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I get where you're coming from. But there's a side of this that I suspect you're not really thinking through. Do you have a retirement account? Do you think it makes sense for the government to tax that retirement account on it's market value every year? The sort of assets you're talking...

Sure. But it's also true. Pretty much all of the organizations that are collecting donations and fighting for trans stuff right now are ones that were originally involved in gay and lesbian rights to same sex marriages and equal treatment under the law. Look back through the history, at when...

Because it has value. But that value isn't realized until the asset is liquidated. Banks may allow some types of illiquid wealth as collateral, because the bank then has a claim against that asset. If you default on the loan, they can claim value from those assets and either directly take...

Fair points all around

Why do you think that we shouldn't be allowed to discuss the immediate issues around drugs, shoplifting, and property crime without also addressing everything else? I'm happy to address those other issues... in a different thread. To be fair, most of the people under the influence in your neck...

Political views about the supreme court, taxes, and whether capitalism is evil seem pretty far removed from what constitutes reasonable drug laws in my opinion.

WTF are you talking about?

Your response to someone not complying with your demand that they rearrange their language is to persecute them... and you think that's a reasonable response?

I think that you've either not understood Jarhyn's positions... or you haven't been able to parse the needlessly jargon-laden and speculatively framed Butleresque prose that gets used in them. Jarhyn has consistently argued against body-sex having any meaning or impact at all. Jarhyn has...

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...with larger than average skulls have brain volumes in the "average male" range. So the actual material difference in play is the difference in *size* between men and women. The other item that has been repeatedly challenged (and in a couple of cases demonstrated) has to do with specific...

😁 At least we're both speaking outside of our areas of expertise, based on more or less layperson understandings! We don't have contemporary descriptions of Dine culture before the introduction of sheep, because Dine did not have written traditions. We do, however, have at least some...

Actually... the LGBTQXYZ alliance exists because those activist organizations accomplished the overwhelming majority of their goal of equal rights for homosexuals in developed nations... and didn't want to lose their incomes. So they shifted focus and decided that TQETC was just as much of a...

Not all drugs are created equal. Think of the difference between the alcoholic and the pothead. Neither are good, but who is going to run over you or beat the crap out of you in a rage?

Just out of curiosity... do you consider drunk driving to NOT be an ancillary crime? Assaults while inebriated? Alcohol-related domestic violence? Drunk and disorderly? Prohibition didn't work as intended, true. Many people who previously got drunk a lot still got drunk, because alcohol...

This seems entirely irrelevant to this thread. I'm sure there's somewhere more appropriate you could have posted this.

Reasonable drug laws that disallow public use, driving while under the influence, and being high in public. Retain the illegality of some of the more extreme drugs, for example I really don't think that fentanyl or methamphetamines should be legal for recreational use at all. For some of the...

Okaaaayyyyyy... But I really have to question the wisdom of this. Those cities gave it three years, and during that time things got worse for everyone else in the city. What is the trade-off that you feel is appropriate? How many law-abiding, non-drug-using, tax-paying citizens need to suffer...

Because that's worked so very well in Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco?

I have a solution: Let's get rid of cities so people can behave like people instead of rabid rats. To be fair, that might be a biased view driven by my own deep dislike of cities.