brianary

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Calling well-earned criticism of economics anti-intellectualism is using the composition/division fallacy.

Most people's lives have been affected for decades by Chicago School of Economics voodoo nonsense, that's where much modern criticism is aimed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jul/11/how-economics-became-a-religion

https://pluralistic.net/tag/chicago-school/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's this: https://www.newsweek.com/james-comey-deletes-post-depicting-8647-after-backlash-online-2073031

James Comey posted a picture of "8647" (get rid of Trump) spelled in shells.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The "light truck" exemption is a huge problem, and needs to be repealed.

Big cars also reduce everyone else's visibility.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jg047oJf1B4&t=45s

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yes, and if that's the only issue that matters to you, and you ignore the impact on all those other people, I guess that's fair to say they are the same. But does all that extra suffering serve a purpose? Are you volunteering yourself to bear any of it, or only others?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Straw men? You understand that these are actually things that are really happening, right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

The GOP didn't update their platform since, like, 2015, unless you count Project 2025, which Trump claimed to know nothing about. In the 2020 election, it still referenced running against Obama.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I'm more into the FRC.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I understand how you've arrived at that conclusion, but you should investigate Popper's Paradox.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

It would be so much more interesting to see the % of dollars claimed.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Does negging his customers count as an idea?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, they are also responsible for making news a for-profit enterprise, which has arguably ultimately killed it.

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