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by swearwolf 4y ago
My (admittedly limited) understanding is that its sort of an escalating series of interventions, run by a panel of social workers and medical professionals. The penalties seem to ratchet up as a person’s addiction becomes more and more prob
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by swearwolf 4y ago
I think it’s for a number of reasons: 1. The limitations of the oppressed vs. oppressor view of the world, which is very popular at the moment. It takes a comfort with cognitive dissonance to accept that some haves aren’t necessarily oppre
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by swearwolf 4y ago
Aside from D.C. and New York, these are all states within the ninth circuit court’s jurisdiction, and therefore are bound to the Martin v. Boise ruling, which allows public camping if there is not adequate shelter space available. If one pa
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by swearwolf 4y ago
Portugal, if I’m not mistaken, requires mandatory drug treatment to avoid criminal prosecution for drug possession.
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by swearwolf 4y ago
I hated the rioting of 2020 as much as the next guy, but it’s worth remembering that the bad apples doing the rioting because another group of bad apples kept killing black people and getting away with it. You do have a point about the flat
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by swearwolf 4y ago
That’s still very much a booming business, unfortunately.
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by swearwolf 4y ago
Democrats controlled the House and Senate from 2009 to 2011. They could have passed it then without even needing to eliminate the filibuster. But they didn’t even try.
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by swearwolf 4y ago
We do have a simple method, in amending the Constitution, but that’s been incredibly difficult to do for pretty much the entire history of the United States. For an issue like this one, it’s basically impossible. The true simple solution wo
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by swearwolf 4y ago
I’ve come to the conclusion that this kind of policy, and others like it are a significant part of why the major cities of the West Coast have such big homeless encampments. Essentially every US state is in a zero sum game with every other
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by swearwolf 4y ago
The fact that this is being downvoted is telling.
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by swearwolf 4y ago
No policy is going to be correct all the time, just as no policy is going to be incorrect all the time. Choosing to apply economic and military pressure against Italy was the right thing to do in that specific set of circumstances. Just bec
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by swearwolf 4y ago
Think about the core idea that you’re defending: that nations do not have freedom of association if the choose to be friendly with regimes the United States doesn’t like, and it’s fine for the US to use it’s cultural and economic hegemonic
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by swearwolf 4y ago
It’s starting to. Remember that bridge in Pittsburgh that spontaneously collapsed? I’m sure there are many other lesser known examples.
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by swearwolf 4y ago
This is an absolutely insane viewpoint, and ignorant of basic human biology. Women are not perfectly engineered baby supporting machines. Between 10 and 20 percent of all pregnancies, including ones where the mother desperately wants to kee
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by swearwolf 4y ago
Meeting the opposition on these grounds is playing into their hands, though. They came up with the abortion is murder framing. Conceding to that viewpoint is like agreeing to play a game of tug of war in which you’ll be standing on a muddy
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by swearwolf 4y ago
I think that’s the difference between fashionable and stylish. There are a lot of fashionable people, and it’s relatively easy to become one. You need to have some aesthetic sense, but 90% of that can be outsourced if you have the money. Yo
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by swearwolf 4y ago
There’s a lot of discourse going around these days about white people. Not much of it is positive. It’s understandable; just about every person of color has at least one story in which a white person made them feel terrible because of their
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by swearwolf 4y ago
A lot of people on the left (socialists, not Democrats) are also very distrustful of the media and Silicon Valley.
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by swearwolf 4y ago
I see people say things like this on here, and I don’t get it. I’m a manager, I know a lot of other managers, and none of us want to go back to the office nor force anyone else to.
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by swearwolf 5y ago
If you filter out this movie, you should really think long and hard about your filter. It’s really that good. I know for a fact that I’ve never seen anything as inventive before in my life, and I think there’s a good chance I never will aga
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by swearwolf 5y ago
This is probably the most disappointing thing about being on the left in the U.S. - we’re supposed to be the people who “believe science” and “trust the data”, but I’ve never once seen advocates for this policy or that reverse course when i
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by swearwolf 5y ago
Could you elaborate on how the theory of permanent revolution is showing up? I’m curious.
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by swearwolf 5y ago
There’s a theory called the Normalization of Deviance [1] which I think offers a pretty good explanation even though it was originally used to describe a spiral of tolerance for unethical behavior in corporations. The principle makes sense
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by swearwolf 5y ago
Living in a place where you see crime and decay all around you, but the data doesn’t back up what you see with your eyes, you really start to question the quality of the data and the conclusions built on top of it.
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by swearwolf 5y ago
While it might be true nationally that left policies aren’t being implemented, it’s not true on the West Coast. Just as one example, in Portland where I live, all drugs were decriminalized in personal user amounts beginning in February 2021
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by swearwolf 5y ago
This seems like the exact opposite of what I’ve experienced. For as long as I can remember, the term “racism” was used to describe behavior that was motivated by racial prejudice. You may be correct about the historical origin of the word,
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by swearwolf 5y ago
If a company offers a free tier and a paid tier of their product, and the free tier is sufficiently useful, you can bet their salespeople hate it. Even when it’s the thing driving customers to their platform in the first place. They see it
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by swearwolf 5y ago
You might like to read the book “A Libertarian walks into a bear”. It’s about a group of hardcore libertarians who took over Grafton New Hampshire with the goal to do a small town version of what you’ve described.
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by swearwolf 5y ago
Many companies, like mine, are somewhere in the middle of a 10 year lease with very steep early exit penalties. People think that having everyone working from home saves the company money, but when it comes to the office, chances are it’s
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by swearwolf 5y ago
I don’t know if this is true in Seattle, but in Portland we’re having a huge problem hiring police officers despite having the budget to do it. The reason is the police culture. It’s well known that our police force tolerates a lot of bad b

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