@801formal_llama @lilpookiepooks @ChuderlyAmazing @liquid2ulu There is no utopia, there is only better or worse. There will be problems with any system of human interaction.
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@lilpookiepooks @PassivityF @ChuderlyAmazing @liquid2ulu I think that's terrible logic. Even the apparently voluntary actions in a modern democracy are backstopped by a network of laws and enforcement mechanisms. If you go to a country with weak government you aren't going to find a utopia of voluntary interaction.
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Anyone remember that time that Bernie tried debating a libertarian?
Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders
Mr. Bezos: Let's have that debate. Under my 5% billionaires wealth tax, we'd: -Give $12K to a working family of 4 -Expand Medicare for dental, vision, hearing -Guarantee universal childcare -Raise starting teacher pay to $60K And you'd still be worth $269 billion after taxes.
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@801formal_llama @ChuderlyAmazing @liquid2ulu @lilpookiepooks Idk whether or not your if/then is true, but we do see that insofar as most interactions are unforced.
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@PassivityF @ChuderlyAmazing @liquid2ulu @lilpookiepooks If libertarianism best accounted for human nature wouldn't you expect to see more libertarian societies?
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@ChuderlyAmazing @801formal_llama @liquid2ulu @lilpookiepooks I think libertarianism has the most accommodations for human nature. Statism is living in the fantasy world that administrative bureaucracies can solve social and economic problems, when empirically they never have. Liberty functions better.
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@801formal_llama @liquid2ulu @lilpookiepooks I think the question is coherent, but it shows the self-defeating nature of libertarianism. It's a philosophy emerging from pure ideology with no accommodations made for reality or human nature. Unlike the interviewer, most of us figure this out before we start losing our hair.
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@801formal_llama @liquid2ulu @lilpookiepooks “The nonsense” is just revealing the truth of gov’t - that it is an initiation of the use of force. One can argue it’s justified or unjustified, but weaseling out of the question doesn’t negate the truth of the premise.
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@liquid2ulu @lilpookiepooks Bernie is right here. The question isn't coherent and Bernie saw right through the nonsense.
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@Stephjd420 @MorePerfectUS No it wouldn’t. Taxes are shit, as is government.
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And once again the elite are trying to gaslight the regular folk. Yes Jeff, it would help so many people if you paid that wealth tax. No one needs that much money in life and especially when it’s been off the backs of those same people. Your company would not exist if it wasn’t for the workers!
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Jeff Bezos on CNBC: "If people want me to pay more billions, then let's have that debate, but don't pretend that that's gonna solve the problem. You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens.... Airbnb isn't causing high rents. What's really causing high rent is government intervention."
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@nijllive @MorePerfectUS Luigi is a cockroach, as are you. Bezos is more noble and beneficial to humanity than you and every bottom feeding leftist on earth.
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@MorePerfectUS This is why Luigi was completely justified btw. They can’t be reasoned with. Their greed is too far gone. They want you to hate your neighbor, immigrants and lgbtq as a distraction from your real enemy. The coal miner in WV isn’t your enemy. The liberal in LA isn’t, this guy is.
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@Grummz @BasedTorba Nice. There needs to be more stuff like this. I’ve long wanted a Cowboys and Indians RTS.
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@QuasLacrimas End all gov’t spending on every social program. Earn your own money, buy your own shit.
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"Vast expansion of government spending on preventative health will actually save us money" is a zombie meme from 2010 that refuses to die despite no evidence even once that it has ever worked.
Senator Angus King@SenAngusKing
Prevention measures like an $11 bath mat could save Americans tens of thousands of dollars. If Medicare would send these out to every recipient in America, I’ll bet the investment would pay for itself in under a year.
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AIPAC and our 6 million grassroots members—Democrats and Republicans from all 50 states—are proud to help expand the U.S.-Israel relationship!
Funded by Americans.
Directed by Americans.
Strengthening an alliance that benefits America!
🇺🇸🇮🇱
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Ed Gallrein’s victory in KY and Clay Fuller’s win in GA ensures two outspoken pro-Israel voices are positioned to fill seats previously held by outspoken detractors, Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Our community was proud to help pro-Israel candidates win these races.
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@daffyduck2029 @DiggingInTheDi1 @jeremykauffman Yes. Mamdani, aoc, Cori bush, Hasan et. al are the true idiocracy.
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@DiggingInTheDi1 @jeremykauffman I trust boomers over Gen Z 100/100 times.
