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@Arbor_Bench
Ind-Rev Survivor Numbercel | FIFTEENTH POSITION ENVIRO-SYNDICALIST | Duck Prometheans | Steward Biodiversity
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@MarkusQ The voluntary association to fund it is called the government, and you can choose to leave said association by going to a different country.
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Libertarians out here reinventing the Tragedy of the Commons from first principles.
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@Arbor_Bench There was no negotiation going on between the American parties? It was just "war"?
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"they were formed by economically motivated diplomatic negotiation between self-interested elites"
no shit, that's what the West is about
how do you think the US came about
John Carter@martianwyrdlord
It pains me to admit this, but there is a natural affinity between Canada and the EU in that both of them are polyglot multicultural control-freak bureaucratic superstates formed neither by conquest nor by organic emergence from a national folk, but by economically motivated diplomatic negotiation between self-interested elites.
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@Arbor_Bench which was economically motivated and achieved through diplomatic negotiation between self-interested elites
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I haven't been trying hard enough on my alt, clearly
Felix โค๏ธโ๐ฅ@pilgoth
Smiling Friends chose to end its run by legitimizing a random fan's delusional love for Alan, no doubt undoing months of therapy, in a genuinely avant garde (if unethical) moment in media
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@claireternal Yea, wasn't explicit policy. Just a diffuse network of teachers 'erm no'-ing you based on vibes
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@Arbor_Bench ?? i was allowed to read at the grade level i tested at, not the grade level i was. which is to say i was in 4th grade but i was allowed to read everything because my AR score said i could read at a 12th grade level
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@LMFHistorian @atlanticesque In fairness, the schools are also a form of local service. Just a very bloated and inefficient one
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@atlanticesque There are people in my tax district, 97% of their property tax goes to the schools
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Local Historian@LMFHistorian
The property tax abolition movement in red states is a slow-motion tax revolt. There are so few people left paying taxes they're able to get together & compare notes; for most of them somewhere between 70%-90% of that is for public schools. Collapse of this system is inevitable.
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I am pro-property tax. But I do understand the frustrations which arise with it.
โProperty tax pays for services which every property needs! Like roads, sewers, and police!โ
โOh so most of my property taxes are going towards services like that?โ
โHaha noโ
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@mikeOxmall_3in Or he just rts the better tweets that are going to gain more traction anyways
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@Bob_Somebody021 @favelaoverlord There are no factories, same as the west. These are closer to the UBI office daycare jobs w can't seem to do without (just with a lot less overhead and social corrosion)
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@favelaoverlord This cannot plausibly be economically productive, it's just fake shell economy, disgusting, it fills me with righteous fury. The death squads must come in and conscript these people to work in factories.
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Evil (Political) Scientist@knrd_z
A common "job" in Latin America is to buy a 2-liter Coke and some plastic cups and sell them for a quarter. Same in India, but with tea. And these are countries in the middle of the IQ distribution-- they cannot work legally here and survive without massive welfare
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@atlanticesque Stealings a strong word for what Ford did. Just a different strategy that prioritizes long term health over short term
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โShould a CEO be able to lie to their shareholders and steal from them, yes or no?โ
โNo?โ
โYou disgusting fascistโ
maddy catgirlprostate@catgirlprostate
I'm amazed I've never seen speculative fiction alternate history on what reality would look like if this lawsuit went the other way
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@atlanticesque Some of the founding fathers seemed to genuinely envision something like this. Though I doubt Decker honestly shares that spirit. (and it's a bad idea in the most charitable case, for 4 million square miles of land)
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The right is starting to get better at comedy and it's making the left nervous.
Europa Ineffable@EuropaIneffable
"Hey let's have sex." "No sorry, I'm saving myself for Chad or possibly BBC." "..."
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@TheLastNeocon @idobadtakes @ChrisExpTheNews Why are school administrators getting so much trust here...
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@idobadtakes @ChrisExpTheNews This would ideally then permit school admins to give wide latitude to define cause such that parents who are good parents and wouldnโt allow their kids who need it to miss learning have more flexibility and those who donโt fit in that donโt get flexibility
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This is the same legal principle whereby parents who make their kids do homework and engage in intellectually stimulating extracurriculars get in trouble for taking their kids on vacations during the school year but nothing happens to kids who donโt show up 50% of the time
Romy@Romy_Holland
iโm really confused about how laws work here. if i tried to go camping in a public park tonight iโd likely be told i cannot, because itโs illegal. iโve been cleared out of parks for stargazing after hours. a judge just ruled that berkeley has to give homeless people larger sidewalk spaces for camping than was previously determined. who qualifies for this? could i go stake out a piece of sidewalk?
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@atlanticesque It especially doesn't work when it's located in the middle of city as is often the case
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Iโm (1) here btw. I know itโs tempting for some of my followers to do a little vice signaling and say (3) and post that Anakin and Padme meme, but even ignoring ethical objections it just doesnโt work. It creates infectious blight and expensive legal obligations and is just bad.
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A three-way debate under one of my posts:
1. Public housing is bad because it creates ghettoes
2. Public housing is good, it only creates ghettoes because itโs underfunded
3. Public housing is good because it creates ghettoes, concentrating the poor in one easy-to-avoid place
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@Logo_Daedalus Death is the final enemy that will be defeated (in time).
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@saturnine_grace @spacepunk Them lacking God isn't their fault. It's a godless culture that resents Creation. Parents are hated for partaking in creation.
Endless pseudo-eugenic comments of 'they don't deserve to be parents'
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@spacepunk I dont think its solely the fault of the kids lol
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Why does it seem like parenting is an endeavor where you're much more likely to fail than succeed? I feel like most people i know resent their parents on some level, which is counter-intuitive because it seems like we should be instinctually good at it?
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@BrianPThomas Already reactionary given the rabid pidgeonholing of current progressive identity models
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the game is basically saying "dont let other people pigeonhole you into identities you don't have just because of how you may appear"
the characters struggle with the public perception as the most extreme version of themselves and feel pressured to fill the role theyre assigned
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this is just... not what the game is saying lol
๐๐๐๐ ๐ฏ@atlanticesque
Moral lessons from Persona 4, in order: -Stay in your small town -Work in your familyโs business -Donโt be gender non-conforming -Idol culture is basically fine as-is -Donโt be gay -Donโt be transgender -Put work ahead of family life -Donโt give resentful creeps important jobs
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@KinderheimRune @favelaoverlord It was a good pressure cooker for the right, but still best here.
Other platforms are just insanely disconnected from reality
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@favelaoverlord This is just one example of why I realized censorship is good and necessarily.
We arenโt more free on this platform than the alternatives - just look at the propaganda spewed here. Thereโs more uniformity on this site than the alternatives imo.
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Rune@KinderheimRune
@JTLonsdale Seems like the ones who benefited the most from censorship are the ones who got censored. Tucker Carlson clearly has no idea how to navigate a space without rules and boundaries without becoming sympathetic to Muslim Brotherhood types.
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@atlanticesque Is it stealing if he wants to sell and they buy it
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This landlord didnโt raise his tenantsโ rent for ten years out of the goodness of his heart
Now the tenants are trying to steal his building lmao
They wonโt succeed, but it just goes to show that no good deed goes unpunished
Block Club Chicago@BlockClubCHI
Logan Square renters are fighting to buy their building in a new test of tenant rights law. blockclubchi.co/4tpkrHW
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