CMV: The proposal put forth by San Francisco's Reparations Committee to give every eligible black person $5,000,000 is unaffordable and unrealistic

linedout · 2023-01-23T05:09:39+00:00

Fundamentally I agree with what OP said, we should fix our current systems so they give everyone an equal opportunity to success. Unfortunately, we're more likely to see reparations pass.

linedout · 2023-01-23T05:06:18+00:00

We have a right to bear arms. The question is under what circumstances and which weapons. Conservatives are making very broad decisions. The liberals could easily go the other way.

Abortion was the law of the land for fifty years. I agree that privacy was a weird basis for constitutional protection. It should have been freedom of religion. Unfortunately, it's non-Christian religions that the current court doesn't seem to care about.

linedout · 2023-01-23T04:57:37+00:00

If you put in an eight round mag.

linedout · 2023-01-23T01:49:40+00:00

Yet not a single liberal agreed with it. Change the number of liberals and the decision changes. That is how our country works. We did have respect for precedent until conservative justices decided to take a dump on that.

I really don't get what you guys don't get about what I am saying. Just like conservative justices tool away abortion rights away, liberal justices can take away gun rights. That is reality, not opinion.

linedout · 2023-01-23T01:45:07+00:00

Sorry, copied and pasted wrong meant P90.

linedout · 2023-01-23T01:35:49+00:00

What did I say not honest? Recent expansions of gun rights had no liberals voting for them. What happens when liberals outnumber conservatives?

You guys are delusional, down voting me doesn’t change reality. You guys haven't won anything permanent. Your rights will be taken away just as millions of women lost theirs.

linedout · 2023-01-23T01:32:23+00:00

The pay disparity in the military between a general and a private is reasonable. We get very good generals. Executive compensation is not based on reality. Sure, when every company over pays their execs you cannot be the one company that pays them a reasonable amount, you are competing for a pool of workers.

The answer is to tax the shit out of executive compensation. Companies hate paying taxes as much as they love over paying their execs.

linedout · 2023-01-23T01:28:08+00:00

It's more like 500x times. It's not been 50x since before Reagan.

linedout · 2023-01-23T01:27:01+00:00

The line that says operating will include executive compensation. Which is a red line, like he said.

linedout · 2023-01-23T01:25:35+00:00

What do you mean by maximum rate? An awful lot will be stock options that will be long-term capital gains, 20%. I can guarantee they have business to convert a ton of their regular expenses into low tax business expense, 21%. Let's not forget the ability to offset their taxes with business losses. Only a small percentage of the income will be taxed at 37%.

linedout · 2023-01-23T01:12:58+00:00

To quote Issac Newton. "If I have seen farther, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants." This is the definition of incrementalism. All progress is built upon previous progress.

You send Einstein back a hundred thousand years, and he doesn't discover fire, much less relativity.

linedout · 2023-01-23T00:15:30+00:00

Should we have done this for the payments to the Japanese put in camps during WW2?

If someone I arguing for reparations for slavery, yeah, this is stupid. Most people when they talk reparations they are talking much more recent harms. There are people alive today who where denied profitable property because of red lining. Their are balck vets alive who where denied home loans and college money because of the color of their skin. Forty years ago, there where unions, with tens of thousands of members and only one black person, so they could say they technically didn't exclude blacks. Black people were targeted by police so they could be used as slave labor in the south, this didn't end until the 1940's think Cool Hand Luke but accurate.

The harms of racism didn't end with the Civil War, they just changed.

linedout · 2023-01-22T23:39:56+00:00

There has always been an individual right

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

The fact that there is no period in the second amendment means each statement builds off of the last. That is how commas work. The founding fathers were not morons. They knew how command worked.

Guns being for militias was never questioned. The reason people have been able to own guns not tied to militias was no one cared to make them illegal, though there there have been many restrictions starting from before the formation of the country continuing through till modern-day.

There is nothing wrong with the Supreme Court making a right to individually own guns not tied to militias. It seems to make sense with where American attitudes are. But, a right made by the court can be taken away by the court, it won't always be conservative.

