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by blockmarker 3mo ago
Following that principle, Bin Laden wouldn't be responsible for 9/11, ISIS shouldn't have been restricted or attacked in any way, and the mafia should be fully legal. That would be absurd.
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by blockmarker 3mo ago
Fireworks are explosives, and people are hurt by misusing them. Just because they are less harmful than grenades doesn't mean that they are harmless, and throwing them at someone is clearly with the intention of harming them. And well,
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by blockmarker 3mo ago
In 2022, 20% of the population of Sweden was born outside of Sweden. I'm not the one engaging in willful ignorance. And unless you are saying that these people are slaves, the only purpose of mentioning slavery is character assassinati
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by blockmarker 3mo ago
This presupposes many things which are not reasonable to suppose. Like these immigrants being economically useful instead of fiscally negative their whole lives, or that people are just interchangeable economic units and forcing together se
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by blockmarker 3mo ago
Overcrowding by immigrants does not mean the location will vote in favor of restricting immigration. After all, those are the places with the highest number of immigrant voters, who will not support such restrictions.
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by blockmarker 3mo ago
27% of Swiss residents were born outside the country. Can there ever be a limit to immigration, or will it always mean you are literally Hitler and want to exterminate millions?
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by blockmarker 3mo ago
While the powers pushing this aren't doing it for protecting children, there are many people who want restricting the internet to protect children. This is why it's a good cover instead of an obvious power grab, because parents wa
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by blockmarker 3mo ago
On one hand we have propaganda not even a century old, only possible by the invention of birth control, the creation of tv, radio and newspapers, which itself required the invention of many things such as communications faster than horsebac
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by blockmarker 4mo ago
The goal is privacy and anonymity. Removing them that is. They don't care about teenagers watching porn, what they want is to know what every person is reading and saying, and being able to punish whoever says things the eurocrats don&
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by blockmarker 5mo ago
We aren't talking about a painting in a private gallery, it's a big object in the middle of the street. If it was actually unauthorized it would be removed, even if the British government respected free speech. If artists could ac
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by blockmarker 7mo ago
I am not aware of all the nuances of the immigration system, but legal and illegal seem a flawed but still somewhat useful measure. Though legal includes both farm workers and software developers and doctors, which makes it even less useful
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by blockmarker 7mo ago
You don't have to accept children that don't exist from parents that aren't in the country yet. If the children are bad enough you can refuse to even let the parents inside in the first place. Changing the methodology would l
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by blockmarker 7mo ago
There is always an implicit argument that immigration is bad or good for the economy. In Cato's analysis, the worse children of immigrants are, the better immigration looks. It is not the same as if citizens had children, because no ma
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by blockmarker 7mo ago
It's generally the former, your net fiscal impact includes your education and other childhood expenses. That is a reason why immigration is supposedly so good, another country spent their money raising them but your country gets the ta
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by blockmarker 7mo ago
The costs incurred by the children of immigrants are obviously a cost of immigration, but in Cato's analysis, the more expensive the children of immigrants are, the better immigrants look in comparison to natives. If every child of imm
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by blockmarker 7mo ago
I will not read anything the Cato Institute puts out, they are disingenuous partisans. They do not include the cost caused by the children, such as education and healthcare, they do not even include the cost of welfare to the children or to
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by blockmarker 8mo ago
Elon has spent months and months calling for the Epstein files to be released, even had a big spat with Trump over that and some other things. The idea that he was actually raping girls with Epstein can only be believed by people who will b
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by blockmarker 8mo ago
Yeah yeah, the person you dislike is stupid and the success of his multiple companies is just luck and everybody else does the work.
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by blockmarker 1y ago
It is not at all certain that there was any sabotage. Supposedly it was sabotage because important wires were stolen, but wire has been stolen by criminals for decades to sell for the materials. And for the last few years there has been an
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by blockmarker 2y ago
Letting your interests always go last, and letting people who depend on you and have worked against you(remember Zelenski campaigned against Trump), demand things and reproach you in public, is not tact. The one who lacked tact was Zelens
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by blockmarker 2y ago
The argument that mass deportations are some impossible ordeal is only defended by those that are deeply invested in that they don't happen. Most illegal immigrants are only in the US for economic reasons. Don't give them any welf
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by blockmarker 3y ago
The idea that we should allow our countries and our way of life to be ruined because of something that happened 70 years ago is absurd.
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by blockmarker 3y ago
You are not the first to think that. That is called the Broken Window Fallacy, obviously by people who disagree. But it makes sense to me that if you spend resources on repairing damages, or weapons which don't generate more wealth, yo
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by blockmarker 3y ago
I am not well-read enough to really have a reasoned answer, but mine is that we don't know. But just because there is something more, something we don't understand, doesn't mean that it's something greater. It's jus
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by blockmarker 3y ago
Crowley might have been a drug-addicted sophist and not a good source for seeking ultimate truths. But was he a good sophist? I am interested in occultism and symbology, but only as entertainment. I am certain of my materialistic beliefs. I
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by blockmarker 4y ago
It's the nature of politics. Free speech was useful to your party so they defended it. Now that free speech weakens them they oppose it. The same happens with the other team. It's disappointing but predictable.
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by blockmarker 5y ago
It's really easy to not be burned at the stake, just don't be a witch.
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by blockmarker 5y ago
Yes, but it is not an aspirin. Before trying medication try therapy with a psychologist.
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by blockmarker 5y ago
They will never be brought to justice, since they are another arm of the state. These groups are a way of doing what the powers that be want to be done while having some plausible deniability. These groups are deliberately allowed to do thi
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by blockmarker 5y ago
That same level of observation leads to thinking that vaccines cause autism. We shouldn't ignore our eyes, but neither should we trust them blindly.

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