EvanTh
4d ago
Even granting that, don't you need rare earths to produce lower-grade chips for ubiquitous drones and all sorts of other things too?
EvanTh
4d ago
At the end of the day, the American people will survive if China will refuse to sell them the latest iPhone, after all.
Modern military equipment also uses high-performance computer chips. We need some way to get that even if China doesn't want us to expand our military.
EvanTh
7d ago
but personally I don't see how adding "...by the government, after a trial (in which my desired outcome is the just one)" to "I hope my political opponent is executed" makes it not support of violence.
Do you oppose capital punishment in all cases?
If not, where do you draw the line?
EvanTh
7d ago
Do you believe it is a moral duty to resist government agents every time they are doing something you believe immoral?
If so, how do you believe this is consistent with having a functional government? If not, what makes ICE so especially immoral that you believe it is a duty to resist it?
EvanTh
14d ago
You hear stories all the time of people having to put essential home repairs like a water heater or an HVAC system on a credit card because that's all they had. And yet, I have literally never heard that story end with "And then next month I scrounged up the money to pay it off".
That's because if we do, it's a nonissue and not something we talk about.
Last year, my car needed some repairs. As I tell the story, I paid for them - with some grumbles, but I paid it.
To tell it with some more detail... I didn't have a lot of money in my checking account at the time. But that was a nonissue: I just put the repairs on my credit card, and then a few weeks later I transferred enough money to my checking account to pay off the bill when it came due. So a credit card was rather handy then. Except I don't tell that part of the story, because it was rather a nonissue in my life.
EvanTh
14d ago
What makes you think their voting requirements were closely associated with IQ?
Nothing special indeed; FDR's New Deal checks about half the boxes too:
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