brianary

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Calling well-earned criticism of economics anti-intellectualism is using the composition/division fallacy.

Most people's lives have been affected for decades by Chicago School of Economics voodoo nonsense, that's where much modern criticism is aimed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jul/11/how-economics-became-a-religion

https://pluralistic.net/tag/chicago-school/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's this: https://www.newsweek.com/james-comey-deletes-post-depicting-8647-after-backlash-online-2073031

James Comey posted a picture of "8647" (get rid of Trump) spelled in shells.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The "light truck" exemption is a huge problem, and needs to be repealed.

Big cars also reduce everyone else's visibility.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jg047oJf1B4&t=45s

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Straw men? You understand that these are actually things that are really happening, right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I'm more into the FRC.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I understand how you've arrived at that conclusion, but you should investigate Popper's Paradox.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago

It would be so much more interesting to see the % of dollars claimed.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago

Does negging his customers count as an idea?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I mean, they are also responsible for making news a for-profit enterprise, which has arguably ultimately killed it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, that's fair.

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