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by sympil 2y ago
…people freely organizing… It is to the extent possible for 330 million people. There are no instances in world history in which people freely organizing as you put it adequately solved the issues of hunger, education, healthcare, etc
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by sympil 2y ago
… are free to organize help for others.. We have done so in the form of government. The whole promote the general welfare bit. The free rider problem is not an issue with publicly funded healthcare.
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by sympil 2y ago
Let’s rephrase things a bit then: U.S. health insurance angencies and the system they operate under need to be dismantled.
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by sympil 2y ago
I don’t understand your point. I was just pointing out that Stallman is not one of the elites or speaks for them and as such the OP’s post didn’t make much sense.
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by sympil 2y ago
Richard Stallman is not one of the elites or a mouthpiece for them. He doesnt want your kids dead. He thinks its best for the planet to not have kids (in gemeral).
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by sympil 2y ago
Around 50% of higher education takes place at community colleges. A firther large percentage of higher edcuation takes place at regional state universities that do very little research at lineral arts colleges. I think you dont understand
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by sympil 2y ago
I see. Thanks.
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by sympil 2y ago
Did the title of the post change because from what you wrote it appears to be an accurate description of what is happening.
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by sympil 2y ago
I did address their point. The tendency with climate change, micro plastics, etc. is to deny, deny, deny, until it is too late. Perhaps we should err on the side of caution. In this situation its much better to err on the side of being o
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by sympil 2y ago
If real life was a Civ 6 game the U.S. would have won a cultural victory a long time ago. When you’ve outsourced the manufacturing of your car parts, phones, tvs, chips, etc. to other countries then threatening your allies is stupid.
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by sympil 2y ago
We’ve threatened taking over all of or parts of Denmark, Canada, and Panama. It is a long term losing strategy to threaten allies. I don’t understand why Maga supporters in the U.S. thinks it’s a good idea to threaten our allies. I wish
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by sympil 2y ago
History will show that the Pax Americana was ended by America. Completely self inflicted. We deserve the result though.
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by sympil 2y ago
…than billionaires publicly announcing everything they’re doing on X. This take is as naive to about the reality of what is going on as your take that Citizens United is merely a free speech case. People like you will thrive in the new sy
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by sympil 2y ago
You think Citizens United was merely about free speech and ignore these consequences that decision has had. An unelected, non Congressionally approved billionaire is now is charge of determing which payments the Treasury Department will mak
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by sympil 2y ago
It’s not an individual action that indicates this is Armageddon as you put it. It’s the aggregate of these actions that suggests this is Armageddon. Trump is normalizing behavior that ought to be anathema to everyone.
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by sympil 2y ago
Interesting. Thanks for the links.
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by sympil 2y ago
I largely agree with your overall points. What follows is my pet theory for how this angst is being manifested at this time. I’m very liberal. The Democratic party is dead to me. I think this demise of the Democratic party started under
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by sympil 2y ago
You went from tampons in men’s bathrooms to If the left had been focusing on broadly inclusive issues (speak to 5% of persuadable people, instead of 1% of extremists who'll stay home on election day anyhow) we could have 'woke&#x
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by sympil 2y ago
So?
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by sympil 2y ago
SCOTUS to some extent empowered Trump & Co SCOTUS effectively gave Trump immunity from prosecution for any act he does as President.
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by sympil 2y ago
He really should stick to tweeting about programming and startups. He appears to think that his expertise in computer science makes him insightful in areas he knows nothing about. He doesn’t know the sociology of “Silicon Valley”. He ough
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by sympil 2y ago
Speaking of the Constitution, what is the Constitutional basis for this large structure of federal funding for the sciences? Nothing in Article I, Section 8 appears to cover it: the encouragement of science appears to be limited to copyrig
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by sympil 2y ago
Your comment was in response to someone and that provides the context for the discussion.
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by sympil 2y ago
The Supreme Couet has previously ruled that (in essence) that abortion is a right. It had previously ruled that fair share dues were legal. It had ruled previously that Chevron was the administrative standard. All of these were subsequen
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by sympil 2y ago
We are going to concentrate undesirables in a camp in Guantanamo. The U.S. social conscience has degraded fast.
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by sympil 2y ago
Therefore, the boss will have to be nice to them. Therefore, the boss can't be a horrible person. You should study up on logic. You are saying that since person A has to be nice to people who work for startups they can’t be a horrib
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by sympil 2y ago
Everything.
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by sympil 2y ago
Here’s the post you originally responded to: Does it? Do we truly need to be born anew every day, unable to look into the past to see how Trump has run his businesses, or how he conducted his first term, or how he has promised to run his s
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by sympil 2y ago
You don’t think character counts in terms of whether or not he’d fit in Ycombinator? That says much about either Ycombinator or you. Stiffing employees and not being able to run a charity very much counts in this discussion. As does the
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by sympil 2y ago
He’s been found by a jury to be a sexual abuser. He can’t run a charity in New York. Stiffs employees and hires illegal workers. He lies constantly and makes shit up. Like using a sharpie to change a NOAA map because he is incapable of

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