Anna from No Such Thing as a Fish recommended an Australian podcast called Smart Enough to Know Better years ago and I’ve been thoroughly enjoying both since. And I would say if you get the opportunity to see No Such Thing as a Fish live go for it. They are excellent live.

Voting for a 3rd party is a vote for Trump. If you think Trump is less genocidal I have some magic beans to sell you.

So you side with the Palestinians then. The innocent people being murdered so their land can be stolen. Glad we got that cleared up.

Why are you saying Palestine? Israel are claiming they are fighting Hamas. Hamas aren’t interchangeable with Palestine. Israel are indiscriminately murdering innocent Palestinians, none of these people have “refused a ceasefire”. Whats worse about all this is Hamas wouldn’t even exist is Israel hadn’t funded them.

Raised by Wolves was killed by David Zaslav when HBO was brought by Discovery. The is the reason Discovery switched from educational programmes to reality TV. He ruins everything he touches.

"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet."

• Men at Arms by Terry Prachett

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It’s not really that contrary, most people don’t actually become more conservative as they age. It’s not quite a myth but very much over stated. Political orientations over the course of the life span are very stable. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1113&context=poliscifacpub

The US healthcare system is a victim of a lack of government regulation. An essential service cannot be effectively be privatised because no matter how ineffective or expensive people have no choice but to use it. Why do you think every EU country has a higher life expectancy than the US? Could it be an effective government…

You still haven’t clarified what you meant by “taught” in your previous comment, you still haven’t clarified what the issue is with the very clear breakdown of government spending.

Libertarianism is an utterly stupid belief. It doesn’t stand up to the most basic critical examination. You don’t respond with any facts because you can’t.

If you are worried about coming out swinging with insults try countering that with actually addressing questions. I know you won’t.

This is such an idiotic take. First of all almost no one is paying 40% Do you not understand marginal tax rates? A single person in NY earning 100k has an effective rate of 31%. They would have to be earning at least 350k to hit 40%.

Government provision is the only efficient way to allocate common goods. You only see real inefficiency when a common good is privatised. Look at the absolute shit show that is the US health care system.

Social supports are there to help the person that can’t pay for it. Do you not understand that or do you really lack empathy that much?

Please clarify what you mean by “taught”. I’m genuinely interested to see if you have an real complaints.

47,884 individual spending breakdown I linked to (if you even bothered to download the file) and your response is there are some “other” classification in there and I don’t agree with that… If you are capable of any sell reflection take a good hard look at yourself. You really need to reassess your worldview.

A flat tax less than the current level? So the consolation of wealth, no social supports, restriction of education to those who are descendants of the wealthy, and degraded public service.

Transparency as accountability are 100% how it should be. I believe you are American so are you asking for this? https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/monthly-treasury-statement/outlays-of-the-u-s-government

So you do want government, or do you want a system where every single road is tolled? How would this work? Do you want a tracker in your car that monitors how far you drive so you can be billed appropriately or toll boths every mile? Are you off the opinion that would somehow be more efficient?

There isn’t an official pre build app. The one you get might be fine, but you can’t be sure…

So who will build the roads? Are all the libertarians going to form a collective? How would this work?

Libertarian?! Good luck with that. You know what, go ahead. Vote for a third party, I just not sure how you’ll get to a polling station without using the public funded road system, oh well

100% agree that ranked voting/proportional representation is a much better option. The problem with FPTP is you have to keep picking the lesser evil or the greater evil wins. It’s a bad system, I’m lucky in a country that doesn’t use FPTP

Here’s a really simple video explaining why in a first past the post system voting for a third party is the worst thing you can do as you will only harm the larger party that you are most aligned with https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo?si=W8hd2GZCL15L6KU7

Thanks!

I don’t know what you mean by this. MSM?