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  99. +Santiago Bron don't come here pretending to know shit when you're completely wrong. During WWI the advancement in weapons technology and the lack of mobility/combined arms tactics forced combat into trenches. The Germans came up with infiltration tactics and trained men called "stosstruppen"/"sturmtruppen" to attack the trenches. During WWII warfare became more mobile and the military realized most soldiers can't hit past 300 yards so they came up with a weaker rifle, the lighter ammunition allowed soldiers to carry more of it and upon trials they figured soldiers equipped with the new rifle were faster at advancing because they could suppress the enemy while the machine gun is down (reloading, being moved or having the barrel changed). They named it "Sturmgewehr" for propaganda purposes. Soldiers were expected to conduct assaults with bolt action rifles, pistols and bayonets if they had to and in the past soldiers conducted assaults with muzzle loaders, lever action rifles and revolvers. Assaulting is an action, not a feature. Although it fits the technical definition for an assault rifle the military doesn't call M16s assault rifles. They are "Rifle, Caliber 5.56 mm, M16" because they aren't used for specifically "assaults" but as general purpose service rifles. If you paid attention so far, you'll also realize that they're not "long distance" weapons - older rifles fired more powerful ammunition to be used at longer ranges. "try the same thing with a pistol let's see how many people you can hit" You do realize that before the Vegas shooter, the deadliest shooting in the US was committed with two pistols? 34 dead in Virginia Tech.
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  181. @Hans "That's what i actually said, it CAN be enforced" - the fact that it can means you have no actual right to live. You can be dispatched anytime. "And i never said so." - then relocating someone does not equal slavery. "Slavery means forcing someone to do something." - "Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property.[1] A slave is unable to withdraw unilaterally from such an arrangement and works without remuneration." making someone leave your property doesn't mean you own them. Someone being evicted could have withdrawn unilaterally by not trespassing in the first place. It's not slavery, no matter which half baked definition you come up with. "you have to enslave him, forcing him something to do, which is the definition of slavery." - except it fucking isn't. Parents can force children to go to school, it isn't slavery. If I take you by the ankles and force you to dip your head in the toilet I am forcing you to do something but at most that's a form of aggression, not slavery. If I force you to give me your lunch money it's not slavery. Hell, rape is forcing someone to do something, but there's a big difference between a rape and full-on sexual slavery. There's so many caveats to your definition it's essentially worthless. "And that definition does not change in situation XY." - IRONIC. How nice of you, you had your own arguments completely obliterated and you're unable to defend them without coming up with your own (incorrect) definitions so you claim I need to be lectured on logic. Priceless.
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  241. Boat >"These people do not join ISIS because of America" And where the fuck did I say they are joining solely because of America? What's your major malfunction? >"They are even recruiting Americans today" Americans who certainly love America, right? No, they're recruiting the disfranchised, those we were let down and those who would have no issue turning against America. Whenever America kills people, you're proving their wacko theories right. Their extremist leaders told them that the US murders people and you want the US to give them exactly what they want - recruitment material. >"despite us not being in Syria and out of Iraq" Oh, wow. 1. Syria is important because they don't want Assad and they hate people of his ethnic group but at the same time they do not want the Qatar funded rebels taking it. If the rebels take Syria, Europe will be able to buy natural gas from Qatar by pipeline through Turkey and stop giving money to Putin. The US has a vested interest in eliminating The US "is" in Syria because they tried to fund and arm "moderate" rebels and turns out they're fucking ISIS. Again, intervention. 2. The US has been in Iraq for almost a decade. I'm sure they still hold a grudge. >"pacifism" 0/10 Buy me gun and plane ticket and I'd gladly fight for Kurdistan. The problem is that a) the US has no legitimate right to invade Iraq or pretend to be the world's police; b) my own opinions about ISIS doesn't mean I have the right to force other people to go die in a foreign country; c) why are you so itchy about sending Americans to die? You wish for American youth to get killed. Why are you so anti-American?
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  334. @Friedrich "There is no way you could win a war against a organized standing army" - did you read the recently released Afghanistan Papers? You should. Did you remember what happened in Vietnam? Didn't they teach that shit in school? Organized standing armies can only fight organized standing armies. Against insurgencies they suck ass. "The police is not preventing every single crime and i never said so." - then you're being intellectually dishonest. You said police protected me. Now you're admitting that they can't. "However the police presence and the threat of the justice system itself prevents many crimes from happening" - You can't prove something that is not happening. And like I said, when the NYPD went on strike crimes actually dropped. "It is the police that prevents large groups of criminals from controlling the streets" - and yet: 1) criminals do control streets anyway 2) you've just replaced one type of criminal for another "What could happen if the state fails can be observed in Mexico" - lmao the irony is that cartels get their power from being able to control the police. When the people in Mexico got fed up they disarmed the cops and started fighting the cartels on their own. "And it is the military that is preventing other countries from invading the US and putting you into camps." - You mean camps like Guantanamo, that the US military runs? Motherfucker you think other countries could invade the US? The US couldn't take over Vietnam. They couldn't take over Afghanistan and are now trying to make peace with the Taliban so that they leave the TAPI pipelines alone. You think China could fight in the Appalachian mountains? You think the Russian army, which is so shitty that young soldiers are forced into prostitution to make money for their officers and where fit men spend half of their conscription service bedridden in hospitals due to pneumonia, is gonna survive the Rocky Mountains?
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  354.  @argon7479  I thought it was the opposite, the better the results in standardized testing the more funding you get. And I guess standardized testing scores correlate to graduation. Or, the better funded schools are in higher income districts, and kids being born from families with higher incomes means they have a higher chance to graduate (not saying they're smarter... just that they graduate). Everyone needs a degree? Even if you're a plumber. Most jobs require education. Okay. Do you need a business degree to manage a corner store? Wage is a reflection of how much demand there is for a service and how many people are willing to do it. If there's a shortage of welders, welders get paid more. Doesn't matter if they have a mechanical engineering degree or just went to trade school. If there's a shortage of plumbers you'll have to pay more for one. It's not about education. I can guarantee there's people using their business, marketing and programming degrees on their current job who are living in worse conditions than people in the trades. If you increase the speed limit you'll lose more money due to increased injury and fatality rates. It's a trade off. You also make it cheaper for business to operate by taxing less. Raising taxes on the rich doesn't work. France tried that and they failed miserably because the ultra wealthy simply moved out of France or stopped paying themselves a wage for a few years. Raising taxes on the rich simply makes it costlier to do business, which is contrary to your stated goal. Appealing to the majority is a fallacy. Many times the majority doesn't understand the issues.
