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In many parts of the country, support of prop 8 is a mainstream viewpoint.

A prop trading firm offered him 50% more, and the software company matched the offer.

If the subscription was so valuable, they'd message it as a top level value prop.

We actualy prided ourselves, as a prop desk, on not being client facing.

Forcing people to pay for the privilege is not "propping up" an obsolete industry.

But two things, first, supporting prop 8 does not mean you "believe a certain group of people don't deserve to live their lives like others.

[1] Does the government sometimes use law to prop up outdated industries?

If the government used regulation to prop up the CRT industry after people had moved to LCD's, that would be an example.

It's not HBO itself per-see, but HBO as a proxy for big cable; as a defense mechanism to prop up a flailing business model.

Feels like bad sci-fi prop-design.>Fellatio illegal in 11 states.

It slays me that "tradition" is so important to people that they will waste such vast amounts of money and prop up such a gross, violent industry in the face of reason.

The only base for that is "he's for prop 8, so he must be despicable person, so he's evil, so we have reasonable suspicion he would hate us because that's what evil people do".

Often the demand for a kind of product dies out but the companies producing that product manage to talk the government into artificially propping up that demand.

[1] In his notes, Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy, Rawls talks about how his students eagerly come up with clever refute the propositions of great thinkers.

The shantytowns that the author found so disturbing are actually a side-effect of India's weak property rights laws, which themselves are a result of democratic pressure from the poor to continue living where their families have lived for generations.

This piece is very perceptive in portraying Prop 13 property-tax caps and rent-control as sibling policies, each feeding destructive "I've got mine" politics.