brianary

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[–] brianary@startrek.website 26 points 1 year ago

I think the rationale is that, when it's a single individual, they can't pass the buck or blame the group. It's a final appeal at a human level.

The trick is not electing a troll.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

Calling well-earned criticism of economics anti-intellectualism is using the composition/division fallacy.

Most people's lives have been affected for decades by Chicago School of Economics voodoo nonsense, that's where much modern criticism is aimed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jul/11/how-economics-became-a-religion

https://pluralistic.net/tag/chicago-school/

[–] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's this: https://www.newsweek.com/james-comey-deletes-post-depicting-8647-after-backlash-online-2073031

James Comey posted a picture of "8647" (get rid of Trump) spelled in shells.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The "light truck" exemption is a huge problem, and needs to be repealed.

Big cars also reduce everyone else's visibility.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jg047oJf1B4&t=45s

[–] brianary@startrek.website 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, and if that's the only issue that matters to you, and you ignore the impact on all those other people, I guess that's fair to say they are the same. But does all that extra suffering serve a purpose? Are you volunteering yourself to bear any of it, or only others?

[–] brianary@startrek.website 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Straw men? You understand that these are actually things that are really happening, right?

[–] brianary@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

The GOP didn't update their platform since, like, 2015, unless you count Project 2025, which Trump claimed to know nothing about. In the 2020 election, it still referenced running against Obama.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

I'm more into the FRC.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

I understand how you've arrived at that conclusion, but you should investigate Popper's Paradox.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 13 points 1 year ago

It would be so much more interesting to see the % of dollars claimed.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago

Does negging his customers count as an idea?

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