Youtube comments of Buz Off (@buzoff4642).

  1. That is the origin of "Israel". British knocked on the Palestine door, "We and the almighty UN, have given away your home."
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  2. I wish someone would explain this bizarre casting childless as "selfish". Where's this entitlement to a public obligated to breed coming from?!? And where's this bizarre casting it as a millennial issue coming from? My first awareness of intentionally childless growth, was latter era boomers who were teenagers during the first economic blowup, early 1970s, who saw their parents fiscal state go unstable. Visibly, 6 of the 8 of us in my work group opted childless, by the early 1990s. Millennial weren't old enough to even consider having kids, so this precedes millennial.
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  3. And, many restaurant managers/owners illegally steal tips and use them to pay their other workers.
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  4. Lots of nightmare stories, from birthing on autopilot. And lots of childless, from having already raised a brood, during one's own childhood.
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  5. I find very few who don't have kids is because they don't like kids. It seems to be more of a decision based on a sense of risk. Unstable economy, unreliable or no support network, household came apart when they were kids, etc.
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  6.  @kusheran  No, it doesn't. Go back and read again the comment you're responding to.
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  7. Because they dumped their existing debt, pension obligations and such, onto the city the seceded from.
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  8. As politician, yes, but Limbaugh precedes him, in bold hostility and contempt.
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  9. They should be sued for the debt they left behind, existing pension obligations for one. They did what the corporations do, divorce obligation, leaving the public with the incurred debt.
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  10.  @Cobalt-88  Not new. I remember a person was gang raped in a bar in the second half of the 1970s, and a male coworker said "Well what'd she expect being in a bar at night?" I said she went in for a pack of cigarettes, and I'd expect to be safer in a bar full of people than in a 7/11 with one clerk. Same late 80s/early 90s when a person was raped in Central Park, coworker "What's she doing there in the night?". I said don't your parents live in NYC? And if your parents got in an argument at night and your father went out for a walk to cool off, would you claim he brought a mugging on himself?
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  11.  @semsemeini7905  That's an interesting comparison, but I don't think the Indian were corralled in their entirety, and then as captives have their food and water cut off in a deliberate attempt to kill them off in their entirety.
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  12. "We have nothing in common!" declared a coworker/ditto-head/fundamentalist. "We have just about everything in common!" I declared back at him. And fired off a list off basic human expectations. Who is anyone , with our puny little human brains, to speak for God, and inflict our tiny understanding on others?!?
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  13. Watch it again. Many foreign born come from places that their governments do exactly what the scammers are doing.
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  14.  @betsywilliamsonasmr  "bad for the economy" Only a stale monopolistic economy, for industry to running on autopilot, with a burgeoning labor glut. My father's 1960s paycheck was not going to buy 7 cell phones for his 5 kids and both parents. Nor will current suppressed wages, despite an imported labor glut.
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  15. Thanks. We get buried under stories of bada$$e$, and I do like hearing about the good guys too.
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  16.  @oldbeatpete  Texas is the largest purchaser of school text books. So yes, they set the standard for the nation. But the glorification of Robert E. Lee is pretty wild.
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  17.  @ernststavroblofeld7734  2008. A bipartisan betrayal. Preceded by 8 years of corporate raiding of middle class wealth. And they had the nerve to hand the public the bill, throwing Wall St's bill for corruption up onto the public tab: national debt. You're suffering from MyPartyCanDoNoWrong.
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  18. "Why isn't Vietnam in our history books?" "Because there are too many still alive to dispute what would be written." Which told me everything I needed to know, even as a kid.
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  19. Because he's circumventing what's going on underneath. Get very comfortable, with yourself, first. Including embracing/ addressing your shortfalls. If you haven't done that (yes, I'm losing my hair and that's okay, yes, my face breaks out and that's okay, etc.) then you leave your self-image in the hands of others. Self-conscious sucks the oxygen out of the room, and out of yourself. Know yourself, what you're good at, know yourself, what your not, and the spaces you're blank and open for learning.
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  20. Sorry to hear that. I lost a friend to that, when she moved to Louisiana. My sister lost her in-laws to it, when they moved to Tennessee.
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  21. A lot of our ageism is from living location transient lives driven by college and job relocating. Gone is Gram lives either across town, or living in the same house. We're also living silo'ed, by age, by income and by profession. Gone is everyone from President/VP, to white collar, to manufacture, to janitor, in the same building. Zero relationship between the groups now, splayed across the country if not the planet. We're going to have to fix what we've broken, what you've inherited. Straight out of the movie Animal House, We f'ed up, we trusted them.
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  22.  @lasha3688  Good parenting of loud and energetic kids should be exercise, prior to being taken to restaurants and movie theaters, where they do have to sit quietly for the duration.
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  23. D0P3PRIEST As I suspected. No "affordable" housing for "the riff raff". Similar in my town, buttoned down so tight, young adults and nonworking elderly have to move out. Economically gated community. The now elderly who built it never expected it to force themselves out.
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  24.  @edwardpayne4385  Israel didn't live in a homeland. Some Jewish people have, and some non-Jewish people have. My ancestors lived in France. We, who migrated, have no right to now reclaim ownership with rights to take over that land and rule it, because some document shows ancestry presence.
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  25. Because it's not the cause of climate change. Industry, as it exists now, causes the environment damage.
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  26. I've given away a lot of money, and my perspective is, if only one of the persons was truly in need, it was all worth it.
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  27. Who do you owe children to, that makes you "selfish"? I noticed liberal sprinkling of the use of that accusation, from people who can't define how others are obligated to their expectations.
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  28. they helped dig that hole.  pay up weasels.  same type of aholes who leave before bill comes at group lunches.
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  29. Overall polite, yes. As they politely avoid hiring anyone but a compatriot, once in the interviewing chain. As a Native American, I am sick and tired of racists, including those who'd deem reservations as racist exclusion. Where the immigrants aren't welcome...
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  30. And tax exemption. I see no reason for 501C. For churches, or any other social organizations.
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  31.  @KittyComoMeow  Spot on, Kitty. In a nutshell, "It's the economy, stupid."
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  32. And a wise man.
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  33.  @drwalka10  Suggested reading: Slavery By Another Name. If one author can trace excessive wealth originating from slavery, and others traced it to ancestors of individuals, alive now, then reparations certainly is doable. And along both threads, the entities who still exist (Wacovia Bank, George Mason University, etc.) along with the nation that benefited. France owes Haiti $150M they were charged to buy themselves out of slavery, for instance. England owes Honduras, India, etc. incalculable sums for their offshored slavery. Etc. Etc. Etc.
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  34. Years back on a British chat board, "What do Americans want?" I said, "The same as the rest of the planet. To spend the day producing something useful, eat supper at their own table, talk to friends and family, and go to bed fairly sure they'd be doing the same tomorrow." That's a pretty low bar our globalize-damaged cultures have managed to blow apart - for sake of billionaire security.
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  35.  @GearZNet  When benefits cut the same time they're given $15, it's not really a raise, is it. $15 wasn't in response to workers asking for a raise, it was due to being shamed, when Sanders said we need to start billing large corps for food/housing/medical subsidies to their employees. Whole Truth Matters
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  36. Both sides of the aisle using Ethic Factionizing.
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  37.  @TheGrandy123  The origin of the problem, Euro guilt over Germany. And rather than give them part of Germany, England said go live other ... there. There is no international right to return and rule the lands of ancestors, for other than the lands of Palestine.
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  38. Having observed family use of healthcare, yes, I can see how it's shot up through decades. One of my coworkers alone cost of fortune, bringing toddlers to the emergency room, every time they threw up from Dad's cooking experiments.
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  39.  @towritemichelle210  Many a state pocketing the federal monies sent for it, and not providing it.
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  40.  @timsmusic7349  Most living outside of NYC have no idea what an incessant deadbeat Trump is, having ripped off many a contractor. There's only one path to amassing extreme wealth, taking far too much from far too many in exchange for far too little. Many students are getting by, with scholarships, employer-paid education benefits, etc. Your girls where lucky to have you.
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  41. Is there a counter-point to genocide? Where does the impression come from, that an installed apartheid state, can and should survive?
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  42. Yet another shameless ripoff, by Wall St, as our congress does ... nothing about it.
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  43.  @JohnBartmannMusic  A typical commute in the US is 1 hour's drive, each way. I noticed the cost of housing is (or was until recently) set to highest wages within that 1 hour drive. As for just move, that's one heck of a wild card, and why so many foreign workers are hired, new worker in new place is unaware of payrate matching local cost of living. Same for those retiring, relocating comes with surprising changes of cost in health insurance, food, property tax, etc. Example, most common way I meet my new neighbors is when they knock on my door with their first property tax bill, "Is this for real?!?" Yes, your house is cheaper than where you came from, and we have no state income tax, but we have one whopper of a property tax bill.
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  44. I think it was approx. 1991 that I read in a Kiplinger Letter an L.A. judge deemed it illegal to kick homeless off of public property. Yet, I see it being done over and over, around the country. Let this one marinate; Insane, that in the US, you have to pay to have your feet on the ground. Either rent, or property purchase/property taxes.
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  45. I worked briefly at just such a place, if people were "making rate", a supervisor watching would tick up the speed of the machine(s). Walking out at the end of the day, I found a coworker sitting on the sidewalk and asked if she was okay. She said she couldn't make it to her car, she was just too tired to walk another step. This place regularly ditched their entire illegal staff for a fresh batch.
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  46.  @kwyatt261  To paint him as a nice guy with a swell pony is propaganda.
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  47. Yes.
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  48.  @imperialmotoring3789  This isn't facebook.
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  49. Well, Texas specific, I'd say get your hands on their high school history books, and protest at school board meetings what's missing. Texas, the biggest purchaser of text books, sets the content standard, which is what the rest of the nation is then stuck with. Second, not Texas specific, we need to outlaw party designation on voter rolls - it is the basis of party gerrymandering of the public and of districts. The parties have a clear conflict of interest, in control of any of the voting processes. Best of luck, GMWilliams.
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  50.  Hussain Khan  13 empty foreclosed houses in Chicago, for every homeless person there. Sick, sick, sick.
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  51.  @Sarah-re7cg  Re: "seen as property" By law, they are. It's a very recent thing, to have any laws protecting kids. By law, so were women. And unfortunately, women are still changing their last names, from that vestige of law. Stunned me to learn the charges for rape used to be father/husband's right to claim in court "property damage". Only since the 1970s has spousal beating wasn't dismissed as "a domestic incident, when at that time, a woman was beat to death by her husband in front of the police.
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  52. True. I remember waitresses made enough to afford an apartment back then. A whole lot of younger people have no idea how much better the country could be functioning. And, not likely to get better with "centrist" democrats, which are basically republicans from that prior era. Sanders, the only one saying this is broken, while current Ds and progressives offer insufficient bandaiding of status quo.
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  53. Does not matter. Florida man, on the ground, hands over his head, yelling don't shoot my patient, sitting next to him. They still shot the man on the ground with his hands over his head. Cop, when asked "Why did you shoot me?", said "I don't know". Bad, bad training when they show up at any scene all jacked up.
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  54.  @valeriekeefe8898  Corrupt is corruption, regardless of instantiation in economic or political configurations. Similarly with coercive jobism.
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  55.  @fitawrarifitness6842  You're ignoring keywords "this situation", which is reparations for slavery in the US. Unless you know something we don't know, regarding Latino and Asian sold to US citizens as slaves, wholesale at that.
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  56.  @fitawrarifitness6842  It has nothing to do with first amendment. Anyone can opine on just about anything, legally. You're still sidestepping "... in this situation..." Internment, and compensation for being stripped of property is not a reasonable comparison to being owned, for life, with no legal rights whatsoever for the duration of life.
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  57.  @S1ForEva  Interesting. The story of Kashmir I was told, was the maharaja of Kashmir decided to go with India, rather than Pakistan. I've never heard Kashmir had intention of independence.
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  58.  @edwardpayne4385  First, 3500 years is speculative. Second, a small tribe, many of whom left. Third, there's nothing ethical to behaving like Nazis. Fourth, shall we kick off religious purging, in each nation? Really, you want to go there?
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  59. Visibly, and, monopolies create oligarchy. And oligarchy fuel corruption.
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  60.  @raminsamii745  And how do you do so permanently? Travel there requires a visa, which is temporary.
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  61. Adults can be annoying and make life a drag. And after they use your money they're still ungrateful. None of that's specific to kids.
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  62. Unstable employment, driving a nomadic requirement, also. No "social" support network (Gram, Auntie, Sister, "Can you pick them up, working late."
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  63. I can't imagine what the carbon footprint is, delivering items, one at a time, to households. I can't imagine what the carbon footprint is, from shipping every last item, from the other side of the planet. I can't imagine what the carbon footprint is, from shipping cardboard boxes there, to come back packed with every last item, from the other side of the planet.
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  64.  john tash  Long ago a lady I babysat for would pan handle and say it was for food. It was to keep her electricity on, because she's spent the money she had ... on food.
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  65. He also appeals to - long haul unemployed/under-employed - economically marginalized - religious zealots - culturally alienated - machismo fans - politicians who've constituency that are mainly the above
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  66.  @amylieu6084  "...liberals are all about ..."?!? It's about the money. https://www.dol.gov/sites/default/files/newsroom/newsreleases/OFCCP20170071.pdf
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  67. "I knew that i could keep myself housed and fed" Given the tenuous nature of employment, you're a rarity.
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  68. Why do you not move back to Sandy Springs? (not being flip, a genuine question) I believe it's likely you'll discover the "success" of Sandy Springs in your answer.
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  69. It's intentional.  Long lines, 3 hours, etc., it is intentional.
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  70.  @ImranAli-ve6cm  I dreaded the thought of all that sanding (mess up, and you can wreck the lens). So I scrubbed/buffed them with a mix of baking soda and coconut oil, $2 at Dollar Tree. This took just about all of the haze and stuck on crude off the lenses. A guy could probably get a extremely high polish by buffing it more than I did. I'll think about his recommendation, the skins over the lenses, but for now, looks MUCH better. $2, nothing to lose.
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  71.  @gf4670  Tail end of Boomers were teenagers who saw the first bust, early 1970s, when sole income households were blown out of the water. By early 1990s, 6 of 8 of us coworkers were decidely No Kids. It's just taken a while for the media to notice the trend.
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  72.  @Amir-mq4jy  #2 lobbyist in the country: National Realtors Association. The US isn't short on affordable housing by happenstance.
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  73. Because they can no longer hide it. That's the only reason.
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  74.  @donnahollingberry5105  "in and out of 'our' area" - what makes you think they're not of 'your' area.
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  75.  @55points  Rupert? Is that you? I heard you left your business, but looks like you've taken up evangelizing the same news you aired on Fox.
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  76. Who says it's about shaming children? Isn't that excuse just parents deflecting their expectations?
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  77.  @imperialmotoring3789  Because he claims anything/everything not of his hand, is "a disaster". And, if anything in his hands is "a disaster", it's someone else's fault. Aka, a narcissist.
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  78.  @chuckwilson980  Not so. They "don't want to talk about it". They've been compelled to believe they're "saving souls", aka anti-any abortion for any reason. And have no intention of entering the deadly muddy waters of incomplete miscarriage, etc.
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  79. Both. Some (deflecting responsibility) because it's profitable to shunt the bill for their non-living waged employees onto the public, via food/housing/medical subsidies. Some (denial) because it scares the hell out of them. Some (sheltered ignorance) because they lack exposure to the variety of circumstances in life.
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  80.  @retrosensual1  Narcissist Trump is referring to any/all who don't endorse him. Narcissism 101: I can do no wrong.
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  81. Newsflash: wealthy are the freeloaders. Unless you're going to tell me the community of Sandy Springs wrote a fat check for the debt they left behind, pensions for example. No surprise the town border is as contorted as a gerrymander district.
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  82. They are at rest. It's their reputation and labor in need of being vindicated and their heirs due compensation.
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  83. Love hearing the inner dialog of the male mind. This guy's too funny.
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  84.  @OneLine122  Caring for people we know little about is selfless. Holding the door, for the person behind us, helping someone struggling with bags, etc. Selfish is thrown around by some as "You're not doing what I want.", who've no legitimate reason for the expectation. Aka, manipulation. As heard this week on TV, "No. is a complete statement." My former mother-in-law used to come back with "Why?", for material she could pressure me into/out of. These days, I just laugh and say "Because I'm hateful and selfish.", a deadend for manipulative people to argue with.
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  85. You missed the point. Wealth isn't merit. And that includes most of their students, who aren't legacy or affirmative action. Most Ivy League students are there because they have parental wealth fueling their As, which you presume is merit.
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  86.  @Brett_S_420  That's a Whack-A-Mole answer, Brett. There is "the day" Jan 6th, and then there's the decades preceding it, of extraordinary income inequality corruption that laid the groundwork for it.
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  87. No, they don't. It's disrespect and/or cowardice to do so.
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  88. Yes, abhorrent, but not illegal. Yes, it is a really bad precedence.
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  89.  @elizabethhazel6039  Well, for clarification's sake. Credit means attribute to, but is used so often for positive that the definition becomes muddled.
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  90. Our highest community expense has been, for the longest time, education. It's been in the Koch/ALEC bullseye for quite a while, for a variety of reasons - default smarter people, teachers union, tax expense. New purpose with this attack, get their radical libertarians in office.
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  91.  @MM-sf3rl  Isn't that the basis of "good church going Christian" label? Self-aggrandizing unaccountable due to weekly religious wash? And the flip side, the clergy pulling those levers?
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  92.  @jimmyhaley727  Old time Democrat voters should recognize there is no "Democrat" party, they're just a branch of benevolence veneered branch of Wall St. Very thinly veneered at that.
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  93. Was this conversation not evident that media fuels elitism, and credentialism, and not just in education? Those not going to Ivy League are "mediocre"?
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  94. The extent of predation on US public is horrific. Some native "investors", some international "investors".
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  95.  @crubie3  Well, by the few examples showing up, Wachovia, George Mason University, etc., it's been a free college education. But that is far to little, especially considering Global Commerce has put US (an EU) job market up for sale to the lowest bidders: south of the borders and Asia. Now we can all have college educated un/under employed. It also has a distortion effect: "... minorities disproportionately ..." Gauging how minorities are doing is distorted when/while importing poor minorities. And, doing damage to minorities here, via importing a labor glut. Something the politicians will never acknowledge: importing of minorities is to douse the US/EU labor market wages.
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  96. Well, if you're going to get real about things, I see no way to build affordable homes for US min wages, $2.13 an hour for tipped workers, $7.25 for the rest. And that's not including wage theft workers, illegal migrants who're often ripped off for weeks if not months of work, who're ironically, often doing housing construction.
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  97.  @BearingMySeoul  Interesting. People don't want children for multitudes of reasons. I've seen many a parent who's selfishness was stunning. Lavish spending on self, while the kids went without essentials. Children don't make persons into adults. Survey of older men said they didn't consider themselves men until in their 50s.
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  98. Power, easy control, within hierarchy. Be that religion, politics, schools, or households.
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  99. They're talking about West/Westernized populations shrinking. Not the whole planet.
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  100. Newt said liberal statistics, what John casts as "cherry picking" which is also he is doing. The black and white of it is, Newt and John are both unwilling to acknowledge their cherry picked numbers are ONE PART of the whole picture, national crime level, big city crime level. Same with reporter and Newt, one's talking "violent crime", the other is talking "crime", two different things. Agenda driven unwillingness to acknowledge the others point. Just like congress. Leaving the middle ground, where we live, to fall to the floor, unattended.
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  101. I think they were sold a fool's paradise and, as for "has occurred hundreds of times across the nation", again, that doesn't relieve them of their debt.
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  102. Their model shows that you can further isolate privilege, and dump debt on communities by economic divorce.
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  103. The entire purpose is to isolate wealth and cast off their debt to the rest - the pension obligations they ran up.
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  104. imnotmike "The problem with capitalism" Corruption is not unique to capitalism.  Ask any communist. The biggest flaw I see in our democracy is our congress has the ability to create laws governing ... congress.  !?!??!
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  105. From deceased?  From unemployed?  And the ridiculous three digit interest rate payday loans?  No way.
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  106. 1998, my first assignment to train my replacement. In one year, my entire department cleaned out of citizens. Would hear Chinese and Indian argue over where the next hire had to come from: north or south India, China born chinese or American born chinese. The US has imported a whole lot of race, age and gender discrimination.
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  107.  @atropabelladonna  "Rihgt now having kids often means giving up on everything else" For some, because of the economy. For others (helicopter/snow plow parents), its their choice to. I'd have gone nuts with the second, as parents.
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  108.  @andheardstudios8089  "I practically feel them" Exactly, the one not "at rest" is you. And money changing hands isn't going to solve that. Reparations doesn't undead Emmit Til, nor erase his history. Reparations solely addresses money issue: uncompensated labor, and possibly assist in lost opportunity. It's not going to change history.
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  109. My ancestors said God said this. Never mind those pesky 10 primary rules: Thou shall not kill, thou shall not covet they neighbors' ...
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  110. "app stores", all of them.
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  111.  @carolhartley5982  Definitely women are redefining the role of female. That started with a big bang, when the early 1970s' layoffs sent single income Dad home with a pink slip. Mom started working. I expect your 1 and 3 are most likely, as the Mr says "selfish" is thrown around in India also. Roles are changing, and that seems to be triggering panic and hostility.
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  112.  @7135HOLLY  There's no reason England should've been giving away what was not theirs to give: Palestine.
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  113.  @m.walther6434  Half truths. I noticed both sides of the aisles are using half truths and emotion-washing. Emotion bait: baby murderers, pro-choice, asylum seekers, invaders, etc. Emotive latching onto notions of being a champion, for "protecting the innocent", "freedom", etc. No skin in the game, but drunk on "get in the game" power, for the powerless.
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  114. It runs far deeper and far older than Citizen United. I remember a young John Boehner explaining to a reporter, yes it was wrong to have had lobbyists passing out cash on the floor of congress, that it should be checks to their offices. I remember Patrick Leahy telling a reporter yes, he sells his vote if it's not directly related to Vermont. And much more recently, Sheldon Whitehouse discussing the 10 priorities tech industry gave them, on their annual call for them, congress, to be at the west coast, to receive them. Clearly they don't recognize just how corrupt they are, and haven't for a very long time. And while I'm using that word, I'm stunned with all of this, media, reporters, journalists, authors, aren't calling it what it clearly is: corruption.
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  115.  @andrefasset3266  It is no surprise that people should turn a blind eye to what benefits them, but them alone.
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  116. "Districts" don't like a book? So they're polling the public? That's not "soft" censorship, it's censorship.
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  117.  @raminsamii745  A whole lot of people had plans, and the rug was pulled out from under them. US is amidst class warfare, and proliferating billionaires. I get your point, but watching, "Affordable Retire To [x]" is one moving target. Ecuador, for instance.
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  118. If you're confused, they've DNA tests for that these days.
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  119. Constitutional amendment, "corporations are not people". They are a collection of investors, foreign and domestic, and the domestic already have free speech. Worse, anonymous speech, via "PAC", and as such, their political "speech" is anonymous. So it actually should be called Not-Necessarily-Citizens, United.
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  120. Go ahead, fill in the omission.
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  121. $2.13 an hour, for all tipped "service" workers, for 30 years, says there's no "labor shortage". $7.25 an hour, for the general workers, says there's no "labor shortage". Prices have already spiked, due to the incessant greed accommodated. Industry entitlement to pocket the wage theft from an imported illegal work force glut, is a shortage of DOL and immigration law enforcement. And that entitlement is the dog that caught the car moment. Trying to hide from the labor market disaster they've created, and the repercussions.
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  122.  @jonmeador8637  Take the voting processes out of the hands of the parties, a clear conflict of interest.
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  123. Limbaugh precedes social media.
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  124.  @mrbubetube  And everything was just fine before Trump? No, it wasn't. Seattle was working on it's third "tent city" well before Trump came along. You're suffering from MyTeamCanDoNoWrong.
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  125.  @stevechance150  Left out was the most ironic: The wealth. Asian parents are top notch at gaming the entrance criteria. Because it is essential, in India and China. Tutor to straight As, move to runway to Ivy League school district, cull any normal social activity so kids are resume building "extra-curricular" "volunteering" at parents' business, etc. etc. Americans are under the false impression Asian immigrants come from poor countries and are therefore poor. Not the case. It is India's middle class moving to the US, and their middle class in India equates to US' upper middle class, who've housekeepers, chauffeurs, cooks, nannies, etc. and most importantly to this topic, tutors. Prolific tutoring from grade 1, through college.
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  126.  @nanoflower1  If she can't afford health care insurance, then she's not "paid very well".
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  127.  @valerievasiliou2721  50% of health care costs are total waste: 30% for the highly variable insurance paperwork, min of 20% going to profit. Then of the remaining 50% is subject to price gouge firmly in place by Big Pharma. 1981: 2 weeks in hospital for surgery, my total bill after insurance, $30 for the phone in the room. That was before "managed" HMO "care".
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  128.  @extremistcontent1337  Seattle, last I checked, was putting up its 3rd "tent city", for their working and homeless population.
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  129. Every single day, particularly now that we have inadequate roads and inadequate public transport, and ever increasing pressure and stress at poorly paid temporary jobs (or multiple jobs), you can be sure there are those in our vicinity who do indeed have valid reasons. I'm old enough to remember - one job paying for an apartment, savings and vacation, - housing sufficient enough to live within 10 min drive or bike ride, or 20 minutes' walk, and - stereotypical health insurance paying the entire hospital bill with the exception of the phone in the room.
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  130. Dear xopo267, please remind me who voted to fund genocide?
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  131. I doubt they've any use for the monies but to add to their endowment funds. Aka, greed.
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  132. Great quote, by Larry Ellison to Steve Jobs, "The moral high ground is the most expensive real estate on the planet." I remember political and industry integrity. It's pretty sparse these days.
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  133.  @ryannguyen916  What an incredible sense of industrial entitlement you have.
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  134. While Australia did produce Rupert Murdoch, they did have the sense not to elect him. However, we in the US can't thank you for ditching him onto us. His fox news has been the bull horn for bull s***, an official runway for a person the likes of trump.
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  135. Historic parallels exist, and it is a normal, natural thing to see the parallels. Terms as means to create contempt and shut down conversation with opposition, such as vermin, and to justify questionable action, such as genocide.
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  136. Being British, not sure he'd know much about it. Much like other migrants' limited information on where their ancestors came from.
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  137. I recognize the Koch/ALEC agenda, profitize everything private (record profits/contract down to unlivable wages).  I'm sure the recipients of corporate services are happy, today.  Back in 1992 Microsoft used to answer the phone and debug their product.  Once they became comfortable with their monopoly, that came to an end.
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  138. Actually, Chinese women were flying into California, birthing for American birth certificate, and flying back out. On the news a while back.
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  139. Visa goes to employer, not employee. Citizen can change job any time they want, H1B visa employee cannot. H1B visa employee can be tied to employer for 16 years - at bad pay, and in bad circumstances (80 hour work weeks). Employers promise green card, and if they file for the green card for the person at all, many wait 6 years before they do. And green card can take another 9 or 10 years, because only so many granted per year. Since green card means employer must then pay employment taxes, many H1B immigrants are laid off (fired) upon getting their green card. Employer getting federal employer tax breaks for visa'd immigrant that they don't get for hiring citizen, making immigrant cheaper by default, regardless of pay/salary. And OPT (new student graduate) can be paid very poorly because there is no salary/pay requirement for them. Since immigrant wants green card, they are often abused. $2 million dollars in wage theft (unpaid salary) reported by H1B immigrants between 1998 and 2000 - many don't report because they're uninformed of US labor laws and fear losing their visa.
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  140. "I love libraries." I've said many a time, my library card's the most valuable thing I own.
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  141.  @StumblingThroughItAll  Do tell, how cities and states raising their min wages, is due to Trump in the White House. By the way, not a one, running for anything in Washington, president or congress, will utter Living Min Wage. Okay, one and only one, Bernie Sanders.
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  142.  @F-xe1gt  Oh please. Bush Jr didn't attend/graduate Harvard on work ethic nor merit.
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  143. Religious zealots. Ironic isn't it, 10 simple statements, ignored, Thou shall not kill, Thou shall not covet, ... Hierarchy, in any form, utilized by the ruthless.
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  144.  @RudyDoody-z3q  Yes. Alabama for instance, Ten Commandments required in every class room. Ironic isn't it, "Thou shall not kill.", from the radical warring tribes.
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  145.  @shawn-lq4nr  Columbus' 1492 kicked off slaughter of Caribbean, 90% of native american were not gone by 1592. The fact of the matter is, the global public is watching this one occur, at remarkable speed, and not stopping it. I'm going to leave off the gruesome detail of what the Euros did to the Caribbean, as it was far worse than what's occurring in Palestinian territories. What's worse about the Palestinian is the world knowing, and doing nothing to stop it.
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  146. People are justifiably angry. And the politicians have been blowing them off with: get a gig job or two, you aren't trying hard enough, you need to move to a city where there's an endless supply of work, if you have a degree you've educated yourself in the wrong profession, if you don't have a degree you'll never solve your lack of income, labor shortage, grand GDP so all's well, etc. My nephew's wife was over, yacking up a storm, and her daughter yelled louder and louder, "I'm HUNGRY!" She kept telling the girl, we're stopping to eat on the way home.
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  147. Maybe you need to get off that high horse and talk to a few people.
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  148. Many of the "ghost houses" of 2008 were indiscernible as to who owned them. Ironic, eh? Banks kicked out occupants, but once receiving bailout monies, had no interest in the property. Cities couldn't figure out who owned the bundled mortgages (for property taxes, etc.), so the structures languished, and eventually knocked down due to no maintenance/hazardous.
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  149. Culture shock, leaving home as young adults.
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  150.  @natashatrump7875  It's not a right to take funds and not use it for purpose. It needs to come with obligation to return, if not used for purpose it was provided for.
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  151. Stop the lying, that we're in a "good" economy, with "low" unemployment, and the pretense that our only or main problem is primarily racism and xenophobia. As for Jan 6th specifically, prosecute.
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  152.  @mskimberly7777  Nurses, sacrificial, doctors, protected class.
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  153.  @Sarahalto23  It's not like congress didn't know, AND let it continue.
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  154.  @jacobjorgenson9285  The majority of opioid addicted started with prescription drugs. Do some homework on the subject.
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  155.  @TheCharleyFactor  That was my brother's plan, Mexico. He visited, found it intolerable.
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  156.  @matthewbrown6497  While I didn't hear crazy coming out of her mouth, nor did I hear her say she'll do something about our current open borders. And I don't think open borders are putting our citizens' best interests first. November ballot's going to have - grant legislators rights to use my uterus for animal husbandry or - open borders Neither of those suit me.
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  157.  @timsmusic7349  Because hidden is that extraordinary wealth comes from a core of exploitation, aka theft of the value of labor. The false narrative: it's earned, by those doing nothing to actually earn it - labor. What else would you spend your money on? Lots of US would spend it on ego show pieces, such as expensive cars, houses, vacations. By the way, there is no such thing a "no rent/no debt". Either one pays rent, or property tax. US hasn't any no-cost location, for feet on the earth. Taxes, our perpetual debt. Not the crushing kind like medical bills, but debt none the less.
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  158. "i feel embarrassed of our government", "Corruption, tribalism, poor roads", is growing rampant in far too many countries, including west/westernized.
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  159.  @tenderheart7530  Nor do the CA farmers need to drain the water with inefficient irrigation, to export, export, export food.
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  160. Same with inadequate mental health services, failing "universal" education, homelessness, street crime. Blame/punish the victim(s), else ... "the cage" - our societal operation, is ... broken. Long list of "out of equilibrium", in our societal operation. It's been retooled, for sole purpose of manufacturing ... billionaires.
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  161. The old "good cop, bad cop" play.
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  162. Those days are long gone. They drop into location based on tax breaks offered, because they can get any migrant from anywhere on the planet to work for ultra cheap via visa indenture now. H1B, H2B, OPT, L1, B1, EB, and of course, illegal foreign workers.
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  163. There's one and only one way to become extraordinarily rich: Take far too much, from far too many, in exchange for far too little.
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  164. Lots of blue states, and he points out life for black in blue states is no better. What he doesn't take into account, blue states have invited in a whole lot of poor black migrant, and the impact from that.
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  165. Except the other party isn't debating, in his example. He's talking about stop inflicting your opinions on others because you don't know as much as you assume to, coming from the experience of a single life/background. Or succinctly, stop being arrogant, ask questions.
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  166.  @GLGolden55  Evil, and dangerous, is reckless disregard. And there are people who not only "go there", but are quite proud of that.
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  167.  @monacorising  US has a socialist government, but the socialism is for corporate welfare.
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  168. Informative reading on "run things": White Trash, Empire of Cotton, Slavery By Another Name. Informative reading on nations who "run things": wikipedia pages "The Opium Wars", "coolie". History repeating itself.
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  169. Our policies grow more complex, the faster technology and globalism exposes the country, right down to cities and states, to new mitigating factors. Roll in the he11 hole of two party Far Left/Far Right vacillating on policy, and it's surprising anything still functions.
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  170. Just how many laws are going to be bent to accommodate illegal presence? It makes law illegitimate. Yes, it is their fault they're not on the path to citizenship, Jim. "Unaccompanied minor" in particular. "Sanctuary" is sanctuary for illegal employers, and complicit illegal labor, here to sell labor on just about any illegal terms.
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  171. "Boomers are going to retire" is the same tired excuse used since the early 1990s. Boston/Rt 128 has been supplanting citizen workers for foreign hires for 20 years now. "The suburbs need to ...zoning", or maybe Boston needs to stop commercial construction permits until residential catches up. Day care/preschool, oh please, not the problem. Living wage.
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  172.  @Cathy-xi8cb  "It is affordable, but only if..."?!? Contractor is not what it used to be. In pay, in benefits. Contractor status is now used to drag wages and benefits to absolute minimal, regardless of profession. This particular one, is wild.
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  173.  @aigaoliveira3278  aiga, trolling?
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  174.  @HiighRow  Your destitute poor are right in front of your face, and what, you're claiming "on average..." bull? How uneducated is Seattle's population to accept what's in front of their eyes?!?
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  175. Remarkable failure of our culture, using human resources, if smartest person is a bouncer.
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  176. Yes, it means men are never accountable. Laundered for public plausibility variant, "She's probably lying."
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  177.  @bobbunni8722  We've a federally provided national labor glut, much of it imported. Just as US Chamber of Commerce intended.
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  178.  @lasha3688  "chained in one place" Hype, for bad parenting.
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  179. Thank you for the overview of how this is supposed to work. Are gas vapors so prolific that they needed to create this horrific overly complicated EVAP system? I understand one-way valve letting air in for gas burnt so it doesn't create a vacuum. I don't understand the reason for a purge out of air, which looks to be where the complexity comes in, in system design, maintenance and repair.
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  180. Where's Israel's borders?
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  181.  @chezmoi42  Again, "They're talking about West/Westernized populations shrinking. Not the whole planet."
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  182. That's because it doesn't mean anything like what it used to. Today's "jobs" creation can mean (as he pointed out) one moved from elsewhere including relocation of existing employee, 1 full time job diced into many part time jobs (10% of jobs changed to "temporary" in one year alone, 2015), foreign worker hire for the "new" job (which is no gain for citizenry), etc. BUT - we, the citizens do get stuck with the bill (because they're skating tax-free on impact) for uptick in school population, infrastructure use, etc. More taxes needed from citizens (no, new employee income tax doesn't cover all of the above).
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  183. She never said why fiber is imperative. "People who have the 'franchises'", aka monopolies. At this point, internet access should be public infrastructure.
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  184.  @mira99ist  AIPAC
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  185.  @johnsaccoccio7373  I'm fairly close to that (perfectly running and safe, sent to the crusher) myself. Dealer and mechanics can't resolve P0455, for the past 2 years. I don't understand the necessity of having the system open for purging. Closed fuel system with one-way inlet of air to avoid vacuum, would seem to do the job.
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  186. "The bonds", money lent to PR, are likely the publics' pensions/401Ks/savings/college endowment funds/etc., and the $35Billion in bank "fees" they charged PR for those bonds, will likely be paid first, and if there's anything left of PR, then the public may get it's money back. So long as people keep sending money to Wall St (bank savings, retirement funds, etc.) they will keep doing this.
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  187. Just another example of the "all privilege, no responsibilities" corporate model.
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  188. Absolutely. The city they divorced themselves from should sue them for the debt they left behind. Atlanta should also have a progressive city income tax.
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  189. walperstyle Neoliberal is built on sucking profits through the nose of taxation and the monopoly governments grant them. They would lose advantage if they actually had to compete in a free market.
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  190. What Sandy Springs did was precisely that, union bust all of their dependency on city service labor and ditch their debt.  All privilege, no responsibilities.  "Privitize" the illusion of saving, for contract agency profit.  I look forward to the day the fire department/ambulence doesn't show up because the contract labor found a better job.
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  191. Sagar Sagar India's chief export is its citizenry.  Not likely they'd allow import.
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  192. Wrong. If they were even comparable, US citizens wouldn't be forced to train them. http://www.computerworld.com/article/2915904/it-outsourcing/fury-rises-at-disney-over-use-of-foreign-workers.html
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  193. As forecast by James Goldsmith, 25 years ago.
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  194. We Americans have been forced to train H1Bs for over 2 decades now, before being laid off. There has never been a shortage of American tech. workers. H1Bs are cheaper (by law they can pay them less/and fewer employer taxes) and they are tied to their employer since it is the employer who gets the visa, not the foreign employee. By the way, they are asked for by India. Here is Theresa May of the UK being asked for more work visas: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/in-india-british-leader-theresa-may-preaches-free-trade-2016-11-07 In effect, human trafficking.
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  195. Too many on the web saying "if only they (killed person) ...". Blows my mind anyone justifies killing unarmed innocent. Tells me they endorse continuance.
