TigerDoc

birds: also not real.

Why is opt out (the current policy) not good enough?

from measles? lol

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The onus should never be on one child to protect another.

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Any politics that operationalizes this will have to make peace with considerably more preventable diseases, deaths, disability, and higher healthcare costs.

Not everyone can be vaccinated and vaccines aren't 100% effective.

yep. “Don’t ban it, just sue them” assumes corporations won’t spend billions ensuring you can never quite prove causation and history suggests that they absolutely will. And DDT and lead got ultimately got regulated because doubt worked too well, foiling legal liability.

Thoughtful post and I agree with you on the importance of a real uncertainty about what a post-Putin Russia looks like. Nevertheless, they're not a blank slate, but are operating under some critical constraints on future possibilities - a weakened great power negotiating from dependency.

Their historical norm is centralized authority, militarization, repression, and buffer-seeking while examples of retreating from that (e.g under Gorbachev/Yeltsin) are unfortunately anomalies. The last time we had detente was under a condition of collapse and western democracy/capitalism looked like the only plausible alternative for them, which isn't the case anymore. Now China gives them a model and a patron.

So, for me, not helping Ukraine isn’t about certainty that Russia will expand next, but about bounding risk and not placing a bad bet on an unlikely transformation. Where the adminstration actually seems to be going though is to be adopting bit of Russia's "near-abroad" strategy ourselves and returning to multi-polar politics and letting them have their corner of the world (as they see it, Eastern Europe).

lol yes. Nobody’s denying abuse exists. The problem is that “trafficking” now covers everything from custody disputes to cartel shite, so everyone’s yelling about a different movie in their head.

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It seems there is almost universal agreement in this thread that Putin is really incapable of going any further. Or at least he will be by the time this war is over. I also agree with it..but strangely enough, I've seen many of you say Putin won't stop in Ukraine and that's why it's so imperative to help them..... Strange.

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Putin has ambitions beyond Ukraine. He lacks current capacity beyond Ukraine (aside from sabotage and frickery). Helping Ukraine deters Putin's taking further action on his ambitions. It's a containment strategy.

so dangerous! :lol:

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Candace is so crazy she makes AJ sound sane.

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There are incentives for this. Somewhere out there who isn't batshit is someone with their eyes on a massive platform they can build by performing more extreme batshittery than Candace.