PeepinGoodArgs

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PeepinGoodArgs,

She says it costs $2.2 million to feed them kids, with the federal government covering the other $2.2 million.

Let’s set aside that Iowa has an FY24 spending budget of $8.5 billion, out of which $2.2 million is basically nothing…

Rather, let’s make this a 🅲🆄🅻🆃🆄🆁🅴 🆆🅰🆁 🅸🆂🆂🆄🅴! Parental rights, right? That thing where parents can uncritically direct “the care, custody, and control of their minor children.” It sanctifies the views of parents, elevating them over government intrusion. If a federal program provides $40 a month to each child in a low-income family to help with food costs via an EBT card, then, presumably, those parents are making the best choices for their children.

Right?

Not so! says Kim Reynolds. Low-income families are too stupid, she implies, not to give their kids nutritious foods when childhood obesity has become an epidemic. By not participating the federal program then, Reynolds is ostensibly protecting children. But really, her non-participation undermines sanctified parental choices in Iowa to provide for their kids.

And who is she to supersede parental rights? A Republican governor.

PeepinGoodArgs,

But like…that’s the thing. They have to look for a credible case to remove their political opponents. In contrast, the reason to remove Trump is self-evident, even to Republicans.

PeepinGoodArgs,

Yeah, except there was very detailed reasoning that went along with that ruling. Permitting crybaby ass Texas officials to just…follow their feelings would be insulting to everyone.

PeepinGoodArgs,

I remember reading an article like this. My main take away was that the effectiveness of right-wing attacks rely on centrist and center-left wing media to spread their message.

We’ve ended up in this weird asymmetric media situation where the right doesn’t take anything from the left seriously but the left takes a lot of the right seriously. The left can’t make a persuasive case to the right, but the right can make a persuasive case to the left. And so Christopher Rufo can spread his bullshit while the expertise of scientists in every discipline is rejected out of hand because it has any association with academia.

And what’s the alternative?

Texas’ Border Stunt Is Based on the Same Legal Theory Confederate States Used to Secede (www.thedailybeast.com)

A clash between Texas and the Biden administration over who controls the Texas-Mexico border continues to escalate this week as federal officials once again demanded the state give Border Patrol agents access to a park that is a popular corridor for migrants to enter the United States illegally....

PeepinGoodArgs,

Except the brinksmanship intensifies every year. For the longest time, during the regular years, Republicans never really considered shutting down the government, resulting in America defaulting on its loans. The House Freedom Caucus is trying to do exactly that and getting mad that they can’t.

And Republicans mostly privately talked about getting rid of Medicare and Social Security. Paul Ryan would be like, “What?! No, I never said we’d get rid of it! We just to restructure it!” or some bullshit.

And Republicans certainly never assaulted the administrative state the way they’re doing now. Project 2025 is an existential threat to the American we’ve come to know. It’s not an understatement to say that it will set us back almost every a century.

Idk, I see this all as a ploy in a grand scheme to fuck shit up.

It Will Be an Election Unlike Any We’ve Lived Through. Are the Democrats Prepared? (newrepublic.com)

The animating concept behind the Trump campaign will be chaos. This is what history shows us fascists do when given the chance to participate in democratic political campaigns: They create chaos. They do it because chaos works to their advantage. They revel in it, because they can see how profoundly chaos unnerves...

PeepinGoodArgs,

To stop the radical egalitarians!

PeepinGoodArgs,

Trump’s lawyers warned that if a president can be prosecuted for actions taken while in office “such prosecutions will recur and become increasingly common, ushering in destructive cycles of recrimination,” adding that “Without immunity from criminal prosecution, the Presidency as we know it will cease to exist.”

If Presidents commit crimes in office, they should be held accountable. And if the Presidency ceases to exist because of the justice of accountability, then let the office perish in injustice.

How the Rich Get Richer (economicsfromthetopdown.com)

Back in 1983, Gordon Getty — then the richest American — was worth about 75,000 times the net worth of the median American. But by 2019, Jeff Bezos — the new number one — was worth an astonishing 2 million times the American median net worth. This, my friends, is what we call filthy rich.

PeepinGoodArgs,

Texas’ highest court ruled that the state law never required that the risk to a mother’s life be “imminent” when weighting whether they are eligible for an abortion. Because of this, the court wrote: “Ms. Zurawski’s agonizing wait to be ill ‘enough’ for induction, her development of sepsis, and her permanent physical injury are not the results the law commands,” the Los Angeles Times reported.

Oh, now that’s interesting (in the dumbest way possible). Because the lawmakers who wrote the abortion law were ignorant fucks that wouldn’t know a vagina from their own urethra, the near death experiences these women endured weren’t caused by their attempt to adhere to the law?

That’s just straight up malicious. If following the law puts your life at risk, then wtf is the point of following the law? Why shouldn’t these women get an abortion if the choice is between abortion and jail or a very high likelihood of death?

Wtf does governing mean in Texas?

