This is government working the way it always does, badly.
Once you realize that the purpose of this project is to loot the taxpayers for the benefit of Moonbeam and his friends, you'll see that government is doing precisely what it was always intended to do.
If you actually believe that, then write up a business plan and see if you can get anyone to risk their capital voluntarily to find out if you're right.
Your contempt for Uber drivers doesn't change the fact that Governor Moonbeam's Spiffy Boondoggle Express costs about as much as it would take to fly 700 million people from LAX to SFO on a typical budget airline. There are 39 million people in this state. If Moonbeam is allowed to continue, then we will each pay the equivalent of about 17 trips to line the pockets of Moonbeam and his cronies instead of spending that money in pursuit of our own goals.
If passenger rail still made any sense economically, it wouldn't take tax money to make it happen.
Surely the 4th Reich has the answers. After all, they wouldn't be paying all those eurocrats just to sit around in Brussels with their thumbs up their asses, would they?
Gawker deserves to be utterly destroyed. They've been on my shit list ever since the stunt that got the gizmodouches banned from CES, and I really wish Apple had landed some of them in jail when they stole that iPhone prototype and tried to destroy the career of the guy they stole it from.
Whatever else Thiel may do in his life, bringing an end to Gawker is something I will always thank him for.
Libertarian here, so I don't have a dog in this fight..
I'm curious: do you think you're going to prevent a second Trump term if you can just get even snottier than you were when Hillary blew the election with that "deplorables" snark?
Yes, they are. The 20th century showed us why individuals had damned well better maintain the means to kill people. When people are disarmed, governments go berzerk.
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Air travel is subsidized.
If you want to argue for the end of all subsidies, I'm all ears, but this is not a reason for one more boondoggle.
-jcr
Of course it can. The Hutus and Tutsis went at it after the Belgians were long gone.
-jcr
This is government working the way it always does, badly.
Once you realize that the purpose of this project is to loot the taxpayers for the benefit of Moonbeam and his friends, you'll see that government is doing precisely what it was always intended to do.
-jcr
High speed rail is competative with air travel,
If you actually believe that, then write up a business plan and see if you can get anyone to risk their capital voluntarily to find out if you're right.
-jcr
Your contempt for Uber drivers doesn't change the fact that Governor Moonbeam's Spiffy Boondoggle Express costs about as much as it would take to fly 700 million people from LAX to SFO on a typical budget airline. There are 39 million people in this state. If Moonbeam is allowed to continue, then we will each pay the equivalent of about 17 trips to line the pockets of Moonbeam and his cronies instead of spending that money in pursuit of our own goals.
If passenger rail still made any sense economically, it wouldn't take tax money to make it happen.
-jcr
The actions of someone else to instigate the racism doesn't make it not racism.
-jcr
If you need to keep your data, 1) don't use any Microsoft products, and 2) keep backups.
-jcr
SJW's have redefined racism to mean something only white people can do.
Whenever they try that shit with me, I ask them to explain what happened in Rwanda.
-jcr
a government what works for it's citizens
I think I see the root of your confusion.
-jcr
We DO need regulation surrounding cryptocurrencies to protect people.
Speak for yourself, bootlicker.
-jcr
Other investment vehicles are generally regulated fairly heavily to ENABLE fraudulent behavior.
FTFY.
-jcr
Surely the 4th Reich has the answers. After all, they wouldn't be paying all those eurocrats just to sit around in Brussels with their thumbs up their asses, would they?
-jcr
...and if Gawker didn't have a nasty habit of receiving stolen goods, Thiel wouldn't have been able to touch them. Fuck those guys.
-jcr
Gawker deserves to be utterly destroyed. They've been on my shit list ever since the stunt that got the gizmodouches banned from CES, and I really wish Apple had landed some of them in jail when they stole that iPhone prototype and tried to destroy the career of the guy they stole it from.
Whatever else Thiel may do in his life, bringing an end to Gawker is something I will always thank him for.
-jcr
I used Digg pretty heavily for a couple of months, and then I found that Reddit was more convenient. What changes did Digg make?
-jcr
I got shitloads of misinformation shoved down my throat in school, mostly in "history" classes.
-jcr
Found the Chavista propaganda shill.
-jcr
"Deplorables" is the culprit, really?
That was the turning point. The only reason it was close in the first place was her campaign theme of "it's my turn, you fucking peasants."
The American electorate is too stupid to even vote its own self-interest,
Keep telling yourself that, if it makes you feel better.
-jcr
"antifa" is a movement
Yeah, like a bowel movement.
-jcr
On a related note, I would support a "jury duty" model for the legislature as well.
-jcr
Giving politicians credit for the economy is like giving fleas credit for the dog.
-jcr
Libertarian here, so I don't have a dog in this fight..
I'm curious: do you think you're going to prevent a second Trump term if you can just get even snottier than you were when Hillary blew the election with that "deplorables" snark?
-jcr
What FBI really wants is the ability to crack any dissident's phone, load it up with kiddie porn, and then tell them to commit suicide.
-jcr
4th amendment, motherfucker.
Don't you have some boots you need to be licking?
-jcr
guns are made for killing
Yes, they are. The 20th century showed us why individuals had damned well better maintain the means to kill people. When people are disarmed, governments go berzerk.
-jcr