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There is no greater evil than those that deny the existence of the Seattle SuperSonics. The Sonics will rise again!
Jason Maples@jjmaples55
This league does not need to expand
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@Brian_Rugg
pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt
PNW Beigetreten Temmuz 2012
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25% of British voters will look at the success of Poland's growth after implementing neoliberal reforms, and the success of the US economy, and be like
"yeah, actually what we need is the Green Party to implement a 1:10 pay ratio and a wealth tax"
Michael R. Strain@MichaelRStrain
Amazing: Income in Poland is on track to overtake income in the U.K.
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Well yeah we had just suffered from Bush crashing the economy and elected the first Black president. We knew it was going to get better. Activists were legalizing weed and gay marriage all over the place.
But Gen Z? They liked Trump and helped meme him back into office with extremism and anti-woke hysterics.
Ultimately, Millennials didn't have to grapple with the crushing existential realization that as bad as things were, they were not to get worse, because their normies were not morons with zero attention span, and all their activists were not edgelords looking for their next fix of Jewish conspiracy theories.
miss worm@missus_wormy
It probably felt awesome to be a millennial who believed things were going to get better in 2008
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Anyone think it’s really odd that the government of the United States of America is suddenly focused on rushing the construction of a ballroom?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Blanche: "We absolutely believe there is no better example of why this ballroom is necessary than what happened on Saturday night. Aside from the fact the ballroom is spectacular, it's gonna be beautiful, it's gonna make this country look great, it's a meaningful safety issue."
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one of the best metafilter comments of all time gets more relevant every day
gale na@poisonjr
I have never seen someone "doomsday prep" by being kind
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The republican pitch to voters in an election year dominated by the crushing costs of living in this country should be the urgent need for a new marble and gold ballroom for members of the American ruling class to have safer banquets
Acyn@Acyn
Graham on Ballroom: If you don't think $400 million of taxpayer money is a good investment to create a secure facility at The White House, then I disagree. I bet you 90% of Americans would love to have a better facility.
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@ALZavaldski @StatisticUrban The externalities say otherwise. There's so much data now to show the negative effects of free nearly disappear by charging anything at all. Public toilets are unusable when free and end up removed but by charging as little as a coin makes them an asset.
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@StatisticUrban It's not that expensive anyway as far as government services go, you can raise taxes slightly or borrow the money, no big deal.
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This whole “stealing from publicly funded services is good” thing the left in America has is so weird.
The European left is many things, but it’s not like this.
sam snow⋆❆₊⊹@sxmswrld
bruh they’re checking fares on the bus @ZohranKMamdani do something?????
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@RioVeradonir I hope Rand Paul's path is the one taken. Address the judicial constraints and only fund it with private donations. Customs offsets are just more taxes and public money by a different name.
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Amazing that the guy who promised Mexico would pay for the border wall lied about this, too. Who could have guessed?
Jamie Dupree@jamiedupree
Sen. Lindsey Graham R-SC, Sen. Katie Britt R-AL, and Sen. Eric Schmidt R-MO unveil plans to authorize $400 million to pay for a new White House ballroom.
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@SarahLongwell25 Still waiting for Mexico to pay for that wall…
Rio Veradonir@RioVeradonir
Amazing that the guy who promised Mexico would pay for the border wall lied about this, too. Who could have guessed?
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I’m sorry, I was reliably told this was going to be privately funded.
Jamie Dupree@jamiedupree
Sen. Lindsey Graham R-SC, Sen. Katie Britt R-AL, and Sen. Eric Schmidt R-MO unveil plans to authorize $400 million to pay for a new White House ballroom.
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@Cerealbox0 @hecubian_devil I've heard those things too, but for this topic it seems to have escaped the echo chambers of partisan politics. I pride myself on avoiding them for what it's worth.
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@Brian_Rugg @hecubian_devil Maybe that's just your echo chamber, though. Mine is filled with people arguing that red is more correct in an abstract, mathematical sense. Some people's echo chambers say its about people who think they're smart versus people who think they're good.
