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goatfucker8
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@drskreeonk @JihadalHaqq Whats it with communists and making up a gazillion pointless “nationalities”? Moldovans,Sahrawis,Macedonians etc.
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Morocco's leftist parties be like: "Let me staff my party with my family members. And also I love the king"
Nassreddin 🍉 نصر الدين@Nassreddin2002
"I honestly don't know what I'd vote for in Morocco" Why not vote for leftist parties? Morocco's main leftist leader be like: *spreads conspiracy theories about earthquakes being man-made and somehow linking this to COVID*
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@EmmaJClemmons @MoreOrLessAMess statistically who is more likely to molest the child, you the parent, or the doctor(heres a hint, its not the doctor)
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@MoreOrLessAMess I disagree. Abuse of power in the legal, medical, and educational systems are why trust is broken and parents are skeptical of why their minor children need to be addressed alone.
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Modern parents suck so badly and are ruining their children because of it.
"Hey, baby, the nurse is just going to talk too you for a minute, to check that you're safe. If there's anything you want to ask without me there, now is a good time. I'll be right outside."
Julie@JulieLovesFluff
I took my 11 year old to her checkup this morning and the nurse asked me to step out of the room for a moment. I politely declined and she said, "It's just for a moment." And I told her, "No thank you, given all the stories about children being abused my husband and I decided to never leave our children alone with anyone, even medical providers. Anything you need to do or say you can do with me in the room." She looked all miffed and just left, no idea what her plan was but she didn't feel the need to continue it with me present and that makes me even more suspicious?? When she left my daughter thanked me for not leaving, she's already shy about the doctor, her eyes got so wide when the lady asked me to leave.
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@fortyonedonut @MoreOrLessAMess the doctor needs to ask your child if you have been physically or sexually abusing them. You can ask that they have a nurse take your place so that they aren't alone.
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@MoreOrLessAMess My kids are 7&9. Taken them to a million Dr appoints at this stage. I’ve never had a nurse/Dr ask me to step out of the room so they could speak to my child without me. If they did, I would be caught off guard, and say no. 0 reason a medical profess needs 2 be alone w/ my kid
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@montana62979 @MoreOrLessAMess which is why you can request(and they generally accept) you asking for a nurse to join them in the room.
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@MoreOrLessAMess Unfortunately, as a parent, I trusted very few people with my children. If anyone tried to get my child alone, it would put a red flag for me too, even a doctor.
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@Timetofly8895 @garykoepnick @JulieLovesFluff the data shows that parents are the most likely abusers of a child
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@garykoepnick @JulieLovesFluff No, we're not stupid and the data is out there. Find it.
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I took my 11 year old to her checkup this morning and the nurse asked me to step out of the room for a moment. I politely declined and she said, "It's just for a moment." And I told her, "No thank you, given all the stories about children being abused my husband and I decided to never leave our children alone with anyone, even medical providers. Anything you need to do or say you can do with me in the room." She looked all miffed and just left, no idea what her plan was but she didn't feel the need to continue it with me present and that makes me even more suspicious?? When she left my daughter thanked me for not leaving, she's already shy about the doctor, her eyes got so wide when the lady asked me to leave.
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@KMClovesDEC @WolverineInR3AL @pcosprincess22 @MoreOrLessAMess how do you know that she is not in that category? Would a child molester not also want their child to be left alone(lest they tell the doctor what was done to them)
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@WolverineInR3AL @pcosprincess22 @MoreOrLessAMess I understand that… but the mom that posted this (taking their child to a well visit) is clearly not in that category if she’s posting about not wanting to leave her child alone. So that point is irrelevant to this.
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@Dave_Kayac @AnechoicMedia_ That is not even remotely why income tax exists
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Taking the argument seriously, it's equally true that the forces of law and order are the reason a woman has bodily autonomy against assailants, but nobody says she owes society a portion of her body back in return, or that this debt increases in proportion to how desired she is.
wanye@xwanyex
This is a standard argument for property tax that upon reflection hardly makes any sense at all. For the argument not to be totally facile and uninteresting, it would have to be that he’s saying that there’s something special about land ownership that makes this so. But actually he is just describing all of law and order, the defense of all physical property. This isn’t something we offer exclusively to land owners.
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@kingofthecoastt @yhdistyminen Here is how that would work:
Year 1: not enough people pay, those who do get kickback
Year 2: enough people pay, society functions
Year 3: people realize that more people pay than needed, so not enough people pay, those who do get kickback
Continue ad infititum
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@yhdistyminen For those wondering, the contract is basically
"Here is this public good we can produce. We won't do it unless the total amount of pledged contributions is above the cost of producing it. If you make a pledge, and the total is not above that threshold, you get a small % prize."
