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Amtrak Wreck

Businesses would still like infrastructure improvements, but the Boomers who leeched off of the infrastructure and government services built by their parents for their entire lives are now dedicated to slashing taxes no matter what and running the country into the dirt, fetishizing selfishness...
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- Post #86
- May 16, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
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Amtrak Wreck

Really the US should be investing in better trains, but politically we're in the clutch of the Baby Boomers, who've never seen a national problem they couldn't foist off onto the next generation, so good luck with that. Trains fit a completely different niche than cars in the American...
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- Post #83
- May 16, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
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Bernie's gettin rowdy again!

That comparison doesn't make any sense. I'm talking purely in economic terms, you're doing some nonsensical abstract comparison with no basis in anything. Pretty much by definition, the rich have more to gain from preserving/enriching the status quo and society being stable. That's almost the...
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- Post #41
- May 8, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
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Bernie's gettin rowdy again!

For one thing you've listed very different taxes, and I shouldn't have run with that - gas taxes play a very different role (depressing gas usage for our communal environmental good) than DMV fees. But basically we should reduce or eliminate all regressive taxes we can, including sales taxes...
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- Post #39
- May 8, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
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#Gamergate, the war on nerds, and the corruption of the left and the free press

My local newspaper is pretty bad too, better go start a cult to harass women online because clearly that shoddy reporting somehow relates to me being a victim and women being evil
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- Post #1,336
- May 8, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
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ACLU Smartphone App!

Because they have limited funds and the NRA will always bankroll every 2nd amendment case to the hilt. They usually don't spend much money/time on electronic stuff either when someone like the Electronic Frontier Foundation is willing to pick up the tab. It's not an issue of not caring, it's...
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- Post #76
- May 8, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
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Bernie's gettin rowdy again!

Uh yes, we absolutely should it were feasible. The only reason we don't is that it would be a logistical nightmare. Those sort of taxes/fees are horrible regressive. No, it's your smug pop-psychology that makes you completely miss the point. It has nothing to do with jealousy. (I'm sure some...
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- Post #33
- May 8, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
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Freddie Gray dies a week after being injured during arrest

Yeah most people I know are strongly against that. It's horrible. The problem is, there's no one I can vote for from either party who's against it, by the time we get through primaries.
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- Post #854
- May 8, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
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Should your boss be able to fire an employee for using birth control?

This is the sad reality in at-will states, yep, which is why at-will is dumb. It doesn't have to be that way. It's possible to have a very functional society where bosses aren't absolute monarchs over their employees, even though every time you move away from that model you'll have the bosses...
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- Post #76
- May 7, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
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#Gamergate, the war on nerds, and the corruption of the left and the free press

Uh, no, I'm saying "gamers" and "nerds" might have been coherent social groups 20 years ago but today playing video games is tremendously mainstream. Being against "gamers" isn't a thing any more than being against "movie lovers" or "music listeners." The category of "gamers" as being a coherent...
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- Post #1,325
- May 7, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
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Should your boss be able to fire an employee for using birth control?

Everyone should be able to hire children to work for sub-poverty wages with no safety precautions in place, or ability to sue the company from gross negligence if those children die in easily-preventable situations. After all, it's a *private* business and therefore no one else could possible...
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- Post #45
- May 7, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
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Should your boss be able to fire an employee for using birth control?

No level of home rule is enough to keep more people than some states from having a say in national politics, including having a say in national tax policy they have to contribute towards. But hey taxation without representation for hundreds of thousands of Americans is no big deal, some guys...
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- Post #11
- May 7, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
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#Gamergate, the war on nerds, and the corruption of the left and the free press

No, not "gamers," which is not a meaningful set of people, however much Gamergate people want to pretend to speak for them. The people who obsessively and with no understanding of human interaction think there's some kind of fierce culture war going on, and really high stakes in this topic, and...
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- Post #1,323
- May 7, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
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Should your boss be able to fire an employee for using birth control?

Our founders accepted slavery as an unfortunate compromise too. We don't have to live with their unjust mistakes just because it's 'tradition.' The colonies weren't full counties in Great Britain either, so I guess it's totally fine that legislators from far away decided everything for the...
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- Post #9
- May 7, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
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#Gamergate, the war on nerds, and the corruption of the left and the free press

If you polled 100 people on the street, maybe 30 of them could name their congressman and senator, but I'm sure a few news segments about the autistic misogynists completely rocked the culture to its core.
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- Post #1,321
- May 7, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News

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