Muda69

But that is mostly by design.

According to Mr. Granderson I have accumulated oodles of "generational wealth" just by the virtue of having to have been born Caucasian during the 1960's in the United States of America. Therefore he and others are entitled to a certain amount of that wealth: https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/05/opinions/reparations-democratic-candidates-2020-granderson/index.html

House Democrats announce broad probe into allegations of obstruction of justice: https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/04/politics/congress-investigates-obstruction-justice-jerry-nadler/index.html So much for Congress getting anything of substance done, but then again that can be a good thing. The body has devolved into nothing but a bunch of squabbling children, jockeying for power, money, and one-upping each other.

https://deadline.com/2019/03/nearly-3m-pay-tv-subscribers-cut-service-in-2018-double-2017-rate-study-1202570400/ I cut the traditional cable/satellite cord about 8 years ago and never looked back. Subscriptions to Netflix & Sling TV, along with Amazon Prime video, and a traditional TV antenna for OTA broadcasts are all our family needs. And it is a simple matter to stream YouTube videos on the family television.

Ocasio-Cortez Gets Roasted For Promoting False Attacks On CPAC: https://www.dailywire.com/news/44273/ocasio-cortez-gets-grilled-promoting-false-attacks-ryan-saavedra

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/us/politics/aipac-congress-democrats.html An ominous prediction. Of course I will probably be labeled as anti-Semitic for just posting this story.

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.