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    Today, 03:11 PM
    Dave Smith vs. Chris Freiman | What's the ideal immigration policy? | Just Asking Questions, Ep. 16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M23uW7G1OEE {ReasonTV | 28 March 2024} Podcaster Dave Smith and philosopher Chris Freiman debate open borders on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions. Text and links to sources available here: https://reason.com/podcast/2024/03/28/dave-smith-vs-chris-freiman-whats-the-ideal-immigration-policy/ What's the ideal immigration policy?
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  • susano's Avatar
    Today, 03:10 PM
    I agree with control being local. The experiments in legalization of dangerous man made drugs should serve as a lesson to other locales who are considering the same.
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  • susano's Avatar
    Today, 03:05 PM
    Fentanyl production is legal. It's used in hospitals, especially in surgery. It's not so much illegal drug trafficking but trafficking (and manufacturing) in controlled substances. I don't know about comparisons to bathtub gin. You've gotta drink gin to OD on it and fentanyl is so deadly that unintentional exposure has killed or nearly killed people: Dad reveals horrific details of baby’s reported fentanyl overdose at S.F. playground https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-authorities-investigating-whether-a-17621718.php What possible reason does it make sense to have drugs like that on the streets?
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  • susano's Avatar
    Today, 02:49 PM
    Excellent response. I rarely read anything from Reason because it seems kind of commie, to me. I often see similarities between communism and whatever they're peddling (Utopia ideasphere). Where does the intellectualizing become critical theory? While some of those criticisms sounded legit, we don't know the details and will have to wait and see. I'm pro populist, too. Sure as hell beats unpopular. It's a stupid term for politics, anyway. Last but not least, I'm on record as supporting Bukele. In the ideaspehere, everything seems to start with the assumption that any given population is moral, reasonable and favors self control. Well, in real life that's not the case in a lot of places, like these violence infested shitholes. If Milei sees a reason to address drug trafficking, it's probably a problem that threatens Argentina, like most of Latin America.
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    Today, 02:49 PM
    Don't mind me. I just picked this thread at random to post this in. Carry on.
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    Today, 02:42 PM
    The fentanyl thing is not really much different from the poisonous "bathtub gin" problem that existed during alcohol prohibition. It's a problem that occurs because of prohibition, not because of "legalization". The problem with all these so-called "legalization" schemes is that they only "legalize" possession and consumption, but not production and distribution (which remain criminal). So the only producers, distributors, and sellers will be criminals who will (1) be prone to violence to protect their turf and profits, and (2) have no incentives to care about the quality or safety of their products. Notice that, unlike during alcohol prohibition, innocent (and even not-so-innocent) people are not being injured or killed during running gun battles between competing alcohol distributors (such as Anheuser-Busch and Miller Brewing Co.). Brewers and sellers don't need to peddle their wares on schoolyards, and those who peddle poisonous products can be held civilly and/or criminally liable to their victims. And this was all without having to coddle drunks (unlike what is going on in Portland and elsewhere with respect to drugs & addicts).
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  • susano's Avatar
    Today, 02:19 PM
    Well, yeah, but who's in control? The psychopaths are (including federales and military) because there's nothing stopping them. In less violent cultures, like north America (though becoming far violent than in the past), addicts are all over the streets, committing crime and dropping dead on the shit covered sidewalks. Vancouver, Portland, Seattle, Philly, are real life experiments in legalization or lax enforcement of drug laws. We've gone from weed being a harmless and natural plant that anyone should be free to use (I agree) to fentanyl and other who knows what drugs flooding those cities and it's made them shitholes. This is worth watching if you haven't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT8OU8Yhs_s
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    Today, 02:14 PM
    Portland's problem isn't the "legalization". Portland's problem is the irresponsible addict-coddling of batshit insanity progressivism. From the thread about that very subject:
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  • susano's Avatar
    Today, 02:01 PM
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_War Wow. Never heard of this. It was about a lot more than football, though, I guess. That just solidifies my own opinion that organized sports serve to keep the masses stupid and in the team mentality for when the real SHTF. It's interesting that the violence part wasn't a thing in north America. Maybe that's an indication of higher IQ or something. It's not just a white thing because the Brits act like morons over "footie", though not as violent as someplace like Brazil which isn't very white. What do you make of it? Sounds like a good topic for a grant proposal for a few million in research welfare.
