Artemis

Sheesh, even Nietsche knew to call it the "über-human."

You're a moving target. It may feel like that means you're getting somewhere in the conversation, but it just suggests you can't really defend a posit...

Since the discussion is about whether the rules should be changed, your back-stepping doesn't make much sense in the context of this thread.

First of all, your math still wouldn't add up to less than millions for the security you're talking about. But that aside, it's striking to me that yo...

I'm not sure you have a good grasp on how long money will stretch in this economy...

Oh, right, I forgot that being an instant billionaire is a choice everyone just has to make. How does that work? Pray at night and then wake up in a m...

You mean in the hands of your employer, the market, and the corporations from which you buy the goods for your "freedom and security." Thinking it's a...

There are for specific types of cancer better resources here than elsewhere, I'll grant us that. Of course, providing you can pay for it all. Other sp...

Ciao!

So of course drug users and their babies deserve bad health outcomes. S/

Here's one explanation.

Nope, you do not. For example, part of the reason for such dismal maternal health outcomes is lack of access, yes. But, even when you take that out of...

If you pay private insurance, you're paying more than you would with taxes with less coverage. You can get covered for everything I mentioned and more...

You're funding the total of it.

Interesting to note, when you pay for private insurance (or really anything in the private sector) you get even less information. Also interesting to ...

You're contributing to the total.

I don't really see why or how in the world the destination of the total versus the individual dollars makes a difference.

Which do currently exist and are open and available to the public, just fyi.

:wink: let the games begin 1. If the trickle-down effect worked at all (which is what I think your first idea there is alluding to) then America would...

Sorry you feel that way. Still waiting for an actual argument.

So you're sticking with "because I just don't wanna." Well, when you have an argument, get back to me.

To continue the conversation I asked what your reason for X is. You haven't offered me anything aside from versions of "because I don't wanna." There ...

Defend against what? :rofl:

Still waiting for a good reason on your end.

And right there you've shown you don't even understand what taxes and the government are and what their purpose is.

Because.....?

Depends why you want lower taxes.

Yes. :rofl:

Being pro-life is generally a whole, consistent worldview. Being against taxes and healthcare tends to run into inconsistencies and contradictions the...

Yes.

If you were a single person household.

Understanding why someone is voting for something and understanding that this vote is irrational are not only not incompatible, they necessarily go to...

No one is saying that millionaires would be voting against their own interests by voting against healthcare.

No, I understood your argument fully. I'm saying that it only applies to certain issues, and that you listed one in which it is a rational decision, a...

I don't believe in moral debt, per se. But I think as an analogy or metaphor it kinda works. People here are suggesting that doing right all your life...

Your argument works for the pro-life side of things. But voting for lower taxes against social programs such as universal healthcare is precisely an e...

Right, because even an honest person knows when they're about to tell you something that sounds totally coo-coo-bananas.

The Atlantic Article Not fake, per se, but misleading.

So, my analogy is accurate.

And here I thought it was the scientists predicting climate catastrophe!

Is this a version of what you will tell your doc when he informs you that you have Stage 3 cancer? "Well, a voodoo priest and a gypsy with a crystal b...

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?

It's not like some big, mysterious secret: https://www.politicalsciencecareer.com/senator.html https://www.adn.com/politics/2019/08/18/a-day-in-the-li...

I don't think you have a very good grasp on what politicians do all day...

Only in politics do we suggest extensive experience doing the job somehow makes you less able to do the job than someone with no experience. Well... M...

I will vote for whoever is not Trump in the end. And if the American people, including some so-called moderate dems, would rather vote for Trump over ...

Bernie already has opened the door for a whole new set of ideas and talking points and politicians to enter the field. Even if he can't do as much as ...

I agree with that, and I agree that in an ideal society all basic needs would be provided for. Of course, we'd still need to ensure that people work, ...

All work and no play makes Frank a dull boy.... Buuuuuuut, All play and no $$$ makes Frank a homeless, hungry, cold boy with a cardboard sign at the i...

My (completely unprofessional, so take it from whence it comes) impression is that you should look into it being one of the three following: 1. It cou...