Just to be clear, I don't think this is useful or good legislation. While the idea that the state is a shady body that's out to fleece an honest and unsuspecting peoples is a great story beat, I just don't think it's particularly accurate to reality and we shouldn't pretend that it is just because it sounds good in a HN comment.
Uh, Marx is the one who said "Under no pretext..." but who's keeping score at this point.
Yes, I get that you're trying to express a deeply RWNJ partisan view but as a proud LWNJ I must express that the real world is much more complicated than "commies are nuts yo". Perhaps the issue is rampant authoritarianism?
I think the representatives pushing for this legislation is evidence that a significant portion of their polled constituents want restrictions on printed ghost guns. Is that more or less believable than a manufacturing lobby pushing legislators in NY state for printer DRM?
>I think the representatives pushing for this legislation is evidence
Why is that considered evidence? There are many cases of elected representatives doing things that do not align with the wishes of their constituents. There are also many cases of regulators regulating things that their constituents don't care about at all, but help a politician's career by building their reputation as one of "getting things done".
Actual evidence would be polling, citizen organizations, donations etc. None of which seem to exist for this issue.
Just to be clear, I don't think this is useful or good legislation. While the idea that the state is a shady body that's out to fleece an honest and unsuspecting peoples is a great story beat, I just don't think it's particularly accurate to reality and we shouldn't pretend that it is just because it sounds good in a HN comment.
Don't conflate "populace" with "lobbying groups". The populace wants health care and this ain't it.
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Uh, Marx is the one who said "Under no pretext..." but who's keeping score at this point.
Yes, I get that you're trying to express a deeply RWNJ partisan view but as a proud LWNJ I must express that the real world is much more complicated than "commies are nuts yo". Perhaps the issue is rampant authoritarianism?
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Who, Mamdani? He's a democratic socialist, not a communist.
It's like you just confused RAM with SSD because they both involve gigabytes.
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Do you have any evidence that any significant number of Americans want this restriction on 3D printers?
I think the representatives pushing for this legislation is evidence that a significant portion of their polled constituents want restrictions on printed ghost guns. Is that more or less believable than a manufacturing lobby pushing legislators in NY state for printer DRM?
>I think the representatives pushing for this legislation is evidence
Why is that considered evidence? There are many cases of elected representatives doing things that do not align with the wishes of their constituents. There are also many cases of regulators regulating things that their constituents don't care about at all, but help a politician's career by building their reputation as one of "getting things done".
Actual evidence would be polling, citizen organizations, donations etc. None of which seem to exist for this issue.
When you vote for people who have a regulatory mentality, you tend to get a government that responds to any problem with regulation.