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by sympil 2y ago
There is no reason to think that democracy in America is going to stop. There are lots of reasons to think this is a real possibility. The American republic isn’t going to last forever and right now we are experiencing the greatest thre
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by sympil 2y ago
No rational, reasonable person is always pro war or always anti-war. You ought to understand that nuance is involved. Lots of liberals were opposed to the Iraq war that started in 2003 and now support fighting against Russian aggression i
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by sympil 2y ago
Look it up yourself. Paul Graham does not have a core competency regarding what smart people are or are not willing to do. That would be sociology or psychology or economics. https://bsky.app/profile/isilanor.bsky.soc
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by sympil 2y ago
He recently said that evil people can’t survive long as founders of tech companies because they need smart people to work for them and smart people can work anywhere. There are lots of other examples. Especially read his recent tweets&#x2
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by sympil 2y ago
As a great example of this read Paul Graham’s essays that aren’t anout his core expertise.
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You wrote: They also have no appetite to understand market consolidation being a root cause contributing factor of supply shortages or pricing power (depending on your view on the topic). The person you responded to talked about oligopoli
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by sympil 2y ago
The vast majority of the world’s population falls into this category: If you vote for someone who tells you they can make something cheaper they can’t actually make cheaper, and you don’t understand the how and the why, you are not a smart
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by sympil 2y ago
Americans are uneducated and unsophisticated, believing someone can wave a magic wand and make food prices come down,… when wages and supply must go up to accomplish this… Government wields a magic wand that can make this happen. America
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Vehicles in the U.S. should be much smaller and town/cities should be much more dense and walkable.
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It is the era of extreme inefficiency and waste. We are local min/max machines and need government to direct us to the global min/max but it doesn’t do that.
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by sympil 2y ago
Yes. And it was done so cheaply. It is now easy a relatively cheap to sway public opinion. The concentration of social media in a few company’s hands means that large amounts of regulation are needed.
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They did “fix” it but legislation was sabotaged by Republicans. Republicans sabotaged George W. Bush’s immigration “fix”.
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The former DHS head seems to think it’s a lot of people. Don’t know any other murderers who have 27% of the population having sympathy for them. 12% is not basically zero. https://www.thewrap.com/luigi-mangione-discourse-al
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He’s got a lot more support than any other murderer I know about.
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According to article linked to below there are 48 million uninsured Americans. Fifteen percent of the UK population isn’t without coverage. The subsidies don’t work well.
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by sympil 2y ago
You have to get offline Perhaps. But if I weren’t online I wouldn’t know how widespread the support of Luigi is. Only 75% of people on employer healthcare plans are satisfied? A great many people aren’t on employer plans. From the third
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It’s common for organizations to reorganize. It’s quite possible that the committee was formed for purposes of centralization and efficacy. It’s also possible it was government overreach. What are the justifications for axing a committee
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The newness of DHS has nothing to do with whether or not Chesterton’s Fence applies.