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  361.  @georgethompson3763  No, it's not the only way and it's the worse way to do it. I don't care about hunting, there's more important reasons to have firearms. If you actually read the Second Amendment there is no requirement to participate in a militia. If you actually look it up the American law actually acknowledges the existence of the militia apart from the national guard, simply being all able bodied men of fighting age. Besides that, multiple states have laws that codify the state militia as all able bodied men of fighting age. Your study is mostly useless. Semi-automatic rifles do not kill more people, handguns do. Mass shootings are a small percentage of gun homicides, the vast majority committed with handguns. Your link is also so poorly written it just says attacks with semi-autos lead to increased hit rates. It doesn't differentiate between the actual shots taken. It calls out semi-automatic rifles but did not differentiate between pistols and rifles in the numbers. So if I go on a mass shooting with a pump-action shotgun and a semi-auto rifle and actually get more kills than average with the pump-action, will the study chalk it up as a "semi-auto" victory? Or a pump-action shotgun and a semi-automatic handgun, the shotgun being much more deadly, will it get chalked up as a "semi-auto" victory so that the article calls out semi-auto rifles? This whole argument is just a waste of time - banning semi-autos would make the US one of the strictest countries in the world when it comes to guns and they have a right to keep and bear arms you're telling me we Europeans would have better gun laws than the US despite not having a right to guns? Jeez. If you look it up the homicide resorting to blunt weapons/tools/bare hands actually outnumbers the rifle homicide stats. And that one includes ALL rifles, semi-auto or not. You're using the emotional argument of "children's lives". There are many things that kill more children than firearms. You don't actually care about children, just removing guns. Again, I don't care about hunting. "As a compromise" - a compromise means you give something back. Gun owners already gave into so many laws, what do they get in return? "Again, as I said, I'm totally against confiscation" - which is bullshit. There's like 10 million AR15s in civilian hands, it's cheaper to manufacture than even an AK these days because of all the tooling purchased to fulfill military contracts already being paid off, it's cheaper than competing models so it sells. And there's millions more of other semi-auto rifles. So if you're not for confiscation and you allow grandfathering of ARs you're still accepting more than a century's worth of mass shootings happening with the available weapons without new ones being purchased.
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  363.  @georgethompson3763  "No, since most mass shootings are done with newly-bought weapons" - you do realize a mass shooter buying a gun off someone else is a "newly-bought weapon", right? "bought their weapons years ago and are responsible" - that's still millions of people who might get fired from their job or divorced or whatever. "Ban any sale of AR-15s" - you mean semi-auto rifles. Why the hard on for the AR-15? You're gonna ban AKs, Mini-14s, etc too right? "including private sales" - bruh if you don't confiscate semi-auto rifles how you're going to prevent people from selling them privately, then? "prevent people under 21 from buying a firearm" - No. No. No. If people aren't responsible enough to own a gun until 21, then they can't vote until they're 21 nor join the military. Rights are rights. "ban high capacity magazines" - it's a fucking box with a spring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw0ZGVbyfpk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyYSqBA9BKw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGTriDDUpUk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2KCuymRLMk how the fuck do you ban a box with a spring? Hell you can just take smaller magazines and weld them together: http://www.defensereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Higher_Capacity_32-Round_and_45-Round_SR-25_and-M14-M1A_7.62mm_Rifle_Magazines_Company_Shot.jpg http://www.defensereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Higher_Capacity_55-Round_and_75-Round_AR-15_5.56mm_Rifle_Magazines_Company_Shot.jpg http://photobucket.com/gallery/http://s983.photobucket.com/user/44Echo10/media/Gun%20Stuff/AR/AK%20style%20magazine/62dgbix_zpsf21e5b3f.jpg.html This implying anyone would even need to manufacture their own magazines, because there's millions upon millions of them and they're all unaccounted for. There' no paperwork on magazines. "make training mandatory" - it would be taken down by the supreme court like requiring a civics exam before voting. It's meant to disqualify lower class people from exercising their rights. "have a national registration and universal background check" - you're thinking three steps ahead aren't you. Canada eliminated their long gun registry in 2012 because it was proven that it was a useless drain in resources. The only purpose of a registry is not having to allow grandfathering, simply checking on a list who owns what and sending them a letter saying they have 90 days to turn them in or SWAT will knock down the front door. "create a national tax on firearm sales" - again, using a tax to restrict a right by making it more expensive might be struck down by the supreme court "reinstate the so-called assault weapon ban. That should curb the number of deaths over time. " - no, it fucking wouldn't. Mexico and Brazil have much stricter gun laws than you described and they have much higher murder rates. In fact, in Brazil murder rates have risen since their anti-gun laws were passed. The assault weapons ban was proven ineffective because most homicide is not committed with assault weapons and because many manufacturers simply changed their guns to comply with the AWB. You literally have no evidence that what you said is going to happen will actually happen, and the US is much closer to a Latin American country than a European one so you can count on criminals still having guns and killing each other. Nearly anything you say is either flat out unconstitutional, impractical, unrealistic, or actually doesn't even make any fucking sense.
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  389. Justin Bayley It's still not democratic socialism. When you pool your resources (involuntarily) and you realize you can't share that pooled wealth with everyone who comes along you have to draw a line in the sand. That's why Bernie wants it to be rainbows and sunshine, but to even pretend that can work the US can't become the world's soup kitchen. It's for "us", but only "us". >"so how is it aggressive?" If any legal action is taken against someone who never committed aggression, that is a violation of their rights. Trying to stop a non-violent person from roaming the Earth is an act of aggression.  >"And I can be humanitarian and have a border." All a border is good for is to violate the rights of people who cross the imaginary line. Or in case of communist countries, the ones trying to leave. If you don't feel the need to bring anyone who comes through to the Law, you don't need a border. >"I can promote human wellbeing without having to give my wallet and sharing my house with someone who does not have one." It's your property. But do you own your country? >"I'm unclear what principle and result you're referring to" Either way you look it's because a) employment (or lack thereof) and b) drain on programs. Wording those beliefs in a different way doesn't make them better. >"Bernie just wants those who are here now illegally to have a path to citizenship which is quite literally a sort of amnesty" But what about those trying to cross "illegally"? >"That's humanitarian because it protects those who would otherwise be marginalized, and exploited, and abused (which is happening and it's abhorrent) and thus promoting human welfare" Strong words considering that in most cases they're better off in the US. It also wouldn't promote human welfare because by making them legal they'd be in equal footing with unemployed Americans. Now they'd be unemployed unless they consented to the same levels of exploitation as before.
