you can model the tax on the supply or the demand. in most simple models the outcome is the same

well yeah, there’s only so much sexy to go around. how else do you propose we save some for spiders?

some injustices are structural

actually history is just our collective understanding of the past, so if it changes, history changes

Right, and this Walmart in Europe would be where exactly?

I’m sure you do :)

That being said, by choosing not to break gender norms, are you not helping reinforce what an idea of female is?

(OK, maybe I’m going round in circles here)

Anyway, you have a lovely day :)

but isn’t the difference in one case free gender expression, whereas the other is (e.g. for trans male to female): I think I’m a woman and to show this I’m going to specifically dress in the ‘stereotypically womanliest’ way possible?

obviously this is an exaggeration. but since we’re playing the game.

ok, I’ll bite and role-play devil’s advocate. how do you respond to such a take?

well if the feminist movement is all about deconstructing gender and removing fixed ideas of gender, then surely the trans movement is reversing this by reinforcing stereotypes in how people dress etc. /s

right, except sometimes it’s easier to impose conditions on certain countries than others. for example the US was able to get the previous Indian administration to sign a treaty ceding partial control of their arsenal to them, on threat of sanctions (if I recall correctly). as much as the US might want to do something like that with China, it wouldn’t be anywhere near as easy to pull off.

this is just an example, I’m not attaching moral value to what occurred/occurs

isn’t this supposed to be mitigated by the fact that the tritium eventually blends into the larger ocean such that the concentration remains in harmless levels at the end anyway?

look at mr big spoon here

no one wants lower wages, but wage increases lead to businesses increasing their prices.

supply shocks aside, there is a negative correlation between inflation and unemployment for a host of complex reasons. so there’s ultimately a trade-off to pick.

unfortunately, the issue is that given businesses also function from the idea that there is such a trade-off, supposing we announce we want to lower unemployment, they raise their prices in anticipation.

it’s a sad system

it was factions of the Republican elite who reached out to the religious right to get support for their neoliberal agenda, when they saw them successfully organise politically. Reagan happened to be of a similar religious leaning, but his reinterpretation of pre-existing American civil Christianity to these ends is much more than one of a useful idiot being told what to do.

source: this was a major part of my bachelor’s thesis

and the most interesting part of the whole situation is that the other side most likely thinks the same

idk man, at no point do any two or more stars fight each other /s

or make a ‘join lemmy’ sign?

the point is to take away traffic in the long run

lemmas