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> Could you imagine a private sector union appointing the management of the company they negotiate with? Yes that would be fantastic.

> You list teachers, who in my opinion are the poster children of how problematic unions are. Teachers unions are extremely important. They are “problematic” only in the sense that…

> For many, this is more about punishing their bad guys than generating tax revenue to accomplish something. That’s basically the point of wealth taxes, explicitly. Advocates of a …

The Web needs the equivalent of public access television or public radio -- platforms that are sustained for public good via public money and/or donations

> see polls for single payer healthcare, gov funded college, wealth tax, etc Except the Democrats don’t run on that. None of this was part of Biden’s campaign, in the primaries, on…

Yeah, It’s a terrible design.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/29/amazon-reportedly-downplayed...

https://jrnl.sh/ ?

There are many, many factors other than nuclear weapons preventing large-scale conventional war between powerful countries, and if those factors changed, I can assure you conventio…

> Yeah, and without deterrence it will be a 100% chance of a variable hell of endless wars and tens of millions of casualties. There are political choices other than "constantly th…

I didn't say unilateral, although I support that as well. The United States is the only country ever to use nuclear weapons, and is also one that I reside in. If I lived in Russia …

There's a better solution that's free, and in fact saves money: complete nuclear disarmament, which the United States is the primary obstacle to.

Horrifying mindset that led to the disastrous war on terror in the aftermath of 9/11. Our foreign policy should not be based on an animalistic thirst for blood.

> Unions are the antithesis of a meritocracy. Try promoting based on seniority over merit in a tech. Tech is absolutely not a meritocracy.

Unions are not perfect and unionized workers often have a complicated relationship with their union, but fundamentally a Union is just a democratic organization representing worker…

> Probably many undocumented due to the secretive nature of their government. Are you saying the Chinese government could occupy a foreign country, commit war crimes against them, …

The current leadership in the CCP basically agrees with your analysis, so what’s your point?

> Say what you will about the US, we still haven’t run citizens over with tanks and hosed them down drains. do you know what happened in iraq?

In the last 40 years, while China lifted a billion people out of poverty, what evil did they commit that is even remotely comparable to what the US did in, say, Iraq?

Not necessarily. There aren't really that many frictionless ways to gamble hundreds of thousands of dollars on your phone. People, especially young people, may make stupid, reckles…

> I disagree with this move. Why should we force a cap rather than let market competition improve prices? Because the demand for delivery services on behalf of restaurants is inela…