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  394. JC545X39  >"If we would stop trying to impress the world and look good and justified" You guys haven't tried really hard. You do realize half of the world still thinks the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq should have been ruled as illegal, right? The US doesn't look good or justified and that's exactly why these wars have to stop. People around the world aren't exactly happy about a Nobel peace prize recipient drone striking innocent children. >"just go and do what needs to be done and go home, we wouldn't have this problem" You can't. Once you get involved is like stepping into quicksand. You kill a few people. Then what? ISIS grows back or a new splinter group is formed. You guys were in Iraq for almost a decade and look at what happened. If you spend a month in there and leave, you really think it's going to change and you won't have to go back again? >"The rest of the world is always going to hate us or dislike us because they are jealous, so we might as well stop trying to gain their approval with out spineless ROE." Dude. Stop living under a rock. We don't hate the US. The problem is that you guys send your young, your future, to get their legs blown off in a country they shouldn't be in the first place. We DON'T hate the US. We hate the fact that for every terrorist you guys kill with drones, 49 innocent civilians have to die. We're not jealous. We don't care about your ROE because no matter what you will kill civilians - and every civilian you kill leaves a dozen relatives who will want to join ISIS to avenge their deaths
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  395. JC545X39 I know what you mean. It's not going to work and it's definitely not a long term solution. Whatever you think you will "end" by going in and out will start happening the minute your boots leave that ground. >"Oh, and for the record, pretty much everybody here with half a backbone left and a couple of brain cells to rub together for friction just about died when they named that Joke a Nobel Peace Prize winner just for getting elected." I know. But the point is that you're missing the reasons people outside the US judge their military action abroad. It's not the ROEs. Independently of the ROE you will kill a shit ton of civilians. It's war, any country would shell innocent women and children. The point is, it's military action abroad. That's our problem. The way you do it is an argument for the hippies who actually care. Most people in Europe, etc have bigger problems in their lives. They can't bother to hate another country with the passion you describe. I just called you out because your speech seemed a little pathetic and borderline nationalist. It's like those people who think all of their detractors are "haters" and they're all like "hurr I love having haters". That's 7th grade shit. Boat >"Disenfranchised?" My god, you are just making up your own story now.  No, the Free Syrian Army is not ISIS. I was talking about homegrown terrorists in US soil. You know, that thing that just a few posts ago was terrifying you? How you managed to go from homegrown terrorists to convincing yourself that I was talking about the FSA even though I never mentioned them will forever remain a mystery. >"their goal is to end western civilization and replace it with an Islamic caliphate." And until they try we have no reason to intervene. Let them try. >"Therefore, we do have a legitimate right to go into Iraq and clean up the garbage." Me saying that I'm going to cut your neck and shit down your throat does not give you the right to break into my house and kill me. I'd have to confront you with a knife for my threat to become credible. >"Assad would probably even love for us to go into Syria too if we have to." No, because Assad is on Putin's side. If the US enters Syria, Qatar will be able to complete their pipeline and Europe won't need Putin's natural gas. >"All my active, reserved, and even discharged friends all have said they'd more than happily go back to take these bastards out." Then why haven't they bought a plane ticket and gone? Oh wait, because it's better to send others. Look, I also know plenty of people in the military, not just in my country but also in the US. Basic is designed to give you morning wood for combat. Even if you're a POG. If you didn't get it, morning wood is caused by a filled bladder and not arousal. Those kids don't know what combat is, so obviously they're willing to take part in it. Even though 22 veterans kill themselves every day, which clearly shows how good it is to send people into foreign countries to fight. Heck, there's probably people willing to sell themsleves into slavery. If you think it's your patriotic duty, I don't think it's immoral to go. I think it's immoral for a GOVERNMENT to have some old people making deadly decisions, charging the taxpayer to do it and then sit on their comfortable chairs because they know they'll never have to fight that war. >"maybe even worse considering Dems and Repubs agree on attacking ISIS Maybe because Dems and Repubs are both shitstains. Do you think the Founding Fathers would have approved of the current state of affairs? Political parties controlling public opinion, foreign intervention? >"When ISIS does toss an airliner into a skyscraper or drops a dirty bomb in the middle of a shopping mall, I want you to think long and hard about your defending their sorry asses." You know that dirty bombs are ridiculously easy to clean, right? Thanks for proving you've been brainwashed into fearing something that can't kill more than a regular bomb. Wasn't the biggest bomb massacre in the US caused by a "patriot" in a militia? I won't think long about it. It was you guys who funded and trained the "moderate" rebels who would then become ISIS. It will be the US government with innocent blood on their hands. In fact, you're probably itching for that blood to be spilled because it would justify the invasion.
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  408. Ike Evans Thanks for misinterpreting my argument. Of course I support carry rights and the right to protect yourself. But does an intruder have the right to carry arms in (say) your home? Does he have the right to defend himself if you try to stop him? By going abroad, you're the outsider. You don't have the right to defend yourself in other's land. >"Because of the military, conflict will be less likely, not more" Except both contemporary and historical evidence say the opposite. You can't apply "good guy with a gun" logic to a situation of military intervention. Military intervention leads to conflict. The longer the US stayed in Afghanistan, the more people were willing to join the Taliban. Heck, Afghanistan asked for the Soviet Union to intervene and pacify the country. What happened? Rebellion. Then the US supported the Mujaheddin against the Soviets. More outside intervention - what did it lead to? Civil war. What did American and Pakistan intelligence do to stop it? Create the Taliban and send them to rule Afghanistan. Do you understand that for every action there is a reaction? By sending the military, even with the approval of local governments, you are automatically picking the government side, It just may happen that people don't like it. Even if conflict doesn't happen initially at one point the military will leave and then what? >"Meanwhile the doctors can get around to not only saving the lives of thousands of people in Africa" You can only be healed if you consent. Thanks to the bastards who spread around rumours that white people created Ebola and other beliefs stemming from religion or tribal traditions, more lives will be saved by allowing the people from Africa to provide security and everything else is needed to get the people who do consent to be treated away from those who don't. The more outsiders we send there, the more it becomes neo-colonialism and the harder it becomes for treatments to be administered. >"but also preventing a further outbreak that could pose a threat to our own national security later on" Or we could be sending American citizens to be unnecessarily killed or infected and start an actual outbreak on US soil. Didn't the origins of Libertarianism make it pretty clear that getting involved in other countries' bullshit is wrong and costly?
