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Prosecutors say Alec Baldwin was ‘engaged in horseplay’ with gun before fatal shooting ( www.theguardian.com )

Fewer than three weeks before actor Alec Baldwin is due to go on trial in Santa Fe, New Mexico, prosecutors have said that he “engaged in horseplay with the revolver”, including firing a blank round at a crew member on the set of Rust before the tragic accident occurred....

aidan ,

an actor is pointing a real gun at a cameraperson who is holding the camera, which is precisely what happened here.

which proves it I not safe? yes that's the point, something dangerous was done, maybe normalized in the industry but still dangerous. a boom or tripod can always be used to not have someone behind the camera on the other end of a gun

aidan ,

that's definitely not new in any country

aidan ,

the source is that some random person said it

aidan ,

What does reactionary mean other than just being an insult?

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Why does it matter?

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Ok, but it was understood what they meant

aidan ,

I agree he's not funny, but that's not really how most people use reactionary

aidan ,

Interesting, but I often see it used not for people who oppose any form of change, but for people who oppose a specific change. And it's intended to be more slanderous than conservative.

aidan ,

I'm not sure revoking the permitting of keystone was a good move?

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Well we couldn't know what it said til they passed it. "Call it the stupidity of the American voter"

aidan ,

Yeah, it's probably better to go back to a lot of FDRs policies.

Or the bipartisan effort to keep house prices by any means necessary. Such as by giving everyone who a fairly low interest home loan , which directly led to 2008.

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What? I think a lot of non-progressives would call this propaganda.

aidan ,

The democratic governor in my state recently succeeded in a years long endeavor to legalize gambling. That's deregulation too

aidan ,

If anyone's interested in actually good stuff Trump signed, two things off the top of my head are Right To Try Act and the Second Chance Act. He also opposed the renewal of the Patriot Act.

aidan ,

Who was in meant for?

aidan ,

No, guaranteed loans. If everyone can get a loan interest loan, it doesn't really matter to them if a house costs $200,000 or $400,000 spread out across 30 years. So home prices just continue to inflate. The loan interest rates and guaranteed loans are the reason prices got so high in the first place, the collapse of this scheme by flying too close to the sun with repealing Glass-Steagal is what lit the fuse in 2008. But they've got their plan back on track now.

aidan ,

Well... Why not? How is it different? Deregulation generally refers to smaller loosenings(and smaller legalizations) rather than outright legalization- but that's a kinda arbitrary distinction

aidan ,

Interesting, I didn't know that, thanks for clarifying!

aidan ,

Really? I interpreted it as more making fun of republicans and patting themselves on the back

aidan ,

True, I guess moderates then also

aidan ,

But how does deregulation happen? By legalizing subsets of the already legal thing. Think- legalizing operating a car without a license, vs deregulating driving.

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15 minute

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Can you name a functional civilization without oppressing some minority populations? Does that mean oppressing minority populations is good or necessary?

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How is that any different from the current system. Just instead of relying on people voluntarily helping them, they're relying on beuracrats

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Sadly people like to tell other people what to do

aidan ,

We individually aren't, in theory the majority on any issue is.

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The difference is generally they make it voluntary

aidan ,

After they enriched themselves by pillaging the work of others. Also let's not forget the widespread (almost 100%) abortion of those diagnosed with down syndrome pre-birth. So when you prevent the disadvantaged from even being born its pretty easy to not oppress them. Furthermore, Iceland like the rest of Europe, does have a bit of bullying of Polish(and other) migrants- but I have no clue how wide spread it is.

aidan ,

Not on Iceland, before moving to Iceland.

aidan ,

That's not what I said

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I'd prefer people making decisions for themselves as much as possible.

aidan ,

Agreed, but there is no we. You shouldn't make decisions for me either.

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And I addressed other groups being currently oppressed.

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I didn't say it did.

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What is the we?

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You only addressed one of 3 things I pointed out.

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I did?

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Well it's not everyone, both those things effect people differently. Even if I live in a country with decaying infrastructure- if I barely go outside it doesn't effect me that much. Or, I may value infrastructure or the climate differently than you.

aidan ,

There are plenty of people who homestead. Are they at least out of the we? And I never disagreed that most people rely on each other. Instead I disagree that that mutual reliance makes a collective of people with the same desires, interests, and goals.

aidan ,

I wrote the initial goalpost, you interpreted differently than I intended. Okay, so then acknowledge the two other things I pointed out that are addressing how you interpreted what I wrote.

aidan ,

What? Why would I say that unless that's how I interpreted it. That's obvious. You were the one arguing that's not what I said.

aidan ,

Saying "no your insult of me is wrong" is totally useless. But apparently if I don't explicitly say it you will then use that to attack me. So no, your insult of me is wrong. I was referring to civilizations that were built without oppression. I gave 1 example of oppression that led to the building of Iceland, and 2 examples of ongoing oppression. You decided to latch onto one because you interpreted it as me saying continuous oppression. I called out you not addressing the rest and you ignored it. So yeah no, I don't really have an interest in talking to someone who seeks to maliciously interpret people.

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Both migrant workers and those with Down Syndrome

aidan ,

Being effected doesn't mean there is a "we" that is justified in making decisions for others

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Yeahhh I definitely disagree this is a fundamental truth. Not because you're necessarily wrong from your perspective, but because we have fundamentally different values.

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no one person is single handedly making decisions for everyone else on a given subject.

No, as I said, the best you can get when you have a unrestricted democratic government is the majority making decisions for the minority. That's still not good.

aidan ,

Valuation is based on extrapolation of observed shares of company being transacted, if you have sole ownership, there's no market rate to use for accounting.

That's my point. Furthermore valuation almost always doesn't represent anything liquifiable.

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