It's all fearmongering. People grossly overestimate the rate of crime and it leads to grotesque policy well beyond child supervision. Both myself, my younger brother, and everyone we grew up with went around playing outside entirely unsupervised in the late 80s & early 90s. In fact, both of my parents worked full-time jobs and once I was 10 or so (and my brother 8) we went to school ourselves, walked home, and spent the remaining afternoon riding bikes, playing outside, and took care of ourselves alone for about 3 or 4 hours every single day. That's right, no babysitter (we of course had one when younger). If you have a 9-year-old kid that cannot do this, congratulations on being a terrible parent. No, really. The other side of this is not even worth engaging seriously.

Oh apparently I am off topic heh

I know nothing about reason.com except libertarians run it. On that basis alone it cannot be readable.

its also quite possible that the danger had decreased and it is unwise to let 9 year old play by themselves.

Talking to people like my parents who think it sad that its now too unsafe to let kids out alone I suspect their bigger mistake is about how safe it used to be. If the reporting then was the same as it is now then they wouldn't have let me out alone then either.

nah, i'm sure something about the year 2000 brought out all the pedos and baby thieves that were biding their time

Seems like Reason was like Rand Paul. Spouting derp until they wanted to become more mainstream so they switched to more respectable output.

Reason is obviously not denying the supposed Holocaust.

Oh, wow.

Edit: oh, I see you guys have it covered in the reason thread.

I the ad on the left. Small fortunes in penny gold stocks! These guys haven't changed their business model one bit, have they? Scamming racists and gun-hugging survivalists is always going to be a thing, I guess.

"Reason" from the 70's is quite revealing.

Sure, unless gold inexplicably became inedible during civil disorder... some things will never change.

However, we shouldn't loose sight of the fact that while LTers love themselves some conspiracy and goldbuggery... neither the scam-meisters ads, nor the sheeple's subscriptions, are what's paying the bills at these LTer 'Think Tanks'.

ikes, like, when you run a "Special Revisionism Issue" including a whole ****load of writing by notable Holocaust deniars, you don't get to semantikes about how clever you were that you kept your crew of Holocaust deniers to just hinting around the edges at the supposed execution of 6 million Jews.

The Little Green Footballs had a Road to Damascus moment at some point and he switched from like, borderline Jihad Watch-esque Islamophobia to the "pointing and laughing at the **** conservatives read" beat.

Jesus fly, give it a rest. It doesn't count as holocaust denial unless it says "SPECIAL HOLOCAUST DENIAL EDITION" on the cover.

No holocaust denials in that issue. Try again.

So where does the Reason Foundation's money come from?

And where does all that money go? Well... some of it goes to SPN, and some of it goes to ALEC.

Just telling some "alternative history".

Whole Foods? Is this some second-level trolling?

Whole Foods is about as anti-worker, and anti-union, as you can get. The owner, John Mackey, is an out-of-the-closet LTer. The Koch bros, Reason Foundation, ALEC, etc.,etc., are all 100% up his alley.

Whole Foods CEO Welcomes Climate Change, Warns of Fascism

lolol happiest set of grocery store workers I've ever gone to

'Don't be fooled by names' is the moral of this thread.

WTF difference does it make? Both rank high on WOAT atrocities. Does the actual rank really matter?

Oh let's definitely trust the guy who just went to bat for ****ing Holocaust denial on these figures.

IKESY

Yep, he sure sounds like the Koch brothers, pushing that welfare net, environmental and animal welfare regulation, and pro-abortion agenda down our throats.

The epitome of capitalism run amok!

Personal experiences ftw.

http://grist.org/news/seattle-mayor-...its-low-wages/

"McGinn contended in a letter that the nonunion Whole Foods pays “significantly lower” wages and benefits than other grocery stores, including some already in West Seattle. So the idea of allowing Whole Foods to go in there violates the city’s social and economic justice goals."

Youre right, that is deeply semantic. However if youre talking about how the holocaust is a conspiracy and in the next sentence say that more people died in the gulag youre clearly referring to the death camps too (besides, in deniers minds there were no death camps anyway).