Kirk was one of the only people defending Trump’s pedophilia outside of the White House.

Violation of human rights

A bit day tradey, but short the stock, or sell covered calls? That way you don’t profit from the stock, and you can even make some theoretically risk-free money from people investing in Tesla and/or dilute Musk’s call options.

I think that’s a very thoughtful way to look at it.

You’re right that Healthcare is real problem.

In the context of “taking away rights and autonomy”: Cars are 100x more useful than guns, both during insurgency and peacetime. We still have locks, licensing, inspections, laws against unsafe use, and registration for cars, but not for guns. Wouldn’t it be more liberal to have a right to drive?

Compare your ideal system to systems like Sweden and Switzerland, where citizens own many guns, and are well trained, but gun crime and gun negligence is extremely rare.

https://youtu.be/PXlSF15IBis

Yeah, guns don’t do a thing while you’re waiting for the front line of fascism to roll over you and your country.

They are convenient once you’re well and truly in enemy territory, though.

Is there a version without the Leninist symbol that I could send to my relatives?

Term limits make sense for the highest positions that have little oversight, but implementing term limits for minor positions encourages political cronyism over technocratic experience

Oh, TIL. I’ll have to check that out next time I’m in Germany.

The commenter above was comparing working environments in Trader Joe’s (a US only store), Costco (majority US), and “Aldi”. The logical assumption is that this comparison is with Aldi US.

It would be strange if the commenter was comparing working environments in specific store franchises across countries with completely different labor markets. Furthermore, why would they specifically compare Trader Joe’s to German Aldi in North Germany?

I am certain that the above commenter was comparing Trader Joe’s to Aldi Süd and specifically their US subsidiary. These two brands are not the same company, despite Aldi’s naming quirk.

Is Peter Thiel actually that much of an AnCap though? the modern conservative movement doesn’t actually care that much about economic liberalism.

government efficiency is when the government pays the salary of 200+ people for a chatbot toy

Thanks for the discussion and thanks for raising the issue.

Yeah, I think its a misunderstanding of European political development to think that EU governments would willingly violate their code of human rights like that.

The same anarchist argument could be made about pensions or the military, but the societal benefits of those institutions outweigh the risks of their potential corruption by autocrats.

Anarchism does have its place, and it’s important that the EU weighs the risk and reward of centralized idps carefully, and doesn’t blindly go for the save the children argument. The use of strict age verification probably isn’t worth the risk outside of extreme risks to children’s health, like pornography, gambling, and drugs. That is something that the European Commission themselves have said too. Stuff that completely misses that balance like Chat Control needs to die.

Aldi US stores are owned by Aldi Süd, which is different from the Aldi Nord that owns trader Joe’s. You can see it in the logo that Aldi US stores use.

The funny thing is that the DSA explicitly protects citizens’ free speech on internet platforms. You know, the whole thing that was conservatives’ #1 issue when it came to digital policy?

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler’s bidding.

A divided, unorganized Left cannot possibly hope to win against the fascist party and large militarized institutions corrupted by fascism, the Left needs to organize first.

Unfortunately the “heavenly mandate” is just made up by power-hungry narcissists who are searching for an excuse for their corruption and incompetence. Democracy always leads to better long-term policy outcomes than dictatorships.

Isn’t the definition of an autocracy, a system where laws are used for leaders to control the people instead of people using laws to control the leaders?

Actually a fun fact there, they’re both owned by different Aldis.

[Aldi] was split into two separate groups in 1960 that later became Aldi Nord (initially Northern West Germany), headquartered in Essen, and Aldi Süd (initially Southern West Germany), headquartered in neighbouring Mülheim

The brothers split the company in 1960, reportedly over a dispute about whether they should sell cigarettes. Karl believed they would attract shoplifters, while his brother, Theo, did not. This led to Theo running Aldi Nord and Karl running Aldi Süd.[22]

in 1976, Aldi Süd opened its first store in the United States in Iowa,[a][29][30] and, in 1979, Aldi Nord acquired Trader Joe’s.[19]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi

From your source:

These are used in zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) – a way for two parties to validate that one of them asserts a fact without learning what that fact is in the process (this is super cool stuff). Users can send their subcredentials to a third party, who can use a ZKP to validate them without learning anything else about the user – so you could prove your age (or even just prove that you are over 18 without disclosing your age at all) without disclosing your identity.

All the arguments against ZKP on the following paragraphs misunderstand the way the state and intergovernmental institutions, and the rule of law work in the EU. Many EU countries already have digital identity providers that are used every day by their citizens. I think very few people are arguing in favor of dismantling them.