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Comment Re:Guy saves you from becoming Illinois (Score 1) 22

Per Wikipedia:

He served five more terms in the Wisconsin Assembly from 1993 to 2002. In 2002, after the resignation of Tom Ament as Executive of Milwaukee County, Walker won in a special election to fill the seat, winning the first of three terms serving as County Executive in Milwaukee County from 2002 to 2010.

So after the special, he won two more elections as county executive.
As deep expressions of hatred for a group of people go, I can't think of any more subtle.

Being as Walker just restructured the tax system to squeeze even more money out of the people who live in Milwaukee

What if (IF!) there was an imbalance, and the people of the state felt as though Milwaukee were sucking them dry, and Walker was merely leveling the playing field? Same behavior pattern as, say, Washington D.C. draining the rest of the country, in the vampire fashion?
Could the Walker administration simply represent an outburst of. . .fairness (to drop the f-bomb)?

Comment So? (Score 1) 22

Capitalism says you're either the dog, or the fire hydrant. Economic seasons occur, much as autumn and winter. Why does Socialism H8 nature*?

*This is a deliberate troll that I think is funny as an example of the non-sequiturial broad jump.
It is submitted as a clinical example of the form for academic discussion, more than as an attempt at personally baiting you.
Any actual blood pressure increase, adrenaline rush, oral foaming, or angry keyboard pounding occurring as a result of this troll are wholly owned by the reader.
The author, Pontius Pilate style, washes his hands of all responsibility for any unintended consequences resulting from this troll.

Comment Re:I don't understand (Score 1) 91

I haven't seen you yet commit once to actually reading the text in its entirety.

The intent here is for the two of us, you (believer) and me (infidel), to go through your little Commie Qur'an word for word, so that you can help me achieve enlightenment.

I'm used to you moving the goal posts at will, which is why I am asking for a direct commitment from you beforehand to actually reading the full text.

Well, we seem to be in violent agreement here, but you appear to have a deeper commitment to talking about how I won't commit than to accomplishment of anything in particular. *golf clap*

I will read it with you, I will not read it for you. You haven't read it yet, but I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt that you just might yet read it. If going through it word-for-word will make a difference I will do that, but I will not accept your "skimming" of it.

I promise I will make a fully classical commitment to trying to find something of value in it.

Either commit to reading it in its entirety, or just stop talking about it and stop pretending to be knowledgeable on it.

I've said I will multiple times in this very thread.

Comment Wut? (Score 1) 22

Of course they are. What else can you do when someone is trying to murder you?

How can a union, as such, possibly be an object of murder? All Walker did was enact some common-sense reforms, right?
Public sector unions are a mutiny awaiting their moment, or, in the case of Wisconsin, trying to have their way with taxpayers.
I hasten to add that I have no problem with private sector unions, insofar as there are right-to-work laws to keep them in check.

Comment Re:I don't understand (Score 1) 91

No, no: are you willing to do an interactive read with me of this text? We can go back and forth in ~300 word chunks.
I'm willing to slog through the cess pool of Marx's thought. . .if you are.
I'm also willing to do the same with, say, the Gospel of Mark with you. It's the shortest. But let's do yours first.
Because I'm a giver like that.

Comment Re:I don't understand (Score 1) 91

Of course the lottery "can work". In pointing out S.P. as a potential officeholder from it, I kinda seem to have stipulated that it must work. (Duh?)
I'm discussing the kind of consequence you'd face, and pointing out an apparent contradiction: your support of the mechanism seems at odds with a potential result.

You're only trying to find a way to satisfy yourself that the lottery can't work. All the inconsistencies are on your side.

Your perceived inconsistency is what, exactly?

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