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  196. Anyone can do it poorly. And when you hiring poor engineers, you get things like Microsoft's blue screen of death/crashing. Or Google's login page, that doesn't take you back to the page you logged in from. Or Yahoo account configuration web pages that make no sense. Or crashing Affordable Care national health insurance web site. Or hackable iPhones. I'm sure as you tool around the web, you find things that are easy to use - that's a pro who created it. And there are things you find that fight you every step of the way - that's a cheap/poor/inexperienced engineer creation. Same thing with TV screens, cell phones, lap tops, DVD players, etc.
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  197. Wow, Sumanth, you really have no clue. 1) Yes. We Americans have been training H1Bs for years and our employers have been refusing to hire US citizens because H1Bs are by federal law, cheaper and by visa, indentured. 2) Newsflash: it's not unusual to work 80 hours, so your 65 to 70 would've been considered "light overtime". 3) There is no "shortage". 50% of American STEM grads are not working in STEM. OPT foreign hire is WAY cheap - no industry rate wage requirement, no employer taxes, and in some cases no income tax. And the OPT very likely graduated from the same college with the same curriculum as the American student, just cheaper, again by US law. As for H1Bs are highly skilled, - it's not unusual they have someone else do their phone interview - it's not unusual their body shop contracting agency has modified their resume, with or without their knowledge - it's not unusual we Americans are tasked with cleaning up their buggy code or redesigning it. - and lastly, and most antagonistic, it's not unusual we are tasked with training them before we are laid off, because they are by US law, cheaper. http://www.computerworld.com/article/2915904/it-outsourcing/fury-rises-at-disney-over-use-of-foreign-workers.html
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  198. 1) Yes there always have been enough US STEM. 50% of its US STEM grads are unable to find a job in STEM and 75% of its STEM professionals unable to find a job in STEM. Supply was never a problem. 2) Is industry entitled to 65 to 70 hours per week? As a matter of fact, you're implying both that they are, and that this and not qualifications are the reason for hiring H1Bs. 3) See #1. Add to your contrary belief that H1Bs are highly skilled when: a) citizens are required to train them, b) many a video online where H1B is saying themselves that their employers are producing fraudulent resumes, stand-ins for their interviews and having remote log in and do their jobs here for them. Why do you assume H1Bs "contribute" when in fact their primary purpose is to supplant?
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  199. We'd appreciate it if you'd ditch Amazon also, we've a horrible infestation of it here in the US.
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  200. ​ @user-rb1yf4he9q  Clearly your neighbor is incapable of setting a post into cement, regardless of their pay. Clearly your neighbor didn't base their hiring decision on business' reputation - regardless of their neighborhood. Given that, remarkable the sense of entitlement in your post. And the result, services not rendered.
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  201.  @user-rb1yf4he9q  Yes indeed, I do menial labor. As a mature adult, I mow my own lawn, clean my own toilet, replace my own decking, etc. Arrogance is to believe one is entitled to shunt one's own subsistence menial labor, for cheap.
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  202.  @CatCaretakerID  "organizations and businesses...same rights" It is in the US' DNA, from England. They've not the same rights as individuals, they've extensively more and better protected rights. Every time you hear in the news, "National interests", stop and think about who's interests they're talking about.
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  203.  @beware1952  Try stealing millions of dollars, not paying your taxes, or poisoning your neighbor, and see if you get off with a fine. Privilege of corporations, wealth and their agents, shielded from any serious consequences.
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  204. Where was this concern when 30 years of small businesses where letting staff go and shutting down to offshore? I have no sympathy for any business that is solely import.
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  205.  @mchapelle19  Yes, it is what is owed. My argument is the money is debt. Atonement is at least an honest reckoning of US' history. Justice is not just about money. Both: GFloyd, civil trial, suing the city, and criminal trial, for honest reckoning of accountability.
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  206.  @mchapelle19  To move the needle on reparations, the public needs to understand that that wealth is still present, and traceable. Else no traction on the issue continuously facing fundamental question: how do actions by long dead translate to current debt. No one pays bills they don't understand the origin of.
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  207.  @Altruistic-General  Businesses' max profit model is businesses' culture. Rural Electrification Program rolled out electricity everywhere, No reason the same can't be done for cell towers, which bring data everywhere with it. It doesn't need to be wired broadband, if the goal is internet, and not TV stations.
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  208.  @ShineOnBenevolentSun  ?!? Nearby relatives, long-term workers, and family friends are also working.
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  209.  @createone100  Rampant in the upper level business world, "Stay in your lane." And that is essentially a "Shut up!" intended to silo and silence anyone pointing out defects in policy, defects in operations, particularly businesses' irresponsible practices.
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  210. I noticed rampant shamelessness in our politicians about 2006, and thought "We're in a lot of trouble." It means they have the perception of a) no sense of what the public sees as decency, and b) with the concept there will be no repercussions. Preceding that was the evaporation of what is and isn't decent. Early John Boehner, into a reporter's mic, yes, we shouldn't be taking cash from lobbyists on the senate floor, they should send checks to our office. ?!? Early Patrick Lahey, into a reporter's mic, yes I sell my vote if it has nothing to do with Vermont. ?!?
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  211.  @mtn1793  It is killing us, all West/Westernized populations are in decline. First spotted this at work in the early 1990s. Coworkers who were teenagers living at home during the first major economic jolt, 1973, where all decidedly No Kids. 6 out of 8, and to this day they stayed No Kids. Shrinking population would self-regulate, higher wages and housing glut. But gov took care of that for benefit of industry, ramp up immigration, both legal and illegal. West/Westernized is dependent on cheap labor, by any means. China joins the model, offshoring to cheaper/more desperate Vietnam.
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  212. Poverty /= asylum.
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  213. "venom and very rude comments" ?!? I'd probably dish back my same, "What's it to you?!?", when derisive comments were made about gays, mixed race couples, women in the military, etc.
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  214. ​ @ecclairmayo4153  Interesting thought, but I'm under the impression there's an underlying assumption of default, all adults must follow cultural roles that existed before birth control.
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  215. Hard as this author tries to promote neoliberalism, redistributing poverty isn't solving poverty. Of course Gates endorses this perception. Profits up, from moving production to low wage countries, importing visa indentured labor, and maintaining a lock on high priced Western consumer markets. Bonus: evade taxes offshore on record profits. And, STILL have the nerve to shunt Gates' foreign aid goals to the public wallet.
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  216.  @adalyndh6843  It's not cheaper, it's non-living wage shortfall and non-payment of taxes are added to income and property taxes.
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  217. The key words in her discussion on it was beating the odds. When what's the problem right now, explicitly, is the odds. The odds of dropping into poverty, the odds of staying in poverty, both increasing, due to a) highly unstable economy for the bulk of the public, and b) there being no good reason anyone (of the 15M US citizens) living in 3rd world level poverty.
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  218. Something to remember, when you hear "It's in our national interests." They're talking about rich people's "interests".
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  219.  @Marigold-m2  "Unfortunately adults don't teach children anything about politeness, responsibility or consequences these days." I expect that'll only get worse. China learned its lesson, during their 1 child only policy. The 1 child had 6 adults (2 parents, 4 grandparents) doting on their every whim. US' is self imposed.
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  220. Contempt, the US response to ... most problems.
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  221. As the US sinks to a state of Potemkin villages.
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  222. We aren't habituated to it. What we are habituated to is the parties taking over the actual voting processes, and lost ability/imagination how to take that back out of their hands.
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  223. Simplistic democrat partisan tripe you've swallowed hook, line and sinker. It's the same in Canada, Europe, Japan, Australia. Replace the locals with cheap imported labor. Only in the US does a political party have the gall to blame the supplanted citizenry, with a legion of yahoos endorsing that.
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  224.  @Fugazinome  Migration is an action, any/all migrating, regardless of reason. Driven out or expelled too can range from subjective "I wasn't embraced." to ostracized for cause.
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  225.  @semsemeini7905  Who's any right to partition the land of someone else?
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  226.  @JustMeAP1  You're a perfect example of lack of knowledge of civics. You're a perfect example of lack of knowledge of what the bipartisan gov is spending monies on.
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  227. Owner occupied requirement.
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  228. That's the thing about unmitigated greed and corruption. It grows.
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  229. I tell myself that also, until I hear details of savagery. But prosecutor malfeasance pushes me back into anti death penalty.
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  230.  @charlessmyth  As my favorite Scottish economist put it, The public['s tax monies] are the insurance for the rich. Two of the core justifications for capitalism are - Reward of profit, due to putting their capital at risk. In this case when public comp's industry failure, they bare no risk. - Competition, which ensures progress, benefiting the public. In this case, broad monopolies over market guts progress, and importing a labor glut means no competition for workers.
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  231.  @ecclairmayo4153  "one sided"? Is that not the point of conversation, a meeting of the sides?
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  232.  @paulforester6996  I noticed the rescinding of ability to comment on The Guardian articles vastly escalated as the last presidential election neared and people were posting comments that didn't support their articles' positions. Said loud and clear to me, propaganda. PBS News Hour articles still have comments open.
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  233. How, exactly?
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  234.  @valeriekeefe8898  Credentialism's played a big role in causing our current state of economic chaos. Silo'ed "expert" decisions aren't holistic, and as such, don't integrate, aren't truly operational. Fauci, for instance, don't tell the public to wear masks because we need them for med staff alone. His lack of knowledge in public safety and how masking was implemented in China, or Japan, left the US public high and dry, literally "facing" this virus. Same disconnectivity in corporatized, profitized "health care". Same disconnectivity in housing, food production, etc. etc. etc.
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  235.  @christophergraves6725  Marshcreek is saying comments like yours lack intelligence, reasoned, humble nor reflect life experience. In other words, in this case, non-sense.
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  236.  @short-leggedturtle1315  Loads of meaningless posts. Comments on interviewer or interviewee appearance, for instance. This isn't facebook.
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  237. With good reason. They are returned to the same cage.
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  238. "Nothing in the bible instructs to use it, to run the lives of others."
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  239. In town meetings, yes. But is only as effective as the Moderator.
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  240. Because god knows we need more tax breaks for billionaires.
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  241. Bernie's not running this time.
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  242.  @christophergraves6725  Interesting choice of terms, "redistributive social programs". The public, nor charities posing "businesses", aren't entitled to cheap any products or services, at the expense of the workers on non-living wages. The billionaires aren't entitled to public tax monies. Marriage is just a bad habit. Either two are together because they love each other, or not. The family is coming apart, due to employment required nomads.
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  243. If you look at the timing, it was to protect the interests of alcohol. The race aspect, US industry entitlement to a second class (cheap labor w/no legal rights).
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  244. Started with the banks. They knew his casino was a big failure, but let it slide because his big glossy gold-veneer name was on the front of it. As for the R party, Bush Sr: "... the nutjobs in the party ..." It took decades to build their demise.
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  245. Women can be just as vain and malicious. I don't think this one will be though. Sickening none of the politicians are running on Min Living Wage. Not a one.
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  246. RE: @23:00, Mr. I'm Okay With Sexual Assault If It Means Overturn Of Roe V Wade, Sooooo, raped and forced to birth is his big plan for American women?
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  247.  @mrmrmaples  "stop hoarding" - that is our corrupt politicians creating capacity to do so. As for open borders, either we have laws we enforce, or we don't. Illegal labor drops the fiscal floor under ... just about everyone. Do you think anyone would be accepting (our 30 years of) $2.13 an hour for tipped workers if not for a(n imported) labor glut?
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  248. While simultaneously berating the poor, as cover for the rich's resentment over their dependency on them.
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  249.  @cheriemyers2155  "to do what you want with your life" That is far more than education provides. The 1990s are behind us. At best, with a college education, being a transient is just about a job requirement these days, and that is if they find a job using their degree, pre-pandemic. There's a reason she's in Indiana and not with her community, which is sounds like where she'd prefer to be. In the past week, listening to interviews of local elderly, who're now warehoused in nursing homes and assisted living facilities - as their "successful" college grad kids live distributed around the country. I call them "fly-in-for-the-funeral" relatives. Atomized. We now live atomized.
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  250. Ironically, you fail to notice that is exactly what is happening.
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  251. Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise, when economists and politicians tell us we have never had it so good? Because "unemployment rate" was redefined in 1994 to hide long term unemployment. Because Bush Jr. thinks working 3 jobs is "good". Because economists and politicians ignore $2.13 and $7.25 employment. Because US zoning law revolves around commerce and upper classes' interests. Because US spends far too much on variations of corporate welfare. Because US ignores its 15M living in 3rd world poverty. How is it, any politician claiming to represent the public, any economist claiming to be knowledgeable about "the economy", claim they're unaware of the above?!? Why would workers not be so angry?
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  252. She's not saying her nor Israel's right to exist is worth more. She's saying on her terms, which is that Palestinians have no rights.
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  253. If governments made decisions on information, rather than catering to the spasm of industry fear, millions could've been spared death by covid. A mere 3 weeks of concerted Everyone Stay Home would've brought it to a halt.
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  254.  @Becky_Cal  I hope you talk to him about it. Kids tend to think it was there fault, when stressed parents take it out on them ... even after years and years.
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  255.  @fighttheevilrobots3417  Because corruption.
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  256. Surprisingly, the residential schools in Canada only closed in the 1990s.
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  257.  @l-uk3xm  Oh the damage, to Israel/Israel reputation, has just begun.
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  258. Rich people favor having a labor glut, for rock bottom wages, regardless of race. "And always will." The very basis of globalism. Shop for and exploit the cheapest workers on the planet. Sell high, in the west/westward. Flaw in their plan, impending implosion: no discretionary income in the west, means no discretionary market there either.
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  259.  @doctor_fever  Bravo, doc fever.
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  260.  @07Trot  Seattle is a tech town. The state of Washington gives industry billions in tax exemptions and tech industry imports thousands of cheap foreign white collar workers from 3rd world to supplant citizen workers. This is common in all the blue major metros. This obliterates citizen workers, and leaves little to no housing nor funds to address the damage.
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  261. No, they're not. Companies turn nasty toward their employees in bad job markets, because employees have no place to go. "good" job market lacks the two hall markets of a good job market: rising wages (as they compete for workers) and worker mobility, both of which are missing.
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  262.  @growtocycle6992  Education doesn't solve childhood trama. Nor do schools solve kids arriving hungry, or exhausted from up in the night coming home from babysitters after their parents' 2nd job. Or nightly chaos left home with their 12 year old sibling baby sitting. Changing who's at the bottom, their education proposal, solves nothing. Teachers aren't social workers. Min Living Wage - for all.
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  263.  @samizdat113  Far closer to militia, than our standing army, or our un-well regulated gun owners.
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  264.  @samizdat113  The entire statement is relevant, "a well regulated militia". There is nothing in the second amendment that grants individuals a right to own a gun outside of that.
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  265.  @stephdrake2521  "It’s impossible for the majority of whites to not be racist." And that's not a racist statement?!?
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  266. We roared with laughter. He was some kind of crazy.
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  267. No. Regulation could've said bailouts cannot be used for stock buy backs or bonuses, etc. Law could've not incentivized offshoring. Law could've stopped importing a labor glut that diminishes labor market competition and wages. Law didn't have to tax shelter the wealthy. Etc. It's not only the Fed's fault that we are where we are.
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  268.  @janischristiansen6689  It's about the state's incessant subsidizing industry with tax exemptions (as an NH resident, I'm stunned at the level of WA's subsidies) and industry's incessant importation of ever cheaper labor. Or succinctly, inept and corrupt.
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  269. And yet, https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/untapped-talent-costs-brain-waste-among-highly-skilled-immigrants-united-states
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  270.  @nobody8328  As do Far Left, Far Right, elites, the two parties, each have their golden idols, and just won't see.
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  271.  @GulDukat479  "their land" because in a 2000 year old book, someone believes God said [some part of it] should go to them?
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  272. Yes brenda, polls reflect ... the people who answer polls.
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  273. Poverty causes crime to rise, and education to fail, and homelessness, and etc. etc.
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  274.  @hsgrain490  "Deciding to vote on a ‘vibe’ seems childish." Nitpicking someone's diction, is childish.
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  275. Hysteria. All economic policy is "planned economy". Tariffs bring imported goods prices parallel to domestic production. Industry's been shopping cheapest labor on the planet, and pocketing profits for goods then imported at same price before they offshored. Lose/lose for citizenry. As for your communism comment, the main feature of communism is government owning industry, no private property. So you're confused as to basic political/economic definitions.
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  276.  @doctorx1924 The Mr, from India, said he hated school, in India, because for him it was like a prison. Teacher aggression much stronger there, and he's of artistic mind, not regimented nor science/math interested. His sister called, a young relative getting bullied in school, as she's half black, and her hair's different. Harassed kids are not unique, to US.
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  277.  @AlexUSAF  Clearly you fall in the category, my party right or wrong.
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  278.  @ronny-lb1cr  First off, you're illiterate on Germany's immigration policy. Second, leaving behind problems for other people isn't everyone's answer to a problem.
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  279. Max Profit, at the helm, driving the country.
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  280. Larger than just that, in many cases. It is the free use of employees' expensive resources, such as cars and homes. And for the customer, as such, has none of the associated market safety and integrity regulation. For politicians, "gig economy" is an attempt to pretend our necessary commodities, such as food and clothing, pumped into our high priced markets from far away low wage locations, "is working". When it isn't. 1 in 3 under 35 have no job. 1 in 3 under 35 lives with their parents. They've been doctoring our "unemployment rate" since early 1990s, having redefined it to exclude counting the long term unemployed.
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  281. Is racism the only reason Trump was elected, as conjectured? Trade, unbounded immigration and income inequality. Same issues in UK, France, Germany, now rising in Japan. When did the Left turn Libertarian?
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  282.  JGD  I take it you've not looked at labeling these days. Housewares and clothing, almost everything, "Made In China". Produce labels, Mexico, Chile, Argentina and other South American locales. Canned goods, China, Thailand, Singapore, India, Vietnam. Most cars, Mexico, Canada.
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  283.  @Interglacial_optimist  Free press was turned into Agenda press, when Reagan repealed The Fairness Doctrine.
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  284. re: "ignoramus" As is so often the case when using "idiot", "moron", etc., the blind spot is with the person using the word. "voting against their best interests", Clearly your blind spot - as far too many are disenfranchised.
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  285.  @mimipacheco722  Tawana is proposing we teach something besides ethnocentric dogma at schools. I say that falls under basic Civics. Not morals, not empathy, not values. And to say the poverty rate and its impact on our population is Civics, for instance, that has moral/value/empathy implications, which is why it's eliminated from our schools and media. Because we would then have to face the moral/value/empathy questions that'd follow, be that at school or at home.
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  286.  @imperialmotoring3789  The Department Of Education is a creation of congress, who have the right to create agencies and allocate authority on the subject.
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  287. And Clintons are a symptom of a problem that has long festered in the Democrat Party. The problem being Washington is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wall St.
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  288. It might seem that way, if you're not versed in the topic. I presume you learned of slavery in school. Slavery By Another Name takes up history through the Jim Crow era, and then The New Jim Crow picks up history from Civil Rights passing to now.
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  289.  @victormeidan1062  An unseen being purportedly granted a tiny group thousands of years a go a place in the desert doesn't equate to an "us".
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  290. They've no wall, between their purported "We're a platform company." and their "Let's market our on goods on that platform." Bigger damage from - thumb on the scale advantage, 20 years no requirement to collect city/state sales taxes - operating expenses shunted to the public, such as no local property/business taxes, underpaid warehouse workers on public welfare, etc.
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  291.  @BOSSDONMAN  "pretending that BB generation were doing a lot " I think you misread spider's post.
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  292. We all got that point... and that the government funds are the public's tax monies.
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  293. I believe Bernie calls it "rigged" economy. He's polite. It's corruption.
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  294.  @leannaburroughs5642  "I'm a good church going Christian.", like somehow, the two are the same.
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  295.  @joycemjinx  But it isn't just religion. We form hierarchies, that become large, and the top becomes distant and unaccountable to lowest members in the hierarchy.
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  296.  @blackconservativeogee9390  Entirely possible, at least in your estimation. Thanks for reaching for "label I can dismiss someone over", because that always helps.
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  297.  @blackconservativeogee9390  Typical "conservative", when hitting the wall with their hollow philosophy, nothing but school yard ridicule.
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  298. Builders are building grandiose, there's not much more expense for them in oversized living/bedroom space. While two houses on same lot means two kitchens, baths, driveways, etc. Builders aren't innocent in this either.
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  299. Research is the process of building upon the works of others.
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  300.  @Mr.Beastforpresident  Understaffed if making people work 12 hour shifts.
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  301. Interesting framing of his proposal, get out of our own boxes.
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  302.  @rohitkhosla8110  No, it's not all or nothing.
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  303.  @ThatCasualZach  "Things are earned" Here in the US, it's called "earned income". And that's because it is earned via labor. The entire premise of this documentary, is that investors foreign and domestic, are getting unearned income, from the US Fed. Via bailouts, which is moving investor failures, debt, onto the US public's balance sheet, aka "Federal deficit".
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  304.  @joew5792  No, people don't know the history of slavery. For instance, do tell, -where'd Wachovia bank's wealth originated. What coal mine, or what state. - what's Jim Crow and how did that make life for freed blacks all the worse. Anything, do you have anything beyond the usual one incident "Lincoln freed the slaves"?
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  305.  @practicemedia2025  ps - Predation on population not unique to US. UK's zero hour contracts, French getting their retirement whacked away at, etc. etc.
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  306. Far Left used to be CA, but now emanating out of Cambridge.
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  307.  @kenneth.topp.  Is that not exactly the point of exempting them from universal background check - that there be zero data? Show me the background check data on guns used in the commission of a crime. The closest I've heard is Chicago's, the guns coming from all 50 states.
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  308. Clearly landlords there are making a killing on what rent they do get, such that their okay with 25% vacant.
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  309. Well over 30 years of $2.13 min wage for tipped workers. Over 10 years, $7.25 an hour, for the rest of min wage workers. L.A. is on fire, again. Over illegal labor. Because, what, California can't have cheap enough labor? I've spools of thread in my sewing room, from the early 1990s. $.35, $.65, when labor was pinned $2.13. It's now $2 to $4 for a spool of thread, despite offshoring production of those to ever cheap labor than the $2.13 an hour, at that time. Globalism is a bust, of the labor markets. Which is the majority of the populations, in the West/Westernized. This isn't a functioning decent boat. It's a yacht club. And we aren't in it.
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  310.  @AsHotasVenus  Not true. Anger moves people to action. The challenge is constraining that action to responsible, respectful behavior. We hate lots of things, genocide for instance. Same rules apply, the challenge is constraining that action to responsible, respectful behavior.
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  311.  @marysharvey  Let's run with that, "tradition", for this bible/oath of office thread. That "tradition" has corrupted the culture with the impression, "We're a Christian nation, and always have been." As has other religious introductions, "In God We Trust", etc. etc. Which certainly has infested political speech, by politicians . And that, is the State, favoring a one branch of religion.
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  312.  @tradeprosper5002  Several reasons. Humans are remarkably unpredictable. Humans are remarkably highly mobile at this time. Education, often cited as cause of women having fewer children, when likely a correlation, as an educated woman has fiscal resources, including access to birth control. And women are being educated at an unprecedented rate. Studies always are based on some bracket of history, and we're in a wild-card window, with onslaught of globalism.
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  313. "All countries" aren't funding them. The US is.
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  314.  @cidercik  "most of the west does, but people can pressure their govts to stop" No, we can't. US, and a whole lot of other countries, are running on the thinnest veneer of "democracy", still holding the vote, between the elites' bought and paid for candidates. But that is the sole remnant.
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  315. He's not "combative". They're hunting. Humans.
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  316. Michael Kilcommons What does US industry say?  They've ONLY ONE purpose/responsiblity: max profit.  Out the window went a) investment/research because they eliminated b) competition, via legislative and regulatory monopoly, no bid contracts, trade restrictions ironically called "trade agreements", along with c) massive federal subsidies, monetarily and via providing free and cheap labor: illegal and "temporary" indentured immigrants and free/near free felonized convict labor. US gov is the means by which US industry is massively subsidized.  So bad, there is no hiding the corruption any more. The "free" in "free trade" is business handing the public the bill.  Via bailout, via Import/Export bank, via "federally insured", via inadequate wage compensation: food stamps/medical and housing assistance, etc.
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  317. I can't imagine how long that list would be. I've read the following, and it's likely the tip of the iceberg on understanding how we got to where we are. Slavery By Another Name (warning, this one's painful) The New Jim Crow The Peoples History of the United States The Shock Doctrine Makers And Takers Just Mercy http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm
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  318. Not quite the whole picture. Cheap products are not sold cheaply in the western markets. The prices of the very same products are sold much more cheaply in China, India, Syria. A Syrian friend tells me my air conditioner is sold for 1/4th in Syria what it is sold for in the US. An Indian friend tells me a $700 US prescription sells for $10 in India. And the excess profits from the prices the westerners have been charged are no longer making it back into the economy, they're offshored, out of circulation, trillions of dollars. The influx of immigrants, legal and illegal, are depressing wages very badly, and so they are less and less able to afford to buy products, services, etc. The incessantly greedy US industry plowed money into China, thinking Chinese would buy their products, but they haven't been. China has been growing solely on products sold to western market, but that market is shrinking. We are in quite the downward spiral, and that is why Brexit was voted Leave, and US elected madman Trump who said jobs, jobs, jobs, because the US has some massive unemployment right now. Obama claiming 5% unemployed is for sake of international investors in US market - while the unemployment rate is much higher - no income, no spending.
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  319. Among a great deal of other shenanigans. Let's just say there are "work ethic" issues, including a lot of illegal activity they imported.
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  320. "I'm no longer with that dinner party" doesn't exempt someone from their portion of the bill they ran up - at the least the pension debt, bonds, etc.
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  321. Corporations suck, and they just go further up the chain for contracts, take the money, and blame the subcontractors. We've multitudes of examples of that: Iraq, New Orleans hurricane, etc.
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  322. walperstyle Government is giving backroom deals. That was and is exactly what the neoliberals are doing. Most notably, Halliburton, no bid contracts/Iraq, certainly you've at least heard of that one.
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  323. George Saxman They're accountable, privatized never is. Built into their very definition, "limited liability".
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  324. Richard Rider Hope they die? Nice spin. Volunteer fire fighter live in the communities they serve. They're not min wage no benefits desperate. And we know the profitize scalpers end up there. Greed is naturally self terminating. Sandy Springs was not fiscally unattached/independent.
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  325. Going by video alone, cops are freaking out over gun in the glove compartment (at this point, I consider their panic the bigger problem), at 3:07, they opened the passenger door and passenger looks to be getting out with hands up. Cop is deadly, not car occupants. We are anti-law enforcement? Exactly what law were they enforcing here?
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  326. Shall we import Americans to work in the Indian Palmolive, McDonalds, IBM, Cisco, Oracle, etc. and oust all their Indian workers? Is that what you're proposing?
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  327. "Required" to exercise a civil right, needs to be free to the public.
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  328. "Americans in general are not trustworthy people." Not true, with the exception of Washington DC.  Honest Tea ran an experiment a couple years ago.  They put out their product with a coin box.  Most honest, Atlanta.  Worst, Washington DC, they not only took without paying, they emptied the coin box.  No surprise eh? George Washington must be spinning in his grave, over the behavior of his namesake.
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  329. This isn't "released", audio has been cut out.
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  330. They're worst of the worst. But, do our federal tax monies need to pay for - Import/Export bank? - Chicago's Intermodal facilities? - the patent offices? - $660B in oil subsidies? - $38B in Israeli "foreign aid" to be spent on US defense industry? - etc. etc. etc. While bigBucks skates through on little to no taxes?!?! We're running the biggest corporate welfare state on the planet, for "record profits" and they complain "the corporate tax rate is too high"? Even worse, they literally pilfer from staff with wage theft? There appears to be no limit on how low they'll sink for a buck.
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  331. Tsnore "Westernized", aka corporatized, isn't restricted to "the west".  Neoliberal has spread via monopoly "trade deals" and IMF and NGOs.
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  332. I don't think Canada immigration rules would allow that.
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  333. Oh no, is he saying the UK is going to have to make their own pillow cases?  How awful!  And all the elites are getting hot under the collar on impact to their GDP (as in gouge dependent people)?  How awful!  And the UK citizens aren't going to be flooded with immigrant labor, to the dismay of the elites looking to retain their record profits?  How awful!$190M goes to Brussels, only to be sent back to them?  What's going to become of the money when it stops going out on travel?  How awful!?!?!
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  334. No less than the reporter. What they are talking about is two different things, "crime" rate and "violent crime" rate, and "big city" rates and "national" rates. You can see when the two sides entrench in perspective/slant, we all lose.
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  335. PretentiousRed Down in the weeds, it is deliberately obscured.  "Crime" many believe is violent crime.  "Crime" in the US has been dramatically skewed by "War On Drugs" and privatizing prisons, min sentencing, state proliferation of anti-felon laws to promote recidivism. US analysts said circa 1970s, crime so low we should close most prisons.  Private prison contracts include requirement for 90% occupancy rate.  It's not hard to figure out.  I believe the saying is: sold down the river. https://www.aclu.org/feature/meet-prison-profiteers
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  336. ARandomGuy Plausible facade was the game.  Gone is even the perception of integrity.
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  337. Not so say college professors, teachers, nurses, and the H1B doctors suing for wage theft. Just because abuse is most rampant in tech. doesn't mean it isn't occurring in other professions.
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  338. What it is is an example of corruption. Politicians have continually rewritten visa law to legalize more and more abuse. If we could Brexit Washington we would.
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  339. " If someone is truly talented and their skills are rare and valuable then they" would apply for an O visa. Except they aren't, and so they can't.
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  340. "There are surgeons, lawyers, teachers, scientists and professors all on h visas. " For which there also are not shortages. Surgeons: 800 US med grads cannot become doctors because there are not enough residencies, not medically schooled. Teachers: As low as $7.25 an hour on approved LCAs. That's not indicative of a "shortage".
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  341. What is illegal and what is prosecuted are two different things. Hear many corrupt practices in H1B usage, yes, willful violations. Chamber of Commerce should at least be named Chamber of Large Corporate Interests, because they aren't operating in majority of their member interests, small business. Same with NRA, not representing majority of members.  @tenminutetokyo2643 
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  342. So you're attempting to claim when the elite configure the nations to slam the job market/existing workforce with "guest" workers to decimate wages, and they mind, they're "anti-immigrant", "extreme right" and "nationalist"?
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  343. Skoolyard.
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  344. "contractor". Open a body shop, keep the number of staff low to be exempt from health insurance law, and then pocket the extraordinary profit from contracting the persons, across the US. More common in Tech, but in other professions. How? Why? Labor glut, we're importing an extraordinarily large labor glut, and that was before pandemic hit and wiped out job market.
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  345. Ruthlessness is a characteristic of sociopaths.
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  346. "...an old order of removal from her family's asylum case...", ignored. Brought here as a child to an unknown country, not a problem? But bringing their children to an unknown country, is a problem?
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  347. Polls said Bernie was far ahead of Trump and Clinton. What it didn't say is the Independents aren't allowed to vote in some states' primaries. Given 50% of voters are now Independents, the polling of voters mean very little. Most especially when polls are of republicans (25%) and democrats (25%), the 2 political minorities. How'd the parties get to be minorities? How many people do you know who're for Open Borders, or regulation of our uteruses? Arming students and concert goers so any nutjob can own a gun?
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  348. You missed his entire point. That balance comes from the investment of exercise and eating habits, well before you get to 60s, 70s.
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  349. @Meh Pluribus Unum Your deflection doesn't change the facts.
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  350. Easily. If one truly believes in God, then science is no threat to God. If one truly believes in God, they the writings of man on God are likely highly flawed.
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  351.  @edwardlulofs444  What's making that hard for many are "conformation bias bubble", isolating oneself is domains where one's beliefs are reverberated to the point of inability to see/believe there's any other viewpoint.
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  352. Spot on. Galling to hear people still calling the US a democracy because of the mere physical action of voting. We're no more a democracy than Hong Kong.
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  353. Actually, since you brought it up, far too many businesses are skating through on public welfare, the public picking up the tab for non-living wages. Time for a whole lot of those not-really-a-business charities to shut their doors.
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  354. A book with [far too much gruesome] detail, in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People%27s_History_of_the_United_States
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  355. Capitalism and corruption are two different things. Buying politicians, in any economic or political configuration. All hierarchy is susceptible to corruption - nations, religions, households, businesses, etc.
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  356.  @kimjones8824  Sounds more like hell than heaven. But then, my perception of hell is living the pain one caused others during their life.
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  357. Industries entitlement to cheap/free/desperate labor, root cause. Just a few years back, Rs approached CA's major donors with an immigration bill that equated to unbelievably low wage visa indenture. The donors kicked it to the curb. Clearly CA Ag owns this issue, labor w/absolutely no legal floor under the workers. Enforce labor law.
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  358. The schema is "Buy low (third world wages and regulations), Sell high (in West/Westernized markets). And then there's disruption to oil nations. Any quaking on prices, jack it up, aka "inflation", and West/Westernized deflects the cause as "rising wages", which is BS. Thirty years, it's been $2.13 an hour for tipped wage workers in the US, and ten years, it's been $7.25 for min wage for the rest.
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  359. Just explained that to the Mr. Long ago, Left, left to their own devices, fiscally illiterate (taking a good thing too far), and Right, left to their own devices, fiscally shunt all national benefit to commerce alone. Together, they were pragmatic. And then the 1970s hit and blew the tension apart. By early 1990s, Ds made a sharp turn to the right, as "centrists".
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  360. Incessant complaints by parents, about their life as a driver of children to prolific activities, and college expenses. Self inflicted, at that level. But specific to your post, what do you see as necessary protections and empowering? When we (women) moved into the workforce, it was swift and unplanned, a mighty cultural shift.
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  361.  @biscaynesupercars  Not how our current society is living, particularly suburbia. Snow plow and helicopter parents abound, many of the kids on a short leash, shuttled from extra curricular activity one after the other, know very little of their relatives. Kids go off to college, fly in for the holidays and funerals. The turnover of houses on my tiny street over 30 years is phenomenal.
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  362. It's not just the south where this is occurring.
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  363.  @TheTerminator-2  I never figured out why Lincoln, a lawyer, didn't call the contract participants and let them decide. All states formed the union, I would think as a legal contract, they could collectively decide to desolve it.
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  364. ​ @serraangel7465  I now have to pay for a passport, to go to Canada, when a birth certificate used to do. I now have to pay for a "Real ID", when a run of the mill driver's license used to do. Boston shut down some of their school libraries, because they couldn't afford them, and I don't think the 190 languages accommodated in their school demographics had nothing to do with it. There's a long list of not economically better for citizenry, including job loss to immigrants.
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  365.  @bdadolph  "entitlements" meaning the circuitous corporate welfare, that buttresses their non-living wage? Odd how these "entitlements" are never the front and center for analysis: https://www.goodjobsfirst.org/amazon-tracker
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  366.  @tixximmi  The how starts with ditching neoliberalism, which they will not give up as policy, due to its Max Profit. Despite the extraordinary negatives: international fiscal corruption (2008), extraordinary rise in international "income inequality", fast tracked pandemic, rising political unrest, fast tracked climate change, to name a few.
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  367.  @AmeliaSmithbooks  Patriotic Millionaires say the answer is tax the rich. While that'd be a great start, we also need Living Min Wage.
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  368.  @dribrom  An unbelievable dearth of trees, also. Just heard in a documentary, humans' heads now smaller, they suspect due to having to think less, when living in the close proximity of cities.
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  369. Which is also why England swept their streets of orphan and indigent, sending them to the colonies as indentured. They could only jail so many for "poaching" on the vast properties of the Land Lords.
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  370. "A good leader" doesn't fund genocide.
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  371.  @subchan6595  Bad math.
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  372. "I can’t prove..." Sue, jury trial. Find a lawyer, to sue. "getting together for thanksgiving" Some are apathetic, some naive, and some lonely. Unfortunately, these "some"s add up - no pun intended.
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  373. Where's the workable part? The $2.13 an hour jobs they'll be moving into will require billions and billions in housing, food, medical subsidies. Then add in the same, for those laid off, by employers who'll hire them for sake of easy wage theft. No concept of impact. No concept of scale, as the numbers continuously increase.
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  374.  @willmont8258  Oh really. Do tell how corporations go to jail, as people do, when in violation of law. Do tell how corporations are entitled to "limited liability" while individuals are not. Do tell how corporations have rights, without the responsibilities. Given they've just gutted regulatory agency rules, can I now pay my bills with post-dated checks? Sell you a gallon-ish of gas? Work 40-ish hours for my paycheck?
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  375.  @willmont8258  Full disclosure. This is the crux of public hostility toward industry. Industry amoral stance: We've a right to do anything that isn't against a law. The perpetuation of regulation against their bad behavior, "Waaaa, too much regulation!".
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  376.  @sumernoel1553  "Everyone", not everyone, not even close to everyone. The immature.
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  377.  @shirleyrice7093  I attribute that to 1) employment transience. So many are just passing through, and there are no repercussions/consequences for poor behavior. Good behavior is essential in a long term stable population. And 2) life is just so much harder with lack of industry integrity. On the cheap has us constantly on the phone ironing out bills, malfunctioning products, hours on hold, etc. This alone builds hostility in us, to fight for the basics.
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  378.  @liasosa4100  You mean the intermediary contracting agency is paid more. That doesn't mean it lands in the nurses' paychecks and transient apartments/furnishings or hotels isn't a cake walk.
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  379. Given Israel is an installed apartheid state, how'd they think this was going to go? Day 1, your neighbor is your enemy, is not the footing for peace.
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  380. https://www.npr.org/2020/10/24/927384388/parents-of-545-children-separated-at-u-s-mexico-border-have-not-been-located
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  381.  @marjoriecoey3418  The international travels of the law abiding is getting far harder, than the non-law abiding. Mainly due to the non-law abiding.
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  382. It gains momentum and traction from correcting our highly selective history books. Did you know early America was where England sent their orphaned and indigent as indentured? And that that indenture could be passed down to children and grandchildren? Suggested reading: White Trash. I think the topic of reparations is squelched because it opens a can of worms: US wealth comes from wage theft ... and still does.
