UnterSeeBootRespecter
9mo ago
I don't see how that would work. Texas isn't taking down Federally placed border control obstacles or taking control of border crossing checkpoints. They're simply installing more obstacles on the border. Is your supposition that this would inflame California to take down Federally placed obstacles (fences, walls) and to evict the Federal Border Guards from the crossing points and just throw them open? Because that's a whole level of escalation that I don't believe is even plausible at this time.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
1yr ago
It doesn't seem like it has to be either expensive or anti-social.
Expense seems to be related to government regulation.
Anti-socialness seems to be related to douchebags blowing giant vapor clouds.
Neither is inherent.
There seems to be no upside.
Unless you want to dose yourself with nicotine. Which is as valid an upside as dosing yourself with caffeine is.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
10mo ago
Have your citizens grow fat, lazy and unwilling to risk their lives, especially in far away wars that they see no benefit from anyway
The fun part is they can probably recruit enough citizens to fill the military, but only if they weren't actively repelling the half of the country that is patriotic and nationalistic.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
11mo ago
If you don't have an affirmative case for why gun rights are more valuable than X dead kids per year, I hate to tell you, but you're going to lose.
The affirmative case is obvious: X dead kids per year is a small price to pay for the impediment to tyranny an armed populace offers. How many kids will the next totalitarian state kill for ideological reasons? It's going to be more than die by the happenstance of gun crime.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
6mo ago
The government not doing things is not the same as nothing getting done.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
8mo ago
So Rufo finds himself in a bit of a pickle. He's fully aware that he can't say "Thomas Jefferson, the man who believed blacks were inferior and held 130 of them in bondage, was not a racist" with a straight face.
The right move is to turn this around. YOU, Robinson, are doing something so totally heinous today that in 200 years all people will condemn you as a terrible bigot. But you can't even see what it is with your own eyes. Is the future right to condemn you?
UnterSeeBootRespecter
10mo ago
It seems like the "move fast and break things" ethos could still have a proper place in physical engineering. I look at SpaceX, for example. They move quickly and break things... until they have a reliable product they can safely put humans on. Falcon 9 is arguably the most reliable rocket in the world, because they were willing to move fast and break things.
What would that look like with a deep submersible? Maybe an autonomous version that gets extensive testing and use before you put people on it? I don't know.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
11mo ago
In practice, sports leagues are monopolies. Consumer choice isn't a phenomenon that exists there.
Take, for example, my local high school. It plays in the local conference with other high schools in the area. What would consumer choice look like for girls at this school who don't want to compete with 6'2" 190lbs. "Natalie?" There is no choice for these girls, should the local conference accept "trans" girls as actual girls.
Further, I don't think most of women's sports is really a consumer affair? What women's sports league pays for itself in the manner of the MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA, etc.?
UnterSeeBootRespecter
10mo ago
I don't know why you're so skeptical of Starship? They've clearly been making tons of progress on it. Hell, they even launched a failed test.
I can see why you might call Elon a bit of a hype machine, but really, he has delivered on quite a lot of his hype.
Electric cars? Yep
Electric trucks? Yeah
Self driving? Eh, no
Charging network? Yeah
Tons of battery manufacturing? Yeah
Orbital Rocket? Yeah
Reusable Orbital Rocket? Yeah
Reusable Heavy Orbital Rocket? Yeah
LEO satellite internet? Yeah.
Tunnels under every city? No.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
10mo ago
Seems pretty unlikely at this point. They already have (arguably) the most reliable rocket in the world.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
11mo ago
My only real question with the Holocaust is why did it go from an over-arching term for Nazi genocide killing 11 million to a Jewish specific genocide term covering 6 million. All my childhood I remember hearing 11 million, 11 million.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
10mo ago
I think the actual answer is to keep the role of government to its proper place. My right to my property must be much greater than the local council's right to interfere with my enjoyment of that property.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
8mo ago
Elon has ten kids from adult to under 2…. Calling him an incel is literally retarded. Clearly this is not a man who lacks for sex.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
9mo ago
You did this.
Well, "we" as in the US elites did this. "We" the broad populace of the US did not. I personally would be happy for you guys to roll your own way on all matters foreign and domestic. It would be good for the American soul to have real competitors and not just fake ones.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
10mo ago
I’m saying you’re wrong, it is used in a non derogatory sense, because circumlocutions are the only way to talk about that subject in many places.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
10mo ago
But what you were saying is he doesn't deliver on things... not that you don't like the things.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
1yr ago
The reason theft is wrong is because you are depriving someone of their property, the use of said property, and indirectly the time and effort put into creating/obtaining that piece of property.
This is why the matter replicator thought experiment is salient. If someone came up to me and said, can I have your car for free, I'd say no. However, if instead they wanted to merely duplicate it perfectly at no cost to me, I would instead agree.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
6mo ago
notably, Israel knows that there would never be peace because Hamas's end goal is literally the destruction of Israel and they'll never settle for anything less
That's not even the most notable difference. The Afghans weren't attempting to remove America from Long Island, they were attempting to remove America from Afghanistan. The Algerians weren't trying to take Provence, they were trying to take Algeria.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
9mo ago
Well none of that actually matters. What matters here is power, and if Texas fails to comply, they are daring the Federal government to actually invoke their power to remove these obstacles, which is a loss for the Feds and a possible win or at worst neutral for Texas.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
9mo ago
If the people of the US had to pay comparable prices for oil and energy as over here in Europe, there would be huge upheaval, protests, and maybe even a bit of economic collapse
Prior to the Ukraine war, I was under the impression high energy prices were government policy enforced by taxation, no?
UnterSeeBootRespecter
11mo ago
NJ re-elects Bob Menendez to the Senate every six years, and he's constantly under investigation/indictment/trial for some scheme or another.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
1yr ago
I would disagree and say you are the one playing a semantic game here.
Taking implies that there is some thing (item) which you now have which no one else can now have because you have it.
That is simply impossible in the case we're talking about.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
1yr ago
You're not even correct by the points of your own argument, though.
When I copy a photograph, what have I taken?
Nothing, I've taken nothing. The original item is still there as it always was, yet I also have a copy of it.
If nothing is taken, there can be no "taking" of something which doesn't belong to you.
Further, the idea that one can own a particular pattern of matter or bits is seems mistaken.
Even the US Constitution acknowledges that you can't own "intellectual property" in the Copyright Clause
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
Clearly acknowledges that we're conferring a limited right for a specific public purpose, not that there is an inherent right of intellectual property.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
6mo ago
That would have been dishonorable
This is a phrase always and everywhere used to disguise the casting of moral judgement.
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