GOP Congressman Accidentally Gives Real Reason for Mayorkas Impeachment (newrepublic.com)

“We need to shut the border.… The president could take executive action to do it today—doesn’t need more money. It needs action, and this is what’s disappointing to people, and that’s why Mayorkas is gonna pay this public relations price by being impeached for the first time since 1876,” Hill said....

PeepinGoodArgs,

Great. He gave away the game. At least 40% of Americans are going to get played. Giving up the game has no consequences. Ask freakin’ Christopher Rufo if explaining his unreasonable strategy against critical race theory hurts him in anyway. Ask Steve Bannon. Ask Donald “Aspiring Dictator For A Day” Trump. Ask Steven Miller.

The game was given up a long time ago and we’re still playin’ it.

PeepinGoodArgs,

More like once the election is over, the crisis will mysteriously disappear.

PeepinGoodArgs,

Ahh good job, it’s a good thing that Republicans can’t govern. And this will be a good reminder so close to the election.

PeepinGoodArgs,

I feel like “Republican” is its own derogatory category now.

“Don’t be a Republican, care about your neighbor” or “Don’t be a Republican, check the facts” feel like completely reasonable things to say because Republicans have basically stereotyped themselves.

PeepinGoodArgs,

This also just misses the point entirely. Young people expect society as we know it to end within our lifetimes. Even if inflation does down for a bit, the ocean is still gonna be acidic af.

PeepinGoodArgs,

Yes.

A reasonable position and uncritical acceptance of a narrative are indistinguishable without the reasoning behind it. And I sincerely wish I could give others the benefit of the doubt that they reasoned their way to their beliefs, and I used to. But that assumption has been repeatedly violated that I’d be stupid to maintain it.

PeepinGoodArgs,

Yes! I’ve been on this journey!

Thomas Sowell’s bibliography is easily the best starting place. Just pick something and have at it. As a prominent conservative economist, his books actually make good arguments. It takes actual effort to deconstruct his arguments and identify where he’s wrong. He’s widely and highly respected in conservative communities and tackles a lot of the common cultural war issues.

Then there’s granddaddies Milton Friedman and F.A. Hayek. Also economists, they were directly impacted by the Cold War, and make intellectual cases that capitalism is the only economic system that leads to real individual freedom. And they also try to prove why the totalitarianism of the Soviet Union and every lesser species of it undermines liberty. Hayek’s Road to Serfdom and Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom are staples.

Castigated by modern conservatives because they’re not serious about anything, sociology’s Emile Durkheim is a cornerstone of the discipline. I’ve never read it, but his book *Suicide *concerns individuals within community and the institutions of it. He talks about a type of suicide derived from moral disorder and lack of clarity, anomic suicide.

One book that I found incredibly insightful was Yuval Levin’s The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left. This book is genuinely fair to both sides, and it shows the historical roots of conservatism and its relation to the French Revolution, when the right and the left as political stances first became a thing.

PeepinGoodArgs,

I go shopping with my wife sometimes and do standard husband things:

  • Hold up a bathing suit and ask, "Does this make my butt look big?"
  • Feel up women’s pajamas with suggestive looks…
  • Read the ridiculous phrases on their clothes and just riff on 'em
  • Act like a child and try to hide behind some thin dress like she can’t see me, then pop out and accuse her getting scared
  • Suggest ridiculous accessories and insist she’d like good in them (she would…but it’s not her style)
  • In sum, pretty much everything except help her shop

I'm so sick of every single medical-related question people have online constantly getting spammed with 'talk to your doctor!!!!'

The way people online constantly say ‘talk to your doctor’ like it’s a panacea is a lot like how medieval peasants weren’t able to read scripture and they just had to trust their clergy’s interpretations...

PeepinGoodArgs,

There could be so many miracle tips or tricks online that really work

“You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? - Medicine.” ― Tim Minchin

I’m not really sure you understand just how complicated being a doctor is and making the correct diagnosis is. Sure, it might be something small if you feel sad in the evenings. It might also be a brain tumor. Home remedies might work in both cases, and they might not.

But you know what will probably work more often that not? A doctor’s prescription.

Talk to you doctor.

PeepinGoodArgs,

Even if the source is legit, it boils down to 'gay people told flag-wearing patriots they felt uncomfortable having them around".

Like…so what? Why does this matter in the first place? The Borderline Dance team left to play into the persecution fetish of conservatives.

PeepinGoodArgs,

I agree generally if the things they can’t afford are luxuries like $70 video game pre-releases or the finest cheeses and wine.

But I’m not gonna blame someone who doesn’t want to eat hot dogs and beans everyday. I don’t either.

PeepinGoodArgs,

Pizzaman’s point is that American gun control is not equivalent to German gun control, though. His argument is in the details.

From the article he linked:

German gun laws restricts the acquisition, possession, and carrying of firearms to those with a creditable need for a weapon.

They also ban fully automatic guns and severely restrict the acquisition of other types of weapons.

Compulsory liability insurance is required for anyone who is licensed to carry firearms.

In other words, yeah, we have gun control laws, but as long as the Supreme Court continues to (foolishly) recognize an individual right to firearms with no relation to a militia, an interpretation that’s only a little over a decade old, then yeah, no version of American gun control laws are ever going to be effective.

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