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This goes so hard if you've never heard of game theory
Bojan Tunguz@tunguz
A very useful flowchart.
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@Brewer123123123 @Otome_chan311 @Imperial_Eagle2 @yhdistyminen It was both dumbass, ICBMs go to space
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@goatfucker81 @Otome_chan311 @Imperial_Eagle2 @yhdistyminen Then it wasn't space funding it was IBM funding...
Contradicting yourself
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@Brewer123123123 @Otome_chan311 @Imperial_Eagle2 @yhdistyminen the funding of space programs was not random, it was with the goal of creating ICBM's, to which extent it was very successful
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@goatfucker81 @Otome_chan311 @Imperial_Eagle2 @yhdistyminen So this argument was destroyed by Bastiat like 200 years ago
Funding random shit in hopes that it will lead to serendipitous discovery is retarded
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@Brewer123123123 @Otome_chan311 @Imperial_Eagle2 @yhdistyminen but if one country funds space flight and the other doesn't, one of them is going to be capable of fielding nuclear ICBMs and the other wont, and will then be able to do whatever they feel like to the other one.
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@ChrisMartzWX @sphanna50 @JPiqzu because the government protects your private property from people who might take it
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@sphanna50 @JPiqzu So why is the government involved in my private property?
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Can anyone explain to me why we have to continue to pay property taxes on our land and motor vehicles AFTER we have paid them off? As far as I’m concerned, it is indefensible because it is theft.
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@bionovastarr @6471_3360j @lovesluvv @emisandrist Do you think men pop out of the womb calling women sluts? Do you think the behavior is nature or nurture? If it is nurture, do you think that the behavior they witness from women might be part of the nurture?
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@6471_3360j @lovesluvv @emisandrist they’re gonna see us as slurs anyways no matter what we do
this is like the model minority argument. thinking that minorities can behave well enough to avoid racism
no one is challenging men doing this for years but just because a woman is doing it in retaliation it’s worse ?
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@jack_whitcomb_ also cigarettes, apparently DC has a $4.5 flat tax on a pack of cigs, which is nuts but not without reason
taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/….
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@jack_whitcomb_ not currently but when it was implemented the NFA was. it was a $200 tax on automatic weapons in an era where that was more than 100% consumption tax for most automatic weapons. that said, the purpose wasn't revenue maximizing, but to account for negative externality
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I know that overall, we aren't on the wrong side of the laffer curve, but is there any particular tax where we are? Something really niche and stupid?
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@BludSquirrel @MattBruenig @Sheesh_barak @TheStalwart @xwanyex recognizing borders is *sometimes* less costly than going to war constantly. The US also invaded native lands without purchase, invaded mexico, and the Louisiana purchase was done at gunpoint.
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This is purely, factually incorrect. We can look at historical examples of places with little to no law enforcement by the state and still see that private property exists.
The US literally bought huge chunks of its land mass from Russia and France. Even in the anarchy of international affairs countries can buy and sell land because recognizing borders is less costly than going to war constantly.
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People sort of act like they live in a fairytale in which there’s a group of privileged land owners and then on the other hand the peasants who have been locked out.
But in our country what happens is we buy land with money. You aren’t granted the privilege to use it. You buy it with money, like everything else. And the title transfers. You can save up some money and go buy some land yourself.
High housing prices, notwithstanding, very large shares of the country are still homeowners. It’s not like this is an extreme minority group.
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@Cashin986 @Mokeymokey1 @MattBruenig @Sheesh_barak @TheStalwart @xwanyex Why isn't land in somalia more valuable than land in northern sweden? Norrland's environment is most definitely worse, so why is it more valuable?
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@Mokeymokey1 @MattBruenig @Sheesh_barak @TheStalwart @xwanyex The mercenary group that captures and holds it would surrender it to another group in exchange for some other good/gold.
Markets are natural and occur regardless of what any socioeconomic reasons a fake PhD comes up with.
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@MattBruenig @Sheesh_barak @TheStalwart @xwanyex communities across the country with basically no local law enforcement presence, and their homes are obviously not worth ~$0.
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@stnlss_stl_rt @MattBruenig @DoesteinJohn @Sheesh_barak @TheStalwart @xwanyex The state is instrumental in ensuring that transfers of land happen in a nonviolent manner
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@MattBruenig @DoesteinJohn @Sheesh_barak @TheStalwart @xwanyex 1. Land obviously has ‘value’; most large mammals are territorial.
2. In the absence of the state, control of the land then violent men would control the land through violence.
3. The state is instrumental in creating ‘common land’ not private land.
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