Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

[POOHEAD189]

@Dark Wind Apparently South Korea already has motion sensor turrets on their border with North Korea. I hope the world goes the Star Wars/Mass Effect route and not the Matrix Route :P

[Penny]

Imprisoning people for their words is ludicrous.

@Dark Wind

I agree, just fire them and strip them of their licence. Other things under the rubric of this bill like denying proper care, premature discharge and refusing admissions? Not so sure.

It's not your place, or my place to demand that a person change their beliefs for the sake of your or my comfort. That's tyranny, plain and simple. Don't like your doctor? Change to a different one.

@Dark Wind

Don't like the licence requirements in Cali? Practice somewhere else. Seriously there are plenty of states where discriminating on the basis of preferred pronouns is all the rage.

No one is demanding that anyone change their belief, merely that they treat their patients with respect. I believe that some of my patients are reprehensible jerks and yet somehow I still manage to address them by the names and pronouns the prefer. It is fortunate I have this superpower because I consider it a duty to treat all patients with kindness and respect.

[Penny]

[Polymorpheus]

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[Penny]

Its been a long time since economics, but doesn't bad stuff happen when you decimate the purchasing power of your market? Particularly now that we don't have colonies to enforce exchange with?

[Penny]

Also is it too late to get everyone riled up about Columbus Day Vs Indigenous Peoples Day?

[mdk]

Also is it too late to get everyone riled up about Columbus Day Vs Indigenous Peoples Day?

@Penny

Christopher Columbus - the one immigrant in all history whom the liberals think had no right to be in America.

[Penny]

Also is it too late to get everyone riled up about Columbus Day Vs Indigenous Peoples Day?

@Penny

Christopher Columbus - the one immigrant in all history whom the liberals think had no right to be in America.

@mdk

Phew. Close one.

[mdk]

a tale of Washington Post headlines

[Kratesis]

Don't like the licence requirements in Cali? Practice somewhere else.

@Penny

This is a law that you can be imprisoned for violating. Imprisoning people for a disagreement over pronouns is an unjust use of the powers of government. No one should be force to uproot their life and move to another state or face almost a year of imprisonment because they express disagreement with a client.

I thought jail for smoking weed was bad enough but now we have jail for pronouns.

[Polymorpheus]

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[POOHEAD189]

Also is it too late to get everyone riled up about Columbus Day Vs Indigenous Peoples Day?

@Penny

I've argued about this hard the past few years, so I am all fizzled out. In essence though, don't think Indigenous People's day makes any real sense. It's not solving any problems.

White Advocates: Indigenous peoples day! Fuck Columbus!
The Indigenous side of my family: Woo! Columbus day!

Also, what video(s) are you talking about? Even if they exist, why does that lower his credibility?

@catchamber

Like I said I believe that the concern has merit, just the timeframe and the alarm is a bit overhyped.

And I meant the original video you posted. The guy who is in it posts many videos that rely on shock value.

[Penny]

@Penny It's all fun and games, until the most likely robot apocalypse is the one where you starve to death because robots took jobs away at exponentially growing rates.

@catchamber

Someone needs to be buying though, else the robots have no jobs to take. You either have to find markets or admit that capitalism dosen't work at the extremes of the spectrum.

[Polymorpheus]

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[Penny]

Yeah... I'm willing to take my chances.

[mdk]

unlimited amounts of spice

How 'bout that Weinstein scandal?

[Penny]

I wonder if my plan covers sex addiction treatments.

[POOHEAD189]

"She won't work! She won't sleep! Sex Sex Sex! It's all she does."

"Better ship her to Europe. It's the only way."

"Obamacare has truly failed us."

[Polymorpheus]

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[Penny]

Moderately so yes.