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Ah yes, the nazi wants to build concentration camps to murder the brown people. This is in line with his platform.

The irony with this is that the vulnerable people crossing the border would otherwise pick up low wage manufacturing and menial labor jobs that create wealth for the nation and farmers, but it seems that republicans are banking on poor white babies to grow up and accept those jobs in 14 years and be good republican voters. I don't see the pendulum swinging so hard to the right that the strategy would ever work.

Just remember, an AG is not a judge or medical professional. They do not judge trials or pass convictions or decide on what course of treatment is appropriate for a patient.

The problem with that reasoning is that the vast majority of felonies aren't trying to overthrow a democracy. Punishments should fit the crime.

A DUI shouldn't stop you from voting, nor should a conviction for being a prostitute. Burglary shouldn't either. The punishments for each of those felonies should be different and determined case by case. None of them have anything to do with voting.

Make it so 50%+ of rent becomes equity and instantly housing becomes accessible to all. Can't rent without giving ownership to your tenants. Banks would get the lion's share of the income (it's their money anyway if you have a mortgage...) and owner occupied properties are still feasible.

No one's "value" would disappear either.

No taxation without representation.

Just buy them from costco. $1149 https://www.costco.com/funeral-caskets.html

It's not just billionaires buying up all the housing, it's anyone who can afford the investment. Real estate makes interest in value year over year with minimal upkeep costs AND it generates revenue every year from rentals. If you manage to secure permits to convert it to multifamily you instantly split your house into two parts with nearly the same individual value, almost doubling the value on the spot at the cost of adding a couple of walls and doors and maybe a kitchen.

Real Estate as a source of investment and revenue goes contrary to the idea of accessible housing for everybody. If it's a lucrative investment with greater low risk returns than any other low risk investment type, why would anyone take more risk?

My landlord is 45 and owns 4 properties with a total of about a dozen units. He bought a small business with the income and retired from his job at a defense contractor. His total wealth is under 10m and he started with probably little more than 50k ~25 years ago. Low interest loans have done wonderfully for anyone turning a small amount of cash into a big amount, assuming you bought in the right place with the intent to rent out to middle class workers.

This could be so easily abused....

Hey guys why do all my lights turn off and on when my neighbor uses a microwave?

The controversial claims stem in part from Donovan’s publication of the Facebook papers, a bombshell leak of 22,000 pages of Facebook’s internal documents by the whistleblower Frances Haugen, who used to work at the company.

Is anyone surprised at all?

Fun fact: for all intents and purposes when a rich person sets up a charity that they own and control fully they are pinky-promising they will use the funds for charitable purposes. When they contribute funds to it they reduce their income tax burden.

When you no longer need income to survive as you have billions and billions and billions of wealth you can just stop paying income tax by giving your "income" of that year to the charity you own and control. You can later conduct business dealings by "donating" to organizations in a quid pro quo manner. You skirt income tax and determine 100% of where your money is spent. As a bonus you can "work" for your charity and expense all of your travel, lodgings and day to day reasonable expenses in the name of your charity because of the good work you are doing. Isn't that great?

e.g. "my charity will spend 100m building houses in ghana for the needy and i'll hire your construction company to do it. In return you will build me a mansion here and donate it to the founation I control and I will live there while maintaining the charity" shit like this happens all the time.

Imo this is the problem with modern foundations and charitable organizations. The people who donate the most are typically the owners of the foundation. Don't forget that you can donate 10m to your buddies' charities and they can donate 10m to yours... so it looks like you're not just playing with your own money too. Layers and layers of obfuscation!

With enough money you can funnel all kinds of nonprofit funds into for-profit goods and services "for the people"

With all that power, influence and money sheltered from taxes it should be no surprise that when someone comes around and is going to publish data you don't want to be seen which would impact your vast network of wealth you talk to your buddies who control the org she works for and try and quietly eliminate her position to minimize the damage.

Next you're going to tell me I haven't had my blinker fluid changed each year.

Is there a part of the US, Canada, Britain or EU that doesn't have a law mandating working blinkers for a vehicle registration on a regular cadence?

Do you know who actually wrote any law passed in the past 5 years?

