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TwiceHorn

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  1. Hideous hit percentages on both sides. Thanks Jenna.
  2. Was reading about this and this quote rang true: Still others have argued that Kissinger was, in the words of New Yorker essayist Thomas Meaney, “a far less remarkable figure than his supporters, his critics — and he himself — believed.” Rather than an outlier, Meaney and others have suggested, Kissinger was a consummate political actor and a natural product of the American war machine, . . . If it wasn't Kissenger it would have been someone else or elses.
  3. I railed against Obamacare at first. But, it provides some pretty sensible things.
  4. One ironical thing, though, is that you can draw a pretty straight line to "children of the 60s" and Trump voters, i.e. boomers. And, it wasn't the liberal politics of the 60s, per se, but a lot of the self-seeking and self-regard of various non-political movements that have gotten us in something of a pickle as a country
  5. Reality game show host. Otherwise, you're insulting Bob Barker, Alex Trebec and others (we'll ignore Chuck Woolery for a moment).
  6. Well, for one thing, medical debt is not negotiated in advance. If it was a matter of financing cancer treatment on agreed upon terms, that would be one thing. Medical debt more like losing a lawsuit. You know there is some cost associated with your activity, but you have little idea what it really is and whether it survives a cost benefit analysis.
  7. Yep you had alluded to doing this (at least the efficacy part) in the patent system, which is ill equipped to do, as it is or would be everywhere. The FDA or a related agency is absolutely the place to do it. It is much closer to their existing remit.
  8. Deterrence during incarceration is known as incapacitation as I use it. I use the "four pillars of sentencing," retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, and incapacitation.
  9. What it is is not advocating against punishing fascists. I have never said anything like that. It's not indulging the flaws in our justice system against anyone especially when it's just convenient. To me, trump ought not be detained pretrial just like anyone who is not a real flight risk or hideously violent ought not be detailned. You, on the other hand, bitch about how the justice system is flawed but all of those flaws are perfectly OK as long as it's trump or some other fascist.
  10. I mean, that's true. But we also have an incredibly distorted system of matching supply with demand and getting price discovery. All of the options to solve that seem to involve government intervention. I'm still enough of a conservative to be wary of comprehensive government intervention, but I don't see any other way.
  11. FIsh and manna don't cost Jesus or anyone else money.
  12. I mean, I'd like to see Trump suffer consequences, but to me that actually means something different than being punished. It means being conclusively adjudged to be a crook in a fair, fact-based forum. My sense of schadenfreude would like to see him rot in prison for a while, but that's not the best part of me. And, I submit that we as a country have a bizarre obsession with people being punished and the only rational support for it (besides just vengeance, if you call that rational) is deterrence and it's a nearly undeniable fact that punishment doesn't deter the vast majority of criminals. Punishment wouldn't deter Trump either, if he lived past it.
  13. I'm happy with criminals fleeing the country, you should be too. It's really a fantastic solution for Trump. But if they only flee across town or to the next state, that's a problem. We have this fucking obsession with punishment in this country. Incapacitation works better for the purpose of removing them from society and minimizing their effect than punishment. And fleeing the country is a hell of an incapacitation.
  14. Well right when Obamacare started, then. In other words, it reflects no effect of Obamacare. The point still stands. Texas refuses to adopt the Medicaid expansion provided by Obamacare, even though it costs Texas 10 cents on the healthcare dollar, because a bunch of fucktards in Austin are too stupid to accept free money because sOcIALisM. And that notion of ebil socialism is so important to these fucks that they would rather let the most vulnerable 1/30th of the population suffer. And disregard the fact that that 1/30th is behind the eight-ball in the most fundamental way, and virtually assured to continue to burden the state in manifold ways as they age. Equality of opportunity, my ass. I'll tell you what's evil, and it's not socialism, even if that was socialism.
  15. You do realize that chart ends 10 years before Obamacare started?
  16. The qualifications for Medicaid in Texas are abysmally low. If you have a pot to piss in, you are disqualified. Good luck trading that pot for an Obamacare plan. Family Members (Adults plus children) Monthly Family Income 1* $1,616 2 $2,186 3 $2,756 4 $3,325 5 $3,895 6 $4,465 7 $5,035 8 $5,604 For each additional person, add: $570 Now, if you mean going to the local ER and making us pay for it for emergent situations, then yeah, they have some access to healthcare. Also note that that is in pretax dollars and the average rent in the state of Texas for a 1BR apartment, which includes a lot of places no one would or could raise children, is $670/month.
  17. No I wasn't, but no one is going to incorporate in a state with that in their corporate laws. In Delaware and the places that matter, I am unaware of any judicial or legislative erosion of the business judgment rule. One reality though is that "entrepreneurial" lawyers bring a shareholder class action any time the share price drops more than a few percentage points and it can be connected in the vaguest way to a securities law violation or breach of fiduciary duty. Unfortunately, those things are expensive to defend/settle and may give rise to some more arguments that anything that isn't this quarter's share price is an invalid consideration, practically if not legally speaking. Even Marty fuckin Lipton is in favor of an expanded business judgment rule/diluted shareholder value duty. https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2019/08/24/stakeholder-governance-and-the-fiduciary-duties-of-directors/
  18. Yeah, I saw something about that. A temporary victory, for now, as it's just stayed pending appeal. That legislation is under assault from numerous quarters, including the governor and some legislators, so I don't think it's going to have any impact on Willis or anyone else for quite some time.
  19. I mean the problem is that the lege and governor are perfectly content that nearly a million children in this state can't afford healthcare unless there's a federal emergency that mandates and pays for it.
  20. The legal system probably ought to, as far as detention goes. Gag orders are another matter. Our pretrial detention/bail system is rudderless right now for the most part, but it's probably operating for Trump how it ought to operate for everyone. Pretrial detention should be the exception, rather than the rule, for definable flight risks and seriously mentally ill or otherwise incorrigibly violent. But once you skip bail, or do a real crime while on bail, that's it.
  21. Bail is to secure attendance at trials and hearings. The rest of it is mostly bullshit, pre-conviction pre-crime. If someone is to be detained on grounds other than flight risk, they need to be a drooling, incorrigible violent criminal. That's how bail should work, anyway. Not how it often does.
  22. No it wouldn't. Not legally. That's a smokescreen for being socially and politically irresponsible.
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