Government Responsibility

This subtle language choice is revealing. Start talking egalitarian political reform and all of a sudden “the Government” and “the People” are two different things: As if they are made up of, by, and for two different kinds of people.

The vast majority of corporate profits in prison are extracted directly from inmates and their families. This compounds the economic disadvantage to the inmate’s community on top of idling a potential earner.

In the US, the poor are a resource for capital to extract and there’s no richer vein of poverty than what runs through the American legal system.

You’ll notice a significant overlap between the people who cheer this verdict and the ‘all lives matter’ crowd.

Consider that the cost of energy is going to be the limiting factor on AI. When the VC dries up, who is going to pay the light bill?

Give them places to live and teach them to grow food which will help pay for the whole thing.

The mentality that social programs are expected to justify their existence financially before their effectiveness can even be considered is one of the biggest reasons problems like homelessness are intractable.

Nevermind the Tax stuff. I was soooooo looking forward to his gun charge going to court.

if you don’t know, he was charged with perjury because when you buy a gun you have to check a box that says you haven’t abused drugs in 90 days or some shit. With this SCOUTS, it would be hard to imagine this provision surviving a challenge. After all, if we accept that buying a gun is a right, then some government agency can’t deny you that with an arbitrary rule.

The gun nuts would be forced to choose between persecuting Trump’s enemies and gun rights.

The first half of your comment is an acknowledgement that you don’t understand American culture and the second half is you casting declarative judgement upon it.

I don’t know which one of your minds to respond to.

I’ve always suspected that many of these kinds of images were staged or propaganda.

Every so often you’ll see a meme on Reddit with a bunch of American teenagers being athletic in the 60s. The meme suggests that people were healthy and fit back then, but I happen to know that the footage was for a physical fitness push at the time (gotta do more pushups than the commies) and the athletes were far from typical students.

Some people have strong negative feelings about certain topics. Out of repect, some people obfuscate or disguise those topics to make it easy for sensitive people to avoid. It’s kinda like how pedants get annoyed when words are written slightly differently, except it’s worthy of respect from other people.

If France was a gun it’d obviously be pointed at England.

Neutrinos can totally go back in time. It’s essential to the plot of “Watchmen” 2009 and that’s as good as peer review. it’s just not in physics because Einstein was a Marvel fan.

A neutrino modem would absolutely work because the technical issues could all be solved by capturing the traffic from the future and reverse-engineering it.

creating the circumstances in which an active citizenry meaningfully and knowledgeably participates in the civic life of their polity

Why stop there? If your project requires an improved humanity to work, why not just improve us until we don’t need governance?

Diagnoses cost money, all I can afford are symptoms.

This criticism of democracy is way older than Kennedy. Socrates thought democracy impossible due to the ignorance of the common person.

And that’s what this is, an argument against democracy. A vote cast by a shut-in illiterate who chooses candidates based on their astrology sign is just as valid as the chair of the political science department. Anything less than that is an argument for weighted or exclusive suffrage. You can believe in democracy or the “low information” voter, but not both.

No, because the vegans are right, eating meat isn’t justifiable. You can’t “both sides” morality. The attempt is an admission that you’ve lost the plot.

Consider the possibility that your feelings of guilt or being judged is a call coming from inside the house.

“somebody is fucking with me”

The Earth is way too close, and I don’t think a meteor strike on the earth, no matter how energetic, would look like a bullet going through an apple.

The owner of the Brave browser is known to have right-wing political beliefs. Some people don’t think it’s ethical to use the browser because of this, instead of not using Brave because it sucks.

You should never adopt a pet you can’t care for, and this mother was wise to foresee the vet bill for this high-maintenance kitty.