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HIPAA protections are federal. Planned Parenthood won’t just turn over records that are protected by HIPAA.
HIPAA protections are federal. Planned Parenthood won’t just turn over records that are protected by HIPAA.
HIPAA is federal.
What isn’t covered by HIPPA?
But the alternatives that people are proposing leaves people with no representation at all. You can’t have representation when you aren’t even allowed to discuss ideas that the government already disagrees with.
China is totalitarian and becoming more autocratic by the year.
When dictatorships go badly, they go extremely badly. Far more badly than even a broken representative democracy. The odd of having a sold string of reasonably good dictators are vanishingly small. A good dictator is the best form of government. Good luck maintaining that though.
What definition of proletarian democracy? It’s not well defined and means vastly different things to different people.
That’s not a political system at all. It’s a process that could be implemented in many styles of government. It is not incompatible with representative democracy either. It is a bad idea though. It means that a government has a hard time changing course, even when it needs to. Because it silences people from questioning decisions.
That’s not a political system at all. It’s a process that could be implemented in many styles of government. It is not incompatible with representative democracy either. It is a bad idea though. It means that a government has a hard time changing course, even when it needs to. Because it silences people from questioning decisions.
One problem in the US is that the purpose of the House of Representatives has been completely subverted. It was supposed to scale up with the population so the representatives really would be part of the community they represent. But we stopped increasing the number of representatives and that lets the ruling elite control them better. The representatives no longer come from their community and the wealthy have less candidates they have to prop up. And the lower count means that gerrymandering is far more effective.
What’s better?
It’s still the best way even if it’s bad. Ranked choice voting would make it better.
And god help you if you forget those 3 lines somewhere and you silently have database failures or something else.
They’re basically fashion victims.
My favorite is “Java is slow” said by someone advocating for a language that’s at least 10 times slower.
I see income distribution. Is there wealth distribution? I don’t see it. They’re not the same. they can be pretty disconnected.
Income isn’t the same as wealth though. For extreme wealth, income often isn’t even the biggest factor.
It is worse if a foreign company steals. It siphons money off of our economy worse than when an American company does it. It’s bad either way though and I’m glad something is being done about it in this case.
Most people don’t consider this to be a danger because it’s such a rare situation that it’s newsworthy when it happens.