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      "title": "Answer: Could the use of facial recognition software by police introduce gender or racial bias in their operations?",
      "body": "<p>For context, this is a question I answered on <a href=\"https://criminalsonpublicsalarycops.quora.com/Could-the-use-of-facial-recognition-software-by-police-introduce-gender-or-racial-bias-in-their-operations\">Quora</a></p>\n<p>It already has and the record of false positives that give police an excuse to make false arrests of people who did not commit the crime they are arrested for shows the false positive match rate is several orders of magnitude higher for darker skin, specifically black people.</p>\n<p>The 2019 National Institute of Standards and Technology <a href=\"https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2019/nist.ir.8280.pdf\">facial recognition vendor test of demographic effects</a> found that false positive matches varied by factors of 10 to 100 across demographics with the highest rate among West and East African faces as well as East Asian among some algorithms and the lowest among European faces. Mind you this was among the highest quality application photos used to test nearly 200 algorithms. Among images submitted by domestic law enforcement i.e. mugshots the same algorithms demonstrated the highest false positive rate among American Indians, black Americans and asian American faces with a higher false positive rate for women.</p>\n<p>The past 7 years have only corroborated these findings. Among confirmed cases of false arrests made after FRT matched an innocent person’s face with the suspect, the vast majority of those arrested were black.</p>\n<p>In January 2019, a man in New Jersey was arrested by Woodbridge Police for shoplifting in a city he had never been to because FRT matched him to the picture on the actual suspect’s fake ID that he had left at the scene of the crime. He was denied bail and held in a county jail for 10 days, where he was kept in solitary confinement, solely on the basis of a FRT false positive match from a suspect’s fake ID. Even after he was released, he lost his job and police continued to gangstalk him for a year after his false arrest.</p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https://lawandcrime.com/civil-rights/third-innocent-black-man-to-be-misidentified-by-facial-recognition-software-sues-police-department-and-prosecutor-for-false-arrest-and-imprisonment/\">Law and Crime</a></p>\n<p>In the same year, Detroit police falsely arrested Michael Oliver for a theft he did not commit based on an FRT match that did not even have the same head shape as him.</p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https://www.metrotimes.com/news/detroit-police-to-overhaul-facial-recognition-use-after-groundbreaking-settlement-in-false-arrest-suit-36657192/\">Metrotimes</a></p>\n<p>In January 2020, Robert Williams was arrested by Detroit police for a store robbery he didn’t commit and held in a detention center for 30 hours.</p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https://abcnews.com/US/black-man-wrongfully-arrested-incorrect-facial-recognition/story?id=71425751\">ABC News</a></p>\n<p>In the summer of 2022, Randal Reid was arrested for credit fraud in Jefferson Parish, LA, a place he had not been to, after the Jefferson Parish Sheriff Office used FRT to match the suspect from surveillance video to him. He spent 6 days in a Georgia county jail before his family was able to hire an attorney in Louisiana to exonerate him.</p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mistaken-arrests-facial-recognition-technology-lawsuits-b613161c56472459df683f54320d08a7\">Associated Press</a></p>\n<p>That same year, Alonzo Swayer was falsely arrested for committing assault on a Baltimore bus driver and stealing his phone, despite not riding the bus, after FRT matched him to the suspect on CCTV footage. The actual suspect was younger, shorter, and had no facial hair unlike Alonzo. Despite not matching, the physical appearance of the suspect, aside from also being black, Alonzo was jailed for 9 days with no other corroborating evidence to support his arrest and detention.</p>\n<p>Source:<a href=\"https://www.levelman.com/another-black-man-falsely-accused-thanks-to-facial-recognition-technology/\">Levelman</a></p>\n<p>Porcha Woodruff was arrested by Detroit police in 2023 for a carjacking she did not commit while 8 months pregnant after FRT matched her to the suspect based on an old ID she had a younger age.</p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https://apnews.com/article/detroit-police-facial-recognition-lawsuit-cab0ae44c1671fc30617d301b21b2d13\">Associated Press</a></p>\n<p>More recently Trevis William was arrested by NYPD last year for a sex crime (indecent exposure) he didn’t commit after FRT matched him to another black man that was 8 inches shorter and 70 lbs lighter. NYPD falsely arrested him and held in jail for 2 days despite not matching the physical description given by the victim and his cell site location data putting him miles away from the scene of the crime when it occurred.</p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https://abc7ny.com/post/man-falsely-jailed-nypds-facial-recognition-surveillance-tech-failed/17664671/\">ABC 7 News</a></p>\n<p>Chris Gatlin spent 17 months in jail for an assault on the St. Louis metrolink he did not commit because an FRT program matched him to the face of one of the suspects in a grainy surveillance video and St. Louis police prodded the victim, who couldn’t remember the faces of his assailants, to pick him in a line up. St. Louis police had no corroborating evidence to confirm the false positive and still destroyed this man’s life.</p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https://fox2now.com/news/fox-files/jailed-over-police-ai-program-then-freed-17-months-after-victim-raised-doubts/\">Fox 2 News</a></p>\n<p>To date the only white person to be falsely arrested for an FRT false positive match is <a href=\"https://dev.to/rawveg/ai-surveillance-fails-39b9\">Jason Vernau in Miami</a>, who was falsely arrested for cashing a fraudulent check because the algorithm matched his face to that of the suspect who cashed the fraudulent check on the same day and at the same back he went to.</p>",
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      "title": "Answer: What is the libertarian take on the federal government running a direct-to-consumer drug platform such as TrumpRx?",
      "body": "<p>For context, this is a question I answered on <a href=\"https://qr.ae/pC3OEG\">Quora</a></p>\n<p>The name of the website gives away the creator’s intention: as another monument to a malignant narcissist egomaniac who believes he is the center of the universe. As atrocious as the ACA was, Obama at least didn’t have the imprudence to name the website after himself and the colloquial name “Obamacare” originated from his opposition. The most obvious and predictable outcome of TrumpRx is that, at least under Trump, it will be used as a de facto whitelist for Pharma companies that at the very least pay lip service to his agenda and donate to the candidates he endorses while excluding those who don’t feed his ego. Do government websites meaningfully reduce drug prices or any prices for that matter? If you think that is the goal here, you have missed the forest for the trees.</p>",
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      "body": "<p>Because as much as we like the idea, the institution would require a combination of warrantless mass surveillance in people’s bedrooms and a complete lost of bodily autonomy for both sexes either through forced abortions for unauthorized pregnancies or temporary sterilizations via compulsory IUDs, falliopial tubal ligation, or vasectomy for males. It would not only violate constitutional rights and the fundamental principle of informed consent in medicine, but it would be a eugenics throwback that both the mainstream pro-life and pro-choice crowd would completely reject. Aside, from groypers and other alt-right miscreants no one would support the institution of such a licensing regime.</p>",