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  409. Ike Evans >"First, we are not invading thses countries. We are there with the permission of the existing governments of those regions." 1. Like the locals give a damn. Would you enjoy the Chinese or the UN being all up in your shit at the invitation of the US government? 2. Again, their governments are not to be trusted and for all we know pre-deployment, it's possible for military presence to cause a rift between government and populace. Are you on the side of the people or the side of the government? 3. It will still be the US taxpayer footing the bill. >"Second, the military doesn't always lead to more violence, especially when the mission is peace keeping in nature. " Afghanistan and Iraq are really peaceful now. >"He said, "the military showed up and everyone stopped fighting."" Because the fighting had already started. If you arrive at a tense but peaceful situation with a foreign military force you release the tension into violence. The Balkan situation was a far cry from an African Ebola outbreak. >"My point is that after the invasion was complete, whatever measures of peace was attained was the result of the us military presence, no despite it" Except there wasn't real peace. Were insurgent/taliban activities suppressed during the invasions in the middle east? Sure. Did it cause the number of people willing to join to drop? No. Did it prevent them from simply rolling back and gaining the control they were losing? No. Which leads me to the next point: >"nothing is happening" Hindsight is 20/20. It could have just as well resulted in a shitstorm and for all we know the US might be using this as a bargain tool for African resources (not necessarily for the US but as favours for other countries) or strengthening America's foothold in the continent. What if it causes a shitstorm when the US leaves? Maybe not getting involved was the best option to begin with. >"We have our guys over there providing security for the doctors while they save lives" Africa has soldiers and guns, you know? Why does it have to be the Americans? If the doctors need protection, does it mean the doctors are wanted there? This neo-colonialism thing got old really fast.
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  419. the500mphtortoise >"(ie you wouldn't use that argument to not provide an air force)" Debatable. Private airliner companies provide us with constantly flying jets. Baby steps. I know fully well that I'm not going to live in a perfectly just society because I'd never live that long. Not even this generation's children will be able to live free from being forced to pay for stuff they aren't using. >"government healthcare has the potential to reduce costs by being able to bargain down pharmaceutical companies" But the people in the government are there because they received campaign donations. Even if they didn't, they are often promised positions in the board of some company. If the guy bargaining with the pharmaceutical company is in debt to that company or is promised a job there, you're going to pay more than you would at market value. Look, the government is more than free to start up their own healthcare service and provide it to whoever wants it. Those people pay for it. Just like those who don't have netflix shouldn't have to be obligated to pay for netflix. Look, let's assume that nobody is the government was in bed with the company. In their eyes, they are not forced to make a profit because they can always steal our money from us. Why would you focus on quality or cost efficiency if you're buying something for someone else you don't care about, and you're not using your own money? The US government dug itself into 17 trillion of debt assuming you'd be there to pay for it. Why do you think healthcare would be any different?
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  423. ben borg The shooter from Sandy Hook killed his own mother to gain access to firearms that were secured. Sure, he did have his own gun and used it to kill his mother, but he could have killed his own mother some other way. It was an unfortunate situation because the kid manipulated his mother and she was only trying to bond with her son by taking him to the range. You're wrong because alcohol is related to a) car crashes; b) arguments, which is a common source of homicides; and c) tearing families apart, which not only leads to youth criminality but also domestic violence and even partner homicide between couples. These are three reasons out of the top of my head for why alcohol influences more than just the individual. In fact, the reason mental illness doesn't correlate to violence is because substance abuse is factored out. If you ignore alcohol and drugs as a factor, then mentally ill people tend to be violent - mentally ill people are especially vulnerable to alcohol. My point was also that certain items can't be controlled. I mean, stills, plantations and RVs used to cook meth leave evidence behind and occasionally have fires/blow up so they end up getting caught, but a gun is just metal. Any machine shop in the country can manufacture guns, no need to bring anything from Mexico or deal with drug sniffing dogs. Metal is virtually untraceable. Again, even extreme cases of schizophrenia do not correlate with violence if you factor out substance abuse. Mix schizophrenia with alcohol or drugs and you get someone who can be unstable and become violent.
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  425. ben borg >"Urm robbers don't usaully kill their victims" Actually in the US some robbers started raping their victims because they'd feel embarrassed reporting the robbery. But either way, who said anything about a robbery? Criminals who want just to steal stuff break into your house during the day while you're at work and there's less neighbours. Many times home invaders attack people they know to have money, so they can ask for safe combinations or take them to their place of business to open safes while holding the family hostage. They're home invaders, they are a danger to anyone inside the house, not mere burglars. >"40 minute wait time where?" A ton of people live outside cities in the US. >"first needs to actually get in wothout waking up teh whole neighbourhood" It's better to just break in. If you're looking for stealing property it's better to plan a faster robbery that gets you out of the scene than spend more time in the area than you need, even if it's noisy. If you watch CCTV of robberies you often see them using crowbars on window frames. >"comes in needs to find the valuables at least 5 mins then needs to grab it and leave  thats at least 15-20 mins." 5 minutes to find the valuables? So you mean that criminals, knowing that cops arrive in 4 minutes or whatever, simply walk around the house for 5 minutes? Anyone who takes that long is already in jail. The criminals who aren't in jail are the ones who haven't been caught yet, so clearly they are faster than the response time. And where do those 15-20 minutes come from? You can't count time before the actual entry. If it's a silent entry you can't predict you're going to be robbed, you're bullshitting by adding time. You enter a house, take the TV, console and laptop and get in a car.
