You like state bans when they line up with your own agenda.
Remind me of those free-speech maxis. They want free speech for their side, but the other side? Sure they should be banned. Freedom for me but not for you.
Free speech?
It was the state that put that smut in the classrooms to begin with.
Even blue states prohibit porn at supermarket checkouts. Why would it be OK in kindergartens and elementary schools?
I am not saying something is ok to ban or not to ban. People have different standards and beliefs.
I am just saying āsubmitting to the primacy of stateā is a bogus argument. Red states and blue states both submit to the primacy of state if you will. You are just fine with states banning the stuff that donāt line up with your political belief.
Only losers, crazy, disillusioned or those with high libido live in SF.
Try doing a net search on all the things one ācannot ship to California.ā
Or compare the complexity of getting permits to build anything in CA versus red states.
And donāt even get me started about the differences in the way COVID was handled.
There are clear objective differences in the magnitude to which the state interferes in oneās affairs as location within the US changes.
ā¦to which I might add CA is likely the most restrictive state in the nation when it comes to freedom of speech. Conservative speakers are frequently banned from college campuses and some have been physically assaulted. Now we have college profs killing folk whose speech they donāt like.
Womenās right to choose. Thatās it. Half the population is affected.
You can give me all the reasons why the red states do what they do. Doesnāt matter. We have our own reasons for the opposite. I am not even arguing our reasons are right and yours are wrong. I can see why reasonable people disagree.
If you feel your way is the only way, people who disagree are just insane, sure, you are entitled to your opinion. To me you just lack empathy. You canāt see beyond your own narrowness.
Which state gives you more freedom depends on your own circumstance. Are you a male? Are you white? Are you rich? Are you straight? Are you a Christian?
Try to get in the shoes of other people. To many of us CA gives us more freedom than Texas or Florida.
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Where was the empathy in CA for folk who chose not to put the vax in their bodies?
That affects 100% of the population.
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Sounds frightening. The sort of thing schools in North Korea might do. If āmedia literacyā - or any sort of literacy were the goal they would teach critical thinking skills and maybe mandate an introductory course in statistics. Of course that will never happen. Get rid of even basic algebra so folks canāt think and then tell them what to think.
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Free speech in California.
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You think thatās unique to California?
Hereās a professor in UT Arlington:
Two days after the event, college officials canceled a talk Marietta was to give on the Supreme Court ā one of his areas of expertise ā and told him that he could not host events without prior approval, the professor said.
From then on, Marietta was instructed to have a āwritten management plan, including risk assessment, risk mitigation plan, and a copy of any comments you plan to give by way of introduction of the event,ā according to a letter he received from Elizabeth Newman, the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts.
Not surprising that the example is from one of the more left-leaning parts of Texas.
Most big cities are āleft leaningā.
Actually the Hamas supporters are the ones being cancelled. Doctors, teachers, actors etc. All walks of life. There is a Twitter account specializing in exposing them and people would mobilize to call and email their employers to have them fired. Many big money people vow to not hire anyone who supports Hamas.
College students are loud and sometimes obnoxious but they donāt have much real world power.
āThe number of millionaires in the Nashville area increased more than 70% since 2019 to north of 116,000, according to research firm Wealth-X, an Altrata company. There are now more than 1,000 people in the Nashville area with a net worth over $30 million.
The migration wave has seen residents relocating from New York, Illinois and California. McEwen credits the regionās low costs, lack of income tax, moderate climate, low crime and culture with drawing new families.ā
āThe 2022 real estate tax for the property amounted to $22,474.46.ā
Weird, they arenāt starting with SF.