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      "body": "<p>HSI has issued a record number of field subpoenas (i.e. administrative warrants with zero judicial oversight) to Alphabet and Meta, under Trump, for identifying information about critics of ICE and the Trump admin including a senior who wrote a benign email to a federal prosecutor pleading for mercy on behalf of an Afghan refugee facing deportation. In the latter case, HSI got enough information to locate the man and actually showed up at his door, two weeks after he sent the email, and interrogated him for 20 minutes about a completely legal first amendment protected activity. The same instrument was used to identify and target international students for deportation last year, for the heinous thought crime of participating in a pro-Palestinian protest and many times to identify and target people who exercise their first amendment right to film and report law enforcement actions which includes ICE and CBP.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-moves-to-quash-abusive-subpoena-aimed-at-tracking-down-man-who-criticized-department-of-homeland-security\">ACLU</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/homeland-security-is-trying-to-force-tech-companies-to-hand-over-data-about-trump-critics/\">TechCrunch</a></p>\n<p>Trump and his sycophants have given us several signs that they don’t believe the first amendment applies to their detractors from Bondi’s podcast statement that she would <a href=\"https://steemit.com/liberty/@chirieleison/answer-what-are-your-thoughts-on-attorney-general-pam-bondi-s-comments-about-going-after-people-for-hate-speech\">target people for “hate speech”</a>, to ICE Barbie’s <a href=\"https://steemit.com/liberty/@chirieleison/answer-trump-s-dhs-head-kristi-noem-thinks-it-is-violence-to-peacefully-videotape-ice-agents-how-concerning-is-it-a-senior\">conflation of filming ICE agents with violence</a>, to <a href=\"https://steemit.com/liberty/@chirieleison/answer-why-is-the-trump-doj-criminal-division-investigating-the-organizers-of-the-no-kings-protest-isn-t-organizing-and-funding\">Pirro’s dubious criminal probe</a> into the No Kings protest organizers, to their boss’s repeated demands that news networks that deride him have their non-existent broadcast licenses revoked and his legal sanctions against law firms that sued him in his personal capacity and his admin on behalf of detained migrants (EOs 14230, 14246, & 14250) has made it pretty clear that calling them fascists is not hyperbolic this time around.</p>",
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      "body": "<p>For context, this is a question I answered on <a href=\"https://qr.ae/pClLLZ\">Quora</a></p>\n<p>There is no conspiracy to replace whites. A combination of below replacement birth rates and aging population leads to lower white proportion of population. Almost every other racial demographic in America except Polynesians also have below replacement birth rates albeit with younger populations which is why they appear to be replacing whites to the paranoid-delusional meth psychosis addled brains of groypers and wignats.</p>\n<h3>Median age by race in America:</h3>\n<ul>\n<li>White: 43.7 years</li>\n<li>Asian: 37.5 years</li>\n<li>Black: 35.5 years</li>\n<li>Hispanic: 29.8 years</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>TFR by race:</h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Hispanic: 1.9–2</li>\n<li>Black: 1.6–1.7</li>\n<li>White: 1.5–1.6</li>\n<li>Asian: 1.3–1.4</li>\n</ul>\n\n![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmPHcDDYV5t3wxSKQZtLwPJhTJFiiwuhYeU9t5DZg43bYJ/image.png)\n<p>And as I pointed out in an answer to a different question, birth rates are falling below replacement levels even in third world countries.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://steemit.com/science/@chirieleison/why-are-western-countries-below-the-replacement-birth-rate\">Answer: Why are Western Countries Below the Replacement Birth Rate?</a></p>\n<p>The only great replacement theory that is actually true is AI and other technological advances replacing human labor en mass. That one also isn’t a global Jewish conspiracy, but a natural progression of capitalism just like the decline of rural towns.</p>",
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      "body": "This is what inevitably happens when you have a majority renter electorate. A high time preference population will always shift politics to the left as their need for relief from rackrents and spikes in cost of living that drive down the purchasing power of their wages outweighs any need to build equity. If conservative boomers actually wanted to stop the generational swing towards socialism they would stop being NIMBY shitbags that arrest affordable housing development and make it a national priority instead.",
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      "title": "Answer: What are some examples of deep seated nepotism in the Trump admin?",
      "body": "<p>For context, this is a question I answered on <a href=\"https://qr.ae/pCawpX\">Quora</a></p>\n<p>Just a few off the top of my head:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Appointed Ivanka’s father-in-law the ambassador to France.</li>\n<li>Appointed Tiffany’s father-in-law the Senior Adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern Affairs</li>\n<li>His son-in-law is an informal Middle East Policy advisor who will also likely be on the international executive board overseeing day-to-day operations of the post-war Gaza technate.</li>\n<li>HHS secretary RFK Jr transferred interest in referral fees from ongoing litigation against Merck to his son.</li>\n<li>The daughter of his chief of staff is the <a href=\"https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/politics/2024/11/08/susie-wiles-daughter-katie-promoted-at-continental-strategy/76137658007/\">director of a lobbying firm</a>, Continental Strategy, that is actively lobbying the Trump admin on behalf of the same clients her mother represented as co-chair of Mercury Public Affairs.</li>\n<li>Kristi Noem <a href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-ad-campaign-strategy-group\">hid the Strategy Group as a subcontractor</a> in a $220 million no-bid contract for an ad campaign. The Strategy Group was not only involved in her 2022 Gubernatorial campaign and previously employed her senior adviser, Corey Lewandowski, the current CEO of the Strategy Group is her Assistant Homeland Secretary’s husband.</li>\n<li>Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s sons Brandon and Kyle are the chairmen and executive vice chairmen of Cantor Fitzgerald where their father was previously CEO until February 2025. Cantor now <a href=\"https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/cantor-fitzgerald-offers-to-buy-the-rights-in-potential-refunds-from-companies-that-have-paid-trump-s-tariffs/ar-AA1J1A4I\">offers to purchase rights to potential tariff refunds</a> from companies that have paid tariffs that Howard Lutnick pushes, allowing their investors to speculate on court outcomes. Cantor also owns a 5% stake in Tether, the company that issues the USDT stable coin that the current commerce secretary has promoted.</li>\n<li>Stefan Miller’s wife was appointed as an Advisor to DOGE and immediately got a communications advisor job working for Elon’s company AI company afterwards.</li>\n<li>Appointed his son to screen Pentagon candidates, who later went on to become a partner at a VC firm that <a href=\"https://nomoretrump.quora.com/This-is-a-response-to-another-answer-to-the-question-What-are-some-examples-of-deep-seated-nepotism-in-the-Trump-admin?ch=10&oid=240248280&share=f9403cf9&srid=hFm1O&target_type=post\">conveniently invests in small companies</a> right before they receive millions of dollars in pentagon financing.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>I’m sure there will be more nepotism in the next three years but this is where it stands as of the beginning of 2026.</p>",
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      "title": "Trump is once again threatening to revoke broadcast licenses if networks provide negative coverage of his administration? Does he still not understand how broadcast licenses work and who gets them or is he a petty tyrant who doesn't care about the law?",
      "body": "<p>For context, he posted this last night.</p>\n\n![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmRkuQVkqqavYceR5zEhtwNuPALKn2VAL8GEHZapbP3Ej9/image.png)\n<p>News networks like CNN, MSNBC, ABC and NBC DO NOT HAVE broadcast licenses. Local broadcast stations (i.e. affiliates) hold broadcast licenses. There are NO nationwide network broadcast licenses. There is also no FCC authority to compel political speech or make any editorial decisions at news networks.</p>",
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      "permlink": "answer-in-what-ways-could-the-u-s-look-abroad-for-policies-and-programs-to-better-support-working-families-through-childcare",
      "title": "Answer: In what ways could the U.S. look abroad for policies and programs to better support working families through childcare, paid leave, etc.?",
