Antonio Zavaldski

@indy543219748 @dilanesper It would significantly increase safety, at any rate

@ALZavaldski @dilanesper It would certainly cut down on the volume of opportunistic requests, but even that wouldn't guarantee safety. In adults, the libido resides primarily in the brain. Even castrated men have committed gruesome sexually motivated crimes (e.g., Harvey Marvelin).

this is hard to read. suffice to say you can't just do self ID in prisons. you have to do serious gatekeeping. and plenty of prison officials in various jurisdictions really acted like morons in not understanding that criminals would try to get access to female prisoners.

@McNarthius @MorlockP The Enlightenment *invented* the idea of nationalism. Feudal monarchies were barely states and definitely not nations. The Kingdom of France had hundreds of regional dialects and an absurdly complicated vassal hierarchy, for instance.

@MorlockP Seems the story of the world post enlightenment is the state working to consume the nation and the deleterious consequences of such.

your occasional reminder that 99% of the time you're tempted to use the word "nation-state", you really just mean "state" and don't understand the distinction between the three words

@MorlockP Americans define "state" as a subnational unit (eg. California). Brits define "nation" as culturally-separate region (eg. Wales). Using either term would be confusing.

@Denjiman1174 @souljagoyteller You mean Putinism right? Argentina is not in Eurasia.

@ALZavaldski @souljagoyteller Agreed, point is that I don’t think Peronism is anywhere close to that level beyond Eurasianist Schmittian authoritarianism

The “is Trumpism fascist” question has been played out. But a more interesting question: is Putinism fascist?

@ChristianHeiens Skrmetti was an Equal Protection case, Chiles was a First Amendment case, neither of them were really about state police powers per se, so the legal reasoning involved is different.

There’s only one question that potential judges should be asked before any Republican administration appoints them to any court at the state or federal level: “Will you rule in our favor every single time without exception?” This is already the default question all libtard judges get asked by their Democrat appointees. It’s why you’ll see idiots like Ketanji Jackson arguing in United States v. Skrmetti that states have no right to ban transition surgeries on minors, and then 9 months later, declare in Chiles v. Salazar that the state’s right to regulate the practice of medicine is absolute. The consistency is whatever advances the eternal Progressive omnicause. That’s it. There is no other consideration given to case law, precedent, the constitution, checks and balances, federalism, or any other procedural principle that conservatives restrain themselves by because they alone believe in these things. But this cannot go on forever. Something is going to give. If one side appoints essentially total hacks who care about nothing but total political power for their ideological co-belligerents while the other appoints principled losers who care about the process or public opinion, then the side that is determined to force its will through the legal process is eventually going to win. The only winning move is to call the Left’s bluff on this prisoner’s dilemma and appoint judges who rule exactly as they do, but in service of explicitly Right-wing outcomes rather than merely conservative processes.

@k58045319 @NoGoodGodGames @YIMBYLAND How does that make "communists ""stupid and evil"?

@ALZavaldski @NoGoodGodGames @YIMBYLAND Ok but it’s not.

bruh, stop microlooting public transit

@tv5834472 @whisperity @VyraScalle @StatisticUrban If you want a "tiny symbolic level of friction" that wouldn't hurt the poor you could just have a flat, $1 fare for the whole system.

@ALZavaldski @whisperity @VyraScalle @StatisticUrban It ? Public transit has a capacity too, not to mention many parts of it suffer from wear and tear. Fares are an easy way to scale income with usage and introducing even a tiny, symbolic level of friction to usage has shown to keep the majority of antisocial bad actors out.

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.

@reddit_lies What do you think "public" means? You're already paying for it with your taxes!

Public transit advocates when you make them pay the fare to use the bus:

@sapient_corvid Under socialism public transit would be free

Under socialism, unironically, you absolutely do have to pay the f-ing fare

@NoGoodGodGames @YIMBYLAND OP thinks public transit should be free

@YIMBYLAND The sad reality is that communists are too stupid and evil to even follow basic laws

@OregonMapGuy "Hitler is a liar and a con man, we are the REAL National Socialists!"

YES

@koala_karmic @StatisticUrban Compromise - 99% discount Or 100%, but you have to show your ID to get a ticket

@ALZavaldski @StatisticUrban Regardless of “raw” economics, giving something for free is generally a bad idea. It removes all friction and leads to a ton of waste. Give a 90% discount, not 100%.

@whisperity @VyraScalle @StatisticUrban Doesn't really apply to public transit, because more people using it isn't really a problem.

@ALZavaldski @VyraScalle @StatisticUrban It's called "tragedy of the commons" and it's taught 1st year in economics or law school. Something being free, by virtue, makes people want to consume more of it. Having a fee attached as a gatekeeper keeps people in check because they get to feel a weight to their decision.

@GRIFTLESS @StatisticUrban The standard fare was 5 kopeks - roughly equivalent to 10 cents, but you couldn't really compare value because the Soviets didn't have a market economy. So, so cheap it was practically free, in other words.

@ALZavaldski @StatisticUrban Not even the mass transit in Soviet Moscow was free

@StatisticUrban Everyone saying something about how charging for use keeps antisocial people out - Sure. Drop the fare to a cent. It's not the money that keeps out the homeless and the criminally-inclined, it's the gates.

@StatisticUrban "Publicly funded services should be free" is a pretty sensible position actually, why charge people twice?

@DylanALTKY @StatisticUrban The US has been deficit spending almost constantly for decades lol

@ALZavaldski @StatisticUrban Deficit spending is bad and you can know this because no actual left wing government does it. Look at Mexico under AMLO and Sheinbaum.

@VyraScalle @StatisticUrban Give residents a free card and charge non-residents, easy

@ALZavaldski @StatisticUrban If its free then even people out of state pay nothing. And those out of state folks dont even pay taxes for that city to run the service. Everyone paying the toll also ensures even those not part of the tax base pay into the system as well.

@Denjiman1174 @souljagoyteller Peron himself was basically a corrupt social democrat with a personality cult, but subsequent "Peronists" have had all sorts of ideologies lol

@Denjiman1174 @souljagoyteller Maoism and Bonapartism were definitely definable lol. Agrarian-focused revolutionary communism and autocratic liberalism respectively. Peronism on the other hand.. is everything and nothing at the same time, fascist, liberal, socialist, whatever.

@SapnaPatelAW @souljagoyteller Mussolini was pretty civic nationalist, especially in the early days of his regime. The biggest difference imo is mass mobilization, or lack thereof.

@souljagoyteller It may have elements that overlap with fascism but it is multiethnic concerned with Russia as a country not an ethnicity. It is not a Russia for Russians kind of thing.