5upplied_demand

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by 5upplied_demand 5d ago
> Are US citizens richer than they were before? Some of them certainly are richer, specifically people with the last name Trump. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/trump-presid...
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by 5upplied_demand 5d ago
I personally believe the well-sourced journalism explaining how the President ignored the opinions of Government experts to do what he wanted. > https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/iran-war-warn...
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by 5upplied_demand 6d ago
If quitting a job is "performative" what would you consider a "non-performative" act? Ironically, you are doing your own preaching in your comments. It could even be described as "performative."
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by 5upplied_demand 22d ago
Buy an umbrella?
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by 5upplied_demand 2mo ago
That is great, unfortunately almost 90% of the country lives in a state other than California.
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by 5upplied_demand 2mo ago
> the possible events that could lead to World War 3. Iran is directly connected to all of that. If any event has pushed us closer to WW3 it is the US's decision to preemptively attack Iran. > Seems like money well spent. Based o
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by 5upplied_demand 2mo ago
One would think, but the flip-side is that this supports more women in the workforce. Traditional roles of men working and women caring for kids seems like a bigger priority of this admin. I do think it is a policy point that Democrats shou
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by 5upplied_demand 2mo ago
I'm curious about your napkin math, care to share? I got mine from a paper published by the University of Chicago: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/735565 .
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by 5upplied_demand 2mo ago
> When I read we spent $1B, I think about how I'm responsible for $3 of that. I like to think about how providing 4-week paid parental leave would cost $2 billion annually and actually help US families. Meanwhile we have spent over
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by 5upplied_demand 3mo ago
> Also ~95% of countries don't have unconditional birthright citizenship. It creates perverse incentives. I typically find that the people using this logic don't seem to apply it to laws like universal healthcare, parental leav
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by 5upplied_demand 3mo ago
The language couldn't be any clearer. The fact that it was questioned by people with a stated motive doesn't prove otherwise. "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are
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by 5upplied_demand 3mo ago
> Current French (8.2%), Spanish (10.3%) or even Swedish (8.6%) unemployment This obviously doesn't tell the whole story, because it only measures people actively in the workforce. Meanwhile, a far larger portion of Sweden's po
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by 5upplied_demand 3mo ago
> Of the 50 people who end up reading my comment above, every one of you will read it a different way, and it's unlikely very many of you will read it as intended. Isn't this admission a sign that you should be more clear on th
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by 5upplied_demand 4mo ago
> The idea that human beings are the end-all to reality, the highest form of consciousness and most powerful being, just seems hopelessly self-centered to me. I don't understand how this needs to be connected to the idea of God. Cou
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by 5upplied_demand 4mo ago
In the current environment, taxpayers are collectively punished.
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by 5upplied_demand 4mo ago
> Google had lost some (4%) employees in 2023, but has grown back to 2022 size last year. Meta shrunk by 22% in 2023, but has been growing in size since then and is probably back to 2022 size right now. Google's revenue in 2022 was
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by 5upplied_demand 4mo ago
> As someone who has lived in both countries its such a hilarious anxiety. What's hilarious about it? It seems pretty well-rooted given the actual history of the two areas. - 1939: Germany invaded in 1939, officially starting World
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by 5upplied_demand 4mo ago
> The US stopped reporting the number of casualties, which is drastically different from "lying". You are describing "lying by omission" which is a very well known form of lying. Specifically, they stopped reporting t
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by 5upplied_demand 5mo ago
For reference, a national 4-week paid parental leave program in the U.S. is estimated to cost under $2 billion annually, while a 12-week program would cost around $7 billion. https://www.nber.org/papers/w33279
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by 5upplied_demand 6mo ago
I don't think there is any problem to solve, that was my point. It is already illegal to vote as a non-citizen.
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by 5upplied_demand 6mo ago
So there is no problem to solve?
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by 5upplied_demand 6mo ago
> My research suggests that all U.S. states that require identification at the polls accept a driving license as a form of valid photo ID. Not today. However, there is a bill in the Senate, that the President is demanding to be passed, t
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by 5upplied_demand 6mo ago
> If speed limits were automated rigidly enforced 100% of the time, it would be impossible to drive. Why? Plenty of people drive in areas with speed cameras, isn't that exactly how they work? > That's absurd hyperbole. A com
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by 5upplied_demand 6mo ago
This whistleblower didn't forget, neither did I. It does sound like a bunch of people in this thread forgot. Perhaps they found it more politically convenient to forget rather than admit a mistake?
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by 5upplied_demand 6mo ago
> the best attack that someone could make on the Trump administration. It doesn't need to be, nor should we measure things against eachother by their ability to be used as an attack. We should measure this on it's own, based on
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by 5upplied_demand 6mo ago
> In due time, this one will fall out of your mental stack, too. I bet you said the same thing a year ago when people were warning about exactly this scenario.
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by 5upplied_demand 6mo ago
I agree. I'm not trying to point out the hypocrisy, it is obvious to anyone watching. I am more interested in testing the limits of how people will justify actions to themselves and others. It is fascinating to see the twisting happen
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by 5upplied_demand 6mo ago
> there is not yet proven public evidence for the most explosive version of the claim. Again, there doesn't need to be evidence. The point is that a claim like this is clearly plausible and worth investigating because of political d
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by 5upplied_demand 6mo ago
Neither of these involved legal allegations later proving to be false, they were simple news story retractions (just like Fox News did Sunday with Trump's dignified transfer performance [0]). The topic at hand was a whistleblower repor
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by 5upplied_demand 6mo ago
I didn't treat it as anything. It really doesn't even need to be proven as fact. The actual thing people were warning about was untrained and unqualified people having access to this data in the first place. I can't find a st

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