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Save the aggressive ignorance schtick for Reddit.

> the average person is economically much worse off than all the European countries you just mentioned. Where on earth did you get this idea? US Households have much higher disposa…

Please flag. The only reason this attack vector isn't more common is the ignorance of would-be terrorists. The stochastic harm caused by sharing such articles is significant, IMO, …

Is there anything more disingenuous that advocating for the involuntary destruction of all equity wealth by decrying occasional losses by consenting adults? I'm sure this kills on …

It's hard to imagine a political solution to this problem. Both parties are playing chicken, each daring the other to fall on their sword for the good of the country, with neither …

> Well apparently they don't really have a choice The notion that poor circumstances somehow justify poor choices is extremely counterproductive, as the context of this thread shou…

> We could provide food for the poor and disabled who lack or are not using family support with a tiny fraction of our industrial output. I absolutely agree. We spend $30K/year per…

Me: I like your solution, but could you unpack all those dense one-liners to make the code easier to follow? Cursor: Do you wanna mess me up? Do you wanna screw up the works? You w…

Everyone has their own priorities, I guess. I'm not willing to drive down Americans' wages to save a buck on strawberries.

We both know you haven't lifted a finger to help these people. You're not interested in actually saving lives, just that sweet righteous indignation (after all, it's free!)

There's no such thing as "jobs natives don't want", only "wages natives don't want". > Maybe, or maybe they just employ less people and less things get built. The foreign born popu…

Motte: We all share the land! Bailey: The state owns all land!

Do yourself a favor and DCA in from here. SpaceX was "only" valued at 210 Billion back in June 2024, around 11% of its current valuation. A return to that valuation would take it d…

If these figure represent actual deaths (big if), those people will have died because literally nobody on earth was willing to pay to keep them alive--yourself included.

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If you remove the word abject, the argument is: > half of the US is living in poverty This statement is also false. > I encourage you to try to live on anywhere from $7 to $15 an h…

It's actually far better than that! When people hear "poverty rate", they think "the percentage of people living in poverty". That's not what the census data on poverty is reportin…

The United States doles out >$30K/year in welfare spending for each person (not household, each person ) under the poverty line. And that's just HUD/SNAP/Medicaid. The idea that an…

"Don't leave us or we'll kill you" isn't the pro-EU argument you seem to think it is.

Ah yes, economists are famously capable of accurately projecting a decade in the future.

Nobody has to condition me to see a useful robot as being worth 20K+. Being able to offload domestic labor would be a huge win. So would the more subtle benefits of living in a hom…

DCA

The Democrat election messaging that caused border encounters to ~3X immediately after Biden was elected, obviously. https://archive.is/QKk0l#selection-923.73-930.0 https://dgcjnpz…

Democrats actively encouraged more than 10 million illegals to pour into the country during the previous administration. They lied about it and downplayed it for three years, and t…

> 10% of the population being able to put major policies to a referendum is a bit silly. I think it's fantastic, actually. If the US had such a mechanism in place, we'd get term li…