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Also, putting people out of work in a recession is just stupid. You've basically just cutting off demand - because that's also what people are as they need to feed/clothe/house themselves. And lowered demand is what a recession is.
Sure, that balances the budget. But it makes the reason the budget wasn't balanced worse.
-1 (layoff) + -1 (recession) = -2 (more recession).
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Sure, that balances the budget. But it makes the reason the budget wasn't balanced worse.
-1 (layoff) + -1 (recession) = -2 (more recession).
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Republicans Conservatives hate public education, however, so any attacks on the school system should not come as a surprise.
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
This seems like a more generalized Tragedy of the Commons statement.Crissa wrote:Also, putting people out of work in a recession is just stupid. You've basically just cutting off demand - because that's also what people are as they need to feed/clothe/house themselves. And lowered demand is what a recession is.
Sure, that balances the budget. But it makes the reason the budget wasn't balanced worse.
-1 (layoff) + -1 (recession) = -2 (more recession).
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I got pointed to this - I rather liked this bit "Republicans who had attended the convention called Principal Mike McCarthy to complain about "anti-American" things they saw there, including a closed box containing copies of the U.S. Constitution that were published by the American Civil Liberties Union."
i.e. once the US Constitution is anti-American, what's left for them?
i.e. once the US Constitution is anti-American, what's left for them?
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Oh no, it backfired!endersdouble wrote:And yet people complain when I use this method...Count Arioch the 28th wrote:I would think that getting shot would shut a lot of people up real quick.
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Laugh or cry?
I don't know if i should laugh or cry at this. But some of the comments on the story definitely do make me want to cry.
I don't know if i should laugh or cry at this. But some of the comments on the story definitely do make me want to cry.
Ancient History wrote:We were working on Street Magic, and Frank asked me if a houngan had run over my dog.
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"I AM THE BLACK MAGE! I CASTS THE SPELLS THAT MAKES THE PEOPLES FALL DOWN!"Crissa wrote:What's the creationist version of gravity again?
My son makes me laugh. Maybe he'll make you laugh, too.
A friend of mine did a pretty good article on Rand Paul. Summary: he's not racist. He's wrong, but not racist.
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Rand Paul and the Teabaggers are just the most recent devotees of the Southern Strategy. They're using the same old collection of codewords and dog whistles that the Republican Party has been using since 1968.Crissa wrote:No, he's seriously racist.
Just because he won't stand up and be bigoted doesn't mean he gets out of his racist apologia.
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I love how he's talking about 'freedom' being something all good and awesome and then essentially saying 'it isn't nice' in the next breath.
But, evidently, Rand Paul's definition of Freedom includes the freedom to pour gasoline on a fire and con people or run a racist store. Because OBVIOUSLY the consequence of your actions would come back upon you and so it's all okay and doesn't require the Guv'ment sticking its nose into your business.
But, evidently, Rand Paul's definition of Freedom includes the freedom to pour gasoline on a fire and con people or run a racist store. Because OBVIOUSLY the consequence of your actions would come back upon you and so it's all okay and doesn't require the Guv'ment sticking its nose into your business.
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And YouTube.Jilocasin wrote:Pakistan bans Facebook
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This is a terrible argument -- it can just as easily apply to the ACLU, who regularly defends the right of people to spout racist comments.Crissa wrote:Like Frank said, just because you don't roast babies doesn't make you a good person. However, defending the right to roast other people's babies prolly does make one evil.
And that's Rand Paul's position: That Civil Rights are fine and dandy, just we shouldn't, you know, enforce them.
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The only reason that we can drink at soda fountains with Black and White people at them in Kentucky is because the Federal Government said that people couldn't make Whites only soda fountains any more. Preventing the government from interfering in peoples' ability to discriminate if they want is just like preventing the government from interfering in peoples' ability to murder other people.
Asking for voluntary compliance with non-discrimination is like asking for voluntary compliance with freeing slaves, abstention from theft, and so on. Sure, many people may elect to not victimize their fellow men, but protecting society from the ones who choose to do so is the government's entire fucking point. If you won't protect people from discrimination and assault, there isn't any purpose to having police at all.
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Asking for voluntary compliance with non-discrimination is like asking for voluntary compliance with freeing slaves, abstention from theft, and so on. Sure, many people may elect to not victimize their fellow men, but protecting society from the ones who choose to do so is the government's entire fucking point. If you won't protect people from discrimination and assault, there isn't any purpose to having police at all.
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Shoehorning in the Civil Rights Act under the Intrastate Commerce Clause was always a kludge. It was righteous, but not exactly solid on its legal foundation.
Don't confuse "justice" with "law". There are things that are good which are not legal, but playing with that line is something that has to be done carefully and deliberately. Simply saying, "government should protect people" and expecting that to mean anything specific is asking for a host of problems, namely when the people you don't like start trying to protect you from things you don't think you need protecting from.
Don't confuse "justice" with "law". There are things that are good which are not legal, but playing with that line is something that has to be done carefully and deliberately. Simply saying, "government should protect people" and expecting that to mean anything specific is asking for a host of problems, namely when the people you don't like start trying to protect you from things you don't think you need protecting from.