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Just tell me which rectangle of silicon to drill out.

Consider it getting into "good trouble."

"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." - Blaise Pascal

Then stop over taxing us.

I know its late but I'll add:

I'm afraid that the history of my country will be permanently revised and that my children will learn the revised version instead of the patriotic one. I fear I'll have to correct everything they learn about history and language.

I'm afraid that the public school system and the universities will convert my children from happy and productive citizens into angry activists.

I'm afraid that a portion of most products I buy will wind up supporting causes that are detrimental to my own interests, as the left has somehow gained control of the board rooms of major corporations.

I live in a dark blue state under lockdown and I fear we'll never truly be freed from it. I worry that the left will once again dispatch extremists to my neighborhood because of some unpredictable future event that sets them off.

I believe the left hates men, boys, white Americans, and Christians. I'm most of those things and you couldn't induce me to vote for a Democrat even if you paid me FIRE money right now.

I know that only answers your first question. I don't know who DeJoy is. I don't care about the post office. And I don't care about his response to the virus. In my opinion, the government has no role to play in virus handling.

I don't support the president because of his polices. I support him because he opposes the left. The only thing he could do to lose my support is to cave into them.

I've disengaged from the news since shortly after COVID started so I had to DuckDuckGo what you meant. I see a 38 minute interview on YouTube that I could watch, but unless in it he announces his support for abolishing the police or canceling American history, I doubt it would change anything.

The reaction to his election traumatized me. For the first time in my life I felt like a foreigner in my own country.

I disagree with most of his policy positions. His tax cut was too small, his insistence on opening the public schools is baffling to me given how the public school system manufactures his opposition. He was never able to build the wall, although I expected that. Ultimately I can work with my disagreements with him and the right more broadly. There is room for compromise there.

But watching the left since 2016 and especially recently after the death of George Floyd, policy matters don't concern me much anymore. I'm afraid of the left. I feel intimidated by their vast cultural and social power. And I'm going to vote for someone that unapologetically opposes them.

I know that doesn't really answer your question as you asked it. But there it is anyway.

Trump supporter here. I'll answer any questions you may have about that.

Voting was never intended to be so important.

People should have feel the burden that taxation places on them.

Payroll withholding already artificially dampens the strain that taxation imposes on everyone that earns a paycheck. Issuing a pre-filled out form is another step backwards.

Paying taxes should be burdensome and uncomfortable.

You're going to have to do a better job at steel-manning their argument before you can even hope to engage them on this issue.

Besides, post-2016 it appears the business elites have switched sides.

The social safety net has a number of problems.

1. It never seems to solve the problems it claims to address. When evidence against it is brought to bear, its advocates move the goal post.

2. There is never an established "end state." More and more areas of life magically become "rights" and then get added to its ever increasing responsibility.

3. It is commonly used as a means to buy votes and sow social dissent by convincing a receiving group that a productive group wants to take their livelihood away.

4. The US government is arguably not representative enough to be tasked with providing it. The nation is too large, the people are too divided, and the political system is too corrupt.

5. It relies on confiscation by the aforementioned unrepresentative entity. And those that never use it shoulder a disproportionate burden of its funding and implementation.

The idea that a social safety net is a Universal Good Thing needs to be reevaluated.

An engaged and well-informed public has always been the foundation of our democracy

Is there even a shred of scientific evidence to support this hypothesis? I see it in print so often that it appears to be a axiom that is considered so correct as to be unquestionable.

I appreciate you pointing this out as I stopped reading right there.

When I read "people of color" anywhere, I assume myself excluded.

"think how oppressed the homemaker is!"

Associating homemaking and raising children with oppression is probably part of the reason why modern society is not reproducing.

You may receive a comment soon regarding the opportunity cost of your wife staying home. As if she is an object of economic activity who is unfashionably compelled to pause her value generation in order to raise kids.

I would be interested in hearing arguments as to why the social contract doesn't obligate all able men and women to replace themselves for the perpetuation of its other benefits.

There seems to be this hopeful belief out there that if only indisputably correct information was available to the general public, at long last they would finally support the correct policies and elect the correct leaders.

I think that is a false premise.

We're currently looking for a new home and this disaster has completely changed what we're looking for. Before it was clean suburbs with great schools close to the city. Now we're looking for more property much farther out and even considering states that didn't lock down so tightly. Good schools are no longer a consideration as we will home school as well.

The social contract theory has failed, and we're preparing now for a future without it.

This is the only app we allow our kids to watch YouTube on. It dispenses with the ads and 90% of the tricks they use to keep you watching (no overlays at the end and no autoplay).

Even the land that was occupied by what we call "natives" was previously occupied by various flora and fauna. The previous settlers had no right to migrate to the area anymore than the Europeans did.

It was clear back in February too. "Stop buying masks, they don't help." Then in April the consensus did a 180.

Consensus doesn't equal fact.

It is quite possible for someone to have all the credentials you specified and still agree with OP.

Trying to credential-shame someone out of the conversation doesn't help anyone.

Links in this thread are not to be trusted!

That was the first thought I had the morning after the election. I woke. The crushing weight of a new reality reimposed itself on my mind. And then: I want my attention back.

Articles that begin like this always sadden me. I find myself unable to to continue from this point.

Let's say the US had 5 parties and all 5 supported 5 variations of the EARN IT act, what then?

Since the 2016 election the left has been consolidating their vast cultural power by exiling opposing views that don't pass their ever-shifting purity tests.

It remains to be seen whether or not this will bury conservative thought or cause an underground resurgence.

We live in a dark time. Before I had a family I was on track for FIRE so I could exit society and live in peace. But now that I have kids I'm drawn back in and its heartbreaking to see how much worse it is now than when I first decided to opt out.

I don't know how I'm going to guide my children through this new dark age.

The article doesn't mention the political radicalization students are subjected to at university. Having attended a decent school for two years after the military, I never in my life saw such extremism concentrated in one place.

I believe that radicalization combined with the psychological effects of the lockdown is at least partially responsible for the social unrest we're seeing today.

And now that I have my own children, I hope there are viable alternatives by the time they turn 18.

You identified a legitimate issue that was corrected in your area in 1974. That's good. However that does not impose decades or centuries of penance on an entire race of people, the vast majority of which had nothing to do with it.

To do so is scapegoating and white Americans have every right to resist it.

Talking about racism makes white people uncomfortable.

When the basic premise of the argument is that white Americans are born irredeemably flawed[1], you're unlikely to win many white supporters other than the most guilt-ridden.

I suppose the tactic is to impart as much guilt as possible. But that doesn't make the argument a good one.

[1] https://twitter.com/DisrnNews/status/1266857347567190016