magicGLASSman

Most our tax dollars go to pay down the interest on our countries debt and you go to prison if you don't pay your taxes. Crazy Days

Why not just use a database? what do you think the advantage of using Ethereum for this is?

It is about actually doing something and not just complaining. What percentage of those tax dollars you think actually make it to the poor?

I wish I could up vote this more!

It starts with us helping each other locally and creating tighter communities of people around us. We are being divided by this very .1% by envy and our own greed.

This is a false dichotomy, you can be right or left leaning and also be libertarian or authoritarian[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_compass

Ok.. you might not trust him saying he had a bad earpiece but he did disavow many times. I'm still not seeing the most evil man on the planet as many try to associate him with. Every argument is based on 90% emotion and a tiny bit of negatively framed fact.

>Donald Trump knows perfectly well who David Duke is

fair enough, good debate on if trump knew him, but since that first interview where he claimed to have a bad ear piece he had disavowed him many times since. I know it gets a lot of air time because the media gets to say "Trump" and "kkk" in the same sentence but this is just an association fallacy and not even an evidence for anyones argument.

Now that is a good argument. I don't give a shit who win the illusion of choice professional wrestling match we call US presidential elections. I would like to see Trumps ideas discussed logically instead of putting blinders on to real problems that are hard to deal with.

>xenophobia, racism, and authoritarianism, which is scary for minorities, is an example of a gov that could go crazy

These are the qualities of hitler, I pull it to illustrate how ridiculous and lazy your arguments are.

You get offended by someone saying people coming over the boarder illegally are criminals, yet it is ok compare Trump to someone that called for the killings of tens of millions of people most not jews or brown, but white[1]. I don't see the media yelling for apologies on that one...

[1]http://www.ukemonde.com/holocaust/victims.html

I agree he is a sales man and it can be off putting to a lot of people. On the other hand comparing him to the qualities of Hitler is a extreme misrepresentation and it is just godwin's law.

>Calls most Mexicans rapists ands stands by it

(slanted framing)

Because they are illegals the stats are difficult to prove or disprove.

-An estimated 25,000 of these undocumented immigrants serving sentences for homicide

-A cumulative total of 2.89 million offenses committed by these undocumented immigrants between 2003 and 2009 (although half a million of these were for immigration-related offenses)

-Among those offenses: An estimated 42,000 robberies, 70,000 sex crimes, 81,000 auto thefts, 95,000 weapons offenses, and 213,000 assaults

http://www.gao.gov/assets/320/316959.pdf

I'm not defending trump, I just don't see a place for emotional "-ist" words based on very selective framing of someones speech.

we need to talk about illegal immigration and criminal activity. We need to talk about Black on Black violence not just police violence. Why should he know David Duke is? and he disavowed 15 times.

I love the push back, that is what america is about having debates about important issues, not shouting down people who have different opinions.

I believed the negative hype about Trump till I actually listened to what he had to say in context. I don't agree with the guy on a lot, but the emotional reactions instead logical debate really need to stop

>Trump phenomenon fueled on xenophobia, racism, and authoritarianism, which is scary for minorities, is an example of a gov that could go crazy.

Sentences like this are not arguments they are emotional regurgitations of fear created by endless news cycles of ad hominem attacks and half truths.

Trumphobia is the irrational fear of Donald Trump created by media attacks on a candidate they can not control.

Come on, you normally end up with someone that you date... don't see many people ending up with someone they never dated.

I wish I had a time machine to change the decisions that I have made, but in that specific time and place with the information that I had at hand, I think I have made the right decisions. I think post people do. Cliché "Hindsight is 20/20"

>What is your point?

You don't know what they value most, only they do.

>That wasn't the question.

True, to much hypotheticals

>And your IP address and which comment threads you are interested in and which opinions you express and which comments you vote on in which way ... but I guess that's besides the point anyway.

Your right about that, but if I cover my tracks I give a lot less data then say a Facebook.

>How is that a choice you have regarding other people being manipulated against your interests?

You don't and you never will. People have been manipulating others since the the dawn of humanity. My point is that if people have choice they can take in many inputs and decide the best way to make decisions for themselves instead of being forced to use a service.

>They just are uninformed and therefore don't see those future costs

Who is educating these people? organization who have an interest in keeping the masses ignorant to the effects of privacy.

>which is why they make a flawed tradeoff against their own interests.

this is a common argument it hear, do you not think it is elitist to think that you know better then the common people? Hell, maybe you do, but I bet 10,000 other people also think they know better too. I am going to trust 100 billion micro decisions everyday rather then some academic in an ivory tower who thinks they know the will of the people.

>if everyone is on facebook, what choice do you have in reaching an audience?

Come on, There are many more channels to reach your audience, you are on one right now. Hacker new knows nothing about me other then my username and password.

>If google started manipulating the opinions of the majority of society against your interests, what choice would you have?

duckduckgo, bing, reddit, facebook, TV, or Family people get create their opinions based on a huge number of inputs. The problem is that people want to be told they are right so they only consume things that reinforce their opinion (confirmation bias) but that is a whole other road.

I know the concept very well. Of course their are advantages to using a service that everyone else is using, but it comes down to what you value more your privacy or the inconvenience of a smaller user group/paying a fee. I think the majority of people don't care about their privacy and would rather make that trade off right now. My core argument is that you still have a choice with free markets but with goverment if your views aren't the majority you are at the whims of group think.

Are you suggesting that people can't use alternative services just by typing a address into their browser? Or are you saying that if you dislike your goverment polices like unjust wars or surveillance state you don't have to pay taxes for them?

"children" uses ad hominem attacks. Force is great when the force is directed against dissenting views, but not so cool when your views are in the minority.

But if most the people agree that the policies are good and best combination of all the other states wouldn't they pay those taxes voluntarily instead of having to be coursed into paying? That is democracy right? otherwise it seems kinda selective as to whose votes mater the most.

this fact is what makes the experiment perfect. If people all move from one place because of poor policy it will give that state the incentive to adjust their policy. People should have the freedom to chose the goverment that is most inline with their values. Forcing someone to stay somewhere and pay taxes to a say unjust war or something they are morally opposed to seem to be a terrible existence.

Yeah, because having the goverment regulate something makes it stop. That is like saying no one is using drugs now because of the war on drugs.

saying "blatantly false" does not make something factual. Please provide and argument with evidence instead of blanket racist remarks.

Why not get to the root of the problem? An education should not cost that much. Much of the reason the cost has outpaced inflation is the subsidizing of the tuition price paid by the student instead of making the process of educating less costly by using technology.

Imagine what would happen if a degree was about what you know, not just a credential.