getting in a good old debate about whether taxation is theft with a bunch of goober libertarians and ancaps, feels like 2013 on here
they really hate this one, lol
this all feels so old-fashioned though. Republicans are currently using legal coercion to force private businesses to accept unvaccinated, unmasked customers. few people even pretend to care about naive propertarianism anymore
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ah whoops, missed a gigantic loophole while I was lecturing ProPublica. ah well, at least he still doesn't get it right
"oligarch heirs don't have to pay on capital gains accrued during their parents' lifetime because it is metaphysically unfair to tax things more than once" <- world's most obvious lie
I don't have a take on the lab leak debate (from what I can tell there is no good evidence either way), but the question "why didn't people trust Tom Cotton" answers itself
we already see how media mega-consolidation has throttled creative production. Disney couldn't even make a paint-by-numbers Star Wars trilogy that didn't suck
area rich guy is convinced his expertise in money hoarding makes him a super-genius in all other fields of human endeavor, news at 11
"The gap between the GOP and the White House is unbridgeable. And the time for pretending otherwise is up." - @EricLevitznymag.com/intelligencer/…
@EricLevitz if these utterly foredoomed negotiations were meant to show Dems tried, a ten-fold smaller movement toward their position is more than enough nymag.com/intelligencer/…
back in them days I used to do the occasional appearance on CNN, but that stopped permanently after I wrote those stories. wonder why vanityfair.com/news/2016/09/h…