I mean actually know. Who contributed? who understood the legalese? who snuck in something that meant something else when actually enacted?

The answer probably no for almost everybody. Even the people who vote on the laws usually have no idea who actually worked on a bill. They know the sponsors and whoever comes with the petitioner to talk about it. It's not usually full of attributations.

We pay huge bucks to lawyers to read over this stuff and to consider the impact of a bill before actually discussing it in committees before it even gets a vote, typically. If something is missed it's on the elected officials.

This is such a non-news story because the humans read something and chose to go with it. End of story.

This is like "I'm 16 and just got my car" level of YSK.

Fun Fact: in the dominican republic it's very common for cars to never get any replacement bulbs whatsoever throughout the life of the vehicle. The amount of cars you find on the roads with no working lights is terrifying, just like how their drivers behave in traffic.

I thought paying adults a hundred bucks a month was enough to live on so they didn't have to send their kids off to work because "cost of living is lower" ?

This is the cost of wage slavery in poverty stricken nations. The wealthy elite take the wealth of these workers and steal it by paying them nothing and importing their finished goods into the US and other wealthier nations.

You can find out all kinds of information about this on youtube by looking at "Why so expensive?" videos from business insider. We pretend like we outlawed slavery but it's still effectively alive and well.

You could call these lightning gyoza if you wanted a cool name to entice people to try them. Just saying!

Your choice of companion is part of how you compete.

People generally pick friends based on what their friends do for them and how their reputation (e.g. influence) is, whether or not they actually realize that. So much of this is done subconsciously.

Nobody wants to keep the friend around who is always asking for help... everybody wants the friend who asks for little and is always there for them.

I do agree that the social construct of nuclear families is not natural in any way. You see this with divorce rates quite clearly. It's quite common to find the rich, powerful, influential and attractive having many sexual partners and many followers. Without things like child support I suspect there would be many MANY more bastards out there than there already are.

Anyway, you are looking at things through an idealist lens. I'm pointing things out in a blunt narcissistic lens. People are shades of gray, not black and white. If you ignore the competition and pretend everyone will be nice you'll quickly find this doesn't work when scaled out past a small community. It just doesn't. It never has. It never will.

What is best for society is generally not what is best for the individual.

Enforcement of rules and regulations is one area that seems to always have potential corruption since nobody wants someone looking over their shoulder all the time for things that they are not doing right. It's easy to say "investigate those crooks!" so long as those investigations aren't targeting us.

If you're trapped on an island with a group you're probably under the size of the monkeysphere.

When group or tribe size exceeds the monkeysphere, that's when you start seeing all the weird shit and blatant exploitation.

It's usually not the rich and wealthy directly doing evil shit either, it's the people under them following through on it to reach an objective - generally more money or resources for the ones on top of the food chain. By utilizing middlemen who feel like they have no choice if they want to "climb the ladder" no one feels like it's their fault for causing the pain, so no one thinks they are a psychopath and no one person is blamed for the fault- it's all those "big companies"

The nuance for this stuff goes on and on and on and on.

Nature in and of itself is competition. The theory of evolution depends on it. The strong survive and the weak perish because of natural selection. The strong multiply and become our future generation.

It can be smart to keep the weak around. Like a weak animal in a big herd. Sometimes a sacrificial lamb is useful when it's time to ride or die. Your kids though, they HAVE to survive, right? Two kids are about to get killed and you can choose to save only one. It's always yours, right? This example only works if you're a parent but I don't think you'd find many parents who would put a stranger's child over their own.

Sure, maybe tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago we decided as a society to eliminate people who put their family and friends above others' a different human imperative could have emerged, but like it or not this one is the dominant one. Ignoring the competitors just takes you out of the running and statistically means you will not be moving up the ladder very much if at all.

On what level?

Have you ever worked anywhere and saw that people didn't put their friends, family and coworkers ahead of the others?

Have you ever seen a human system that didn't put "others" behind whatever group they decided to create?

Even nonprofits and charities end up playing favorites. Once any organization gets to any real size it's going to be corrupt. It's human nature. All of humanity competes over this world's limited resources. People will do anything to win.