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Obviously emergency healthcare services are more of a necessity than transportation, I thought I made that clear. But in what way is transportation nothing but a luxury? How do you get to your job, or to the store, or to the hospital if you can't afford an ambulance?

Edit: I want to add that there are extremist types who think that if you can't afford emergency healthcare, you shouldn't get it. We may just fundamentally disagree about that. I think we need to use a combination of publicly funded services (yes, by taking money from the extremely wealthy) and regulation on basic necessities to ensure that everyone has access to a minimally dignified life.

It's a good question but I don't think the characterization of "glorious pioneers holding lanterns in the dark" vs. "monkeys with sticks" is fair.

There's a choice now, and it's arguable a fair choice. But if Uber puts heavily regulated cab companies out of business, the alternative disappears. That raises some issues in emergency situations like bad weather. Transportation is to some extent a necessity - would you be in favor of stores selling water for $100 a bottle before a hurricane? That might be the price that the market decides but the result of that is people suffering simply because they weren't lucky to be born in the right family.

"The world really is as simple as abolish all regulation and let the free market sort it out."

- Grown up libertarian

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Yeah I think you're right. If anything it's the endless list of deans making $200k that we should be looking at, not the president.

I think this "poor people are dumb animals and if we stopped giving the money they'd go get jobs" attitude is super fucked up.

It's interesting to see the negativity towards the strikers in this topic. Why shouldn't workers be allowed to get together and act as a collective? What's so frightening about the workers having more power?

Really? Do you really think everyone on welfare, or even a majority, are just lazy poor people living off the money earned by the glorious, noble, hard-working, libertarian class? Is it really that simple?

Could you provide a summary or breakdown (with sources?) of the facts about the U.S. government knowing about 9/11 in advance (and allowing it to happen when they could have stopped it or evacuated the buildings, as you're implying)?

If you do have some knowledge I don't, putting it in an accessible form like that would be very helpful - a lot of 9/11 "truth" material is steeped in scifi conspiracy nonsense or global elite lizard people type stuff. Or if you ask for clarification, you're told to watch a 2 hour youtube video filled with "many experts agree that this is wrong" weasel words.

Just note that you're defending this tweet: "I'mma rape you in your mouth"

I'm part of the happy few who have never gotten motion sickness from anything!

After only a couple minutes with the low resolution dev kit, I was sold. I can't wait for this to hit the consumer market.

Is this supposed to be a joke?

You're missing the forrest for the trees. Reforming drug laws won't solve racism, classism, or sexism. Anyway, everyone here is in favor of reforming drug laws - this thread of discussion is within the context of talking about the relatively radical position of legalizing all drugs without any supportive educational or healthcare programs.

Selective enforcement of drug laws is only one of many ways that poor and minority communities are abused by the "white supremacist capitalist patriarchy" to quote bell hooks. Legalizing drugs won't magically change anything except for rich white kids whose parents would otherwise have to pay a fine when they get arrested.

He's not supporting the drug war. He's saying that "legalize everything" is not a solution to what is a complicated problem that involves intersectionality.

As unpopular as this comment is, it needs to be said. Privileged, white, upper class libertarians simply don't care how drugs affect poor communities. The free market will sort everything out.

So your solution to the meth "epidemic" (scare quotes yours) is to... legalize meth?

Obviously it's not that simple. We need massive reform in public education and affordability of healthcare (such as rehab facilities) before sane drug laws can possibly be implemented.

I think you should apologize for making this post. There are a lot of important things that aren't mathematically rigorous but are nevertheless worth understanding.

That Auburn game was really something though!

O, if only he had linked to the Mises Institute a few more times!

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Did they? It's hard to take your post in good faith since "are you just parroting" makes it sound like you're inherently biased.

For someone supposedly concerned about human life, you seem awfully eager to end one.

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whoa whoa whoa, that would never happen in bitcoin libertarian paradise

What board games have you played? In the last 10-15 years, the U.S. has experienced something of a German-style board game renaissance. Check out Carcassonne, Puerto Rico, Power Grid, Agricola, and many other less popular ones.

Kind of irrelevant, but board games seem like a great application of 3D printing. I wonder if there will be another surge in popularity when (if?) 3D printers become household items.

I don't think it's reasonable at all to reduce the entire function of modern government to a platitude written 200 years ago.