It's also building "trust" that they're doing something. It's easy to confuse busyness with business.
" I still hate Trump"
That's OK, steady wins the race - no rush.
Sounds like Colbert telling his audience what to like and what to hate :D
That's a long-winded way to say that rights are based on power :) You're on your way though, that's good.
As for property, its definition is basically the ability to decide the usage/consumption (depending on the kind of good).
In as much, there are 2 kinds of property. The first one is so called "use property". If you have a chocolate hidden and I find it, it's in my hands, I have it and also have the power to decide if I want to consume it. I have the "use property" of it.
Then, you come along and realize I've eaten it and you spin up the receipt by which you bought said ex-bar of chocolate and you say - righteously - THAT WAS MINE!
And sure enough it was, because you have the second type of property, the ownership by Law. And therein lies the rub - what justifies the Law? As you're in the process of discovering, it's the balance of a multitude of interacting/counteracting power struggles. Some sublime, some open.
Is GEOTUS going to make an appearance on this? I mostly watch them for the press beatings :)
Absolutely. And that's why the effort to curb the spread of socialism in the US is so critical. Socialism and Republic are completely incompatible.
This reeks of fake news. Not in the sense that Fauci isn't employed by the NIH or that the NIH doesn't get money from the vaccine. The problem with this story is that that NIH belongs to ... the US government.
So... like ... wtf? :D
That's true - kinda* -, but it's simply side-stepping the question. From the standpoint of those in power, that's more than enough. Stalin and his henchmen don't care that the USSR has been dissolved after their death - they had their fill.
- Lots of empires of the past have survived from much longer through their power - both of internal and external suppression. Communism is simply much more self-fatal that the ancient regimes.
"The consent of the governed is a prerequisite to be governed."
Sufficient power is the only prerequisite for government. Ask Stalin if you have any doubts.
Hahaha, awesome! :D
If your job is a surgeon and you end up hating blood, do the transfer you to the reception desk?
Poker player.
Straight face is a great skill to have and hard to build. It can easily unnerve people because of the perceived impossibility to "read" it.
Maybe, but level 1 is the money:
"As long as their activities stay within government guidelines, tax-exempt nonprofits can invest in stocks without paying any taxes on stock dividends or gains on sales."
"In some parts of the world, it would be far more conducive for everyone if individual tribes and factions of people worked together to gather food, water, resources, etc. yet they decide to kill each other instead"
Like say in ... Europe? :)
Don't forget that wars are activities between societies, not individuals. And they happen because they (societies) - for various temporal reasons each time - decide that it's to their best interest to eradicate their opposing societies instead of peacefully trading with them.
"Fact checking" is slime language for censoring.
Well, half of the people are below the average IQ so ... if they can't see what's wrong with the "Trump thinks Chinatown is the same as China!" line, what exactly can you do?
"then that inherently means that there is nothing intrinsically valuable about human life. What happens when you teach people that human lives are not valuable?"
What does happen exactly? You go around killing people? Surely the reason you're not taking heads is NOT just because your religion says it's a bad thing, right? :)
The reason humans don't usually go around murdering is because they've recognized that social cooperation is better than living alone in the cave with your sheep. And for social cooperation, you need OTHER humans. And you can't have other humans if everyone is stabbing each other.
Ceteris paribus, that's correct. But it's not ceteris paribus because as others already pointed out, they forced the shutdown. It's not like the economy failed without intervention.
Is it bad? Yes. Would it be better to not do helicopter money? No.
Absolutely, you're right. That's why few (as a percentage of) people press forward on the gym path and also few (try to) escape the herd mentality.
An interesting book on the subject (excluding its archaic style, given that it was written 100 years ago) is the "Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War" (funnily enough in the context of our chat, written by a surgeon doctor).
Well, yes and no.
The yes part: There's an Ancient Greek aphorism that translates to "Healthy mind inside a healthy body", meaning that the healthy body is like a temple to nurture the healthy mind.
The no part: pumping iron doesn't "directly" progress you into a doctor :) Pumping iron is great and builds character - and you can use that character to speed into studying the science of thinking but they're fundamentally different activities.
All good things can be done with sufficient force. Morals aside, the real unsolvable problem is that the required bureaucracy to sustain said force always leads to destruction.
Personally, I don't love freedom only because of the (beautiful) morality of it. I also love it because it's the only thing that actually works if one doesn't like to have their kids eat dirt for food.
What's on the picture frame on the left? A pixelated zoom of an tooth-brush?
Who would have thought that in 2020, the world would be perfectly fine with regular multi-hour live-streaming of public group sodomization by a kingly orange primate with lustrous head fur? :D
The enemy of progressive is OTHER corrupt politicians. They've no problem if those in power are on their team :)
"The Populists were animated by a radical agrarianism that celebrated the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian assault on monopolistic power. Their concept of national democracy rested on the hope that the states and Congress might counteract the centralizing alliance between national parties and the trusts. In contrast, the progressives championed a new national order that completely repudiated the localized democracy of the 19th century."
Strong, uncountable bureaucratic government of the executive branch without checks an balances is the progressive dream. Progressives are basically the same as Fascists, with a different brand name.
"So we aren't supposed to have to prove any power to maintain our rights. That's the basis of our Nation."
Are you certain? What about the Jeffersonian quote about the tree of liberty? :)
"Why haven't we physically removed our mass murdering Governors? "
I'll use some words that have come to have a very negative connotation but that's because I don't prefer to go the long-winded way. Just assume the words use don't imply those negative connotations but are merely used as representing categories.
No revolutions have started from what is called "hoi polloi". So, since there's no group from the "hoi oligoi" to guide the former, it hasn't happened.
"The only legitimacy any government ever had on this continent is the consent of the governed. King George never engaged in this much tyranny."
I agree.