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  451.  @KAZVorpal  1. First of all, at least get it right. They had the constitutional power to remove him from office because by fleeing the country, Yanukovych made himself unfit for duty. This allowed the parliament to not have to go through the impeachment procedure. Your boy lost his seat, dawg. He's a ballot stuffer and voter intimidator. He arrested his political enemies. Why are you simping for him? 2. Several regions heavily populated by ethnic Russians did not join the fighting. Being pissed at the government doesn't have anything to do with Russian weapons and servicemen being used to fight a hybrid war. If you're pissed at Joe Biden does that give you the right to just let the Mexican army into the US? No sane person would be FOR warring resolutions that eventually lead to almost 300 people unrelated to the conflict being killed by a Russian Buk launcher. 4. They lost the elections, dawg. The "population" were Russian soldiers that when caught, the Russian government claimed they had accidently crossed the border. They had a sham election where they lost on purpose just so you could lose an argument 8 years later on the internet? Nobody was attacked for wanting to secede. Armed forces of an enemy country and its sympathizers were attacked. Get it right. Russia is like an abusive husband for Ukraine leaving him in the 90s. The tally is correct according to UN numbers. Want to question it? Go there and prove it Don't just say "it's higher". Meet the burden of proof. Hint: you can't. Simp.
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  469.  @mehrshadvr4  "Being a socialist doesn't mean you'll make the economy socialist" - Then why break your own principles? "just like how a Capitalist doesn't make every single thing privet" - that's a false equivalence. You can defend a market-based economy and a welfare state at the same time. But you cannot be for free market economies while defending the abolition of capitalism. That's contradictory. "Abolish of profit is how state run their programs" - Ahahaha that has to be the best sleight of hand I've ever seen in an internet argument. No. Abolition of profit is literally arresting anyone attempting to be a "business owner" and trying to take for himself the ownership of something that should be communal. It has fuck all to do with state programs. If you're not willing to line up factory owners against the wall and gun them down for betraying the socialist cause, then you're not abolishing shit. "Every rational person knows a mix economy is the best" - the worst of both worlds. The privatization of profits and the socialization of costs. Socialism for the rich, and rugged individualism for the poor. You attempt to get the benefits of the free market and ruin it all with overburdening taxation and bureaucracy. "Also no, the Europe doesn't have center right as leftist" - YOU CAN LITERALLY SEE THEM ON THE CENTER RIGHT IN POLITICAL COMPASSES "That's why they pass free trades, ACA as "socialist healthcare"" - did you just fucking say ACA was free trade? When it banned inter state competition and forced the elimination of plans that didn't meet up to the standards? It was a massive restriction on the market designed to benefit the industry. Not a free trade bill.
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  545.  @Dasper12  Someone just decided to check up on a 3 week old thread and upvote the """"libertarian"""" virtue signaling for UBI. "The government has the right to tax" - Not an argument. The government also says the police are not required to protect you. Just because it's the law doesn't mean it's right or even consistent. "So libertarian answer is being Libertarian as in Individualism; not anarchist." - This doesn't even make sense. What's the individualist part about a literal welfare state? "Any laws that can be applied with ubiquity to all individuals equally is the most libertarian answer" - No? A law saying that the president had the right to sleep with everyone's wife is equal. But it's not libertarian. Violating rights equally isn't libertarian. "Any consumable good or service will always have the potential to be purchased exponentially more than a static product" - So how do you address the inherent inequality without creating an unequal UBI law? "someone will have significantly more transactions for gas, electricity, restaurants, etc than, say, vacuums or a laptop" - So? You don't cook twice the food on the stove. You don't leave twice the lights on. You don't eat for two at restaurants. But you might buy twice the amount of shirts, a laptop every year instead of once every two years, etc. Your utility companies will be paying a tax, and that money will be injected into other sectors. It's completely unfair. "replace tax credits and bureaucratic and costly social programs." - Yeah, you're not getting rid of those so this is all moot.
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  646.  @ilovecoffee7623  I'm not talking about value. I am saying that if in the late 90's I told you some random Swedish guy could draw a bigger audience than CNN you'd have thought I was insane. Right now it seems impossible for people to ever leave YouTube. Just like it probably seemed impossible to leave MySpace at one point. "trasnsparency is the key" - and google holds all the cards. The more they assure us that they're not spying the more I think they are lying to be because Google has been caught lying multiple times about the data they store and to this day they are still using "dark patterns" to keep tabs on you even after you asked for them to stop. "would ease their fears and hysteria" - too late. Have you noticed how YouTube runs their business? People need Patreon, sponsorships and merch sales to get a return on their channel because YouTube is pretty much taking the ad revenue for itself at this point - the review process to get monetization is so long people get most of the views on a video before it receives monetization status. The false copyright striking and reporting is rampant, the strikes system does not give you time to correct what you are doing, you could receive 3 strikes in a row from videos you uploaded a year ago in the same afternoon. They just recently deleted all the annotations which means that tons of videos that needed the annotations to update/correct information will stay up. This place is terrible for content creators and the only reason people aren't leaving in a mass exodus is the fact that YouTube is a "homepage" for videos so that's where the audience is.
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  647.  @ilovecoffee7623  the problem is that they may have actually tanked their chances of making money off YouTube by pissing off the content creators who actually draw an audience, the same audience that can't stand the corporate bullshit that they showcased on Rewind. >"the general population is at large liberal oriented" The YouTube community isn't the "general population" and this is a huge problem. The general population watches fail videos and looks up tutorials, music videos, whatever and then go do something else. In fact they can spend hours on youtube but not even leave a marker of engagement. The freaking "formula" for the past 2-3 years has been 10-13 min videos that "normies", so to speak, won't have the patience to watch. Why? Because a content creator proving to the algorithm that he creates content that engages people for that long is a pretty good marking of quality but at the same time it's difficult to peddle 15 minute videos about the history of LED printers or some other hyperfocused topic to the general population. >"they do not want to see what they consider to be ''hateful'' content, so YouTube is acting on that" And they're massively failing at that. Not only have they actually hit left-oriented channels too, but apolitical channels as well. Unless YouTube is planning to make all their money from music videos and makeup tutorials, driving off a massive community is completely unprofitable. >"anti-Bulgarian videos" I wasn't even aware there was such a "side" of YouTube. >"don't even get the started of Wikipedia" I have heard of some controversies, are you talking about editing wars where people kept taking down information?
