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Trying to be logically consistent. Focused on constructive conversations; Free Speech Advocates, AI, Health, Economics… Formerly Litecoin Underground

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@OrthodoxOrigen What was the pre-existing problem it was intended to solve? Did it accomplish its goal?

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@IsaacHayes3 My friend gets drunk, acts like an ass and gets kicked out of bars. He’s convinced it’s because other guys are jealous of his looks.

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@gsb0824 @alluringmedia Billionaires are pro-government, not a single conservative among them.

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@alluringmedia And yet you morons keep parroting their demands for higher minimum wages and healthcare insurance as part of employment.
They play yall like a fiddle, stop listening to your corporate overlords

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@Springbreakthru The bar is in hell

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It’s not a fallacy though. I get that it’s easy to just claim government fails at everything, but it’s also better to keep your tax dollars as close to home as possible. You can vote to reject local taxes like school levies, your vote is much more powerful close to home and you get to directly benefit from a well functioning city.

It’s strange to me that the people who seem to be most interested in freedom become socialists the second they have to pay for something.

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@BTRBT_ @punishedMTL @wokal_distance Of course not. A locality is made up of its citizens, and if you cut the cost of housing, you lower the cover charge.

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I think the free market is generally the best way to conduct an economy, but it’s undeniable that if we have no guardrails, it will consume and destroy things we all believe are sacred.
For example, I think most people would agree that destroying our national parks is not worth any amount of money. And the free market can exist even if there is a complete ban on mining or extracting resources from the national parks.
Those resources being kept away from all market participants equally still maintains the tenets of the free market.
Corporations have somehow gotten many people to believe this is a limitation on the free market, I.e. socialism. It is not.

If we restrict corporations from harvesting organs by murdering children, this would be an extreme example of the same thing.
Equal restrictions are cohesive with the free market.

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@queerBengali Then a bunch of yall should move into a city and only shop at the walkable shops. Businesses will cater to this and you get to have your utopia. It doesn’t require central planning or government intervention.

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@buckadeath Deeper access provides more food. They eat more than their brethren, their lineage goes on. It’s not that strange.

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@KaeleyT Unfortunately, what I see out of many women these days is a complete lack of humility. An expectation of complete leisure; being the backbone of a family or a community is completely repulsive to many of them.

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@OpinionatedMeme @wokal_distance Cheap ass socialist bitch.

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The fact that your house is worth a lot of money is blatant proof that the local government does a good job of keeping the home safe, the schools successful, and the roads and business environment desirable. If you don’t think it’s worth it, go move somewhere that has lower property values, or vote out the people in charge of your city.

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@wokal_distance My city levies an income tax, where do you live?

But property taxes are some of the most fair taxes that exist. People who directly benefit from a successful local government foot the bill

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@briebriejoy @jaeporeon This lady is trying to call you an antivaxxer for opposing data centers.

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@BebopJosh @em_Lazzy Right? Maybe it’s because the first names of the ladies are more unique than the last. Joe is more common than Biden, Kamala is not more common than Harris.

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@Monica55dzrh You’re not overreacting, that’s a shitty thing for a neighbor to do.

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@apagut The pen is mightier than the AI data center

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We could all use the internet to connect and understand other people, but instead we choose to use it to isolate ourselves and critique each other

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@ByuSome I am late GenX, completely agree.