There's a whole lot between those though including the current predominant system, arguably the best system humans have yet to conceive; liberal democracy. In that system it is acceptable if people decide such for the government to acknowledge some truths about what is good for society and we already do it in ways the vast majority of people find acceptable. We all know cigarettes are bad but I can still buy some, there's just a cost there. This discussed tax is far too broad to fall into that though, these types of taxes should be as specific as possible.

However, in America at least, the ironic lesson Republicans have taught us is that Americans actually need some nanny state implemented by technocratic academic elites otherwise apparently we'll just eat ourselves to death by one of those systems.

There is a data privacy bill in committee right now in the House. I don't expect we'll see movement on it soon but it's still there.

https://www.congress.gov/event...

You're not wrong in the sense that this is still a Federal crime and should be punished accordingly (not executions, that's insane) but here's your issue: now these same people are in charge of solving this crime and as this story gets at, these people are incompetent.

Link me the MN statue that says non-citizens can vote in Federal elections

Link a source

Similarly one time I was able to visit Manufacturing Resources International (https://mri-inc.net/) as they specialize in rugged LCD displays and got to see their process and since they also did quite a bit of military work (displays for tanks, modern jets) and while they had to import LCD panel glass from LG (because nobody in the US makes it) everything else was in-house. Pick and place, PCB production, all the backlighting, lamination, they owned the equipment and did it all there. Of course we are talking scales of thousands instead of millions.

Very cool thing though was they modeled and placed every LCD backlight LED lamp in specific locations and pointing specific directions simulated inside the cockpit so the display would never reflect off the glass and would be resistant to glare. American can still build some crazy shit when we want to.

I mean TAA compliant computers exist already, even some manufactured in America:

https://www.onlogic.com/store/...

https://www.trentonsystems.com...

https://www.leonardodrs.com/wh...

Even specialized computers from defense contractors exist as well and have for a long time.

This might be good, particularly if it actually gets more kids in college to take up the manufacturing skills to build all the infrastructure to do it which would take a large public investment in education they would never ever do so coming from Trump/Luckey/Anduril I don't have much faith in any of it, this is just Neo-MIC slop imo.

You have 2 years.

There is absolutely a very simple way to enforce immigration without being racist, that's my point, this admin does it purposefully and is performative about it. They want to be racist and want their supporters to know that because that's what they voted for.

Again, if you don't want to called racist stop doing and saying racist stuff!

Then maybe we need actual immigration reform, something which has not been done in about 4 decades now.

Turns out not all citizens want to be truck drivers either, it's not an easy job! The issue is administrative, migrants who want to drive trucks should have a path to do so and do it safely.

I've dealt with hundreds of truck deliveries in my line of work with hundreds of different drivers of all walks of life. They deliver where dispatch tells them, if the BOL says rundown old gas station that's where it has to go. Sometimes that's where it actually is supposed to go!

Exception that proves the rule, who did Perot end up helping? Clinton by draining off Republican voters and nobody has gotten close to that performance ever again. Her also did markedly worse in 1996.

And Bernie ran for President both time *as a Democrat* and did not do a 3rd party run because he understands this dynamic. Also Bernie caucuses with the Democrats and whoever runs in his place in VT will not be as an I, again, exception that proves the rule.

They are quite a bit better if you want a non-2-party-system, they are better if you want winners to be actual majorities and not simple pluralities, they are better if you don't want spoiler effects, if we don't want stupid vote splitting games to be played. I mean no system is perfect, they all have flaws but FPTP has major flaws.

I mean if you like the status quo then just defend that, it's a valid argument but I was responding to a person lamenting why people don't vote 3rd party in America, that's the answer whether you like it or not.

There are actually people who are paid to question the safety of vaccines: scientists and the FDA but you don't believe them because this isn't about science or safety, it's about political ideology. Accusations of people getting paid off only makes that point stronger.

I don't know if there a formal name for this but it's a common fallacy you see everywhere these days, "All Roads Lead to Rome", IE, the facts don't matter, the outcome is already decided. Facts not on my side? Obviously everyone was paid off!

Pro tip: You better get used to two-party systems, you're living in one!

Seriously, 3rd parties a total dead end in America and most, like our stupid AC here, who push them are doing so to sow distrust in one party (usually Democrats) to favor the other (Republicans) or just generally sow distrust in the system in general, usually form foreign actors (cough). Like every 4 years the Russians activate Jill Stein out of her hibernation pod.

Until America changes *how* we vote away from First-Past-The-Post then voting 3rd party is a fools errand, it only serves to assuage the vain egos of politically incoherent people. In a FPTP system a vote for a 3rd party is basically support for whoever the winner ends up being. Same for staying home instead of voting. That "Uncommitted Movement" only served to help Trump.

We have a process to hear and vote on a hugely varied group of candidates, they're called primaries and maybe if more than 30% of people voted in them we'd get candidates we like better.

Moving to Ranked Choice, Approval Voting, STAR voting, these are all much better systems of how to vote but until we get those 3rd parties are dead ends. The Libertarians are cooked, completely subsumed by MAGA and fascist chuds like LPNH and the Green Party is just a Russian Op at this point. The LP had the chance to shoot their shot in 2016 to get that 5% and they failed, completely. It's joever.

The winner in 2024 was doing to be the D or R. In 2028 it will be the D or R. Get used to it, stamping your feet and pouting won't change that. 2028 will be one of the rare times we will have 2 primaries, probably a field of 20+ people, plenty of varied choices, there's your chance.

1. That's usually left to the states, they're the ones who assign CDLs
2. If we were serious about Federal enforcement it means actually funding such enforcement measures and also putting competent people in charge. I'm sure Kash Patel and Mark Wayne Mullins will get right on top of this economically complex issue.
3. If we don't want immigration enforcement to be called racist we should not put racists in charge of it, have them do a bunch of racist stuff and say they are doing things to be racist.

If we want functioning government we can choose to have it but we do have to choose that.

Hey one thing I am excited about Starship getting developed is the ability to launch huge probes with more instruments and fuel on faster arrival times.

Once it's a viable launch system I want a modern Pioneer type program, get orbiters around every planet in the solar system, get those Europa landers, get landers on Callisto and Triton too. We'll have access to more Delta-V than the scientists in the 60's could dream of.