Muda69

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/world/canada/trudeau-scandal-SNC-Lavalin.html Grim times for Mr. Trudeau. Once wonders if he can survive this scandal.

The Green New Deal Plus Modern Monetary Theory = Socialism: https://mises.org/wire/green-new-deal-plus-modern-monetary-theory-socialism Agreed.

So when will the cars and planes be outlawed?

https://reason.com/blog/2016/08/18/gary-johnson-on-hate-crimes Hate-crime laws may make us feel good about doing something, said Harvard Media Studies Professor Michael Bronski, co-author of Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics," in a 2015 NPR interview. But this comes at the cost of ignoring the root causes of social issues. Bronski also cautioned that hate-crime laws are selectively enforced. "In any case that involves a slur or an element of bigotry, prosecutors can choose to bring hate-crime charges, automatically boosting the penalty that the defendant might face," noted Jacob Sullum back in 1992. And as with all such situations calling for prosecutorial discretion, there's ample room for abuse, as prosecutors wield hate-crime enhancements to coerce deals from defendants or satisfy public bloodthirstiness. "Hate-crime laws can give prosecutors added leverage in plea bargaining, whether or not the charges would stand up in court," Sullum wrote. Rather than cheering hate-crime measures (or jeering politicians, like Johnson, who critique them), we should focus on making the laws and justice-system we do have work more equitably for everyone. As Nolan wrote at Gawker, "That is a far thornier and more useful task than watching grandstanding politicians of all political persuasions crank up penalties on specific crimes for purely demonstrative reasons. You would think that after incarcerating two million people we would be skeptical of such remedies, but apparently not yet." Institutional vengeance. Is this truly a function we want our justice system to perform?

Since I just happened to be born as a Caucasian male in the United States of America, where should I send the reparations checks for all the injustices my American ancestors supposedly inflicted on every racial/ethnic minority ever to live in the USA? And while were at it I guess all the racial/ethnic minorities in Europe as well, after all I'm sure my ancestors there inflicted untold injustices on the racial/ethnic minorities of England, Scotland, Germany, and Poland. I need to atone for my guilt.

I learned it from you, Dante.

If the choice is a government choice, yes.

The government asserts a coercive monopoly over many of the services in this country. For instance, the United States Government prohibits any other party from delivering mail. So, if libertarians make use of the U.S. postal service (which is financed by everyone), it isn't dishonest of them, because they have no choice. (E.g., See what happens when libertarians try to opt out and create their own services: American Letter Mail Company. The government shuts them down.) That said, will the new levels of socialism imposed by the Green New Deal allow me to own my own wind and/or solar farm so I no longer have to use government owned utilities, aka "go off the grid"? How about my own small nuclear reactor?

But how can you have a Green New Deal while still using airplanes and cars? Don't those machines contribute mightily to global warming?

But nobody should be charged and sentenced for something like weed. Government has no business dictating what an adult individual should choose to put into their body.

And this?:

So only certain "protected classes" can effectively be hated by another protected or unprotected class. Got it. Whatever happened to justice being blind?

I would be, but I'll be out of town with my spouse.

The truth about socialism: It doesn't care about the middle class. It's about keeping the ruling class' power: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/the-truth-about-socialism-it-doesnt-care-about-the-middle-class-its-about-keeping-the-ruling-class-power

Can you name the country please? As for what I am getting at, let me put forward a hypothetical. Let's say a city's government is effectively run by a country's racial minority, call if "minority X" . That city government enacts multiple legislation to ban a smaller racial minority, call it "minority Y", from entering movie theaters, restaurants, libraries, and public restrooms in that city. It also bans members of minority Y from being employees of that city. Is this an act of racism by minority X towards minority Y?

http://reason.com/blog/2019/03/05/mark-cuban-still-thinking-about-running I'd be surprised if Mr. Cuban actually decides to run, but if may be fun if he actually tries.

Examples please. Have members of country's racial minority instituted governmental levels of discrimination against a smaller racial minority in that same country?

That hate crime laws effectively deter hate crimes from being committed.

I was looking at doing some hiking in Southern Indiana this spring. Dang loggers have one of the trails I'm considering closed: https://www.in.gov/dnr/parklake/files/fo-HCSF_Active Logging.pdf

Have their been objective studies performed which prove or disapprove this benefit of deterrence?

Sorry, I get them confused. So you are a believer in the "lesser of two evils" option when it comes to POTUS voting. Would Ms. Ocasio-Cortez be a good candidate if she were to run for POTUS in say 2024? 2030?

Because I still don't understand exactly benefit(s) the classification of "hate crime" bestows on American society. Is it the belief that such a classification is an effective deterrent, that somebody from the racial majority whose is about to or is plotting to harm an individual from a racial minority will suddenly stop and think "gee, I'm about to commit a hate crime, I had better not do this thing."?

Yes, that is what I mean. So only members of a country's racial majority can be labeled "racists"?

Did you vote for Mr. Clinton in 2016? Who of the current crop of declared 2020 Democratic candidates can you classify as "good"?

Ocasio-Cortez’s mom moved to Florida to escape NYC’s property taxes: https://nypost.com/2019/03/04/ocasio-cortezs-mom-moved-to-florida-to-escape-nycs-property-taxes/ Heh heh heh.