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by tsotha 11y ago
>Why blame the Koch brothers for expecting their money to peddle influence? That's really not the right use of the term "influence peddling", which refers to something you do when you're in a position of authority in
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by tsotha 11y ago
No, the fact that the US is a democracy just makes it legal. That still doesn't make it right. Right now in the US almost all the income taxes are paid by 20% or so of the population. People who advocate a bigger, more expensive gove
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by tsotha 11y ago
Eh... no. The total spending of all the groups the Koch brothers support (including Freedom Partners) is $889m. But that's not what the Koch brothers are spending, that's the total spending of all the groups they support. The a
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by tsotha 11y ago
>Tu quoque fallacy. Maybe the Kochs are an easy target because they do it at a scale never before imagined - their annual spending on their political projects easily eclipses Steyer's entire net worth... Oh? They spend more than a
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by tsotha 11y ago
It's funny when the influence of money comes up it's always the Koch brothers being criticized. Clearly they aren't getting very good value for their money, since you never hear about the leftist billionaires doing the same
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I agree with this. My dad was in the military, and we moved every three or four years. I was always jealous of kids who had lifelong friends, and tired of always being the new guy.
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Why does that make it right?
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by tsotha 11y ago
>If we can't stop the state from killing a person known to most likely be innocent... It's difficult to believe this is true when he was found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in two different trials.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Socialists seem to reliably confuse free markets and anarchy. Somalia isn't in any way a free market economy.
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>That's right, that terribly communist government suppressing its people and free speech, is actually responsible for lifting 500 million people out of poverty over the last 30 years. There isn't anything recognizably communist
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by tsotha 11y ago
>The world really was different for Baby Boomers, and there's more than a grain of truth that a BA in any subject would be your (upper) middle class meal ticket. I'm not sure I buy that. In the mid '80s my dad's secr
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by tsotha 11y ago
Yes, like rabbits. Horses, too.
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The "Norman Rockwell dinner" is definitely doable - my family did it when I was growing up. But my mother didn't work outside the house, so she could shop during the day and thaw frozen meats and what not while working mothe
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It's not really a stretch to label "unclean" an animal that eats its own feces.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Yeah, you can get to the number. The problem is by that time your health will be wrecked, so you won't ever actually get to do what you want to do. Long ago I traveled to Puerto Rico on business. One of the locals was a refugee from
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by tsotha 11y ago
They use a man as an example for the story, but I'd bet my last dollar this is mostly something women do. And it seems perfectly reasonable, too. The big problem for women on dating sites is too much choice , so any reasonable crite
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by tsotha 11y ago
It might, for a commercial site. Flashy can sell, depending on the business.
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This. What mattered from the standpoint of US decision making wasn't what the Germans were actually doing, but rather what the US leadership thought the Germans were doing.
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by tsotha 11y ago
"Associate professor of psychology"? Exactly what qualifies him to make that kind of statement?
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I don't find the genetic argument convincing. There are genes we know of that seem to be related to alcoholism and/or addiction, and native Americans don't seem to have them any more than anyone else. But that doesn't
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>Given that strong alcoholic drinks have been around for at most a few thousand years it seems silly to assume that any group has yet evolved any genetic adaptations. Evolution happens over very short time frames if the stress is great e
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by tsotha 11y ago
No, it's not at all unprecedented. That's the way the world worked until the mid 20th century.
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The law makes those kinds of distinctions all the time. For example, when someone dies at work the first thing the government tries to figure out is whether it was just bad luck or the company was being sloppy.
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And we have a system for that. But part of the system is proving the people in question are engaging in that kind of criminal behavior.
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Seems unlikely. From a legal perspective it seems a lot like Yelp.
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>The world needs a WTO type organisation to set minimum tax benchmarks in key areas. Nope. There's no reason for countries to meddle with the tax rates in their neighbors.
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Until they don't. As a group, hedge funds far underperform index funds.
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Yes. This is deliberate policy by the government to push people to buy more cars than they would otherwise buy.
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Where will we get the money for that? We're already trillions of dollars short on future obligations.
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>This was before automobile companies finally got all the weak spots out of electric windows. They still break. Just replacing the switch is over $300 for most cars. I'll stay with my crank windows.

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