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  676.  @ponraul1221  "You just skipped the important second half of his statement where he focuses on personal responsibility." - because it doesn't contradict anything I said. "Again, claiming he supports anarchy based on this statement is really stretching and misrepresenting what he means, which is that he supports personal responsibility" - holy shit you can't admit Ron Paul ever entertained the idea of anarchism so you're resorting to focus on everything else Paul said except what matters. Taking responsibility for yourself contradicts the leftist definition of anarchy so obviously Dr. Paul needs to add caveats. Just like he needs to say that you shouldn't go out and shoot government officials just because you want to be left alone. If he said "I think car racing is wonderful but people should drive responsibly and not infringe on others' rights" you'd be here telling me Ron Paul doesn't like racing, just driving responsibly. "You’re also putting words into my mouth claiming I said “noooo he meant the peaceful part.”" - YOU'RE LITERALLY DOING IT RIGHT NOW, NOOOO HE DOESN'T SAY ANARCHY IS A GOOD IDEA HE'S SAYING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY IS A GOOD IDEA holy shit man "This is all ignoring the fact you are claiming he supports anarchy" - I didn't say that, I said he thinks anarchy is a great idea You know what Paul also said in that same video clip? That socialists getting together and voluntarily living in socialism would be permissible and a good thing to have in a libertarian society. But that doesn't make him a socialist. I mean, in the video you have a perfect example of someone capable of entertaining thoughts without agreeing with them and you STILL don't get that Ron Paul is friendly to ideologies that aren't his own.
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  678.  @ponraul1221  ”I think I know that doesn’t make me a socialist. I also am very sympathetic to anarchists and share many values with them, and I think I know I’m not an anarchist. ” - so essentially you are now saying what I've been saying across multiple posts. I'm glad that you've essentially refused to read and had to make the connection by yourself. ”I’m still arguing about your original main comment” - Joke - Q: you know the difference between a libertarian and an anarchist? A: about six months Hopefully it's clear as mud because it couldn't get any clearer than my first post. ”When someone says something is a good thing or a great idea I think it’s logical to conclude that they support it; but apparently you don’t. In fact I think it’s quite impossible to consciously not support something if you think it’s good thing or a great idea.” - so after saying that, what do you think about Dr. Paul saying he thinks anarchy is a great idea? I want you to expand on that. ”if someone says they support anarchy and turned thousands (maybe millions) of people into anarchists (like you have claimed Ron Paul does/did) I think it’s reasonable and logical to conclude that they are an anarchist” - that makes no fucking sense lol Ron Paul turned people into anarchists because many libertarians caught a glimpse of reality and saw how libertarianism was sabotaged. If you have the best man and you send him out to play the game and you see the referees screwing him over you'll become dissatisfied. I'm going to play it from the other side. Would you disagree that Bernie Sander's campaign sabotage (and him selling out and kissing the Clinton ring) took many Democratic Socialists and made them turn to Communism because they realized that Democratic Socialists will always be sabotaged by liberals? But if you ask Sanders about Communism he'll start mumbling about Scandinavia. He won't even dare to say he thinks Communism is a great idea but I have no fucking doubt a lot of the Antifa chucklefucks are butthurt Berniebros. The fact that you can't even concieve how a person's actions might create introspection and lead his followers to dwelve deeper into the theory and realize they were too optimistic makes your response sound childish. You'd rather ignore REAL human responses to events and pretend the world is linear just for the sake of clicking Post Comment instead of thinking about the subject and having an actual conversation.
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  679.  @ponraul1221  "but it isn't true for the vast majority of people getting into libertarianism" - because it's a joke. If you found it funny it's because you see why my original comment has validity. Most of the people I've been with in the journey into libertarianism simply got more and more fed up. Ron Paul was sabotaged, Gary Johnson turned out to be an absolute buffoon. "Dr. Paul never said he thinks anarchy is a great idea" - Except that he did. "he said the idea of anarchists peacefully exercising personal responsibility is great" - Again, if Ron Paul said car racing was great, but you shouldn't be street racing near schools or behaving recklessly, being a threat to people, you'd be here saying he never said racing was great, it's all the personal responsibility he thinks is great. "isn't an argument and pure condescension" - you're the condescending one. You literally went "nah this thing totally doesn't happen" when it does. "that doesn't make them have the responsibility of that outcome" - I simply stated that Rand Paul has the uphill battle of trying to appeal to normies but also the people who supported his father. When people saw how the political process screwed with Ron Paul you don't mellow out and drive towards the center, you get outraged and become even more against the government. You trying to make this about "responsibility" has fuck all to do with the initial statement - Ron Paul was a major influence to many people and Rand doesn't want to carry the torch. Which is fine, but like I said is an uphill battle. "Your argument is akin to a kindergarten teacher who taught Einstein to add 2+2=4 claiming she was the reason he came up with the General Theory of Relativity." - no, my argument is more akin to seeing your kindergarten teacher getting absolutely screwed over by the school board over some bullshit and you vow to homeschool your kids because of what you've witnessed. "I put the responsibility upon communists advocating communism" - but if those people had never been Bernie supporters, and never got to witness how the DNC screwed him over and still managed to make him bend the knee, they could have been basic-bitch liberals. Again, I'm not pinning Bernie with the bill for the burnt cars and broken windows. Just stating cause-and-effect. "you're the one ignoring REAL human responses to events and pretend the world is linear" - except I'm the one using nuance while you flat out say "that doesn't happen lol" but okay
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  682. "what is the appropriate use for controlled substances?" That is circular reasoning. You're already justifying them needing an appropriate use by claiming they're controlled. "But outside of those circumstances, they are more likely to cause dramatic short and long term harm" legal prescription drugs are literally responsible for more addiction and overdoses than illegal drugs. So within those circumstances they're actually more likely to cause harm. You ever saw "do not operate heavy machinery" in a drug's label? You are now aware that an alarming number of Americans pop those pills like candy on a daily basis and you share the road with them. Cars are "heavy machinery". And now you know. [skip] "you are not just playing Russian roulette with yourself, but with everyone else as well" look I'm going to explain it to you one more time. You want 1) drugs to be controlled because 2) someone might take them and 3) that someone might endanger someone else. Number 3) is a crime. Doing something about the person tossing firecrackers into people's hands is the same as arresting a drunk driver or a high drivers. However, you also want to criminalize lighting firecrackers without harming nobody, and getting drunk at a bar/home without harming nobody - not just that, but you want the sale of firecrackers and liquor banned as well. You want to make several non-victimizing behaviours into a crime because POSSIBLY, those actions could MAYBE result in a crime. Hi, we're libertarians. Maybe you've confused us for liberals or tradnats or something, but this is probably not the place for you because we don't want our beliefs getting banned because people like you pop a vessel in their brain when confronted with our way of thinking.
