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3hr ago
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In concurrence with @Terracotta below, I can't feel anything other than second-hand embarrassment for this article. The author spends, per Firefox's reader mode estimate, "33-42 minutes" whining. All these things apparently just happened to him and his tribe out of nowhere. It does not even occur to him to ask the question where exactly his people went wrong, if they could have done anything different then or now, or to consider that they might have any sort of agency at all.
On that matter, chances are high that his bewildered grandma was in the class of people who were calling another sitting president as "Obongo" in their FB posts (but calling the current one "Fuckface von Clownstick" is where moral degradation truly has gone too far?). I'm yet to see an instance of that tango being danced by a single dancer.
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4hr ago
Or you could just move to the libertarian utopia of Somalia, where state capacity is low and you do not have to pay taxes to government.
This does seem like a dubious dichotomy. The statecraft of prosperous countries has converged to a remarkable degree, but that doesn't mean that "the way prosperous countries do it" and being piss poor are the only two options. Complain about absolute monarchy in 1000 AD, and your snarky interlocutor might have suggested that you just move to the anarchist utopia of Greenland instead!
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10hr ago
I did have the sense that Land Economy's bad reputation was more founded on the sort of people who chose it (the stereotype said directionless and dull scions of the landed gentry, whose parents perhaps figured they would have to make some high-level decisions about the use of their inherited land holdings one day) rather than the substance and rigour of what was being taught.
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1d ago
Don't forget revenge porn laws that allow them to nuke anybody who publicly shares photos that these women themselves transmitted.
In the context of what you are responding to, this seems rather like an arson-murder-and-jaywalking complaint. They are destroying internet anonymity, and I'm not allowed to repost their old OnlyFans pics anymore!
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1d ago
Markets: I consent
Investors: I consent
Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask?
I'm of course aware of the meme template you are invoking, but surely it applies to every instance of regulation. If there were no consenting market or investors for, say, selling cocaine, slaves, thalidomide or rat meat labelled as "beef", then banning those things would not be necessary. Conversely, the meme presumably is not funny in its original context to people who do think that Jesus/Allah/middle-aged ladies have a right to restrict the sexual dealings of consenting adults. While it may serve as a catchy package to convey the memester's value system on the topic, it rarely conveys any information or insight that would force someone else to change their judgement of a situation based on theirs.
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3d ago
Unlike the other topics discussed, though, the gun control thing doesn't even parse as particularly right-wing outside of the American context (except insofar as we're all living in amerika). Generally, on the balance, right-wing means authoritarian means more rights for narrower groups and less rights for the masses.
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3d ago
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Out of these, I'm not sure anything other than child benefits count as a valid example. Abortion laws restrict female behaviour, but I don't see how they would "make relationships and children look like a better choice for men" - if anything the possibility of a pregnancy that you won't be allowed to abort adds a risk factor to relationships for men (who would be on the hook financially and often reputationally) as well. At least in Germany, the tax breaks for the married are essentially designed in such a way that they reduce the tax on the difference between the greater and the lesser earner, so men in a marriage only benefit to the extent that they pay more than their equal share into it and you might as you well see it as a tax credit for subsidising your wife. A 0<x<1 fraction of negative money is still negative money.
That being said, my meta^n-contrarian streak aside, I agree the original post should not be in this list. When reading something with the AAQC label, I hope for something a bit more rarefied than a standard internet argument, even a winning one; but a refutation of an assertion (which a supermajority of the community already clearly disagree with) with three unsurprising counterexamples and the claim that you have never personally seen a counter-counterexample is something you can find just about anywhere. This seems like a pretty egregious case of AAQC being used as a "super agree", with mod complicity. (Sorry to @faceh, whose post wound up being the jar of skub through no fault of his own.)
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4d ago
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Yeah, sure, but the same can be said about the Holocaust. (How much sleep did people lose over the Khmer Rouge, or Stalin's mass starvation campaigns?)
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5d ago
Sometimes, when the cultural gap is too wide, your conspiracy theories don't land as intended.
Famously, when the Japanese in WWII got a load of the finest anti-Jewish propaganda, their reaction was something like "that's awesome, how can we harness this power".
Now, what do you figure is the outcome if you tell the Japanese that thing about reptilian overlords?
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5d ago
Well yeah, isn't Hawaii one of the most brazen recent examples of conquest-colonialism? The only thing standing in the way of a morally justified reconquest there is that there is no nation that can reasonably claim to stand for the original inhabitants anymore.
How many instances do you think are actually IQ 85 citizens inviting "another random person", as opposed to the probably far from random person that they chose to make pivotal to their self-actualisation and life plans? A $200k cash charge would filter out not just 85 IQ citizens with mail-order brides, but the vast majority of native/foreign couples. Do you think your candidate wants to explain to his electorate why they should be denied a freedom that almost everyone in the developed world enjoys?
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