[FRIAM] words for Nick (political-words focused)

Gary Schiltz gary at naturesvisualarts.com
Sun Aug 23 13:49:26 EDT 2020


I'm sure there are studies showing the dangers of exposure to second hand
sushi. I know the smell lakes me want to barf.

On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 10:10 AM glen∉ℂ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think the standard rhetoric is that the Dems limit positive freedoms,
> where the Reps limit negative freedoms.
> https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative/ Though I
> have lots of problems with this (always false) dichotomy.
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> There are exceptions, of course. Anti-abortion Reps want to limit your
> ability to get an abortion (a positive liberty), whereas Dems tend to want
> to limit your cloistering away from people different from you (a negative
> liberty) [⛧]. But it's a good enough dichotomy for most things. I tend to
> think of the Dems as constraint-based solvers (inverse map) and Reps as
> positivists (forward map). Personally, I try to be pluralist and agnostic
> and choose solvers that seem to have a history of working.
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> [⛧] I'd be happy to live somewhere without any sushi, for example. Those
> damned Democrats keep trying to force me to eat sushi. 8^D I have the right
> to live in a sushi-free zone. Don't bring your damned sushi to go plate
> into the local tap room or I'll be forced to shoot you in the face with my
> 9mm loaded with 15 hollow points that I trained for a WHOLE HOUR so I can
> carry it in my pocket.
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> On 8/22/20 5:26 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
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> > What freedoms are Democrats trying to take away?  The freedom to dump
> mine tailings in creeks?  That's the one that I can think of.
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