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MyMindIsLikeAnOcean

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  • Uber's women-only option goes nationwide in the US

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  • Thank for being honest.

    My angle is I have a few friends who’ve been assaulted in cabs and Ubers. Yeah…they were smashed and engaging in risky behaviour…but they didn’t deserve what happened. I’m all about harm reduction.

    Sure…some edge cases will always game the system…but I also can’t think of a reason not to try to address a problem.

  • Uber's women-only option goes nationwide in the US

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  • Focus on the content instead of the diss.

  • Epstein Files Interest Drops 95% as US-Israel Strikes on Iran Dominate Headlines

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  • Eh? “Interest” isn’t what the mainstream media is pushing on us.

  • Uber's women-only option goes nationwide in the US

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  • No, women being able to request female drivers doesn’t put them more at risk. It’s puts them much less at risk. Why are you making things up? You fantasizing about “dark scenarios” doesn’t make them likely.

    If you have any friends…chances are you have one or more that have been sexually assaulted after hiring a ride…that’s how common it is.

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  • Right. Water is also wet. Why are we saying things everybody knows?

    If you have any friends…odds are one or more have been sexually assaulted after hiring a ride….that’s how common it is. It’s reasonable to give women a less a dangerous option.

  • Polls show concerns about Trump’s mental acuity increasing

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  • Huh…we’ve known Trump was senile since before he was elected the first time. He’s just a talking point robot…arguably the best “politician” we’ve ever seen: Reagan 2.0.

    If anyone recalls, Trump used the “I know what you are, but what am I?” strategy to switch the conversation to Biden’s cognitive ability from his own. 

    …I guess it REALLY worked, because a lot of folks have memory-holed themselves.

  • Income Tax Is Theft

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  • I think you’re getting downvoted into oblivion because people are reading your headline and not your post?

    There’s nothing to argue with in your message. I don’t know the particulars of your income/tax situation…but, yeah, if the people with all the money paid appropriate taxes…then many actual working people wouldn’t need to, and society would be more healthy. You’d still be paying a ton of excise taxes.

  • As Trump’s DHS Ravages US, Schumer Says His Job Is “to Fight for Aid to Israel”

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  • Is Israel ever going to be anonymous? 

    What do you even call a state that needs massive and ongoing injections of arms and cash? Seems to me that the greater Israel plan is essential, if they’re ever going to be an actual sovereign state.

    Palestinians are just the first hurdle…but turning Gaza into a tourist trap isn’t going to pay the bills. They’re going to need to take much more territory from it’s neighbours…nothing short of regions with large oil reserves.

  • Democrats launch aggressive campaign to win back infrequent voters

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  • Hmm. Opening new offices and hiring people seems more like a way to keep the cycle of donor money moving, rather than a strategy to win…absent any actual messaging or policy changes from Democratic leadership.

    When I read the article I expected the regional initiatives to have some sort of mechanism to change messaging and policy. It doesn’t seem to me that “listening” is what’s needed…we know exactly what these potential voters want.

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    Rent is theft

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  • Indeed. The system is currently set up to prevent people who aren’t already earning rent from acquiring property to earn rent.

    instead of encouraging citizens to buy one property to rent it out…at a reasonable price, perhaps…and have a relationship with their tenant…our system punishes small owners or people trying to enter the market and rewards those who already have the wealth.

  • Trumpcare

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  • Bingo. Socializing profits or whatever this is called…”neoliberalism” “private public partnerships” is exactly what destroyed everything good about western society.

  • Trumpcare

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  • I love that.

    In Canada the eyecare industry is a capitalist hellscape. We just got national dental care and now the opticians and eye doctors are jealous and revolting against their own system because people are buying their contacts and glasses online and not going to the eye doctor. Less and less people have jobs that cover eye care so the ones I talk to want their industry socialized like everyone else’s in the health industry.

  • Former Minnesota governor says state should seek to become part of Canada

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  • I was being silly…and I thought I agreed with most of your points. I’m really not tying to fight.

    Meh…if it’s devolved to complaining about my writing structure…this isn’t happening in good faith. 

    Rock on, eh.

  • ‘Earthquake of biblical proportions’ as Democrat flips deep-red Texas State Senate seat

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  • Not even close.

    “Sort of or mostly corrupt” v “Cartoon villain corrupt” are two different things. Better is better.

    One will pander to you sometimes, the other hates you. Choose one.

  • ‘Earthquake of biblical proportions’ as Democrat flips deep-red Texas State Senate seat

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  • Whether he incites riots or not…he’s going to try and cancel the elections.

  • Former Minnesota governor says state should seek to become part of Canada

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  • Not Minnesota, no. It’s not in the Bible Belt…they love hockey…they endure the cold. I think there’s more in common there with much of Canada than there are differences. It’s not the only difference…but we couldn’t just move the border because we’d get flooded with guns…and half of them would literally revolt if they had to follow our gun rules. It’s a small state…but there’s 6 million of them and they’d overwhelm us.

    Yeah…Canada has pretty much lost sight of it’s roots of being distinct and different from the US. We slide more and more into a capitalist hellscape. Most of our stores are American…Canadians consume less and less media that’s culturally Canadian…our right wingers tend not to differentiate themselves from American right wingers…and an increasing number of them prefer American right wingers to Canadian left wingers…and vice versa. It’s happened mostly in my lifetime and it’s depressing. Very recently…20-30 years ago Canadians understood your message: that American left wingers are to the right of Canadian right wingers…but that’s all changed…I don’t know exactly when it happened…but we’ve become more homogenized.

    Everybody in my circles is educated about politics, and we generally understand it better because of our education and complicated party system…but yeah…we’re miles from being educated enough

  • Trump Calls His Enemies Terrorists. Does That Mean He Can Just Kill Them?

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  • Is the Intercept any good any more, generally speaking? Earnest question.

    I used to read it when Grimm and Scahill were around…but I realized I haven’t read an article there in years. This one seems OK.

  • Former Minnesota governor says state should seek to become part of Canada

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  • No, I dont think that. Are you just trying to find things to argue about? Sounds like we generally agree but you want to fight?

    I wouldn’t say “Canadians are quite ignorant”, speak for yourself…or maybe just conservative Canadians.

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  • You didn’t engage with anything I wrote and just ranted about what you wanted to reply to.

    I’m Canadian…and I stayed no opinions in my reply, just the lay of the land as I see it. I agree that the US sucks, agree that Canada is mediocre and getting worse, and I absolutely do not want Americans joining us…especially the gun nuts, fundamentalists etc.

    All I was saying is that we’re a lot closer to each other than all this hyperbole and combative rhetoric would have us believe…Minnesota and isn’t some monolith of conservative boogeymen…they’re mostly nice and reasonable people, and there’s many who would appreciate what makes us better than them.

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