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    Today, 01:36 PM
    Why is ‘Libertarian’ Reason Unreasonably Smearing Argentina’s Javier Milei? https://ampamerica.com/nichols-why-is-libertarian-reason-unreasonably-smearing-argentinas-javier-milei/ {Brian Nichols | 28 March 2024} When I saw the recent hit piece by Antonella Marty, CEO of Sociedad Atlas at The Atlas Society, in Reason magazine attacking Argentina’s new president Javier Milei, I had to rub my eyes in disbelief. Could this really be coming from the CEO of a prominent libertarian think tank, published in a respected libertarian outlet ? The op-ed, which portrays Milei as an authoritarian populist, is so rife with distortions and unfounded allegations that it borders on intellectual malpractice. As a proud libertarian, I feel compelled to set the record straight and defend a man who is bravely trying to pull his country out of the abyss of socialism. Let’s start by examining the central claim of Marty’s piece – that Milei is not a “real” libertarian because of some of his policy decisions and rhetoric. But since when did the Atlas Society and Reason magazine, of all places, provide a platform for such blatant purity testing and gate-keeping? The reality is that governing is messy business, especially in a country as dysfunctional as Argentina. Milei has inherited an economic catastrophe marked by hyperinflation, stifling regulations, and unsustainable government spending. In this context, some deviations from libertarian orthodoxy are not only understandable, but necessary as transitional measures. https://twitter.com/Libertarium_arg/status/1763669774846824742 1763669774846824742
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  • susano's Avatar
    Today, 01:29 PM
    That's a good point. Could just be that these degenerates get even more so when drugged and were more controllable for him. In the lawsuit, the most interesting thing I thought was in there was that Diddy and one of his sons went into a bathroom with a third guy and the guying suing was sitting near the closed door when multiple gunshots rang out. Diddy and his kid walked out and the third lay seriously bleeding (don't know if he's alive or dead). Diddy ordered the blood cleaned up and to tell the cops that it happened outside and as a result of a drive by shooting. LAPD played along, made no arrests, and papers ran the drive by story the next day. LAPD is notoriously corrupt and it looks like they did what Diddy ordered, as did the press.
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    Today, 01:17 PM
    There was a terrible knife attack, on a train in England, just a couple of days ago. The huge knife looked to be an ordinary kitchen knife. Then the police went on to show a CCTV shot of the perp, from the day before, walking the streets with the knife in hand and followed with saying there was no known danger to the public at this time and that was while the perp was on the loose. They've had the knife attack thing going on for a long time and now it's come here.
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  • susano's Avatar
    Today, 01:11 PM
    For reasons I don't understand, Latin America is violent and that's a big factor in the drug trade. I don't really know what I think about about all of this legalization idea. They did it in Portland and Vancouver British Columbia and the results have been disastrous. Even with just weed, California where it's legal, has a huge problem with illegal grows by organized crime. If the licensing aspect were also removed, I don't think it would make any difference.
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  • susano's Avatar
    Today, 12:58 PM
    Yeah, the worse thing I see about it is the men who lost their lives.
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  • Occam's Banana's Avatar
    Today, 12:56 PM
    I hate all the War on Drugs bullshit, but South America (and Central America, and Mexico) is a god-forsaken basket-case of drug-cartel corruption and violence, so I'm not going to complain (too much) about whatever Bukele, Milei, et al. decide they have to do to mitigate it. The best thing that could be done for South America (and Central America, and Mexico) is for the rest of the world (especially the United States) to put an end to War on Drugs and legalize (or decriminalize, or whatever) it all. That would do far more to impoverish the cartels and drive them out of business than all the laws in the world. (So, of course, that's the one thing that won't happen - the CIA would never stand for it, among other reasons.)
