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If all you have is a tax cut

vendredi 27 mars 2020 à 01:00

If all you have is a tax cut, every problem, even an epidemic, looks like a chance to cut taxes.

dooH niboR in California

vendredi 27 mars 2020 à 01:00

By using public money to protect California homes from [sea level rise] the state is transferring wealth from working-class people … to … property owners.

This is an example of dooH niboR. In the US, classes correlate with races, so every dooH niboR policy is going to effect racial bias also. That applies here, but the dooH niboR element is why this is unfair.

More basically, resisting the damage done by global heating cannot hold out for more than a few decades if we keep building up global heating.

Covid-19 used as excuse to eliminate right of Habeas Corpus

vendredi 27 mars 2020 à 01:00

Barr (and behind him, the would-be dictator) cites Covid-19 as an excuse to eliminate the right of Habeas Corpus, so that governments at any level could put anyone in jail indefinitely without giving a reason.

Best case scenario

vendredi 27 mars 2020 à 01:00

(satire) *[the monster described] his administration’s best case scenario projections for coronavirus where eight million Iranian people are killed.*

Reason Sanders lost

vendredi 27 mars 2020 à 01:00

Arguing that Sanders lost because he didn't lead his movement to tackle his opponents hard, or lead a direct action movement.

I can't judge whether that position is valid.