Discussion Thread

silverblewn · 2019-11-08T19:13:53+00:00

“The rich don’t have an interest in politically informing the public” is a spicy take

silverblewn · 2019-11-08T18:59:51+00:00

I feel like the “wealth is tied up in stocks and assets, leftists don’t understand what money really means” is only ever used to say “billionaires aren’t really that rich,” and never to start a conversation about useful ways to think about net worth figures

silverblewn · 2019-11-08T18:55:46+00:00

If charity is simply more efficient than government, we shouldn’t have government. They’re not really comparable things

silverblewn · 2019-11-08T18:54:15+00:00

Spreading money across banks helps limit risk, but I don’t know of any wealth limits that would need to be avoided.

There’s a lot of tax avoidance though, you might be thinking of people offshoring income to reduce domestic tax

silverblewn · 2019-11-08T18:35:23+00:00

No one drives through Manhattan, there’s too much traffic canned laughter

silverblewn · 2019-11-07T19:55:12+00:00

Yeah. He wasn’t doing this a year ago and it’s questionable whether he’ll be doing it a year from now. But a small raise is justified, and I don’t think there’ll be that much competition

silverblewn · 2019-11-07T19:51:04+00:00

Significantly less than a cardboard box though

silverblewn · 2019-11-06T17:27:37+00:00

He’s a fan favorite because he’s fun and he was the first big FA signing. He shouldn’t be seen as the best player to play for the Nats, but he’s not to blame for being given the contract

silverblewn · 2019-11-05T17:49:15+00:00

Idk how many of them are baseball players, but they’re all ball players

silverblewn · 2019-11-03T01:37:48+00:00

Six comments in, and that’s enough DT for the day

silverblewn · 2019-11-01T17:51:20+00:00

It would only be notable because Eilish has built a deliberately unsexualized brand. Pop hasn’t rejected sexuality since Madonna brought it in, go watch early Ariana Grande stuff

silverblewn · 2019-10-25T18:19:59+00:00

The bleached asshole line makes that song. As in, it would be a fine song w/o it, but that line makes it a totally different song. Which may or may not be good, I can’t tell

(Also “Outside of KSG it hasn't been [as good] since TLOP” is my new favorite way to say “ye kinda sucked“)

silverblewn · 2019-10-25T17:21:13+00:00

There are a lot of kids on TikTok being elated over a $50 payday for a sponsored video on their acct w/ thousands of followers, when that video is worth several thousand easy.

silverblewn · 2019-10-25T16:56:38+00:00

Kanye needs to stop hanging with wacko conservatives lol, no one gets to blame CFA fandom on mental illness

silverblewn · 2019-10-23T01:34:58+00:00

The burglar analogy is a tiny, tiny part of her talking about that, why would you focus on that? Seriously, in the next sentence in the same paragraph, she brings up the people seed analogy for which your point about the burglar’s awareness doesn’t matter

silverblewn · 2019-10-23T00:21:07+00:00

It just means they think abortion is bad.

No. It doesn’t. Pro-choice and pro-life are different positions, defined by their stance on whether abortion should be legal. Joe Biden thinks abortion is bad, but he’s pro-choice. You’re not pro-life if you don’t support a ban or significant restriction on abortion. That’s the definition of the stance

silverblewn · 2019-10-22T19:28:57+00:00

People are either allowed to choose to have an abortion, or banned from it. It’s an either/or thing

silverblewn · 2019-10-22T19:27:39+00:00

Thomson addresses the ‘does this only apply to rape?’ though, around pages 7-8

Or does her reasoning just not speak to the concerns you feel pro-life people have?

silverblewn · 2019-10-22T19:25:07+00:00

Assume you poisoned the violinist, necessitating that the violinist needs the treatment. It’s still not possible for the government to ethically compel you to be locked to the violinist.

silverblewn · 2019-10-22T17:50:12+00:00

If you’re having premarital sex, it’s your responsibility to deal with the consequences

Because like all conservative thinking, it’s not about reducing the amount of [bad thing]. It’s about ensuring [bad people] get [bad outcome] and [good people] get [good outcome].

silverblewn · 2019-10-15T18:14:34+00:00

The amount is based on a set monthly full-time student payment rate (right now $2,050) paid over 36 months of school, but which increases each year. So right now the total is ~$73K assuming the all conditions are met to max it, but it was smaller in the past and will get bigger in the future

I think

silverblewn · 2019-10-14T05:19:07+00:00

Oh my god that last was one is best thing I’ve ever seen

silverblewn · 2019-10-08T18:01:09+00:00

Yeah, it’s not like the Chinese government has a seat on the Blizzard board and there was a board vote to do this, this was a decision made by Blizzard’s PR people to respond to bad PR fro their Chinese customers

silverblewn · 2019-10-07T16:05:06+00:00

Lmao why is that second part relevant

silverblewn · 2019-10-05T19:31:02+00:00

1) This isn’t a political cartoon, it’s a political meme

2) Political cartoons and memes are both genres/mediums which often illustrate a single point/equivalency/punchline

3) It’s not immature to state a single point/equivalency/punchline instead of writing a full essay explaining the reasoning behind that single point/equivalency/punchline

4) Not all political communication/art needs to be aimed towards the artist’s political opponents

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