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I agree, but can we stop having ChatGPT write our tweets?

re: Do Trade Deficits matter?

Posted by AllbyMyRelf on 2/20/26 at 8:31 am to
I use and have used m dashes in my writing for 10 years. I’m not giving them up just because ChatGPT uses it too
Admittedly I don’t read posters’ post histories, but SFP strikes me as mostly libertarian with maybe a slight left lean on social issues (but still consistently libertarian)
:lol: are these leftists in the room with you right now?
That was almost Mississippi State’s head coach until the Giants stole him away from us
What’s the best overall tv/ streaming package to get if all I care about is SEC baseball? Anyone know?
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VERY Liberal
OP, this is an understatement. Beware.
Virginia Beach. Dirty, crowded, reaks of weed.
States, since the founding of the country, have been understood to have the power to create laws governing the health, safety, morals, and general welfare of their citizens. That’s pretty broad latitude.
In the first instance (recognizing things aren’t getting done) yes, it’s pragmatism vs purity.

In the second instance, no, it’s a shift in normative belief. The libertarian believes that freedom is the chief end and that government’s role, if any, is to protect and promote that freedom and accompanying rights.

However, people have shifts in what they view as the chief end. Some do not identify maximum liberty with maximum human flourishing. For a conservative, the chief end is the restraint of evil and the promotion of human flourishing.

An example would be something like heroin trafficking. A pure libertarian is fine with this. It’s just contract—people choosing for themselves what they want to do/ buy, so long as they don’t hurt other people. Conservatives usually do not view this as promoting human flourishing. They typically see this as evil to be restrained.

In this way, conservatives are not being pragmatic, they’re being consistent within a different framework.

Conservatives and libertarians are often confused with each other (Rand Paul for example) because they have overlapping policy positions, but they reach these positions by different modes.
Most libertarians tend to be very academically minded and like systems. Systems need to be consistent. If you hold freedom in x sphere, you should hold it in y sphere.

This drive for philosophical consistency creates issues like the Libertarian Party’s endless ideological purity tests in their debates.

For libertarians that stop being libertarians, the change is sometimes just recognizing that the rigid purity causes nothing to be done.

But other times it’s just a shift in priorities. Instead of freedom becoming the end-all, oftentimes it becomes something like moral order or structure. Which is why people become more conservative as they get older. They’re also willing to sacrifice some freedom to get that order and stability.
Outside of being a lobbyist, has Thune ever held a private sector job?
Yes. At the time, large signing bonuses were still common in big law moves but on their way out. I made them think I was considering other offers and asked for one to seal it. They gave it to me.
If it’s the case I’m thinking of, this is my favorite Thomas opinion.
Unfortunately adequate justice will not be done for the existing victims, but this makes me optimistic that there will be fewer victims going forward.
Conservative orgs like ADF have gotten really good at picking cases to bring to get laws changed. Their SCOTUS W-L record is pretty remarkable over the last few years.
Appointing not terrible judges is about the only thing the GOP does. I think Vance would do a decent job here