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    Today, 12:49 PM
    220 lbs and 6.5' tall of dogs who don't get along with each other. :eek:
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    Today, 12:41 PM
    https://twitter.com/chayesmatthew/status/1773383673074552968 1773383673074552968 https://twitter.com/chayesmatthew/status/1773414327556452750 & https://twitter.com/chayesmatthew/status/1773414467071578383 https://twitter.com/cliftonaduncan/status/1773417003614646703
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  • susano's Avatar
    Today, 12:41 PM
    That was a very long laundry list of criticisms. Without being in the know and not being inclined to dig through Spanish language publications to learn more, some of it sounds legitimate, like raising politicians and bureaucrat's salaries and simply consolidating government agencies rather than truly getting rid of them. I don't view that as minor. Milei once said that "the State is like a pedophile in a kindergarten with children chained up and covered in Vaseline. Who can deny that? All the more reason to take the (Rand Paul) chainsaw to the protected class. As for his dogs, which has nothing to do with anything but is just interesting: Milei ordered that the bobbins be built where his dogs will be, that they are aggressive and cannot have contact with each other, because during the pandemic they lost sociability.
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    Today, 12:16 PM
    For example, instead of just briefly mentioning a list of tax hikes or the seemingly pointless purchase of fighter jets - which are two of the more problematic items, IMO - they could have made an effort to determine if those actions were actually instigated by Milei himself, or whether they are things he had to accede to as part of his agreement with the coalition partners (Bullrich, Obaid, et al.) whose support he needed in order to win the election (and will continue needing in order to enact other policies). In either case, they are bad things and deserve to be criticized, but as I've pointed out several times in this thread, Milei is not the OmniGod of Argentina - he was always definitely going to have to enact at least some unlibertarian policies, regardless of whether he really wanted to or not (not possibly, not probably, but definitely). In assessing and judging Milei, it makes a difference whether he "wanted to" or "had to". Reason could have helpfully tried to sort that out, but instead they just went "bitch mode" . The nature of politics - and especially electoral politics - is that you can easily do that with anyone. If Ron Paul had become POTUS, Reason could have written exactly the same kind of article about him - "Oh, look, he appointed his less-than-honorable grandson-in-law Jesse Benton as his Chief of Staff! Nepotism!" - "Oh, look, those newsletters! Racism!" - "Oh, look, the military spent more money on planes! All that 'non-interventionism' stuff must have been bullshit, after all!" - and so on. I suspect this has much more to do with Reason's social libertinism vis-à-vis Milei's social conservatism than it has to do with actual libertarian principles. (Hence, their complaints about "gender issues" and Milei being a "pro-lifer"). In the case of Milei (or Ron Paul), was that money offset by greater spending reductions elsewhere? Maybe. Maybe not. If not, was it by choice or political necessity? Who knows? Reason couldn't (or wouldn't) be bothered to try to find out and tell us.
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    Today, 11:27 AM
    I don't know anything about ships and the shipping business but I'm gonna guess, that like everything else, time is money and there's probably pressure to get things moving, especially considering that shipping is experiencing other problems causing delays due to the Houthis and the drought in Panama.
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    Today, 11:20 AM
    I'm happy to say that I have *NOT* listened to any P Diddy "music" but I thought this was all par for the course in the entertainment industry. Basically all degenerate Satanists, made gazillionairs by Jews. Here are the gory details from the guy suing him: https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/diddy-v-jones-sexual-assault-complaint-feb-2024.pdf
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    Today, 11:19 AM
    :D :D:D
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    Today, 11:02 AM
    Notice it says, "mechanics had been trying to fix the issue". Maybe they should have called an electrician.
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    Today, 10:43 AM
    They have a few - but unfortunately, instead of actually providing any substantive examination of those few points, they only mention those points in passing so they can spend the vast majority of the article indulging in innuendo and other nonsense like griping about his dogs (or bizarrely complaining that army officers can't get tattoos, paint their nails, or grow beards).
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    Today, 10:31 AM
    You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Intrepid again. Just exactly so.
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    Today, 10:09 AM
    Judge Kaplan: It is the judgment of the court that you are sentenced to 240 months then consecutive 60 for a total of 300 months https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1773376645161730378 to: https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1773377112294002908 https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/1773340043744010640 to: https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/1773376299626574125 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1773340043744010640.html]
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    Today, 09:43 AM
    https://twitter.com/jonstewart/status/1773094797676253293 https://twitter.com/jimmy_dore/status/1773328625749958737
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