Yes, and if that's the only issue that matters to you, and you ignore the impact on all those other people, I guess that's fair to say they are the same. But does all that extra suffering serve a purpose? Are you volunteering yourself to bear any of it, or only others?
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Straw men? You understand that these are actually things that are really happening, right?
The GOP didn't update their platform since, like, 2015, unless you count Project 2025, which Trump claimed to know nothing about. In the 2020 election, it still referenced running against Obama.
I understand how you've arrived at that conclusion, but you should investigate Popper's Paradox.
It would be so much more interesting to see the % of dollars claimed.
Does negging his customers count as an idea?
I mean, they are also responsible for making news a for-profit enterprise, which has arguably ultimately killed it.
Yeah, that's fair.
The FDA was already fucking worthless. I got severe food poisoning from some grocery store pre-boiled eggs some years ago, and when I asked them to look into it to prevent other people getting sick, they just connected me with the grocery store lawyers who were just useless and defensive.
Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? is a really good graphic novel about a kid's relationship with his dad through the lens of retrofuturism, as it gradually tarnishes, starting with the 1939 World's Fair.
I'll probably go to Expo 2025 in Osaka this year, since I'll happen to be there, but it'll be hard to maintain any real optimism.
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The "light truck" exemption is a huge problem, and needs to be repealed.
Big cars also reduce everyone else's visibility.