tetrometal

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by tetrometal 6y ago
I'm not going to engage with you in this violence score-keeping exercise, but I will say that it should be apparent to anyone capable of popping their media bubble that you are cherry-picking.
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by tetrometal 6y ago
I disagree. I see a narcissist and a buffoon when I look at Trump, but none of his behavior validates anything close to the crazed response we see from the primarily left-leaning mainstream media. It's been a constant stream of catastr
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by tetrometal 6y ago
I empathize more with your right-leaning friends. The extremes of the right (racists, nazis, white supremacists, etc) are kept very much in check by taboo. The extremes of the left (socialism, communism, collectivism, and the new Woke cult)
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by tetrometal 6y ago
There's no such thing as a free lunch. You can't just wish free healthcare into being. Nothing of value is free.
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by tetrometal 6y ago
Redistribution of wealth is not promotion of liberty. Quite the opposite. Help your fellow man. Do not force others to do it for you at the point of a gun.
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by tetrometal 6y ago
I think the point is fair. From the perspective of liberty, there's no government using aggressive force against you; this is a perfectly free-market phenomenon. That said, that doesn't mean it's always moral . For example,
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by tetrometal 6y ago
I think the "type of person you want to become" is not static. It changes as you attempt to become it. It changes because you learn more about yourself and the universe _as_ you try to change. So while your knowledge and perceptio
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by tetrometal 6y ago
I'm not so sure how false it is. If there were a better option, wouldn't people be using it already? And since they're not, aren't we just... firing them and leaving them to figure it out? Seems heartless. Honestly it co
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by tetrometal 6y ago
> If the economy cannot support enough reasonable paying jobs with adequate health insurance I don't see why anyone other than the person doing the work gets to define what "reasonable" or "adequate" is. It also
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by tetrometal 6y ago
I genuinely don't understand this position. I don't see how replacing a "bad" option with no option helps anyone, especially the people that were willing to take the "bad" option.
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by tetrometal 6y ago
> It sounds like your suggestion would lower the bar for both these aspects, and only catch issues after the fact - something which could have fatal consequences. The other side of this is: 1) Since the FDA is a monopoly, it's entir
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by tetrometal 6y ago
Well, I have to make some assumption about your use of a word. In this case, the options I perceived were literal force or hyperbole. In the interest of responding to the "strongest plausible interpretation"[0] of your comment, I
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by tetrometal 6y ago
Interpreting your comment charitably, I assume you intended hyperbole when using the word force here, and in your comparison to actual force with respect to theft of private property. Still, I think we should be careful with our words, espe
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by tetrometal 6y ago
Piggybacking on your comment to respond to the quote, not your interpretation... First, there's no cult. Western civilization protects the rights of the individual, as they should - it's immoral to use aggressive force against any
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by tetrometal 6y ago
I'd love to hear any theories about how/why this decision was made. If it aids the discussion, here's a list of her policy positions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Kamala_...
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by tetrometal 6y ago
To this day I find the focus on income or wealth inequality to be perplexing. I literally just don't get it. Why should I care whether or not some crazy rich person can buy a yacht? It does me no harm.
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by tetrometal 6y ago
> There was an awkward silence. I expected him to offer a feeble excuse. Blurt out that the woman was crazy, or that she was talking nonsense. Get defensive, say he used the had-rub solution outside her room or washed his hands at the si
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by tetrometal 6y ago
> I'll take a politician over a predator company any time! I don't understand this take. You can use DuckDuckGo right now, without having to invoke a predator politician.
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by tetrometal 6y ago
The last thing I want is for government to become even more involved with managing what information I receive or how I receive it. We need less of that, not more. Also, please use competitors such as DuckDuckGo. It's not hard, and th
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by tetrometal 6y ago
One could probably dream up a thousand theories about why capitalism was developed, but it really doesn't matter to me. What matters is what the theory is and whether or not it's true. And history has borne it out: societies t
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by tetrometal 6y ago
Capitalism is property rights and economic freedom. There's nothing inherent to it that requires monopoly. Natural monopolies can occur but are perpetually unstable provided there are no artificial barriers to entry. Of course, those b
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by tetrometal 6y ago
I'm very, very pro-mask; I'm optimistic that getting people to wear them could drop R0 << 1 and bring an end to this. That said, it seems unethical to me to mandate (read: enforce with fine/imprisonment) it for the purp
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by tetrometal 6y ago
I think a lot of people are rightly sensing a shrinking of the Overton window[0]. For example, I think the following is a perfectly reasonable position to hold: "It would be a remarkable happenstance if, in a perfectly free society, me
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by tetrometal 6y ago
IMO the problem is that the government meddles with the market to begin with. I know I'm in the minority, but I believe a clean separation of government and market would remove the incentive for regulatory capture without damaging free
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by tetrometal 6y ago
Indeed. Additionally, CAR-T therapy and vaccines are peeking over the horizon.