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What's wrong with this? Hong Kong is part of China, which does not recognize the territorial sovereignty of Taiwan. You may disagree with their sovereignty claim, but this is a rea…

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We need a 'right to repair' for software -- anyone release commercial software should be forced to release the source code and allow users to build, modify and distribute it for fr…

Healthcare should be publicly run. It should not be a business. It is toxic because it is a business.

Yeah because anti semitism has long and violent history. White people have not been on the receiving end of systemic violence because of their whiteness -- they have perpetrated in…

Criticizing white people for upholding a racist system is not racist.

Criticizing wealthy white tech people for exploiting their power and privilege to exclude others is not at all comparable for disparaging black fathers.

Criticizing how white men use their whiteness to preserve their exclusive access to money and power isn't racist

>Housing is a resource. If you have a magic wand to make resources exempt from economic forces, please wave it over food prices for the rest of us. That magic wand is called public…

That's correct -- there is no contradiction here. A totally unregulated housing market would be an unmitigated disaster. And some regulations are certainly counter-productive (e.g.…

> the only thing that makes financial sense to build is luxury apartment Exactly! That's the problem with housing as a market commodity -- developers will only build luxury housing…

I agree -- but we need public housing. The market does not build affordable housing. Libertarians have this idea that the housing market is restricted by government regulation and …

Housing should not be a commodity. Rent control is a solution to a specific problem of housing being a commodity -- landlords spiking tenants' rents, forcing them to relocate. It i…

Exactly. Crime is a social and economic problem that prisons and police do little to solve, with great harm to society. Our resources would be better spent elsewhere.

Great news! Let's work on abolishing public prisons next.