      "body": "<p>For context, this is a question I answered on <a href=\"https://georgism.quora.com/In-what-ways-could-the-U-S-look-abroad-for-policies-and-programs-to-better-support-working-families-through-childcare\">Quora</a></p>\n<p>Several come to mind, but I’ll focus my answer on one concession to labor that would make the next generation better off starting in infancy and one which most states sorely lack: universal paid maternity leave. This policy is usually framed as a benefit for women and expecting mothers but it really ought to be discussed with reference to how its presence or absence will impact the next generation. The first few months of a child’s life are when they are the most vulnerable to their surroundings and having a mother who has to immediately return to work, instead of nursing her baby, due to financial constraints can set them up for worse life outcomes and choices down the road physically and psychologically. While the evidence isn’t conclusive it is squarely on the side of the theory that a lack of paid maternity leave is a net harm to the children of the mothers it affects.</p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8684353/\">quantitative research investigation</a> into how paid or unpaid maternal leave impacts toddler development, specifically language and socioemotional outcomes at 24-36 month across mother–child dyads (n = 328) found that Paid leave was associated with significantly higher toddler language scores, independent of family income or socioeconomic status (β=0.15, p<.01, adjusted R2=.17). Paid leave also correlated with fewer infant behavior problems, but this effect was statistically significant only among mothers with lower educational attainment equivalent to high school diploma or GED (β=−.91, p=.02).</p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9892990/\">cross-sectional study</a> conducted among 80 families in NYC between May 2018 and December 2019 that measured infant brain activity via electroencephalography and collected data on leave status, maternal stress and parent–infant interactions found that mothers with paid leave were 7.4x more likely to have infants showing EEG profiles characterized by increased higher-Hz power (95% CI, 1.9-36.9) indicating more mature pattern of brain activation at 3 months compared to infants of mothers without paid leave. This association was significant even after controlling for family income and parent–child interactions.</p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014292124002095\">quasi-experimental study</a> conducted in Denmark that drew on adolescent behavioral and emotional data for children born before and after the country extended paid parental leave from 24 to 46 weeks found that the adolescents of mothers who would have otherwise taken the shorter leave had measurable improvements in well being, conscientiousness and emotional stability. Each additional month of leave increased well-being, conscientiousness, and emotional stability by 6.0%, 6.5%, and 5.6%, respectively in the younger cohort born after the paid paternal leave reform compared to the older cohort born before the paid paternal leave reform. Adolescents born after the reform also skipped school less frequently and had a lower risk of having psychiatric diagnoses.</p>\n<p>Another <a href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01340-z\">quasi-experimental study</a> that collected data in 29 countries between 1990 and 2019 using the Demographic and Health Survey and Women, Business and the Law 2021 file released by the World Bank (n = 1 million) found that each additional week of paid maternity leave is associated with an increase of approximately 0.007 years in educational attainment and an increase of 0.056 cm in adult height for adults exposed to the policy as infants.</p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10995-017-2393-x\">cross sectional study</a> that used data from the Listening to Mothers III, a national survey (n = 2,400) to assess the association between paid maternity leave and outcomes related to infant and maternal health at 21 months postpartum found that women who had paid leave had a 47% lower risk of their infant being re-hospitalized compared to women who received unpaid or no leave.</p>\n<p>Women who received paid leave also had a 51% reduced risk of re-hospitalization themselves and were almost twice as likely to report good exercise habits and stress management. 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      "title": "Answer: If your country’s education system could be completely reset, what are the three biggest changes you believe should be made, and why?",
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      "body": "<p>For context, this is a question I answered on <a href=\"https://qr.ae/pCe220\">Quora</a></p>\n<p>For context this is <a href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/sode.12042\">the article</a> she was supposed to react to in her essay:</p>\n\n![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmakH2khBMg9vWZKqAXjBG8YtwjpNreumfPZcnzX7bvr2K/image.png)\n<p>It makes no mention of multiple genders, LGBTQ or transgenders. The subject matter of the article is entirely unrelated to the culture war about how many genders there are or whether you can change it, which was really not an issue when this article was published in 2014 or the previous years when the study was conducted. The actual subject of the hypothesis is how peer pressure to conform to stereotypes about binary boy/girl identity affect their social status among peers and consequently their mental health. At no point in her mindless screed did she address the hypothesis, methodology used to test it, results, or the implications.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Her paper vaguely alludes to the bible but does not reference it. A reference would include book, chapter and verse which she didn’t do at any point in her aimless and redundant ramblings.</li>\n<li>The bible is an entirely inappropriate reference in a social psychology class, especially one taken as a junior, for an assignment that asks you to analyze a survey research study’s parameters, methodology, results and implications.</li>\n<li>This was a science class, albeit a soft social science class, but nonetheless one where you actually have to engage in research, substantiate your claims with scholarly sources, and remain open to alternative hypotheses and theories instead of regurgitating religious dogmas. At no point did she reference anything from the actual study assigned to her or substantiate anything she said even with bible citations.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Even as a right of center straight white male I would give her paper a zero for being completely off topic. Apparently, she is also a pre-med student. I hope for her sake and the sake of the medical school or any future patients she might treat this is not her default response to scientific inquiry. Could you imagine her telling people that they are sick because god afflicted them for their sins and they should just pray for better health?</p>",
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      "title": "Answer: Which part of the constitution gives the president unilateral authority to make rules for artificial intelligence through executive order and ban states from having their own rules?",
      "body": "<p>For context, this is a question I answered on <a href=\"https://learninglibertarianism.quora.com/Which-part-of-the-constitution-gives-the-president-unilateral-authority-to-make-rules-for-artificial-intelligence-throug\">Quora</a></p>\n<p>For context, Trump wrote on TruthSocial that he would sign an EO this week establishing nationwide rules for AI and would preemptively bar states from passing laws for AI development and use.</p>\n\n![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmdp8bpDbyrP9ykfrg2KVhqEmemSe9GBtEK4Cz98NisBMN/image.png)\n<p>Of course, the only debatable means by which the federal government could assume preemptive and broad discretion over AI is through the commerce clause and the dormant commerce clause that prohibits states from erecting interstate trade barriers. But that authority is reserved for congress to decide by vote not for the president to decide unilaterally through an executive order. If the executive could just make rules about anything under the sun without congressional approval or judicial oversight we would no longer even have a republic but a functional dictatorship.</p>\n<p>If we take a more Originalist interpretation, the enumerated powers not specifically delegated to congress are reserved to the states (10th amendment), but since this has already been thrown to the wayside by the leviathan that currently occupies Washington, a federal law establishing uniform rules for AI development and use would probably hold up in the courts.</p>",
