MisterMower

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by MisterMower 7d ago
You’re right, the “both sides” claim really doesn’t work here. Biden’s student loan forgiveness would have amounted to a gift of potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars to his most ardent supporters: young, college educated, poor peopl
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by MisterMower 13d ago
I think GP is right: this place has become an echo chamber. Even if someone posted a thoughtful rebuttal, it would not be seriously considered, or worse, flagged. And why would anyone waste their time when they know their efforts will be im
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by MisterMower 13d ago
In my state government issued ID is used to verify who you are . You are then issued a ballot if your name is also in the poll book. Your eligibility to vote and have your name entered into the poll book is determined by providing a Social
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by MisterMower 13d ago
> It’s not that uncommon for an adult to not have an ID It’s extremely uncommon. You need an ID to buy beer, open a bank account, prove you are eligible for employment, pick up a prescription at the pharmacy, book a hotel room, the list
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by MisterMower 17d ago
Anonymous speech separates ideas from the reputation of the person stating them. It forces the reader to consider the ideas themselves openly, without using the heuristic of “which party does this person belong to” or “do I like this person
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by MisterMower 21d ago
Most folks don’t want their minds opened to new and surprising views and opinions. They want a good job in the town they grew up in so they can take care of their family and raise their kids in the culture they were raised in. Globalism has
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by MisterMower 21d ago
“Who are you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes?” But since you asked, here you go: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/microsoft-...
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by MisterMower 21d ago
Dollars and people are not the same thing. I’m not sure how you can even make the claim that they could be or even should be.
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by MisterMower 23d ago
> large swath of America in their opinions has already given up on the concept of America The concept of America as defined in the Declaration of Independence was that it is the duty of the people to oppose tyrannical government action,
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by MisterMower 26d ago
I don’t suppose they do, given their chronically low birth rates and willingness to outsource all of their energy production to Russia.
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by MisterMower 26d ago
They are two different things, and you are being disingenuous by assuming they are the same.
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by MisterMower 1mo ago
> this needs to be compared against the norms around this kind of thing Because other government programs waste money, it must be okay that this one did too? Congress put $15M in the Inflation Reduction Act for the purpose of a study. If
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by MisterMower 1mo ago
> No one is forcing you to use it. No one is forcing me to use such a system today, but I was also assured that if I liked my doctor I could keep my doctor, and that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. You are naive if you th
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by MisterMower 1mo ago
I'm not saying a direct file system would lead to more audits. I simply shared the story of my friend to illustrate how abusive and underhanded the government is capable of being, and to make the point that under a direct file system t
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by MisterMower 1mo ago
When was the last time Europe built anything approaching the Hoover Dam, Manhattan Project, or the Panama Canal? You’re not serious, are you?
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by MisterMower 1mo ago
Until you’ve had an IRS audit you truly can’t even imagine. I hope you never have a similar experience that knocks those rose tinted glasses off your head. A buddy of mine took the home office deduction for a few years in the late 1990’s. H
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by MisterMower 1mo ago
Congress authorized a study, not a full blown system, or even a working prototype. No taxpayers should have ever been allowed to use it to file a tax return. Despite Congress appropriating only $15M to do the study, the program managed to b
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by MisterMower 1mo ago
The biggest issue with Direct File is the conflict of interest created by having the government who benefits from your tax payment also prepare the return for you. Given the massive amount of IRS shenanigans over the years, it is easy to im
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by MisterMower 1mo ago
Crazy environmental and labor regulations is what happened. I wouldn’t class this IRS project as anywhere near the the magnitude of complexity or impact of the projects you mentioned though.
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by MisterMower 1mo ago
Best for whom?
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by MisterMower 1mo ago
Nonsense? I think you are mistaken: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Europe Go read up on the Final Solution. The nazis tried to expel the Jews before killing them. The industrialized genocide they’re
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by MisterMower 1mo ago
You can hold the position that Hitler and the Nazis were evil while also believing US involvement in WWII was unnecessary and detrimental in the long term. The history of Europe is one of unending conflict all the way back to Roman times. S
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by MisterMower 2mo ago
> 3. Partner with a Chinese assembly house and suppliers. Alibaba is your friend. Oh, if that’s how you build hardware then sure, hardware isn’t hard to do at all.
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by MisterMower 2mo ago
No, it’s not a quantity issue, it’s a quality issue. DAs used to go after particularly egregious offenders and throw the book at them. This creates incentive effects for all the other would be criminals. It doesn’t take all that much enforc
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by MisterMower 2mo ago
If they can do this with traffic, imagine what they’re doing with YouTube ads…
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by MisterMower 2mo ago
Buyers discount the equipment price based on the expected cost of repairs, and manufacturers capture more profit when they consistently produce equipment that is more reliable or easier to repair. In the short term they can increase their
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by MisterMower 2mo ago
Fifty years ago the average guy buying a tractor had a family farm with a few hundred acres. Equipment was smaller and had less frills because the John Deeres of the world were catering to those small time customers. There were a lot of the
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by MisterMower 2mo ago
I’m not sure why the military running it makes this project inherently bad. You can always point to some geological or ecological reason why a resource shouldn’t be developed. Here in western Kansas there is some endangered chicken grouse t
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by MisterMower 3mo ago
Can you link to the portion of the debate where everyone agreed on what “under the jurisdiction of” means? The issue was contentious then as it is now. They wouldn’t have spilled so much ink on the topic if it wasn’t. Your link is proving m
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by MisterMower 3mo ago
The fact that a guy like Trump was ever elected in the first place would imply it is not working fine. Half of the electorate supports his anti-immigration policies. In an alternate universe where immigration laws were properly enforced he

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