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  383. Educated and smart are two entirely different things.
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  384.  @WG55  "Tom Cotton: Send In the Troops"
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  385.  @WG55  You're right. Amended publication, "The headline — which was written by The Times, not Senator Cotton — was incendiary and should not have been used.?
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  386. Apparently you're entirely uninformed with the prolific requirements for handling classified materials. As clearly Trump believes he's still in NYC with his bombast for free press coverage, and participating in the spectacle "The Apprentice", with his Kiss The Ring criteria
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  387.  @fuerstmetternich1997  "failed spectacularly" when behaving responsibly? As in elite weren't making Max Profit?
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  388.  @fuerstmetternich1997  Similar around the globe. Globalism's intent, buy low eastward, sell high westward, is causing (as Sir James Goldsmith accurately predicted) chaos, political/cultural/economic chaos. He made rounds alarming over the passing of GATT, and it went forward anyways. In the US, Ross Perot, candidate for US president, same experience regarding NAFTA. Forewarned, and ignored. As always, "follow the money", as in who benefits...billionaires.
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  389. Because ruling class is threatened by it. Because conquest is still occurring. Iraq. Timor. Etc.
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  390.  @manuandrade2484  In psychological terms, it's called rationalizing.
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  391.  @TwelveTribesForever  10 commandments.
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  392. Perhaps you could explain the broad gerrymandering of our representation. Illegal employer "sanctuary", skewing the counts for allocation of House of Representatives. Prison locales, for the same purpose. Both sides of the aisle have taken over our actual processes, a clear conflict of interests.
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  393.  @nilesbutler8638  Niles, the US was not just seeded financially with the free labor of slaves. Very early colonists "sponsored" indentured, the indigent and orphaned swept from the streets of England and shipped over. The colonies then moved on to slavery, because the blacks and poor whites present where congenial, and the appetite for wealth fabricated a dividing line. England then moved on to no onshore slaves, but continued to enslave offshore. This entitlement to the cheapest of labor is still present. Note one of Hillary Clinton's points on illegal labor: "path to citizenship after present for 7 years [of the cheapest of labor in the US]...". And while we're on the topic of onshoring cheap labor/offshoring to cheap labor, similar in the EU, Japan, China, Australia, Japan, so they're no angels either.
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  394. What's with the Far Left buzzwords, "migrants", "families" in the title? When did individuals not matter?
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  395.  @499p-l1w  Their health, easily, their health.
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  396.  @twolegsnotail  My manager commented a few months back in a meeting about how many french there were here in NH. Quite a few of us raised our hand. Who do you think we're going to stand firm with?
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  397. I've heard managers complain, "I hate people who bring me problems." I can't for the life of me figure out what they think their job is.
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  398. They're entirely too fast and loose, with their identity politicing. And Boston, Far Left Central, is not going to recognize that.
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  399. That depends. If the person is sane but frustrated, "I was just about to [do what you're yelling about], there's no reason to snap at me." If the person's inherently toxic, "Thanks for pointing that out, I meant to get to that.", which may lower their blood pressure/contempt.
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  400. @Sarah W. Along with the growing numbers who hear of Amazon's exploits...
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  401. The West has exacerbated contempt for elderly, for decades. Much of which radiates out of EU. What goes around, comes around.
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  402. You've no clue, how many laws see to it that you receive a paycheck for your work, on time, the gallon of gas is an actual gallon, the meat you buy isn't rotten, the spoon in your mouth isn't made of cadmium, etc.
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  403.  @spanishtutor2552  That's NYC, and there is no zoning to keep commerce/residence in proper ratio. Hence, commerce concentration in those high rises, and massive flood into/out of those buildings at night. Chicago's Loop is so commerce concentrated the entire area's abandoned at night. As a visitor to NYC annexed neighborhoods, looks like giant people warehouses for Manhattan. Hideous.
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  404.  @flickwtchr  Active removal of materials, supporting that. There used to be a link to Trilateral Commission's Crisis of Democracy paper. Since removed, wikipedia now points to the copy on Wayback archive. I suspect there's railing against the teaching of unflattering history, because the public would see the parallel to today.
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  405.  @tfustudios  Texas is doing what it has no choice but to do. But destination should be DC, the national mall.
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  406. GDP, how the rich are doing. "Good economy", based on GDP. Downward spiral for the rest, working more, for less. "Growth", extorting more from workers. Hit a wall? Import a glut of the cheapest workers, illegally present. This man's shameless.
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  407. Where is the link Adam mentioned, to equipment going to the states?
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  408. As for our regulatory agencies, suggested reading: Bottle of Lies. Reads like an unbelievable thriller, yet, true.
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  409.  @sabrinablack2155  I guess you're unfamiliar with the basis of why reparations are necessary, if your foundation starts with the Civil Rights Act.
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  410. Last I checked, 50% of voter registration is Independent. Yes, people have had it with the two parties' (9%) loud arrogant Far Left/Far Right. The parties, each with 25% of registered voters, are now minorities, with their non-Far [x], 16%, habituated to their party alliance. Root cause: the parties own our voting process. Registration alone, requiring party designation, is the thin edge start of their gerrymandering.
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  411. Labor.
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  412.  @kirstinstrand6292  The density of the fresh water melting off the poles inhibit ocean currencies. So in the Atlantic, waterways coming up the east coast from Florida, slowed, is warming US' east coast, and as it slows more, Europe will likely grow colder. Japan studies of their immediate vicinity ocean says the damage existing today will take 2K years to perpetuate around the globe. Let alone next year's damage. And the year after that. And etc.
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  413.  @imperialmotoring3789  Transgender are born that way. They're changing their physical gender to match their brain's gender. The two are from two different hormone spikes during pregnancy, which occurs two weeks apart. For most of us, that hormone spike is the same gender, but not for all of us.
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  414.  @Labib_Khan-04  Meaning... the people of Kashmir would've preferred a war with Pakistan?
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  415.  @chatify68  Ignorant is the belief that we're running a planet by this one book, relevant to one people.
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  416.  @chatify68  Man wrote the bible, not God, nor Jesus.
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  417.  @julie1630  Among the things Jesus never said: Kill Thy Neighbor. Nor Starve Thy Neighbor. Nor Bomb Thy Neighbor. You've perversed religion.
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  418.  @SlMORRG  God is a manmade name, for the phenomena we live within. We know very little about the phenomena, babes in the woods so to speak. However, it is bizarre for [any] man to claim they know the mind of an all powerful being.
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  419.  @truther001  "who started the war" Which particular one?
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  420.  @leviashanken7281  Millions starved due to famine caused by Britain taking their food: Ireland, India, etc.
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  421.  @leviashanken7281  It is a distinct limitation of the design of this chat board. It's not made for long conversations, as there's no obvious link to show the flow of replies.
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  422. Uber is for people who're really bad at math. Owning a vehicle is expensive and that entire cost is usually not included in person's calculation of "does Uber benefit me, if I Uber drive". Systematizing "gig'ing" is just another form of exploiting those most desperate, with the least. There is no good reason these "platforms" should bill any more than simple transaction fee, unassociated to percentage of the transaction. If percentage of transaction, then they are employer.
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  423. People make fun of my accent, and I'm from New England. It is not unique to non-english speakers. If one's identity is their political party, they've abandoned their identity as first and foremost a human.
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  424. Being a bitch is now grounds for prosecution and conviction? MA is so FUp.
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  425. Major escalation of conflict avoidance. Not just students. God forbid teachers, doctors, etc. politely tell parents where to get off. God forbid education evolve. Worst of the worst, math, mind numbing theory. No, the majority of parents are using these at work. Close second, the vast lie of pristine history. Endless series of the one single heroic male/date/event. The tutored kids are in culture shock at college, "Waaa! Where's my tutor?" And literally, parents fly in. At work, "I'm PO'ed, but won't take it up with coworker." having no confidence for adult conversations. "Where's my snowplow Mommy to defend me?" However, the prison sensation does serve them exactly what they'll experience at work, hostages to fear driven hostile management. We are devolving.
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  426.  @frankmorris4790  Far Left, true. But also true of Far Right. Who're a mere 9%, but a loud 9%. Media's attracted to the loud. 50% of registered voters are now declared Independent. The two parties, each minorities.
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  427. "allowed" And the British has legal right to do so because ... because they said so?
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  428.  @kenwalker687  Many a person has had trouble remembering left/right throughout their lives, for having been taught it when still irrelevant for their age. Teaching things too early isn't a good thing. But I have to ask, "some of my students had some strange ideas before the class began", why were you expecting them to be familiar with it "before the class began"?
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  429. Industry: "Here, let me tell you what you think.", aka, amicus brief.
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  430. - No time for basic Credible Fear asylum evaluation, but time for "temporary" work authorization. - Gifting industry. Rent-free is cheapest of workers.
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  431.  @alltradejack  "You have to convince your fellow men" No, I don't. But I do believe I need to listen to them. And if you can't meet them where they stand, then you're just pontificating.
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  432. It's stunning to see at work, people barely able to look away from their phones. I had to let someone go.
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  433.  @magpieash  We're walking through some fascinating times. "African-American", race moniker origin du jour. Immigrants aren't bad. Like anything else, too much of a good thing is too much. And Far Left says there's not such thing as too much when it comes to immigration/migration. Politically, it's coming from UN Migration Policy Institute, who promotes it for "upping GDP" and "remittances, best aid to 3rd world". UN just discovered the horrendous poverty it creates in the US: 15M living in 3rd world level poverty.
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  434.  @Mykklegard  "Brown people" are not new to the US. Nice try though.
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  435. Depends on what they know about a) slavery and that the wealth from that still existing and b) the enslaving that continued, in morphed form, to this day.
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  436.  @5400bowen  I've no idea why there's so much tacking on adjectives to capitalism. Crony-, corporate-, etc., to avoid the word corruption. There's no gifting billions of public funds, tax exemptions, etc., in the definition of capitalism. The glorification of profiteering extremes doesn't make it capitalism.
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  437. Politicians don't want to mention poor. An indicator of capitalism failure.
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  438. As an American, it chaps my rear end to hear Merkle say (pre-pandemic) Germany can't pay their fair share of NATO because they have social obligations. Along with 23 others shirking their share of the bill. As an American, it chaps my rear end to hear Ikea is officially a charity, to avoid their fair share of taxes. As an American, it chaps my rear end to hear Ireland, Isle of Man, the Netherlands, etc., giving US businesses tax refuge. As an American, it chaps my rear end to hear from our politicians that everything and everyone outside our borders is vastly more important than our own population.
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  439. What's with their need for a "Big Daddy"?
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  440. ​ @karwalker7791  Right now, Wall St owns both parties. "The platform" for Independent? ALL of the things that've been tossed for sole benefit of Max Profit billionaires. #1, Living Wage. Every last person, Living Wage. It's called Earned Income for a reason, they are the people creating the value with their labor. It's not a business if we subsidize non-viable businesses' non-living wage.
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  441. If you're fanatical about any one aspect, you're probably ignoring others. Some people believe fanatical about any one aspect is insurance for long life - it isn't.
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  442.  @annareismith6843  They've agenda, just like all other media. Bickering over who's half-truths and lies are worse doesn't help, Anna.
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  443. Blue is now red, just a lighter shade, they've called "third way", aka "centrist".
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  444. You don't need to exercise like a fiend. Ordinary exercise, includes mowing your lawn, cleaning your floor, dishes, laundry, etc. and recreation activities including bike riding, swimming, walking, skating, etc.
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  445.  @scottschuyler5061  I can't argue with that. Less ridiculous spectacle. Would we've been better off? I don't know about that. About the only one I'd have had high confidence in looking after the public's interests is Bernie Sanders. There's also a lady who runs as green party. But then, I don't know that anyone's going to get a fair deal for the public, with the train wreck that congress is.
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  446.  @DeuxChatsNoir7074  It is so very ironic, "This is not who we are.", when it is who we are, and always been. The constant glorification of conquest, in the revolution, the prolific warring and heroification of military, the Rah! Rah! Rah! of gun ownership. "not who we are"?!?
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  447. In an interview by Isaacson last week, of Wolves of K Street, - for every $1 of the publics' groups lobbying in Washington, commerce/industry is spending $860. - commerce/industry's lobbying spending is split 60%/40%, with the 60% going to whichever of the two are currently in power. Of course, this aligns the parties to them. Lose/lose for the public, regardless of who's occupying those seats.
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  448. "who met property qualifications" An inconsequential tidbit, given the poverty rate of the general public, including black men.
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  449. We are fed curated fact sets. It is the very point of stink tanks' existence such as Cato, Heritage, etc.
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  450.  @d.m.3133  True. So many cast their behavior as heroic.
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  451. Rich guys.
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  452. "self medicating", my doctor calls all addictions, from cigarettes, coffee, onward.
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  453.  @christophergraves6725  Yes, it's right here: "Loads of meaningless posts." Marsh's complaint about posts, criteria includes "meaningful". Your point, "with whom you disagree". Are you claiming posts about how the interviewer is dressed is "meaningful"? Or is that your point, marsh disagrees that how an interviewer is dressed is meaningful?
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  454.  @kreek22  Gaza.
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  455. SkyTran. No car insurance, oil/oil changes, registration, parking lots/fees/paving, bus/train schedules, road deaths/road kill, gas, traffic jams, shuttling of elderly and children, air pollution, etc. We paid for SkyTran's development, and it's cheaper than cars/buses/trains. Shelved. Instead, we're hostaged to antiquated auto/bus/train paradigm, for benefit of the vast market surrounding their use. And, so is all the revenue, land, air.
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  456. It is true, but stymied affordable housing has many tentacles tying it up. Then there's the silent overlay, industry entitlements, cheapest workers, at high cost locations that suit them. Not a one, campaigning for federal positions, on Living Min Wage. Shameful.
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  457.  @DevoidVoid  Meaningless at this point, with Washington a wholly owned subsidiary of Wall St. Loss of Perot and Nader, that's on the voters. Loss of Sanders, that's on the parties' voting process gerrymandering. 50% of voters are now Independent, and they're not allowed to vote, in many states.
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  458. This part, "an extremely profit centred capitalist economy, low-quality public education", is urban. And to the rural, it is an urban obsessive religion dedicated to the god, Max Profit. To the rural, urban stepping over their homeless, to protest over "rights", is unconscionable. Living smack in between Far Left capital, Cambridge MA, and rural surround, it's quite odd to see how little these communities know about each other.
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  459.  @davidpost428  Tax write offs and conscious/reputation laundering for the elite. Foreign market purchase for US' "multinational" corporations, via the national tax wallet.
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  460.  @skumflum3768  Scroll back, I was responding to David Post.
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  461. Asylum is indeed the law. They are not "lawfully applying", it starts with Credible Fear assessment, at a legal port of entry. "targeted against children" was the goal of the Hactivists our asylum law - "children have separate rights of asylum application, from their parent(s)". Letting parents leave, without their kids, is shameful. Basic math doesn't support her claim of "lawfully applying". There are between 11M (Pew) and 22M (Yale/MIT) in the US illegally, while having less than 1M immigration cases pending which includes some here legally on visas looking for extensions and change of status. We too have dangerous violent gangs, and no one has yet claimed these US populations have a right to asylum in Canada, the EU, Japan, etc. Solutions don't come from half-truths.
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  462. Young men, very strong support for Trump. Democrats' defense of illegal labor has 1 in 3 under 35, living at home, with no job. Can you see yourself as a credible job applicant, 35 years old, job history: none? This isn't a Boomer issue. It's a Wealthy/Wall St Owns Washington problem.
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  463. Well, part of the way there. Every time black citizens gain rights, oligarchy turns to importing a glut of cheap indentured labor, to replace them. Importation of black labor was to avoid paying for work. And so the oligarchy continues.
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  464. Clearly only using your version of Christian.
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  465. Time to have your eyes and hearing checked.
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  466. "Doctors aren't allowed near the patients" Why?
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  467. Mexican isn't by default native, given Spanish invasion. Ludicrous to claim that.
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  468.  @chrisfreebairn870  Thanks for taking the time to explain. I don't think I'll ever understand, but thanks. But then, not understanding the culture of others isn't uncommon.
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  469.  @clutzfrmr3645  First read Christopher's comment, to which I was replying, for context.
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  470. It's not a democracy. They've declared their non-Jewish citizenry 2nd class.
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  471.  @BamBamGT1  No, what the Jewish declared was rule over the land England relinquished control over. UN, unbelievably, accepted that, Palestinian, a permanent underclass.
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  472.  @BamBamGT1  "British Palestine", ironic, many on this comment board claim there was no Palestine. Anyways, The people living there, were all Palestinians, until the Jewish decided only they were to rule. The UN clearly had no right to do so, endorse rule/colonizing by Jewish.
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  473. And that contempt, such as "basket of deplorables", does have repercussions.
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  474.  @lprice5583  True. Plumbing/septic, electric, safety issues. I don't know about the rest of the building construction, it may vary by state. I know my neighboring state, Massachusetts, has mighty high bar for energy efficiency (windows/insulation/heat cool utilities), very expensive building there. Ironically, they've prolific use of illegal labor for construction, who're targeted for wage theft.
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  475. Same thing with Democrats. Both sides working for the 1%.
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  476.  @plantiron  Don is job market illiterate. Both blue collar and white collar work domains are being flooded with foreign workers - intentionally. Amazon is the poster child for the servile employment US industry is attempting to create, with federally provided importation of a work force glut. It's been interesting to see just how nasty employers become, in a snap, in the boom/bust cycles through the decades.
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  477.  @johnnastrom9400  You have to be kidding. His narcissistic bombastic tirades, he's has made himself a laughing stock.
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  478.  @kayfitzgerald309  I thought narcissists were born that way, but discovered in the past few years, people can become narcissistic, made into a narcissist. But his tirades, national/international, is his doing.
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  479. I do get and support the need for equal opportunity. But, as first female engineer in my group decades back, I never expected the men to vaporize upon my arrival, let alone demand it. And quite specifically, I mind the "We"ing presumption that (any) Loud Mouth Of Grievance is speaking for me. As for raw numbers eval, Henry Louis Gates' airtime means black demographic is "disproportionately" over represented in the realm of airtime stats.
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  480.  @paleggett1897  Congratulations, and best of luck for your future. My niece, lost to it, died a year and a half back from it, at 40. Another relative, prescribed opioids for about 17 years, til pain management doc said "Never should've happened". Relative went back to old doc.
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  481. ?!? Just like every citizen born in every country?
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  482.  @tobi9466  "the only hurdle we had to leap over to be a citizen of the U.S. was to be born here" Every citizens' "hurdle" to being a citizen in their own country is being born there. Vault Master is illogical.
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  483.  @rawwrrob9395  As opposed to ... what ... living in their own country? We should ax the ridiculous work visas and stick solely to the original 1 million green cards per year. Yes, visa'd are "owned" because the visa goes to the employer, which is why Wall St is a prolific supporter of visa'd.
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  484. Because we're fed glorification of conquest, and not at what cost. It keeps the population under the impression a nation is on the moral high ground. I asked why there was nothing on the Vietnam war in our history books and was told there are too many people alive who'd contradict any [glorification] narrative.
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  485. Notably missing, from the foreheads of "I don't need insurance.", "I don't wear a mask because it interferes with my freedom/choice.", etc., a Do Not Resuscitate tattoo.
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  486.  @Pafemanti  Their Far Left have cost them greatly. Just as Far Right have damaged their party. Voter registration as Independent keeps climbing, last I checked, 50%. Which makes the two parties minorities, having 25% each. Are they worth it, the goals of the Far Left and Far Right?
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  487. In an era of booming internet use, I don't believe Israeli are unaware of their violent "settlers".
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  488. Middle class is now a tentative small window, in people's lives. The chronic economic turbulence ensures most are unstable. I've never seen so many license plates from far and wide, as people scramble around the country, looking for work.
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  489. Amazing isn't it? How lobbyists get such high returns on their lobbying dollars? Aka, corruption.
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  490. "inherent contradictions between freedom and equality" Do tell, what's inherently a contradiction between these.
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  491. "white rescue", but "we need allies", get off the fence. Like "white flight" and "gentrification", damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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  492. And we care about some naval and their definition of masculine and feminine because ...?
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  493. Rewatch the video. It's about lying.
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  494. Maybe. If "success" now means college plus leaving behind your community, and for women, typically includes having no kids, we are far down the wrong path.
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  495.  @nikkiking397  "It’s a complicated situation" Yup. Decisions, decisions, decisions.
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  496.  @fknutz4400  I'm not after "defending the motherland". I'm after integrity in our immigration laws. Most bitter complaints I hear are from ... immigrants themselves.
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  497.  @brownbanana18  Bernie. Bernie's the only one who advocates for Living Wage.
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  498. Great best and worst things to say list on his web site. Mortified and furious, when my boss said I could replace my loss. The Mr, who didn't know what to say when his early childhood friend died, sent a long letter to his mother, "I'll always remember when we...", which she cherished. Photos shared helps also.
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  499. Open a wikipedia page, and put in "New France", to see a map of how much of north America was originally occupied by French. You'll be surprised how much and why no mention in our average school's texts. British were far more ruthless than France, so the US booted their British overlords for the newly established local overlords. I can't speak for Canada, but some significant differences of their colonizing - France told their colonists to live with and marry the native locals - England sent governors and gave them large land grants, aka Land Lords, killing off native from the start. Currently lower case landlords, to tone down the class warfare visibility. Much of New England and east coast is still named after them. [Land Lord]borough, [Land Lord]ingham, etc. US never recovered from the Land Lord concept in its DNA - hence "housing shortage". Bizarre US (and West/Westernized) requires payment (rent/purchase/property taxes) to have your feet on the ground. A wholly unnatural state of affairs, because of arrival as colonizing.
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  500. ??? Elite got what they needed from Trump: Industry Leaning Supreme Court and Major Tax Cut For Elite, so their Money went elsewhere.
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  501.  @Magnulus76  Community participation is not an option for multitudes any more. Relocate/relocate/relocate for work, and working multiple jobs due to non-living wages is common. Religion lost its grip when birth control came into play.
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  502. Only when the psychiatric profession includes money in the concept of hoarding disorders.
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  503. I thought all military were on TriCare?
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  504. House is population based, Senate is states and not land. Major distortions in representation include: - voting process owned by parties, a clear conflict of interests - parties owned by elite, hence, no actual representation. Aka corruption.
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  505. Idiotic assumptions. They're ENTITLED to living wage for their work.
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  506. Origin of suburbs was elite, a getaway from their noisy, high polluting industries they had in the cities. Then WW2 caused middle class expansion into it. Dense housing presumes noise, pollution and urban crime (as rooted in poverty). Builders aren't innocent. They've contributed to build requirements that bloat their bottom line. No affordable housing for elderly nor young adults in NH, elderly housing and condos required by law to have massive "club houses", which come with kitchens, heat/ac, parking (pave/salt/sand), etc. etc., just in case anyone wants to host a big party. ?!? Suburbs stonewalling zoning laws: low cost housing equals urban crime. Only when they themselves face their kids can't afford to live where they were raised, and they can't afford to live into retirement in their McMansions, do they visit the damage they've done: priced out of their own home.
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  507.  @RobertDelle-i2y  Fiscal and military muscle, with one incredible marketing machine facade. Test the strength of that marketing. Ask compatriots, why was US in Vietnam, why is North Korea so PO'ed at US?
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  508. What you learned from John was a childish rant, which equated to "Mom, why can't I invite my whole school to my birthday party?". Naive, he didn't bother to learn the scope and scale of this "immigration" quagmire.
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  509. Fortunately, I had a father who started assertiveness training on us when we were small. As for the bullies, your opinion of you is far more important than that of others. Particularly opinions of bullies who can't control their own abusers, so forward their hostilities to others. Best wishes, and take care of your 3rd grader aspirations - he's still there, waiting for you, to pick him up.
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  510.  @fibhufky  Given they're required to be nomadic for employment, yes, they're online transient social. The long haulers at work, drive an hour away in opposite directions. No lunching together anymore either. I don't know about where you live, but the last neighborhood barbecue I remember was in the 1990s.
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  511.  @forsale313  If Douglas Blackmon can trace slave-based wealth, in Slavery By Another Name, then so can others. And, I include today's US slaves, the imprisoned, in Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow.
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  512.  @numberoneduno7265  Your utter ignorance regarding the state of the job market around the US is stunning.
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  513.  @vect97  I too have worked in a couple of hell holes. What's new is the internet's shedding light into those hell holes.
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  514.  @vect97  I got rid of all but Berkshire Hathaway, til I found the holdings of jolly ole Buffet is just as toxic in practices under the hood. There are still somewhat decent companies, but they look to be privately owned.
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  515. It is the cause. There's only one way to get rich: take far too much from far too many in exchange for far too little.
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  516. Not new, here in southern New Hampshire, in large part due to proximity to Boston. As near as I can tell, highest metro salary impacts house prices within 1 hour's commute. The investor grab has now pushed this over the top, selling to those bailing out of Washington DC, NYC and Boston. $500K looks like a bargain to those relocating from major metro.
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  517.  @kevinjenner9502  Japan's in a weird state for housing, much like the unoccupied "ghost houses" after the 2008 bust. But Japan's ghost houses are more commonly inherited, left empty.
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  518. Having a great deal of experience with a narcissist, I can tell you their primary method is continuous bluster, particularly prolific when being criticized/critiqued in any way. It works very well on emotives, who feel sorry at their distress, dismissing the ploy.
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  519. He doesn't address why they target the US. But we know why: illegal employers.
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  520. I attribute that entirely to transience. Moving for work is a constant. Next gen has it worse, it starts with moving away for college.
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  521.  @christophergraves6725  They're talking about the culture of Kansas. Though, vigilante and deference are opposites.
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  522. True. Just as we abandon autos, houses, etc., and the loans they came with. And that's our goal, right, a walk away from it society?
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  523.  @katrinabillings7011  "If people are spoken to..." His point was start with listening ...
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  524.  @rathernotsay5629  Just because someone can type doesn't make the mature. For all we know, John Auner is 12 years old. Or may be a case of arrested development. Or may be living in isolated "everyone my own age" suburbia. In any case, yes, wow.
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  525.  @ryanscottlogan8459  This isn't facebook.
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  526. The question I have to ask, is why is the public being delivered into next.gen cars again, and not the fantastic diminishment of car dependency, SkyTran? The solution for revolution is already developed, SkyTran. SkyTran: No commuter crush, stop signs and red lights, driver licenses, vehicle insurance, vehicle crashes, paving, oil changes, gas/gas stops, tires, salting, sanding, paving, driver dependency, weather outages, road kill, parking lots, parking fees, public movement constrained to transport schedules, airplane and truck product distribution, etc. It's senseless to move 2 tons of vehicle to transport a 150 pound human. Clean air, mobility independence, diverting the expense of cars/trains/buses to better purposes.
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  527.  @ChemistrywithDrB  As you can see from the posts, many don't know the process, and John's rant did nothing to clarify. Just a few decades back, a US job offer came with a green card. Far too many coming here on work visas, blew that out of the water.
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  528. Well that's another problem with skewing the economy to create billionaires, lack of labor mobility. There's a lot of hooey in the air about there being a worker shortage. If that were true, there'd be a whole lot of spiking of payrates, and of worker mobility. There are a whole lot of crap jobs that wouldn't exist, if there were labor market competition. We've a labor glut, unless/until pay rates spike and mobility kicks in. Subsidizing under paid workers is circuitous corporate welfare. If public monies is used to support the non-living waged, we need to put them on the official gov payroll, and put them to work on things that benefit the public. Let the charities posing as businesses close their doors.
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  529.  @lucretiablu  Justifiably, no trust. Promises made, promises broken. I have no problem with making a profit, but no need for making a killing. Clearly health care's being gutted, for Wall St's god, Max Profit.
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  530. "make things" Etsy isn't a plan. The rest of consumables has been offshored, to ultra cheap labor locations.
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  531. Manipulate means ... manipulate. And someone with a keen antennae will recognize it for what it is.
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  532. Corporations aren't people. Furthermore, corporations should be required by law to disclose their political spending and political activity to their owners, which is each and every stockholder/investor.
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  533. The public is being buckshot with severe issues. This is just one of many.
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  534.  @cultureclashmusicvideo4545  In two little words: Land Lords. The King's Court, a protective buffer layer. Same presence in the US, but expanded: political layer, expansive military.
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  535.  @LegaliseIntellect  Agree in principle. Resource exchange will likely have the same underlying contention, along with hierarchy.
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  536.  @LegaliseIntellect  Lots of theory material for sale. Nothing useful like their housing instruction, not even seeing a link to other site for it. Trains? No, still bureaucratic schedule and inefficiency. SkyTran. Theory isn't going to move the needle.
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  537. Just had a headbanging with Moen over exactly that, as faucet installation instructions say two-part metal pipes, but what was in the box was 1 part plastic pipe. The one plastic pipe presumes a moveable/removable p-trap pipe, which is not the case for the multitudes of older homes. They know it's not what they put in the box, I've no idea why their online (and in the box) instructions are for the two piece metal piping - it's deceptive for buyers who need the two part. Eventually Moen sent the two part metal pipe to replace the 1 piece plastic.
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  538.  @loretta1971  Rs have been squeaking by on nothing but rabble rousing for decades. And being as Rs have paired up with absurd "Libertarians", aka Industry Can Do No Wrong, they aren't conservatives any more. True conservatives would've reigned in medical price gouging, as excessive, for instance. Canadian conservatives are appalled by this. 20% of US GDP was going to medical, as of a few years ago.
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  539. Only one Clang! , in this excellent conversation: "Monopoly" capitalism. We either have capitalism, or we have monopolies. Capitalism's essential justification is competition, and if there is no competition, there is no capitalism. What we have is oligarchy, who extract market ownership via bought legislation from the politicians. There is nothing Capitalism about that, it's corruption, for creation/benefit of oligarchy. And it sucked with it, from the political atmosphere, democracy. Raise your hand if you voted to: - give big (or little) business exemption to skate on the nation's billing of expenses, aka pay taxes - give industry control over labor/labor market by simultaneously suppressing min wage and importing a labor glut to immobilize workers - go global, offshoring production of almost all of our consumables, to the least green choice, the other side of the planet
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  540. The endless broadcast of freedom is the shiny brochure, leaving the very definition of freedom to the imagination. US has attacked so many countries, to abscond with their natural resources, I don't see how anyone still believes the brochure.
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  541.  @no1viracocha  Sorry to hear that, Juha. I was hoping some of the countries were doing a whole lot better than this.
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  542. @Won Honglo He's good at pointing out what's wrong. He's not good at solving what's wrong. But, he is chipping away at it, and the oligarchy's PO'ed he should touch their gravy train.
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  543. Hmm, don't know about that. "last person" in my book would be a tie among "my way or the highway" Gingrich and Norquist.
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  544. Vermont, listen again to his comments on Vermont.
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  545. Plan B, move in with parents, formerly the antithesis of US culture, becoming all to common now.
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  546. Ignorance is fine, its the arrogant, who're confident in their ignorance, where it gets dicey, particularly if in power.
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  547.  Jody Owen  Ignorant of who ends up hospitalized, approx 50% are under 60. Swamp the hospitals with covid, and the excess who can't get treatment for that, or anything else, may up the fatality numbers you cling to. Your assets aren't our priority. Deal with it.
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  548.  Jody Owen  This isn't poker, and if you can use web search for sake of proliferating half truth, you're capable of using it for Whole Truth.
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  549.  @cyberash3000  The primacy of industry (aka neoliberalism, globalism, corporatocracy) is a complete and utter failure.
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  550.  @imperialmotoring3789  Mindless unsubstantiated Far Right parroting, "a disaster". Not unlike Far Left's mindless unsubstantiated parroting, "draconian".
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  551.  @onlinesavant  You can label it that, if it suits you. For those not having kids because of economic reasons such as tenuous job market, it belies a failing culture.
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  552.  @lawrencecrocker4870  Yes. Lots of reasons people don't have kids, some inherent (don't like them, infertility, etc.), some external (already raised some/my brothers and sisters, bad economy, never met someone I want to parent with, etc.).
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  553. Media brought this on. Propaganda includes editorial selection of what to include/exclude, couching facts with subjective adjectives, etc. Trust, once broken, is very hard to recover.
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  554.  @GulDukat479  How's that legitimize genocide?
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  555.  @Fixer_101  Israel isn't buying weapons from the US. US gives Israel weapons, calling it "aid". "None of our business"?!? Ignorant.
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  556.  @msferz9177  Out and out ridiculous. People existed before books. And internationally, people are well aware books carry but one version, one perspective, often highly biased.
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  557.  @kevindonahue2251  Are you really claiming indigenous are entitled to genocide? By the way, "early American" were European, not American.
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  558. This conversation has more than a few issues to chew on. - If high income inequality is criteria for claiming refugee status, then much of the US qualifies to claim this to relocate elsewhere. - If violence is criteria for claiming refugee status, then much of Chicago, Baltimore, etc. qualifies to claim this to relocate elsewhere. - "focus on local", true, zero conversation on impact to "local". It seems #1 priority in governance is foreign issues. And then there is bigger general problem, no definition of "temporary". Likely this needs to be defined, because there's nothing "temporary" about 20 years. Honestly, if country is not able to accept citizenry back, then there needs to be a time limit when a TPS person is transitioned to a citizen. And then there's the upper level issues: countries who have NO plan to accommodate those they invite AND escaping violence versus cherry pick relocation: US, England, etc. (Mexico? Belize? etc.) Lastly, "they have houses, cars, [etc.]", irrelevant.
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  559. Plants do "migrate", and their seedlings are migrating north at the rate of approximately 10 miles a year. A burn, in this case forest fire, is via human cause - they're literally starting the fires. To purport this is a natural planetary adjustment of "the tree line" is convoluted.
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  560. The president didn't select the last two supreme court justices. The Federalist Society did. McConnell cleared the runway for it.
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  561.  @aggedyran  Clearly you're purporting a claim Sut Mig refutes. How's ridicule an answer?
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  562.  @oskarrohde9172  Long ago a new coworker, who migrated from a distant part of the country asked, "Is there a problem with [a particular type of violence] in [our state]?". I said "If there's only one, and it's you, there's a problem." "Equality", either you have a floor, or you don't. Trial this in car ads, "The brakes work in most of our cars!"
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  563. A mere 9% are Far Left. A mere 9% are Far Right. Unfortunately, they're very, very loud. Media's turned sportcaster, amplifying those voices.
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  564. ​ @AmericatheBeautiful-p4z  How's that worse than our federal government's wealth re-distribution of our taxes when giving billions to corporations and foreign nations, to those who contribute little to nothing of those tax revenue?
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  565. He's also on PBS' News Hour on the weekends. Almost always unassuming and inquisitive.
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  566. It's been a while, but last I looked, #2 lobbyist spending in the US, realtor association. "Tight housing market" is beneficial to realtors, work less, more fees.
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  567.  @doctorx1924  I'm not disputing US public schools are out of control, more so as the years pass.
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  568. Wisconsin farmers, "We need immigrants [because we engage in wage theft and non-living wage]."
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  569. I have to wonder just how many European investors American workers are supporting.
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  570.  @Auriam  Not hearing why the politicians have sold off their publics' best interests.
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  571. That's a different interview, LULAC CEO Juan Proaño, last night's airing. And yes, it takes a lot of gall for any demographic based organization to claim to speak for all. I was just telling the Mr that there are a whole lot of legal Latino immigrants and quite telling when Juan proclaims the PAC's primary purpose is illegal Mexican migrants, fiscally supported by Kochs no less.
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  572. Yes. UBI is the taking of money out of our back pocket, and then sending us a check. I fail to see how it solves _anything_. It's a scam to avoid Living Wage.
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  573.  @ronny-lb1cr  Nonsense is advising Drop everything and move, on the whim of someone posting on a chat board.
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  574.  @churblefurbles Many a bible loyalist has no idea New Testament was written centuries after the death of Jesus, and the 4 chosen were chosen among many versions submitted for consideration.
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  575. Uglier than that. They don't reveal what's being charged for it. So, person pays "co-pay" and the rest of the undisclosed is billed to our insurance, ratcheting up our premiums. I personally have discovered, more than once, cash price is the same as "co-pay", so apparently what CVS was billing my insurance was pure profit. AND, it's production is offshored, yet another kick in the pants.
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  576. Process is this: - foreigners apply for one of the 1 million annual green cards (under one of the various categories: work/family/lottery/etc.). - approval only means you're in the queue for the category you were approved for, to receive one of the 1 million annual green cards. Think of it as getting a reservation in a popular restaurant - earliest available table is 6 months from now. - in general (there are exceptions, but), living in the US for 5 years on a green card, THEN someone can apply to become ("naturalized") citizen.
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  577.  @DraciaNightcat  Queuing (within the categories) has no cap. Work visas have too many "exceptions" to be truly considered capped in any sense of the word. But green cards given per year is fairly tightly capped, approx 1M per year.
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  578. I didn't vote for Trump and had no interest in Clinton. Writing off those who disagree with you isn't compelling argument. And with elections coming up, you need to be a whole lot better at either listening, or putting a compelling argument together.
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  579. Talking like a flippant jacka$$ isn't intellectual. "You're one of the sole reasons " Yeah, that must be it, I alone created US strife.
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  580. Didn't think it'd affect population? That's generous. I'm under the impression, they and the politicians just didn't care if it did or didn't. They're expecting no repercussions. Relative to the 1800s, there've not been much.
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  581. Primaries, interesting topic. There is no requirement to win primaries. And given 50% of voters are Independent, the two minority parties, R with 25% and D with 25%, in some states do banish Independents from voting. Else, according to the polls, Sanders would've easily won the D primary. It's not just the district lines being gerrymandered. The voting processes and the demographics by location are also.
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  582. Textualism is malarkey. 2nd amendment alone: original would mean people have the right to own a musket, and solely for purpose of being in a well regulated militia.
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  583. He's Harvard trained. And Harvard's priority is what works for industry, and industry alone.