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      "body": "<p>For context, this is a question I answered on <a href=\"https://georgism.quora.com/Why-do-we-have-a-housing-crisis-in-America-and-how-much-does-illegal-immigration-actually-contribute-to-it\">Quora</a></p>\n<p>We have a housing crisis in America because we have a severe supply shortage that is an inevitable result of an unsustainable system of speculation driven suburban sprawl created by generous federal subsidies after WWII. Illegal aliens are likely a minor fuel source for the current garbage fire. 2 years ago, the <a href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/data/unauthorized-immigrant-population/state/US\">Migration Policy Institute</a> estimated that about 4.3 million illegal aliens own homes. That’s not 4.3 million homes, but 4.3 million owners; <a href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2025/08/21/u-s-unauthorized-immigrant-population-reached-a-record-14-million-in-2023/\">70% of them are living in mixed legal status households</a> with current visa holders, permanent residents and/or citizens. Thus, the vast majority of illegal alien homeowners either jointly own property with a legal spouse or hold a tenancy in common with other family members or have property rights interest through a trust set up for their family so their impact on the current housing shortage is minimal contrary to <a href=\"https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1991532782003044710?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1991532782003044710%7Ctwgr%5E04bb8ab079c3f5208315fab3bca746db0525a9ac%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Furl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FDHSgov%2Fstatus%2F1991532782003044710\">what Trump’s DHS would like you to believe</a>.</p>\n<p>Legal immigration is a much larger contributing factor to our housing shortage but still isn’t the ignition source or the main fuel source but more like water on a grease fire. As I noted in <a href=\"https://steemit.com/informationwar/@chirieleison/do-you-think-this-migration-trend-will-have-a-long-term-impact-on-housing-affordability-in-cities\">prior answer</a> they only move rent and house prices up in a 1:1–1.6 ratio with population influx in urban cores with an up to 9.6% increase in home prices within surrounding metro areas for every 1% increase in the immigrant population.</p>\n<p>NIMBY Boomer assholes who use their control over city councils and zoning boards to impose <a href=\"https://steemit.com/economics/@chirieleison/what-are-the-reasons-for-the-rising-cost-of-housing-in-america-how-can-this-issue-be-addressed\">land use restrictions that make affordable housing practically illegal</a> are by far the main contributors to the shortage and the arsonist is the federal government that started throwing billions at speculation driven sprawl after WWII, which as I noted several years ago started with the New Deal and continues with New Deal holdovers like the FHA and Fannie Mae</p>",
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      "body": "<h3>America’s Secret Police (Part 25)</h3>\n<p>As the government has gradually expanded the scope of warrantless mass surveillance it has gradually transformed policing into intel operations and started treating ordinary citizens like enemy combatants in their endless wars on drugs and terrorism. For the past decade, CPB has used their ever expanding network of hidden automated license plate readers, surveillance towers and drones using specific algorithms to judge whether drivers appear “suspicious.” Instead of individualized suspicion of a crime articulated by a CBP agent, CBP uses a predictive policing program that considers driving on backcountry highways, driving a rental car or making short trips to the border region (100 miles from Canada or Mexico), all of which are legal activities, to be suspicion of criminal activity and use state and local police to detain and arrest drivers on fabricated pretexts they make up after receiving the CPB tip. Carrying thousands of dollars in cash on you is now considered probable cause for arrest, not just a preponderance of evidence for crime, even when police have no evidence that it is proceeds of criminal activity. Gutierrez Lugo, who is a driver for a hotshot company, found this out the hard way when he was pulled over by municipal police in Texas, at the request of CBP, just because he happened to be driving a truck and trailer on a back-country highway that heads to the border. Police arrested him for having a few thousand dollars in cash in the truck accusing him of money laundering without actual evidence of money laundering. Even though he was never charged with a crime the arrest and impoundment of his vehicle ended up costing his company $20,000 in legal fees. Three years ago, <a href=\"https://ij.org/case/texas-traffic-stop/\">Alek Schott</a> was also stopped on I35 in San Antonio on a CBP tip of “suspiciously” traveling between oilfields in South Texas and his home in Houston on the fabricated pretext that he had drifted lanes. After the officer who detained him asked him extensive and personal questions about his life he called a k9 unit to the scene to fabricate probable cause for a search (they train the dogs to always alert them). They ultimately found nothing wasting everyone’s time and violating Schott’s 4th amendment right against arbitrary searches and seizures. As I noted in (<a href=\"https://steemit.com/libertarian/@chirieleison/america-s-secret-police-part-9-gangstalking-of-targeted-individuals\">Part 9</a>), the FBI also uses state and local LEOs to gather intel on watch-listed citizens without alerting them to the fact that the FBI told the local or state LEO to stop and detain the target (i.e. whisper stop) so they also fabricate pretexts for detention. Deeming innocent people’s travel patterns suspicious just because it coincides with those used by criminals isn’t individualized suspicion of crime itself but is very likely to devolve into fishing expeditions, harassment, and gangstalking if that is the primary criteria used to judge suspicion. Predictive policing (i.e. minority report style pre-crime programs) has already been used to harass the families of children that one <a href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/pasco-countys-sheriff-must-end-its-targeted-child-harassment-program\">Florida sheriff declared “at risk youth”</a> based not on juvenile crime itself but on academic performance. Police in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and New Orleans also used <a href=\"https://steemit.com/informationwar/@chirieleison/how-palantir-will-build-the-american-social-credit-system\">predictive policing programs provided by Palantir</a> to monitor people included in their secret gang databases. And when you combine warrantless mass surveillance of the entire population with algorithmically drive predictive policing that provides risk or threat assessment scores for everyone you get the basic operational framework for a totalitarian social credit system that punishes political dissent, from the establishment prescribed overton window, with financial and travel choke points.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveillance-drivers-ice-trump-9f5d05469ce8c629d6fecf32d32098cd\">Associated Press: Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns</a></p>",
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      "title": "Answer: How do ICE agents identify individuals to question without relying on racial profiling, and what guidelines do they follow?",
      "body": "<p>For context, this is a question I answered on <a href=\"https://qr.ae/pCbGjE\">Quora</a></p>\n<p>They in fact do rely, at least partially, on racial profiling, which has lead them to detain and even arrest members of federally recognized Indian tribes who are phenotypically similar to mestizos from central and south America (the main target of deportations).</p>\n<p>Recently, an Iowa county jail issued an ICE detainer for an Amerindian inmate likely because she looks latina. It was only after her entire family rallied around her, just hours before the jail planned to transfer her to ICE custody, and provided extensive documentation of her citizenship that the jail corrected their “clerical mix-up.”</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/2025-11-13/native-american-woman-nearly-deported-after-polk-county-jail-issues-ice-detainer-by-mistake\">Iowa Public Radio: Native American Woman Nearly Deported after Polk County Jail Issues ICE Detainer by \"Mistake\"</a></p>\n<p>When her sister confronted jail staff they had this insightful response:</p>\n<p><blockquote>‘Well, we don’t know because we’re not immigration and we can’t answer those questions. We’re just holding her for them. So, when they pick her up tonight they’re going to go ahead and deport her to wherever they’re going to take her, but we have no information on that.’”</blockquote></p>\n<p>Where exactly they would deport her to god only knows. Maybe Siberia with Putin’s permission thought I don’t think it’s the same place it was 20,000 years ago.