If Porsche or VW were currently making tanks for Nazi Germany, I would certainly boycott them.

Isn't this one of the talking points that conservatives on this very forum regularly use to attack California? If they had any principals or integrity or sincerity, I imagine they'd find this article pretty alarming.

Worse than that. Howard Lutnick (Trump's Commerce Secretary) has been purchasing the rights to the tariff refunds from companies. So it's actually a member of the administration that will be getting that money back.

https://www.wired.com/story/ca...

Non-paywalled: https://www.rawstory.com/howar...

It's called capitalism, not laborism.

You don't get rich by working hard, you get rich by being rich.

Do you have any arguments against using legal immigration to prop up falling birth rates?

Do you think people just sit around and consume services? Where do you think they get the money to pay for houses or products?

People have jobs, and they contribute to society. Each person increases demand, sure, but they also increase supply by being part of the labour force.

If you really believe what you say, you might as well push for a China-style one child per couple policy.

Yeah, no shit. The benefits of improved productivity haven't been felt by workers for over four decades at this point.

I guess there's a pardon coming soon for Maduro, then?

How could the winner of the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize do such a thing?

Sounds like you should make your own game awards. It is, in fact, the prerogative of the award organizer to decide their selection criteria.

No, because it flagrantly violates copyright in a way that normal humans are not allowed to do.

Why can't I publish Star Wars fanfiction, while OpenAi can? Why are we automating the fun parts of life, like artistic creation, while humans are stuck doing the miserable, tedious labour? Copyright is meant to incentivize creation by people because only the creative output of people has value.

They're fascists. Nothing will convince them.

Is this the libertarian "taxes are theft" meme? I've never known progressives to be unwilling to acknowledge the fact that public services and infrastructure are funded by taxes. Even the ones libertarians like, like the military, police, and judicial system require funding, and taxes are the best way to do that.

I've never seen someone on the left put this forward as any sort of policy proposal, so I'm not going to talk about it further.

All societies place limits on people's freedom for the sake of public safety; it's the old "your right to swing your fist ends at my nose" thing. In a democracy, there are bound to be discussions on where exactly the balance between safety and freedom lies, and the contention from progressives is that the harm of hate speech outweighs the value of allowing it. Nowhere on Earth is freedom fully prioritized over safety; even in the US, it's illegal to post an open bounty on someone's life, for example.

And not to devolve into whatboutism, but with Trump recently trying to criminalize flag burning, it's not like Republicans are better than Democrats on this issue.

It seems like Rasmussen Reports is not particularly credible so I'm not going to go into this too deeply, but your link mostly talks about Biden supporters. If your claim is that Joe Biden is far left, then you have a fundamental misunderstanding of progressive politics.

Isn't this exactly the reason why the far left are objecting to the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza? Isn't this exactly why the far left are so vocal in their support for trans rights? Isn't this why the far left believes health care should be universal? Isn't this why the far left wants to use social workers instead of police for things like wellness checks?

Obviously, I can't speak for everyone who considers themselves on the left, and every group has its share of vocal idiots, but it seems to me that most policies that the left advocates for are motivated by wanting to treat all humans equally and fairly and well.

What free speech? Americans don't have that anymore.