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  584.  @jaymannewell  True. a) the growing $2.13 and $7.25 an hour working multiple jobs can't get a day off to stand in their designed-to-disenfranchise under-equip polling stations, b) imprisoned and felonized stripped of their voting rights (no coincidence to US as largest imprisoned population), c) political non-responsiveness to the constituency (this should be obvious at this point).
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  585. I expect tubaligations and hysterectomies to jump in the blanket abortion restricted states.
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  586.  @kenwalker687  I see no reason my neighbor, state or federal government should have any say in what I do with my uterus. Let alone dictate I must be near death before my doctor can remove a dead fetus, an ectopic fetus, etc.
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  587. "It's factual, but not necessarily true." We've a whole lot of "factual" but not necessarily true blasted at us these days. Entire context is needed to understand the "fact"s, and both sides of the aisle are guilty of cherry picking, when Whole Truth Matters
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  588. This has been going on for longer then we've been allowed to be informed.
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  589. You can use the ballot to vote for whoever you wish.
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  590.  @r8chlletters  The last few appointees are Federalist Society's picks. And their choice of cases and rulings reflect that. What they ignore, is the value phrased "promote the general welfare", in the declaration of independence. Regulation, authority delegated by congress to agencies, gutted, a power grab by the supreme court, means local judges will individually be deciding what congressional law means. So, industry will have different criteria across cities and states to meet. "Be careful what you ask for. You just might get it."
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  591.  @thomaswagnerjr9137  Trilateral Commission Report, early 1970s, Crisis of Democracy (can be found on wikipedia). Summation, "excess democracy", international elite resentment over losing control over workers. Interesting read.
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  592. You can find that in this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People%27s_History_of_the_United_States
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  593.  @karenkoerner6015  As a person who's had to train my foreign replacement, and living with a hired at $5 an hour STEM foreign replacement, who got a pink slip with his green card so he could be replaced, you underestimate the damage of unbounded immigration policy. As a techie with view into it, the scale of this is mind bending. re: Trump won, I see on the web, conversing with "election stolen" people, they migrate from "irregularities occurred" escalating to "stolen". Having worked at election verification, irregularities occur on a regular basis and is no indication of either fraud or malice. Ex. infirmed mail their ballots, and die before election day. Loser version, "Dead people voting!" I'm finding vitriol is based on barking of sound bites, with no homework done on "the issues".
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  594.  @Kormac80  These slurs are intentional to shut down conversation.
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  595. They did in fact take their jobs. If by "efficiency" you mean work for cheap, efficient at accelerating profits, yes. The Chinese Exclusion Act was due to wholesale replacement of companies' workforce with Chinese workers. Hence, the current contention over importation of both an ultra cheap illegal blue collar glut, and ultra cheap visa'd white collar labor glut.
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  596. ps - wholesale replacement of entire staff currently is Hispanic illegally present, for blue collar work, and Indian quasi-legal visa'd, for white collar work.
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  597.  @brindanlasten7073  "never going to happen" And yet, the numbers of those who support it are growing. "...are dead...are dead...are dead" If it's discovered my grandparents robbed a bank, do I get to keep that money?
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  598.  @georgefurman4371  This isn't capitalism. It's corruption. And corruption can invade any hierarchical configuration.
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  599.  @helios7212  Your points are invalid. We could be spending public monies on meaningful/useful to the general public wellbeing. Monies sent to Israel is in direct contradiction to purported US human rights principles and in support of actions in violation of international laws. Which is not aggressive outside force against the US .
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  600. The over $2K charger at home, the hours to recharge, the battery that won't hold a charge/recharge in the coldest weather, the spontaneous $5K bill for dead battery at 150K miles, all deal breakers for me.
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  601.  @mauriceharting5877  a) Min $2K for the cheapest charger, so says This Old House 1) This Old House, the $2K model takes overnight to charge. 2) No garage, let alone heated. Same for apartment dwellers. 3) 150K miles battery lifespan, so says industry. Last I checked, average American puts on 20K miles a year. That's a 5 year lifespan.
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  602.  @mauriceharting5877  By the way, don't you have a sense of the absurd, heating a garage, for sake of charging a car, to "save fossil fuel energy"?
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  603.  @mauriceharting5877  Yes, it is absurd to me. Here were I live, up north, that equipment is put in the cellar. I've never heard of anyone insulating their garage, let alone heat it.
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  604.  @mollyprysunka7741  You said dude. You're still a child.
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  605. True. This week, a bunny sat at the edge of my driveway at dusk, looking like it was admiring the broad pink sky. Maybe waiting for my daily fruit and vegetable peels and scraps I toss in the yard. My point, I hope you find some rest, at least temporarily, in the splashes of wonder we're afforded.
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  606. Keywords to keep an eye on, "living wage". How awful! Yes, they badly need to unionize.
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  607. I too am grateful my ancestors aren't alive to see this. The running of the country's been turned over to the god of Wall St, Max Profit.
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  608.  @kitchfacepalm  The erosion of US has hit the population at differing times in differing ways. And, it is not just the US. It's in varying levels across the West/Westernized countries. Brexit, Yellow Vest, Hong Kong protests, Italy exodus, etc. Population decline is actual number of natives also, as having kids has become an affordable "luxury".
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  609.  @daftwod  "You have...", "And you dont..." Ignorant answer for sake of being antagonistic. You don't know Kevin from a hole in the wall.
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  610. a) both had mental health issues b) since when is convicting someone for being a bitch okay c) "She’s alive he’s not.", which is basically what she's being convicted for, vindication, and he's still dead, isn't he. There's not an ounce of justice in this.
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  611. "To concentrate on European/white atrocities alone" Where exactly does it say solely the Europeans engaged in this behavior?
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  612. Max Profit works hard to keep it as is. For a while, boom was followed by bust, in which people could catch a break. I tell youth, who've worked hard to save, I don't know that that'll be the case any more, being as investors are buying for sake of flipping for fast money from cosmetic refresh.
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  613. If you researched the issue, you'd see historically when the US imports a labor glut, the native population stopped having kids - no living wage to support them with. Same is happening in EU, Japan, Australia, ... what a coincidence - the neoliberalized...
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  614. Or people watch it on TV and have no addiction to youtube and chat boards.
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  615.  @r3v3rbs0ul  re: Dems... Sanders Because the parties own the voting process (a clear conflict of interests), and the rich own the parties. To get on the ballots, approval by the rich, funding parties and campaigns. The majority in the country are Independents, who're not allowed to vote in many states' primaries. Polling of the public: Sanders came ahead of Clinton and ahead of Trump. Among the public, there is no Left Right divide - the only divide among the public is between Far Left and Far Right - which is 15% of the public. 15% of the public have hijacked priorities.
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  616. It has a built in termination gene: No disposable income, no disposable income markets.
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  617. Both sides cherry pick facts. And the half-truths are the reason for the division - it's enough to verify, but far short of the whole picture.
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  618. Yes, that is yet another nuisance. After hanging upside down to tighten the nuts on the faucet and installing the drain, discovering the faucet isn't straight. It is only so obvious once you turn the water on, and it hits the side of the drain.
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  619. @pequodrequiem681 While that's true, so is algorithmic targeting of individuals by introducing bias that individuals writing the algorithms are unaware of.
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  620. Is it a requirement of Euro-based shows to use the trite "draconian"? Anyways, back to the topic, demographic blocking, and skipping past the incredible oxymoron "diverse Latino community", the only one I've enjoyed is George Carlin's creative "gyno-Americans".
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  621. Novel. And long overdue.
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  622. Cultural failure metric, evaluating political policy.
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  623. "how little we know of our history." That's intentional. When I asked as a kid why there wasn't anything in our history books on the Vietnam War, the instructor said, "There are too many still alive to refute what would be written." Told me everything I need to know about our officially taught history.
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  624.  @BearingMySeoul  ps - No idea why people feel they need the approval of others for how they live. That too, independence of others, may be another New England'ism.
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  625. Connection /= a right to it. If connection == right, then a whole lot of Christian and Muslim would be flying in and taking it over.
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  626.  @chillywilly4126  Yes. Offshored living wage production, while onshoring illegal labor gluts for wage theft 30 years suppressed min wage for tipped workers, 10 years for non-tipped workers Tax free businesses, while publicly subsidized wages for their underpaid workers etc.
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  627.  @BOSSDONMAN  True. But, additional stressors these days. Top of the list, tenuous employment, & wage value tanked.
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  628.  @timothykozlowski2945  voter registrations are 25% Rs, voter registrations are 25% Ds, and voter registrations are 50% Is. The two parties are each now minorities. Furthermore, the Far Left and Far Right are each 9%, a very loud 9%, who make it a point to vote in primaries. Many a state doesn't allow Is to vote in primaries. So, we're getting the most radical R and D candidates to pick from in the general election. Political affiliation needs to be outlawed from voter registration, as the public and districts will continue to be gerrymandered be it. Clear conflict of interest to have the parties control any of the voting processes.
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  629.  @blackconservativeogee9390  Between corporate subsidy "tax breaks" to "create jobs" mostly for ever more cheap imported foreign workers, is this going to end any other way? But hey, none of that matters, because GDP's up!, aka elite income.
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  630.  @vwm8534  "Bully pulpit", LBJ-style.
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  631. vote
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  632.  @ochervelvet9687  Canvas your vicinity. Possibly homeowners are also Airbnb'ing, not just council members. If mainly council, then you've a shot at changing that, via canvasing and rousing for a vote.
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  633. Increasingly, for most Americans. In the 30 years that Washington, regardless of which D and R hands it was in, has kept min tipped wage at $2.13 an hour, and held it there with an imported illegal labor glut, my living wage salary's gone up over 5x what it was then. The $.65 1992 thread in my sewing room was 30% of the 1992 $2.13 hour's work. The current spool of thread, $2.45 is more than the same 1 hour of $2.13's pay. The supreme court ruled cities are allowed to banish those homeless workers, because in the US you have to pay, rent or property tax, to be allowed to have your feet on the planet. This isn't American Dream out of reach. This is a flippin nightmare.
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  634.  @jasonconfer8388  Do tell Jason, exactly what ethics has to do with renting to a homeless person. Either they can pay their rent, like everyone else, or they can't. And as near as I can tell, you're assuming something about the homeless person, and you know what they say about assuming...
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  635.  @TroelsNybo1st  Vikings, Norse, "lighter"?!?
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  636.  @thespadestable  Re: "what women want" Not seeing that. If target was what women want, every house at least in the north would have a "mudroom" entrance. To take off jackets, boots, pocketbooks, and a place to put down mail, packages. groceries carried in. This is the driver: "you build what is deemed the most sellable in that price range" in accordance with the state of the economy for that time. And with land zoning high, "in that price range" will be the biggest living space they can sell. Previously, bust economy would bring about smaller house/housing. Condos, for instance, used to be scarce, but not any more.
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  637. It's not due to global warming, but globalism. Neoliberalism works for benefit of very few. Anger, Populism, and Modern Economics - with Mark Blyth: https://anchor.fm/nicolas-wittstock/episodes/Anger--Populism--and-Modern-Economics---with-Mark-Blyth-e11glql
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  638.  @trevinbeattie4888  I don't think it needs to be that complicated. We need to outlaw voter party declaration. We need to banish "the parties" from any input or control over election processes, as they have an inherent conflict of interests.
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  639.  Diane Smith  But not living wage.
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  640. "speaking truth to power", trite and meaningless. Decades of ignoring those playing with matches, until the whole place is on fire. Figuratively, and literally, on fire.
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  641. The segment of the show preceding this interview, was an interview with Paul Simon and his latest music.
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  642.  @Kunfucious577  Odd you presume @proud gayboy dragon's generation. And odd you seem to know nothing about the decline of the US and its middle class. "All were[sic] saying is ..." What you're saying is you know very little about what is occurring in the US, and know very little about the definition of capitalism - because this, the entire discussion in the documentary, bailouts, is anti-capitalism.
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  643.  @ThatCasualZach  Apparently you missed the entire point of the documentary: investor is taking no risk, as the gov gives them free money when they fail. Which is socializing their failures. Don't care what you're sick off. Get off the web if you can't handle contradicting opinions. Actually, bilking of the public, via bailouts, is fact, not opinion.
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  644. It's more of a matter of "fly in for the funeral" nomadic employment market. Quite the blow to all, globalizing, gutting economic stability.
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  645. In a word, theft. It was the theft of the value of labor, and theft of acknowledgement of the economic contribution of that savagely acquired free labor.
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  646.  @SchkuenteQoostewin  Because there is no corruption in socialist societies or communist societies? Corruption is corruption is corruption.
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  647.  @practicemedia2025  Are you under the (false) impression that corruption can't be systemic? As for "ALL other developed capitalist countries...", all I can say is, I take it you've not noticed the international corrupt predation on the US public. NATO, only 3 of the 27 are paying fair share. Sweden's Ikea, a "charity" to avoid tax (give me a friggen break). Saudi, a major Uber owner, with ever declining wage rates . Then there's the population dumping, India & Central America, wiping out US' white collar workers/wages, for remittances. Etc.
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  648. "campaign donations", known elsewhere as bribes.
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  649. Notably missing from all of Washington, but for 1 voice, Bernie's, "Living Wage". It's too bad the decades of the two parties' gerrymandering districts and voting laws kept the #1 in polling, Sanders, from being the d candidate. $2.13 an hour for tipped min wage, has been the floor for over 30 years - despite which of the two parties held the White House and congress at the same time. $7.25 an hour min wage for the rest of workers, has been the floor for over 10 years - despite which of the two parties held the White house and congress at the same time. The parties/Washington are a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of Wall St.
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  650. The phone number and caller id can both be manipulated to display wrong information. Most common, bogus caller id, with local location filled in, so people presume it's a neighbor, local organization or local gov (library services, local property tax collector, etc.).
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  651. How does calling anyone a "MAGA toad" help? Clearly you missed Pollan's conversation on "the cage".
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  652. Whites in poverty are dismissed as rare. Whites in poverty who vote Republican have the same limited choice of the Wall St wholly owned and operated 2 parties, neither of which work for their benefit. If we were to admit that poverty is a white people problem, then you wouldn't be trying to blame them, for our two party corruption problems.
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  653.  @haz4dc394  Third world does not charge citizens to have their feet on the earth. US, property taxes or rent. Can't afford that? State takes the kids.
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  654.  @patriziacasagrande3833  Yes. Power corrupts. Not unique to religion.
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  655. a) I agree, the public needs to offload the freeloading deadwood: billionaires. b) "At least we're not as bad as [x]", do tell how low the lives of citizens should go?
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  656. Yeah, and all the semi cargo trucks are gone (self-driving!), and we're all flying to work (Jetsons prediction), and etc. etc.
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  657. He's basically teaching people to stop being so arrogant, by pointing out the ignorance of their limited experience in life. Yet, I still sense of ting of it when he uses the word "correct", about opinions.
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  658. Go for it. Iterate the problem with universal background checks.
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  659.  @kenneth.topp.  I have no problem with proposed legislation.
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  660.  @kenneth.topp.  Straw purchases at gun shows have everything to do with crime. Legitimate law abiding gun owners have no problem with universal background checks, having been through one themselves.
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  661. Donate a tad more to the discussion. Genuine question: What do you mean, emasculated?
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  662. Earth created in 6 days. America was founded by a small handful of white colonists from England. The constitution was an innovation by a tiny handful of white colonists from England. The Mayflower was full of people seeking religious freedom. etc.
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  663.  @jamesbutler3812  I'd add, it's not a transition at all, just broadly visible now. However, in Laurie's defense, a whole lot of America has been shielded from its vicious underside, and not just power abuse by religion. Religion has merely been 1 of the mechanism.
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  664. a) there is nothing ensuring it's actual citizens, when PACs are afforded anonymity. Aka "foreign election interference". b) same problem with corporate lobbying/political influence, being undisclosed may go directly against the interests of shareholders, as they're more than just/only shareholders.
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  665. No, but we are at peak gridlock between house building restrictions intersecting with industry interests. National Realtors Association, #2 lobbyists in the country, I'd read some time back.
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  666. Far too many ways to do damage, with anonymous speech.
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  667. Because builders can, and it's max profit. People are cashing out of higher priced markets(NYC, DC, etc.), and think new location's jacked up prices are great, relative to where they're moving from.
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  668.  @AsHotasVenus  So very true. Friendlier discourse, and, understanding one's own basis for arguing for/against something. It's so very easy to dismiss meaningless sound bites flying. Illustrated with ridiculous "tastes great!", "less filling" old beer commercial.
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  669. Living Min Wage.
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  670. @first last Hmm, my fiercely fundamentalist neighbor home schools her large brood. But, a few years back, my far left school teacher friend said she had to unplug from social media for 6 months, and at the end realized she'd been "drinking the Kool-Aid". So, they're both variations of the same arrogance.
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  671. Neoliberal supporters, listen up!
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  672. And tax skate for freeloading multinational corporations isn't? Two of a kind.
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  673.  @leelindsay5618  50% of voters are now registered as Independents. Each of the two parties' voters are now political minorities. Both political parties have taken over the voting process. And they're wholly owned and operated by Wall St. Bernie was a breach of that stranglehold. Process, Independents blocked from primary voting in many states, is part of the two party chokehold.
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  674.  @JohnBartmannMusic  Yes.
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  675.  @bluerayfrequency7335  Possibly Linda is an activist, with lobbyist power, or retired. "The public"s households are kept barely economically viable so they have no such time for BEFORE. Additionally, writing to my Senator, when she voted to give a company permission to trial their failing synthetic blood on public, without knowledge nor consent, I can honestly say they have no interest in hearing from anyone but industry.
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  676.  @libbyholt3863  Trump presidency would not exist, had The Parties, operating in their SELF-interest, not sold out their constituents, for decades now.
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  677. Populism, the broad political backlash from excessive elitism.
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  678. Any business who's worker needs public assistance should lose their business license. If we're paying someone's living, we should put them to work on public service.
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  679. They aren't. But libraries and the books are the core of free speech.
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  680.  @puravidadew7031  I don't know if it's the core, but it does refine it.
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  681.  @dondon6655  Gingrich, Murdock, Norquist, Reagan, Clinton, Cheney, Rumsfeld, geeze, this list could go on for quite a while.
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  682.  @DarkStar-x7x  Actually, it was Federalist Society. And some of them are now visiting ... regret.
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  683.  @user-zg3nb1mk5b26  Your ethnocentric questions are illogical, given large-scale British global colonization.
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  684.  @EricForney-uz4iz  Predation.
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  685. In this case, it is Macron throwing worker rights under the bus.
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  686. Head phone jack is defective.
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  687.  @myRatchets  Rust where gas cap sits on filler neck, another cause of P0456, P0455.
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  688. Farce, to justify "record profits"
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  689. One poor SOB in Boston, 100 hours a week, unpaid, in exchange for sleeping in the store at night. Predatory employment is well beyond craigslist. Illegal immigrants, "temporary" immigrants for seasonal and white collar work. "jobs Americans won't do", abuse, predator employers, https://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicagarrison/the-new-american-slavery-invited-to-the-us-foreign-workers-f?utm_term=.fpeYbxXgB#.wcbW0LOJm "skills shortage", except there's no shortage, just looking for cheap/captive, http://www.computerworld.com/article/2915904/it-outsourcing/fury-rises-at-disney-over-use-of-foreign-workers.html Hiring an immigrant should mean a) green card upon hire and b) double the going wage rate. They'll continue to be abused while captive. They'll continue to be replacing citizens so long as cheaper, because they're captive. Hiring illegal, yank their business license.
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  690. We've a fractured government and society. It breaks down when MyTeamRightOrWrong rules. This mindset means Team above anything else.
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  691. ALEC invasion. http://projects.propublica.org/graphics/koch
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  692. Beamers Beamer I've only read a few of the prosecution transcripts but they echo commentary on the web: "...the suspect...", presumption of suspicious criminal.  They appear to arrive on sites jacked up, ready for "action".
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  693. $130K is still WAY too cheap for Silicon Valley. And that is likely why it's the target, a little high for body shops, but still a steal for them. H1B should be limited to 2 years max/no renewal/no green card application, at 1.5 industry rate for immediate vicinity, because it is supposed to be "temporary". Else it is clearly indentured. All else employer based green card, because they are claiming "highly skilled" and skill not found in the US. OPT also abused. Intended to be for experience to take back to their country. Employer has no min salary requirements, no employer taxes and in some case no income tax, KILLING US STEM grads - and worse, they don't leave! OPT should mean no H1B nor green card - else what was the point of OPT but again, cheap/indentured.
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  694. Not the first time this just 1 Officer of 100, and how does this 1 still have his job? It says the police, all 100, can do no wrong.
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  695. TheoKabala89 That's avoiding resolving the problem: why?  Why are they stabbing?  Most of the violence we have is because of poverty.  Throwing it onto police to jam that up isn't fixing the problem, poverty, it's papering over the problem.  The relentless greed is not just damaging to wallets, it's damaging to social cohesion, education, medicine, etc.
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  696. "both are equally plausible" What little dollars the public has in the banks would be given to the wealthy, because the wealthy wouldn't suck up the complete loss of the bond fraud. And internationally, they'd have to tell the derivative investors - we lied, that money can't be paid back. And so they just print more and more and flog the public, Greece, Puerto Rico, etc. with public debt, awaiting a magic genie to clean it up. But it's fraud. And the only magic genie is coming clean.
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  697. And one more detail.  Regardless of who wins the primaries, you can still write-in who you want for president in the general election.  Which will include the Independents.  #BernTheEstablishment
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  698. Highly unfortunate that the cutting edge is solely directed at industry. Like mainframes decades ago.
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  699. The left and right establishment have both sold out to the 1%. The right go after those emotive angry, the left go after those emotive sympathy.
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  700. Because if we install something like SkyTran, we lose - car manufacturing/sales - major gas/oil consumption - tar, plowing, sanding, road contruction, parking lots - car insurance - car maintenance - vehicle taxes and that's one huge pile of lobbyist and "campaign donation" cash. And that's just one example.
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  701. You seem to be up on Sandy Springs. How much was the check they had to write to leave behind the existing pension debt, for one?
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  702. they did have representation.  debt isn't "no representation".  sandy spring should  be sued.
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  703. Charter schools, a two for one idea: profitize public services and teacher union busting.
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  704. The general public is, the wealthy aren't. Notice in their model, secede and corporatize, they left Atlanta holding the bag for their part of existing debt - pensions, and nix any/all worker benefits and obligations.
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  705. jessie goines So the Big Dig in Boston, 3 times the cost and dropping cement tiles, is the benefit of "effect" privatization? Their unrepaired, dead in snowstorm subway is the benefit of "effect" privatization? Profit runs in direct contrast to ethics, particularly when via government contract. All privilege, no responsibility.
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  706. walperstyle Corruption stems from corporations.  Accountability: - Press 1 for hours - Press 2 for directions - Press 3 for your account balance - Press 4 to leave a message - Press 5 to start over
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  707. How much insight do people have into privatized? None. Their service/accountability is: Press 1 for the weather Press 2 for our hours Press 3 for our corporate motto
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  708. Because fantasy is all you have left to justify theft, in this case, theft via pocketed a good part of the value of labor.  Publicly called record profits.
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  709. There are a large number of huge corporations that are plundering via privatizing. As with all relentless greed, they'll diminish services til it's only staffed with illegals. When they fall behind on paying the illegals, they'll tell them all ICE is on the way, and hire a new batch. As they did in New Orleans.
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  710. It's corporate wealth extracted via taxes.
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  711. walperstyle So when labor, who actually produces the value, a service or produce, is compensated, it's welfare? And when privatized gives labor a little and pockets the rest, the purpose/value received from them is ...? Exactly what value does privatize add, for their "cut"?
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  712. walperstyle​ Neoliberal "free market" is operate for free, dump the expense onto the public. Not free market as in competitive. Quite the monopoly. Big pharma: block imports, block competitors via the FDA. Disaster market: brainstorm Louisiana rep: let's make Cajun Navy have to pay to rescue stranded neighbors. Apparently it's cutting into Disaster Industry. Neoliberal is economic predators.
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  713. walperstyle They blame the subcontractor(s).
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  714. Reagan: "... and makes them into social experiments nobody wants." Ironic, given his fairy tale euphemism "trickle down" for his neoliberal 1% class warfare maneuver. Segregated schools aren't going to let up til "War On Drugs" disproportionate target of black males stops. Life long poverty with the scarlet letter "felon" on a resume, after they serve decades of near free labor in jail (indoor caged slavery).
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  715. "Left behind", screwed by congress.
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  716. Yes, there are consequences for criminal behavior.
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  717. Same provision in the Trans-Pacific trade agreement, according to wikileaks, the ability for multinational corporations to take countries to court for introducing any laws that interfere with their current or future profits.
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  718.  @Cryosxify  "been there for a very long time", after ordered deported. And that shouldn't have happened.
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  719. We all need to stop paying taxes. If congress is run by oligarchy, then we're in a state of taxation without representation.
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  720. Stranded in Utah Considering the extreme corporate welfare state the government's become, there is no reason business shouldn't be contributing for it's share of the load it creates.
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  721. Stranded in Utah Some businesses do, other businesses are nothing but leaches.  And all businesses who employ are operating on profits from the value of their employees labor. Hollow "contracting" agencies provide none of what you iterate.  They take a profit, and subcontract - adding nothing but expense.
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  722. Stranded in Utah A contracting agency who subcontracts all their work pays no SS/Medicare.  They're only there to skim profit from the job. Intentionally flooding the labor market with immigrant labor undermines wages and skills.  Federal tax breaks for "temporary" immigrant labor ensures undermining of citizen labor.
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  723. zaknefain100 Living wage.  Anything short of living wage is corporate welfare. The problem with letting industry set political policy, they've no interest in running a country, which sets the nation on a path to failure.
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  724.  @chriscase1392  Before 2005, they used county services, how hard is that to understand?
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  725.  @chriscase1392  "They couldn't", you know, or you speculate?
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  726. Pseudo-doctor Spanos playing with truthiness.
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  727. Not going to be fixed til we overturn corrupt congress.
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  728. Because congress is paid by all of us to represent all of us and they set the rules/laws. They've sold that responsibility, via bribes, which they call "campaign donations", and setup for their next job, lobbyist. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/the-lobbying-reform-that-enriched-congress-224849
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  729. No campaigning. They fly around telling the public different, often contradictory information. 2 debates broadcast on public airwaves, then 1 vote. No "campaign donations" whatsoever. Any PAC on tv has to pay for contiguous counterpoint aired at the same time. NOTHING within 2 weeks of an election.
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  730. Sagar Sagar No, import US workers, into India.  (Are you making assumptions?)
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  731. @Alan James Profit alone is in the driver's seat. Aka, Wall St./industry. By the way, Tata, Wipro, TechMahindra, are no better. WTO, killing off the planet.
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  732. @Alan James No US (or any other that I'm aware of) citizens voted for a WTO. US, like many other countries, has an infestation of corruption, which is neither democratic, nor capitalism.
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  733. ""lol" What's funny about this?
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  734. Not at all unusual legislators vote in bills they're never read, as appears to be the case in Arkansas.
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  735. The Big Short, also pretty ugly picture. We need to replace congress.
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  736. And still carried forward through the centuries, the legacy of land gifts from the king. UK and US, zero rights to have your feet on the planet anywhere you haven't paid for, either by purchasing the land or by rent. And, you could said you don't ever really "own" land, because it will be taken for non-payment of taxes, to our new kings.
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  737. Facts are context sensitive.
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  738. Why do people keep sending huge amounts of pension/401K money to Wall St? Why do people keep paying taxes when we are clearly in a state of taxation without representation? Why do people keep using credit cards?
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  739. +ParrhesiaJoe Easy. Voter IDs, free, at the polling place, on election days. Birth certificate or naturalized citizen paper, and that's all.
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  740. "Is oil so powerful" Yes. An example of the Koch/ALEC gas/oil revenue preservation agenda, http://gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/billText.aspx?sy=2017&id=345&txtFormat=html Koch/ALEC, 1 in 4 state legislators across the country.
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  741. +Bill “CIA” Wilson All sugar coated BS is political.  Friendly fire, shooter, national interests, air strikes, freedom fighters, warrior heros, energy independence, missions, casualties, etc., etc.  It's all political.
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  742. Where's the video, from the start?
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  743. Of course they "feel" threatened. They've been told they are. And that "feeling" feeds gun sales and defense funding.
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  744. Wrong. Not a millennial.
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  745. Joe V Acting solely on emotion is the domain of a 3 year old.
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  746. Joe V Perfect use of contempt to paint yourself as superior.
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  747. @Alan James What govs want is not what publics want. Hence, "populism", "racism", "economic inequality", etc., whatever name you choose to call anti-globalize.
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  748. @Alan James Wrong. Poll after poll indicates voting by purported "representatives" is via what oligarch wants, not the public.
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  749. It's not only a matter of the for-profit prisons, it's also the ACLU and immigration organizations' insistence on a default of appeal hearings for anyone with deportation orders.
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  750. ??? Checking for what? No criminal record? Is that not the majority of the planet? So we'd have open borders for anyone with no criminal record? How is that not open borders?
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  751. But they didn't. They said international trade is good, give China WTO entry. And then Walmart went at the vendors with a crowbar, offshore or we'll boot you out of our stores. And then the rest of the businesses followed. Hmmm, now who do we know from Walmart's home base Arkansas...??? And who pushed for China to enter WTO...??? What they did say was it'd be replaced with "service jobs" which has become part time suppressed min wage "Welcome To Walmart" and "Do you want fries with that?". Then sprinkled with bitter, "uneducated", "unmotivated", "welfare queen", "lazy", when they need public assistance with food stamps, Section 8 housing, etc. Euphomisms: "globalism", the scheme in which labor's paid the lowest, on the other side of the planet, and yet the prices spike upon entering the western consumer market, while somehow "magically", the profit part is suddenly Irish. "those left behind", those who's employment opportunity is totally screwed by work offshored and import of a new underclass, immigrant labor.
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  752. Predatory governance.
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  753. We're not supposed to know about The New Jim Crow. There's no way the corporate media is going to cover this. They make too much money (as they have through history) via free/near free labor.
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  754. Casting director, and agents, don't send/cast non-white unless ethnic is written in by screen writer. ??!!?? In documentary, "Casting By".
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  755. It is phenomenal just how much Jim doesn't know about why foreign labor is hired. Why are so many Silicon Valley upper management Indian? Because 20 years ago, tech transitioned staff hiring to mainly (in some cases strictly) H1B hires, and stayed that way. Because they're cheap and visa indentured. Within 1 year (1997), my entire department (in Mass.) was wiped out and replaced with H1Bs. Cisco, Nortel, Avaya, Oracle, etc. H1Bs for 2016 alone: FaceBook:3326, Oracle:7751, Cisco:6483, Intel:4508, Microsoft:9589, Google:3256, Apple:5763
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  756. There suddenly seems to be a news blackout on this topic. Rising hysteria for a few weeks and then nothing. What's the issue? Westerners going to find out their countries are bombing Syria? Syrians are going to find new routes to Germany? What's the buzz?
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  757. Original justification for paying for cable tv was that they didn't have advertisements...
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  758. No debt written off on taxes should continue to be collectable.  It seems more like extortion for debt history.
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  759. "Democracy requires all sides to come together in good faith and willing to compromise" And yet, that didn't happen. Austerity for the public, record profits for the wealthy. Still not enough? Import cheaper labor to replace citizenry. Where was this "come together" part you're talking about? Because that didn't happen, for decades now. Tonight on DW, some woman names Barbara said it's the nations' fault and not Brussels. Hmmm, and all this time I thought the generous gifts of wealth were being granted with "trade deals": near tax free industry, human trafficking for cheap labor, etc..
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  760. "Brightest mind"?!?! Why are we training them, if "brightest mind"? http://www.computerworld.com/article/2915904/it-outsourcing/fury-rises-at-disney-over-use-of-foreign-workers.html "Brightest mind"?!?! It's human trafficking: western "temporary" visa'd jobs for remote market access. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/in-india-british-leader-theresa-may-preaches-free-trade-2016-11-07
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  761. So you're okay with - over 60 million unemployed - illegal employers engaging in wage theft, abusive and dangerous work conditions - big Pharma royal ripoffs which hammer everyone's insurance premiums - subprime education and subprime student loans - wage suppression ($2 an hour for waitresses and "job growth" being $7.25/part time) - human trafficking in our trade deals, western work visas for foreign market access - wiping out foreign agriculture, flooding in US corn, creating slums around the world with US trade deals - "deregulation" to cut safety and integrity in the US goods market - 2000 oil spills since 1990 and dumping responsibility for super fund sites across the US Geeze, I could go on all day.
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  762. Evidentialist You left off: R elitists, ALEC, Business Roundtable, etc.
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  763. xponen Human trafficking of cheap labor is racist.  Jailing disproportionately black men for free convict labor is racists. There's a whole lot of racism that status quo establishment does not want disturbed, because they're profitable.
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  764. xponen Half truths, intentional, causing turmoil.  WHOLE TRUTH takes a lot of research.
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  765. Christopher E. Because coordinating 330,000,000 interdependent interoperating people is a big job.  We end up with a great deal of bureaucracy because of weasels: verify ... Look at the past month of news on Wells Fargo alone.
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  766. Christopher E. "I don't like legal insecurity, excessive and arbitrary use of government power." Legal insecurity is a pass to Wells Fargo ripping off their customers AND employees. Excessive is millions stolen from TriCare with $25K a month "medical cream". Arbitrary is when Joe Sixpack is jailed for years for a joint while Goldman Sachs heads back to Wall St to rip off even more, nationally and internationally.  (MIC now moving into the White House). You seem to not recognize full on economic class warfare by the 1%.
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  767. No gerrymandering - districts drawn non-partisan. Parties doing this is a direct conflict of interest. No campaigning. Primary is a debate on public airwaves. Top 4 in votes goes on to the general. Debate in on public airwaves. "Campaign donations" illegal. No using corporate money for PACs or lobbyists. Shareholders that are citizens already have "a voice" of their own and shareholders of corporations are not necessarily citizens with constitutional rights. As for "will of the people", what the public/majority want has nothing to do with "representatives" - we are now in a state of taxation without representation. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/21/americas-oligarchy-not-democracy-or-republic-unive/ which is something we already "feel", via impact of legislation against our best interest.
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  768. The distinction between US and EU, particularly US and UK, started to disintegrate with Reagan/Thatcher fiscal policy alliance, and has only picked up speed. Neoliberalism of the economies by the policitians is not a US only fiscal policy.
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  769. Alonso Pereyra Yes, was every generation.  Harder to perpetuate duplicitous propaganda these days.  Still too much embedded in our culture, unquestioned.  "Occupy Wall St" should've been named "We Are Wall St" (401Ks, pensions).
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  770. Massive amounts of half truths, intentional diversion from whole truth, leading people to wrong conclusions.  In effect, lies.ARandomGuy
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  771. The masses allowed it to happen? Really? I thought it was our corrupt congress allowing corporations to write legislation so they have monopolies, suppress wages, create a labor glut with immigrants who're also grossly underpaid and abused, had over $7.2 trillion in bailouts, subsidies, no bid contracts, tax havens, non-fiduciary investment advice to the public, loan shark payday loans, trash prescription drugs, etc. Well, this could go on for miles.
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  772. "Free" federal training on "terrorism" has damaged police discerning/discretion.
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  773. We, the public, could actually be tasked to help. Typical cannot be full time, but certainly we can spend some time, tasked, to find data.
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  774.  @reweydewy  Verbally, when it comes to large leak, they tell me their guessing which part, as they've replaced them one by one. Now that I want a state waiver from any more evap bills, in writing, it says "Customer is refusing general diagnostics." ?!?
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  775. Puerto Rico, don't pay the bill. UBS and hedge fund equals fraud. And for future reference, never ever trust a US or UK bank or corporation. Fraud, with federal complicity. Bank fraud: So long as they keep being paid, they'll keep doing it.
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  776. +Buz Off ps - Yes, this is a bailout. It is telling Puerto Rico to bail out the fraudulent USB bonds.
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  777. That is the intent of the proposals going through congress, stopping that.
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  778. Outsource contractor outsourced his work. Unpaid end worker called owner of the records and said pay my bill else I'll publish your records on the web.
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  779. Hmmm, - $25K, the estimate for the household system, not including installation - payoff, in about 25 to 30 years - solar system expected lifespan, 20 years - with 10% of jobs transitioning to "contingent" and wages shrinking, loan for $25K system is coming from ...?
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  780. "when we could fit the whole company in just one conference room" He must be talking about before they were a company, when they produced slideware for getting investors, as I doubt their initial business, shipping books, were a handful of people who'd fit "in just one conference room". "let's see" Yeah, because "Move fast, break things." hasn't bit citizenry is the butt. (face palm)
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  781. Spam scam.
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  782. The only thing I ever heard him say he'd make better, is national medical insurance that'd cover everyone , even the homeless, very very early in his campaign. Did he do that? No. What he markets is a home for anger and the concept of Burn The House Down.
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  783. They are doing something about it, eliminating their competitors so they have no competition.
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  784.  James Hanninen  "thugs" is what the police look like. Long ago, the Mr looked out his company window. Two cruisers, passing a joint between them. He called his coworkers over. They hollered out the window. One of the cops went to his trunk, took out a rifle, and aimed it at them.
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  785. Noticeable through the years is change in police physical stance - shooting range. Formerly, if they believed they themselves in potential physical danger, they used to take cover. Now, they jump out and shoot. It belies their mindset, shoot first.
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  786.  @unicorn73212  Kids screaming in the store(s) are usually vastly overtired. Once saw a man in the mall buying a fridge near 10pm. The screaming baby he was holding bit him in the shoulder, furious not getting his father's attention. It is symptomatic of our economically unstable culture. There is no one home, to leave the kid(s) with, regardless of reason, with sole adult who've things to be done. "the majority of them hate us" are those who've limited life experience - and I don't understand why anyone would give a care what "they" think.
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  787. They killed Israelis, not just Jewish.