</p>\n<p>And this is not a one off clerical mistake but a systematic problem. The jail staff and Polk County Deputies have a partnership with ICE through a 287(g) agreement that provides them training to perform some immigration enforcement tasks and allows them to issue detainer requests to ICE <b>without probable cause</b> of an inmate being illegally present in the U.S. Thus, the detainer requests allows them to hold an inmate 48 hours after their scheduled release time <b>without probable cause</b>. At the time of this woman’s arrest she had her tribal id on her and the jail had her SSN on file, but apparently that was not enough proof of her legal status.</p>\n<p>Several others from different federally recognized tribes have reported being detained by ICE presumably based on their appearance. The Navajo Nation has <a href=\"https://azpbs.org/horizon/2025/02/indigenous-people-navajos-detained-by-federal-agents/\">reported</a> that at least 15 of their members have been detained and questioned by ICE this year, in various Arizona and New Mexico cities. Other southwest tribes have reported that their members who have been detained are often <a href=\"https://searchlightnm.org/donald-trump-us-immigration-agents-questioning-tribal-people/\">interrogated in Spanish</a> despite being native English speakers (another hint that phenotype plays a large role in detainment decisions). During one <a href=\"https://searchlightnm.org/some-of-them-fell-to-their-knees/\">workplace raid in Scottsdale, AZ</a> several Navajo members were detained in the parking lot of their workplace and questioned in Spanish.</p>\n<p><blockquote>They were speaking in Spanish, and when an agent came to me, I said, “I don’t understand what you’re saying.” Then he changed his tone. He was like, “I’m sorry, I thought you were Hispanic.” I said, “No, I’m Native American.” He asked me for identification. I said that I had my identification on my phone, and he told me to go ahead and take it out. I showed him my Certificate of Indian Blood and he let me go. It could have been easy for me to say, “You know what, where’s your identification? You’re on my land.” But I didn’t do that. It would have triggered a problem for me.</blockquote></p>\n<p>ICE ended up releasing her and her co-workers only after they proved their innocence i.e. citizenship something everyone else would recognize as ass backwards in any other legal context.</p>\n<p>Some of these ICE tactics might stem from Trump’s animosity towards birth right citizenship. In response to 22 states that sued the Trump admin to stop his <a href=\"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-02007.pdf\">EO 14160</a> unilaterally reinterpreting the 14A birth right citizenship, the Trump DOJ used 19th century case law that excluded Indians from citizenship, such as <a href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5224729\">Elk v. Wilkins</a> and the Civil Rights Act of 1866, to argue, in their <a href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.343943/gov.uscourts.wawd.343943.36.0.pdf\">opposition to plaintiff states motion</a>, that children born to illegal alien parents were excluded from citizenship.</p>\n<p><blockquote>The Supreme Court’s decision in Elk v. Wilkins, 112 U.S. 94 (1884), confirms that the children of non-resident aliens lack a constitutional birthright to citizenship. 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      "title": "Answer: How do ICE agents identify individuals to question without relying on racial profiling, and what guidelines do they follow?",
      "body": "<p>For context, this is a question I answered on <a href=\"https://qr.ae/pCbGjE\">Quora</a></p>\n<p>They in fact do rely, at least partially, on racial profiling, which has lead them to detain and even arrest members of federally recognized Indian tribes who are phenotypically similar to mestizos from central and south America (the main target of deportations).</p>\n<p>Recently, an Iowa county jail issued an ICE detainer for an Amerindian inmate likely because she looks latina. 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Maybe Siberia with Putin’s permission thought I don’t think it’s the same place it was 20,000 years ago.</p>\n<p>And this is not a one off clerical mistake but a systematic problem. The jail staff and Polk County Deputies have a partnership with ICE through a 287(g) agreement that provides them training to perform some immigration enforcement tasks and allows them to issue detainer requests to ICE <b>without probable cause</b> of an inmate being illegally present in the U.S. Thus, the detainer requests allows them to hold an inmate 48 hours after their scheduled release time <b>without probable cause</b>. At the time of this woman’s arrest she had her tribal id on her and the jail had her SSN on file, but apparently that was not enough proof of her legal status.</p>\n<p>Several others from different federally recognized tribes have reported being detained by ICE presumably based on their appearance. 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He was like, “I’m sorry, I thought you were Hispanic.” I said, “No, I’m Native American.” He asked me for identification. I said that I had my identification on my phone, and he told me to go ahead and take it out. I showed him my Certificate of Indian Blood and he let me go. It could have been easy for me to say, “You know what, where’s your identification? You’re on my land.” But I didn’t do that. It would have triggered a problem for me.</blockquote></p>\n<p>ICE ended up releasing her and her co-workers only after they proved their innocence i.e. citizenship something everyone else would recognize as ass backwards in any other legal context.</p>\n<p>Some of these ICE tactics might stem from Trump’s animosity towards birth right citizenship. In response to 22 states that sued the Trump admin to stop his <a href=\"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-02007.pdf\">EO 14160</a> unilaterally reinterpreting the 14A birth right citizenship, the Trump DOJ used 19th century case law that excluded Indians from citizenship, such as <a href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5224729\">Elk v. Wilkins</a> and the Civil Rights Act of 1866, to argue, in their <a href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.343943/gov.uscourts.wawd.343943.36.0.pdf\">opposition to plaintiff states motion</a>, that children born to illegal alien parents were excluded from citizenship.</p>\n<p><blockquote>The Supreme Court’s decision in Elk v. Wilkins, 112 U.S. 94 (1884), confirms that the children of non-resident aliens lack a constitutional birthright to citizenship. 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      "title": "Beyond student debt and lack of affordable housing, what other factors—political, social and economic—might be driving millennials towards socialism?",
      "body": "<p>For context, this is a question I answered on <a href=\"https://qr.ae/pCWv5O\">Quora</a></p>\n<p>I would throw access to affordable medical care that doesn’t cost a literal arm and leg into that mix. Of course, what leftoid millennials and zoomers blame on markets are actually an amalgamation of state enforced monopolies and oligopolies that insulated bad faith actors from market discipline. The three conglomerates that control the insulin market (Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi) use secondary patent applications called <a href=\"https://steemit.com/economics/@chirieleison/patents-and-evergreening-the-reason-for-unaffordable-drug-prices\">evergreening</a> to maintain their hegemony. Drug makers are already given an obscenely long 20 year monopoly post approval. With evergreening they extend their monopoly for another 7.5 years on average, but sometimes the monopoly can be extended for another decade or two creating a perverse incentive that allows price gouging.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://steemit.com/trump/@chirieleison/instead-of-trump-s-most-favored-nation-policy-on-drug-prices-what-could-be-a-more-effective-way-to-lower-drug-costs\">Answer: Instead of Trump's \"Most Favored Nation\" Policy on Drug Prices, What Could Be a More Effective Way to Lower Drug Costs</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://steemit.com/economics/@chirieleison/how-would-the-economy-be-affected-if-big-pharma-lowered-medication-prices\">Answer: How would the economy be affected if Big Pharma lowered medication prices?