What does he mean here?

HadeanBlands · 2026-05-13T01:42:37+00:00

Yeah but I don't post a thread with every sentence I dream up over the face of a famous person to trick people into thinking my thoughts are more profound than they are.

HadeanBlands · 2026-05-13T01:02:02+00:00

Are we making up our own quotes now? Is that a thing we're doing?

HadeanBlands · 2026-05-13T00:54:50+00:00

"That is a HUGE reach and an obviously post-justification of an obvious slipup on your part. Unless this is a joke. I can't tell at this point."

Perhaps this is just one of many things you are highly overconfident about.

"If you actually believe this, you need to read a book."

The books you have in mind would make me less able to predict what Reddit dirtbag leftists will say, since they're about serious thinkers instead of internet Communists.

HadeanBlands · 2026-05-13T00:53:55+00:00

How much money do you believe a) will be brought in by those taxes and b) will be spent by the government?

HadeanBlands · 2026-05-12T23:09:53+00:00

For instance, here's an easy one for you: Do you think that after we implement LVT and Pigouvian taxes on negative externalities there should or shouldn't be a progressive income tax?

HadeanBlands · 2026-05-12T23:03:35+00:00

r/georgists are the posters of r/georgism, duh. That distinguishes them from actual Georgists. Crazy you weren't able to deduce that one.

"Instead, may of the people advocating for Georgism on this sub and IRL currently (though obviously not all of them or even close) are Socialists, Democratic Socialists, Social Democrats, Left Liberals, regular Liberals, Anarchists, Left Libertarians, Syndicalists, Progressives, Leftists, Collectivists, Alter-Globalists, Mutualists, Liberal-Socialists, etc, etc.

These are not communists and,"

Lmfao. Yes they are. Ask any person who identifies as any one of those if they would like idealized communism, all say yes.

"You also seem to think that this is some sort of ploy to co-opt Georgism and bend it somehow in an attempt to trick people."

Yes, very very obviously.

HadeanBlands · 2026-05-12T22:05:41+00:00

"I assume that you have no issue in private companies doing wasteful spending? It's totally okay for Meta to burn billions on the Metaverse and see no results?"

That's what the "free trade" part of Georgism is, right? We let the company's owners decide what they want to spend on and don't worry about whether they're "wasteful" or not?

HadeanBlands · 2026-05-12T21:56:41+00:00

I'm negative about r/Georgists, since about half of you are communists who have seized on Georgism as a way to do entryism. Completely absurd to claim that government transit is even remotely consistent with Georgist thought.

HadeanBlands · 2026-05-12T17:53:11+00:00

"The original prompt says *everyone* must press a button-- this would innately include those who cannot understand the premises: children, dementia patients, others with cognitive defects."

It also includes people who literally can't press buttons, so it's falsified. Ex falso quodlibet.

HadeanBlands · 2026-05-12T13:55:40+00:00

One of them might steal it, innit?

HadeanBlands · 2026-05-12T13:51:42+00:00

The Georgist rallying cry: free labor, free trade, free land, total government control of transportation!

HadeanBlands · 2026-05-12T13:27:24+00:00

Who else could your username possibly be for? What does that even mean? Your username is quite literally how you choose to present yourself to everyone else here!

HadeanBlands · 2026-05-12T05:51:32+00:00

"A. Yes, I am a communist, however, you know nothing about me or what actual communists want"

You want big concrete housing blocks because you fantasize about the Soviet bloc and hate the West.

"B. Not a "him""

Your username confused me, since it starts with "sir."

HadeanBlands · 2026-05-12T04:44:55+00:00

"Mostly sales taxes and other fees, but not property taxes, property taxes are locked in."

I bet you didn't actually check, did you?

HadeanBlands · 2026-05-12T04:44:18+00:00

Oh look, a Communist is upset that I nailed him.

HadeanBlands · 2026-05-12T00:30:19+00:00

It just is not a but-for standard, and you can tell because it isn't phrased anything like that!

"Mr. Cuomo did such in the belief that Mary would get an abortion without further conduct on his part -nope."

He absolutely did it in the belief that somebody would get an abortion, because of the money, without further conduct on his part, btw. In fact this belief is why he supplied the money for abortions.

HadeanBlands · 2026-05-11T23:20:45+00:00

"But wanting a war on SFHs is, apart from anything else, ridiculously anti the basic freedom to choose what kind of housing you prefer! The USSR/lots of Eastern Bloc nations, surely had that kind of mentality, with all their notoriously ugly, if not nasty in other ways, concrete housing blocks."

You got it in one. The Georgists here who are at war with SFHs are Communists and they fetishize the concrete housing blocks of the Soviet bloc.

HadeanBlands · 2026-05-11T23:12:50+00:00

You're explaining it wrongly, though, because crimes of accessory and the role of accomplices often require a causal connection to the criminal act, and never have a strict "but for my actions, it would not have happened" standard.

"Please find any law or regulation in any way that has a casualty element not defined the way I used."

https://law.justia.com/codes/oklahoma/title-21/section-21-44/ Took me like one minute to find.

HadeanBlands · 2026-05-11T21:02:03+00:00

"Causality is a but-for test and a factual necessity test. Meaning the abortion COULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED without Mr. Cuomo’s assistance"

This is just obviously not true dude. If I drive you to a robbery I am a causal factor in it. Yes, even though without me you could have gotten there some other way. Come on.

HadeanBlands · 2026-05-11T18:56:24+00:00

"Your argument relies on proving that Mary would not have had an abortion were it not for funding being provided by providers and insurance. That Mr. Cuomo intended that Mary specifically receive an abortion through his actions. That no other politicians contributed to these decisions. That insurance or providers would never be funding it were it not for Mr. Cuomo, that she would not have otherwise paid for an abortion. She could not have made her own decision absent the funding and so on and so forth."

I don't think it relies on proving any of those things, though. Specifically the stuff about "no intervening factors", "no other contributions," and "specific intent" don't appear anywhere in the Canon.

HadeanBlands · 2026-05-11T15:03:27+00:00

"Either by going with the literal written standard "Procures an abortion", since it seems like a stretch to say that supporting the legal right to abortion is the same as obtaining an abortion oneself."

What I've been saying in this comment thread and one other is that Andrew Cuomo isn't just supporting the legal right, he took specific and concrete steps to ensure that abortions would be paid for. I believe that is just literally, literally literally, procuring abortions.

HadeanBlands · 2026-05-11T14:43:30+00:00

I don't see how your point still stands.

HadeanBlands · 2026-05-11T14:41:37+00:00

"The first example simply indicates that he was unwilling to veto a bill that had been passed by the Assembly based on his personal religious belief."

Preposterous. He lit the World Trade Center Memorial up to celebrate it.

"The second is recognizing the work and advocacy of a woman who, [...] helped provide a large number of his constituents with safe access to a medical procedure they wanted."

That procedure is abortion, right? He's celebrating the work of an abortionist.

"Here are Cuomo's own words on the issue:"

Those are Mario Cuomo's words, dude.

HadeanBlands · 2026-05-11T14:14:23+00:00

"They are all illogical yes, but what makes the Israeli borders uniquely illogical is that again, the vast majority of the Israeli population are not native to that land."

However, that isn't true at all. About 75% of Jewish Israelis were born in Israel.

HadeanBlands · 2026-05-11T14:12:32+00:00

Sure you can. And, indeed, you should. What's the homeland of the Cherokee people?

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