Wait, now they’re plural?

That depends on the wording.

The original version of the comment said, I believe “So there is precedence”. That could be fixed as “there is a precedent” or “there are precedents”. I suggested “precedents” because it seems like OP used the homophone for that one. So, “precedents” is correct, “precedence” is not.

There was fuck all need for that. I actually mostly backed you up in another comment.

Bruh, you said “Bruh. If you’re going to correct, be sure you’re correct.”, when I was correct and OP was incorrect.

Note that the original has been edited. It used to say “precedence”.

Before OP edited the comment it used “precedence”. They mean different things.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/usage-of-precedent-vs-precedence

https://www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/precedence_precedent.htm

https://languagetool.org/insights/post/precedence-or-precedent/

https://www.thoughtco.com/precedence-precedents-and-presidents-1689468

What’s next, are you going to claim “presidents” is another alternative spelling that means the same thing?

I am.

They mean different things.

Actual conservatism is just as “logical” as libralism / leftism, or whatever you want to call the other side. Old fashioned conservatism is just the idea that traditional ways of doing things are good, so we should be slow in adopting changes.

Modern American conservatism isn’t conservatism. It’s an incoherent philosophy that resists some changes while making a lot of other very radical changes. There’s no plan behind it. Even their “gameplan”, project 2025, is a mess of contradictory ideas. The execution depends on the whims of an idiotic, incurious, and possibly altzheimer-addled man.

precedents

We don’t know if this bubble is going to be more like the dot-com bubble where the bubble burst but left useful things behind, or if it’s going to be like the NFT bubble that left nothing useful behind.

As for whether the companies see this or not, of course they do. But, what are they going to do, go out of business intentionally before the bubble pops? It’s really the investors who don’t seem to see it. Why do they keep pumping money into the companies that are obviously ridiculously overvalued?

The mom’s worked what?

Like their mother’s what?

That’s a really weird metaphor. It doesn’t really make any sense.

There’s a well known metaphor about burning your own boats so that you’re unable to retreat. But, those aren’t lifeboats.

If you’re talking about not letting people get rescued, why not “sink the lifeboats”? Setting them on fire would be annoying, but a fire would be easy to put out if the boats are out at sea. There’s water all around. The article seems to be more about not allowing people who have abandoned the sinking ship to come on board. So, why not just “ignore the lifeboats”. You don’t have to approach them and set them on fire. You can just refuse to rescue the people in those lifeboats and leave them floating out at sea.

And if it is trump cultists who write the history books, they’ll openly admit to a lot of stuff that only their cult thinks is OK. (And the writing in crayon will be a dead giveaway.)

What we need to do is convince them never to vote again.

If you were fooled by mango mussolini, you don’t have the brains to make good decisions when you vote. Surely you have family or friends who have been warning you about Trump for a decade now. They were right, you were wrong. Take your hands off of the steering wheel and let those more informed people drive.

Which church would you go to?

Even if you believe that the only way that Trump could possibly die within the next 24 hours is the act of a god, which god was it? Maybe you’re supposed to go to a Hindu temple, maybe it’s a Jewish one, maybe it’s Ra or Thor.

Wow, I’m impressed, you actually managed to mention one city that isn’t either in the far north or on the beach. (And it’s not Mexicali, even though you mentioned it twice). It’s almost like you’ve actually visited Mexico before!

When a public utility or something is sold off, then yes, as soon as the privatization happens the service has to get shittier.

But, I don’t think it’s true that the moment there’s a private alternative the public version stops working. I think it’s often just that the public version starts to decay because it doesn’t get the investment it needs.

For example, if you sell the postal service to a private company, it’s going to get either more expensive, or not work as well, or both.

But, if you allow a private parcel delivery service to compete with the post office, for a while you can have both working fairly well. The private service might offer much faster delivery that you can track, while the post office offers slower delivery for a much lower price. For a while the two services can coexist, and people can choose which one they want based on their needs. But, over time you’ll get underinvestment in the public postal option. People will demand that it be run as a business and won’t take into account that it acts as a public service and does things that are unprofitable but good for society.

Sorry if I wasn’t clear, I meant to say that if the public system and private system were equal but you had to pay for the private system, nobody would use it. Sure, if the private system is faster then people will use it even if the public system is free.

In places that allow a mix of private and public, the private system basically finds some flaw in the public system and allows people to pay to bypass that flaw. Things like wait times are one of the main issues. But, it’s sometimes something like certain expensive tests being hard to get in the public system (CAT scans or something). In the public system they might only order those when they’re obviously needed. The private system can let you have one whenever you want, so if your doctor says “well… it could help, but it doesn’t meet the threshold the public system sets” some people will pay for it out of pocket. Or it can be more privacy, or more luxurious hospital rooms. Even if the treatment is otherwise identical, some people will pay for that.

It must be a lot of friends who don’t all know each-other too.

If it’s a bunch of friends on one discord server, surely it’s not too hard to get back on to that same server and say “my account was hacked”. But, if you have dozens of friends spread across many servers, you might not even remember the servers.