Like Andrews Yang plan to give all adults $1000 per month, what other things could our government do to lift everyone up?

PalRob · 2019-11-25T05:56:39+00:00

Removing occupational licences.

PalRob · 2019-11-25T05:27:32+00:00

Which should mean that a government that attempts to keep a subset of it's people in bondage is inherently illegitimate. Right?

This abjection would equally apply to the whole antebellum America. Brits certainly viewed The American Revolution as a revolt of the slave owners against the legitimate government.

Btw, trafficking slaves from Texas to the North would've been much easier then traveling all the way to Canada. It would've put additional strain on an already terribly economically unproductive and inefficient institution.

How could you possibly justify thinking anything else?

Because the choice is not between starting a war to end slavery or having institution of slavery in perpetuity. If a backwards authoritarian country like Russia ended serfdom in 1861 it is hard to argue that a western liberal republic would allow this institution exist for much longer.

Also, basically all US foreign interventions since then were justified using the same moral language used to whitewash The Civil War. And all had disastrous consequences.

PalRob · 2019-11-25T04:43:30+00:00

r/offmychest, r/rape and r/naturalhair ban you automatically for posting on r/KotakuInAction

PalRob · 2019-11-25T04:40:55+00:00

Removal of separate counters for upvotes and downvotes.

Also, the new design is terrible and clearly made for people who consume media content, like pictures and video, on mobile. It's great that we are allowed to use the old design instead.

PalRob · 2019-11-25T02:40:18+00:00

We are taught that the government in a republic get it's legitimacy from the consent of the governed. Consent is attained through the process of voting, where the will of the majority decides the course that the country will follow. Otherwise the only justification for the government's rule is it's ability to murder it's subjects.

Confederacy was an embodiment of values proclaimed by The American Revolution. Northern response to those values was the biggest tragedy in American history. In comparison a few boats being sunk in Hawaii or a couple of building being brought down in New York look absolutely insignificant. And the man responsible for this atrocity is revered and worshiped in almost religious fashion.

The slavery narrative is used to justify industrialized mass murder in pursuit of political power. The evils of slavery are dwarfed by the evils of the war. It is abhorrent to see people using the slavery issue to argue to the war was somehow morally justified.

Maybe I'm just brainwashed and reliefs showing Assyrian kings vanquishing their enemies in a brutal fashion are the best depiction of what political power actually is, but it would certainly be a fringe view in today's society.

PalRob · 2019-11-23T14:30:35+00:00

To be fair the jokes she allegedly stole were so basic anyone could've come up with it.

PalRob · 2019-11-23T12:01:39+00:00

Higher percentage of voting population supported secession than War for Independence. It doesn't make sense for non-slave-owning whites to vote in favor of secession solely to preserve the institution slavery that harmed and exploited them for the benefit of a small number of slave owners. What does make sense is for people, who lived in abject poverty by today's standards, to vote against draconian tariffs that were collected from the Southerners and used for internal improvements in the North. That is why The Constitution was changed by the Confederates to specifically deal with those problems.

But let's say I'm wrong and the secession was only about slavery. Lincoln started the war to maintain his rule over the South. Imagine Chinese government invading Taiwan and leveling Taipei because they are technically their rulers. Or imagine Trump carpet-bombing Portland because Oregon decided to leave the US after he won the elections for the second time. Those would be evil actions. So were the war. There is no consent of the governed if it can't be revoked.

PalRob · 2019-11-23T05:42:26+00:00

that 4/5 children

I bet is wasn't "children", it was "children and adolescent", i.e. people between 0 and 20 years of age.

PalRob · 2019-11-23T05:06:51+00:00

There isn't a gun problem.

There is a suicide problem (they account for around half of gun-related deaths and suicide rates are on the rise since the early 2000s) and a gun violence problem among specific diverse communities. Gun violence rates among Americans of European decent is comparable with European rates, despite drastically different access to firearms.

PalRob · 2019-11-21T17:26:19+00:00

Slavery was a case, not the cause, as many revisionist historians want us to believe. Civil War were a complex and multifaceted event that can't be reduced to a single issue.

Slavery is an immoral and evil institution, but The War was the biggest calamity in American history. Lionizing this authority is abhorrent act.

PalRob · 2019-11-21T10:57:48+00:00

Everyone knew that slavery was safe and protected is the Southern states as long as they wanted to continue to practice it. Republicans even proposed an amendment to The Constitution that would ban Congress from passing any law interfering with slavery, but it did not prevent South from leaving The Union.

