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The fertility rate has relatively plummeted pretty much anywhere with a socialized retirement system. Why would you go through the trouble of kids when you can just mostly offload the time and cost of that on someone else then tax those kid
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Well that and the fact that we did the thing everyone suggested and gave lots of welfare money to descendants of freed slaves and that still didn't solve the cultural problem of them being neglected by greater society. There are a ton
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If you read the codes of the city those park rules are binding as law, thus the child is a criminal.
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The children playing at the park are the criminals. https://www.phillymag.com/news/2025/03/19/tot-lot-ardmore-lo...
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If congress cannot delegate A1 S8 powers to the executive then the EPA, ATF, DEA, etc and most the regulatory apparatus all come crashing down. Which might be a good thing, but we've long since abandoned making congress actually use th
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Because voting third party is also a vote for whoever wins, using this logic. Libertarians, Green, etc party voters constantly get accosted over this. You have two top candidates, by voting for a third party you are deferring to the popula
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The electoral college doesn't even have to vote for what their state wanted. They can go rogue, and possibly end up with criminal charges in a few states, but the vote still stands. It has certainly happened before.
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Lysander Spooner wrote a significant works on why he believes this viewpoint is discredited. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Treason
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But it does. The house of representation is based on relative population, so places like Texas end up getting more representation as their voters high some of the highest fertility and their children get counted in the census.
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Not just the Nazis. The Russians had Lysenkoism. It's a common characteristics of states that start consolidating enough power to nationalize science funding. They often eventually use it to wield power.
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The jury is out on whether the accounts linked to the hiring of the 'hitmen' was exclusively under the control of Ross Ulbricht. The 'preponderance' was found by a judge, not a jury, so it's a different threshold t
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Lol they all got bid to infinity during the covid mania, that's why I resorted to building a house myself in the first place -- if buying a rundown built house or even a shitty trailer were cheaper I would have done that in the first
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In rural areas where people know one another, people like yourself get sniffed out before they reach the ol boys network. If you're known as someone who seems like they would like codes, licensing, and inspections then these opportuni
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Lol some boomer slumlord would buy it for cash to rent out if nothing else, considering I could sell for 1/3 the price of anything remotely similar and still break even.
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The top 1% hold a minority of the capital in America. The face of American capitalism is much closer to the guy who owns the local car repair shop.
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The insane risk aversion in the USA is at least an opportunity. I also got my land incredibly cheaply that way. No one wanted to take a risk on an unproven plot of land, everybody wants some place where they can already legally get water&#
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Unless you live in a remarkably remote area, rental yards carry pretty much everything you can need. I've even rented $100,000 excavators I needed for a day quite easily, and it eats into the value of your labor maybe 20-30% at worst.
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A large part of the US depends on 2 lane highways on which overtaking slow vehicles can be a dangerous proposition even when done legally.
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Which is hilarious because the only thing gatekeeping the homeowner from doing their own HVAC is an EPA 608 cert you can do in like 2 nights in your underwear (cost me like $50 and saved me like $10k), after which you can order 200 lbs of w
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If you can't wire a house after 2 weeks of education, they were going to burn your house down anyway (especially if you are using AFCI). It's like one simple and highly redundant 300 page book of information at worst. I will neve
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4 years to get a license in my state. 2 nights to get the EPA 608 cert which is the only real education you get, the rest is slave labor to get the sign-off for the license. The whole regulatory apparatus was co-opted by current industry
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This is why my house is uninsured and built totally without licenses or code inspection. Fuck paying out to some assholes just so they can void it as soon anything goes wrong. I could literally rebuild it 3x for the all the bullshit insura
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My child was born during the beginning of the pandemic, when everyone* thought they were going to die. Doctors were falling over themselves to rush us out. The only education I recall was how to use a car seat to get our asses out of ther
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Not being able to do those things probably nudged you towards revolution. Voting feels like you've done something. Cast a vote between the lady rammed through without even a primary, or the other oh so fabulous option. Go home and pa
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Nah we do something. We threaten to break the probation of anyone going in to save their children, beat up parents trying to get in, then scroll on our cell phones and furiously maintain hand hygiene with sanitizer while standing outside t
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That's normal. Pretty much no residency or citizenship by investment programs will refund the 'investment' unless it is denied during the initial application process. People buying that stuff usually don't care and it d
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If you're deferring to the favors of a figurehead rather than the law, you would be much better off in Dubai. Everyone knows the game there, it is pure dictatorship, but the taxes are extraordinarily low, banking and KYC/AML is l
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If it can be created by fiat, it can be destroyed by fiat. This is the danger of most residency and citizenship by investment programs.
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One of my main complaints about the US is that basically corruption is less democratized, unlike a lot of places where it can be bought for a pittance. Trump bringing the bribery and corruption to the level of the common millionaire would
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Why not? Why is $5M a less valuable contribution to society than someone's mom doing a tourism birth in the US? My main objection here is it should be an auction system. Make a lot of X number of citizenships, then auction them off t

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