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A really harsh tax increase, and worse yet, a hugely regressive one.

If you commit to making a post, I commit to being nice to you and not being a jerk.I try not to be like that in general and appreciate people’s willingness to contribute.

Are you aware of the amount of free porn on the internet? No matter how weird the weirdest thing you can imagine, there’s at least one website dedicated to it.

I have been involved in that ship for a long time (I never gave up) but it is evident that the best years in series production are behind us and less competition I don’t think will improve it, it doesn’t matter how you look at it, stranger things is not at the level of house of cards to name two from the same platform

Oh yes, market concentration definitely improves the user experience in the long run.

Again, I’m European so I can’t be sure about this, but I think some of those issues are worse because of the scale, not the thing itself. The entire healthcare system is private—if all prisons were too, I think that would be much worse than the healthcare situation.

As for politicians, up until this election cycle, they at least had the decency to pretend. From now on, we’ll see what happens.

In the Southeast of America a judge was fairly recently convicted of sending underage boys to a private prison in exchange for kickbacks from that prison. He had been doing it for over a decade. And that’s just one that made the news.

It is obvious that something like this would happen. You cannot create a system with perverse incentives and expect the good faith of those who participate to keep it clean. It is exactly the opposite of the spirit of the American revolution (and the rest of democratic revolutions)

As a European, I wonder what kind of dystopia the concept of a “private prison” fits into. I don’t understand how anyone could have imagined that this would end well.

I would like to leave this here as a warning, because it seems relevant to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire