skhunted
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Comment · 2 years ago
Yes. Liberal states like the one I'm in should be in favor of massive federal tax cuts. I'm tired of subsidizing morons.
Comment · 2 years ago
We are going to see liberal states talk about states rights and Republicans fighting that notion.
Comment · 2 years ago
The U.S. outspends most NATO countries on defense spending a percent of GDP. The Europeans couldn't end the Serbia/Kosovo situation on their own. They needed the U.S. Europe needs to do more to defend themselves and not rely so much on the U.S.
Comment · 2 years ago
Russia is not so good on the battlefield but great at sowing dissent and getting their man elected. I’ll never understand Biden giving Ukraine just enough to not lose but jot enough to win. Ukraine is fucked. But Europeans should do more for their own defense and not rely on the U.S.
Comment · 2 years ago
Immigration at it's current levels might be great but not necessarily if it greatly increased. What you have to demonstrate is that in a world full of climate change caused chaos allowing tens of millions of people into the country is it a bad idea. We don't live in that word yet so referencing the effect of current levels of immigration is not relevant.
Comment · 2 years ago
https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.7310
.. but I doubt you've have a rational basis for a belief that Central America in particular is likely to be one of the regions that will become dryer.
Is your belief rationally based?
Comment · 2 years ago
The Panama Canal is having problems now due to a prolonged drought. There have already been migrations from Guatemala and Honduras due to droughts in the highlands. Mexico City is facing a water problem partially due to drought.
From NASA: Increased evaporation will result in more frequent and intense storms, but will also contribute to drying over some land areas.
Don't know if Central America in particular will dry out in the long term. Was just using it as an example of the types of migrations that will come from global warming. Please try to understand the overall point and not pedantically nitpick.
Comment · 2 years ago
Water can be solved with desalination and investments in energy output improvement tech.
New Mexico can’t build desalination plants. Probably a good idea to not allow water intensive crops to be grown there that are exported.
Mass migrations can be handled by destroying all the layers of laws that NIMByYs use.
It’s rational for a country to not have open borders and allow anyone to just come. It’s also rational to not allow more people to come in than what the citizens are comfortable with. It’s going to be much more Darwinian in the future.
India, for instance, isn’t going to be able account 200 million climate refugees from Bangladesh.
Comment · 2 years ago
It is a foregone conclusion. Countries should take steps to mitigate what happens to them. For instance the U.S. should prevent Saudi companies from exploiting water resources in the U.S. And we should build a wall to prevent mass migrations northward as Central America dries up.
Comment · 2 years ago
There is nothing wrong with greed, greed is good.
what there is something wrong with is envy and jealousy; all cultures and ethical traditions recognize that.
Supply side Jesus appreciates you.
greed drives people to try to improve, to get the most out of what they have.
Salk was not good at what he did because of greed. Leonardo was not great becuase of greed and being more greedy would not have made him better.
Greed is not good. All ethical traditions recognize this. Your view is pathetic. The actual Jesus does not appreciate you.
Comment · 2 years ago
When I wrote there is a mainstreaming I meant that there is an attempt to make it mainstream. There are conservatives who say they’d rather vote for a rapist felon than a liberal. It’s an attempt to normalize certain viewpoints. I.E. voting for Hitler is better than voting for a liberal. The idea is that the worst of us is better than the best of you type mentality.
Comment · 2 years ago
I fully expect the downvotes. America since Reagan has largely embraced the greed is good mantra. American evangelicals who profess to follow the Bible would downvote a comment that quoted the Bible by saying that the love of money is the root of all evil
Comment · 2 years ago
a rising tide raises all boats.
The analogy to tides is not apt.
Comment · 2 years ago
It’s absurd that 10 people can make that much money in a couple of days. No one should have as much wealth as those 10 people do.
Comment · 2 years ago
Of course they aren't identical. The point is that prior to the internet everyone thought it reasonable to prevent kids from accessing pornography. Now it is widely available to them online. Some people think this is not right. There are no perfect solutions.