LesserAbe @ LesserAbe @lemmy.world

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I don't like when government funded projects are sold to private corporations. I like government funded infrastructure though.

I thought "what a refreshing change of pace, a woman murderer"

Yeah what the heck? How does this guy use electric for regular things, let alone a car?

The warning is "if you announce a facially bullshit project people will temporarily act like it's real"

This is a lot of who cares shit, but Aubrey is Drake's real name

I think it's oversimplifying to say all small town people are Republican or that small towns don't produce anything of value. For example people talk about Texas as a red state but millions of people there vote Democrat. (And plenty of Democrats aren't anti fascist) But you're right that in actual shooting war maga Republicans won't do as well as they think

Well in my example there is also someone with the power to say "this product exceeds x threshold for harmfulness so it's illegal to sell"

Most governments you're starting from an existing set of laws, not starting from scratch, so presumably someone at some point had a reason for putting a law into place. Not saying they're all good, plenty of shit laws.

What I mean is regulating a vice means putting some kind of guard rails on it. Alcohol is legal, but not for children, and many places have rules about how it's advertised, training for servers and not serving clearly intoxicated customers.

Should there be rules about gambling like, "you've lost $10k this month, no more betting for a while", that kind of thing. In recent years it seems like you can bet on anything anywhere, and it's being pushed very hard in advertising. Doesn't seem like there is much going on in the way of regulation.

I think there's a balance somewhere between helping people handle risk and letting them make their own decisions.

For example, I'm glad the U.S. has the food and drug administration. A person could say "people are smart enough to choose their own food" which is true but I also want there to be a professional who is verifying food doesn't have contaminants in it.

I think this is a good argument. That said, seems like adding gambling to skeeball or pervasive sports betting apps are good candidates for prohibition by regulation.

I'm concerned about regulatory capture - the industry infiltrates and ends up controlling regulatory bodies because there's so much money to be made.

In the case of this post whatever people replying consider legitimate.

For me "tax revenue" isn't, if we could get tax revenue off murder for hire we wouldn't do it. It's not like with cannabis where there are more obvious personal benefits and relatively low risks.

I'm more receptive to other commenters points about being able to regulate the activity rather than drive it underground and in doing so strengthen criminal enterprises.

I was also told our family was part Cherokee. It's apparently a super common claim

Then he wouldn't get nearly as many views. Or have articles written about him

Christianity asking you to accept the trinity is asking you to accept a logical impossibility. There's no point in trying to figure it out, the entire exercise is to make you accept it on faith and not question it. It's not big and profound, it's a stupid waste of time like that mind trap they made for the Borg on star trek where they would get stuck thinking about it so much they'd die.

Before the civil war southerners talked shit about northerners as too comfortable and effete to fight. We know how that worked out. All fascists are bound to lose eventually. The question is how much pain and death will they cause before being suppressed.

I think that last line sums it up - being "based" to unhinged weirdos is a selling point. But even psychos have to generally pretend to be normal for the average voter.

Good article! I do remember being freaked out growing up by an old lady who had a goiter. I had never heard of the goiter belt though.

Kind of on the tail end of their careers, but Senator Ron Wyden on privacy/surveillance, and Bernie Sanders on most stuff. Good question for a thread.

Sorry, are you following this story generally? Lefties, tankies and anarchists all seem extremely unlikely to be involved with pro Israel attackers.