probably referring to how many Americans are obese to an unhealthy degree as part of the joke.
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These types of responses always strike me as dogmatic.
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Consider that the differing results in each situation led to different actions taken. In only one case was there an insurrection supported (as evidenced by pardons) by the tweeter.
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by shigawire 2y ago
>Did people not believe then, or are they resigned to the election results meaning we just accept the end of democracy? If I revolt against the government that is 100% breaking democracy. If I wait and see what the next admin does, that
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by shigawire 2y ago
Surely you won't be the last idiot to hold the bag.
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Without being glib... It is hard. And they will be able to do so relatively soon because though it is hard there is now an immense need to do so.
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>That doesn't synergize so well with getting a full night's rest to go join the rat race the next day. I feel this in my bones as I read this while rocking my infant who won't sleep for the last 2 hours.
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by shigawire 2y ago
Yes and it has done so successfully for years. An interesting high profile example: https://meet-global.bnext.com.tw/articles/view/47800 ?
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by shigawire 2y ago
Not directly but he clearly frames his policies, to paraphrase, as "taking back the country for the people". I'd argue it is disingenuous to say his rhetoric is not primarily taping into popularist sentiments.
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by shigawire 2y ago
I think they are considering the last part of the article to be "price controls". If the government prevents people from buying certain goods by selectivity freezing certain purchases I'm not sure I'd call that a price c
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by shigawire 2y ago
Thanks for your work on this. It was super helpful as a student learning SQL. Having the visual feedback to check the statements made or queries ran on my test data was invaluable.
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by shigawire 2y ago
There is more momentum against Musk now than when threads launched. Not sure it is enough to overcome the network effect - but there is a lot of illwill towards his projects. I can see how something like SpaceX is overall a net good, but I
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by shigawire 2y ago
I don't think this is a good reason but tabs give you the ability to keep a bunch of files open and accessible without cluttering your main taskbar since there is only 1 Notes window.
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by shigawire 2y ago
It is mostly that way for the GOP since the Newt Gingrich era. Not that the Dems don't undo things... But they add to policy as well. GOP does culture war, tear stuff down mostly.
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by shigawire 2y ago
Businesses already hold a lot of leverage over employees - like healthcare or the ability to feed their families.
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by shigawire 2y ago
>"If I were rich then I wouldn't worry about taxes" vs after becoming rich, essentially everyone worries about taxes. Consider that the type of people who are more inclined to accumulate wealth are the ones faced with this
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by shigawire 2y ago
The way I (not the previous poster) envision this working is not that you can opt out of taxes, but you can skip certain items. So I don't pay Israel's defense budget, but that money is reallocated evenly to everything else. I fin
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by shigawire 2y ago
At this point I view fast food as a laziness or convenience tax. Like food at an airport, only people with no other options would opt into it (an exaggeration sure).
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I remember the halcyon room temp superconductor days.
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>How many "most important elections of our lifetime" are we going to have? How many more candidates will buck precedent and try to actively overturn election results? In my estimation each election is quite consequential if at
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by shigawire 2y ago
Counter point - phones are so large now I don't always want it in my pocket when seated.
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by shigawire 2y ago
I'd say whether it failed is debatable. My understanding is the best counter bid was building a new system from the ground up... I feel that outcome would have been much worse.

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