netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
I don’t believe the orgy is required.
You know what else isn’t cheap to your insurer? Anything on this list. Those drugs reach about 30x as many people as Prep (circa 2021), and most of them cost more per month.
If you’d like to complain about healthcare spending, there are plenty of better targets that don’t rely on baiting a disgust reaction.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
It’s like construction equipment, but without the boring limitations of reality.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
Tough luck. We’re annexing everything except Quebec, leaving the separatists as last stewards of the real Canada.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
Hello, and welcome to the—oh. Not your first rodeo.
Please familiarize yourself with the rules, particularly personal antagonism and consensus building. What seems like a fact to you may not be so obvious to others. You should make your best case and convince them whether or not your opponent is nasty or horrible.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
No, I’m not saying they’d let him do it. I’m saying they wouldn’t punish him for having done it.
For what it’s worth, my actual Republican Senator is Ted Cruz, whose tolerance for Trump is infamous. Ironically, he’s also Canadian…
Sorry. I shouldn’t have let myself get carried away on conditionals. We agree that Trump taking any military action against Canada is outrageously unlikely.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
Be the change, I guess.
In my experience, the clever both-sides arguments are usually appeals to the status quo.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
While I agree that action against Canada is laughable...that isn’t why.
When has the GOP actually sanctioned Trump for anything? The closest they got was when his supporters were literally occupying their offices, but all’s well that ends well, and there was more hay to be made complaining about Democrat show trials.
If Trump pulled something like this—and he won’t—there’s your model. Deny that he did it. Deny that he said anything about it. Deny that it was illegal at all. Also, they totally deserved it.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
It really, really couldn’t easily happen.
Politically, it’s completely bizarre. Not even in the Overton window until Trump opened his mouth. There is zero reason for Congress to authorize an invasion, and zero process for secretly preparing one as a fait accompli.
It’s slightly more plausible that an unhinged President could approve special forces raids or even airstrikes. The military is much more ready to enact something like that on short notice. It’s still incredibly stupid, pointless, and not going to happen over a tweet.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
Judging by your past commentary, you probably could have stopped before the apostrophe.
I don’t think you’re necessarily wrong about his position as a beggar, but I also doubt it would be an effective tactic. It’s not going to win him more support from his base, more materiel from his backers, or better terms from his enemies. He gains more by playing the confident, defiant underdog.
By the Builder, you’ve figured me out.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
7mo ago
Less-than-maximum opposition is still opposition, though. Compare abortion clinic picketers, or Israel boycotts.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
7mo ago
You can take this response elsewhere.
One week ban for yet another low-effort zinger. Just because it's snappy doesn't mean it actually adds value.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
7mo ago
How many people, knowing that information, would say that it's important for the President to spare these guys from execution?
I dunno, how many Catholics are there? Obviously they don’t all support abolishing the death penalty, but it’s clear that a significant fraction do. They’ve got coherent reasons and everything. How are you so sure that they’re the ones endorsing evil?
Would you be more or less angry if he’d blanket-commuted all 40?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
7mo ago
There’s some of the Stepford-nice portrayal, but here in north Texas, it’s way closer to what hydro describes. I’ve had coworkers gossip about the number of Mormons around. Never in a negative way—more like “wow, he’s literally the nicest person at this company” or “have you heard about dirty sodas?” “Weird” is definitely the prevailing sentiment.
Might be an outgroup/fargroup thing. Or maybe that secular liberalism has disarmed religious sects enough that people don’t feel threatened.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
7mo ago
I think this is dumb, but in a way which basically can’t be disproven. It just screams “confirmation bias.”
Is there a site somewhere that tracks casualty announcements?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
7mo ago
It's not about GDP. Individuals don't choose their career to please the Federal Reserve. So why are women--because men, naturally, aren't expected to do anything so fulfilling--choosing instead to sell their labor on the market?
As far as revealed preferences go, this one isn't particularly shocking. Since the dawn of civilization, the rich and powerful have been paying other people to deal with their kids. Technology has made that dubious ambition much more attainable.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
7mo ago
I think you’re assuming the conclusion. The economic forces which make babysitters and dishwashers ubiquitous wouldn’t disappear if we’d never started critiquing imperialism.
I also think your view of the past is rose-tinted as hell. 1700s America wasn’t an endless quilt of Amish communities, waiting to be tempted out of Eden. It was a hungry, dirty, disease-ridden frontier just starting to climb the curve of industrialization. Communities weren’t solving each others’ problems “for free.” They were paying their dues on their own social contract.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
7mo ago
I agree that climate change gets the lion’s share of messaging, especially in outward-facing, soundbite-oriented places like that website. It has won the coveted position of shorthand for its whole cluster of related policy.
I don’t actually think that indicates loss of support for the old policies. More that their low-hanging fruit has been picked. Or, I guess, that the bureaucracy to do so has already been put in place.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
7mo ago
@self_made_human’s source suggests that it’s dropped to $40/month, better than most of these Medicare prescriptions. Probably fewer users, too.
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