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Never. I'm also not the OP you responded to. I'm just pointing out the flaw in your proposed test.

A jury I was on came to that exact conclusion. Some crimes require state of mind to be proven. In my case, a guy was at a bar and got kicked out. He went to his car and grabbed a gun and fired two shots. Ultimately the decision hanged on "did he fear for his life" when two bouncers rushed him in the parking lot.

He was probably guilty of the two counts of aggravated assault, but the prosecution never showed that it wasn't self defense, which is what Arizona required.

This is a poor test. Parity would be utilizing the models to implement the functionality of the 5k lines and comparing the outputs.

Hate speech applies to particular characteristics that essentially never include "having lots of money".

It seems fairly obvious that what happens is a tariff is applied to the items entering the US and not the oil going to Cuba.

If you trade oil with cuba, then any trade with the US will be subject to the tariff.

Your opinion is taken with all the respect due to it.

You’re proving the point. None of this is rational discourse. “you’re a criminal”, “ you’re a slave”, “you’re a crab”.

We get it, you don’t like paying taxes.

> The only purpose of your meager existence is to make your owners more wealthy and powerful.

Are these the wealthy and powerful pot smokers you’re talking about?

No, it's about your viewpoint on taxation and how it's a pointless task to try and reason with a person that takes that stance. "Respecting the lives of others" doesn't preclude taxation to any rational person.

You're right, I completely forgot about what you put in that first comment because it seemed like extremely wishful thinking, bordering on gaslighting. Then, given all the comments since then that have been explicitly about taxation, I assumed that you had reassessed and had something new to contribute given how thoroughly those new comments debunked those original statements. Oh well.

I’m looking for you to back up your perspective with context in this thread that gave you that perspective.

I’m not sure why you believe I don’t

I guess I'm confused why I ought to care what Christ or Spooner think about taxation?

I still cannot see how you get that impression.

Not sure how you reconcile this take with "People don't like being robbed, PERIOD, especially not to pay for a bunch of weed smokers to sit at home relaxing on their dime. There will be blood."

This person doesn't like taxation. Tough.

This is such a bad faith argument. Society has largely agreed that welfare is a valuable thing to do, from disability to social security. Calling taxation theft just says that you aren't able to be rational about this.