One mom said she cried for 10 days after hearing she was being removed from her daughter’s birth certificate.

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    Since the progressives and people who want redistribution of wealth, more regulation and bureaucracy, and for the state to take care of them are highly intersecting groups - I’d say they have made their bed and have to lie in it now.

    It took just a little nudge, it seems, to make governments sufficiently insensitive and powerful again to start taking the rights one may consider secure, because it’s other people being forced, not you, right?..

    Sad but not surprised.

    Still scary to see that it’s Italy, not, you know, Hungary or Poland or at least Austria.

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      Love seeing the sheep who think that “progressives” are the problem will happily elect the assholes that expand government reach, take more of the peoples’ money while simping for the rich, and work to screw the people the most in any other ways they can imagine.

      People like you are the problem. It’s just ridiculously easy to convince you simpletons it’s not. Run on and piss off.

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        Everyone that wants the state to have more power over people’s life, property and labor is to blame. You can’t give power to a position that is selected through a popularity contest.

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          Your blind devotion to libertarian politics has prevented you from even understanding the issue we’re all discussing. We’re talking about a right wing government taking children away from their parents because of their sexual orientation. Progressives didn’t vote for that.

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        will happily elect the assholes that expand government reach

        I won’t. However I’m in a country where election doesn’t decide anything anymore (and if it did, the last time was a few months after I was born), military force will at some point of decay.

        Love seeing the sheep

        It’s peculiar to see a whole crowd of people illiterate in economics calling everybody outside their group “sheep”.

        take more of the peoples’ money

        Progressives are usually friendlier to the idea of raising taxes. Which is taking people’s money. No, it’s not different.

        It’s just ridiculously easy to convince you simpletons it’s not.

        But it’s people like you doing the same thing in every generation and acting surprised when it turns out that for any big corporation (including the goverment) they are bugs.

        Run on and piss off.

        OK, now that’s my grave mistake, I really didn’t want to piss on you, but the wind …

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          The Dunning-Krueger is strong with this one…

          I’m not engaging with a sheep that has swallowed every crumb of bullshit they’ve been fed.

          And since you’re slow with phrases, this one’s hopefully more clear: Go fuck yourself. Seeing the flavor of your comments on a thread concerning women’s rights, that’s likely all you’ll ever do anyway.

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            The Dunning-Krueger is strong with this one…

            That’s like yelling “hold the thief” - the thief always starts first.

            I’m not engaging

            So what are you doing now, exactly? You could have been silent if you didn’t want to engage.

            Go fuck yourself.

            I prefer fucking you.

            Seeing the flavor of your comments on a thread concerning women’s rights, that’s likely all you’ll ever do anyway.

            Do you realize that everybody reading this can also check my comments in this thread?

            And see that either you yourself have a problem with reading comprehension, or you are deliberately trying to deceive your readers.

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                Some of us read books and have a bit longer attention span.

                Now, it doesn’t take any effort for me to inform you that you are to me what I am to Mozart using just a bit more text than you’re used to, so I’m doing that.

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                    Oh, I knew it. Seems to be a pattern with ST fans. Though the best person I know is one, but that’s a rarity.

                    I’m more on the Jedi side, appreciating all life, even if not really intelligent. Which is why it’s actually amusing to keep this going.

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          Raising taxes on the people that chronically find ways to never pay taxes. Not raising taxes on regular people. Nice try framing the argument the way you think it ought to go.

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            Raising taxes on the people that chronically find ways to never pay taxes

            You said it yourself.

            Not raising taxes on regular people

            Regular people range in age, income, education, districts where they live, various kinds of health, ethnic background and so on. Dunno why I wrote that.

            How do you determine “regular” in the law, in simple unambiguous words?

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              I believe taxes for the top 3 (if not 4) quintiles in the US should be higher.

              So yeah, regular people don’t pay enough in taxes

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                OK. I’m in general against raising taxes, but if yes, then top 4, because market incentives (share of the tax income) work on governments too.

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                  That doesn’t really make any sense as a response. My concern with the second quintile is damaging social mobility, which is key to a growing economy

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                    That doesn’t really make any sense as a response.

                    For you, but I explained why. The same reason as why something controlled by people from the upper quintiles may become “too big to fail”.

                    The more you are taxing people, the more you want their income not to tank. I think this is obvious.

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      Hardcore conservatives do hardcore conservative things

      Ignorant libertarians: “ackshually it’s the progressives fault”

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      Can you be a little more succinct and explain the direct link between what progressives want and the government taking children away from their families?

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        Yes, progressives are usually more centralist-democratic than institutionalist. So government taking something by force just because it’s been voted for is more normal for them.

        Thus I’m saying that this is one way this can look in reality. Though taking children is a bit too grotesque, yes. But it’s not as if my tone here can change anything for people hit by this law.

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          To reiterate, I’m asking you to elaborate on a direct link between what progressives want and the government taking children away from their families.

          What you’ve said is tantamount to: “well progressives want the government to do things, and now the government is doing bad things that progressives don’t want them to do, but they’re still things, just like progressives wanted.”

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              But conservatives also want things. And government overreach is a thing, so they should be comfortable with it. Right?

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                  But as you confirmed, you weren’t making a point that applies to any particular political ideology. Really more of an obvious, shallow statement that you dressed up a little.

                  If you assume your audience is mostly progressive, then you can just state your point, and let probability do its thing.

                  Really doesn’t make sense to tack that on there unless you’re just laying lazy bait.