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This isn’t a matter of perspectives, it’s a matter of consequences. Consequences which are already happening. Women are dying from abortion laws. Trans individuals are dying due to…

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I see that we have moved on from Denial to the second D of avoiding accountability: Deflection. I wonder if Attacking will be next in a pivot to DARVO, or Diffusal? It's not my ima…

A difference of opinion? What human rights people are allowed to have is a difference of opinion?? Who gets thrown in jail for being "the enemy within" is a difference of opinion? …

> Monopolies require strong states to exist. How so? When competition can merely be purchased, why wouldn't the larger company do so? Or if the competitor doesn't want to sell, the…

Wikipedia and the American Heritage Dictionary expressly disagree: "In economics, a free market is an economic system in which the prices of goods and services are determined by su…

I don't find it surprising. Leisure time in adults has often been co-opted by "working a hustle" (aka working a second or third job to afford to live). And when they finally do go …

Perhaps it's just me, but I'm pretty glad that we don't have the government interfering with our every contracted act (a sale is such an act). On the flip side, without the governm…

Personally I'd agree. But his having different priorities than us doesn't make him a hypocrite.

This isn't regulatory capture, this is deed restrictions. HOAs, water rights, mineral rights et.al. use this same mechanism.

Bozeman MT also has a huge lot being completely unused because it was a former K-Mart. And Bozeman is growing like nuts, I can't imagine there's nobody who wants the space.

Having two opinions on two different forms of land use restriction is not necessarily inconstant. Especially since one is a form of contract law, the other government regulation. B…

In this case since it's deed restrictions as part of the land/building sale it's not the government enforcing these restrictions, it's plain old contract law.

Not at all. The natural end state of an unregulated market is monopolies. As demonstrated again and again throughout US history, with only anti-trust regulation bringing the monopo…

I'm holding out hope that we will avoid that kind of a period of time. The polls show a dead heat, but, well, when's the last time you answered a phone call which was marked as 'po…

Under abortion bans, more women are getting abortions. Under abortion bans, maternal mortality rates have gone up. The infant mortality rate is up in states with abortion bans too.…

> As far as they're concerned, they've lived through a half-century holocaust of baby murder It's interesting how this narrative has developed only in the past 40 years or so. At t…

The only time people didn't have a choice is when they wanted to interact with society. Something which, thanks to the internet and delivery services, is almost wholly optional in …

I do care, about the woman and prosecutorial misconduct that used her to push an agenda - to promote the idea of "unborn children". She's a woman, belongs to a minority race, and a…

> even if abortion in that state were legal right up until birth. This isn't a miscarriage due to natural causes or some kind of accident but due to drug use. First, in 2020 aborti…

I'd think that an average would go broke pretty quick, having to always eat out. Third spaces - particularly free third spaces - in the US don't really exist in most cities. At lea…

Is, unfortunately. And the biggest consumer of hormonal treatments as children (in the 99% range)? Cisgendered girls and boys who have no desire to transition. And though you didn'…

There are restrictions and bans on gender affirming care. Most often for minors, but also for adults. It's telling that most of these that are aimed at adults call out exceptions f…

> There are going to be a bunch of laws about it voted on in the election next Tuesday Also worth looking at is how these state constitutional amendments have been attacked before …