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  725.  @matttaylor6500  "Comparing 3rd world countries to the US is a little far fetched." - take a look at San Francisco requiring poop patrols to clean up the literal shit and needles left in the streets. Look at Flint, MA where the corrupt government was telling people the brown water filled with rust and lead was safe to drink. You think it's far fetched? "Canada has reasonable gun restrictions" - no, they don't. You can own a Vz.58 but AKs are on the Prohibited class and very difficult to own and shoot recreationally. Also, maybe this has been changed but rifles have 5 round limits, however you could buy magazines for a .50 Beowulf AR pistol, which can hold 10 rounds. The .50 Beowulf caliber was designed to fit inside AR magazines so you can get that magazine and fill with with almost 30 rounds. The RCMP are a bunch of crybabies who constantly wake up butthurt from the fact that Canadians can own guns (GASP!) and they throw temper tantrums by reclassifying legal weapons as Prohibited and sending letters to gun owners telling them to turn them in. They have a massive stick up their ass and getting out of bed in the morning must really sting so they take out their frustrations on LEGAL Canadian gun owners. "we didn't have 337 mass shootings last year" - the mass shooting tracker is a fucking joke. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/12/no-there-were-not-355-mass-shootings-this-year/ https://www.vox.com/2015/12/4/9849390/mass-shootings-count Even liberal outlets call out the mass shooting tracker claiming >300 mass shooting per year. "Australia banned guns after a mass shooting, no more mass shootings" - AUSTRALIA DID NOT BAN GUNS - THEY JUST PASSED AN UNGODLY AMOUNT OF RESTRICTIONS AND RIGHT AFTER THAT MONASH UNIVERSITY HAD A SHOOTING THAT ONLY LEFT 3 DEAD SO IT DOESN'T COUNT AS A MASS SHOOTING EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS AN ATTEMPT. AS A RESULT THEY HAD TO PASS EVEN MORE RESTRICTIONS, PROVING CLEARLY THAT THE POST-PORT ARTHUR LAWS WERE NOT THE CATALYST FOR MASS SHOOTING PREVENTION. It's also proof that as soon as the US passes more gun control ANOTHER tragedy will occur and you people will AGAIN force gun control down everyone's throat even though we already gave you what you wanted. Since the 2000's Australian gun owners essentially replaced the guns they gave up after Port Arthur and there' no major issues to report so clearly it's not the guns. Also New Zealand stopped having mass shootings in the 90's and they didn't pass gun control like in Australia.
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  737. ISIS got powerful because they took advantage of the US support of "moderate" rebels against Assad. Now the US is cleaning up the mess they created. "I don’t understand this argument that “we’ve been there 19 years” or “America’s longest war”. So what?! How is that an argument?!" - so you spent 2 weeks headbutting the wall and you still haven't breaches through the brick wall. Should you pack up and leave or keep headbutting? “If the Taliban fills the void again were we to leave, how long before another September 11th?“ - I know that this is probably the first time you've heard this but most hijackers in 9/11 were Saudis. They were not Taliban nor representing the nation of Afghanistan during the attack. The United States tracked Bin Laden's whereabouts and demanded the Taliban to surrender him, but Bin Laden had asked them for asylum first and the Taliban did not want to break their promise. After 7-8 days of bombing the Taliban eventually reconsidered and said they agreed to surrender Bin Laden to a neutral country but the US refused the deal and pressed with the invasion. Before 9/11 the US maintained open dialogue with the Taliban and now after almost 20 years of war the US has resumed negotiations. There's a pipeline to be built through Taliban controlled terrain and everyone wants a deal to make sure the Taliban will agree to not attack it. Because there's no chance the US will take over nor will the ANA manage to keep those installations under control. Now mind that it is thought that Bin Laden fled to Pakistan after the Battle of Tora Bora so suppressing the Taliban meant nothing. Bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan and was killed in Pakistan according to the official story.
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  742.  @OptimusJedi  "The end result is that the surge resolved the problem" - I'm baffled, because I only used the surge as an example of allegiances switching (and thus why people moving from the Taliban and Al Qaeda and vice versa isn't the big deal you seemed to imply it was). The problem being solved or not wasn't the topic at hand. "Therefore, having troops" - back the fuck up. The surge fixed the problems in Iraq in the same way that if you go out to buy a bunch of superglue you're gonna glue mom's fine china back together after you rode a skateboard in the living room. The change in policy fixed the US's mistakes, and most of the problems that were fixed were directly caused by US intervention. So saying "therefore, having troops" over there is the solution when sending the fucking troops was what caused the clusterfuck in the first place... That's circular logic. "I never said that they saw the light" - brother then stop saying they "realized" the US wasn't as bad. They didn't "realize" shit, they just got offered a better deal. "Bin Laden is dead as a result of the war in Afghanistan" - holy shit and the internet exists as a result of Hitler invading Poland. Gather round all the families of dead US soldiers and the maimed veterans and let's tell them - we sent them to a kerfuffle just to keep UBL hidden in Pakistan for like 10 years then shoot him. "Afghanistan is no longer under the yoke of the Taliban" - but the Afghan government only controls 30% of the country and the Taliban still control key areas which is why negotiations are necessary. "doesn’t have Al Qaeda terrorists running around the country" - that objective was completed essentially a decade ago as Al Qaeda presence in the entire country was estimated to be lower than 100 members and the Taliban severed their ties to them. What was 2009-2019 for, then? "So much so that our enemies have come to the table to talk" - You misunderstand their position. The war is massively unpopular at home. Where have you seen this before? Vietnam. They take the "loss", and then they win.
