Screw that!
Get a Fairphone with /e/OS before you switch to the rotten apple.

In the US we have two viable political parties.
One is ultra right wing fascist authoritarian.
The second is conservative neoliberal corpo-cratic.

No wonder I’ve been more or less depressed my entire adult life.

Increased tariffs, aren’t going to compensate for the loss of the other taxes they cut. On balance it’s still lower taxes, just not for the poor.

Pedophilia and corruption are unrelated to family values. I never mentioned them. Not sure what your getting at with that.

They have nothing in common with the traditional platform of the Republican Party - smaller government, lower taxes, economic/fiscal responsibility, family values, religious values, etc.

Well they are still all in on lower taxes, and traditional religious family values.

I find it strange that anyone can look at the current US government and think it’s “Conservative”. The Republican Party has clearly become a radical, right wing, extremist, authoritarian, revolutionary sort of ideology. It’s obvious they want to completely remake the government and all of society. They’re not looking to conserve anything anymore.

“My favorite book said so”, isn’t an argument. It’s a delusion.

No. He operates as an Evangelical Apologist does. He makes disingenuous arguments that sound logical and convincing enough, as long as you don’t think about or look into them that much.

I think at Stamford Cambridge recently his whole argument against gay marriage was completely torn down, and he finally just said, he simply didn’t like it. I’ll look for the video.

Edit: Found it. His own channel has a video of the Cambridge debate. Odly, that student was edited out. But Cambridge has the full event. Including the one omitted

It does need one to sign up and make your account.
It no longer needs one to contact somebody. You can share a username instead of your phone number. That may be what you’re thinking of.

We have those too. Most probably. But sometimes a neighborhood will have their own.

That honestly sounds like a distinction without a difference.

Okay. A light house? Whatever else you and I can’t imagine? There’s plenty of annoying shit that’s not illegal.

Also neighborhood pools, playgrounds, parks. All managed by the HOA.

Who owns the land for the park? Who’s responsible for maintaining it? Who insures the park?
That’s what HOAs should be for.

That may be true.
All the more reason to join, so at least someone would.

So a continuous siren on your roof shouldn’t be a problem for your neighbors?
Safety shouldn’t be the only limit.

They exist purely for the benefit of busybodies and people with an unhealthy obsession with perceived property value.

They don’t have to though. The problem is, nobody but the busybodies and obsessives normally get involved. If you got involved that could change.

In the analogy of HOA = government, getting rid of HOA = getting rid of government. That’s anarchy.
Getting involved in the HOA is the opposite of anarchy. Sorry if that was confusing.

HOAs are a problem the way governments are a problem.
Anarchy isn’t the solution. Getting involved and working to fix bad rules and regulations is the solution.

If the color palate is too small, don’t ask for your specific color to be approved, offer an expanded palate to be adopted. Put it in terms they understand. “Conformity is valuable, yes. But uniformity is a liability. People like to be able to customize their homes. When the HOA hinders that too much, the neighborhood becomes less attractive to buyers. Property values are kept down.”

“Best” isn’t a question of truth.
Truly there is no “best”.
Truth only describes what is, without any judgement.

More opinions means more people searching for truth together and finding new things.

Finding more opinions, not truth.

If someone finds something new and share it, that could be reviewed and researched by people faster.

More information also means quicker double-checking for what is true

Slower. They must search through the deluge of opinion that grows exponentially faster than any truth could ever hope to.

Centralizing truth has a much more destructive aspect when dealing with truth. This can be seen practically on the difference of reach between the Fediverse and Facebook, for example.

Neither are made for truth.

Truth is a constructed entity.

Truth is discovered, not constructed. You may be thinking of consensus this whole time. Consensus is absolutely constructed. But consensus isn’t truth. Sometimes they align. More often by accident then by intent.

Opinions only obfuscate truth.
More opinions means less truth.