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But our bridges and infrastructure are crumbling

by iancmceachern 4mo ago

esseph 4mo ago
Those are issues of priority and revenue generation, not capability.
- iancmceachern 3mo ago
  Soon we won't have the capabilities. See the nuclear industry and how we don't have the people and training to do the work anymore.
  - hparadiz 3mo ago
    There are 342 million people here. We'll be fine.
xp84 4mo ago
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- polotics 4mo ago
  reference needed
  - xp84 3mo ago
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/taxpayers-fund-trans-surgery-inmate-172952731.html?guccounter=1 https://www.yahoo.com/news/taxpayers-fund-trans-surgery-inma... Hope this helps.
    - polotics 3mo ago
      Sure, untreated mental illness is a tragedy, and humanity sucks balls at biology, so hard it's as if we wished to be made of silicon. How does this make for a trend or justify the idea that the WEIRD's least-harm decisions explain broader resources allocation in real monetary terms. We're talking about the price of how much concrete pouring in the sad story you linked? (WEIRD: Western Educated Industrialized Rich Democratic, indeed a dying breed)
      - xp84 3mo ago
        I think the story I linked is if anything more damning than "the wall" in what it tells you about the minds who think it's appropriate. At least "the wall" passes the first smell test: Want fewer people move between A and B: Build wall between A and B. It just falls apart when you fill in the details (visa overstays, tunnels, ladders, etc. etc.) In contrast, baby-rapist-murderers obviously do not deserve free, very costly surgeries for non-life-threatening[1] conditions that non-murderers don't get subsidies for. For starters, they're baby-rapist-murderers. But anyway, I just picked one example. I'm sure the Wall costs are thousands of times more than just trans surgeries for prisoners. That doesn't mean there aren't many, many billions wasted on Team Blue boondoggles. [1] And no, these surgeries don't decrease chances of suicide. Studies don't all agree but some have found that they increase those chances. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38699117/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38699117/
- phs318u 3mo ago
  What a cheap shot. “gender reassignment surgeries for prisoners” - cos there are soooo many of those happening we can’t fix a single bridge. How about another explanation. Your government is totally opposed to helping citizens for “free” (let’s ignore that most government revenue comes from good ol’ taxpayers) when the alternative is to farm out the provision of expensive services to lobbying corporates. They’re more than happy to punish people however. For free _and_ for corporate profit.
  - xp84 3mo ago
    Both parties spend money on ridiculous things that are obviously wastes of money. Are any lies detected?

But our bridges and infrastructure are crumbling

esseph 4mo ago

Those are issues of priority and revenue generation, not capability.

iancmceachern 3mo ago
Soon we won't have the capabilities. See the nuclear industry and how we don't have the people and training to do the work anymore.
- hparadiz 3mo ago
  There are 342 million people here. We'll be fine.

xp84 4mo ago

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polotics 4mo ago
reference needed
- xp84 3mo ago
  https://www.yahoo.com/news/taxpayers-fund-trans-surgery-inmate-172952731.html?guccounter=1 https://www.yahoo.com/news/taxpayers-fund-trans-surgery-inma... Hope this helps.
  - polotics 3mo ago
    Sure, untreated mental illness is a tragedy, and humanity sucks balls at biology, so hard it's as if we wished to be made of silicon. How does this make for a trend or justify the idea that the WEIRD's least-harm decisions explain broader resources allocation in real monetary terms. We're talking about the price of how much concrete pouring in the sad story you linked? (WEIRD: Western Educated Industrialized Rich Democratic, indeed a dying breed)
    - xp84 3mo ago
      I think the story I linked is if anything more damning than "the wall" in what it tells you about the minds who think it's appropriate. At least "the wall" passes the first smell test: Want fewer people move between A and B: Build wall between A and B. It just falls apart when you fill in the details (visa overstays, tunnels, ladders, etc. etc.) In contrast, baby-rapist-murderers obviously do not deserve free, very costly surgeries for non-life-threatening[1] conditions that non-murderers don't get subsidies for. For starters, they're baby-rapist-murderers. But anyway, I just picked one example. I'm sure the Wall costs are thousands of times more than just trans surgeries for prisoners. That doesn't mean there aren't many, many billions wasted on Team Blue boondoggles. [1] And no, these surgeries don't decrease chances of suicide. Studies don't all agree but some have found that they increase those chances. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38699117/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38699117/
phs318u 3mo ago
What a cheap shot. “gender reassignment surgeries for prisoners” - cos there are soooo many of those happening we can’t fix a single bridge. How about another explanation. Your government is totally opposed to helping citizens for “free” (let’s ignore that most government revenue comes from good ol’ taxpayers) when the alternative is to farm out the provision of expensive services to lobbying corporates. They’re more than happy to punish people however. For free _and_ for corporate profit.
- xp84 3mo ago
  Both parties spend money on ridiculous things that are obviously wastes of money. Are any lies detected?