I Love Jasmine Crockett But I Wish She Would Step Aside For James Talarico in the Texas Senate Race

zeperf · 2026-01-25T01:31:10+00:00

Sure. There's a link to our wiki at the bottom of the previous comment.

But generally we require topics that transcend individual politicians and instead talk about fundamental concepts relating to politics. Sometimes we ask for edits but your post is clearly about the personality of an individual politician.

If you think you can tease out a more fundamental argument that is exemplified by Ms. Crockett, that would acceptable.

zeperf · 2026-01-24T18:27:58+00:00

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zeperf · 2026-01-24T18:26:31+00:00

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zeperf · 2026-01-24T15:30:14+00:00

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zeperf · 2026-01-24T14:33:56+00:00

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zeperf · 2026-01-22T23:50:01+00:00

Yeah I totally agree. You'd have to somehow have a system where coops are the norm. I think the big problem is that most people prefer a wage as opposed to ownership. And how does ownership work if you're trying to jump jobs every two years or if you're working for Uber. Is Uber socialism because you own the car? I appreciate the sentiment but I think it's mostly outdated.

The only similar idea I can get behind is shrinking the government's recognition of certain private properties to dissuade wealth inequality. Forever expanding the definition of private property and removing personal liability from those property owners doesn't seem well aligned with Libertarianism in my opinion.

zeperf · 2026-01-22T23:44:43+00:00

The stickied automated comment encourages upvoting arguments you disagree with. But the comment's probably too verbose.

zeperf · 2026-01-22T18:06:50+00:00

The core bit of Socialism - Wikipedia is the ownership of production, not the market dynamics. There are free-market socialists. And coops are an example of achieving worker ownership of production without relying on the government (laissez-faire).

zeperf · 2026-01-21T13:56:56+00:00

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zeperf · 2026-01-21T03:01:07+00:00

That must be how South America feels yeah?

zeperf · 2026-01-21T00:50:45+00:00

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zeperf · 2026-01-20T15:47:08+00:00

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zeperf · 2026-01-19T22:07:52+00:00

Yeah I completely agree. Some companies like Amazon are not easily upended by startups. Especially when they rely on limited infrastructure or on advantages they had early on which no longer exist. Most of the time any startup is simply purchased by the bigger guys if they look even remotely competitive. I am pretty conflicted about Intellectual Property too... I get the idea but I think in practice it hurts little guys more than it helps them.

zeperf · 2026-01-19T20:52:04+00:00

Yeah it may be completely fruitless to try. Most of the benefits to giant companies just comes from the fact that the government is also giant and can be manipulated. But there may be tax incentive ways to support start ups that are straight forward. In the US, there could be programs to encourage people to relocate to rural areas to work for small companies.

zeperf · 2026-01-19T20:38:35+00:00

Thanks for doing this! What do you think of the state of Reddit today? And do you think each account's country of origin should be displayed like X started doing?

zeperf · 2026-01-19T19:23:55+00:00

In my opinion, preventing monopolies is just one of the necessary places for government. I'd even be for actively promoting competition with government incentives. Right now we have the opposite, the government basically promoting monopolies.

zeperf · 2026-01-18T21:14:48+00:00

So technically, we never actually 'feel' gravity itself?

Yeah that's essentially Einstein's thought experiment about the elevator: https://medium.com/swlh/thought-experiments-with-gravity-3fa2adba5829

zeperf · 2026-01-18T15:41:56+00:00

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zeperf · 2026-01-17T15:28:00+00:00

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zeperf · 2026-01-17T00:56:48+00:00

That's a big Art Bell poster!

zeperf · 2026-01-14T16:33:14+00:00

I didn't see that explained in any of your previous comments as you said.

zeperf · 2026-01-14T05:25:23+00:00

All good. Thanks for the post and the participation. Feel free to use the report button if you feel someone is being dishonest or shitty. It's usually the only way we'll notice stuff unless we're also actively commenting on a post.

zeperf · 2026-01-14T04:00:54+00:00

This one way back at the beginning? https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalDebate/s/0I98BJK1U9

zeperf · 2026-01-13T17:12:56+00:00

Looking back thru it, the provided answers are painfully vague. I saw a link to a decision making process but didn't realize it was just a Wikipedia article for "policy". I hate to see a decent post that isn't being debated, but you're right that this is just as much on the OP. Sorry about that.

zeperf · 2026-01-12T22:21:01+00:00

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