Good talk

You’re deliberately avoiding the core premise that people thinking it’s democratic means it’s democratic.

That’s a gish gallop, and the core premise that people believing it’s democratic makes it so is incorrect.

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Most Americans think that too

Dollars aren’t real

There are actually very high barriers to entry in the insurance and health care markets (which in the USA are tightly intertwined).

The health insurance industry doesn’t want there to be fair alternatives because then everyone would buy that instead. This is an oligarchy, not a democracy.

Not actually democratic, thus not socialist.

Won’t anyone please think of the shareholders? Without the monopolies they pay lobbyists to maintain, nobody would ever invent anything. There’s literally no other way; I checked and none of them are profitable at all.

What if he’s just making up a reason because he doesn’t like you at all? If you’re weird and pushy he’ll tell everyone! It already took weeks of imagining that interaction and mustering the courage to do it.

No, this plan is a bust. It’s obvious you’re interested; you just asked him out. So if he is too, then he’ll just tell you. Obviously.

Yes

Yes - a stock exchange - but Florida is only a small part of the overall market and most people will just tolerate the ban.

Back then that was very impressive!

Hi police I’d like to report the police

Too late for that.

It’s time to encourage effective defense.

Don’t give them ideas!

You should try your own electrical wiring too.

because you like it

we choose when it’s legitimate

I might be inferring the wrong thing here, but do you believe that human rights exist?

This is 100% by design. The only way to retire in this economy is to invest in an exploitative business. So over time, people find themselves supporting ideas that make retirements in general farther away, but their own retirement nicer.

You’re more likely to die in a heat wave in prison right now.

IDK maybe that’s more reason to fight, just to the death.

It’s questionable if that’s enough, though. FPTP means we’ll vote for people who maybe took small bribes, and it’ll become a slippery slope to a fully for-sale goverment again.