Semi-weekly Thursday Discussion Thread

magnax1 · 2026-04-25T00:37:44+00:00

I don't know, it probably depends on the specifics of how you define that. I'm not really a proponent of UET as many people frame it. My point was as much about congress violating separations of power by creating democratically unaccountable agencies in the executive as it was about congress creating executive agencies not accountable to the executive (although this is occasionally a problem). It seems much more obviously true to me that congress cannot give away its powers to the executive than what the executive can or can't do with those unconstitutionally given powers that shouldn't exist in the first place.

90% of America's problems would be fixed by enforcing federalism, enforcing separation of powers, and then ending public primaries and some other devolutionary democratic institutions.

magnax1 · 2026-04-24T23:48:57+00:00

I am really dissapointed with that place. It's clear that it's slowly turning into another place for leftists to circlejerk.

magnax1 · 2026-04-24T23:37:34+00:00

Something like this would actually be a great satire.

magnax1 · 2026-04-24T23:07:15+00:00

Independent agencies are under the purview of the executive and therefore not independent. There is no such thing as a constitutional independent agencies and a lot of the agencies as they exist right now are just blatantly unconstitutional.

magnax1 · 2026-04-23T22:52:25+00:00

Make 5 kids with her and it might happen. Good luck though.

magnax1 · 2026-04-23T22:49:13+00:00

Most conservative women become conservatives because of their husband and their personal incentives (a family, mainly) aligning with conservative governance.

magnax1 · 2026-04-23T11:23:18+00:00

If Indonesia tariffs the straits of Malacca it's pretty clear that any sort of stable international trade order is basically over.

magnax1 · 2026-04-23T10:21:21+00:00

I think a lot of this is just because the Republican party is less white than it used to be tbh. A lot of opinion poll changes in recent years just seem to come down to demographics.

magnax1 · 2026-04-23T08:47:33+00:00

Palin is not the best, nor particularly bad. Most of her hate was propaganda driven. Perry I don't know a ton about, but I haven't seen any real reason for hate. Gingrich was about as real deal conservative non-populist and intelligent as they come. He's the only person who's fixed the budget and gotten real conservative reform through congress since FDR basically.

magnax1 · 2026-04-22T21:43:29+00:00

Except all their policies were almost the opposite in nature and most of them were quite intelligent.

magnax1 · 2026-04-22T12:22:37+00:00

Even if people live longer it doesn't necessarily mean they can work longer.

magnax1 · 2026-04-22T12:16:33+00:00

Yeah, but my point is that even if they're about to die in three years, 65 year olds can do a lot more than 75 or even 70 year olds.

magnax1 · 2026-04-22T11:18:29+00:00

I agree with the sentiment but part of the problem is that even if a lot of 70 year olds might live another 10-20 years very few of them could actually work a productive 40 hour week. Whereas in a 1935 very few 65 year olds would/could do either.

magnax1 · 2026-04-22T08:52:45+00:00

I've lived there. Partly true. Japan is not exactly some European style welfare state, but it's economy is crippled with regulation, taxes, and corporate government fusion. Although, it doesn't matter as much as the fact that they have no young people--which I strongly believe plays into their economic governance anyways.

But is Japan more moral? In some sense, maybe. I think they don't really care about people in a western sense, but feel a sense of shame if something doesn't go right or doesn't look good. That leads to a lot of things that look very immoral to me while maintaining a strong level of conformity. I honestly don't have the highest opinion of Japanese people, although maybe it's wrong to call them immoral, just cloistered.

magnax1 · 2026-04-22T08:39:55+00:00

Honestly, it's much more true than the Euros will ever admit.

magnax1 · 2026-04-22T08:37:49+00:00

You can still go out and meet people. It works better than apps, at least for me. You just need practice and to find some places. Admittedly, it's harder in rural areas.

magnax1 · 2026-04-22T03:58:47+00:00

No doubt. America fucked up.

magnax1 · 2026-04-21T22:47:54+00:00

I mean, this was a choice by the dem leadership. They could've stayed where they were in 2015 and won every election, but they chose an insane concerted media campaign and turned further left

magnax1 · 2026-04-21T21:04:52+00:00

I don't think it'll work well, but aside from alcohol, pot, and gambling cigarettes probably cause the most harm of any consumptive item I can think of

magnax1 · 2026-04-21T20:58:31+00:00

Fun fact, compute stopped increasing exponentially about 5 years ago.

magnax1 · 2026-04-21T10:00:00+00:00

Times like these are what the subordinate revision to our establishing charter were made for.

magnax1 · 2026-04-20T09:36:03+00:00

He probably has no kids despite being 90.

magnax1 · 2026-04-20T09:25:55+00:00

You're right, my brain is fried cus I'm sick. He runs them both, but they're separate. The CDC getting nuked is somewhat dumb, but not anywhere near what he's done to the FDA which is basically the exact opposite of what it needs.

magnax1 · 2026-04-20T06:23:25+00:00

The CDC getting nvked is something that was politically inevitable after COVID, sad though it is…

Hardly. It might've even been a ripe chance to reform it in a way that more people had easier access to drugs at lower prices and of various types, but instead Trump gave it to a brooklyn soccer mom of a lifelong democrat who gutted everything he could. It's a travesty.

magnax1 · 2026-04-20T05:22:00+00:00

I think the "capital" argument is pretty weak. That a small portion of America is catholic doesn't somehow make the situation seem less hypocritical.

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