The story of progress is equally the rejection of bad change as it is the embrace of positive change.
An ironic statement given the contrast between the ideological premise of this thread and ... well, reality.
You mean the terrible Obama policy under which unemployment got cut in half and the stock market regained everything it lost in the Bush crash and then some? Okay.
That can't be, the song "big rock candy mountain", is real, and if you just tug your bootstraps, you'll become the big wheel at the Sara Lee factory. Murca.
(This is, of course, the point at which Trump's toadies start desperately searching for ways to manipulate the numbers. "Well, you see, if you look at housing starts divided by the price of bananas, then take the derivative of that function, then be sure to look at an 18-month rolling average, you can clearly see...")
True, but time and again tge world has been embracing this as good change and without fail its held up to the test of cold hard reality. You'll get there eventually, don't worry
There's a genius running around, Naval Ravikant, who recently said 'weed and video games will be the UBI of the future' (claimed it was at least part-joke). Naval's a very successful tech venture capitalist (provides funding and start up advice to net based business). It was part of a bigger conversation, and the context would add a bit more meaning to it. And I'd be happy to PM you some details, since it's such an interesting concept, and you already talked like a genius. Fun stuff.
People missing a freedom that they've never really had is ... well, basically the story of almost every revolution the world has ever known. Most of the Tiananmen Square protesters had never known democracy. Most of the participants in the American Revolution had never not been the subjects of a monarch. (Although, admittedly, many of them were less interested in freedom for everyone than they were in being able to keep more of the profits from oppression for themselves.)
Indeed, in fact they had been the subjects (in practise) of a Parliament, after which Congress was modelled. Sadly today the Monarchy has effectively undermined that Parliament in favour of a unelected leader pushing through a policy with virtually no support amongst the public or our representatives under the guise of an emergency.
bullshit you don't have the freedom to sell heroin. It may not be legal, but unless you are literally chained to a computer desk as we speak you can indeed sell heroin. Nobody is stopping you from purchasing a large quantity of heroin, repackaging it and selling said packages to your neighbors.
Yeah, access to minds like his - especially when available in such a conversational format - is the best use I've found for the internet (I mean after porn of course). You found a really good one.
I think in the case of the NRA your guns are supposed to support your right to sell guns. It is funny how legal unrestricted sale of heroin actually is less harmful to society than gun sales as evidenced by countries where heroin is legal.
Another feather in Trump's cap is that the Commerce Department went back and revised all of 2018 GDP downward to 2.5%. Maybe he was being facetious when he said 6% growth.
