why would that upset you? you still have a job? that's like saying you'd be upset if a homeless person got a free meal at a restaurant where you had purchased a meal. also it's his money not public tax base - how can you can be upset about what someone chooses to spend their money on.
there's gotta be some name for this fallacy of "they didn't actually get hurt by the bad thing they got hurt by the good thing that props up the bad thing". maybe it should be called the banality of evil fallacy. I see it deployed on hn all the time and its tone is always patronizing - as if to say "if you would've followed the rules this wouldn't have happened". newsflash there are myriad tools healthcare institutions can deploy against you and jailing for missing a court date is just one - if you avoid that one they'll just do other things to extract from you. it's like no one has ever read kafka geeze.
Well you can very easily yourself figure out whether I'm responding directly to you or someone else: did you sincerely consider the implications of your comment when you made it? Did you imagine the people that would be affected? If the answer is no then I'm responding directly to you.
oh well good thing they haven't spent decades amassing an arsenal of weapons to protect themselves.
man people love to bandy about so blithely on shit like this as if they've been in so many civil wars that it's passe.
stop being an internet tough guy and go look at the pictures coming out of Yemen or Syria or Libya. If those regimes to fail as a result of the world moving away from oil they will take many millions of completely innocent people with them.
maybe because you're projecting? it's a local culture piece (it's in the ny region section). for better or worse the hasids are large component of ny culture.
it's interesting because it gives insight into a culture and community we typically don't have access to. the point isn't amazon - the point is the hasids.