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  788. As near as I can tell, it's due to the loss of "Justice of the peace" positions. A friend/neighbor asked, "Does EVERYTHING have to be a law? I can't even cross the street to talk to a neighbor with a beer in my hand!" I explained this comes about from the yahoos that believe if it isn't a law, then they have a right to do whatever they want. Some beer in a gift basket, I asked neighbor's girl to ask if her father wanted it. She ran home, came back, "Yes.", so I gave it to her, and she ran it home. OMG! Beer! In the hands of a 10 year old! OMG! Yes, I get his point, that non-incidental day could've gone very differently.
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  789. Sort of. It's a matter of clergy losing their power, and doubling down on opposition.
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  790. I HATE this car. I presume the software was written by Junior High School java students. I've only owned it for a month and a half, and I HATE this car. It alarms itself (blaring at you when you open the door). It's locked me in more than once, disabling the interior and exterior handles. It never shuts off its warning buzzers (so much for sitting by the river with the car off and door open for summer breeze). It disables opening the trunk when the motor's running (so your going to have to shut it off for the HazMat deliveries that insist you stay in the car and open your trunk). I HATE this car.
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  791. News blackout on Israel abuse, for decades, burst onto the public forum, by Oct 7.
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  792. Yes, since you asked, yes. Now get back to work, so your middleman employer can send your weekly tax donations in.
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  793. It used to be naivete, and to literally rally troops for wars we had no business engaging in. But now, it's the default.
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  794. Neighbor, in all likelihood, was looking for bargain basement priced work, and he got what he paid for. The illegal migrant worker, in all likelihood, saw little to nothing of what they were told they'd be paid. That is the ruse behind employers' claim "there's a shortage of workers". What is your neighbor going to do about it? Nothing. What are the illegal unpaid workers going to do about it? Nothing.
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  795. "out of fear"? Out of the actual repercussions, most notably supplanted from their jobs.
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  796. The supposition is that if Hamas gave a rat's hiney about Palestinian, they'd bring this to a stop by giving back the hostages. Palestinian have been suffocating from an Israeli chokehold, for decades. The Hamas attack was merely the trigger for Israel to accelerate its genocide. Israeli knew this was coming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkXJwErm8DM
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  797. They're pissed off. As is much of the country. Globalism is an epic failure, and our politicians are now hiding in Far Left and Far Right deflection arguments for theatrical purpose.
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  798.  @stephensuddick2557  "Third way" is right leaning. "Third way" eliminated D party.
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  799.  @stephensuddick2557  Presumed you were familiar with (at the least recent) American D politics, being as you're opining on it...
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  800.  @liasosa4100  She is a contracted nurse, which doesn't presume "independent" contractor any more than Uber driver is "independent". Nursing contract agencies are just as low end in pay/benefits as other "contracting" agencies.
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  801.  @bobwallace9753  Redefining "independent" contractor is no different than Uber's false claim their drivers are "independent". They're told where to be and when and at what rate they'll be paid.
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  802.  @bobwallace9753  Kitchen remodeler is employee of construction contractor, or at least, used to be. Commonality w/Uber is each treated as "this one location" bogus "contract". "contractor" used to evade labor law. No idea how California voted out DOL definition of "employee" vs "contractor" definition. Or even wilder, defense doing so (in no way is person "independent" of their tools, schedule, etc.). Yes, "a legal mess".
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  803.  @bobwallace9753  We've been transitioned to what suits the international elitist, Max Profit, which works for no one but Max Profit. China offshoring for cheaper now has Chinese youth upset, "no future". Unless/until robots start eating/shopping, that path's a corporatist's dream. Re, UBI, I don't see how taking money out of our back pocket to send it back to us as a UBI check solves anything.
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  804.  @bobwallace9753  Enforce the law: A, else nothing changes. $39B in wage theft. Untold billions in tax evasion. Notably missing in your B, taxes go up on corporations, millionaires and billionaires.
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  805.  @bobwallace9753 We have employment laws that protect people against the greedy. Those laws are not being enforced.
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  806.  @bobwallace9753  Watching corporate cabinet/admin selection, you've more faith than I. Best of luck, to all of us.
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  807.  @Andre_XX  Maybe to you, not to all. Faith doesn't equate to absolute loyalty to clerics/priests/dogma/etc., the formal structure of religions.
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  808.  @LLH7202  For religious fundamentalists (literalists), faith is prescribed in exact literal wording. For others, metaphorical.
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  809.  @Andre_XX  True, people created God, and science. We've constantly ascribed words and concepts for things we don't understand, in an attempt to explain our experiences. Science has included bloodletting, reading the bumps on heads, etc.
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  810.  @trevinbeattie4888  Unfortunately there is and always has been boatloads of pseudo-science. They dream up ideas which cannot possibly be tested. There's a reason it's called "State of the art.".
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  811.  @Uniblab9000  We live in an era in which prior scientific proclamations are continuously proven wrong. Science has many a scientist who stands atop nothing more than ego espousing a claim. "Only humans use tools."
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  812.  @Uniblab9000  You're very generous, to overlook the damage that they do, with false proclamations.
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  813.  @Uniblab9000  Not willing to recognize science is religion, when scientists are treated as oracles.
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  814.  @edwardlulofs444  Are you kidding? I told the Mr, I learn more from comments than articles.
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  815. Anti-abortion puts them right back there: breeding stock.
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  816. Well documented, in early 1970s' Trilateral Commission's "The Crisis Of Democracy" report. In which the international elite complained of "an excess of democracy".
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  817. I mind it being cast as "redistribution". The profits are earned, as in earned income, by those paying higher tax rates than those living on capital gains and the ridiculous 5% tax rate. National Living Min Wage.
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  818.  @glenjohnson5323  There's nothing conservative about it. This is emotive gaming of the tiny number of people they can move with it, the basis is libertarian. Most of the actual conservatives are mainly silent, to retain political power. We're in class warfare, and they'll use any tactics they can.
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  819.  @glenjohnson5323  Or something they do like. Similar hypocrisy about enforcing the law. On the right, Trump, on the left, at least 12 million here illegally.
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  820. Facts, all of them.
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  821. Actually, it started with Reagan's "one time" amnesty. And has carried on ever since.
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  822. It's an introduction to the topic. A good book along a single thread of empiring, Sven Beckart's Empire of Cotton.
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  823.  @monacorising  Don't claim it's a business if it can't pay its workers a living wage.
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  824.  @briganja  Well don't worry, the Ds will take care of it all with a "tax credit" once a year in April. Honestly, the public's interests been sold down the river, by both sides.
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  825.  @briganja  The reality that near no one is looking after the public's interest. We're back to taxation without representation.
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  826.  @briganja  FDA knew falsified tests on generics being imported, and let it fly through, til Civil lawsuit. Then fined Ranbaxy, but let them keep selling the junk, to make money to pay for the fines. How f'ed up is that.
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  827. @doobleedoo That's their story, "made poor people in 3rd world countries wealthier", and their sticking to it. Driven off their farms, in Mexico and China, by dumping Big Ag glut into their markets, to drive them off their land and into factories, for cheap wages. Bulldozed out of their villages, in Cambodia. Etc. Etc. I'm not grateful for redistributing poverty, and calling that a success.
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  828.  @CT-vm4gf  It's extraordinary denial, to purport shipping ordinary things from sole [cheap] source, as some kind of necessity, particularly given the extraordinary high cost of political/economic/cultural chaos and extreme environmental damage. Well beyond naive, it's malice.
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  829.  @ThomasFromTN  Long haul transport, is intrinsically add of high carbon footprint. Sole source on the planet, for essentials, is intrinsically high risk. Dumping major ag products into an ag economy/region, intent to drive labor into labor market, is intrinsically anti-democratic. You're in denial.
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  830. Coming up on the ballot: - open borders, or - hand gov control of uterus Now, what do those two things having in common, who's interests do these two serve? If you get to that answer, and look back at our history, you'll see common thread.
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  831. She's a good facade story. "Companies are fighting scrapping over the same small number of STEM workers." The small number of STEM workers she's talking about are the cheapest of the cheap, foreign OPT students, for whom they have to pay no employer taxes. Where "career path" is "will work for green card" path. "largest employer" Well, unfortunately small businesses are the largest employers in the country, who they're remarkably wiping out, by skating on their tax bills, who their competitors can't escape. "career choice" Is not helpful, nor realistically available, to warehouse workers who finish their work day utterly exhausted. "we pay 95% of tuition" is not helpful, nor realistically available, to warehouse staff for whom $15 an hour is non-living wage.
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  832.  @HusseinDoha  1) There is no good reason hiring a foreign student should cheaper than hiring anyone else. 2) It's a work program for sake of occupation training before they leave hence, terms should require that they actually LEAVE.
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  833. Interesting. Isn't minority entitlement the basis of complains against Burns? And since you brought it up, I've never seen anyone more "Karen" that Callie.
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  834.  @doctornietzsche6723  So yes, the non-coastal doesn't look like the coasts. Furthermore, even most of "the coasts" don't "look like" the few major metro coastals of Boston, NY, San Francisco, etc, Or as a new coworker once put it, "Where are all the black people? There aren't any up here." Republic of Cambridge seems to be under the false impression a) we're homogeneous, b) defective if our communities don't all look the same and c) with the exemption being 100% non-"diverse" minority communities.
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  835. Business and migration.
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  836.  @thepepperlander  What's your data?
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  837. There's nothing Christian about the Evangelical overtake by the republicans. "Jesus worked with flawed men." He overturned the tables of those shilling in the temple. He didn't make them into apostles. He said of taxes, give Caesar his due. He didn't say, only the poor should. He embraced Mary Magdeline. He didn't grab her pussy.
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  838. Living Wage.
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  839. It is economic eugenics. And the resultant population shrinkage, against industry''s interests, is addressed in UN's Migration Policy Institute's "Replacement Population". Import a labor glut, to suppress wages in the job market. And legally tenuous workers, all the better for shady industry to exploit. The winning formula for billionaires: offshore work/onshore workers. Deflect criticism with "Racists!", "Xenophobes!" The Mr, an immigrant himself, is just coming to realize the ploy himself. From my own life history, stories from my childhood. A Japanese war bride saved my 5 year old life. A Thai war bride chased 8 year old me around her kitchen with a lobster, laughing. A Portuguese coworker inviting me over for a dinner of "cow and pig". A Haitian coworker telling me English sounds like we're growling with all our words heavily used rs, s'es and ts. etc. From his own experience, given a pink slip, in concert with his green card.
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  840.  @Sarah-re7cg  When poor means lack of food, housing, medical care, it's not acceptable, let alone acceptable environment to introduce children to. Furthermore, for sake of having billionaires?!?
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  841. Ironic, isn't it. All this R flap over "political" judge/prosecutor, after circumventing Senate rules for Supreme Court seats?
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  842. Find a link and publish. The political non-flattering materials are removed from the web. Such as the Trilateral Commissions' "Crisis Of Democracy", a 1970s report on the international elites' complains we've "an excess of democracy". And the Migration Policy Institutes' "Replacement Population" report on migrants as replacements for diminishing populations of West/Westernized. Romney's much cited "46% pay no taxes" report, which said 45% were students and elders and the remaining 1% who pay no taxes are the 1%.
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  843. The rate of influx is causing a great deal of consternation. And immigrants air their fair share of obnoxious behavior/comments/racism. At a Chinese coworkers house party, his wife walked up to their water dispenser, pushed a button for hot water, and proudly said "Look at me! I'm a lazy American!" I thought she's the only person I've ever met with a water dispenser in their house, let alone hot water dispenser. At work, surrounded by Chinese and Indian, who bickered over "next hire must be [Indian/Chinese]". Twenty years later, one rang my phone, to advocate for Trump, concerned her "American born" children were going to have no chance against people like herself. Note even then, she didn't consider her children American, but "American born".
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  844. What part of "well regulated" do you not understand.
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  845.  @willmont8258  Not even seeing what you purport it to mean: training and discipline.
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  846.  @willmont8258  All of it, "well regulated militia". It's explicit.
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  847.  @willmont8258  Because your piece-meal dissection consistently avoids "well regulated militia". Which is deflection. There seems to be a serious deficit in your reading comprehension. The entire statement: "A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." affords the right to own arms for purpose of a well regulated militia. Not because cowardice fear of neighbors, the purported Gun Owners Of America's farce of "self defense". Not because the Elmer Fudds want to blow away mice in their barns with a shotgun. "A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State"
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  848. Both parties are owned and operated by the wealthy: Rs, for tax-free elites, and Ds, for all the illegal labor the elite could possibly use. We are in a storm at sea. Rs and Ds have been using denial. Hence, Trump. Who is quite the wind sock. Aka, rudderless. Obvious in his wild swings on tariffs alone. Under some false impression he can lead. Diagnosing a problem, is not the same as the capability of fixing a problem. The problem: globalism. A political policy of what benefits elite is "good", for all.
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  849.  @maremma14  Stunned, stunned, years back when Sen. Leahy of Vermont said into a reporter's mic, "Yes I sell my vote, if it doesn't affect my state." Stunned.
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  850.  @jcast3741  "Which car?", often follows, click.
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  851. No one is telling the public someone can get covid more than once.
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  852.  @e-spy  I read news daily, and it centers on "put on a [damned] mask". No "don't touch your face" nor "can get it repeatedly", except for the Japanese news - who're very thorough in instruction.
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  853.  @KP-us1ld  You don't speak for everyone, because of Nordic countries.
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  854.  @patricksullivan7140  And many fail at that. But then, when kids are fed junk at school (ketchup is not a vegetable), that's on governance corruption.
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  855.  @TheTerminator-2  It takes far more than law, to civilize. Interesting horrific book, Slavery By Another Name. Where loss of control/ownership over slaves plunged black men into further dire straits, as the enslaving had no cash investment in them, in their lawlessly apprehended black labor, acquired solely via accusation.
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  856.  @Mkundera  Greed never goes to the ball, it's a "fund raiser".
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  857. They are details from Columbus' own diary.
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  858. The national high priest, Max Profit, running the country.
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  859.  @mskimberly7777  As iterated by Jamie Johnson, Patriotic Millionaires (on twitter), Sanders, Warren, etc.
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  860. True, if we only had 3 people burning coal it'd be no problem. But population growth is deflection. Bad practices by commerce is the culprit, and that includes buying corrupt politicians to maintain status quo of bad practices.
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  861. As an American, 330M people here can't keep supporting billions in China and India, and the billions collectively elsewhere. If tariffs mean production of our own consumables, so be it.
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  862.  @sunbeam60  Is scandinavia productive? All that Ikea malarkey have Made in China, Bangladesh, etc on it.
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  863.  @dreamcoyote  "Increased productivity" is an elite-favorable term for making everyone work longer hours, for less.
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  864.  @faustinreeder1075  "Leave then" First, who died and left you king? Second, you're immigration law illiterate.
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  865.  @righteousmammon9011  You are US illiterate. Average start for new worker is 2 weeks a year. It takes decades at one employer to achieve 6 weeks vacation, if ever, far longer than employment stability at any one employer.
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  866. It's an accelerate, of decline.
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  867. The purpose of citizenry is to insure industry, with 50 state variances of doing so. Industry, tax exempt and tax supported.
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  868. Ignorant and bigoted assessment. Chinese and Japanese students, PO'ed when Michael Sandel vistited, that their nations also hide history from them. It's not a US specific or even West specific phenomena.
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  869.  @62Cristoforo  Arrogant. Mighty arrogant statement. "Holy moly, where's the Right's hostility coming from ?!?"
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  870.  @UnclePlaysBadly  The one big one is "asylum seekers". Because we have millions upon millions here illegally, and less than a mere 1M pending asylum cases with the courts, many of which are default asylum cases due to prior legal adjudication with a deport ruling. Of course the person being interviewed represents The Migration Policy Institute, who regard migrants as "replacement population" - yes, their words, "replacement population". They also praise remittances by the migrants as the most effective 3rd world aid. Their objectives and evaluation does not include impact on the populations their migrant promotion policies have on the populations they're moving them into. Whole Truth Matters
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  871. Selective facts. It didn't cover effect on the locations the migrants have been moved into.
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  872. Medical community also keeps growing in knowledge, after being fed the official academic version. Academia does some research, but out in real life is where the theory is tested. Science output isn't final.
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  873. Howard Zinn's A Peoples History of the US
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  874. Didn't this guy used to be a comedian?
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  875. How about we ditch this bogus empathy and get back to some hard legal rights. They need a union.
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  876. Similar in industry - part of your job is competing for under resourced. Literally advised, if you want a parking space, you'll have to come in earlier than your coworker - lunch food, go to the cafe before your coworkers, etc.
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  877.  @Mobil3targ3t  Right on the money (pun intended), Mobil. And, worse, [not-necessarity-]Citizens United, granted them anonymous speech, for sake of weaponized political influence. Not necessarily citizens, and weaponized political influence, taking an ax to domestic peace, and democracy.
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  878.  @billrobbins5874  Yes, they exist for making a profit, but regulation ensures level playing field and market integrity. The corruption is not revealing their political speech, even to their owners, the shareholders - who're also people, with families, and not just shareholders. It's a method of taking [corporate political] power from people, owners, without being accountable to them.
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  879.  @willmont8258  Yes, corporations "dictate law". Senator Whitehouse: Tech Industry calls the congressmen to the west coast annually to inform them of their priorities for the year. And they go, to the west coast, annually.
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  880.  @warpeace3755  They weren't just bailed out, in effect rewarded. No one went to jail, for Moody's fraudulent "AAA" ratings on bundled garbage mortgages. They reap reward, we're shunted the damage from their risk - because they're also tax exempt weasels.
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  881.  @willmont8258  Moody's - no fraud charges for "AAA" ratings. Koch Industries - no murder charges for knowingly killing population with their operations. GE - superfund sites abandoned in Western Massachusetts - no consequences. Love Canal. Lots of examples of corporate wrong doing without consequence.
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  882.  @willmont8258  Low bar, "it's not illegal", which leads to the proliferate of regulation, because of amoral lowbar. Cleanup was not done. Love Canal, rebuilt upon. Pittsfield MA water, still tainted from GE superfund site. Glidden, shunted the bill to California public. Etc. etc. etc.
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  883. ​ @willmont8258  And in violation of law, "the corporation", all the owners, should be jailed, just as any individual would. For cases such as wrongful death, fraud, etc. But alas, as you espouse in your posts, the privilege of all rights, without responsibility, accountability, eh?
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  884.  @willmont8258  Koch Industry does illegal activity, causing wrongful dead, because they're well aware, - they won't be jailed - the token fine is cheaper than cost of operating legally
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  885.  @willmont8258  Since when is fraud not illegal? Yes, owners should go to jail. That must be it, integrity is socialist/Marxist/communist. Because capitalism means a company is a "person" for sake of all profit and privilege, and simultaneously not a person for accountability.
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  886.  @IDEAWORLDWIDEINC  You're an optimist.
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  887. Being as "American companies" aren't so much American any more, that'd be a tough call. Just about everything average Joe can buy is made in China, regardless of antiquated brand-name origin. Such has been the wreckage, globally, via globalism.
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  888. "non-US backup" Well not likely to happen. Unless you are a young American in a dynamic profession. The immigration laws of almost all other countries are far stricter than US'.
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  889.  @hm5142  Interesting. Same sense, but as of approx. 2006, when it became obvious US fed gov (president and congress) were shameless. Stunning moment, when congressional rep. justified her vote, to allow industry to use synthetic blood on people in ambulances, without their knowledge or consent. It had been kicked out of hospitals as it took surgery survival rate from 100% to 50%. "Where else are they going to try it?", she said.
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  890. When I read on the history of the region, I came to realize they've been employment sequestered for reserve for coal mining alone. The offshoring of textiles worsened the broader vicinity. Offshoring has rolled out from sea to shining sea, as has the recognition that The American Dream is mythology. A patchwork of Uber driving, AirBnB rental and Etsy sales isn't going to keep the country afloat - and that includes the product markets. No discretionary incomes, no discretionary income markets.
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  891. @MG Why is it that you believe the above comments and this lady's interview don't apply to black or indigenous people?
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  892. Who raised you, and where? So sorry this has been your life.
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  893.  @ailleananaithnid2566  To that person, I'd have asked, how can anyone trust a word out of your mouth.
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  894.  @francoisbouvier7861  That was the point of WTO, rewire economies around what's best for elite.
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  895.  @Athena-g712  Notably, they've fallen into the habit of half-truth - which is the source of conflict. Because whole truth leads people to different conclusions. First one I ran into, Romney's pervasive "[x] percentage pay no taxes!" It took me a LONG time to find the study. What he said was true, but not whole truth. The vast majority of "pays no taxes" were seniors and students who work less than 13 weeks a year. The remaining 1% were "The 1%" - extremely wealthy. Shame on our news reports, who didn't bother to research and refute his misleading claim.
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  896. Most disturbing you can imagine? Trayvon Martin, George Floyd, Kelly Thomas, 15M citizens living in 3rd world poverty, millions of federally Big Pharma approved opioid addicts and (no numbers) of dead from it, millions of US' minority children who's parents have been jailed, etc. etc. etc. ???
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  897.  @HelenCamile63  Spot on Helen. Epic gas lighting. Started with globalization, costing the public, in some cases, everything. Fuel on the fire, persistent announcements of "good economy", class war declaration, "basket of deplorables". Net result of this hellish chaos, billionaires.
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  898.  @pageek3487  Current US law is that no monies for weapons will be given to foreign nations who block humanitarian aid. Washington is breaking our laws, including this one. Yes, we can put restrictions on arms sales. But none of it matters, when corrupt politicians suffer no repercussions for breaking our laws.
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  899. Whereas you personally have opened your doors, and took in the 10s of thousands who spontaneously were dumped into NYC? You're naivete is stunning.
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  900.  @truthgratitudehumilitycourage  Organizations would like us to presume it's all/only due to threat in place of origin. When for some, it's about Disney toys and pizza. And thus blow their credibility. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-zero-tolerance-policy-family-separation-foster-care-immigrant-children
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  901.  @truthgratitudehumilitycourage  "but it isn't journalism" Whole Truth Matters, but with media owned by corporations, "news" has turned agenda propaganda. They count on the public being misinformed. I've noticed even "fact check" is verification of factoid, and not Whole Truth, as in all the facts. It intends to turn the public into a battle field, based on half truths. It serves as deflection.
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  902.  @ninsemor  Hi from northeast US yes seen from here the D also don't care about the country only themself and the billionaires.. It looks bananas from here inside. so sad great America is going downhill.
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  903.  @SirFoodie1904  As predicted by Sir James Goldsmith. He said globalizing trade would cause global cultural, economic and political chaos. And here we are. For communities in which a transient is still novel, you may find polite. For communities who've had enough of the transients, or been damaged by them, you can expect hostility. Lakeside, with an immigrant friend from Syria, in her ultra tiny town of 4K or so, an Irish lady wandered over to complain the majority of the population was native. We just looked at her like she had 3 heads and a spare, totally unable to respond to her unrealistic expectations, and she wandered away. We continued our conversation about Syrian immigrant's husband in the process of dying from cancer. Transience is nothing personal. Which is inherently the problem. Anyways, best of luck to you, SirFoodie.
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  904. That'd undermine his ability to deny what a rancid little operation it is...
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  905. Shameless farce, calling them "asylum seekers". They never apply for asylum, as they're well aware they don't qualify, as does this man, Leeser. And he shows where his loyalties are, when he said they should by default be able to come, and work for years.
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  906. 1/4 of "native" Americans have French genes, from one tiny location in France. And then there's the Nordic who came down the east coast of North America.
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  907.  @meemzing  Because they are comparable. Aggression, and fighting over resources, is human history. Propaganda is necessary to get millions to fight/kill millions, because that is a wholly unnatural creation: large scale war, basis is normally elite interests, not national interests. By the way, the spelling is genocide.
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  908.  @meemzing  So your argument is what happened 10,000 years ago is to be permanent and undisturbed? Do tell, keep going. Settler colonialism, does that include the warring between native Americans, or are we solely discussing 10K years back?
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  909.  @briangraham1024  Strawman, on tv. No different than The Donna Reed Show, Father Knows Best, etc. People believe what they see on TV is real life. It's no coincidence those who aspire to Donna Reed/Father Knows Best households are Trump loyalists. Is that US only? I don't think so. Downton Abbey, where the wealthy were non-exploitive caretakers of their staff. Yeah.
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  910. That the military are an extension of police.
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  911.  @WG55  "The nation must restore order. The military stands ready."
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  912. Stop guessing. It's radicals, emotive radicals. "Your children are under attack!"
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  913.  @AmateurHistorian999  Doing next to nothing?!? They're not loud and outrageous, which doesn't make news, which apparently the limited extent of your view. Broaden your view.
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  914.  @AmateurHistorian999  It's in the interview, when the librarian says They've not even read the book they object to. And intent to grab power/shut down specifically education, is ALEC in origin, aka "libertarian", not MAGA. Libertarian up the chain, Koch/ALEC/Federalist Society/etc., using MAGA's PO'ed momentum, for their agenda: blow it all up. Machiavellian.
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  915.  @JaniceinOR  If enough [any demographic] stood up to [power grab hierarchy positions], the extreme policies would not be in place. Very hard to get people to stop lying to themselves. Or, drawing a line once down a bad path. Bad things going on, degrades, til "save yourself" kicks in - is how it escalates to genocide. The ultimate in lying to one's self.
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  916.  @gerriperreault6905  Agree, gerri. It's obnoxious and infantile.
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  917. Where it should be? What's the court, or the states, doing in my pants? There's no reason my neighbor or legislator should require women near death, to remove a dead fetus, or remove an ectopic embryo. The ignorance on this topic is way beyond astounding. Yet, doesn't stop opining on it.
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  918. Yes.
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  919.  @jennifermarkens1882  Weirder than that. Obsessed with what goes on in other people's pants. It's creepy.
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  920. While @toneyeye seems to have never read the 2nd amendment...
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  921. There's no "may" form militias.
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  922. Each nation has no problem identifying bad behavior ... of others.
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  923. I've a vague inkling that if there is a hell, it's living eternally the intentional pain one's caused during their life.
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  924.  @dannavalentin46  A few lucky ones have teachers who recognize the bend of a child is artistic, and speak to the parents about sending them to a school focused on arts. Unfortunately, that's a rarity, as both teachers and parents are usually single mind focused on grades - regurgitating what's regimentally "taught". Unfortunately, excellent grades usually reflect deference and submissiveness, not interests or capabilities.
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  925. By economists' measure, Photo of Seattle residents, very well off by economists' world view standards http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/column-5-2-percent-income-growth-doldrums/ Photo of Syrian residents, destitute by economists' world view standards http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/refugee-crisis-outgrows-usual-fixes-heres/ Furthermore, he needs to dig deeper into history. For example, as English were attacking diamond mine owners in Africa (DeBeers), letter sent to the Queen asking to ensure there was population healthy enough to be used as army. Not a social conscious motive. Automated warring weapons, decline in public wealth, since less pressure to have troops at the ready, no coincidence. As the West reverts to aristocracy, for example, US congress has turned into House of Lords. "allowing commoners the ability to become healthier, wealthier, and far happier." Except for the recurring sporadic genocides. It's a wrong book, for a wrong time, the time being when the populations learn both what's under the whitewashed history they were taught, and the currently occurring corruption.
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  926. In progress. Verizon, for instance, 30% are going.
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  927.  @krunkle5136  Write. Senator [or PM or ...], what are you doing about our importation of [pharma drugs, cars, etc.] made with unethical labor in [nation]? Even better, during their town hall meetings.
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  928. Disinformation, because the public could produce it on their own. May wreck commerce's alcohol industry.
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  929.  @GentlemanJack705  The definition of unemployed was redefined in the early 1990s, not likely coincidental to passing NAFTA. "Unemployed" since then only applies to anyone who's looked for a job, in the past month . Long term unemployed, who've given up, those numbers are now hidden in "labor participation rate". 1 in 3, under 35, have no job, and live with their parents. As the native population does worse, from the industry solution, import a labor glut, the downward spiral (employment instability/loss of opportunity/wage stagnation) of their welfare accelerates. Recently the head of the fed, did cite, importation of labor glut is doing damage. So, "cutting rates isn't helping", is true, but for a different reason. This is enough info, for you, gentlemanjack, to go do your own homework . Because the public is being fed half truths, by both sides of the aisle.
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  930. "Europeans look in horror at how US companies..." Are you kidding? Euro, like the US, offshored their worst practices to Far East.
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  931.  @26skogen  It's corrupt, to the point of being unable to hide it. And the corruption has caused enough damage that the public is thrashing, economically, and therefore in their voting. Because regardless of what they do, they keep finding themselves thrown deeper into a hole, by policy. Succinctly, we're back to taxation without representation.
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  932. @ GDP is extraction of more work hours for less pay, which suits those living off of unearned income, aka "capital gains". Welfare state, by/for/of the elite.
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  933. @ "Economic models are certainly about " theory. Unaccountable unscientific theory.
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  934. @ "...have any relevance to the long term success of a country" Define success.
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  935.  @DrFunk-rk6yl  "as a political issue", because it was made one, by industry, in this case, fossil fuel industry. Marijuana, alcohol industry. etc.etc.
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  936. @ If you don't see connection between industry, with purchased legislator's legislation, then no, it wouldn't make sense. Much of our legislation is made political, because any arguments based on "promoting the general welfare" isn't in alignment with Max Profit industry. Most notably, climate change. But politicizing is not unique, to fossil fuel.
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  937. It takes homework, and more time than people have these days. It was quite a while to unearth the report Romney kept citing, 40-something percent of people pay no taxes. Was the number accurate? Yes, but not the whole truth. The number was elderly and students working 13 weeks or less per year, with one exception. 1% were The 1%, paying no taxes.
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  938.  @DeuxChatsNoir7074  Private school, critical thinking wasn't a course, it was inherent in every reading assignment from 4th grade on. "Contrast and compare ..."
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  939.  @bigbrotherisasob  Legislating from the bench. Citizens United. No where is there a constitutional right to anonymous speech. Bump stock. The right to a musket isn't the right to an AR-15, or any/all other arms. Gun right for personal defense. Ignores intended purpose: "well regulated militia", not personal defense. State rule over uteruses. Let us create state law, all males will have vasectomy and require state permission to breed.
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  940. Do we need to feel, about this fairly new concept?
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  941.  @lovevsabsence  It is a dichotomy built in part on reality, and built in part on fantasy. The reality is the emergence of a black culture from being blocked from full participation in majority culture (and the "not black enough" criticisms). The fantasy is the majority culture is a cake walk for most or all of the majority, aka middle class. The second sends black into a tailspin upon discovery that middle class isn't a cakewalk, and that often is falsely attributed to racism. Also black elites have the same blindness of other elites - Why aren't those poor (black) people saving for rainy days? US does not acknowledge class, nor the barriers between them hardening.
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  942. This is like the hiding of ground truth, of Vietnam. Yes, governments hide the evil they do. That's getting harder now, due to the internet.
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  943. @minutemeditations14All Adults do both. Enjoy what's good, support it, and acknowledge what's bad, and push back.
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  944. Your future wasn't shattered. Your assumptions about it, likely were. "Sad", relative to what can be, isn't helpful. Roll up your sleeves. Advocate, support, assist. You'll be amazed, at what you do, changes the atmosphere, in the immediate vicinity, in civility. Hold the door for people. Make someone else's day, just a little better, "Have a good evening." A lot of boys (and girls) aren't being led to adulthood, confident, competent and independent. Disabling, is parents falling in love with the role of "Mom" and "Dad", who actively cultivate dependence. Worsened by divorce, where competitive weekender parent tries being the "all fun" household. Best case, delayed maturation, worst case, arrested development. This used to be only "the baby" of the families, small ratio. With incredibly small families these days, it's becoming the norm. Notes on the walls at work: "Pick up after yourself, your mother doesn't work here."
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  945.  @PigletDaStaffyBull  The point is trust. Damaged.
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  946. Veneer of respectability.
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  947.  @kevinjenner9502  ?!? The West's elites have a whole lot of money in foreign nations, and the US' influence using "diplomacy" and "trade deals" have been about the elites' economic interests. It is a farce, to not acknowledge that. Be that the kneecapping of Western elites' investments in China, or Chinese businesses/citizens investing in US' industries, lands, etc. Strange this woman is dodging addressing China similarly dodging foreign ownership within China. Globalism has not been about what's best for the nations, nor the nations' citizenry. That should've been inescapably obvious, when covid meltdown exposed sole-sourcing. ...eggs...one basket...
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  948. Some of it's occurring. Evanston IL, Wacovia Bank, George Mason University.
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  949. The more things change, the more things stay the same.
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  950. There is no "flexibility" in morality. Or as the very rich Larry Ellison told the very rich Steve Jobs, "The most expensive real estate on the planet is the moral high ground." There is a price to pay, for ethics. Hence, the ruthless' "success", their definition being money and power. They willingly cross lines others won't. Trump didn't get where he is, without a whole lot of collaborative "blind eye" toward his ballooned corruption. Which at this time evolved into party collective denial.
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  951. Democrats also. "Asylum seekers", for instance.
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  952.  @laithmughrabi8990  Illogical and irrelevant Euro standards.
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  953. Why? Look up Trilateral Commission's The Crisis of Democracy.
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  954. We?
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  955. Israel is a US welfare child, which isn't sovereign. Israel uses that welfare for weaponry purchase, as did Hamas, so two of a kind. Israel is a purported "nation" without respect for what it claims is its borders.
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  956. Trump's a sociopath, variant narcissist. Praise and endorsement are they only things they're able to tolerate. They are at war with the very notion of personal agency of others.
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  957. "We" didn't do this. The ACLU did. And exactly who the ACLU is, is no longer clear. They will not reveal their donors.
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  958. Spam scam.
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  959. Let's get the historic mythology cleaned up, eh? 2/3s on the Mayflower were aboard for commerce, not religion. Church attendance was mandated by the early colonizers. And that chokehold continued for quite a while. Wasn't Thoreau jailed for not paying his tithes taxes to the church? We still have elite trying to muscle their religion down the population's throat, for weekly control, by their cleric minions.
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  960.  @AldrickRosas2765  There's nothing Christian about slavery. Democrats?!? Pot ... kettle. Erasure of "...a well regulated militia...", for instance.
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  961.  @LeftToWrite006  Yes, the Puritans, who were only 1/3rd of those on the Mayflower. I don't see current Christian religious extremists demand everyone else worship as they do. But the politicians are trying to legislate the public live as they, the extremists, pretend to be living.
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  962. "de-risking", what is in actuality, is theft of public funds.
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  963. She has selective memory, and zero accountability.
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  964.  @adalyndh6843  If this conversation was only about you, that might be relevant...
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  965. Goal 1, enslave the locals. Unable to do so, goal 2, supplant population with colonizers. Goal 1 now in effect, China. Goal 2 now in effect, with influx to the West of maliable workers, the desperate from 3rd world. India doing both, goal 1 and goal 2, via Tech.
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  966.  @eagle1ear  Spot on Eagle. Clinton kicked it off, and Bannon said he was ready and waiting for that, to run with it. 2015, PBS commercial airing in rapid succession, Hispanics with be US majority by 20XX. By the 5th airing, I thought, "Oh my God, they're kicked off demographic war."
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  967. Yes. And to highly profitable corporations, foreign and domestic, to rebuild onshore their failed "multi-national" offshoring endeavors. And for an extra 100K police nationally, just in case DefundPolice actually takes root. And...and...and [endless list of what's beneficial to elites' wealth].
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  968.  @girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288  Well let's start right here: they aren't asylum seekers. The millions coming over the border don't apply for asylum, because they don't apply, because they don't qualify. Because they're economic migrants, and not asylum seekers. You seem to be illiterate on the topic, and instead of doing any homework on it, emotive.
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  969.  @Ruby_Villain  The UN, agreeing to take the land from those living there, and somehow fabricating a nation called Israel.
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  970. Michele is about 1 topic, her personal black grievance.
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  971.  @loretta1971  "you must vote for ..." No, you don't have to. To show up to vote, and leave a blank, or a write-in, is a protest vote. To make genuine use of doing to, a write-in of who you wanted to run, or a write-in of your primary issue of concern, at least sends a message. A write-in of "Mickey Mouse" is a protest vote, but informs nothing about the direction the voter wants to see. Lots about the US voting system needs rehabilitation. The parties have designed what they want in the voting processes, which is a clear conflict of interests.
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  972.  @loretta1971  "Give people an alternative." ?!? Independents. The country is now 50% Independents, 25% R, 25% D. A total of 18% of the voters are the toxic Far Left/Far Right, a very loud 18%, and a very pervasive primary voter 18%. The alternative Loretta, is you, talking to your family/friends/neighbors - because the 82% of us have FAR more in common than the radicals.
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  973. That's 50% of voters. 50% are registered as Independents. The parties are each down to 25% of registered voters. They're literally two minorities.
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  974. Were you expecting change to be easy? Status quo is, because it benefits a few, and they're not going to give up that benefit without the work to build traction/momentum to change that.
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  975. And why do you believe that? Presuming across the US.
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  976. The agencies are non-partisan. Which is why Libertarian, US Chamber of Congress, ALEC, SCOTUS, Trump funders, Federalist Society, etc., want them gutted.
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  977. "vermin"? He's not wrong on use of terms used to build pillars of contempt - which historically has been prep for militarizing for mass destruction. Which we are seeing bulldoze Gaza. Yet, at the same time, he infers use of Nazi, apartheid, genocide, etc. descriptors are too harsh to characterize the Israel military actions toward Palestinian, as its too much for the delicate sensibilities of those who lived through their own genocide. 🤦‍♀🤦‍♀🤦‍♀
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  978. Same for Democrat Party. The biggest party affiliation in the country: Independents, at 40%.
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  979.  @lexcj1  And they left off some of the worst of Amazon. $.24 in public assistance for every $1 paid their warehouse workers. Ducks tech wages by hiring foreign students (no employer/FICA taxes). About $2B in city/state tax exemptions (a bill the citizens and competitors pick up).
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  980. But the Democrats and the wealth behind them must be included in the guilt.
