As I have often said: I grew up on welfare. Other people's taxes kept me alive. I LIKE paying taxes, for the sake of kids like me. I dislike paying more than people who already have more money than I will ever see in my lifetime.

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a rock is only a rock until a person comes across it. but then they find it, think it looks nice and/or weird, give it a name and proclaim it their friend, bob the rock. bob is now more real than 99% of rocks

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in general i'm a kind of social construction supremacist. i not only think most things are socially constructed, i think that's what really makes them real, and that any socially constructed thing is probably tangibly more real than any so-called "material reality"

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Yeah like if white Americans want to find a sense of identity that isn't white or, for whatever reason, American, they can simply identify with the /real/ cultural groups they are part of, typically conveniently indicated by state, cross-state region or urban conurbation.

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Canada’s provincial governments are cursed.

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