zeke5123a
1hr ago
Collective ownership of property is incompatible with allowing people to retain most of their capital. Granted, if you have restrictions that make it near impossible to choose what to do with their capital, then it could still be commie.
zeke5123a
15hr ago
I guess the key point is can the Trump administration do something about the fraud or is Venezuela going to distract them. Different groups of people so should be actionable but … we will see
zeke5123a
18hr ago
What’s interesting is this takes oxygen from the Somalian fraud story. I guess it does so in a way that currently makes Trump look strong and the fraud story can come back when more official sources prove it / other states are caught up in it.
zeke5123a
1d ago
In part, because it creates fear in the future leaders.
Of course, it also incentivizes deterrence (eg nukes)
zeke5123a
1d ago
Maybe. It depends (1) how much damage was done and (2) if they view it as liberating
zeke5123a
1d ago
I guess worth it depends. If it was literally 12 hours of hostility with limited entanglements thereafter…hard to kvetch too much
zeke5123a
1d ago
Yeah Sweden with their…check notes…20.6% corporate tax rate.
Granted individual income taxes are higher (ie they basically are similar to highest rate in the U.S. if you live in a high tax state)
zeke5123a
2d ago
I didn’t say you were thinking of me (would be slightly narcissistic to assume you were). It was more providing context re the comment that men who want to discourage current day gender norms often are women hating. I know you weren’t say they all are but wanted to provide a real life example to the contrary.
zeke5123a
2d ago
It is a difficult question. I guess I start at home where my wife is stay at home and we have a lot of kids. Our friends almost all have a lot of kids.
But there isn’t something similar to Hollywood we can turn to (though very old Disney such as original Cinderella fit the bill)
zeke5123a
2d ago
Somalians are objectively terrible people to add to the body politic. They are low IQ, extremely tribal with strong in group bias, happy to engage in piracy, and don’t have a history of any success. You call it racism to oppose adding Somalians to our body politic (or attempts to remove them). If so, then you’ll find a lot of people are racist.
zeke5123a
2d ago
The single defining moment for progressives for the last decade was probably George Floyd.
zeke5123a
2d ago
Faramir: Mithrandir! They broke through our defenses! They've taken the bridge and the west bank. Battalions of Orcs are crossing the river.
Irolas: It is as the Lord Denethor predicted. Long has he forseen this doom.
Gandalf: Forseen and done nothing!
While not fair to book Denethor, It is very apropos for the liberal defense here.
zeke5123a
2d ago
For what it’s worth, I don’t hate women. I’m married to one. I have young girls.
At the same time, I am of the opinion that feminism is poison. I don’t want my daughters to be girlbosses. I want them to have a lot of kids with a husband who is (1) the head of his house but (2) treats my daughter with love and respect. I also think it’s my responsibility as their father to provide some safety net in case their husband proves to be abusive etc.
I think modern society is all out if whack expecting paradoxically too little and too much from men and women.
zeke5123a
2d ago
Sure but it isn’t obvious this ought to be one of them. When something has a long rich history behind it, the party claiming to change the approach bears a strong burden besides “it’s uncouth”
Au contraire! Making someone an outlaw has a rich, august history in democracies (See, eg, the Icelandic Sagas, Thucydides).
zeke5123a
3d ago
They lead with “safety violations.” It wasn’t until you get into the report that fraud was a concern.
zeke5123a
3d ago
Yep. Except it’s been that way since the dawn of time. People react more to what they see as opposed to what is written. Modern media makes it easier to see.
zeke5123a
5d ago
The higher the defcon, the less the concern (or defcon 1 is the highest risk; defcon 5 the least).
zeke5123a
5d ago
Why do you post here? This is basically just snide at people you hate despite your alleged life being provided by that people.
zeke5123a
6d ago
Hmm I wonder why that is. Arabs are generally low iq. So why is this one group high iq? Do they not practice cousin marriage unlike Muslim Arabs
zeke5123a
9d ago
Different field (highly technical area of law) and my experience is that AI can give what appears to be a reasonable answer if you either read briefly and are a non expert in the particular area. But if you read closely and are an expert, the output is actually gibberish.
We had the AI champion at my firm on a deal with me and he used AI to look at the issue we were analyzing. I would’ve been deeply disappointed with a junior giving me the work product generated by AI.
What will be interesting (obviously) is what comes next. If Trump successfully makes Venezuela a functioning state with with spilling little American blood or treasure AND America gets something out of it (ie access to oil, repatriation of immigrants), then it will be a huge boom for Trump. He can basically make the case the problem with Iraq wasn’t the concept but the execution (or perhaps more to the point it is about choosing the right target). Americans love a winner.
Still think Venezuela should not be something to focus on. Fraud is compelling. The message is simple (if perhaps somewhat thought not entirely untrue): you are struggling because these immigrants are scamming your tax dollars. I’m fixing it by getting rid of the immigrants and fixing the fraud. The other side wants both of those things to continue.
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