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  981.  @georgefurman4371  Do tell. Because the "centrist" democrats have been selling out the public interests since Bill Clinton passed NAFTA with Bush Sr's layout, the mid 1990s.
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  982.  @georgefurman4371  Democrats aren't deflecting racism, by minorities? Example of stereotypical selective facts, https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/oracle-accused-of-underpaying-women-minorities-by-400-million/ While the actual law suit says "...Oracle's pattern and practice of hiring discrimination against qualified White, Hispanic and African American applicants in favor of Asian applicants, particularly Asian Indian..." https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/legacy-files/newsroom/newsreleases/OFCCP20170071.pdf
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  983.  @georgefurman4371  GOP has LONG been promoter of covert racism. "centrist" (republican lite) democrats jumped onboard in the 1990s. Ds 2015 ads were very overt race baiting, presuming ownership of minorities. "the main issue", "anti-Asian violence", is D minority drumbeat narrative. Should I be having a snit over every obnoxious male comment? Are my problems because I'm female? Ds transitioned to GOP tactic, Party of the Aggrieved, while creating reasons to be aggrieved. I see no difference. Washington, a wholly owned subsidiary of Wall St.
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  984.  @georgefurman4371  "in the context of this short period" This didn't happen overnight. Ds 2016 was ran on We don't have an economic problem, we have a race problem, banking on Divide And Conquer. And divide it did.
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  985.  @georgefurman4371  Funny you should say that. Listening to economist Mark Blyth this weekend, he said some economists splitting into two camps, Economy is fine, we just have a race problem, and Our problem is economic. I believe we have an economic problem, and it's a big one. Everyone deserves Living Wage. Rs "tax cut" is about as useful as Ds "tax credit". Living wage. It's that essential, Living wage.
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  986.  @georgefurman4371  ??? I don't think it's only a race problem.
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  987.  @monkeylibrary66  Dear rwilsonweir, there's a mighty thick layer of us Canadian descendant living in the US the madman is oblivious to. I don't know who he thinks would enlist to fight "Canada", given his lack of knowledge of mighty thick layer of Canadian Americans, living hundreds of miles in along the border in the US.
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  988.  @LLR40  "about half the country is in favor of bullying Canada" Do cite the survey that shows that. I suspect your posting BS.
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  989.  @dorisbetts3012  "very little thought ever given to Canada by most Americans" If you live near the border, we flow back and forth. In my tiny little circle at work, two of us discussed our dismay that our job prevented our planned vacation there last summer. Another coworker, annual habit, early spring skiing in Canada with his family in tow. My last residence before buying a house, the nearby corner store was always giving me change in Canadian money - THAT's how many Canadian were and still are here in the back and forth daily.
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  990.  @jenkins5265  "NAFTA" Major damage done to US' and Mexico's publics from NAFTA. Canada has nothing to do with that. US dumped excess corn into Mexico, to "free up" labor for industry, wiping out their farms/farms' markets. US industry then offshored there, job loss, same goods at same price, industry pocketed cheap labor bump in products. The bulk of Mexican ag lost, their workers flooded north, again killing wages and jobs within the US. Lose/lose for everyone but industry. This was the trial model, for globalizing. Same thing done to China, etc.
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  991. Pervasive national mythology, dogma spoon fed the public in our elementary school history books. Our oligarchy control waxes and wanes. As an American I don't see how having monarchs and Davos running the Euro economy as any better though.
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  992. What I do with my uterus isn't a @jerrypeal653 or a state issue. Ironically, period.
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  993.  @IanHarrisComedian  She does have Hillary's smug entitled air, but does have (or had) giggly (self-conscious? nervous?) little girl thing.
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  994. It's a work in progress. When I was 18 years old, a) one of the owners of Sears couldn't get a credit card at her own company, and b) my male coworkers thought it was very funny that I wanted to become an engineer. Since then, I've seen a lot of women become engineers BUT end up divorced if their job is nights and weekends - while not the case for the guys. I take that to mean the guys are not yet up to the job of keeping the house intact if she's not home. And with the boom/bust economy, many women and men have forgone having any kids.
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  995. Terrifying because... what, England is horrible? I didn't get his point.
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  996.  @superschmolz  Hence the word "temporary" in temporary work visa. Life in England, a long way from "terrifying".
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  997. Permit system is pretense we have any control over migration. Skilled is pretense US lacks qualified workers. Both are lies. Poor coverage, we have 1M legal given green cards per year, over 1M coming/staying illegally, and we've millions here on "temporary" visas. "Dems had 6 months", true, and Rs had 2 years. Total farce, pulled on the public.
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  998. You're way out on the edge, the actual casting of a ballot. Keep going. The exclusion of Independents in primaries. The gerrymandering. Etc. Without which, Sanders would've clearly won. But the big bucks donors aren't going to tolerate anyone who utters Living Wage. Note Hillary willing to give illegal labor a pass, after 7 years of donating cheap labor. Do you not recognize the predation of that statement alone?
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  999. It's called globalization. It cost the publics greatly, and the nefarious are doing their best to redirect the anger locally. Predicted in the early 1990s, by entrepreneur Sir James Goldsmith, that GATT and globalism would cause political, cultural and economic chaos. Yes indeed, there is a great deal very very wrong.
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  1000. Is it civil, to import a labor glut and goods glut, to the point of causing society failure?
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  1001. Because he's a non-white guy with a beef.
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  1002.  @KGTiberius  Not every 30 years. Review, maybe, default sunset, no. That's just reckless.
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  1003. True. However, - Harvard and others are using foreign PhD students for the research, who're graduating to, at best, short term employment, and left high and dry. Welcome to America!, here's your green card, and it's that way to the unemployment line. I know two, personally. Specialized right out of the employment market, turning to Uber as drivers. - That research is then granted to Big Pharma, for a song. Who set up manufacture at ultra cheap China/India, producing without inspection, and sold in the US for the highest price on the planet. Does any of that sound ethical?
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  1004. And you believe that because ...?
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  1005.  @HiimApe  Well, if we're going with [X] treated differently in every part of the world, I think women far exceed black as being treated differently.
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  1006. For the most part, Americans want what is fundamental. Work producing something useful, eat dinner at their own table, talk to friends and family, and go to bed fairly sure they'll be doing the same thing tomorrow. What an epic failure of oligarchy, to subvert that, for sake of a 5th, 6th, 7th mansion.
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  1007. Cities have poor control over commerce. Anything they want to build anywhere. They need %commerce building permits, %residential building permits, to bring it into and keep it in balance. Suburban and rural have illegal zoning laws, and leave in place until some builder takes them to court. Friends of the Mr said they'd pay for development, if we oversaw, but investigating, I found it'd require lawsuits. Aka "snob zoning". Business interests have pushed state laws for their benefit, something this author is in denial about. Added to my own state's requirements for elderly housing and condos, a massive "club house" on the premises. Must have kitchen, heated/cooled, parking for x visitors to the clubhouse (plowing/salt/sand in winters). $$$$$
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  1008.  @spanishtutor2552  ps - Europe has its share of homeless squalor.
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  1009.  @marclawson2536  Clearly you don't visit Calais, London, etc.
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  1010.  @notsure6187  A Microsoft transplant, from Seattle to Boston, spent a good hour, expressing his trauma from culture shock. Another from So. Cal., after a year here, said he got it, they've no interest in going out with you for a beer after work, but they're there for you if your car won't start. ;)
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  1011.  @notsure6187  A NY'er coworker complainted, Boston is "cold". Er? He said at least in NYC if you drop your keys, someone will yell after you, "Hey! Dumbass! Dropped your keys.", while no one will in Boston, they're too busy 'minding their own business'.
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  1012.  @GnomaticReverie  Lots of my close friends are Asian, and they are the most racist people I've ever been around. "It's very diverse, there're people from all over India.", faction wars "next hire must be from [China] [India]", etc. Even they would complain about it. "He [our Indian manager] doesn't talk to us the way he talks to you."
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  1013. ​ @GnomaticReverie  Asian racism isn't "harbored" nor "internal" when stonewalling non-Asian job applicants, wildly rampant in Tech. My Asian coworkers even had a hard time accepting "dark" Indian.
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  1014. Both parties see to that.
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  1015. Golda Mier, long ago, "I can forgive you for what you do to me, but I cannot forgive you for what you make me do to you . I could hardly believe her words. Unaccountable, vindictive, intent on escalation.
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  1016. Did he not hear what came out of his mouth? Current economic policy is bad for populations. "Aging". Through the history of life on the planet, people have always aged. Currently, people aren't reproducing. And rather than address the economic policy damage causing this, instead, he said nations should bring in "replacement" population. If policy kills off population, via population-hostile policies, replacement just brings more victims.
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  1017.  @willzsportscards  Credentialism is the least of our problems, at this time. Climate change fires and floods are far more important.
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  1018.  @F-xe1gt  ps - having gone to both public and private school, there is distinct advantage of private school. Very little amenities at private school, exact opposite of the false claim by public school teachers. The difference came down to: private school, each teacher is accountable for each student. Students weren't shunted into segregated classes of achievement. Teacher stayed in for recess, lunch, to tutor student who wasn't getting it/keeping up. HUGE disparity in public schools, as "didn't get that" students, are continuously passed on to the next grade, with cumulative deficits. That alone is advantage from Daddy's Large Stack.
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  1019.  @jonlittle5032  Bothsides'ism is acknowledging that both political parties are overrun in tangent and policies by their Far Left/Far Right. You seem to be under the false impression that that tiny number of people, 15% of voters, speak for the other 85%, when they don't. In fact, the two parties are being vacated, likely due to their catering to the nutjobs (as Bush Sr called them). The two parties each have 25% of registered voters, and the Independents are growing at an incredible rate, now at 50% of voters. How'd we get here? The radical Far Left/Far Right vote in primaries, gerrymandering, etc. The voting process should not be in the hands of the parties, it's a clear conflict of interest.
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  1020.  @jonlittle5032  Yes, I've been accused of being a Far Left, and a Far Right. They expect 100% agreement with their pet peeves, and falsely believe they each speak for the general public. Far Left + Far Right are only 15% of total registered voters - the parties' other collective 35% are less radical. The two parties each have 25% of registered voters, registered as their parties. And don't the Far [x] resent the unowned 50% of voters who're Independent. That number is rising at a surprising rate. Well, shouldn't come as a surprise.
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  1021.  @tfustudios  We get that. Or should I say, we experience that. This is not to say we don't have great immigrants also. But importing large factions eradicates the melting, that's supposed to occur in the melting pot. Far more serious, the creation of factions/faction enclaves, in Europe than the US, but the US is getting there.
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  1022. What's middle east perception got to do with the topic, the teaching of US history?
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  1023. "does not punish those who disagree with the government" Violent settlements.
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  1024. Weasel father leaked BS to newspapers, then claimed in interviews the facts were coming from the same newspapers. 🤦‍♀
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  1025. It takes time, to recognize the big picture. In this case, end goal, Koch/ALEC, to put their radicals in office. "Libertarian" censorship.
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  1026. Wow. Never heard of this eviction thing being on someone's record until this video. Owes back rent, maybe, but eviction makes no sense. He's not saying if f'ed up landlord has some 7 year damaging record.
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  1027. Here in the US, my snarky Mr says we have Canadian-American geese. I don't know where Gladwell was talking about with respect to demographic rationing of neighborhoods, but it sounds wholly unnatural. But I'm looking forward to hearing how Boston's, San Francisco's and NYC's Chinatown feels about that. And Atlanta. New England - hey, all you Canadian-American, get out to make way for the Gladwell ratio.
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  1028.  @Shng275  ?!? Progressives are trying to change this country for the better?!? Hmmm, at best, they intend to throw a few bandaids atop what's broken, to continue the status quo. And about the closest thing we have to a Democrat is Bernie Sanders. Those who're elected as Democrats are neoliberals, not democrats.
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  1029.  @Shng275  When polled during primary for 2016, Bernie came out ahead of Trump and Clinton, so clearly the public don't buy the two parties' Socialism boogieman. A number of states don't let Independents vote in primaries, effectively eliminating the majority, Independents, 40% of voters. No one is convinced not taxing the rich benefit's the public, so I don't know why you use that word. Politicians, both sides, do so. The public have no control over who appears on the ballots, thus they're stuck with what the parties offer, donor 1% rubber stamped candidates. Clinton seeded US middle class decline: NAFTA/China WTO, with the R's blessing.
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  1030. Capitalism may be okay, we don't know, because what we have is corruption.
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  1031.  @brucemai1429  Corruption under any economic system doesn't free people. And an immigrant coworker from a communist country asked, "What's a layoff?" She was being freed, from her income, eh?
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  1032. My coworker looked sad, I asked her what's the matter. She said her husband called her a nag, for repeatedly asking him to take the trash out. I said, "That is ridiculous. Does he have to repeatedly ask you to make supper? Do the laundry?" It's their house and their dirt too, put on your "big girl" pants and address it. I've heard two men say, "I'm embarrassed at who I used to be." Raise the bar, stop treating them like children. Hence, derogatory "nag", indicating he neither is happy with status quo. As for online, shame on the parents placating their teens, with smart phones. I totally agree with the experts, flip phone, until at least 16 years old. 2 decades back, my starting position was no computer use, unless in the house's public space, with the monitor visible to the room.
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  1033. True. But, he is Harvard trained, lives in Cambridge MA, and works at Harvard. All of which makes him outstanding, at speaking for the best interests of rich.
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  1034.  @Drinkingyoursaltytearsallah  Doesn't work, FFS. Clearly. Vacate.
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  1035. My coworker said she wants to be a chief engineer. I said I can't see that happening. She looked shocked, and ended the conversation. As I left each night, at the far ends of the room, were the 2 chief engineers working away, while the rest of the room had emptied. The lady who wanted to be a chief engineer had left, (daily) at 2 in the afternoon, to take care of her very young kids... so her husband could work full-time at his job. Most men, who have children, have heavily leaned on their wives to run the house and raise the kids. While women don't have wives for this. True, if you have kids, a career is not worth it.
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  1036. Early 1970s, the economy blew up, taking the illusion of Donna Reed Show lifestyle off the table. It was the first big shock, the Mr out of work, and the first government foray into blaming the public for it, when it truth it was oil baron greed. Many a teenager at that time, old enough to see parental strife, decided unreliable economy means have no kids. Economic shock 2, end of 1980s, banks blew up the economy, first big bailout. Shock 3, 2001, tech blows up, Americans laid off while commerce retains illegal and foreign workers. Shock 4, 2008, banks well versed in bailouts do it yet again , win/win for them, lose/lose for the public. Industry has only focused on 2 "innovations", scam the public for max profit (deliver less/charge more), and use every tactic they can find to lower their labor costs. It's not you, our gov has given industry free reign.
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  1037.  @pipe2devnull  "Complexity", death by a thousand cuts: housing costs, downward income spiral, tight boom/bust cycles, unaffordable medical, college costs, declining schools, etc. Min wage, $2.13, and has been for 30 years, for tipped workers. $7.25, general min wage, for 10 years. How're these things not punishing?
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  1038.  @LarsRyeJeppesen  Not a useful critique: "I beat you less than our neighbor beats his wife."
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  1039.  @LarsRyeJeppesen  Why don't we first try democracy, before going to alternatives?
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  1040. It also means the public doesn't recognize the dotted lines to today's malfunction. Example: England swept their streets of indigent and orphans and sent them to the colonies, as indentured. Origin of US is free labor, and still is today, aka wage theft. Particularly from migrants and immigrants.
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  1041.  @jayzimmerman9938  Yes, Jay, types of houses being built is problematic. But so is open borders' well upward of 12M illegally present.
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  1042.  @thespadestable  It's not about you or your mother either. Jay's, at least, is about what's feasible. The US isn't building What's Feasible.
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  1043. And then, there's the other 49 states.
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  1044. We do. And that includes their legally and illegally imported labor glut. There is no way around that. Labor market is a market gamed by industry every bit as much as other markets. Lowest legal wage, $2.13 an hour. For 30 years. They're jobs that would've died had it not been for importing a glut who'll work for the promise of a paycheck, without getting one. And you're a proponent of that? Because it doesn't exist without an endless supply of illegitimate workers to keep that illegitimate industry running.
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  1045.  @imperialmotoring3789  The only public threat from a trans is to your world view, particularly, your inability to learn. They aren't obligated to conform.
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  1046. The trans phobic would, if in-utero diagnosis were possible. A baby knows nothing of their gender. We impose it on them, mainly with clothing types and colors.
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  1047.  @imperialmotoring3789  I suspect the aggressive male transphobia is some identity crisis, where they feel they've some rights about women, a male/female ambiguity existence is a threat to that. "OMG! What if I grab the butt of a trans?!?"
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  1048. @MasudAkram-rk9pp If ever that was in doubt, it is no more.
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  1049.  @ivansherbinin  And it's been decades of Israel terrorizing the Palestinians. You'd think they'd have figured out, there'll be no peace for them, regardless of how many weapons they have/use.
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  1050.  @chatify68  In the top 10: "Thou shall not kill."
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  1051.  @edwardpayne4385  Since you brought it up, England had no right to give away what wasn't theirs. As for 4000yrs/proven history, I wholeheartedly doubt the borders are original for 4000yrs. Lastly, for a people who suffered a purge from Germany, and further, you'd think they'd know better than to attempt the very same thing.
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  1052.  @Herperof1000derps  "within a century of columbus’ arrival"
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  1053.  @leviashanken7281  True.
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  1054.  @leviashanken7281  He being who?
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  1055.  @Sleepycollegestudent  There were Euros visiting the coast before pilgrims.
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  1056. Crass.
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  1057. Maybe she's sick to death of puerile comments like yours...
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  1058. Absolutely. In response to the nation handed to mindless baby man.
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  1059.  @sophigenitor  There's nothing "pure" about a man who brags about grabbing women's crotches. "In-group loyalty" is school yard, and lacks respect for the agency of others. These aren't civil values.
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  1060.  @m.walther6434  It is now, because those in decline have been ignored for 35 years.
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  1061.  @Sci-lives  Avoidance/deflection tactic, to keep the public busy, lest we notice democracy slipping away, into the "public/private partnership". Washington's become a wholly owned subsidiary of Wall St.
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  1062.  @Lucky9_9  Open borders, for one. Worse, the claim all present illegally are asylum seekers, insulting to legal immigrants, and to law abiding citizenry. Millions have personally experienced job lose, to imported labor glut. Second, the false assumption that the nation should be homogeneous, and again, insulting. "Disproportionately ...", is that really what we're after, demographic homogeneity? Rather than address poverty, high precision distribution among demographics? Angry Trump voter material, "disproportionately white" - never heard "disproportionately Asian", "disproportionately Black", etc.
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  1063. It is also in large part from Reagan era rescinding The Fairness Doctrine.
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  1064. You say "settlers", we say Israeli terrorists.
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  1065. Not so. #1 rule: Investors will be bailed out, and the bill for it is shunted to the US public. 1989, "adjustable rate mortgages" bank blowup, along with auto industry. Bail out's just globalized by 2008.
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  1066. Koch/ALEC/libertarian are running experiments on undemocratizing, across the US. Their early target was Wisconsin. New Hampshire, largest legislative body, harder to get their grip on, so they've a call out for libertarian to move there and run for office. Malice, in all 50 states. The libertarian, cold and calculating, make MAGA look amateur.
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  1067. Trite. Social media allowed the nation, to watch muscle head squeeze the life out of George Floyd, while others watched and did nothing, for 9 minutes. There's a whole lot of BS on social media, but there's also a whole lot of exposing the inexcusable, of a nation.
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  1068. Entirely possible. However I believe it was their new president's attack on corruption that triggered Russia.
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  1069.  @dalecrocker3213  You mean when the UN illegitimately established a jewish state in a land that was already populated, and not theirs to give away?
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  1070.  @dalecrocker3213  Yes, peaceful. Are you trying to claim every last Palestinian had Oct 7th knowledge/involvement? I would not blame any Palestinian for attack on Israel after this attempted genocide.
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  1071.  @dalecrocker3213  "We're here and given control by England for German reparations, so get out." Yeah, like that was ever going to work.
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  1072. Narcissists are evil. Hypocrite. "democrats...instead of addressing the issues...", remind me, who kicked the border bill to the curb, while simultaneously railing about it? This weasel governor Sununu signed off on New Hampshire republican bill capping min tipped wage at $3.27. Sununu is a wind sock. "wind in their sails" is a whole lot of hot air.
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  1073. There is one and only one way to be as exorbitantly wealthy as some have become: taking far too much from far too many in exchange for far too little. This habit alone: Swipe that credit card, cha ching!, a fee to the big banks every single time. For sake of "convenience". Yes, the banks will promote tax advantage for online buying. Statistic heard just this week, 40% of the population don't carry any cash.
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  1074.  @alltradejack  You'll never get their ears, if you appear for sake of preaching at them. Counterpoints arise in every day conversation, not as contrived confrontation.
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  1075. 9th.
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  1076. And both far left and far right claim those in the middle, as supporters, while simultaneously claiming anyone who doesn't fully endorse their every perspective is of the other far side. Bizarre.
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  1077. Make America Grate Again
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  1078. Who created this set of conditions? Yes, the federal government. Reagan, give the rich more money, by cutting their taxes, for "job creation". Bush1 and Clinton, NAFTA, for that job creation to take place in Mexico. Offshoring acceleration ever since. Imported goods, gotten at 3rd world labor rates, on the store shelves for same price when made here, pocketing extra profit. Offshore work, onshore worker glut. Really pissing off US workers, being made to train their replacement before being laid off. Politically, it's called corruption, when elite purchase legislation, for "campaign donations".
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  1079. Girls aren't going to college to meet partners. They're going to college in an attempt to not be a perpetual un/under employed. Some, just like boys, come away with nothing more than horrendous student debt. Girls are just doing so at a higher percentage. As for your working to no advancement, that's the case broadly across the job market spectrum. The US has been offshoring work, while importing a labor glut. 1 in 3 under 35 now live at home, never having had a job. So overall, post-menopausal aged have had it easier in employment, than what the follow on generations face.
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  1080. "promote the general welfare" is the justification of having a government, in the Declaration of Independence. We've regressed to "taxation without representation", as oligarchy has corrupted our government, with bribes called "campaign donations", aka money laundering, legislation for cash. This isn't [spin adjective] capitalism, it's out and out corruption.
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  1081. Failure by the psychiatric profession. No diagnosis of ruthlessness as a condition in need of mandated treatment, as it's contagious.
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  1082. This is an interesting venture England set about, isn't it, granting a "homeland" that people are entitled to by religious historic identity. If religious identity is the criteria, then there's millions upon millions of Christians, entitled to claim that land.
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  1083. Are you proposing we change our definition of native citizen to exclude those born in the US to foreign parents, as many other countries do?
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  1084.  @forsale313  The entire purpose of globalism, as instantiated, is labor arbitrage. Its purpose serves the billionaires. In the US, in China, in Saudi Arabia, in India, etc. etc. The "competition" you speak of, is race to the bottom, for the non billionaires.
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  1085. @NOT BLACK BUT ISRAELITES "...you killed..." Bombastic, high drama, inaccurate, and (I say this as a Christian) Jesus is not God. Furthermore, shame on you dumping your nasty on someone, and perverting religion to do so.
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  1086. Send the address of your therapist, maybe we'll donate. Now back to the topic...
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  1087. Closing the barn door, after the horse is out. IT monopolistic industry's been buying/killing competitors for at least 30 years.
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  1088.  @NicholasWilliams-uk9xu IT is the sale of pipe dreams. - It's one of the few No Returns sales, regardless of how poor the quality of what one receives. - Prospecting for investors, using facade of competence, AI, self-driving cars/robots/etc. when engineering with June grads writing academic grade software.
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  1089. With manufacturing offshored, and importing a labor glut, most of their futures are "Do you want fries with that?" and that's if anyone hires them. 1 in 3 under 35 live at home with their parents, with no job. Labor glut imported, blue and white collar.
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  1090. How about city/state legislators stop putting in zoning and building laws, that are designed to solely benefit the construction industry? How about halting the open borders, pouring excessive population into the job/housing market? The predation of institutional investors on the ridiculously tight housing market, is built upon both of these.
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  1091. What few people that were eligible for retraining, when offshoring first kicked off, turns out they made less than those who didn't. There's a whole lot of smoke and mirrors in the "retraining" gimmick. For instance, if you're not bottom of the wage hierarchy, you don't qualify, and the "retraining" of those who were bottom of the wage hierarchy is for the higher wage jobs that where offshored .
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  1092.  @stephenharper6638  The US gov can a) stop incentivizing it, b) tax the heck out of their fake Irish headquarters for sales here, c) rescind ISDS farce court authority, d) cut off using tax monies for reshoring when their offshoring blows up in their faces. Quite the kick in the a*& for Gov to a) incentivize it with tax breaks, b) hand the public, including those who lost their living wage job, the bill to reshore. This isn't capitalism, it's corrupt oligarchy.
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  1093.  @stephenharper6638  Wrong, there's lots the US can do. Trade agreements, ever read those? Most galling, Hungarians who've worked in the US do not have to meet the same number of quarters worked to be eligible to Social Security, they qualify with less quarters worked. US public is bilked, in multitudes of ways.
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  1094. "Those left behind" are very angry, and people aren't sensible when they're angry. This is a fabrication to redirect the anger locally, by "taking control". Secondary purpose, put them in office, political power.
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  1095. What a petty little mind you have.
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  1096.  @journeyman8362  The US has funded decades of Israeli torment of the Palestinian which brought on 10/7. It would've been abnormal if they hadn't retaliated with the same ferocity. International criminality of collusion, to allow this.
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  1097.  @JHimminy  We had bullies in private school too. And, we had teachers that were bullies also, in public and private school.
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  1098.  @garychurch9237  Ridiculous statement, Gary. Kids have no say, and in US parents' custom, teachers are never wrong, public or private school.
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  1099.  @garychurch9237  As an adult, yes. As a kid, no.
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  1100. Collision of DEI with black [and other minorities'] history integrity. Was Peterborough integrated, in the early 1900s?
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  1101. She discussing the contentious notion that a nation can or should be controlled by one and only one demographic. And the anti-[that concept] being cast as anti-[that demographic]. This was the basis of the very creation of Israel. The state of Israel began as a Jewish minority, in effect, an installed apartheid, for Euro conscience cleansing, over WW2. And why Israel will always fail to live in peace, they've weaponized their own existence, by its very definition, an installed apartheid. Yes, this is the same as white supremacists, supremacists being the minority. Bigoted to claim minority rule is correct for Israel, not correct for other nations. Apartheid rule, is political instantiation of bigotry.
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  1102. The Far Left and Far Right are a mere 15%, and only a "majority" in showing up to vote in primaries. Which is where this, and gerrymander, shunt the general public the two most implausible candidates for the general election. Idiotic "lesser of two evils" selection. Stuck on stupid, Far Left/Far Right, is from half truth. Facts, but not all the facts.
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  1103. Dumping population into urban, suburban and rural areas doesn't "solve" a migrant's problem, it relocates it. If governance intent was to solve, they'd be building housing to accommodate the influx, which they aren't. Wall St wants the cheap labor, while not contributing taxes for the extra social services (ESL, schools, etc.) needed. And it doesn't help to have population subverting pragmatic discussion, with slurs (racists, xenophobes), which you allude to.
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  1104.  @tracyclark7560  "need" I don't know what you're talking about, or where you're talking about. Millions come to the US not for need. Career, avoiding conscription, education, relatives, etc.
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  1105.  @tixximmi  Culturally, historically, the ability to live independently was taken away, upon gifting of the public commons, land, to Land(ed) Lords. Paired with creation of taxes, to be paid in money.
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  1106. Collective failure.
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  1107. She no more representative of the majority of Jews than Hitler was representative of the majority of Christians. Clearly the ultra orthodox have control over governance there, just as we know in the US, and other Western/Westernized, our governance is being run by elite. No one in their right mind finances this.
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  1108.  @dennisweidner288  Plunder.
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  1109. They aren't engaged, because they're spoken at, and not to. I had to rescue an intern from bad hands - go do this and that, with no explanation about the work assigned, nor its value. As a summer intern, I met with him at the end of every week, to discuss what he was going to put on his resume from the week, and why.
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  1110. Digit blindness. Billionaires' sole concern, the number of digits on their holdings.
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  1111. Spot on. I tell people, "No faith." 18 years of steady employment, steady husband? No faith.
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  1112.  @asocialscientistresponds  I seem to remember from college sociology that sociologists are not suppose to release information that may hurt those they're studying. Neoliberalism is an economic political philosophy. On what basis is that a slur?
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  1113. If the objective was to eliminate personal transportation, we'd have one kick butt public transport:SkyTran. We don't. Electric vehicles is just a life-support extension of the antique car/bus/train industries: auto sales, oil, gas, paving, insurance, licensing, plowing, sanding, tires, inspection, etc. etc. etc. Bilk, bilk, bilk the public, w/more stop signs, red lights, vehicle gadgets, fee'd parking garages, toll roads, roadside retailer gauntlets, etc.
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  1114.  @roberthumphreys7977  We could still eat and live well without the fossil fuel. Evolve.
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  1115. "why wouldn't people relocate to the burbs?" Lots of reasons. - "I own the place" police and political townies, and their antique lifelong vendettas - 20 to 40 minute round trip drives for a stick of butter - incessant chauffeuring of deliberately physically and culturally isolated kids - "everyone gets an A" schools with bass fishing "classes" - part time civic utilities like library, town hall, etc.with exorbitant property taxes for white wash "land preservation" - bitter belligerent Far Left and Far Right culture clashing neighbors - road agent snow plowing schedule, when and if he feels like it - and relative to this specific video, endless hours on commute. For a start...
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  1116.  @mauriceharting5877  Of the 192 nations, 88%, 169 receive foreign aid from the US. US gifts billions to wealthy, including massive bailouts when they totally screw up. And your position is money going to citizenry is the problem?
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  1117. @ "There will always be rich people and poor people in this world and they are not connected." There is only one way to become exceedingly wealthy: taking too much from too many in exchange for too little. There are no wealthy without those creating the value, with their labor. US has always imported a labor glut to flood the labor market for sake of suppressing wages. When there weren't enough indentured sent by England, US resorted to slaves. Government aid is a right, we pay for it. Spending it wisely isn't gifting it to Musk, etc. "Poor people [...] could always find a better paying job " No, they can't. Not while importing a glut of illegally present and visa'd.
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  1118.  @mauriceharting5877  Exceptions are not the rule. Work harder is bull, fed to the public, by the wealthy parasites living off of unearned income.
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  1119. Good for all consumers?!? Your use of "consumers" belies your contempt for the public and what is "good". In what bizarre model does it make sense, to produce toothbrushes, combs, etc. on one side of the planet, and ship everywhere?!? Wall St only. Do tell how the price of cars dropped like a rock, when production shunted to Mexico and their $2 an hour labor. Oh wait, it didn't. Investors pocket the savings from cheapest offshore labor, while still raising prices in the market. And tax code saw to it that profits are sheltered also. The retraining and education BS never happened - because it is cheaper to import foreign workers with tenuous legal labor rights. Patents - another insanity that doesn't scale. Someone owns an idea, on the entire planet? Idiotic. Humans, and particularly those in power, aren't mature enough for globalism. They don't even have enough integrity, for regionalism, let alone globalism.
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  1120. It's not just about wearing masks. Not enough messaging (nor habit) don't touch your face or food without having just washed your hands. Ever observe how much people touch their eyes, nose, bite at their nails? No, "half" the country isn't in denial. But enough that between those who are, and the accidental contamination is enough to put the medical system over the top.
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  1121. Bush Sr had it on the nose: "nutjobs", ignore that they're "nutjobs", for party amassing constituency. He didn't endorse it, but he did recognize their "big tent" was hosting/accommodating "nutjobs". And that's more than the democrats have done - recognize they've invited nutjobs into their tent. Open Borders, for instance.
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  1122. Also in NYTimes: "Smugglers lately have been buying radio ads in Central America, warning that Mr. Trump is about to shut down all immigration. If you ever want to go to the United States, they say, go now! " They aren't "asylum seekers", we've between 11M (Pew) and 22M (Yale/MIT) here illegally, and a mere 800K pending asylum cases. Why? Because the fact of the matter is most of them do not qualify for asylum and so they never file for legal asylum. Whole Truth Matters, Jim. It's been such a disappointment to watch the Left, try using the hateful dangerous rhetoric that used to be solely the toxic Far Right. "xenophobes", "racists" and "deplorable". Even the formerly admirable Ralph Nader, recently Why isn't the Left coming up with a ridicule name for Trump? "Let's all sink to the lowest common denomination" just escalates this train wreck.
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  1123. Step 1, boys deserve apologies. When Mommy's little Ms Can Do No Wrong stepped on her brother's hand by accident, I immediately told her "Sorry [brother's name]", which she repeated. This girl was still being raised as a 2 year old, while at 5, 6, she craved info on social protocols, and now at 7, 8 still far short on them, is suffering through, "No one at school will play with me." Step 2, they too can apologize. It teaches humility, and the right to make mistakes and safely acknowledge them. Step 3, apologize to them, when life throws a black eye at them. That's empathy, and it confirms/affirms their feelings, as justified, and normal. I'm still training the Mr, in the art of keeping an eye out, to be helpful to other people. He always has been, but only to his social circle.
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  1124. Power. And usurping political power for most cash for elite. Suggested reading: 1970s' Trilateral Commission's "A crisis of democracy", where the international elite are PO'ed they've lost control of the public, through "an excess of democracy".
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  1125. It certainly is the obvious question, isn't it. They're genocidal bravado, funded by the US for decades. For all the BS flap over US citizens on welfare, Israel fed billions, for decades.
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  1126. Same as the late 1980s.
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  1127. This isn't Facebook.
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  1128.  @stevechance150  I was going to say only the Legacy admissions, but actually, yes, it applies to most of the students. With Only Academics Matter parents.
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  1129. Whole Truth, and nothing but The Truth.
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  1130. It's about electric cars being a red herring. The answer to dumping 100 year old antique transport (cars/trains/buses) is SkyTran.
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  1131. The biggest party affiliation in the country: Independents, at 40%. News is still D and R fixated, in their reporting. The public has left "the parties".
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  1132.  @grahamfloyd3451  Yes, we have become less Libertarian, for good reason. Given free reign, historically, industry will lock workers in their factories, taint food supply to stem their losses on aging and toxic food (late 1800s/early 1900s), kill the public because paying off a law suit is cheaper than operating safely, practice wage theft, etc.
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  1133.  @davidowens5898  Bottle Of Lies, Slavery By Another Name, White Trash, lots of informative books on state of affairs and how we got here.
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  1134. By the ultra orthodox. Hidden from the general public there, and here, for decades.
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  1135. Exactly the intent, in throwing around slurs - to shut up criticism of the unjustifiable. Well past time to put on your big-boy pants, John.
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  1136. Much to my surprise, the Mr.'s "I hate [food list]" was from being first fed a poor variation. Thanks for taking up feeding the kids real food.
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  1137.  @elspeth8476  I believe freebirdseed is talking about the majority home schooled. 19 year olds, living at home, is not due to education. It's due to importing a labor glut. 1 in 3 under 35 are living at home with no job. A crisis in any country, but media here is dead silent on it. Early 1990s, just about in parallel with NAFTA, "unemployment rate" was redefined, to exclude anyone who's not looked for a job in the past month.
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  1138. No, it isn't difficult. Boston Globe article, $170K in wage theft from illegal migrants' construction, from 1 employer alone. Most urban don't have an acre for housing. An acre is small, in suburban. My town, min 2 acres, for a while, neighboring town was a min 5 acres. Aka snob zoning.
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  1139. And you did a market study on cost of living, across the US? "bump" in wages would be relative to where someone was sent, plus travel cost, plus... $45K for an apartment in San Francisco. Plus [...?], furnishing an apartment, else Let's jack that up to: hotel.
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  1140.  @Cathy-xi8cb  "in a facility that..." US has a lot of plausible but improbable remedies. Due to location and sparsity.
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  1141.  MosesBad  ?!? https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/untapped-talent-costs-brain-waste-among-highly-skilled-immigrants-united-states
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  1142.  @DragonNutz420  Hill Burton Act - US hospitals have to treat you, whether you have insurance/money, or not. "struggling" with children is not eligible for free housing, may be eligible for subsidized housing, food stamps, and Medicaid. Legal refugees, given green cards, are federally supported for their first year here. Work visa'd, on low pay, eligible for food, medical and housing assistance, as are foreign students. All, be they green carded, work visa'd, foreign students, illegally present - all of their kids can go to school for free. That's a lot of "free shit", not available in 3rd world countries.
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  1143.  @DragonNutz420  Taxes: pay as you go usage. "Temporary" work visas, it's not like someone sprung it on them once they got here. Illegal, it's not like someone sprung it on them once they got here.
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  1144.  @MistaTofMaine  Due to the sharp Right turn the US took 3 decades back into neoliberalism, aka elitism.
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  1145.  @5pctLowBattery  In marketeering, yes.
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  1146.  MosesBad  The US has a labor glut. Importing more is not helpful.
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  1147. As Musk moves his private interests profiteering, SpaceX and StarLink, onto the assured billions of the federal dole.
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  1148. NYC, now renting - janitor closets to live in - apartments full of bunk beds, who's beds are rented for 8 hour shifts.
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  1149.  @cardinalRG  Both parties have gerrymandered districts and election process to their least common denominators.
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  1150.  @cardinalRG  I hear some Rs' politicians bemoaning what's become of their parties. I don't hear Ds' politicians speaking out on what's become of their party.
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  1151. The Mr, from another country, is stunned by the honesty and forthrightness, on the old Dick Cavett shows he bumps into.
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  1152. I am an American. I had no idea America still made any products beyond weapons. Anyways, the traitorous madman does not stand alone, and if removed, there's another right behind him. US oligarchy have the petal to the metal. There is no pretense or facade of democracy left. I'm relieved to hear EU rally, for Ukraine's sake. US will likely be in tatters soon.
