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I can be very incendiary just to get arguments started. Other than that I am very reasonable. After all, I am Thanos.

Joined April 2012
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Samson Corwell retweeted
I live in a blue state now and suddenly want a sex change Is this how it goes??? #Midterms26 #TexasBlueWave
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DeSantis wasting no time in hyping up Florida.
With the loss of governors races in Texas, Ohio and Georgia, there will be only one state of the top ten most populous states with a Republican governor: Florida.
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Samson Corwell retweeted
how do you fuck up being president so bad that you turn texas BLUE
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Holy shit.
Now official… Democrats just won every single statewide office in Texas: Senate Governor Lt. Governor Attorney General Land Commissioner Comptroller of Public Accounts Agriculture Commissioner Railroad Commissioner All 4 Supreme Court Justices
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Holy fuck, they flipped Texas!
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Everyone is responding that a job is volubtary, but it's just a dodge. It doesn't answer the question of whether such employer requirements should be permissible or not.
Your boss can monitor your bathroom breaks, change your schedule overnight, and fire you for refusing overtime. But according to libertarians, you're both equal participants in a voluntary agreement. One of you owns the factory. The other needs permission to take a piss.
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Samson Corwell retweeted
People on the libertarian right also need to cope with the fact that all land in Singapore is owned by the state, there's public land and they have made efforts to develop state capacity
I love how Singapore destroys copes on both the left and right wing. People on the left need to do mental gymnastics to explain why they pay basically 0 in taxes and somehow are the richest and lowest crime rate per capita in the world. Literally the opposite of socialist theory. People on the right need to do mental gymnastics to explain why an ethnically diverse country is the richest and lowest crime rate capita. It is so high trust, the average Singaporean has a per capita murder rate 6x lower than white Americans. Homicide is essentially a solved issue in a multi-ethnic cramped city. Its existence is a curveball to every world view, I love it.
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Singapore residents are 73.9% ethnic Chinese. Its homicide rate (~0.1 per 100,000) is far lower than the 6x claim vs white Americans (~2.0 per 100,000); taxes are low but not "basically 0" (tax-to-GDP 13.4%). singstat.gov.sg/files/5645f043… bjs.ojp.gov/document/hvus2… tradingeconomics.com/singapore/inte… oecd.org/content/dam/oe…
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Paging @MattBruenig.
I love how Singapore destroys copes on both the left and right wing. People on the left need to do mental gymnastics to explain why they pay basically 0 in taxes and somehow are the richest and lowest crime rate per capita in the world. Literally the opposite of socialist theory. People on the right need to do mental gymnastics to explain why an ethnically diverse country is the richest and lowest crime rate capita. It is so high trust, the average Singaporean has a per capita murder rate 6x lower than white Americans. Homicide is essentially a solved issue in a multi-ethnic cramped city. Its existence is a curveball to every world view, I love it.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Singapore residents are 73.9% ethnic Chinese. Its homicide rate (~0.1 per 100,000) is far lower than the 6x claim vs white Americans (~2.0 per 100,000); taxes are low but not "basically 0" (tax-to-GDP 13.4%). singstat.gov.sg/files/5645f043… bjs.ojp.gov/document/hvus2… tradingeconomics.com/singapore/inte… oecd.org/content/dam/oe…
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Samson Corwell retweeted
Man these constitutional conservatives who say they love the constitution seem to really hate everything about the 14th amendment.
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"Protecting rights against state laws is tyranny!"
Replying to @WanjiruNjoya
That, and a “legal” confection called the “Incorporation Doctrine,” invented by the Federal courts to give themselves tyrannical power over State and Local governments. Until then, the Bill of Rights was rightly understood to bind only the Feds in DC. Satanic inversion, much?
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> Children aren't property but must be legally treated as such because if you don't own your children, the state owns them. People just be typing shit.
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Bizarre lack of imagination.
Replying to @MadelaineLucyH
You lost me at "imagine you aren't horny at all"
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Samson Corwell retweeted
Replying to @LinkofSunshine
Forgive him, he is from Barcelona.
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I am in New York City right now. Every woman is wearing a burqa and there is a mosque on every block. The predictions were eerily accurate.
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I'm pretty sure I heard this 20 years ago, too. It's not.
The rich vs the poor. Thats where we are heading.
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> Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth wasn’t a call for confiscatory inheritance tax — it was a call for voluntary philanthropy. Andrew Carnegie supported both philanthropy and inheritance & income taxes. He viewed the two as complementary.
Replying to @lewis_goodall
If we must dwell in the past, let’s at least be honest about what they were saying. Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth wasn’t a call for confiscatory inheritance tax — it was a call for voluntary philanthropy. He wrote: “The man who dies rich dies disgraced.” His solution was giving back through libraries, schools, and charities — on his own terms, not the state’s. Likewise, Adam Smith warned: “The power of taxing… ought to be exercised with great caution… for it may destroy industry.” (Wealth of Nations, 1776) And Thomas Jefferson believed: “The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.” (Letter to James Madison, 1785) Carnegie feared dynastic wealth, but his answer was responsibility, not confiscation. To wield him in 2025 as an argument for 100% death duties is to distort history.
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This doesn't have any force of argument because people are just going to tell you that don't see people as public resources regardless and that they're policies don't contradict this maxim.
The moral case for capitalism is that your life belongs to you. It doesn’t become a public resource for the collective just because a central planner declares it so.
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Samson Corwell retweeted
sex work is inherently exploitative too lmao. but you know why courts worldwide do not enforce surrogacy contracts? because the consequences of a breach of contract is disastrous with immense humanitarian considerations and cannot be remedied with monetary damages.
also going with bodily autonomy and consistency, how can one be pro-sex-work and anti-surrogacy? or is it because pregnancy is considerably more medically consequential than most forms of sex work?
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European labor laws are crazy
BREAKING: 🇧🇪 Belgian king rejects PM’s resignation The king refused to accept the prime minister’s resignation and instructed him to continue budget negotiations. Prime Minister Bart De Wever informed King Philippe of his decision to resign over the failure of budget talks.
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King Philippe did not reject De Wever's resignation. He took it under consideration ("in beraad") and deferred his decision until after a new meeting with the prime minister on Friday. yahoo.com/news/politics/… nos.nl/artikel/263772…
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It's very easy to declare two things to "just" be variations on a characteristic you picked out.
Fascism and communism are not opposites. They are variants of the same thing: the concentration of economic control in the hands of the state.
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