trilbyglens

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by trilbyglens 2y ago
Exactly. For better or worse, and whether or not people realize that we have basically inherited and mutated the English class system, except instead of being defined by your birth lineage, it's now defined by how much money you have.
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
Yes, exactly. They basically have some mountains and a fairly large expanse of desert, but that's pretty much it, as far as geographical barriers go. And it is a very long border.
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
Well, that would be certainly a pretty incredible flip, and I'm not sure something that could happen within four years, but who knows?
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
Completely agree. I live in Europe and my City is safe enough to sleep overnight in a park on a bench without being touched. In fact, last night I accidentally left my car keys in the ignition and my car was still there in the morning. Lol.
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
I think you've actually hit on one of the fundamental pillars of modern conservatism in America, which is that they don't actually believe in civil society nor do they believe that the government exists to benefit people. Conserva
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
As stated, on paper yes this is true, however the feds and the executive branch specifically have the ability to supra-legally harass and roadblock localities by doing things like revoking or delaying federal funding as leverage or blackmai
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
Semile old man's death pact seems to be the way our entire government has been working for the last 10 years.
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
Completely false statement, unless you are only taking about american cities.
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
Massively increase housing availability, remove the ability of nimbys to kneecap social projects, enforce existing laws. Something can definitely be done.
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
I think you could easily get into the 30% range if you factor in manufacturing that happens that otherwise would not without global trade.
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
Russia is gasping for air. Trying to hold 1/3 of Ukraine. Do you really think they would stand a chance if all of Europe United against them? It would be ugly for sure, but Russia would be no more.
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
Even if it came to war, it would be highly unlikely with a border as long and as undefendable as California has.
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
Also, modern wars are not at all one by guns but by missiles, tanks and intelligence, all the guns in the world will not help you when himars are falling on your house.
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
Similar to how corruption has basically become the political system in Russia. If you refuse to participate in the corrupt system than the government has no leverage over you and you will be kept out of power by all means. They only want co
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
Wouldn't matter. Trump is already a felon and should be ineligible. We have at least two parallel lehal systems in the US, probably more. The more "important" you are the less the rules are able to touch you. That's the
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
Imo the stockmarket has long since detached itself from any sort of fundamentals as a main engine. Elon is a personality cult, and cults defy economic physics, until they don't. That cultishness extends itself well into the world of t
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
I live in Prague and the Czechs are just as proactive with dental stuff as Americans are. Maybe the french are uniquely nasty? (They are)
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
I believe what they meant was that you do not want a military that feels it's within their rights to forcibly remove leaders from power who they disagree with. That's how coups work.
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
This. So how do you compare physics outcomes with humanities outcomes or creative fields of study versus science or engineering? "Success" is often neither quantifiable nor immediately obvious.
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
This feels a lot like the immigration debate in the US. One one hand it is actually sort of insane that undocumented people have all these rights and things as no other place on earth operates that way, but on the other hand the way the rig
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
This is just stupidity in the american population though.
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
Well you would never know about it. For all you know it's already happened and we're all living an "altered" timeline.
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
Well, we pretty spectacularly fail that test.
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
This is really what's happening. The outrage comes from white folks finally seeing into the reality of how america has treated minority people since forever.
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
They don't need to recoup their investments in discovery and regulatory approval.
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
And similarly, corruption is a viable system of government.For a while...
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
Everyone just assumes that the only way to do ads online are from these giant, shitty ad platforms like Facebook or Google. When really, you can have smaller ad networks that provide curated and content tailored advertising. It's just
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
That's a pretty weak ass argument friend.
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
This is the true secret of American government, though. We do everything that every other corrupt government does, except we've managed to legalize it.
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by trilbyglens 2y ago
It has nothing to do with actual voting integrity and everything to do with being able to point the finger at a problematic minority.

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