tootallgavin

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by tootallgavin 4y ago
I am sure we could find some Members who think this number inadequate. that number could fund about 8 people's salary per year, is that enough staff to do the job? I don't know
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by tootallgavin 4y ago
> They might read research, but they aren't personally funding it. might read, or have someone else tell them the important bits. This cost money either way > Through your taxpaying dollars, just like every other government worke
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by tootallgavin 4y ago
> The salary isn't preventing poor people from becoming elected officials. I agree, and trading stocks is not keeping poor people from becoming elected officials either
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by tootallgavin 4y ago
> but, what, you thought they relied on graft to buy their dinners They will if this ban is instituted
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by tootallgavin 4y ago
What about the salaries of the staff? What about the tools needed to perform the job?
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by tootallgavin 4y ago
> Politicians don’t receive money directly from lobbyists and donors. Doing so would be a violation of rules against taking bribes. > a congresspersons power within the party is directly correlated to their ability to fundraise for th
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by tootallgavin 4y ago
And so how do these members of congress pay for staffing, research, etc? with just 150K per year?
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by tootallgavin 4y ago
> just to stop trading individual stocks Why? Is buying a particular car not an investment? what about a house? Buying and selling assets should not be criminalized. Having privileged knowledge is part of the game. Someone who cannot re
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by tootallgavin 4y ago
So should all politicians receive money exclusively from lobbyists/donors? Or I guess they should go get paycheck jobs somewhere? Where does a politicians money come from? If they exclusively received their money from stock trading as
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by tootallgavin 4y ago
Slightly off topic. But what do you think of the "definition of recession"[1] debacle that is currently going on? Do you think this is similar to "changing the definition of a vaccine" that you mentioned? [1] https:&#x2
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by tootallgavin 4y ago
Any market is "a machine for creating cults", including the market of ideas. The first sentence of the article says it all.
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by tootallgavin 4y ago
I didn't ask you to defend them. I asked why they would be protesting. I, too, would be a bad advocate for them as well. I am neither a Netherlander nor a farmer. I just eat and don't wonder where the food comes from, nor do I wa
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by tootallgavin 4y ago
If they can still grow food, why are they protesting? Seems like a lot of time to waste not working on the farm. But, honestly, I haven't really found a source of news that wasn't just calling the farmers terrible names. Why do yo
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by tootallgavin 4y ago
Meanwhile, farmers in Netherlands are no longer allowed to grow food. If there ever was a reason to have the right to own arms, and to overthrow the government, I think losing the right to grow food is a valid justification for a "sel
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by tootallgavin 4y ago
Some religious people go to church everyday and others go knocking door to door to evangelize. Notice how some Christians also believe the world is ending? To answer your question, the Mongers of Climate Change have people of various convic
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by tootallgavin 4y ago
Because at the end of a life, you either live like Picasso or live like Dalí both made fortunes, but one thought it was a good idea to give it all away I prefer to live like Dalí, the fruits of my labor are for my children
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by tootallgavin 4y ago
Calling brown skin black is... a weird place to start. Further, there is no legal definition of black person or white person. So, it would be hard to revisit, for instance, interracial marriage in a way that doesn't overlook the 14th a
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by tootallgavin 4y ago
The concentration of melanin in one's skin is not important
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by tootallgavin 4y ago
race is a belief
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by tootallgavin 4y ago
Unlike Brexit, the first American civil war has set precedent to prevent secession. The first state to attempt secession will be labeled a word (like insurrectionist, fascist, racist, etc.) and then, like Ukraine, invaded.
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by tootallgavin 4y ago
Wait until you try to convince someone that brown is not black.
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by tootallgavin 5y ago
In the idea of race, isn't one of the races "ahead" of the other races? The point of race is to be racist.
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by tootallgavin 5y ago
That's the point of science.
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by tootallgavin 5y ago
Weird how science still claims race exists, even as they show a dark skinned scientist When can we be post-race?