*Money allotted for big defense contractors and raises for officers- $658,999,999,000

How about we don’t do either and use that money to fix our goddamn pathetic infrastructure?!

All so it can fill the coffers of the endless list of military contractors and private companies supporting the MIC. Take a gander at the exceedingly insane cronyism that allows companies like ADS to dominate the military contracting game. It is unreal. And Congress just pockets huge wads of cash from this shit.…

Bruh, tuition ain’t lining Congresses pockets. That MIC is the real moneymaker.

Lost a friend there end of last year. I’d really appreciate if this misadventure ended post haste.

Nah, they were all dead within a decade. Soviet life expectancy and all.

“In summary, Libertarians advocate removing unproductive regulation, reducing and eliminating taxes, and getting government out of the way of innovation and job creation.” LP Party section on Economy.

It does not, however, say “Libertarians don’t support regulation” as an absolute. You would think if it was as you…

That isn’t what is being done. It doesn’t solve our problems, dummy. It is a living document that provides a framework for us to work from. Not really particularly hard to grasp, though I see you are unable to realize that those cited institutions are not longer issues - precisely because our Constitution allows…

If that was the case, he would have left her race out of it. Easy as that.

I wonder how this would translate from a nation Germany’s size to one as large as the US. They are a quarter the size of us with a different style of governing.

Oh good, she has stopped hearing voices in her head. Maybe someone slipped her some medication.

No they don’t. I don’t know almost any Libertarians who don’t support the CRA simply because it enables one of the most important core principles of the party - individual liberty. At some point, there has to be a balance and the CRA helps ensure no one is hurt by the actions of others at the small expense of telling…

You are not agreeing with me on an unrelated point. He rattled off her appearance and then judged her for it. Pretty racist.

That all might be good though. I kinda don’t want more of the same. I am all for the plot growing and the scenery changing. I think I have had enough of the Blade Runner-esque cityscape. I’ll take more off-world craziness! And the Expanse did zero-G rather well, so I am hopeful.

Hey, that is usually my argument. That being said, we can’t just ignore it when we feel like it. It is the core of our nation’s law and currently is pretty well fleshed out to protect the liberties of the citizenry. Not perfect, but nothing ever is.

That is not what I said. Stop twisting it to suit your argument. I said it was unrealistic to expect every show to have a gay main character. There is a lot of LGBTQ+ representation in shows.

That isn’t “defensive” - that is how this works. You post, I post. It is a discussion. Duh. Plus, I’m hourly. So I post here to waste time.

Except that my degree of empathy isn’t the issue. It is you who made the issue, not me. And I feel I have shown a reasonable amount of empathy, actually - you just seem willing to disregard it to suit your narrative.