I fear the transitional period implied by some of these changes will be what gets you. You have unlimited authority; you can’t just snap your fingers like a genie, you’ll need to implement these policies. These things take time, and they’ll cause chaos and uncertainty, followed by confusion as people adjust. If you’re not careful with your rollout, you risk waves of disapproval.
Weak, sure. It’s also a public argument made by an official Libertarian Party politician. Most of the stronger ones come from more anonymous libertarians. If that’s what they’re saying in public, etc. etc.
I always heard it as “Not my monkeys, not my circus”
Roughly the same, but in the US the Libertarian Party is basically just conservatives who want to smoke weed.
You tell me, have you ever heard a liberal candidate suggest age of consent laws should be up to a vote?
I was once an edgy online 14 year old idealist, my behavior was identical.
Starting a business requires resources and coordination. It is easier for one individual with many resources to get the ball rolling than for many people with few resources to do the same. Even if you need to take out a loan, it’s simpler to do as an individual than as a group. Most people who front all the resources for a business are going to want creative control over the structure and operation, and consequentially claim to the profit. It’s much easier, logistically, for one person to roll existing capital into a new business than to coordinate a board of founders. Democracies are much slower at making decisions than dictatorships, obviously.
I am 100% pro co-op. I’d love to see credit unions offering start-up loans to groups of founding members, specifically designed to develop co-ops. It’s just currently uncommon, so the infrastructure isn’t there. Without that financial infrastructure, you’re relying in everyone fronting a portion of the start-up funding.
So, in short: it’s more complicated, financially and logistically. I’m all for it, but before we see co-ops carve out a more significant market share, we’ll need to see some chipping away at these barriers to entry.
Which is why I responded to a sub comment and not the top question.
I use messenger to get in touch with people I have no other contact info for.
I use marketplace because Craigslist is a ghost town.
The things other platforms don’t do better is “have a near ubiquitous user base”.
I haven’t used Facebook as social media for at least a decade
Absolutely. I’m not terribly privileged, but while the difficulties of life are non-trivial, overall I’ve experienced enough joy to justify the expense.
Some of that propaganda is in the form of material help to people around the world. Like sure, he’s not great, no question. But if every other CEO funded global healthcare to the extent he did to whitewash their own problems, I wouldn’t complain. Sure his charity work is by no means ideal, but even the ugly charity he does actually winds up saving lives.
That bigness is bad in a lot of ways, but it’s great for niche content. A big platform makes big communities horrible cesspools, but it makes small obscure communities actual communities
Think the CEO of Costco did a similar move with the hot dogs
Not really a big reader of the comics, but from my understanding the multiverse isn’t really a fringe topic. Seems like it’s been a pretty central aspect of the comics for decades.
Doesn’t the defense also have veto over jury members?
I will take due notice thereof.
Still, there’s the friction of checks and balances. It’s certainly not perfect, far from it, but the alternative is still worse.
Guillotine: old, cumbersome, hard to find, frankly boring to a modern audience
Woodchipper: easy to find, easy to transport, new and exciting, sends a message
Liberalism is centrist. That’s not an endorsement of liberalism, it’s a recognition of where the ends of the popular political spectrum lie.
I think they interviewed people in his circles, and I think a friend flippantly noticed it was kinda ironic that they played Among Us with someone who went on to actually assassinate sometime, and now the media is twisting that into the standard “video games cause violence” bugbear.