spaginal

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by spaginal 9y ago
No he doesn't.
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by spaginal 9y ago
Both groups were behaving violently, and he addressed it exactly as such. Unfortunately it ended with the death of a young woman, but the event didn't go from zero to 100 with the car incident. A lot was happening between the two group
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by spaginal 9y ago
Historically, speech isn't censored to protect people, it is done to protect institutions or governments. The slippery slope we are careening down is getting pretty troubling.
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by spaginal 9y ago
$2 trillion is a drop in the bucket. $2 trillion spread out over every man, woman, and child in the United States would equal roughly $5000. If you only paid working age adults, maybe $10,000 a year. In some areas of the country this is one
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by spaginal 9y ago
Enumerated rights and obligations versus assumptions pulled out of thin air. The Constitution of the United States lays out that the government defends us with a military, builds and maintain roads, and enforces the laws it sets. This is do
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by spaginal 9y ago
Exactly. Last I checked in this country, we have a Constitution to protect our rights as citizens and individuals, and this used to include the right to private property. Demanding A gives to B because B doesn't have what A has, and fo
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by spaginal 9y ago
Capitalism is the normal mode of human interaction and has been the greatest lifter of people out of poverty period, while providing free choice and momentum to the economy that continues it's growth. This isn't even an assumption
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by spaginal 9y ago
Trust me, I don't mean the million and billion line as a dig at Hacker News, I think as a business owner, the insight and advice in this community is incredible, even for small business owners that it may not necessarily relate too all
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by spaginal 9y ago
It's person dependent in my experience. Some people NEED structure in their day and need the 8 hours or 10 hours or however many you require for the work. Most don't have a business owners mindset and just want to stay busy all da
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by spaginal 9y ago
I thought so too. Ego plays a huge part in this when it comes to business. Working less can help you with working more meaningfully in a small business in my own personal experience. For others it may not. The thing that helped me with my s
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by spaginal 9y ago
Just in my own experience, after having started a very small company several years ago that is moderately successful for me, nothing Hacker News would care about in the million and billion scheme, but it pays my mortgage and gives me a comf
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by spaginal 10y ago
They are in fact classic examples of infringement. It is someone's "opinion" that a private Catholic Christian charity should exercise a procedure or have a policy that is strictly against the values of that organization. Str
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by spaginal 10y ago
I don't disagree, but the chaos from Trump declaring Saudi Arabia, a current strategic ally in the region both for material resources and military cooperation, would be on a scale that no one here would like to pick up the pieces from.
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by spaginal 10y ago
Saudi Arabia and Egypt are allies in that region with functioning governments that we don't have emigration issues with and can vet anyone coming over from. Of the 7 nations on the list, Iran has the only functioning government, but is