tech people trying to politely untangle the logic of democrats today, explaining how wealth is really held, produced, and all the good the industry is doing as if people like sanders or mamdani or kanna care — they don’t. they just want your shit. please understand this already.

The fact we still have to have these discussions is disappointing.

Yes

What is the logic?

Never been more true

Abolishing private property in 2 easy steps Step 1 - Rent control: Rent is lower than costs and taxes so you can't do maintenance. Step 2 - Seizure: You don't have the money to do maintenance and the state uses it as an excuse to take your property.

True

Translation: Patients are educated and don't just defer to the doctor's claimed expertise. On uncommon issues/symptoms, a smart patient probably knows more than the doc.

Well, this is obviously because they've been societally programmed to do so!

I wonder what these people imagine will replace these as metrics for admission? I suppose if you know you will do poorly, a random lottery would be better for you. If you are minority, DEI admissions will be better. But what of the rest of the Democrats, and the surprisingly high 40% Republicans?

We have defined success in such a way that at least that many *are* failures. We have culturally lost our way such that being a good person and providing for yourself and your family doesn't count as success.

Modern-day Europeans have been in Europe more than an order of magnitude longer than the Maori have been in New Zealand. Hell, Oxford University is older than the Maori residence in NZ. Yet somehow Europeans are not indigenous to Europe, while the Maori are indigenous to NZ.

Asian prof: "He torpedoed my career by treating me as white!" White people: ...wait.

Something progressives have strangely not updated on is that, literally whatever you think of any individual policy on the merits, progressivism has for at least the last 20 years been the HR-approved position. Your teachers were all progressive. Mainstream culture is progressive. All the media messaging is progressive. It basically definitionally cannot be cool or risky or individualist to be a progressive. It’s all completely safe now. You can wear a nose ring or tattoos or pink hair to your corporate job, where they also by the way celebrate gay pride month. None of this is rebellious. You’re not part of the counter culture. This is all safe and boring and mainstream.

This is the ultimate midwit healthcare take. No, 32 countries have not “figured out” universal healthcare. The UK has “free” healthcare, and roughly 1 in 3 cancer patients in England still fail to start treatment within 62 days of urgent referral. Canada has “free” healthcare, and the median wait for neurosurgical treatment is around a year. Australia has “free” healthcare, and over half the country still buys private insurance despite paying for a public universal system with their taxes. Switzerland has universal coverage, because residents are required to buy private insurance. There is no government system where benevolent bureaucrats tuck you in at night with a warm blanket and an MRI appointment. The actual lesson from other wealthy countries is not “they figured it out.” America’s system has huge problems. Our prices are insane, insurance markets are distorted, and hospital systems are cartelized. Our regulations make care more expensive than it needs to be. Yet we still guarantee access to even the 8% who don’t have coverage. We give easy routes to qualify for medicaid for those with disabilities. Pretending the rest of the world solved healthcare because they slapped the word “universal” on a rationing scheme is not analysis. It is bumper sticker policy for people who think access means having a card in your wallet while you wait a year to see the doctor you need.

I can’t believe people like this are real and exist… but here we are. This is who the Democrat politicians and legacy media brainwash. THIS is the PERFECT Democrat. Retarded Democrat Woman: “Every day I wake up scared because a person I love is trans. And I'm waiting for the day that they start banging on doors and taking our trans and our gay friends and family to concentration camps… And they can't get, our trans friends and family can't get a passport to safely flee this country. And I know that there's nothing you can do about that. But if you could, what would it be?” Pete Buttigieg: “First of all, it's horrible that you have to even think about that kind of fear for somebody you care about. And it's horrible that so many Americans live in that kind of fear for themselves and for those they love.” Rather than tell her (and the rest of the crowd) the truth that this is nothing more than manufactured Democrat propaganda, Pete doubles down and reaffirms her fake fears and rather than blame the legacy media and politicians, this woman will continue to hate President Trump and Republicans and the cycle just repeats itself.

This stuff demonstrates clearly that the whole point is whatever closes gaps. They are not interested in fairness or truth or science or anything else. Try x to close the gaps. Try ~x to close the gaps. There’s no other logic or principle to it.