</a></p>\n<p>Most states enforce certificate of need laws on medical providers that require new providers to get state approval, by an agency or review board run by people who are current or former employees of incumbent industry, before they can do business. All but 6 states with certificate of need laws allow incumbent providers to directly participate in the review and approval process making them de factor competitor veto laws, that would violate anti-trust law if it wasn’t done by governments. Many certificate of need laws do not even allow the same service to provided in area where it already exists by default. The net result is that hospital expenditures are <a href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11088301/\">about 20% higher per capita</a> in states with certificate of need laws while variable costs in general acute hospitals are about 10% higher where there are certificate of need laws.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11088301/\">Certificate of Need Laws in Healthcare: Past, Present and Future</a></p>\n<p>And as I noted in a <a href=\"https://steemit.com/economics/@chirieleison/to-what-extent-do-you-agree-with-nitin-gadkari-that-there-is-no-alternative-to-capitalism\">prior answer</a>:</p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF02/20180214/106855/HHRG-115-IF02-Wstate-GaynorM-20180214.pdf\">Statement</a> before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations, an economics professor from Carnegie Mellon University revealed that ‘hospitals that have fewer potential competitors nearby have substantially higher prices’ with hospitals with a monopoly over an area charging 12.5% higher prices than hospitals with 3 or more competitors. He also found that when two nearby hospitals merge they raise prices 6.2% while mergers in already concentrated markets can increase prices by 20–50%. The same is generally true of insurers as well as insurance premiums have suppressed real wages over the past couple of decades. Between 1999 and 2016, employee contributions to health insurance premiums increased 242% while their wages grew by only 60%. This is not a sustainable healthcare paradigm for an economic system mostly dependent on consumer spending.</p>\n<p>Boomer NIMBY shitbags are responsible for our housing shortage by forcing their anti-density policies on the younger generations. Again, this is not a result of capitalism. Boomers were a product of government largesse. The sprawling suburbs that dominate the American landscape are a product of New Deal welfare statism (e.g. FHA, Fannie Mae) not a natural outgrowth of a housing market left to its own devices. It is an even starker example of crony capitalism and economic planning than the medical industry.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://steemit.com/economics/@chirieleison/what-are-the-reasons-for-the-rising-cost-of-housing-in-america-how-can-this-issue-be-addressed\">Answer: What are the Reasons for The Rising Cost of Housing in America? How Can This Issue Be Addressed</a></p>\n<p>And 90% of student loan debt is owed to the federal government. They are the ones that made the sky the limit for student borrowers which gives colleges the perverse incentives to hike tuition sky high.</p>",
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      "title": "Answer: Why don't people move to an area that is more affordable before they become homeless?",
      "body": "<p>For context, this is a question I answered on <a href=\"https://qr.ae/pCHTc4\">Quora</a></p>\n<p>This question fails to grasp the basic reality of life and economics. If everyone who could barely afford the expensive big cities rushed to the less expensive ones the demand pressure on real estate would just makes those expensive. Low rents/property values are usually a signal of fewer job/business opportunities and lower household income levels which itself is usually a sign of lower education levels. Millions of working poor struggling in expensive big cities moving to cheap podunk nowherevilles isn’t a fix; it’s a non-starter. The capital (a factory, plant, store etc) always has to come first; a bunch of penniless proles randomly showing up in an affordable town aren’t going to suddenly create more job opportunities just by their mere presence just more congestion. The so called affordable places don’t have the resources to handle a sudden influx of millions of working poor from expensive big cities. At best this can only ever be an individual solution that works better if fewer people pursue it but even then it is still fraught by a catch 22. You need an address to apply for a job. That’s one of the most basic things an employer asks applicants because they are screening for 1) do you actually live in the area where you would be expected to work and 2) do you have reliable way to get to and from work daily. A transient poor person who just shows up in town one day has neither of those things. You also need proof of income to apply for a rental. That’s one of the most basic things a landlord asks applicants because they are screening for do you actually have the means to cover rent. No job, no permanent residence: no permanent residence no job. You can use a shelter address, if one exists in this theoretical affordable town, but that doesn’t signal permanence and reliability to employers, so unless you have some exceptional talent the rest of the applicant pool doesn’t you are getting skipped over. Also not having a college degree is still rather stupidly used as another shit test by employers to screen out undesirable applicants even when the job doesn’t require a specialized degree to do competently.</p>\n<p>And even when the capital exists to employ labor trying to migrate from the expensive big cities to more affordable ones the assholes who disingenuously ask this question are the first to resist any change to their landscape and demand their county/city council nuke any multifamily housing that could reasonably accommodate the people who would work for the big employer. Examples abound, but a Montana town <a href=\"https://steemit.com/economics/@chirieleison/nimbyism-killed-a-lumber-company\">literally killed their largest employer</a> just to keep their landscape the same.</p>",
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      "title": "What are the reasons for the rising cost of housing in America? How can this issue be addressed?",
      "body": "<p>For context, this is a question I answered on <a href=\"https://qr.ae/pCHo0q\">Quora</a></p>\n<p>It is mainly a result of unmitigated real estate speculation which is an inevitable result of capitalism under a freehold realty ownership regime. The first thing that needs to be done before we can even address the remedy to real estate speculation is to remove the other forms of artificial scarcity that are imposed on land as de jure anti-density policies the most ubiquitous of which is single family (only) zoning which covers 70–75% of residential land in the U.S. and allows only the most lavish and wasteful use of land for housing, which inevitably people in lower income brackets cannot afford. While this is the largest hurdle to affordable housing it is not the only one. Others to consider include:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lengthy permitting and review processes for new construction artificially raise their cost and make final units more expensive thus requiring hire rent to be charged.</li>\n<li>Minimum floor space requirements in many jurisdictions make houses less than 1,200 or 1,000 sqft illegal to build. Tiny houses are illegal in many suburban and urban areas.</li>\n<li>Minimum lot size requirements make it illegal to put smaller homes on smaller parcels.</li>\n<li>Minimum parking space requirements reduce the number of units that can be built in multifamily housing. 95% of municipal zoning codes impose these on multifamily housing.</li>\n<li>these on multifamily housing.\nIt is far easier to get an FHA insured mortgage for a single family house than it is to get it for a condo/apartment, especially if the building you are buying into has even one renter. This is not a policy most people know about unless you are a first time home buyer trying to buy an apartment on a modest income. If more than 15% of the building you are buying into is being leased you won’t get an FHA backed loan or even limited review FHA loan. So one renter in a quadplex will result in rejection but buying a single family house is a good assurance of FHA insured loan. This is one of several ways by which the Feds still subsidize single family house sprawl.</li>\n<li>The interstate highway system is by far the biggest subsidy for suburban sprawl. If we diverted some of the $62 billion spent maintaining interstate highway on public transit we could set the stage for a working alternative to car dependent sprawl.</li></ul>\n<p>There are other less noticeable but more pernicious ways that local governments kill the prospect of affordable housing.</p>\n<p>Many single family zoning ordinances place an arbitrary limit on how many non-familial people can occupy a single family house, effectively making boarding houses illegal.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://steemit.com/economics/@chirieleison/when-affordable-solutions-to-the-housing-shortage-are-illegal-part-2\">When Affordable Solutions to the Housing Shortage are Illegal (Part 2)</a></p>\n<p>Cities will also sometimes cook up “revitalization” schemes and use eminent domain to condemn and raze existing affordable housing.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://steemit.com/economics/@chirieleison/when-affordable-solutions-to-the-housing-shortage-are-illegal-part-4\">When Affordable Solutions to the Housing Shortage are Illegal (Part 4)</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://steemit.com/economics/@chirieleison/new-jersey-city-uses-presence-of-a-stray-cat-and-some-litter-as-rationale-to-condemn-an-apartment-complex-and-auto-repair-shop\">When Affordable Solutions to the Housing Shortage are Illegal (Part 8)</a></p>",
