Just want to add, if Chase seems reasonable to you and you don’t have another preferred candidate, please actually support him. The Ron Paul paleoconservative wing of the Libertarian Party is criticizing him pretty hard. If he doesn’t end up with support and votes, it will be harder to get a nominee that appeals to the left in the future.

I like Chase. I think he’s a great speaker, and he’s good at making great little one liners. I like most of his policies. I’m not fully on board with the Gaza is a genocide or puberty blockers are reversible stances, but his intentions are good even with those issues.

The information is out there if you wanna find it. The truth is most people don’t care, though. That’s on us.

He can decide, and his middle managers can decide, and you can also decide by choosing to shop from somewhere else.

I think the answer is yes.

That’s kind of true in some parts of the US, indirectly. Some places criminalize not being homeless but all the things that are the result of being homeless like sleeping outside or in public places. But there are a lot of places in the US that do provide for the homeless. New York City has a right to housing provision, for example.

Where did this meme of “capitalism requires infinite growth, therefore it’s impossible and bad” come from? Capitalism doesn’t require infinite growth, the universe has basically infinite resources, modernity which is largely but not exclusively caused by capitalism has allowed us to do so much more with fewer resources than generations previous, and as societies get richer in material wealth they produce fewer children and have the luxury to pay attention to things like the environment and their impact on it.

London does have homemade guns. I wouldn’t say it’s full of them, of course, but they are there and they are a problem sometimes.

Availability of guns is obviously increased by the laws being such that large scale manufacturers can make and sell, as in the US. But it’s hard to disentangle America’s gun culture, gun availability, and its laws. America has so many more guns than the UK in large part because the gun played such a bigger role in US culture historically, you know, violent revolution for independence and settling the Western frontier and all that. Then once there are lots of guns more people need guns to defend themselves, and so on. That was all allowed by the laws. The culture perpetuates the laws, the laws perpetuate the culture, etc.

You know guns aren’t that hard to make, right?

I’m going to assume this is a made up story for the sake of my mental health.