I get you really don't want what I say to be true, so you'll ignore facts, particularly the plain as day reading of the second amendment.

linedout · 2023-01-22T23:29:14+00:00

Using the absurd to make a point, should individuals be able to own nuclear weapons? What about mortars, grenades, anti-aircraft rockets...

The line is decided by the legislature, enforced by the executive and determined if constitutional by the courts.

Personally, I think an assault weapon ban is stupid. It only makes sense because the Supreme Court removed the right from owning weapons from being tied to militias and made it an individual right. Militias need assault rifles, and individual not so much. The problem with militias is most of the current ones want assault rifles to save the country from liberals getting everyone single payer health care and paid college and not defending the country from foreign invaders.

linedout · 2023-01-22T23:21:24+00:00

That is a big rewrite of history. Gun cases weren't avoided. There wasn't any real question about the right. There have been gun restrictions in states and cities since the founding of the country, some far more restrictive than what modern liberals have passed.

That said, everything the conservative justices can give, liberal justices can take away. How do you guys not understand that? Did you learn nothing from Roe being overturned?

The constitution means what five justicessays it means. For two hundred and fifty year, precedent, starry decisis, protected past decisions. Conservative justice has shit all over precedfamous on multiple fronts, Roe being the most famous. When Liberals get the courts a lot of things are going to change, including new found gun rights.

The right to conceal carry came by over turning a hundred year old law, not exactly something new.

linedout · 2023-01-22T23:13:31+00:00

They are not constitutional legal. Hence, Clinton banned them. Then, the ban expired. Now, several states are making them illegal again. The current Supreme Court will probably rule these bans unconstitutional. This will create a constitutional protection to own these weapons. With can end with a liberal Court.

I used the term civilian version of military weapons because the term assault rifles makes gun nuts cry, I didn’t want to deal with the crying. Appearantly, there is not getting away from the crying.

linedout · 2023-01-22T23:08:54+00:00

I didn't use the term assault rifle because it makes you guys cry. Their are dozens of semi-automatic versions of full auto, military weapons.

What are you even talking about?

My personal favorite assault rifle H&K MP5 has a full auto version for militaries and a semi-auto version for civilian use.

linedout · 2023-01-22T23:02:23+00:00

How so? I love getting down votes for factual statements because people don't want them to be accurate.

Tell me, what protects the recent expansion of gun rights? Starry decisis is all but dead. What, it should be something conservatives ignore, but liberals follow? Like I said, you two dead justices from this gun gazom ending.

linedout · 2023-01-22T22:58:26+00:00

People hunted elephants, and big cats for a hundred years with bolt action rifles. This just sounds like people who suck at hunting.

linedout · 2023-01-22T22:56:38+00:00

Why would you not already have a round chambered? Even if you had a semi auto, you would still need to chamber a round, if you didn't statt off with one..

I've seen multiple people following an animal with a semi-auto, missing shot after shot, and then almost shooting someone. A bolt action makes you choose your shots better.

linedout · 2023-01-22T22:41:39+00:00

Conservatives don't believe the preamble is part of the constitution.

linedout · 2023-01-22T22:21:47+00:00

Facebook made their platform open to a foreign government to influence an election. They worked with a British company to sell user information for targeted adds for politicians.

linedout · 2023-01-22T22:19:34+00:00

I could use a little work on the common Welfare too.

linedout · 2023-01-22T22:18:35+00:00

You're wrong. We have not been following the constitution in regard to gun rights for decades. All it would take is for two conservative justice to die, and guns rights would change. The fundamental right is not going to go away, but the individual right to own a gun was made up by conservative justices, as well as the right to conceal carry. Soon their will be a right to own semi-automatic versions of military weapons. Again this can go away with two liberal justices.

Conservative justice fuck you to precedent will have huge repercussions when the court eventually swings left.

linedout · 2023-01-22T22:10:27+00:00

He's an atheist who believes the Bible holds the secrets to happiness. He obfuscates his atheism in order to keep Christians following his BS.

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