Eh, it’s hard to say. Are people the atoms that make them up or the pattern? Most of the atoms change, are you the same person after a year? Does the same person wake as went to sleep? I’m not saying that your soul flies around like a force ghost spying on people, but dying and nothing happening forever isn’t obvious, …

Citation Needed.

Yeah, it’s obviously the like 100,000 hick coal miners running the US, not rich city folk like Trump and Friedman... Hell, Obama, he had a fillibuster proof majority, he didn't fix it because he didn't want to.  Poor rural people fear immigration because our wages have been going down our whole lives to fund the…

I imagine CEO pay is employee compensation.

I have no idea what I am talking about, but if you like your job and co-workers other than the overwork, you might want to look into your rights as an employee before you quit. If the country disallows overtime pay to encourage work life balance you might have some recourse against being fired for refusing to work too…

I like Warren a lot, and if she gets some momentum I would happily support her. I’m not a Marxist, but as a temporarily embarrassed millionaire myself IMO the Marxist thing would maybe lose Bernie the election against Romney or someone but not against Trump. Bernie did a pretty good job in Vermont to my understanding,…

I don’t know as he is denying those realities, he is just focusing on fixing income inequality and health care for everyone. I’m a white guy with Bernie bro tendencies, but I think that’s the right call. Helping the poor get money and good health care would disproportionately help POC and women, and it might be…

Reading that she said the racism didn’t come from Bernie or his staffers, but from other Democrats running events who would accuse her of being an imposter because she was black and supporting Bernie.  Although Biden is the front runner, and she has every right to work where she wants.

Yeah, markets and capitalism are good at generating wealth, so should be minimally interfered with. Discouraging monopolies and protecting people are vague but important. Transit and basic health care seem like good ideas. Manage the currency, tax externalities (carbon and methane and lead and such would be a good…

I think we should let prisoners of war vote in their elections back home if it is sufficiently convenient, and our soldiers should still retain the right to vote even if they are being held in a POW camp somewhere. And separating out people who don’t belong in prison is a pretty big glossing over, because selectivly…

Well, what it SHOULD do...

Ha, I don’t think he is a dirtbag to my knowledge. He may have the Curse of the Wendigo though so look out for that...

Ya, you aren’t, but his number isn’t all that shocking. Sex with new partners distributes very unevenly amongst guys so a few guys get A LOT and many get none. Kind of like if you were a dollar you might think America was 95% high frequency traders, because they are good at getting dollars but don’t keep them long.…

Sexing I think.  I did the same thing.

I don’t think so, if you give someone pictures they can’t blackmail you but they can show them around I think.  You can be mad but you don't have any right to control his behavior that I am aware of.  Maybe they can't distribute them in some states or under certain conditions?

The breeding more idiots part is true, but not coddling idiots to the point that they can’t breed is ethically tough, people can survive on shockingly little if they have to. Maybe education and some kind of financial incentive to be on birth control?

I liked your tale. Secondhand anecdotes seem as trustworthy as cherrypicked clickbait to me.  Keep stories from trusted elders alive!  Not that the Flyers have to keep her music, but judging people from another time out of context seems like a tricky and often unrewarding game.  There is a lot of messed up stuff in US…

If you haven’t reached out either aren't you doing the same thing as he is? Unless he’s ignoring you in which case F that guy.

Isn't that what they are doing at the FED?

It is, but designing a system of government for non idiots kind of implies you get rid off all idiots so you don’t have to govern them. Unfortunately idiots have the faith and the numbers and enough guns to win that war pretty easily so...  Obviously debt increases income inequality, so you want a good bankruptcy…