Maeve

Oh? Please tell me more!

If only it were that way IRL.

I swear you crack me up. I’m glad you bring a little levity to these threads. It’s surely needed.

The legislation was opposed by companies such as Amazon and the statewide nonprofit Oregon Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, an industry group, where executives see private investment as vital to their business strategy. “We universally agree that the way to protect clinics from closure and maintain the broadest patient access to outpatient care is to keep the existing, and multi-ownership models alive and well,” wrote Ryan Grimm on behalf of the association and the Portland Clinic, a private multispecialty medical group, in a March letter to lawmakers. “In some communities, there is no hospital to swoop in to the rescue, or no hospital in a financial position to save a clinic,” he wrote. The bill does not go into effect immediately and it contains a three-year adjustment period for clinics to comply with the restrictions. Institutions such as hospitals, tribal health facilities, behavioral health programs and crisis lines are exempted.

Mein Gott, a ray of sanity! Listen it’s not everything a constituent can hope for but it’s a giant step in the right direction. Congratulations, Oregon!

Big donors require it or they stop donating. Yes it stinks like day old fish left in the sun.

Koch Family Foundation

I think more human lives will be lost than wild lives, but I can be wrong.

When everything is illegal, nothing is illegal.

Doesn’t mean people won’t suffer, but when people have nothing to lose and everything to gain and will suffer regardless, then what?

They were largely political. Anything "criminal” discussed in the beginning was how to give regular people more access to information, and real solutions to RL problems. As those channels grew, ideas were necessarily diversified, some more radical, some pretty vanilla.

Power criminalizes anything that may lead to a concession of that power. Something something asked nicely, etc. AND the larger those channels grew, so too did more bad actors with ill intent from the jump, whether LE, political disruptors, or outright chaos goblins.

In short nothing is risk free, but LE is more of a threat than any other bad actors, because protests will be criminalized, mutual aid will be criminalized, reporting will be criminalized, recording, anything. And it already is, defacto if not in writ. But it serves no one to demonize everyone.

Oh?

Maybe. I was in those chats and paranoia and suspicion abounded before Sabu showed up. Not that that’s entirely bad, but it didn’t prevent Sabu, just saying.

Eta, I personally am not really interested in participating in chats anymore. Not saying I never would, just that I need more IRL rn.

US American here and I agree.

Barrett - Brown and Sabu?

It’s not just Republicans, and it’s doing the public a great disservice to keep pushing that narrative.

Property damage isn’t violence, in this context.

Thanks for that. I need to reread it a couple of times and stew on it for a good while. Being from the USA, my perspective is obviously skewed from that perspective. My immediate question arises from generations behind baby boomers who never had the opportunity of home ownership (and related maintenance/tax expenses), who may be able to inherit properties, if not having to be signed over to the state for necessary elder care expenses. In this situation, the beneficiary have wealth, but have to sell the property to pay taxes, then be taxed on savings, and still unable to afford modest housing, rented or bought.

In this example, my immediate thought is in favor of doing away with sales and/or VAT, but having aggressively progressive income taxes, with income under $x being exempted, or even negative tax burden*.

*Kitten bumped device before sentence completed.

The fb share button on websites is problematic. Website tracking is problematic. Archivers are my go-to.

Sure, and that’s extremely important context that should be included, because

taxes are a way - and always have been - to redistribute from the poor to the rich. Sounds about right.

Comes off sounding ancap or USA style libertarian.

Exactly.

Two years after approving a tough-on-crime legalized chattel slavery sentencing law

Fixed that for the AP