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For example, a “women’s only” group may be for a group of women who are healing from a sexually violent relationship, so they really don’t want to see men there.

"Maybe that whites-only parenting group could be healing from some trauma caused by POC and they don't really want to see POC there."

Do you see the problem? A POC causing you trauma is not a good reason to reject POC people in general, and a man causing you trauma isn't a good reason to reject men in general either.

A group dedicated to victims of domestic violence could easily encompass both men and women who have suffered from it, whether the perpetrators were men or women. Cis & trans, it bears saying.

A person who has a blanket phobia of people of a particular gender or ethnicity needs therapy to address their sexism/racism. "I don't feel safe around men" has the exact same energy as "I don't feel safe around black people".

Yes, racially exclusive associations are gross. Same with events that exclude attendance based on sex/gender. We are all people.

Okay, people will rip the holy book of the week instead. You may not have a good reason to do it, but others should be free to do so.

I do not approve of burning holy books, but I think it should be legal.

What people shouldn't do and what should be banned are different things. I don't want to live in a place where what is not mandatory is banned. There has to be some room for freedom of expression, even for people expressing ideas we dislike.

Burning a symbol to upset people is a shitty thing to do, but it should not be illegal.

Assaulting people, whether they burned a symbol you like or not, is a shitty thing to do that should remain illegal.

And yes, some people in my country have burned symbols that represent people like me recently. Nobody from my community assaulted the people who did it in response. Just the way it should be.

A bicycle with panniers or a trailer is perfectly adequate to buy groceries for a family. Yes, even in winter.

I'm just tired of traffic noise, pollution and having close calls with 4 ton vehicles while having the right of way. It is not too much to ask for.

If we end up in a 10 year deflationary period then that would be catastrophic I was moreso referencing a short term “return to 2019 numbers” type of deflation that I believe could be a good thing for people

Are you saying that a 2%-ish deflation rate sustained for ten years would be catastrophic, but a return to 2019 prices would be a good thing? On what sort of time period would that be beneficial?

Because the accumulated inflation since 2019 is somewhere around 20%, and if we correct it over ten years that would approximately match the scenario you deemed as catastrophic earlier.

Since the FED is focused on a 2% inflation hedge and we’ve raised interest rates so much, they would just lower them again to prevent a repeat of Japan

Well, that is what Japan tried to do and it wasn't enough. The problem is that in the real world you can't lower interest rates beyond a certain point, because as interest rates approach zero or even negative values (ZIRP), banks find it very difficult to make a profit from lending, which leads them to bankrupcy, which in turn slows the economy down, which is the opposite of what you are trying to achieve. Not to mention that on the way to ZIRP private debt balloons and when interest rates eventually revert to their mean the debt burden becomes unbearable, which leads to a recession.

In other words, macroeconomics is a tricky unstable system and simplistic takes have poor outcomes.

The real truth of it is that deflation is good for PEOPLE

Deflation encourages businesses and people to hold on to their money instead of spending it. One person's spending is another person's income, so when spending goes down so do incomes. When people's incomes go down, they reduce their own spending in response. This is a vicious cycle that leads to a lower standard of living.

Don't believe me? It is what happened to Japan since the 1990s after their real state bubble exploded. It is called "the lost decades" and it was very much felt by the population.

Yes, we are in agreement. I was supporting your thesis.

Indeed. Central banks in developed nations act independently of the government for good reasons. What the GP is suggesting, which is government interference on the central bank to lower interest rates, is the scenario that causes developing nations like Turkey to experience runaway inflation. It is a terrible idea with plenty of historical precedents.

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