Reason cannot be applied here. It's all emotions and narratives. People will believe anything bad about the Nazis and nothing good no matter what. Silicon valley is actually politically tone-deaf and immature.
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Different issues. One disqualifies handling of sensitive info and public records, the other, trust in being ethical.
you have to admit, (fears of things going one way or another set aside) it's been pretty entertaining.
They determine if there will be a draft or a war or what trade policy is?
So is Gary Kasparov, who doesn't even write any of his propaganda in Russian. So was Bobby Fischer, vicious anti-semite.
This shows that he's great at chess. It doesn't show much else.
Holy smokes. I didn't know it was already that large. What are they doing with 600 people that they were unable to do with 30? I haven't seen anything novel come out of there for a long time. Maybe Atom?
Fourth generation warfare only starting.
…the story about the two fellows in the Soviet Union who were walking down the street and one of them says: Have we really achieved full communism? Is this it? Is this now full communism?
The other one said: Oh no, things are gonna get a lot worse.
It usually boils down to $5,000 for surgery X in one country, $8,000 for same surgery in another. What an analysis like this always skips is the care that wasn't provided that should have been provided.
The difference between the US and the single-payers is that more care is given and better care is given vs. the rest of the world where gov't budgets are constrained so care is constrained.
I'm in Ontario and I can't even get a general practitioner. This is worse than communism.
Don't be dense. You know there are happy mediums.
* Read your Wilkinson and Pickett. Aside from perhaps the environment, equality is the political and economic issue that will shape the 21st century.*
I've read Pickett. Equality is horrifying. Eastern Europe is the result. The handicapper general is terrifying.
It's the end to any human greatness.
Did you know that before the AMA was created that doctors had to do house calls or face living in abject poverty as a result of the market being flooded with healthcare professionals?
When you ration the amount and quality of care given, you can drive costs down.
Animals have a MUCH higher quality of healthcare in Canada than humans do.
Norway's system of delivering food isn't a full socialist/single-payer model, so you wouldn't get breadlines there.
the idea that SS and medicare are great and have done wonders is what's causing the country to go broke and costs to skyrocket.
it was never good in the first place. you see the benefits when the programs are implemented, but everyone fails to see the costs and lost future opportunities.
what people really want when they push for socialized medicine is equality over improvement.
envy holds us back so much.
1) Profit-driven
2) Gov't-funded (state welfare art to reinforce state propaganda tropes)
3) Promotion of a social cause everyone already knows about or already half-heartedly believes in
Everything produced of the above 3 forms will be forgotten within 20-50 years and adds nothing to the discussion and advancement of art, culture, or philosophy.
Very important point.
that's like saying "seen one painting, seen them all!"
for me, memes were part of rehabilitating political views I might have never considered as legitimate otherwise
memes are the only culture we're producing right now
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