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What are some lesser-known, lesser-discussed political positions you either support or oppose? For example, I don't support mandatory minimum sentencing laws, and I believe companies should not be allowed to require arbitration clauses (only optional).
Feb 01 · 4 days ago · 👍 akkartik, CitySlicker
🖥️ zetamacs · Feb 01 at 15:10:
I personally think that rape having a statute of limitations is highly problematic, even obscene, though I recognize that it would in many cases be largely symbolic to eliminate that statute of limitations. Few would expect there to be clear evidence of a rape after, say, 50 years.
Nevertheless, by keeping a statute of limitations, a person would be within their rights to interpret it this way: that the deep harm done to them, for some a fate arguably worse than death itself, cannot be legally addressed after a certain amount of time because it is not quite so heinous as a crime like murder.
I think we need serious reform on regulation of small farms. Kinda biased on this one as I grew up on one, but the impact arbitrary and senseless beaurocracy has on the economic viablility of small farms is huge. Basically, selling any kind of food directly to customers should be basically unregulated and require nothing more than a simple health inspection, if that. Selling wholesale should reasonably be a little more regulated, but we still need to overhaul the laws which require that every prossessing building have its own septic tank with seperate bathrooms for men and women, etc, things designed for large factory farms.
Generally, the issue of funding of the government and arbitrary projects it chooses to distribute money to. Funding packages are approved as a bundle, and if you look inside, you see absurd things that lawmakers sneak in -- research to prove that children who grow up in broken homes commit more crimes, how potatos don't grow if you don't water them, bridges over land in unpopulated areas, etc. And funding of foreign states for being 'military partners', or for no reason at all.
🌻 softwarepagan · Feb 02 at 15:05:
My hot takes: corporations are not persons, it should be illegal for companies to own other companies, and there should be a cap on how much residen real estate someone can own.