Yes, murderous dictators, so sexy.
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They all have a far smaller population than we do? Oh, or that most of them depend on our grossly over-sized military spending so they can spend more of their budgets elsewhere?
Correct. Marxists and other types of communists view socialism as a necessary evil stepping stone on the way to true communism. Communism’s ultimate goal is to eventually get to communal ownership of all means of production and abolish government. Unfortunately they never get to this step, mostly because they have to…
Biden’s certainly no worse than Clinton, and seems to have his head less firmly wedged up his own ass than she did. Should he get the nomination, I don’t think he’ll make the same mistake of underestimating Trump and starting the victory tour early while ignoring all the places that Trump won. If the Democratic Party…
Ranked choice really is the best option for breaking the two party duopoly. Unfortunately it will probably take referendums or ballot initiatives in every state to get it done.
He is a liberal. It’s a smear people who either don’t like Joe (because he’s fine with people owning guns) or don’t like the guests he brings on use to be able to dismiss not only what Joe says, but what his guests have to say. By lumping him in as some sort of conservative ideologue, they don’t actually have to pay…
The Red Cross is a voluntary, market based solution that I would argue has undoubtedly changed the world. You might want to take a second and try to think of counterexamples to your argument before you deal in such absolutes.
Hmm... No.
Correction: I erroneously said that it was Jack Ruby, when it was James Earl Ray that killed MLK Jr. I apologize for the mistake.
If there’s one tiny, miniscule sliver of hope to take out of this, it’s all the people on the right who came out against what she said. I fully expect that sliver to be shattered into oblivion by tomorrow, but it gives me some tiny amount of hope that there may still be some sanity to be found.
Ah yes, another example of something we collectively agreed shouldn’t be allowed to be sold because it was directly harming us and a plethora of animals. As I said, there are all types of government control we agree to. You have to agree to a very base amount of restrictions for the social contract to work. It doesn’t…
So twenty years ago, when all pollution in this country was worse than it is now, because everything was obviously worse 20 years ago, it was bad, so therefore it must still be bad or somehow worse now?
Banning anything is totalitarian. The degree to which you accept those limits on your freedom is the only difference. We all accept that murder should be illegal, for example, even though the government sometimes has to employ tyrannical methods to enforce that law. If you’re really as libertarian as you claim, you’d…
I mean, in a certain light you could look at it as Trump recognizing that an individual is not representative of whatever group or groups of which they may be members. Bernie may be Jewish, but does he represent all Jews? Obviously not, no more so than you or I represent whichever groups we’re in.
Tossing them in a landfill isn’t great, but saying it isn’t any better than them being broken down into microparticles in the ocean, I’m fairly sure I can say which one is objectively worse.
I mean to be perfectly fair, other than when he gets brought up around here, I seldom pay attention to anything he says or does, so I guess that makes sense.
There’s such a thing as biodegradable plastic straws. And plastic straws have benefits to the user that paper, metal, and glass ones don’t.
Did all of this somehow avoid the news cycle back when it happened? If so... how?
Because I don’t know too many sea turtles that go swimming in landfills, and the whole outrage against straws started from a video of a sea turtle having one pulled out of its nostril. There’s a perfectly valid argument that burying our trash isn’t good, but that’s not what started the whole straw banning movement.