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      "body": "<I>why doesn’t each state in the US have one against the products of all of the other 49?</I>\n\nThe commerce clause of USC explicitly makes this illegal. I think we should at least have free trade within our hemisphere, but Trump decided to tear up the USMCA that he himself signed just to be a contrarian on trade.",
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      "title": "Why do people like government owned and run grocery stores even when they have never worked, but just cost taxpayers?",
      "body": "<p>For context, this is a question I originally answered on <a href=\"https://qr.ae/pCCHhS\">Quora</a></p>\n<p>High time preference low IQ populations that are coddled to believe everything they want is a “right” like the idea of something being guaranteed to them by the government and free of charge without understanding the trade offs for that arrangement. Grocery stores already operate on razor thin profit margins of about 1–3% so if a government run grocery is to provide cheaper or free food they would have to operate at a loss or operate like a food bank and only provide items that are donated to them. A government run store that is operated like a food bank would have the same problems as other food banks: extremely limited selection, long queues, and some people coming out empty handed if they arrive too late. And of course, the incentives for government committees and employees to improve options or services when they can just continue leeching off the taxpayer dime, regardless of how much money they lose, is non-existent unlike a private store that faces the risk of insolvency for being poorly run. Without that incentive, people take the path of least resistance and continue providing subpar service. This is already quite evident in dilapidated and crime ridden government owned housing. The same pattern of disincentives would inevitably unfold in government owned grocery stores: the end product would not be cost effective and would be in short supply leading to queues. In both cases, the sluggish democratic model of allocating resources is ill equipped to deal with the dynamics of consumer preferences.</p>\n<p>I don’t need to go to Venezuela or Cuba to point out the failures of government run grocery stores. We have recent examples of their failure here in the states.</p>\n<ul><li>Baldwin, Florida opened a city-run grocery, <a href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/news/baldwins-unusual-town-owned-operated-102508404.html?guccounter=1\">Baldwin Market</a>, with a $150K loan from taxpayers in Sept 2019 after its last private store closed. It lost over $400,000 during its four short years of operation before closing in March of last year.</li>\n<li>In Kansas city, MO city owned <a href=\"https://citizenwatchreport.com/kansas-city-grocery-store-faces-closure-after-17m-investment-crime-surge-and-bare-shelves-threaten-survival/\">Sun Fresh Market</a>, which opened in 2018, was forced to close this year. Despite receiving $18 million in taxpayer funding at the start, the store never broken even during a single year and lost nearly $7 million during its final two years of operation as a city owned store. Customers regularly complained about bare shelves and rancid odors throughout the store.</li>\n<li>The same failed experiment was repeated in Erie, Kansas, when city bought <a href=\"https://www.koamnewsnow.com/news/top-stories/community-comes-together-hoping-to-save-local-grocery-store/article_bdc3e920-1f50-11ef-8c33-dbd3e03d3afe.html\">Stub’s Market</a> and turned it into city owned government managed Erie Market in 2020. Last year the city decided to <a href=\"https://www.koamnewsnow.com/news/kansas-news/erie-market-closing-again-residents-concerned-for-future/article_e1181f51-29f5-4f99-9150-ae6b5ab67d3b.html\">lease the store to River Grocery LLC</a> after four consecutive years of revenue losses and empty shelves. Even this was not enough to stop closure this year. The service was so subpar that the average customer only spent $14/month at this store and lost $462,000 - $552,000 during the years of city management.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.ruralgrocery.org/learn/publications/case-studies/St_Paul_Success_Story.pdf\">St. Paul, Kansas</a> also bought a failing grocery in 2008, but ultimately turned it over to private management to run the business, leasing out the property rather than running it directly through a government agency or committee and allowing market discipline to shape the stores decisions.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>The privately managed city owned St. Paul Supermarket is the only success story here, and is more akin to the Georgist model of the city owning the land but leasing it to private business to manage (e.g. Singapore/Hong Kong model), than the socialist model of government owned and managed store (e.g. North Korea/Venezuela model) that has to wait for a central planning committee to vote on what they will make available to their captive customer base. People worried about food deserts could also organize consumer co-ops instead of trying the same failed tragedy of the commons experiment for the 10,000th time. Consumer co-ops meet the socialist demand for business to be collectively owned and democratically managed and are viable enough that <a href=\"https://consumerfed.org/press_release/national-survey-finds-americans-rate-consumer-cooperatives-more-highly-than-for-profit-businesses-on-measures-of-quality-and-service/\">100 million Americans participate in them</a>, but they require residents to actually work for their own betterment instead of expecting government officials to fulfill all of their needs and unlike government run grocery stores that rely on taxpayer generosity to stay afloat they would have to assume the risk and liability of running a business for themselves.</p>",
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      "body": "<p>For context, this is a question I originally answered on <a href=\"https://qr.ae/pCCHhS\">Quora</a></p>\n<p>High time preference low IQ populations that are coddled to believe everything they want is a “right” like the idea of something being guaranteed to them by the government and free of charge without understanding the trade offs for that arrangement. Grocery stores already operate on razor thin profit margins of about 1–3% so if a government run grocery is to provide cheaper or free food they would have to operate at a loss or operate like a food bank and only provide items that are donated to them. A government run store that is operated like a food bank would have the same problems as other food banks: extremely limited selection, long queues, and some people coming out empty handed if they arrive too late. And of course, the incentives for government committees and employees to improve options or services when they can just continue leeching off the taxpayer dime, regardless of how much money they lose, is non-existent unlike a private store that faces the risk of insolvency for being poorly run. Without that incentive, people take the path of least resistance and continue providing subpar service. This is already quite evident in dilapidated and crime ridden government owned housing. The same pattern of disincentives would inevitably unfold in government owned grocery stores: the end product would not be cost effective and would be in short supply leading to queues. In both cases, the sluggish democratic model of allocating resources is ill equipped to deal with the dynamics of consumer preferences.</p>\n<p>I don’t need to go to Venezuela or Cuba to point out the failures of government run grocery stores. We have recent examples of their failure here in the states.</p>\n<ul><li>Baldwin, Florida opened a city-run grocery, <a href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/news/baldwins-unusual-town-owned-operated-102508404.html?guccounter=1\">Baldwin Market</a>, with a $150K loan from taxpayers in Sept 2019 after its last private store closed. It lost over $400,000 during its four short years of operation before closing in March of last year.