Don’t ask to see a slaughterhouse…

Most of you didn’t get me anything at all last year!

Level 87 in Diablo II

Good talk

You’re deliberately avoiding the core premise that people thinking it’s democratic means it’s democratic.

That’s a gish gallop, and the core premise that people believing it’s democratic makes it so is incorrect.

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Most Americans think that too

There are actually very high barriers to entry in the insurance and health care markets (which in the USA are tightly intertwined).

The health insurance industry doesn’t want there to be fair alternatives because then everyone would buy that instead. This is an oligarchy, not a democracy.

Not actually democratic, thus not socialist.

You don’t think they need to?

No it’s not

Here in the USA we are aware that they aren’t rationing. You don’t think it’s necessary?

Here in the USA I can buy whatever I want, even if it’s bad for everyone.

Pigouvian taxes are a traditional solution to negative externalities, and they are often better received by the public than rationing.

• It’s expensive to be poor - the lights turning off a few days before the end of the month will incur even more costs than a higher electricity bill.

• Taxes raise money for other programs, instead of costing money to enforce rationing.

• Higher taxes in general will also help reduce inflation.

• Tax revenue can be spent on stimulus checks to offset the cost for people who use less energy than average.

You could smoke 4 packs a day for 3 days?

because you like it

we choose when it’s legitimate

I might be inferring the wrong thing here, but do you believe that human rights exist?

This is 100% by design. The only way to retire in this economy is to invest in an exploitative business. So over time, people find themselves supporting ideas that make retirements in general farther away, but their own retirement nicer.

You’re more likely to die in a heat wave in prison right now.

IDK maybe that’s more reason to fight, just to the death.

It’s questionable if that’s enough, though. FPTP means we’ll vote for people who maybe took small bribes, and it’ll become a slippery slope to a fully for-sale goverment again.

Because then they’ll think it’s about Harris, when she would’ve just delayed it.