Only if you take the most pedantic interpretation of the present tense.
Which I sometimes do.
But let's talk in generalizations. The vast majority of conservatives are just talk. They're not willing to endure actual hardship for their principles.
Like, if you're just willing to RELOCATE to adhere to your beliefs you're already the top 1% of republicans in terms of living your principles.
There's a slight difference.
At a conceptual level, taxes and lotteries won't take you below zero. There are some enormous caveats to that statement of course.
But credit cards and payday loans let you hit bottom and keep digging. Credit cards are exploitative enough, but once a person gets to the point of payday loans they are literally BETTER OFF hitting bottom and being forced to file bankruptcy rather than continuing to enable bad spending.
Recall how financial regulators during the Obama Presidency pressured banks to cut off credit to pay-day lenders.
That actually needed to be done. Pay-day lending is government sanctioned extortion of the financially illiterate. Once you get up to 36% APR you're basically back to 1920's style protection rackets.
If a person is posting then they're not doing.
As we speak right now I'm preparing to quit my job, retrain for a new career, sell my house and move, all on the basis that I don't think the government has the authority to tell people what to do.
Compared to that, how far are you willing to go for what you believe?
Consider Jack Murphy on Timcast.
Jack's pathetic. All whine, no dine.
And the thing is, I'm not fundamentally opposed to the viral vector vaccine on its merits and risks. But my attitude on the use of government authority is that the harder they try to use it, the more hostile my response will be, because I don't stand the government telling people what to do.
the pacing is very awkward
It does have a problem of lurching between buildup episodes and action episodes, but if you stick with it, eventually you get the taste for it and the slow episodes become more tasty than the fast ones.
I think this is a terrible decision that will ruin the whole... Function, and spirit, of college sports
As opposed to all the other times when money poured into college athletics over the last fifty years.
NCAA football and NCAA basketball became what they are because the NFL and NBA stubbornly refused to create proper minor leagues to mirror MLB. College baseball has remained a low key operation at all schools because players with serious professional prospects go straight into the Low-A or Rookie leagues.
Whelp, I guess that does it for Kerbal Space Program.