My father and my uncle both have treatable cancer. However they both require Medicare to be able to afford treatment. In any other year under any other administration I wouldn't have to worry about them dying.
@lawfare@ProfArbel@KevinTFrazier To use the analogies from the show;
Your shovels are made of conflict metals, and you're not so much standing "on the shoulders of giants" but on the shoulders of wicker-men with millions of people trapped inside.
@lawfare@ProfArbel@KevinTFrazier Why do we focus on the potential hypothetical harms when talking about regulation and not the active ones we know about and are fully aware of?
Someone pay me 50k/yr and I will make a podcast that only covers the people trying to fix the problems talked about in every left-wing podcast, so you actually have some way of trying to fix the thing you were just told about instead of every podcast just saying "so vote"
@kilnfiendpotter Societal pressure for men to be sexually active and dominant meets the reality that the world just doesn't work the way many men are raised to believe it does.
Sex is part of life, but men are often raised with the belief that it's the -goal- in life.
@ghirapurigears @kilnfiendpotter His first published book was "Hey, extremist religious sects are really bad, even if they're from the same religion as you", and he hasn't softened on that point.
@ghirapurigears @kilnfiendpotter With OSC it was people reading one thing into his writing and him saying another.
In Sanderson's works, being pro-lgbtq, anti-racism, anti-abuse, and anti-extremist isn't subtext, it's text. His last few books were:
"Fight Fascism"
"Fight Fascism in space"
"Fight Racism"