Tbh theyd probably fit in in australia. Kinda the original intent of the place no?

Youre takes are valid from a good governance perspective - dont grant power you dont want used against you.

This isnt necessarily about good governance though, its “we have the power, now lets govern such that conservatives that have lived here for decades hate it so much they sell their property and leave”.

no thats exactly it.

honestly left leaning places should do this more. the right does it when they make cruel laws to torture dissidents - all the left needs to do is trigger them.

• maybe require identification on social media (dislike but rightwing trolls get hurt more) ,
• ban vehicles over a certain size on class c licenses (like 4k lbs, intentionally low enough to ban big pickup trucks),
• ban private schools and fund schools from state taxes entirely instead of city for equity,
• require highschoolers to take classes on psychology and parenting,
• make sex ed mandatory and lgbt inclusive,
• build up light rail and ban cars in cities except for delivery purposes,
• require garbage to be sorted and actually fine people,
• massively shorten prison sentences and focus on re education to end “prison culture”,
• tax incentivize continual adult education,
• document undocumented immigrants
• pay black people reparations
• ensure access to abortions and contraceptives to everyone, including minors
• legally mandate vaccines
• institute a maximum wage,
• institute election spending maximums,
• ban landlords, the local govt takes ownership of rental properties and contracts property managers or something
• universal healthcare

idk what else?

holy shit

Its sometimes useful for conceptual questions but i dont trust code generated by it.

man existing requires work, whether we like it or not. freeloading hurts peoples interest in the common good.

I like the spirit but were not japan, we have to consider the antisocials.

There need to be requirments to meet to receive entitlements.

Also though capitalism is just bad at providing necessities, slapping a ubi on top wont fix it.

Not necessarily, there probably exists multiple orderings on gayness , the question is if you can create a total ordering and if its multiple people are maximally gay, or at least if the gayest people are equally gay.

Intellectual property is a means of production after its released. It requires no further input from the creator, and so they shouldnt have a monopoly over it.

If the internet actually enforced copyright to the letter of the law, it wouldnt exist in its current form. No memes, no game streamers or videogame youtubers, no unlicensed music, no image sharing. Copyright needs to be defended to the best of the holders ability otherwise they lose it. It would necessitate a constant stream of scanning and policing and litigation thatd be so taxing on platforms theyd just shut down. Video game streaming operates in a legal grey zone because the law is flawed.

Theres a reason programming tools are almost all open source. From languages to libraries to software, the alternative is just too inefficient.

Copyright is an old shitty system from the days when books required publishers who had to register an ISBN for everything they published. The modern equivalent would be if every unique copyrightable contribution on the internet first required submitting the media to a government agency to store a hash of it and issue a UUID.