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Comment Re: "The Beating of a Liberal" (Score 2, Insightful) 56

I paid for part of my education by serving in the USMC.

I'm educated. Like many educated people, I'm pretty fucking liberal (by American political standards).

Tax the wealthy at a reasonable level, tax corporations at a reasonable level, pull out of foreign engagements, and actually pay for Americans to be healthy and educated. Increased safety and happiness will likely follow. I don't give a shit what you do in your bedroom, so long as it's consensual - keep your religion out of my politics. Close the loopholes and actually make them pay their share.

You know, that sorta shit...

By the American-right standards, that makes me a 'commie pinko fag'.

I actually don't mind paying taxes. My tax burden is pretty high, but I could easily stand higher rates. (I don't even write off most charitable donations, as my way of doing a bit more. Nor do I keep track and write off all sorts of things that I could easily, and legally, claim as expenses.) I do mind how my taxes are spent.

So, while the OP is a troll, I dare say not all Marines are going to want to harm liberals. If anything, many of us would defend them from the morons who'd inflict harm based on political ideology.

Comment Re:do they pay for an data plan / phone plan + at (Score 1) 231

If the company didn't provide a work phone, in modernity, I'd buy my own cheap device and use it for work. I'd consider it a work-related expense, like appropriate clothing for work and my lunch expenses. I'd budget accordingly and probably try to write it off on my taxes.

I'd do that, rather than give my personal phone number to my employer or before installing employer-related applications on my phone.

Comment Re:Five laptops (Score 2) 301

I had a laptop that drank almost as much beer as I did. (That's a bit of an exaggeration.)

The thing was magical, however. Every time it drank a beer, it only killed the keyboard. I replaced the keyboard in it so many times (it went through four or five) that I had the process down to under 15 minutes to replace it - on a laptop that went together like a 3D puzzle. I have no idea why it only killed the keyboard and nothing else, as it sure consumed a lot of beer.

Comment Re:Uber hates this one government trick (Score 2) 107

Serfs lacked freedom of movement and were legally bound to the land they worked for the feudal lord.

Gig employees are free to terminate their association with the company offering gig work at any time they desire.

You may say, "Oh but the gig employee can't get any other work and are forced to work for these companies." That's not the same as the serf. The serf refusing to work for the feudal lord could be punished by the lord in any way the lord saw fit, up to and including death. The gig employee just ceases earning income.

The nature of your question is about liberty. Liberty has it's ups and its downs but the freedom to make bad choices, and not be punished for them by others, is something that must be permitted if you want a society of high liberty. A gig employee, unquestionably, has a vastly higher level of liberty compared to a serf.

Comment Re:Cognitive dissonance (Score 1) 152

(Take half those numbers with a pinch of salt though...)

I would, 150 cases is roughly a 10% margin of error.

China, Korea, Italy, and Iran are the only countries with enough cases (base on the last who report I had seen) to get down into the 3% or lower margin of error.

Comment Re:What did Xi know and when did Xi know it? (Score 2) 152

I can barely wait for Covid-19 to be detected after a Trump rally.

Why are you hoping for harm against others that hold political viewpoints you disagree with? Epicaricacy is not a trait becoming of a civil society.

Especially since there's no sane reason for Turmp [sic] to be holding ANY rallies right now.

Maybe, maybe not, Trump is not running unopposed for the 2020 Republican nomination for President. In fact, there's 1 delegate allocated to Bill Weld (who ran as Gary Johnson's VP in 2016). In addition, Joe Walsh and Roque De La Fuente are also running for the nomination. They probably don't have a chance of winning but that doesn't mean there's no reason not to campaign. Does Trump need rallies for the primary? He doesn't need them for him to win the primary however they are advantageous for energizing Republican voters and boosting support for Senate and House candidates that are supportive of his policy stances and there's no question that Republican primaries are seeing record turnouts.

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