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  1153.  @jimbuchanan35  There's a saying in the US, "Don't poke the bear." Trump's a sociopath. Vocalizing "He's an idiot." will only direct an additional tangent for his attacks. I've no doubt if needed, EU NATO would jump in for Canada's defense. Put New France in wikipedia and look at the map. Millions of us in the US are Canadian descent. Manman's unfamiliar with the US, beyond his tiny little Manhattan. And he's gladly handing his mignonette strings to those he's always wanted admiration from, the billionaires who'd excluded him.
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  1154.  @patsprague1761  "Those who elected Trump" - Eggs and gas, unaddressed, going up. - 401Ks, going down. - Any of the income taxes spent on public good subject to musk's flame thrower. However, this mess was a long time coming, when Mr. "Third Way" abandoned the public interests. It's no coincidence $2.13 a hour for tipped workers is the same for over 30 years. Someone recently said prior to the election the public doesn't recognize the thin blue line is the only thing between them and wholesale take over by the oligarchy. The blue line was so very thin it's not only imperceptible, it's meaningless. "Third way" my rear end.
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  1155.  Papa j Jose  "You all never cared as long as it was Black people being separated from their children and being put in jail b the millions" I noticed that myself, the parallel circumstance. And what the two have in common: exploitable free/cheap labor, with no voting rights.
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  1156.  Papa j Jose  "I wrote this exact..." Which is why I put it in quotes. Are you new to internet?
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  1157. Millions, sent to Israel, to fund a genocide. Illegally, I might add, as our laws say US shall not send monies to any country blocking humanitarian aid. Yes, we have no decency.
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  1158.  @DeuxChatsNoir7074  I explicitly asked in college (late 1980s/early 1990s) why there wasn't anything in our history books on the Vietnam War. They said because there are too many still alive to refute anything they'd write.
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  1159.  @DeuxChatsNoir7074  What the government's been peddling as "national" interests: economic colonizing for benefit of elite. Warring's expensive, and with the amending of the draft, no exclusions of the elite, cam WTO. Rah! Rah! Globalism! But China's no pack of fools. "Sure! Send us your money, tech and IP.", and blinded by greed over China's potential market, the "multi-national" did. And when taxes are used to fund reshoring, love the spin: "Jobs!".
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  1160.  @LeilaLeb1  Hari: "like Uber...?", yes. Well, what Uber gets for one of their [law-evading-designation-as-]"independent" contractors is no where near what the contractor gets.
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  1161. Entirely possible. Ds are preoccupied with their Far Left neoliberalism.
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  1162.  @allmendoubt4784  "will they naturally outdate themselves with policy failures" We are already there. Largest political party affiliation for registered voters: Independent, at 40%. Who aren't allowed to vote in primaries in many states. Who're the "swing voters" in the selection of "the lesser of two evils". Lesser of two evils - what a low, low bar of offerings. News stopped publishing congress' approval rating, when it fell below that of a cockroach, 9%. What a low, low bar.
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  1163.  @MercedesSL3  Far Left's support for continuation of an influx of labor glut is in perfect alignment with international elite profiteering. And ALEC. Far Left's support for national health care, where/how does that stop Big Pharma price gouge, skyrocketing cost, is mitigate by redistribution, not overhaul. "Tax credit", yet another variant of sweeping the inadequate non-living wage under the rug, rather than Living Wage. UBI, take it out of our back pockets, to what, send it back to us?
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  1164.  @BlyatimirPootin  They're Siamese twins. Open borders for inbound products and migration. However, I've yet to see Far Left fight for unrestricted rights to migrate out of the US.
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  1165.  @Interglacial_optimist  It's not what you listed. It's authority to run your own life and make your own decisions. Some call it freedom, some call it legal rights. At work, agency is granted by your manager. Some managers hire hands, to do what they alone tell people to do, some hire heads, "Go find a way to ...". That's managers allocating agency, not unlike congress legally creating an agency, and allocating authority to regulation and rule on questions of intent. At home, agency varies in households, and with kids change over time. He/she's not old enough to pick what they're having for supper, what they're going to do on summer vacation, etc.
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  1166.  @Interglacial_optimist  Now that's creative!
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  1167.  @Interglacial_optimist  They're specific variants. Cloud, place to store your data, which we will eventually hostage, for getting on your household's monthly payment.
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  1168. Official apology, from this 1990s worker, who accommodated industry's bull, "Just this once, ...", "Crisis! We have to get this out!", etc., and set bad precedence of corporate/investor expectations. Though, a fabulous man I worked for in the 1980s, who sold off in 1990s, said investor infiltration pushed businesses into it.
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  1169. Because it throws light on the down side of tech, neoliberalism, etc.
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  1170.  @malaikasmith3949  American culture's been class warfare from the start. The Peoples History of the United States, painstaking detail.
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  1171.  @ailleananaithnid2566  PBS/Boston is running a documentary on the 1990s' anti-abortion vs pro choice intentional demonizing rabble rousing, where 2 where murdered. The 3 worst rabble rousers on each side had private talks, for 5 years, to banish their worst efforts ... words like are being used the past few years, and ended up friends, much to their surprise.
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  1172.  @ailleananaithnid2566  ? Yes, those confronting can be bullies also. You can make a point without jabbing someone with it. When it comes to library content, it's this simple: You've every right to control what your children do/don't read, but no right to control what others read.
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  1173. Juvenile.
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  1174. Gun Owners Of America, a group of 300K, took over the NRA (funds and direction), and NRA took over the Republican party on the topic. They then moved on the evangelical, w/ironic Prepare To Kill They Neighbor.
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  1175.  @angermgt1  I find that really hard to believe. For instance, what mass attacks happened prior to mass shootings, that equate to that crime?
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  1176. He is defining US residency rights granted to anyone foreign who personally decides to ignore our immigration law, which is precisely arbitrary and capricious. No one is entitled to live permanently where their parents brought them as children, and it is a precedence he's trying to set. His justification is illegitimate, "Golly gee, I feel bad for them.", devoid of law, devoid of due process. Congress continues to betray the public, covertly via budget: only funding 400K deported per year. Last year, that'd amount to approx 1/3 to 1/2 of only those crossing the southern border in a single year.
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  1177. "the there is a strange public opinion" Far Left is a small minority, as is Far Right. Illegal presence damages first and foremost, the labor market, as illegal employers/employment operate outside the law. And the illegitimate wages, due to labor market glut, drops the floor under city/state revenue, while ramping up expenses shunted to the public's tax bills. Defund school library, to fund ESL, for instance. Bill the public for welfare services (medical, housing, food), for the wage shortfall. There is no reason a nation with a $2.13 an hour wage floor is importing workers.
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  1178.  @christophergraves6725  I did, your posts are meaningless.
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  1179.  @oldbeatpete  Culture? US politicians are now talking at us, as demographic groups, as homogenized monoliths. Aka, "tribes".
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  1180.  @oldbeatpete  Or labeled as such. At work, Asian have been categorizing themselves as Chinese and American-born Chinese, for example. Indian, by Indian province of origin.
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  1181. Yeah, intelligent conversation in depth doesn't fit on a bumper sticker.
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  1182. I can believe Peterson wasn't aware the US was sliding downhill for the population for the last 30-40 years. But I can think of no good reason Isaacson should be oblivious to that, and can't draw the dotted lines between that and the "rise of populism". And ironic casting too, "populism", when what's occurring economically and politically is a sharp skew toward elitism.
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  1183.  @SusseBo  My representative's response to my policy complaint, "Business tells me ..." So, literally she is telling me she only accounts business interests, not voters.
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  1184.  @SusseBo  No coincidence, congressman on Firing Line, discussing who owns the congressmen's votes:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni5Dj0ZYLsA
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  1185.  @lorraineclark4413  ?!? Hype. You have some serious issues, to compare the two.
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  1186. Scale. The recurring current problem is scale.
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  1187. He's the best of the best.
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  1188. The only broad subsidy, besides WW2 vets, is mortgage interest deduction and property tax. Those are still in effect. And still nothing equivalent for the poor.
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  1189. I think it's the walling in of them. The "mowing the lawn". The "violent settlers". The use of euphemisms for Israeli terrorism: "mowing the lawn" and "violent settlers". The incursion bulldozing of villages. The Israeli total control over their coming and going, governance, employment. Geeze, I think this list could go on for quite a while.
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  1190. Bad presumptions. Last I checked some years back, 13% (and rising) of those with bachelor degrees are working in min wage jobs. US needs to stop importing a foreign labor glut.
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  1191. No. Profession is irrelevant to illegal entry.
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  1192.  @koopatroopa187  Port of entry does not mean anyone arriving there has legitimate asylum claim. Cross anyways and yes, they end up in detention. Is your intellectual range so limited that you can't converse as an adult? Or are you handicapped by arrogance?
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  1193.  @sugarbearjohnware8462  Legal port of entry + passing credible fear = legal entry/no detention. If in detention, you're leaving one of those pesky details out.
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  1194.  @sugarbearjohnware8462  Black + Cuban + At A Legal Port of Entry does not equal permission to enter.
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  1195. What's your point? "But Mom, the other kids ..." ?!?
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  1196.  @scin3759  Scandinavians did their share, savaging coastal EU and bringing in their slaves from Arabia.
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  1197. "lesser of two evils" is merely bicker over the rate of decline of the public's well being.
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  1198.  @Shelsight  You have to be kidding. HRC triggered demographic racism, anti-elitism, anti-institutionalism. There is no such thing as "centrist", it's an R in D clothing. Which is insidious skulduggery.
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  1199. The activists created "children have a separate claim for asylum, than their parents". "Fools rush in, where angels fear to tread."
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  1200.  @henryhill3778  Two variants of "But Mom, the other kid started it!", fixes nothing.
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  1201. The real problem is - 11M to 22M here illegally set the precedence the US does not enforce its laws and - activists ensure that happens We hear a lot about "special interest groups" overrunning Washington, and illegal labor lobbyists is certainly one of them. CEO/Bank of America: "Immigration ... is a growth acquisition program" TechNet (Silicon Valley) to US Congress: #2 priority, "Don't touch our foreign labor." etc
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  1202. At best, less than forthright, at worst, farce. - 401K fees, compounded annually. Over decades, person gets back 1/3rd for every dollar they put in (Frontline, The Retirement Gamble). - Original employer match was dollar for dollar, now a pittance, and lengthy "vesting" period ensure employee gets little. - Gov cuts off welfare if person has retirement savings, so in the repeated boom/bust cycles, when middle age means layoffs, the public is directed to use their retirement monies - and that includes 10% tax penalty for early withdrawals. This stock market concept, put retirement money in the stock market, is directly contradictory to what was common knowledge pre-401K/IRA - "Never put money in the stock market that you're not willing to lose."
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  1203. Mighty high horse there, Acme.
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  1204.  @denniswormsley931  The minority in power are the elite. Detailed by an economist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHlEkaXfgMw
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  1205. "...a well regulated militia...", cherry picked which parts they support. And yes, originalists are also blind-eye on "original", a musket, not bump-stock.
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  1206.  @charliehammer8780  That's the court's job, which they're not doing.
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  1207. Jason Furman is one of the reasons we've Trump/Trump base. He was well aware, during his economic advisor position in Obama's office, of the signs of bad labor market. Lack of labor mobility and stagnant wages. And chose to ignore it. Further infuriating people with "good economy". Harvard trained, "If it's good for business, it's all good."
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  1208. It started with basic technical functions. Then materials had to be added as junk was being delivered. Then performance specifications, because unfit for purpose arose (does not scale for number of users, for example). Then the cheater BS started - no, it can't fall apart from unspec'ed chintzy plastic case with systems falling apart. Then trade agreements added carve outs - did you know Hungarians have lower qualifiers for American social security than Americans? Then tech moved abroad giving away intellectual property so we now have another layer of cyber security requirements. Yes. 6700 would not be unusual.
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  1209. Why do you assume that? New Hampshire legislators and governor passed a bill to cap min was to $2.37, should the feds surpass that. Not that there's any sign of the feds raising min wage. $2.13 an hour "industry" == "I don't want to EARN a living, I want to pilfer the profits of someone else's labor."
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  1210. If you believe that was the actual reason, and not Bibi's stall on genocide charges.
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  1211. Trump is a paper bag. There's nothing in him beyond self-interest.
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  1212. Iraq had better education than some of the US states. So, maybe the West can begin that process by stopping wars of market incursion.
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  1213. Constitution is federal.
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  1214. They can't even SAY Living Min Wage. Bernie was the only 1.
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  1215. No work, eh?
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  1216. True and none bigger lies than those told the nation, and exported on shiny brochures of the nation. The "home of the free", while we incarcerate millions. The "strong economy", while elite rob the public and personal wallet. The minorities' problem is "xenophobics" and "racists", not the systemic gov policies targeting them.
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  1217. The public and civil rights is now a "mob"? Wild, what goes on it your head.
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  1218. No work.
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  1219.  @marvelouss719  "most of us" is a personal delusion.
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  1220. Not sure why you ascribe this ultra orthodoxy narrative as "popular". Even now, Israeli news is not covering the same depth of Palestinian demise as is being aired elsewhere.
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  1221. "Free press", in the West, isn't. This has been kept out of our media, for decades.
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  1222.  @kyleolson9636  "didn't have a literal interpretation..."
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  1223.  @rb-pk8ds  Power, lock on what Christian means, is power grab.
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  1224. You're generalizing. Some households, some parents, "Boys will be boys.", while with their girls, "Go do the dishes[, laundry, sweep, etc.]."
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  1225. Here is New England, the septic is not the issue. It's the 1950s concept/zoning that only single family housing ensures the little darlings are safe in the streets. And, to keep it that way, buy up every scrap of land for "conservation", conscious laundering hippie version of snob zoning.
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  1226. They used to. That evaporated in the 1990s, when "investors" drilled into the operations of what they bought into.
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  1227.  @GentlemanJack705  He's been saying "good economy" since working for Obama, as economic advisor. Which he knows is not a "good economy" for the general public, as he himself cited but ignored decline in new businesses and labor market's stagnant wages and lack of mobility. Because importing a labor glut, is in direct conflict with business interests, Harvard's reason for existance.
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  1228. The Great One Way.
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  1229. Billy Jean King profoundly changed the assumption of male physical superiority, quite a ding on their egos. Anita HIll profoundly changed the behavior of shameful lewd men, at work. Millions upon millions of women silently changed the perception of them as weak and incompetent, day after day, at work, for decades now. "women need to realize..."? Me too is women, taking not playing, a more active role.
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  1230.  @liviasalgado  "Finding Your Roots" does DNA, including Mexicans, who's genetic heritage include Spaniards. And many an indigenous First Nation in Mexico are shoved aside for the Hispanic Mexican. Unless you've had genetic tests, "my people have been here for thousands of years" is a presumption on your part.
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  1231. Totally weird, Kings, Queens, no justification, just legacy artifact, and at phenomenal cost.
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  1232. Name 1 politician who's not been lying. I certain understand someone's interest in Trump's claim to blow up "globalism" and this purported "good economy". Many of the economists are just coming to the conclusion that voting, eating, etc. "against their own interests", was an arrogant mistake, in lack of any knowledge about "their interests". I would think you'd have heard of The Rustbelt, the left to wallow in poverty Appalachia, Detroit, etc.
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  1233.  @freeheeler09  Whereas Democrats will let millions of illegal migrants in and bill the public for their living, while millions of the public get laid off for the imported glut of wage theft labor? That's somehow better?
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  1234.  @doctor_fever  The last half century has been continuous war. The current minority running the country is the same minority running it from the start, the wealthy.
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  1235. No work in rural West/Westernized. Japan, like US, suppressed wages, rural offspring gone off to find a place to earn a living. Many in Australia.
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  1236.  @WhizzingFish12  No one said lay down arms. There is no high moral ground in "We're going to kill thousands, to target Hamas."
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  1237. The horrendous skew came about with All In On 401Ks. People handed their money over to ... Wall St. One for you, one for me. One for you, two for me. One for you, three for me. As more landed in investor wallets, Wall St tilted into not just steady returns, but growth of return rates, iterated above. You can't get ever more for investment machinery, without grinding the labor market/workers. It must have been awful prior to the 1970s, when investors got a mere %5 return, for literally doing nothing, and had no national insurance model, the public taxes to bail them out for their "risk".
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  1238. If spray paint is permanent, shouldn't manufacturer (or first owner) just do this when it's new...
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  1239. Growth of what?
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  1240. Given how little is given to workers, we are going to have to move to bartering.
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  1241.  @sm1tty031  Clearly you didn't watch the video.
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  1242.  @SpringTime-n1x  Country? Israel was only defined as a land mass by the English. And, furthermore, not satisfied with that, the ultra orthodox believe Palestinian are entitled to ... nothing. How's that supposed to work? You'd think the Palestinian would turn violent, hostile, and attack. As they did. I expect Israel's rampage will cause another 100 years of justified retaliatory attacks. Way to go, ultra orthodox, eh?
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  1243.  @blessingbirds  "native" Mexicans? Native doesn't equate to indigenous. Mexico has indigenous, but that's not all or even most Mexican. Mexico is for the most part Spanish heritage. Just as US is mainly Euro heritage. It would be just as ludicrous to claim US is indigenous.
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  1244.  @X2LR8  You're confused. Israeli documents, doesn't equate to no other people there, even back then.
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  1245. ​ @SN-sz7kw  Israel, $38B, during one vote during Obama's tenure alone, to be spent on weaponry. Yes, open air prison, to enforce an illegitimate land gift, by England, who has no legitimate right to give it away.
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  1246.  @tweaker1bms  @tweaker1bms is avoiding two prime directives from this God: Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not covet
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  1247.  @iberiano-ls2rv  Pick up a history book (beyond high school texts).
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  1248.  user-cu8jb5yk3q  What we see is Israel soldiers unaccountable. "Violent settlers" unaccountable. A uniform doesn't make an Israeli soldier respectable. US is now accessory to a crime in violation of its own laws: genocide.
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  1249.  @iberiano-ls2rv  Bogus premise, let us assume the majority are, for promotion of bogus conclusion, entitlement to migrate into mainly 1 other country, the US.
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  1250.  @BamBamGT1  Ironic statement, given there's never been an Israel, but for a declaration by England, who had zip for legitimacy.
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  1251.  @BamBamGT1  Palestine has not been majority Jewish, for centuries. Entire "State" of Israel, is occupation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palestine_(region)
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  1252. Amazon has gotten a free ride on city/state sales tax for years. And tax free or tax light existence for their properties. Who do you think is picking up the tab for their free ride?
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  1253.  @Johnny-so3bl  In a recent job ad, "We don't discriminate on race, gender, ... or genetic material". In the English news, customers charged for their auto insurance because they were deemed higher risk, because they were categorized as that by Facebook for using too many !!! If people had the vaguest idea what their data was being used for ...
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  1254. @yaggyplantationproductions And larger ones. Don't know why the brick and mortar aren't suing cities/states for giving Amazon a free ride on city/state sales and property taxes, at their expense.
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  1255.  @nannersguyaners2745  I see the statement as a reflection on the conniving. "he's better than the best" is being used by all of our politicians. Contempt is mighty cheap, and once airborne, dispersed broadly in winds.
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  1256.  @nannersguyaners2745  Absolutely. It's been used for centuries. Every time I hear the British "proper", it clangs in my head, as though they define what is proper, an arrogance that they used to justify colonialism. US inherited it.
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  1257.  @nannersguyaners2745  We see use of contempt even at very young ages, in school yards, cliques. If by she you mean the author, yes. Specifically, what I see is the use of contempt for political divisiveness. Emotive bait. As they persist, that contempt distilling, the public is alienated, and the two political parties have shrunk to each having 25% of voter affiliated. As with all war, a million people don't naturally hate a million people. That takes work, and root cause is power.
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  1258.  @triofan9  Exactly. Childish taunts, launched airborn, 360 degrees.
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  1259.  @bkm2797  "Centrist" Democrats, circa B. Clinton, are no better. "Centrist" is an R that'll see to it that those screwed over are occasionally tossed a nickel.
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  1260. "you can't beat Trump from the center" The largest voter registration is "the center", Independents, at 40%. Both parties have sold out the constituency, as the D "centrists" are neoliberal, and not Democrats. Bernie should've kept his Independent.
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  1261. Yes, zoning laws are a problem. People are 100% behind them, until their kids have to move away, and again when they try living off of Social Security.
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  1262. Better odd: Economically stable family, which any Harvard affiliate will avoid including in evaluation. Thus, they propose play the odds - with education. My Asian coworkers move to locales with "schools reputed for easy As".
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  1263.  @2126Eliza  Very funny. Only elite are "surging" ahead.
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  1264.  @Ggliddy34  How many women are dumb enough to ask anyone, "Am I fat?"
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  1265. The farce is that there ever was a shortage. "Visa'd" was and still is intended to give employers 100% non-compete employees, offloading all competition causing rising cost of those with expensive skills and their marketplace mobility. The actual 'best and brightest' are green card eligible of their own volition (not employers') and were given .05% of green cards in 2017. There is no evidence H1B foreign workers are 'best and brightest', their value is as a cheap captive to an employer. "Green card every foreign student graduating from a US university", an extension of the fraud, because there is no shortage of US STEM grads nor US STEM professionals and the sole purpose of this is creation of a glut of the skilled, again wage suppression. 50% of US STEM grads, coming from the same universities/same curriculum as OPT and H1B workers, can't find a job in STEM. 75% of US professionals, who're tasked with training H1Bs before being laid off, can't find a job in STEM. OPT program's creation was said to be for work experience before returning _home_. If they are not leaving after OPT, there is no justification for the program's existence.
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  1266.  @katejudson8907  Clearly doesn't recognize the point of monopolies, "I don't know if this is good news." Monopolies want to ensure the public doesn't have a choice.
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  1267. Didn't read the amendment, did you.
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  1268. Well, the thesis would be that the Federal Reserve is culpable for a good part of economic distribution. Now being as they were well aware of the outcome of 2008, I'd say the thesis that they are knowingly operating on policies that skew benefiting the wealthy alone, would certainly be evident in outcomes.
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  1269. Yes. If it has two purge valves and only one is working/opening, it won't know the other is failing. Here's an example of two valves, both are failing to open, and no mention of PCM faults. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXwDZ8O7hyw
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  1270.  @AcPh-nc3vz  "on the brink of homelessness" is 60% of the US. Shifting the economy to Absolute Safety For Investors, came at the price of running a highly unstable economy for the public. The real kick in the pants, when industry still manages to f'up their free lunch, the gov uses the public monies to bail them out . "Capitalism" my hiney.
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  1271.  @TheVaultMaster  Sorry, but "learn every aspect" is not at all the case. Mr, an LPR, has coached many an applicant for citizenship test. Every country doesn't require its born citizenry to pass citizenship test, it's not unique to US.
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  1272.  @MikeHawk1996  "to American parents" Citizens birthing out of their country of origin is parents country's prerogative to grant citizenship to the child, or not. I'm not talking about the fly-in for birthing cases either. I'm talking about default, citizens birthing in their own country of origin.
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  1273.  @MikeHawk1996  "In 98 percent of the world". Sorry, I don't know enough about that. India, ex-patriots can recover citizenship if parents/grandparents were citizens. Blew my mind, some years back, when I read France wanted to rescind citizenship, if not 3 generations born in France. Never heard of "undoing" citizenship, for native born.
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  1274.  @behrensf84  Far too many people like you supplant citizens in the workforce, as visa indenture is highly lucrative to the employer(s) and people like you come feeling entitled to a green card. Lose/lose for everyone but ... employers.
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  1275.  @AshDemonYoung  What a crass dirtbag response.
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  1276. Which would be a bad assumption. Ruthless tend to dominate, precisely because they're willing to cross moral lines that others will not.
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  1277. I don't think Sam Adams' opinion matters.
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  1278.  @mickey1849  Appropriate, given the nature of the man.
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  1279.  @willmont8258  Because he's dead. He wasn't a "founding father". He was a Massachusetts man with an opinion, some of which were every bit as despotic as King George.
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  1280. Red indians killed red indians, also, so they'd "go back".
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  1281.  @paulkern7229  Not so. Disallowing Independents from voting in primaries does it's damage well before Electoral College. As does allowing states to put all electors towards the winner of the state. Many forms of gerrymandering the vote, well beyond just districts.
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  1282.  @paulkern7229  Electoral college is merely 1 technique.
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  1283.  @paulkern7229  Why would we allow parties to define who can vote or any part of election process, that makes no sense. Primaries are a fabrication of the parties, and they have an inherent conflict of interest: their first and foremost interest is their party.
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  1284.  @paulkern7229  States that've had it with being steered to party interests have turned to ranked voting. Primary is all candidates on the ballot. Top [x] in primary vote are move onto the general election ballot.
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  1285.  @paulkern7229  Ranked choice pretty much obliterates what a typical primary is. The details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_United_States
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  1286.  @paulkern7229  Well that is where we lose democracy by handing over process to inherent conflict of interests parties. 50% of the registered voters no longer belong to either party.
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  1287. Or, fix the decline in the public welfare. That was one of the points of self governance, in the declaration of independence: "promote the general welfare".
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  1288.  @lepidoptera9337  What is this presumption, more money/fewer kids, based on?
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  1289.  @lepidoptera9337  From what I've read, it's tied to educating of women. Yes, that means more money in the households to do so, but, it also means access to birth control, and not being a source of birthing labor, for subsistence farm living.
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  1290.  @lepidoptera9337  Globalism destabilized economies of all involved. Much of the West, citizens have leaned into few or no kids.
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  1291. Generic rallying sound bites, but caving where the rubber hits the road. - Where and how is your cell phone made? Willing to give it up? No. Pinker BS: "But, but, but we're "helping" lift people out of poverty in the 3rd world." - a life measured in extraction of dollars from their labor, as wage enslavement. - Children in cages, as demanded by "liberal" activists. They've "individual rights" separate from their parents', so retain them for their own trial. Rot in that mindset, children belong with their parents, and if they're parents are nowhere to be found, they belong to their country. Imagine China claiming they weren't going to return an American child. - Neo nazis - Far Left now are fast and loose with claiming anyone they don't like as "nazi". Reckless use of a term where millions died, seen as ignorant, and delusions of heroism. - Clean air, clean water, climate change ... again, cell phone, responsible informed choices, in the market. Carrying signs, while not changing personal behavior. "liberal" is now Neoliberal. And neoliberalism is social and economic policy by/for/of elite.
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  1292.  @hueydao8637  "those aren't the issues" True, and the Far Left narrative is rammed down our throats (at least here in the NorthEast) at every turn, in the (strangely) most unlikely places. "broaden...media consumption", finding it necessary to go far, for unhyped, so I now use Japanese news.
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  1293. Historically, the French sent people over and told them to mix and marry the native population. But not the Brits, who were driven north by the American Revolution. Canadian, just like other nations, are divided on the glut of influx. I expect on the basis of having experienced damage or benefit from it, be it real, or perceived.
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  1294.  @amindra963  California is very racist. Google deemed it "unconscious bias", when uncovering why their staff would only interview young/male/white or Asian. And, still do.
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  1295. Fashion over function. Will do nothing to keep smoke out of the room, should there be a fire.
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  1296. Marriage a quaint tradition, that no longer serves any purpose.
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  1297. Thumb on the federal scale, tax cuts for the wealthy by Reagan, so this goes far further back than 2010. "raises all boats" eventually became Bezos' high rise yacht, while the "cajun navy" were out for rescues in Katrina. Post Reagan, Clinton's "third way" "centrist", which is essentially Republican pro-industry while doling out "tax-credit", etc. nickels, to the declining wage-theft public he'd oiled their downhill slide, for sake of industry.
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  1298. Ds shunting a little less to the wealthy and tossing a token tax credit at the public for the damage, ... no grand bargain there.
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  1299.  @mskimberly7777  "party purity" is both sides of the aisle. We need to "clean house" and reboot. Michael Douglas, we have no representation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGQgcHMIq1g&feature=youtu.be
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  1300. Talking to different people, reading different books. He was quite direct: The "like" button is merely reaffirmation of one's own thoughts.
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  1301.  @YuSoNoZ  Broaden the number and type you talk to.
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  1302.  @YuSoNoZ  Your contempt has boxed you into a corner.
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  1303. Bob's Lawn Care has no interest in hiring American workers, who come with legal rights to min wage, unemployment insurance, workman's compensation insurance, and OSHA safety regulations.
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  1304. US never recovered from the wealthy land grabs, in its roots. True, US land ownership and housing costs are out of control/out dated. New Hampshire, extreme tax break for keeping land out of development. Back taxes paid if sold for development, shunted by locals, to conservation land purchase. One way or another, new housing blocked.
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  1305.  @Sup90210  In the states that have open primaries, we did. The states that have closed primaries are party monopolized. Additionally, just about every state has legislated to throw all of their electors to whoever won the state, which is in effect throwing some of their voters' votes out. The parties control the voting process, which is a clear conflict of interests.
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  1306. I was a democrat, now an independent. My legislator was a democrat, who left to be an independent. Both sides, no longer represent constituents. This isn't a Trump thing.
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  1307. No place for it, on the Wall St spreadsheet, who's running our and other nations. As for the one-on-one, at primary's office, "[Let us ignore the elephant in the room, our totally f'ed up non-livable economy/culture.] You need to get more exercise, [blah blah blah]."
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  1308. The presumption was continued habit of a bipartisan nomination by a bipartisan congress. Congressman Mitch McConnell usurped nomination process, by refusing to bring forward a nomination during Obama tenure, until Trump was in office. Imagine you hand your money to the fast food worker upon placing an order. And they pocket the money and shout, "Next." Stunned. The same McConnell next shoehorned in the next nomination, before Trump lost the next election. With the Clarence Thomas nomination debacle in the 1990s, I said at the time, it should take 2/3s of congress to vote in a judge. Regardless of how someone sat on the issue at the time, they said yes, 2/3rd. US has grown immensely, yet the actual representation ratio has not. It's concentrated power to, in effect, a king and court configuration. Our "king" presidency's started tilting dynastic, and our congress too, though more House Of Lords-like.
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  1309. Which is a wild card. Worse, "success" means moving away for college and again for work, leaving family behind. "Fly In For The Funeral" population.
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  1310. Revolts and revolutions.
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  1311. It's class warfare. It's in US' DNA. Reawakened with cross pollinating greed of Thatcher and Reagan. Clinton jumped in, branding it "third way", aka "centrist", which looks mighty industrial beneficial, to retain Brand D, since Brand R already occupied. I expect "globalized" detached investor pressure also brought international "take it out of the workers' pockets".
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  1312.  @Rnankn  Carbon emissions are correlated to greed. No good reason we're still using 2 tons of steel to move 150 lb persons, for example. Industry hostages the public daily, to antiquated cars. SkyTran, we paid for it, useful to all, including kids, elderly, etc. and can be used to transport goods, at night. Absconding control over public natural and created resources makes others relatively poorer, because of a claim on a finite pool of resources. Housing prices, fabricated constraints benefiting industry - National Realtors Association - 2nd biggest lobbyist in the nation. Not likely a coincidence.
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  1313.  @coleworld3061  And where's the intelligent refuting, in your response? NYC isn't bearing any burden, not true. They asked for this, true. They're a sanctuary city, true. If their housing is too expensive then that's their problem, true. That's not the federal government's problem, true. The Far Left's naive theory that US should have open borders has run smack into the realities of scale, Open Boarders. No, boarders is not a typo, nor accidental. True. insert your intellegent response here
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  1314. Well Regulated Militia
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  1315. Nor have the unemployed/under-employed, who've lost their living wage jobs to Open Borders glut. This isn't going to go well - as the two parties work against "promoting the general welfare", gaming the public, for the best interest of the billionaires.
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  1316. Rubber, Indonesia, 1965. Mass slaughter, with machetes, to terrorize and subjugate, for rubber plantation workers. If I can remember right, documentary called The Face of Silence, by Oppenheimer.
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  1317. Including investor buy/flipping?
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  1318. Far too late for far too many.
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  1319.  @brentdubecalgary5084  Gaza and West Bank have been tormented by Israel, for decades. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkXJwErm8DM
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  1320. Do cite what American people know about Iraq.
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  1321. It's a disparaging hipster term for "I see black people and the oppression they live with.", with the inference "and others don't."
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  1322. First and foremost, any of those making it to market need to sell at cost within the US, because we paid for it. Second, another string that should be attached, manufactured within the US.
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  1323. Guardian was a UK based Far Left publication, leaned misandry, which appears to also be a UK thing.
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  1324. Deal with labor market competition: living wage and 40 hour work week.
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  1325. It starts with collective blind eye, toward breaking of law. And goes downhill from there. Far Left and Far Right built the Exempt From Law populations. As near as I can tell, the primary beneficiaries of it all are the billionaires. Until it escalates to ruthlessness.
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  1326. It's not a black thing. I've had a grand total of 2 knock on my door, in my long life. Voting of "lesser of two evils" is just a difference in the rate of descent. D fallacy currently being peddled: demographic differences in who occupies seats of power will result in improvement for those not in power. I don't believe one's demographic makes one impervious to the corruption. Our gay selectman is just as indifferent to antiquated policy damage in the running of the town, as any other who's sat in his seat.
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  1327. Doesn't reflect viewership on TV, across the nation.
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  1328. Cherry picking from their purported Torah.
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  1329.  @Pinstripe0451  What's safe about the internet/network? I turned on LightBeam, and visiting a single web site proliferated my visit to their site, to over 800 other web sites. Car companies now sell your every driving move to car insurance companies. Did you ever read that user agreement upon first boot of a new PC? You give Microsoft the right to collect and "sell your biometrics". Photo/video, voice print, if fingerprint login, that too, of all who use that PC.
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  1330. Whereas prior generations were out protesting in the streets. Griping on social media doesn't change a whole heck of a lot.
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  1331. Sounds like Boston. They've had homeless families sleeping in hospital emergency room waiting rooms. They, like St Louis, bulldoze any shanty towns that are put up: pretense they don't have a homeless crisis.
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  1332. I'd consider globalization "spreading" of the corn. Not the least of which is climate change, and its causes.
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  1333. Mid summer, it's cold up there the rest of the time, unless of course you're there to ski. Montreal, Quebec, fabulous. Brush up on your french, they won't speak english to a white face. Best wishes to you Dutchie. And to us, stuck with madman orange toddler.
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  1334. I believe it was foretold: beware MIC.
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  1335.  @18_rabbit  Guns are industrial. War is industrial. Of course the two are related. AK47 isn't recreational purpose.
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  1336. No maps in the bible. At most, a description of the general vicinity. But yes, theft, murder, genocide, for sake of "I want...".
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  1337.  @srsmopar3808  "Be careful what you ask for. You just might get it." There's a reason they're hiding Project 2025.
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  1338. "I have to research everything." Yes, and doesn't this just bite. By the way, democrats are also lying.
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  1339.  @watson5551  Interesting. Original post isn't present. I didn't know youtube edited chat boards.
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  1340. Kennedy, a turn to "efficiency" in business (work harder/less pay). LBJ/Nixon, "We're winning in Vietnam!". Carter, who was the first to let go of wage/price controls. Reagan, "Use 401Ks (give your money to Wall St with annual compounding fees) for retirement, we'll all be rich!"/"trickle down economics", first Wall St bust/bailout. Bush Sr/theft of Panama/Falklands. Bush Sr/Clinton, NAFTA, and Clinton/China/WTO favored nation, we'll all benefit by offshoring (what produced our consumables nationally at living wage) along with hiding the resultant unemployment by redefining ... unemployment. Bush Jr, Iraq and big upscale of Wall St. bust/bailout. Obama, sweep that bust's unemployment under the rug, rah! rah! Globalism and Let's ramp that up with TPP!" And there's just no list long enough for Trump. And during this whole time, a parade of economists, "Good economy!", "GDP's up!", "Wall St's doing great!"
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  1341. "not what you think"? "politics", rolling political agenda into every story, Sunday commentary's blown out to 24/7, etc. "not relevant", yes, I fail to see how incessant coverage of 10 boys in a cave in Thailand was relevant, requiring days of coverage. Sports, really, who cares, fewer, and fewer, and fewer. GDP/stock market, no longer how "the economy" is doing, yet news hypes it, daily. "simpler", Adam Reilly may feel entitled to roll in his opinion into stories (rolling political agenda), as do far too many others, and worst of the worst, editors' tilt ... choice of what to cover, and not cover. And that's before we get to the ridiculous hammering of Big Pharma and loud incessant Toyota/Ford commercials. From where I (refuse to) sit (and watch), the list is exactly what I expected.
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  1342. Clearly an esoteric philosophical perspective, with no depth in effort to understand cause the recurring contention.
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  1343. Where're the applications for asylum, from these purported asylum seekers? 2012 Pew claims there were 12M in the US illegally. Currently there are less than 1M pending asylum claims and the bulk of those are by default for those who're judicially deemed to be deported.
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  1344.  @Missy-Missy1111  Legally. Ancestors did so legally. As do 2 million a year, who receive green cards now. Yes, there is something wrong with open borders.
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  1345.  @Missy-Missy1111  We do blame congress. And the Far Left open border activists.
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  1346.  @Missy-Missy1111  "poverty is a policy choice." True. And open borders is one of those policies. Or, should we now call it Open Borders/Open Boarders policies? Because that is exactly what is occurring Open Boarders.
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  1347.  @matthewmalpeli  "How else do you explain a grandiose vindictive narcissist filling the office of president?" International rejection of neoliberalism, and political gating to status quo candidates in the primaries.
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  1348. How's that work? India's, for example, is being used to recreate the British/French coolie system, the exporting of Indian labor for indenture. The start of it, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars#Second_Opium_War and where they went with it, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolie and now the historians then claim the Chinese Exclusion Act was due to ... racism.
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  1349.  @_NAED_  ?!? She was born and raised in NYC.
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  1350. ​@Sut Mig Come on over and sign up for our plethora of $2.13 an hour jobs.
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  1351.  @camillegema85  The big picture is that this is no accident, the economic migration, the blind to illegally present, the scope and scale of this, the absurdity that a child has a separate legal claim to asylum than their parent, that any life in the US is better than life with the parent(s), the broad brush that every illegally present would face death if deported.