</li>\n<li>In Kansas city, MO city owned <a href=\"https://citizenwatchreport.com/kansas-city-grocery-store-faces-closure-after-17m-investment-crime-surge-and-bare-shelves-threaten-survival/\">Sun Fresh Market</a>, which opened in 2018, was forced to close this year. Despite receiving $18 million in taxpayer funding at the start, the store never broken even during a single year and lost nearly $7 million during its final two years of operation as a city owned store. Customers regularly complained about bare shelves and rancid odors throughout the store.</li>\n<li>The same failed experiment was repeated in Erie, Kansas, when city bought <a href=\"https://www.koamnewsnow.com/news/top-stories/community-comes-together-hoping-to-save-local-grocery-store/article_bdc3e920-1f50-11ef-8c33-dbd3e03d3afe.html\">Stub’s Market</a> and turned it into city owned government managed Erie Market in 2020. Last year the city decided to <a href=\"https://www.koamnewsnow.com/news/kansas-news/erie-market-closing-again-residents-concerned-for-future/article_e1181f51-29f5-4f99-9150-ae6b5ab67d3b.html\">lease the store to River Grocery LLC</a> after four consecutive years of revenue losses and empty shelves. Even this was not enough to stop closure this year. The service was so subpar that the average customer only spent $14/month at this store and lost $462,000 - $552,000 during the years of city management.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.ruralgrocery.org/learn/publications/case-studies/St_Paul_Success_Story.pdf\">St. Paul, Kansas</a> also bought a failing grocery in 2008, but ultimately turned it over to private management to run the business, leasing out the property rather than running it directly through a government agency or committee and allowing market discipline to shape the stores decisions.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>The privately managed city owned St. Paul Supermarket is the only success story here, and is more akin to the Georgist model of the city owning the land but leasing it to private business to manage (e.g. Singapore/Hong Kong model), than the socialist model of government owned and managed store (e.g. North Korea/Venezuela model) that has to wait for a central planning committee to vote on what they will make available to their captive customer base. People worried about food deserts could also organize consumer co-ops instead of trying the same failed tragedy of the commons experiment for the 10,000th time. Consumer co-ops meet the socialist demand for business to be collectively owned and democratically managed and are viable enough that <a href=\"https://consumerfed.org/press_release/national-survey-finds-americans-rate-consumer-cooperatives-more-highly-than-for-profit-businesses-on-measures-of-quality-and-service/\">100 million Americans participate in them</a>, but they require residents to actually work for their own betterment instead of expecting government officials to fulfill all of their needs and unlike government run grocery stores that rely on taxpayer generosity to stay afloat they would have to assume the risk and liability of running a business for themselves.</p>",
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      "title": "Answer: Why is the Trump DOJ criminal division investigating the organizers of the No Kings Protest? Isn't organizing and funding protests just freedom of speech?",
      "body": "<p>For context, appointed U.S. Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro <a href=\"https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/no-kings-rally-financial-supporters-1f66b7\">launched a “criminal probe”</a> into the funding sources of the last protest just a couple of days after it happened alleging “Soros linked” “dark money” was behind the event. The probe used an obscure conservative think tank’s report about Open Society Foundation donations to organizations that partnered with No Kings protestors over the past decade as the jumping off point. While there is no evidence that the Open Society Foundation earmarked their donations for specific events like the No Kings protest or that their recipients such as Indivisible, MoveOn, and the ACLU earmarked funds for specific events, neither action would be illegal because funding civil society groups and protests is protected first amendment activity. Even if the Open Society Foundation earmarked grants to these organizations to be used to compensate protestors it would still be as legal as giving money to your favorite SuperPACs. In the light of reality, this criminal probe is nothing more than a politically motivated fishing expedition and bears a striking resemblance to the Trump admin’s attempts to legally sanction law-firms that sued his first admin and represent detained aliens; both of those things are also protected by the first amendment.</p>",
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      "title": "Answer: How does the concept of self-ownership relate to the principles of capitalism and personal freedom?",
      "body": "<p>For context, this is a question I answered on <a href=\"https://learninglibertarianism.quora.com/How-does-the-concept-of-self-ownership-relate-to-the-principles-of-capitalism-and-personal-freedom\">Quora</a></p>\n<p>They are both answers to fundamental economic questions: who owns the scarce resource that is your body and mind? The answer that only you own that scarce resource is only possible in a system of private property rights that are allocated through markets. A system in which private property is abolished and the state assumes “collective” ownership over the means of production cannot have any meaningful concept of self-ownership. If there are no labor markets and the state is the only employer then the state decides where you are allowed to work and what job you are allowed to do. If there is no housing market and the state is the only real estate agent, then the state also decides where you are allowed to live. If there are no food markets and the state is the only entity that owns farms and grocery stores then they also decide what you are allowed to eat and how much, as food is always rationed under a planned economy. The only thing you might have any individual autonomy over is dating, and even then the state decides your dating pool by virtue of deciding where you live and work and if you are allowed to travel beyond that. A system in which you are not allowed to own anything you create with your own labor is always one in which you don’t even own yourself.</p>",
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      "title": "Tennessee Sheriff Arrested Man for a “Hate Meme”",
      "body": "<p>Perry County Sheriff Nick Weems nabbed another thought criminal on Sept 22nd for re-posting a meme in a local Facebook page dedicated to a Charlie Kirk vigil titled ‘this seems relevant’ and quoted Trump saying ‘We have to get over it’ in reference to high school shooting in Perry, Iowa. The Perry County sheriff decided to twist this meme about Trump’s words about an event that happened last year in another state into a threat to shoot up Perry County High school to get an arrest warrant to put the thought criminal, Lexington, TN resident Larry Bushart, in jail for 35 days on a $2 million bond. He was only released 2 days before Halloween after the Perry County sheriff’s department had been thoroughly embarrassed by the publicity they received for their false arrest that was blatantly politically motivated. The fact that police and magistrates in two different jurisdictions (Henderson County where Bushart lives and Perry County) signed off on the arrest warrants and collaborated on this arrest, booking, and transfer to another county jail should be alarming to everyone. The Lexington police officers that arrested him didn’t even know why he was being charged: just following orders. This is not the first or last time a local LEO arrests someone with trumped up charges for making social media posts they don’t like. In July, a Louisiana sheriff arrested one of his residents for making an observation about police activity in his area on the fabricated charge of ‘terrorizing the public.’</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2025/09/23/tennessee-larry-bushart-arrest-charlie-kirk/86313013007/\">Tennessean: Tennessee man arrested in connection with Charlie Kirk social media posts</a></p.\n<p><a href=\"https://reason.com/2025/10/30/prosecutors-drop-charges-against-tennessee-man-over-facebook-meme/\">Reason: Prosecutors drop charges against Tennessee man over Facebook Meme</a></p>",
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      "title": "Answer: Why did Bondi drop the Foreign Corrupt practices Act case against Pfizer?",
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