Give me a break. You trust your country to onlyfans models and kids who vape day and night?
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Vivek, who is hated on X, won.
Massie, who is loved on X, lost.
Politics on X is just not reality
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@DiggingInTheDi1 @jeremykauffman Everyone is easy to brainwash. The commietard zoomer cheering for aoc and Mamdani is dumber than the most maga Fox News boomer.
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@jeremykauffman Vivek has Jewish donor support and Massie doesn't
Massie is just as popular in offline space but it turns out boomers are easily to brainwash
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@WodenWanderer @zarathustra5150 This is true of most humans. Most people are idiots, irrespective of age.
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@zarathustra5150 You can’t win an argument with a boomer because you’re arguing against the tv and the tv can’t hear you.
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Whatever your view of Thomas Massie’s defeat in KY, it’s a clear signal that Boomer hegemony still runs the GOP. The online right can win arguments, set narratives & generate cultural heat, but at the ballot box, Boomers still reign supreme. Republican primary voters averaging age 64 still watch Fox News, still trust Hannity & still obey Trump. Millennial+Zoomer dissidents may own the timeline, but Boomers still own the GOP…
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@zdeborova @eiszett This is driven by desire for status, not the truth.
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@eiszett Have you read all the sources you ever cited? During my PhD we, along with dozens of other papers, cited a paper that I later found did not contain the result for which it was commonly cited. I should be banned I guess.
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Occasional errors and oversights are part of science. If we lost our driver’s license for a year every time we exceeded the speed limit by 10 km/h, daily life would become unworkable. Many countries instead use point systems, where trust can be rebuilt through good behavior.
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Hey, I wonder why all those donors poured so much money into the Massie primary but little to nothing into the Virginia referendum that would have wiped out multiple GOP seats if they hadn't been saved at the last minute by the state supreme court?
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@agoristoperator @SkullPiler I pay my bills doing odd jobs 10-15/hrs a week. If you’re working all the time and living modestly you’ll be able to save up a huge pile.
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Gen Z, 26.
Haven't bought a nice shiny thing in 7 years.
Meal plan for savings. Don't eat out. Minimalist lifestyle.
Never had any debt, do not plan on gaining any.
I will have to move to Paraguay to have a reasonable future even while saving like a freak.
I hear this 24/7.
Disaffected@DisaffectedPod
He's right. It doesn't matter if you dislike him, he is right. What that means is not subjective, it's objective. He's telling the truth that is verifiable in the real world. And it does, absolutely, make Gen Z furious.
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@SnsblModerate @KyleKulinski Because Kyle has TDS. That’s the only reason leftists supported Massie, who is otherwise opposed to everything they advocate.
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@KyleKulinski If Massie is such a "principled conservative," why is Kyle Kulinski so sad he lost?
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There it is. With Massie’s defeat, If you’re against pedophiles and child trafficking, if you oppose illegal wars of aggression or even MILDLY criticize Israel, there is no place for you in the Republican Party. That is now a fact. The fascist terrorist imperialist death cult is doing what it does. The cult is culting.
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@greg_travis @nickgillespie @JoshEakle No, it’s because one is a popular hysteria and the other isn’t. The masses have no mind.
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@nickgillespie @JoshEakle That's because even though making almonds takes a lot of water, almonds are actually incredibly useful to hundreds of millions of people
AI is not. So why give AI any water that would better be used to grow more almonds?
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Over at Substack, @JoshEakle asks: "It's 2026, and I have yet to see an anti-almond farm protest."
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@KnightTimeWalk @whothehellsjack $60/day for manual labor? Retail/fast food/gas station probably a lot better.
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@whothehellsjack At my warehouse job I single handedly packed a giant machine with hundreds of lbs of material that was sold off for about $600 a piece, a minimum of $8000 of straight profit a day, I made about $60
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No I work in retail where I can quite literally see how much money I’m making the company. I’ll do anywhere between $600 and $2000 in a 5hr shift while only making $71. It’s more radicalizing to see the dramatic extent at which your surplus labor is being extracted
Mago Berlino@MagoBerlino2
Siamo tutti di sinistra finché non iniziamo a lavorare
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@iAnonPatriot If you were raised maybe 1975 or later nothing in the culture told you “marriage and family.”
It was in the background as though one day it would just happen.
All the encouragement from age 5 to 19 is “school! Grades! College! School! Grades! College!”
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85% of US citizens used to be married by the age of 30 in 1970
That number is now down to only 30% —- wtf happened!?
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