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  1352.  @anarkitty0  Horrible. Much of US is dealing with it, by having no kids.
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  1353. "A large percentage of Americans will consistently vote for a party" I'd say a large enough percentage with consistently vote for the two parties, that have no intention of rectifying [etc.] But then, we're now at 50% of voter party affiliation as Independent. Scraping "the parties" off their shoe, in farmer-speak.
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  1354. Speculation on Iran's nuclear intent sounds remarkably like the same purported by Colin Powell, and Condalezza Rice's "smoking gun" propaganda.
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  1355.  @phil20_20  Trump's definition of illegal migrants is mainly those who come over the southern border. Illegal are also those who came on a visa, and stayed after it expired. There's also rampant visa fraud. There's little to no immigration law enforcement.
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  1356.  @JosedeJezeus  How awful, Brexit restricting some of London's corruption to the UK.
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  1357. Clearly Trump, unfamiliar with the US outside of Manhattan, thinks the northern border is the line, while those of us at least in New England recognize Canadians/Canadian descent are well within the US. At a NH beach years back, hanging over a rail eating an ice cream, we heard a little girl behind us, "Mom, is everyone here from Canada?" ;)
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  1358. True. Rankles me every time one of the politicians says "rule of law" while trying to set fire to the laws.
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  1359. The same people who create the Only Single Family On Large Lots zoning find they're hitting the wall. But then, here in New England, these zoning laws are voted on by the public. Our elderly vote themselves tax cuts, when old and it's costing a fortune, well beyond their retirement income.
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  1360. Not these days. But doing so by deed, funding.
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  1361.  @paddy3126  PACs and other NGOs now appear to be organized crime, with facade of politicians as purported governments.
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  1362.  @Tascountrygirl  That is the basis of our school texts, here in the US too. One guy "discovered", one man won the American Revolution, one man free'd the slaves, one man etc. Date/man/event, date/man/event.
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  1363.  @farmfarmdorrie  Vast nations have significant variations in their culture. But, Canada's less hardened to British DNA (might makes right, deference to hierarchy, etc.). Northeast US had less aversion to women in the workforce, for instance. New Hampshire's Canadian-overlaid culture welcomed black sportsmen, far ahead of the rest of the country. Deference causing culture clash at work, northeast culture doesn't have deference, workers coming from other parts of the country, do. Lots of yelling at each other..
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  1364. Not just social media and covid. 1 in 3 under 35 live at home with no job. We've imported a labor glut, and they're paying quite a dear price for it. If this were occurring in a Middle East nation, CIA would categorize it as a major threat to stability. Here, it's ignored. I think the politicians' concept is, "Shhhhh! If we acknowledge this as a problem, we'll have to actually do something about it."
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  1365. Two male egos, bashing it out for the last word.
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  1366. The US government's sending billions for the weaponry. Congress authorized $38B in one instance alone, during Obama's tenure. He looked pissed off.
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  1367. Both sides of the aisle have had no problem uniting to pass bills that benefit elite. Follow federal or state laws being passed, for even a short while. Congress.gov, and your state's public legislative web site. Else, you're just tuning in to your favorite propaganda broadcast.
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  1368. Spend $500K, as an "investor", "creating jobs", get a green card. The jobs created, often foreign workers. Same with Amazon's "job creator" city/state tax exemptions. Look up goodjobsfirst dot com, for an eyefull.
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  1369.  @MossyMozart  They did, they're called amendments.
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  1370. Open borders/boarders. Versus legislative rule over my uterus. What a flippin' choice we're backed into, by the far left/right crazies.
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  1371.  @silus73  "They are not immune to them while in 0ffice or after." That's waning. Sending money to Israel is against US law, which bans sending monies to any nation blocking humanitarian aid. The supreme court just exempted presidents from prosecution if the act is part of his/her official duties. Congress exempts themselves from several laws. The ink wasn't even dry on the constitution before Sam Adams was proposing jailing Shay rebellion participants without any charges, suspending rights of habeus corpus.
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  1372. Not quite. What they want to retain is use of asylum to cross the border, and use of "defensive" asylum to perpetually delay deportment, and expand labor visa numbers (the ONLY legal form of indenture/non-compete). That's coming from 2 sources: -Wall St, (Bank of America CEO: "Immigration ... is a growth acquisition program" - for sales of household goods and wage suppression. -11K immigration attorneys.
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  1373. Not until a turnover in congress. Which requires the public to eliminate the two parties' control over our voting processes. Is there any good reason a voter is required to list a party affiliation, to register to vote?
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  1374. Continue. Suggested threads, Chinese racists in America, and in China.
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  1375. At a time, citizens were required to pay a tax to the local church also. Jailed if they didn't. Those times have passed.
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  1376. That, and land entitlement, and religious based purge/purification. And forced labor.
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  1377. What women have had for a few decades now, is birth control. Likely there'd be a whole lot less on the planet, if previously available. Furthermore, Rs have said for decades now, "Don't have kids if you can't afford them.", and taunt widows, those with "deadbeat dads", etc. with "Welfare Queen", etc. Add in severe economic turbulence, and is it any wonder so many forgoing children?
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  1378.  @gf4670  "you talk to most of us" Never a good idea to broad brush. The hippies, housewives, academics, etc. were all were out protesting the Vietnam war, racism, etc. Far too many for the actual neocon to arrest, for they would have, if they could've.
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  1379.  @thomasw.5344  Ethics comes at a cost. In this case, it means cutting off funds to Israel. "Oh my, oh my! Don't do genocide, with the armaments we send you! It makes us look bad! Here's some more." Yes indeed, that is pathological. And yes, Israel is sadist.
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  1380. What's affordable for our $2.13 an hour tipped workers and $7.25 an hour workers?
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  1381. Republican Big Government took over women's uterus as public utilities, to retain their "holier than thou" evangelical voters, who want nothing to do with the once-birthed babies of "welfare queens". Are you really trying to find the legal basis of women's rights over their bodies, as discerned by the contorted "I've a right to guns for killing in my imaginary self defense scenario." + "We protect zygots!" republicans and their Federalist Society picked judges?
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  1382. The same basis of electing Obama. But changing presidents doesn't change gerrymandered, entrenched, escalating in corruption congress. The elite have their 9% radical Far Left/Far Right cheerleaders, to ensure it stays that way, for Max Profit.
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  1383.  @bushrita10  I don't think that's how it went. England/UN homed them there, I don't think Palestinian got a vote.
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  1384. "just read and you take it for what it says" "... well regulated..."
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  1385.  @bobjackson4287  Enact the whole thing, "well regulated militia".
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  1386.  @bobjackson4287  It is the only reason the second half exists: for purpose of a "well regulated militia".
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  1387.  @bobjackson4287  "A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State," The well regulated militia is explicitly stated as the sole purpose for the right to bear arms.
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  1388.  @bobjackson4287  It's right there in black and white, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State". No where does it say that right to bear arms is for sake of self defense. And it's violation of the 2nd amendment to omit the obligation of "a well regulated militia", as part of that right to bear arms. Historically, the courts supported slavery, Jim Crow, etc. They aren't flawless.
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  1389.  @bobjackson4287  You are still eliminating the limited purpose, of the right.
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  1390. ​ @bobjackson4287  They'd have left off the first half of the statement, if irrelevant. It is a statement of purpose.
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  1391. Unfortunately, for spin factories, information flows. A Canadian living in the US asked some years back, was it always this bad? I said we now have visibility not only to what is happening now, but also the past. Very specifically, the governments around the globe have lost control over use of propaganda, long used to tame/control their citizenry.
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  1392. It's no substitute for Living Min Wage.
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  1393.  @Orzwood  Our job to educate. Both sides of the aisle gaming the public. And many are struggling to learn, WTH is going on? Despite what the parties propagate for narratives, there is no hiding our empty wallets, at the end of the day.
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  1394.  @zakvandenplas9349  He's a narcissist, and anyone who's ever had to work with the company VP's son/son-in-law is familiar with this personality type. Yes, he can be shallow and small - does this change a thing, to spend time ridiculing? No.
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  1395.  @Orzwood  ps - "We're for all immigration/migrants." is no more "virtuous" than the "If not for us (enslaving the black), the (infantile) black population would wander off into the woods and starve." At best, naive, at worse, it's self-serving self-aggrandizing.
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  1396. Southern Honor Culture is a history of rationalizing the arrogance of being above reproach regardless of moral turpitude, a British inheritance, as was Puritanism. While there's no denying the elitism and credentialism is as arrogant/offensive, they are two sides of the same coin. Why don't we stop antagonizing them? Yeah, sure, that worked out so well post-Civil War, didn't it.
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  1397. This requires self-awareness, for personal use. But in the work place, optimism bias is a source of misery, for multitudes who labor to deadline, with schedule and materials built on optimism bias. Worse, sadistic deliberate optimism bias built into deadlines and materials, to "see how much they can get done".
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  1398. 1970s, one of the owners of Sears couldn't get a credit card from her own company, Sears. I remember only 1 company that would give women a credit card, capped at $200. Early 1970s, most of the "Women can't ..." BS stops at work, when Billy Jean King kicks Bobby Rigg's rear end. Thank you Billie Jean! By late 1990s, men stopped grabbing my a#% at work. Thank you Anita Hill! I don't remember incessant whining by women, with any sense of entitlement. Millions of women went into the workforce, and took up the roll of wage earner. I mind the current sense of entitlement, to a dreamscape many believe awaits them in the workforce. The reality is, you have to manage your management.
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  1399. It should be called Not-Necessarily-Citizens United, as the money is anonymous, so who knows where it's coming from. Surprisingly, even ACLU objected to legislation proposing donor disclosure requirement.
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  1400. This person, Caitlin Dickerson, is cherry-picking law. The law says an asylum seeker has 1 year to file legal claim for asylum. We've 12M illegally here who never did. As a matter of fact, a minuscule number do, and an extremely small number of those who do, are deemed in court as not being in need of asylum - as there is a legal standard of need. Shame on Amanpour - for this low quality guest, and the topic illiteracy of the interviewer.
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  1401.  Steven Moore  3 types of regulation: market integrity, market safety and market monopolies. Lobbyists targets the first 2 to get rid of, and grows the third.
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  1402.  @ultramax1012  Is dying necessary to be taken seriously?
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  1403. Same issue, in Australia and Japan. It's West/Westernized populations opting out.
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  1404. The revelation of US' failure is "means testing", for essentials. It is admission that essentials aren't being met, by the configuration of our economy. First and foremost, wholly inadequate min wage. Suggested reading, White Trash. This predation has been the US, from its beginning.
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  1405. Far too much speculation in this. Ex - coupons, who the heck even has a local newspaper any more - unemployment, redefined in early 1990s, to exclude the long term unemployed - sticker shock, 100% price increase on somethings, yes, seen as greed gouge - college degree cost, wild jump in costs There is hardly a household that's not stung by one thing or another. It is ignorant to say Americans wouldn't do [x] work. Construction has long been one of the better paying jobs, before importing wage theft labor. And there is no good reason Ag can't grow up, and fix their work terms.
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  1406. Oh really? There's a whole lot of death brought on by the armed nutjobs, than the unarmed.
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  1407.  @willmont8258  I don't think the good are armed, for sole sake of Kill Thy Neighbor armament. Jefferson v Marx, true, I don't think Marx had slaves.
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  1408.  @imperialmotoring3789  What exactly is the purpose of mindlessness tied to use of a "disaster"? It's like some kind of mind vomit.
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  1409.  @c.a.savage5689  I wouldn't say "total disaster", but I fail to see how "tax credits" addresses the real issue: freeloading public-welfare-dependent charities posing as "businesses". To avoid Living Min Wage. Illegal labor, and open borders, to avoid Living Min Wage Startup and first time home buyers, to avoid Living Min Wage Bandaids over failing accountable "capitalists" isn't going to right-side this tanking Max Profit Needs Another Yacht economy.
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  1410. Much to my surprise, my state, New Hampshire (trending purple), one of the top in the nation for transparency, and immediate neighbor, Massachusetts (blue), one of the least transparent in the nation. We're being gamed, bilked and deflected, from so many directions, in election processes, and in our economic lives.
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  1411.  @adamredwine774  Could you address guru's points?
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  1412.  @adamredwine774  "very complex...complex history" Yes indeed. It started with "We gift you this land to build a nation." Residents have the right to do so, but the "we" who did that, did not.
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  1413. JFK, on Karl Marx, "And I hope all publishers will bear this lesson in mind the next time they receive a poverty-stricken appeal for a small increase in the expense account from an obscure newspaper man."
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  1414. Nazis got off to a much slower start.
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  1415. Aluminium at home depot: https://www.homedepot.com/s/aluminum%2520sheet?NCNI-5 Solderinh iron at harbor freight: https://www.harborfreight.com/search?q=soldering%20iron Circuits at ada fruit: https://www.adafruit.com/category/54 etc.
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  1416. Do cite what's inaccurate in Howard Zinn's history, that you consider it an interpretation.
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  1417.  J Taylor  Well that's an additional call for reparations: "indoor" slavery: convictions and harsh sentencing for free labor. Like Microsoft needs free labor. Shameless.
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  1418.  J Taylor  Hmmm "all other racial groups in America vote against...". I don't believe that. Evanston IL is not all black. Amherst MA is not all black.
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  1419. @NOT BLACK BUT ISRAELITES That's an act alright.
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  1420.  @vect97  "i still have stocks" Fascinating. So now you benefit from others being treated as badly as you were. YOU have a choice, and I see you've made it.
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  1421.  @vect97  Didn't say you didn't earn the stocks. Questioning why you're hanging onto them when you know the source of gain.
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  1422.  @vect97  "It was actually the best job i ever had." Working in the warehouse? I sincerely doubt that. We are talking about their warehouse jobs.
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  1423.  @numberoneduno7265  Are you talking to the employers? When I do, it comes down to "can't find workers" on their wholly unrealistic (and often illegal) wage/terms.
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  1424.  @numberoneduno7265  Your arrogance is disgusting. Business isn't entitled to an endless supply of labor, on their terms.
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  1425.  @vect97  I can only say I didn't feel the same and sold off all stock.
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  1426.  @vect97  I do. I particularly respect you're well aware what it means, and in your case, "put in your dues" at the actual company who've bad employment practices. Unfortunately, a whole lot of cash is being dumped into the stock market on autopilot, 401Ks/IRAs/mutual funds, aka "indexed funds". And many have no idea what the 500 companies are doing.
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  1427. The authoritarian are after power. They're in the process of using anything to rabble rouse and divide, for divide and conquer. It's working beautifully, we're proliferating billionaires.
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  1428. The metaphor comes easily, as "news" is now more akin to sportscasting, what each team did or said about the other. I'm old enough to remember actual policy discussions on political shows.
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  1429. They're white and need a paycheck, as opposed to those who live off unearned income (dividends, investments, etc.), aka the proceeds from labor of others.
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  1430. Emigrate, easier said than done.
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  1431.  @soviet9366  US income taxes its citizens wherever they are on the planet. Mighty irksome to those birthed in the US by foreign traveling parents. The opposite of corporations, who skate on profits earned abroad.
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  1432. The same Sam Adams who turned tyrant leaning himself? Very funny choice indeed.
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  1433. Unions never include management.
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  1434.  @treesnmoguls  Blackstone isn't getting loans for their purchases, they've billions. Which is why they've turned to the housing market, they're swimming in cash, courtesy of tax break legislation for "campaign donations".
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  1435. Most anyone who needs a job to live off of do what Sarah did: pack their bags and move to where there may be opportunity. Because they've little to nothing to lose, like a house. Or family. Or dependent family elderly. Life choice was every vote not for Perot, Nader or Sanders.
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  1436. Sorry, those have been banished from our corporate owned media.
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  1437. Because there's a lot of money to be made, and, it keeps the public occupied with "feel good", while Max Profit industry continues its fossil fuel based quest to suck every last time from all 4 corners of the earth.
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  1438. Some restrictions on # of permits per year, to avoid slamming school influx. Bad assumption, all apartment and condo buildings are filled with kids.
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  1439.  @happybunny892  News flash: "both parties" have declined to a mere 50% of registered voters, approx. 25% each. Both parties are over run with Far Left and Far Right, who in total are a mere 15% of the population. The mere 15% bullhorn their agenda. The mere 15% truly believe a) they speak for the 85% majority, and b) define anyone not agreeing with them, the 85% as the demonized "them". Ironic, eh?
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  1440. Noticed that, in people relocating to New England, deference. Not common here in the northeast. Sure has been a job to change that, when the person's management. Damaging effectivity at work, when the deference is in the workers.
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  1441.  @kgblankinship  I see deference in people from the mid-Atlantic and the south. One poor soul from Seattle was in culture shock, over the gruffness of New Englanders. A New Yorker PO'ed, Bostonians don't look out for each other. A California guy, after a year in New England, "I get it now. No one's going out with you after work for a beer, but they're there for you when your car's stuck in the snow." I've no idea why people think US is mono-cultured.
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  1442. "They broke the rules..." ISDS is protection for investors, well above the interests of nations and their citizens. No one but the international elite, are benefiting from globalism, as was intended design.
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  1443.  @willmont8258  Enforce "well regulated militia".
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  1444.  @lzrd8460  First, how many black and democrat bit on "super predators" in the '90s? It's not all/only white nor all/only republicans. Second, a list build-out of systemic racism should be made, for purpose of educating all of us. Fines: Examples, such as Florida, Ferguson, etc. We, around the country, need a (hopefully online) map of systemic racism, not geographic, but map of the systemic aspect of racism. Another category, DA Upcharging, to force plea bargain guilty pleas. Another category, Disenfranchise tactics, such as under equiping polling locations, etc.
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  1445. Thanks for the reminder. Last time, only the book available, I didn't get too far with it, but I see now it's available audio. Thanks again.
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  1446.  @ACogloc  You're in denial. If ever there was evidence "free"-loading markets are totally unreliable, it was 1929 and yet again 2008. Corruption isn't "free" market, shunting the bill to the public.
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  1447.  @TheRadioAteMyTV  Same with "defense" industry, splattered across the states and across the planet as "bases". The largest welfare project in the country.
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  1448. Justice is not "just keep sneaking in the back door". Justice is not being made to train your foreign replacement supplanting you at your job. And justice is not peonage for green card, after [TBD] years of wage theft indenture. Democrat politicians are now multinational neoliberal and "those left behind" have taken to looking elsewhere for answers.
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  1449.  @ebp1234  drug/alcohol abuse aren't also signs of cultural and economic failures?
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  1450.  @joeyswoles  Clearly, the rules are failing the public.
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  1451.  @thegreyghost5846  Scale. And general decline of the population. Your arguments sound like you're trying to hide from these.
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  1452. And clearly, UN is an utter failure.
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  1453. The immigration rhetoric that all illegal migrants are "asylum seekers", is over. ... reap...sow.
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  1454. Keep going. Everyone, back to the tiny African village the entire human race came from. <face palm> Yeah, that'll fix everything.
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  1455. The public in the US isn't called the "dominant culture". The so-called intellectuals are in what's now called "confirmation bias bubbles", and some of the college professors have been quite angry out it. Shouted down to silence with Racist! Xenophobe!. Free speech, to many, are only for what they want to hear. Watch Friday's Firing Line, it's online. Maryland gov running for Senate, proponent of shut down a vigil for Palestinian on a college campus.
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  1456.  @kevinjenner9502  Yes, we have 50 states, all moving at their own pace, unless federally mandated.
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  1457. What the economists consider "success" is solely evaluating money. Is it a "success" to dump Big Ag onto foreign markets, killing the local markets for farmers/farm workers, to drive them into corporate factories? So a handful of former farmers now have $$ up from $, but their cost of living went $$$$. Nearby trialed on Mexico with NAFTA, then went on to instantiate that globally. US got Mexico's unemployed flooding north, looking for any work to try living off of. West markets is as "We'll all be better off!", when clearly we are not. Similar in China. Once they drove their far away province's farmers into their eastern factories, they offshored looking again for cheap labor, in Vietnam. Then there's the enormous carbon footprint from the pointless shipping of combs, toothbrushes, etc from the other side of the planet, so a billionaire can make another billion. Greed, is boundless.
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  1458.  @subchan6595  The US government has Israel on the public dole, funding this. Which isn't even US public supported, let alone "the whole free world".
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  1459. ​ @l-uk3xm  I'm talking about the damage from this genocide. It's creating a whole new line of anti-Israel/anti-semitism.
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  1460. US' unrestricted funding of Israel is undermining America, at home, and on the global stage.
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  1461.  @showshyankao4533  Cannot tackle complex issues is present both sides of issues: All or Nothing. As intended narratives, by the politicos. Aka, Divide, And Conquer.
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  1462. Maybe. But that didn't disqualify Bush dynasty, Kennedy dynasty, Trump, etc.
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  1463. @Derek Flynn There is nothing arbitrary about US quotas. What's broken is handing out work visas like candy.
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  1464.  @ubon11  Ds want no restrictions except foreign who have criminal history in their own country. That doesn't scale. 148M around the world want to emigrate to the US. Many US major metros tanking already from the influx.
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  1465. "Liberals ... want to make it happen." I don't believe that. Only 1 commenting on fundamentals, like Living Min Wage. That's Bernie Sanders.
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  1466. True. Engage the tiny emotive heads, and move them into political power.
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  1467.  @HelenCamile63  Home schooling doesn't require any degree. So I wouldn't be surprised if Koch/ALEC went after public school qualifications with a hatchet.
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  1468.  @iw12  Farce, iw12. Israeli "violent settlers" bulldozing Palestinian out of their way, for one. Palestinian prisoners let out to work only in Israel, another thing. Out and out slavery, held in outdoor prisons. Are we not supposed to know about these things?
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  1469.  @iw12  Living there for centuries isn't "fairly new".
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  1470. A good whap on the rear end took care of that when I was about 5. I wasn't lying, but I did run from trouble, accusation. Once, and only one. However, it didn't take, with narcissist in the family, who's bombast makes Trump look like a pussy cat.
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  1471. This is why immigration court is backed up. Allowing derail of deportation orders, contesting over and over and over. This particular tactic is the root cause of his current "I want to stay with my family in the US".
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  1472.  @lesliepiper3115  Yes, bitchety you are. The answer isn't: The US should host every person, at their own behest.
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  1473. Seeing that in the interview of many Lincoln Project members. They played with matches, and jump ship now that the fire's raging out of control. I remember Bush Sr making reference to the "nutjobs" in the party. The Party of Big Business had nothing to offer, then, nor now. Unfortunately, it looks like once they got a footing, Ds followed the same path, cultivation of a Party of the Aggrieved, cover atop taking big Wall St $$$$$.
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  1474.  @Ozvideo1959  US' lowest legal min wage is $2.13 an hour (any job that is tipped, such as waiting tables) with no benefits. And with the glut of influxed foreign workers, many are ripped off of even that.
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  1475. "Business owners have rights too." Like ...?
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  1476.  @Ozvideo1959  All kinds of BS pulled on tipped workers. Many shop's managers illegally take their tips and "pool them", to pay their non-tip employees. No one informing the public that this is illegal.
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  1477.  @kimberlychodur3508  Unfair? Illegal. What they are doing, taking funds from tipped worker, is illegal. That is federal law. Employers expect tipped persons to not know that, and do nothing about it. And that ranges from corner pizza houses, to large establishments like Panera.
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  1478. Blue, just as gerrymandered as Red, blocked the one who had far and wide support, Sanders. Blue reputation is in the toilet with Open Borders. Good luck engaging the 50% Independents, who've vacated the self-interest parties.
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  1479. Who's this "we" you speak of, the Spaniards?
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  1480. President Reagen promised "trickle down", a 1 time amnesty for illegally present, etc. etc. etc.
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  1481. Metro [any city] "is striving" due to walling off of the cheap labor, to city centers. It's called Snob Zoning.
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  1482. - But Mom, the other kids... (Fox). Really?!? Fox is the benchmark? - We're journalists, bringing the truth(iness) to the public, because after all, we all have bias. - Let's not forget, we're a business. The conversation reflects the identity crisis of identity politics that news media's become.
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  1483.  @RebeccaTurner-ny1xx  His voice reaches further, than a handful of relatives of the wrongly convicted. And, for those who endorse death penalty, it's imperative to hear of the malfeasance of prosecutors.
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  1484. Are not doing well either.
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  1485. He was elected by republicans...
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  1486.  @dystopian2153  re: which comment?
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  1487. Seeing the same with rabid Ds these days. My moderate D legislator, turned I, says her D kids can't talk politics, at all.
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  1488. Every business is disposable. What goes around, comes around.
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  1489.  @booklover2404  Currently reading very early American history, glorification of "family unit" was and still is built to subjugate women. Quiet and control women, with Wifey and Mommy duties - as they stripped away their legal rights to vote and own property.
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  1490.  Jon Smith  Reads like a Limbaugh ditto head script.
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  1491.  @dirtydann23  There were only two non-establishment: Trump and Sanders. Ds axed Sanders, via party control over primaries: Independents can't vote in primaries in many states. Hence, Trump. If the only non-establishment on the general ballot were a cat, our president would be a cat.
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  1492.  @charlesmoore6186  Verizon, Xerox, etc.
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  1493.  @savenetneutralityanti-repu7029  Don't understand? Where the heck did you get that idea? Additionally, that is the basis of D neoliberalism, so it's not like they "don't understand" either.
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  1494. This woman's less than forthright. Some of the parents have been found and do not want their children back. Which is why "some of the children will never be united with their parents". Which she is exploiting for sympathy, by not saying so.
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  1495.  @curatedworldcuisine  Yes, "better life in America" is the vast majority of those arriving/staying illegally, minor or otherwise. "corp TV needs to..." Not likely to happen, they're goal is profits and propaganda.
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  1496.  @curatedworldcuisine  re: "want them to have a better life". Years back (approx 2009), said a man who robbed the bank because he didn't want to tell his daughter he couldn't afford her cell phone. Recently, also in court, another charged with major drug dealing, "I did it for my family." I fail to see a) that as a good reason to break the laws and b) something that scales in either direction (millions now came and are still coming) and any/all law is optional with excuse "for benefit of my family".
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  1497. Marketing material. Indian tells me, corruption in India is top to bottom, while US' corruption is concentrated at the top.
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  1498.  @ireneswackyjournals8810  Our gov incentivized offshoring work, and onshoring workers. As such, US workers are sunk.
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  1499.  @ireneswackyjournals8810  Our gov incentivized offshoring. Our gov does not enforce the laws regarding onshoring of foreign workers. The blame belongs with those who's ACTUAL JOB IT IS: to represent us, and enforce the laws.
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  1500.  @ireneswackyjournals8810  Automation? Like the word processors that eliminated our $20K a year secretaries? And that work moved to having $75K to $150K people doing her typing? And adding $100K sys admins? And $100K network engineers? There's lots they, our politicians, can do. They sold us out, to keep their job. AI? You've been smoking Libertarian deflection weed.
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  1501.  @ireneswackyjournals8810  It is Libertarian farce that automation is any significant cause of employment decline. Euro models are a bogus part of global success story: all built upon cheap production, sell high in first world markets. IKEA, perfect example. Farce that coal miners want/don't want. Coal miners pick from what is available to them. No, relocate to cities doesn't solve: loss of entire home equity, loss of community/restart from zero community, etc. We have no "retraining" issue: as we Americans are tasked with retraining cheap visa indentured foreign workers before we're laid off. No amount of safety net/social programs is going to fix "Citizen? Train your foreign replacement." Race to the bottom.
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  1502.  @ireneswackyjournals8810  Bull. And there's no requirement to be white, when required to train your foreign replacement. Black, Asian-American and Latino-American also tasked with training their foreign replacements. Again, automation being the problem is hiding your head in the sand. UBI, taking money out of my back pocket via tax, only to send it back as a UBI check solves nothing.
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  1503.  @ireneswackyjournals8810  Exactly, they aren't given alternatives. In documentary research, the coal mine owners see to that. Euro model is buy cheap from East, sell high to Euro metros and US. I am definitely anti-globalist. Farce to claim a far off province farmer in China is better off when West dumps commodity soy into his market to force him to work for coastal industry while his 10 year old is "head of household" back at the hundreds of miles away farm. No different than US did to Mexico dumping a corn glut in their market, to "make them available" for US industry moving there. Do spell out exactly how I benefit from ultra carbon footprint hair combs and apples coming from China and Chile. That sell for the same prices as the ones that used to come from down the street. There is nothing socialist about Unemploy Thy Neighbor.
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  1504.  @ireneswackyjournals8810  As they do now? What a crock.
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  1505. Cars, combs, etc. should all be going for dirt cheap. Nothing dropped in price when offshored. You are delusional in your justification and an ardent supporter of billionaires, climate change, exploitation, pollution and pandemics.
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  1506.  @ireneswackyjournals8810  ps - You're not paying attention. Americans can't afford Walmart any more. They're shopping at Dollar Tree.
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  1507.  @ireneswackyjournals8810  Walmart is being fed former middle class customers who used to shop at better stores, and the shoppers who used to be their base are dropping from the bottom, to Dollar Tree. Walmart's swimming in money from many sources, like laying off their American tech workers and replacing them with foreign workers. Same across many US businesses. Race to the bottom.
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  1508. At no time, should children be separated from their parents. And this is a policy that was pushed by the ACLU, that children have separate asylum claim from their parents. Was this not going to end any other way? The dysfunctional premise is that every foreign child's potential life in the US takes legal precedence over their parents' right to the child. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
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  1509.  @Reaper-cm4jr  For the same reason the republican party has: catering to the interests of commerce, as the expense of the general public. Current state of voter registration, 25% R, 25% D, 50% I. Rs' toxic 9% Far Right, and Ds' toxic 9% Far Left, are both driving the two parties, and the public is scraping the parties off their shoes and moving on.
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  1510.  @Reaper-cm4jr  Gerrymandering. Extensive gerrymandering.
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  1511. We are well aware. Work visas have been used for at least 25 years to supplant US workers, and we're pretty pissed about it.
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  1512.  @Ubermensch9240  That is the impression every arrogant naive visa'd worker believes. And then somewhere along the way, they discover otherwise. Many do at the time they're given a pink slip with their green card - so the employer can get a fresh batch of ever cheaper H1s. Or when they've been working, and the paychecks aren't coming. It's generally known as sophomoric.
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  1513. You may've decided that's what it means, but to a globalist, it means free[-loading] trade. After dropping off the imported goods in the US' ports, the wealth is carried off to tax shelters. "Irish headquarters" my hiney.
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  1514. @ Defunding police is wrong in states where they murder citizens, but defunding education is right? Defunding life saving meds for the poorest on the planet is right? Bail reform for non-violent offenders is wrong? Exactly who's been enacting federal fiscal lashing for free speech? Trump. Illegally present, agreed, though it's at least 12M, and so where's the consequences to illegal employers...[crickets].
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  1515. Ah well, too late crying over spilled milk. Had both parties not gerrymandered the districts and the voting processes, Bernie Sanders would've been elected, according to the pre-primary polls. Lesser of two evils voting is only a matter of rate of descent. Golly gee, she'd have given less of a tax break to onshoring the monies of the tax dodgers. She'd have given citizenship for 7 years donation of illegal labor to industry. Yeah, moral high ground my rear end. And thanks PBS, for the public service promotion of your new Rockefeller twist, pay for streaming. Get your business off our airwaves.
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  1516. Blue gain of the wealthy means the wealthy now benefit more from the Ds' austerity program, imported illegal/quasi-legal labor glut, than the Rs' tax cuts. The "shift" occurred decades back: "centrists" "third way", when Clinton turned Democrats into Republicans. Which made both parties lose/lose for the general public. Hence, the third party eliminating the other two, The Trump Party.
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  1517.  @scottloewke5199  Same can be said of Far Left, and official party Democrats, who saw to it that the mighty populist Bernie Sanders was sidelined. Who was tops in polling, before the primaries. The two parties took control of the voting process in which many a state doesn't allow Independents to vote in primaries. We are now at 50% of voters registered as Independent ... scraping the self-serving parties off their shoe, and moving on. Very specifically, 25% of voters in each party, have control over our direction. And their minorities, Far Left/Far Right, are running the show. Open Borders, Big Government Regulation of Uteruses, State Poll Tax:Voter IDs, etc.
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  1518.  @eagle1ear  Whereas a lot of Far Left voters aren't the same, emotive and senseless policies? When I distill the Far Left/Far Right agendas, there's only one tiny group that benefits: billionaires.
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  1519. I'd never vote for someone with so much contempt they'd use a statement like "basket of deplorables".
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  1520.  @keithwiebe1787  Nope. There are more options that just that narrow little tunnelvision set of options the R and D have led the public into.
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  1521. Israel shouldn't exist, without Palestinian concurrence, which never happened. So it was never going to work.
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  1522. And they're getting bilked. I've yet to hear where mayors get the authority to give Amazon, GE, etc. a free skate on taxes.
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  1523. This "dupe smile" was so obvious, ever more so when he was standing beside Bush...
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  1524. Primary, incessantly "No appointments, use Urgent Care". Multitudes of doctors listed as "Accepting new patients" in insurance listing, who say No, we aren't, when I called. I asked the admins at doc office I eventually found, "Who decides the doctor(s) accepting new patients?". They said "Corporate".
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  1525.  @MM-sf3rl  Sounds more like ribbing and snark. Very common when I was growing up, "I could just kill you.", an expression of frustration with someone.
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  1526.  @rodh4272  Precedence. Root cause. Bipartisan train wreck. So, time to move on from the partisanship and fix the problem.
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  1527. Can't do it, myself. But, good luck to us all.
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  1528.  @keithwiebe1787  Walk the walk. Politicians elude to a lot of things in campaign, and don't use "bully pulpit" to get the job done. See presidency of LBJ, who did so prolifically. "you would vote for Trump" Open your aperture. Your D or R constraint, "lesser of two evils" assumption, is how we got where we are: two parties who both work for Wall St's benefit. Bypassed: Perot, Nader, Sanders.
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  1529.  @keithwiebe1787  It appears that way, most prolifically because states have been legislatively allocating all their electors to whoever wins 51%. In effect, obliterating any visibility, let alone effectivity, of the vote of the other 49%.
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  1530. Jobs, to pay for them?
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  1531. He left off one significant point. Much of that university work is conducted by the cheapest most captive workers they can find: foreign students, "Will work for green card." Who're promptly ditched for next wave of captive students. 2 friends, foreign Harvard PhD Bio students, now ditched "Here's your green card, and pink slip." One of the two's been unemployed for 2 years.
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  1532. Koch, not Trump, re: strip down the education systems. Trump's a magnet for fury, mindless fury. Much of the public's justifiably furious - unfortunately. And the rest of the politicians are skipping along with deflection. Living Min Wage - not a one will say aloud.
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  1533.  Jonas Pell  "moron" Same no class comment. You have contempt issues.
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  1534.  Jonas Pell  "tardbag" Again with the schoolyard behavior. You're not old enough to be unattended.
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  1535.  @reforest4fertility  UBI is taking money out of our back pockets to pretend to gift it back to us. Solves nothing. It's an end-run around Living Wage.
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  1536. "contributes vast amounts of private capital to feed the hungry in foreign nations" in exchange for ...? Tantamount to extorting a trick from dog for a Milkbone. "Jump! Jump! Pass anti-homosexual legislation! Jump!" The myriad of other topics are relevant to contorting christianity.
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  1537. Oh let me guess, a female Chinese-American.
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  1538. "not held by ..." Opinion.
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  1539. @04gopackgo92 How does that change Seattle's extraordinary specialization in it?
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  1540.  @jameseverett9037  Odd employers never think they themselves just might be the problem. As someone who's been a senior level at work for a few decades now, grooming the youth is part of the job...
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  1541. Yes. Funding this, for decades.
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  1542. Long ago, a relative's mother barked at him, as a wayward teenager, "You better decide which side of the law you're going to be on!". He said he went with a badge, now a police chief, as protection (lack of accountabiity) against his own bad behavior.
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  1543. That was the purported tariffs, for benefit of the puts and calls stock traders.
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  1544. If you mine the Far Left/Far Right, you'll come to the conclusion that what they promote is beneficial to commerce alone.
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  1545. ​ @helios7212  Illogical.
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  1546. Exactly the sentiment I said to a coworker over 12 years ago, re: attack on Iraq. If you have to become a monster to defeat a monster, what exactly's been gained?!?
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  1547. "Let's first get to the elites' agenda. And the public's interests... later, like maybe 2050."
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  1548. The labor force, is like any other, supply and demand. The influx of illegal and visa'd foreign workers are not coincidental to stagnant wages and bad employers.
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  1549. I wholly expect the influx of migrant and immigrant workers numbers to far surpass Boomer die off. This state of affairs isn't working for suburban elderly either, who bought when prices were sane, but are now being property taxed out of home with min incomes.
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  1550.  @CelinTonny  Ruthlessness poisons everything.
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  1551. Politicians lie. Multitudes lie, to others, and themselves.
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  1552. Contempt is not helpful. And it's not just Louisiana.
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  1553. Billionaires chasing down the cheapest most easily abused labor isn't laudable.
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  1554. "it's daytime in Philadelphia but dark and nighttime in New Orleans" We call it dawn, and in this case, it'd be dawn in Philadelphia.
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  1555.  Jonas Pell  "moron" No class, no self control, Pell. "Spanish", Columbus may've kicked it off, British picked it up and continued, broader across North America.
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  1556. Us, the politicians don't give a damn about us.
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  1557.  @AmateurHistorian999  The problem is built into the question: "What Gives Kids a Chance...". We owe kids far better than "a Chance". I've a huge problem with "disproportionately affects", like our goal is equal demographic rationing of policy failures. We need a realistic floor under the population. That starts with Living Min Wage.
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  1558. Libertarian. Republican had nothing to offer the public but a shoulder to cry on, including, as Bush Sr put it, "the nutjobs [of the party]". That opened the door for the John Bircher/Libertarian hysteria to enter and take over. None of that's conservative, but as long as it serves the wealthy, they'll roll with it.
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  1559. