Even assuming the passage is totally genuine, two fires had destroyed much in the way of official documents Tacitus had to work with and it is unlikely that he would sift through what he did have to find the record of an obscure crucifixion

Why? If it was a popular myth, why assume he wouldn’t try to confirm/deny it

According to Bart Ehrman, Josephus’ passage about Jesus was altered by a Christian scribe, including the reference to Jesus as the Messiah

So? I’m not presenting evidence for him being a Messiah. I am saying there is some independent evidence of him existing.

B. The second line in Tacitus that mentions Christ and his death was never noticed until after the mid-fourth century. So this second line is fake.

I agree that is bizarre, but not proof of it being fake. Though should be taken with a grain of salt.

This is why Bart Ehrman specifically dismisses Tacitus and Josephus. As do most other biblical scholars.

Who is Bart Ehrman and why relay his beliefs rather than speak for yourself?

And in the case of jesus, we have literally zero independent verification.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sources_for_the_historicity_of_Jesus

But DO NOT imagine chewing on a towel

That sounds like a joke from the doctor that the patient missed

If your intention is to scare people who didn’t sign up for it iirc that is assault.

Nixon Foundation has been posting edits of him on their Youtube channel, tons of pro-Nixon comments

You saved the day right? Oh no that is just the start, since the round fired was a 7.62x51mm NATO (there is no “rubber” round for this firearm) it went straight through the torso of that protester with a box knife and into and then back out of at least a few other people

High angle means it would likely go into the ground. Also could use hollow point though, I don’t know if police use hollow point on rifles.

Education went up in cost because nothing was stopping it from going up and everything else is so broken it took the place for it.

Well yeah, that’s my point? Why do you think their customers are able to pay any amount? Because they’re taking government loans.

Healthcare went up because insurance companies. They are a useless middlemen.

How did insurance companies increase the cost of healthcare when their goal is to decrease it so they can profit more?

Cars really haven’t gone up that much.

New and used cars definitely haven’t gone down in price despite increased mechanization, improved shipping, etc. But yeah out of these things they have the lowest infinite free money behind them.

I’m talking about inflation adjusted price

The AMA doesn’t directly control it, what it does do is lobby congress to limit it. The AMA actually is the reason the cap was put in place in 1997. Doctor administrators are also often AMA members/supporters/in some capacity bound to the AMA, so they often don’t explore other sources of funding than government for expanding residency capacity.

Just a risk of mysterious death and missing organs if you complain about abuse

if it wasn’t for privatized insurance mucking the whole thing up

Insurance companies aren’t saints, but their whole goal is to keep costs for themselves low so they can pocket the premiums. A lot of factors go into driving up health care costs, this is nowhere near all of them but to name a few: AMA keeping residency slots low to control supply of doctors and keep wages high, high educational cost meaning doctors require higher pay, long education needed(high lead time on new medical staff, doctors have some of the longest educational time in the US of anywhere in the world), intellectual property law enforcing drug monopolies, extremely expensive FDA approval process, (?)expensive FDA certification of some equipment(this I’m not entirely sure about- but I suspect its the case), Certificate of Need laws restricting competition in some areas.

Everyone always jumps to defense spending which is not the problem. Defense spending creates hundreds of thousands of well paying jobs to American citizens. The large majority of the money used to produce military goods goes back into the economy.

Sorry to say Keynesian economics died.

Other than that, the first part of your comment is right.

Where this type of lending is less frequent, like mobile homes, prices haven’t risen as much. But as that lending has gotten more common, they’re starting to.

Well, why do you think the price of houses goes up while most other commodities go down. Except for… education, healthcare, and cars in the past 20 years. It feels a little like to me the government backed lending(among other things) has something to do with it. Something something- taking a low interest loan means you’re less concerned about a 20% higher price, and so is everyone else- or something.

no one person is single handedly making decisions for everyone else on a given subject.

No, as I said, the best you can get when you have a unrestricted democratic government is the majority making decisions for the minority. That’s still not good.

Yeahhh I definitely disagree this is a fundamental truth. Not because you’re necessarily wrong from your perspective, but because we have fundamentally different values.

Being effected doesn’t mean there is a “we” that is justified in making decisions for others

Both migrant workers and those with Down Syndrome

Saying “no your insult of me is wrong” is totally useless. But apparently if I don’t explicitly say it you will then use that to attack me. So no, your insult of me is wrong. I was referring to civilizations that were built without oppression. I gave 1 example of oppression that led to the building of Iceland, and 2 examples of ongoing oppression. You decided to latch onto one because you interpreted it as me saying continuous oppression. I called out you not addressing the rest and you ignored it. So yeah no, I don’t really have an interest in talking to someone who seeks to maliciously interpret people.

What? Why would I say that unless that’s how I interpreted it. That’s obvious. You were the one arguing that’s not what I said.