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/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!

  • There are degrees of sickness, right? An asshole business owner who feels entitled to run red lights and speed because they're white and have a nice car and know the police chief's son probably doesn't need life imprisonment or execution.

    I mean, I wouldn't really be too upset if they were, but it just seems wasteful.

    On the other end, people in the Epstein files might need to be hospitalized for more than a single human lifetime.

  • I'm so glad he got to live long enough to see his reputation ruined.

  • The "monster" framing precludes the idea that they even can be rehabilitated. Monsters don't get healing, they just need to be put away or put down. That's still an improvement over letting them run rampant, but it's a waste.

  • So what if it is?

    It doesn't change the fact that they need to be involuntarily committed for rehabilitation and have their assets seized. For their health.

  • We briefly experimented with the idea during Reconstruction and then quickly got rid of it.

  • skill issue

  • You just haven't gotten a toaster that requires you to register your account over a continuous internet connection.

  • A start.

  • Eugenics is the policy proscription for dysgenics, which is what Idiocracy is about.

  • I think if he was 20 years younger, absolutely.

    I expect him to at least be bed ridden by 2028, if he even lives that long.

  • We don't have to consider capitalism to have some kind of doctrine Orthodoxy, as if Adam Smith was a prophet and that deviations from liberalism aren't capitalist. It's still capitalism even if it isn't what Adam Smith envisioned.

    Billionaires believe in capitalism, even if they don't believe in liberalism.

  • Liberalism is the capitalist part within democracy.

  • Adam Smith didn't invent capitalism. It's not a philosophy, it was an economic system that emerged from certain material relations. Liberalism, and fascism, are just two of the ideological frameworks that can reproduce capitalism's material base and both of which emerge from the material base of capitalism.

  • I think you're conflating liberalism with capitalism, which isn't really accurate.

    Capitalism can exist without liberalism, and this does lead into fascism, but that's still capitalism.

  • Naw that's just rent in LA.

  • On the other hand, she dodged a bullet.

  • I was told that royal families are all ceremonial and that they don't have any real power, but we keep finding them embroiled with people who have real power.

    Really makes you think.

  • We're actually too far North, so there's no moisture for a good snow. It's just been flurries and deep freeze. Sucks.

  • Bad food restaurants are failing.

    Billions must die.

  • And it'll happen to youuuuuu!