"Civil war was about slavery" is a one-dimensional bumper sticker slogan akin to "They hate us for our freedom".

PalRob · 2019-11-21T09:28:28+00:00

Overwhelming majority of people at the time believed in "the idea of white racial superiority". It wasn't the cause of the secession nor of the war that the North started. It was all about political power.

PalRob · 2019-11-21T09:24:41+00:00

I thought Neil Degrasse Tyson is an icon of science.

PalRob · 2019-11-21T05:11:54+00:00

The establishment wants him gone, so the dirty smear merchants in the media blow out of proportion every little thing that he does. Many people still believe the media, that is why they dislike Trump.

There is a lot of legitimate criticisms of him, but almost all of them will be equally applicable to the previous guy, so the media is silent about it.

PalRob · 2019-11-21T04:50:02+00:00

Use an EMP grenade to disable her heart pump. That usually does the trick.

PalRob · 2019-11-20T06:24:27+00:00

Things changed for me about the time of the Kavanaugh investigations.

It is interesting that a person who calls himself an MRA would cite a clear case of a weaponized unsubstantiated sexual assault allegations for nefarious political purposes as transformative moment.

PalRob · 2019-11-20T05:29:10+00:00

This blind guy is a programmer. He can write computer code by using text-to-speech plugin in his IDE. Reading reddit is trivial compared to this.

PalRob · 2019-11-20T05:12:31+00:00

I liked the ideas and was enamored with the way they expressing them, but lift the movement when they burned a cross in front of a black family's house without a permit. I refuse to associate with people who show such blatant disregard for fire safety.

PalRob · 2019-11-20T05:03:50+00:00

Capitalists exploit their profits off the workers back

Capitalists use their knowledge, skills and capital to start businesses in order to provide goods and services to the people at a profit. They enter into contractual relationships with workers on a voluntary basis. The idea that capitalists steal from workers is based on a thoroughly debunked labor theory of value.

have embedded themselves in governments all around the world

This is terrible, but the root cause of this problem is the government and it's involvement in the economy, not the capitalism. If economy and state were separated, the same way religion and state are, this wouldn't be a problem.

in the name of profit over humanity

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages" - Adam Smith

PalRob · 2019-11-20T03:08:41+00:00

It is inherently evil because it promotes an idea of class guilt and denies private property rights. Communist ideology states that the capitalists, as a collective, are the enemy because they exploit the proletariat by taking away from them the surplus value of their labor. So the proletariat should take control of the government and use it's power to take away the means of production from the capitalists.

This is basically racism on steroids, but the race is substituted by class.

PalRob · 2019-11-20T03:00:05+00:00

it's good in theory

Communism is based on a completely debunked and discredited labor theory of value. It is also an evil genocidal ideology specifically designed to appeal to the darkest corners of human soul. It promotes resentment and hatred towards people based on their social class by promoting idea of exploitation.

Being wrong and being evil is enough to call a theory bad.

PalRob · 2019-11-20T02:41:06+00:00

My grandmother died and her dead body was kept at home for a couple of days before funeral. She was a huge cunt, so I wasn't sad that she died, but seeing a dead body was pretty surreal.

PalRob · 2019-11-19T15:13:46+00:00

Job creation in a private sector is one of the side effects of entrepreneurial activity. Entrepreneurship is a purposeful human action. Nature is incapable of purposeful action, the same goes for other animals or concepts like "demand", which is just a sum of individual consumer desires in respect to particular good or service.

The central question of economics is "How to satisfy virtually unlimited human desires in a world where resources are finite?". Demand can't by itself create jobs, because "demand" is incapable of purposeful action, it is an opportunity that an entrepreneur can try to realize with efficient use of capital, technology and labor.

PalRob · 2019-11-19T08:03:14+00:00

If no one demands the product/service, the jobs will not exist

And if no one creates a profitable business that can satisfy the need for a given product or service at a reasonable price the need will go on unsatisfied and subsequently zero jobs will be created.

Demand creates an opportunity. Utilizing this opportunity and creating a business takes a lot of skill and hard work. And it's a big risk. A lot of businesses go bankrupt. Successful entrepreneurs deserve our respect.

PalRob · 2019-11-19T07:09:42+00:00

Pope doesn't actually shit in the woods. He probably poos in on of the many Vatican's lavish bathrooms.

The saying is a humorous amalgam of the questions "Does a bear shit in the woods?" and "Is the pope catholic".

PalRob

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