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  743.  @OptimusJedi  The issue is that I talked about the Surge as an example of why you can't be offended at people changing sides in a place where alleigeances are fluid. Yesterday's enemy is today's ally and tomorrow's enemy again. You somehow steered the conversation to a point where if the Surge worked, you "win". Even though the point was that you can't take things personally. And that the Surge working points to the fact that you need to learn to work with the people who were shooting at you for the past few years. ”merriam-webster definition of “realize”” - holy fuck if I paid you 5000 dollars to say I'm right and I won the argument you wouldn't have realized shit, you'd simply take the bribe. You can pull all the fucking dictionary definitions but if I pay you money to fuck off that doesn't mean you conceived anything as real. “Now, why was Bin Laden in Pakistan again? He ran away from the invasion. One thing leads to another. Follow along.“ - Bin Laden fled to Pakistan in 2001 after Tora Bora. There were rumors of him coming back to Afghanistan in 2009 but they weren't credible. This makes the invasion completely useless from that moment up to now. “The Afghan government controls 30% of the country. Ok, how much did the democratically elected government control before the US invasion?“ - so the Afghan government can't even keep their own country under control with US presence, how the fuck is that a victory? “You understand that stability is needed to ensure that our enemies don’t return right?“ - Al Qaeda? The Taliban have agreed to the deal that they won't harbor terrorists. “Massively unpopular?“ - the current US president campaigned to end the wars. The democrats are also taking about pulling out. Now, if both sides are campaigning to bring the troops home wouldn't you call the war unpopular? “considering there were active protests“ - Irrelevant. You had literal communists in universities and unions. What matters is the fact that the populace has no interest in the war, politicians are promising to end it. The Taliban will sign a peace deal, promise to keep terrorists and the Chinese out in addition to the cease fire. Then the US pulls out, the Afghan government will get overwhelmed and the Taliban will regain control by breaking the cease fire just like the North Vietnam broke the peace treaty. But the US will not come back.
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  749.  @FilmFlam-8008  No, the wetness makes it hard to breathe because you're trying to force air through a liquid so air takes the path of least resistance through the small gaps it can find. But virions won't get filtered by the mask. They'll ride in the liquid. "And in the US, we have private healthcare" - Irrelevant. The private sector is so intertwined with government it's barely worth making the distinction. And considering this is a global issue, globally the medical system and government are joined at the hip. If a government agency is attempting to save masks for the private sector, they're in cahoots. Full stop. No need to go any further. The CDC and WHO employ doctors. They're part of the same "class". "Putting everything in the same bag is disingenuous. It is easy to say, but not logically accurate. With that same logic, you should not trust your doctor (healthcare provider)" - It's not disingenuous. Is the government managing and distributing supplies for the medical field or not? They are. The tumor example is completely out of context because there's no reason for the government to request an overestimation of cancer diagnosis or anything. If there was a reason to distrust a cancer diagnosis maybe the example would make sense. "You are muddling things together in a conspiracy mindset" - It's not a conspiracy mindset. First of all, accusing others of being conspiracy theorists is in itself a way to discredit without addressing the argument (just the other day I told a tankie that Nazis found Soviet mass graves and realized their own mass graves would be uncovered and decided to dig the bodies out and burn them to erase the evidence - I was accused of being a conspiracy theorist even though this is a proven historical event). Second, I didn't do the "you can't trust anybody" move, I simply stated that government agencies lied for their own benefit. Anyone with a brain saw the underlying motive. This isn't a conspiracy. There's no conspiracy. Stop accusing others of being conspiracy theorists when there's none.
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  756.  @Saeronor  "average elderly men can easily have kids" - it's not easy. It's sort of a myth that men can just pump it and make babies. While women progressively increase risks as they age and eventually reach menopause, as men get older they also lose fertility. Yeah they can father children - it's also not "easy". "I imagine this is also why life in Europe consists of higher prices and tiny paychecks. Not to mention costs are split with social security. Amazing how paying for it can result in ability to benefit." - yeah I certainly enjoyed working for less than 3€ per hour and then out of that little money I earned having 11% taxed out of my paycheck. It's really great when your """free""" college that my parents paid taxes for has tuition costs, I'm also studying maths every time I think about how it would be easier to pay my tuition with those extra 11%. "Businesses survived just fine" - there's serious chances that when I get my degree (just one more semester...) I won't be able to find a job in my country because our industry is fucked, and it was deliberately fucked over by the EU so that the businesses in Germany, France, etc could survive. So rather than buying stuff made in our country we have to keep buying French and German! Hooray! The kicker is, we're having problems with the fucking birthrates too. Don't worry, we're preserving the "longevity of society" with immigration so we don't even have to worry about kids. The government is going to outsource that shit too! There's nothing to worry about! "it's up to millions and millions of people to decide how much of their life an employer is entitled to" - that's not how it works. If businesses are forced to take a loss they'll just pay less. You'll get exactly the same as if you just worked normally, saved up to have a child and took a normal leave. But our little primitive monkey brain is terrible at this shit so we don't save as much money as we should, and if given the exact same sum of money but taken from our paycheck and given back throughout our leave we'll think we're getting more bang for the buck even though the amount of money is the same. It's that or raise prices and risk less consumption. Sales tax in the twenties isn't helping either.
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  757.  @Saeronor  we don't use the public healthcare system in my family anyway (military benefits, paid for by the lower income one gets by working for the government rather than private sector) "other people going through college" - which they also paid for, thanks for missing the point. "Even if it really is true in its most absurd form (the obligatory purchases part)" - way to miss the point, it's not a matter of signing a contract and being legally obligated to buy from X, Y or Z. It's a matter of a complex web of regulations, benefits and other small things that push the buttons and pull the levers of the market in order to benefit some types of industry over the others. What ends up happening is that fishing is better in one place, agriculture is better in other, industry is better over there, etc. The worst part is when foreign investment buys up the industry when the EU is trying to promote it by giving freebies and they profit massively. When the welfare runs out, and after they have crushed the competition, they pack up and leave for other country where the EU is giving handouts. We're chasing the problem rather than recognizing that this "free" market where the only freedom is in the flow of capital is crushing the smaller countries. "they could use it to fund tax breaks" - you don't fund a tax break. "Perhaps... it's something about job security or other wonderful perks of shitty "pro-business" short - term legislation, which empowers all kinds of dicking?" - I thought the grass was greener on the other side. "if it affects every business equally and they all do it, then they are going to cut into their own profits, because how exactly a massive population is going to keep up their own spending if their bosses cut everything?" - that would happen in a world where business is a hivemind. It's more of a contest of who blinks first. I'm fairly sure that a business forced to carry the risk of paying someone for no work while having to retrain replacements will not dig into their razor thin profit margins. In the end CEO Joe Schmoe will laugh all the way to the bank as he gives up a couple of billions but completely crushes all the small and medium businesses.
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