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My youngest son developed epileptic seizures after about a week from being born. They ran a different test for about 2 weeks and he was hospitalised a...

Or you can stop wanting to be saved by "leaders".

There's a difference between the quality of healthcare available and the number of people that can afford it. If people don't take out insurance and c...

I'm already looking forward to the Democratic establishment not understanding how that could've happened. Just like when they forwarded one of the mos...

Well, let's see. Taking my disposable income, so after taxes, social security and pension contributions it looks like this: Mortgage makes up about 33...

errr... I'm not American so I've got excellent social security but I do pay about 52% taxes after deductibles. I wouldn't know what a realistic upper ...

These are all insurable events that don't require government involvement. I've got insurance except for becoming jobless but with my skill set that wi...

OK. I'm curious so I'll try to play devil's advocate to the best of my ability. Let's say I think lower corporate taxes will benefit the economy becau...

"just"? Language in politics is paramount. Climate change wasn't a thing until maybe 10 years ago. Only if people talk about something will it become ...

huh, rereading my own posts I did the same: using cfr and mortality rate interchangeably that is.

Could you perhaps be confusing the case fatality rate with the mortality rate?

What are you basing the .3 to 1% on? I haven't seen CFR estimates that low and it seems more like the numbers I saw for the mortality rate (which incl...

Ok, so why isn't someone, who believes lower taxes are better, not just wrong but also irrational?

This might just be semantics. Just to check : can someone be wrong and still be considered rational?

Yeah, you obviously didn't read the declaration. It doesn't promote immigration. It promotes safe immigration while being "determined to address the r...

Fine. I'd probably stop caring about healthcare around 100 kUSD as well. The point remains that you will fundamentally misunderstand, and in the proce...

I voted other. It's a duopoly politically speaking and economically it's an oligarchy. The latter' s stranglehold on the political system isn't perfec...

Why is it irrational? If I make 1 million USD a year then social security isn't an issue and it isn't irrational. If I ideologically believe tax is th...

I'm afraid that by focusing on the illustrative example as my "argument" you missed the actual argument. If people vote on single issues then a two-pa...

If I may butt in. US voters don't have choices when it comes to candidates. As a result, people will tend to vote based on a single or two issues that...

Going on those numbers and transposing it to Covid-19 would mean 875-1,750 million infected and with a worst case fatality rate of about 2% would mean...

I think precisely that because the draconic measures that China enacted aren't quickly used in the Netherlands and neigbouring countries we do run a r...

Your issues are relevant but they are small compared to the real problem the USA has and that's that it's basically not a democracy. In a way you fail...

I actually think you're downplaying the risk of covid-19 a bit too much. The comparison with ebola isn't warranted because the incubation time of ebol...

Fair point. I'll stop using it.

They lost last time and it didn't stop them. It seems many Bernie voters realise this is not just about winning or losing. Perhaps that also means the...

What other things would you have expected from the government? I think to some extent they couldn't have acted differently, in part because the US is ...

Also, not to nit-pick, but Trump didn't do shit. He's been enabled by a political system and an electorate that's been shafted for so many years that ...

You make a terrible risk manager. You run that risk regardless of who runs against Trump. If anybody else than Bernie runs, it's 100% certain the stat...

True and by all accounts they succeeded but at what cost in the long run? And I'm not talking about the immediate financial burden carried by tax paye...

All things made possible by the system. Getting rid of Trump may get rid of a particular excess but this is happening continually in the US at various...

Formally it was the Fed. That's because they have a responsibility for the stable operation of capital markets and payment systems (I'm assuming the D...

He's an actual billionaire instead of pretending to be one?

There's no flaw in the reasoning, you're working with the wrong premisse. Trump isn't the problem, he's a symptom.

I think what I enjoy the most about Sanders is that it is about his ideas, which was also the case for Warren, and not "can this guy beat Trump". I'm ...

Once again, only half the story. Plenty of European countries that have less strong unions do use minimum wage laws and they are also considered socia...

US centrism is always so much fun. It's an INTERNATIONAL conspiracy man! ALL the European and Asian universities are in on it too! Damn conspirational...

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Try a dictionary if my meaning and my earlier point escaped you.

Even worse than the decrepit logic and unnecessary rhetorical flourishes is pretending you don't do it on purpose.

False dichotomy.

Sorry, I was being cheeky and tried to illustrate what the logical conclusion would be of polarisation.

awesome. You've got my vote.

It's again a mischaracterisation. Bismarck was being pragmatic. He implemented single payer health care to appease the working class and lower the inf...

"a little"... Yes, a total mischaracterisation. Proof to me that the work a senator does is very little work and in particular in Sanders' case as app...

You don't need a good grasp to understand that this is a mischaracterisation. Why don't you prove this is the case with your apparent in depth underst...

I PM'ed to avoid cluttering the thread. You can always just shoot the other side and be done with. Might be a good solution for a lot of things really...

That goes without saying. Only actual existing people have options.

Some ideas: Promoting carbon farming Isolating older buildings, particularly in poor neighbourhood Carbon tax to internalise costs that are now extern...

First off, Xtrix didn't say that, he said this particular administration exacerbates the problem of global warming due to its policies. Second, I reac...