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@Cerealbox0 @hecubian_devil They both care that they are correct and a good person. Both side's arguments lean heavily on the moral and correctness of them. It's amazing how well this button question didn't fit the current American politics dichotomy. If it would have it would have lasted mere hours.
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@hecubian_devil Team blue cares about this being symbolic of a good person.
Team red cares about correctness.
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qualia receptacle@neocartesian
which button should absolutely impartial utilitarians press in the red-blue game? i ran the numbers: the answer may surprise you. a thread:
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We asked this to a large sample of nationally representative Americans - blue wins by a 3:1 margin!
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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@SoCal_Johan @davidshor Probably because conservative doesn't mean conservative anymore and liberal certainly doesn't mean liberal anymore. MAGA and Progessives are the current occupiers of the political parties associated with those old label.
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@davidshor Conservative Luigi Mangione fans are an interesting but weird group
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I couldn't help myself one more table on this - within ideology, red-button pickers are ~4% more supportive of Luigi Mangione than blue-button pickers
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Christmas Johan Liebert@SoCal_Johan
@davidshor How do the red and blue button pressers differ on support for Luigi Mangione and self described joyfulness? I would imagine that the red button pressers would be less joyful and more supportive of Luigi
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@Michael61434544 @riotdrone @StoicRocky @OrevaZSN I agree with you but your approach will never gain a convert. As soon as prople are insulted they stop listening.
Intelligence isn't the determining factor in considering or contemplating an ideology. Much of it is about luck and who and how you were exposed to an idea.
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Holy shit, are you brain damaged?
Private property emerged because communal systems FAILED. Enclosures weren’t “theft”. they were correcting the inefficiency of medieval commons.
Your “public lands” model keeps societies poor forever. Every rich nation has strong property rights. Every poor nation doesn’t. PATTERN RECOGNITION, TRY IT.
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@riotdrone @StoicRocky @Michael61434544 @OrevaZSN Who enforces that society? The state would have to be very strong and policed heavily, more than now in my opinion, to make sure people didn't profit privately from selling their, food, crafts, art, or talent.
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@Brian_Rugg @StoicRocky @Michael61434544 @OrevaZSN i want a society by & for the common people. private property is theft, it’s about taking the wealth of the world, hoarding it, & then paywalling it. we are slaves because we are forced to make profits for a tiny owning/ruling elite under threat of violence & suffering
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@riotdrone @Michael61434544 @StoicRocky @OrevaZSN Not being able to posess or trade the fruits of one's labor, as is so in Communism, is the true system slavery to me. I want the choice. If the state has to choose for me than I don't own myself.
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@Michael61434544 @Brian_Rugg @StoicRocky @OrevaZSN private property isn’t about securing your access to things it’s about walling you off. it came out of the enclosures in early modern england where they seized public lands. nothing about the state is collective, it’s a fundamentally elitist apparatus
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@riotdrone @Michael61434544 @StoicRocky @OrevaZSN The puclic land in England you reference was the King's land not public in any real way
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Am I the only one who remembers a year ago when a bunch of teenagers said we had to cut the funding to like Sesame Street and AIDS prevention because we were on the verge of financial collapse? Did we all just imagine that?
Acyn@Acyn
Lindsey Graham says they are going introduce legislation that’s going to authorize 400 million dollars to be spent on building the ballroom: We pay for it by offsetting it with customs fees. The sooner we get the ballroom built, the better it is for the country.
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@riotdrone @StoicRocky @Michael61434544 @OrevaZSN What entity will inforce the institution of no private property, which I assume you're advocating for? As an aside, I'm curious about your definition of "slave". I understood "slave" to mean having no personal agency and receiving no pay for one's labor. What's yours?
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@StoicRocky @Michael61434544 @OrevaZSN well the state is the entity that enforces the legal institution of private property so you’re kind of right. anyway i want to live in a world where we aren’t slaves who spend our lives being extorted under threat for a tiny minority that owns & runs everything
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