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by syops 6y ago
Your objection appears to me to be without merit. You are essentially engaged in the fallacy of the slippery slope. There are quite a few countries that provide universal health care without oppressing people by policing their bad health c
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by syops 6y ago
I don't know the particulars of your wife's union contract but in my union (college faculty union) we can't go on strike while under contract. Our contracts are up for renewal every two years and when the old contract expire
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by syops 6y ago
The style of writing indicates to me at least that OP was not writing to be technically precise to this level. Since it is abundantly clear to you that the payment was a bribe then isn’t the natural conclusion that it was a bribe and that
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by syops 6y ago
I stopped caring if my students cheat a long time ago. It's not worth the hassle and it does lower my completion rate which is the only thing administration cares about. Cheating increases the passing rate so I'm all in favor of
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by syops 6y ago
There are valid reasons to believe that gun prohibition will not significantly decrease the use of guns in crimes in the U.S. Believing that gun prohibition won’t work because drug prohibition hasn’t worked is as invalid as the argument th
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by syops 6y ago
There are lots of examples of countries whose ban on guns work and whose ban on drugs doesn’t work. Therefore it is a bad argument that guns can’t effectively be banned since our ban on drugs hasn’t worked.
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by syops 6y ago
I’m aware of 3D printing. At this time it is not ubiquitous or cheap enough for mass consumption. When it becomes so then the comparison to the drug trade will become more apt. There are lots of examples of countries with effective illega
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by syops 6y ago
So let me try another explanation for why I think the comparison with the drug trade is not valid. We have many examples of European countries where guns are effectively illegal to own in the sense of being hard to legally obtain. These s
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by syops 6y ago
Comparing across generations is not valid as times and perceptions and social values change. What didn’t work in the past may work in the future. I’m not ignoring the nature of the drug trade. I’m claiming that the drug trade and drug smu
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by syops 6y ago
I don’t know much about gun smuggling. Do you have sources or experience in this area to know that gun smuggling is as easy as drug smuggling? My impression, not based on experience, is that gun smuggling can’t occur at near the level tha
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by syops 6y ago
This is a different argument than the one I responded to. I gather then that you agree with me that the point I responded to is invalid.
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Yes. I ought to have specified that I was referring to countries with the same level of socio-economic development. I intended to compare like to like so to speak.
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The relevant statistic is not the one you mentioned. One expects the outcome you cited. What is the frequency of gun involvement in crime in Canada vs. the United States? That’s the relevant comparison.
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There are no such examples among the rich nations of the world. As such the example of Brazil is not apt. Even if you persist in it being apt you must all compare the number of such examples to the number of examples where gun ownership i
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by syops 6y ago
It’s easy to grow marijuana, for instance. I can do it. I can not manufacture a gun easily. In countries where legal gun ownership is hard to obtain they have much lower rates of crimes involving guns while at the same time having ready
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by syops 6y ago
In countries where gun ownership is hard to obtain legally criminals have much lower rates of gun ownership. Banning legal gun ownership does not prevent all criminals from accessing guns but it does prevent most of them from accessing gun
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by syops 6y ago
Before the pandemic the weekly initial jobless claims had a maximum around 650,000. We’ve had around 50 consecutive weeks where this number has been well above 700,000. The stock market is at an all time high. We had an attempted coup in
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by syops 6y ago
Thanks for that distinction. This is the right framing and clarifies things for me.
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by syops 6y ago
I very much enjoyed reading your post. You made a statement that, taken literally, I disagree with and wonder if you care to elaborate more on it. I made it and you can too. It seems to me that luck plays a huge role in each success stor
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by syops 6y ago
From the article: "Members of the Chinese People's Liberation Army cannot lie on their visa applications and come to the United States to study without expecting the FBI and our partners to catch them." said Assistant Direct
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by syops 6y ago
From my perspective the U.S. has steadily shifted to the right the last 40 years. What was once Republican ideas are now labeled socialist. For example consider Romneycare and it’s similarities to Obamacare. It was Nixon who created the
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by syops 6y ago
Your first sentence is quite a claim. Do you have evidence that this is what enables structural inequalities and broken paradigms? Maybe it would be more reasonable to say such internal monologues help perpetuate these things. It seems t
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by syops 6y ago
We aren’t talking about whether the tax rate should be lower or better spent. We are talking about whether or not they ought to exist at all. Bringing in, now, the fact that some are wasted is not relevant to the discussion. The argument
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by syops 6y ago
If the cost of living in a different country is too high then I suppose you are destined to feel oppressed for the rest of your life. It’s a strange position to take. Given that very few people feel your way perhaps it is worthwhile to co
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by syops 6y ago
It’s absurd, in my opinion, to think that the society that created the opportunities you have to earn money ought to be enjoyed by you at no cost. We can’t all be free loaders and leeches. Acting as if taxes are immoral is nonsensical.
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There is an alternative. Go somewhere else if the cost of living in this society is too high. Earning a tax free living clearly isn’t a right according to the U.S. Constitution. Go elsewhere if the cost is too high or advocate for lowerin
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by syops 6y ago
Every government has taxes. Running the government isn’t free. The cost of living in a given society are the taxes and abiding by the system of laws it has. In the U.S. you have the option of leaving if you find the cost too high. You w
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by syops 6y ago
People as smart as Rubin, Clinton, and Greenspan knew this was bad policy. Greenspan famously encouraged ARMs before the crash. After his chairmanship he was amply rewarded. It could, of course, all be as you say and these are just instan
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by syops 6y ago
I definitely don't have proof. It's all supposition. Reagan going to Japan for $10 million was the first instance that I remember in my life. I think it was because he got rid of import quotas on Japanese cars. Clintons and Ru
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by syops 6y ago
Rubin and Clinton passed the repeal of Glass-Steagall. Rubin goes on to make many millions of dollars at Citigroup and the Clinton make many millions of dollars in speaking fees for speeches at Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and other places.

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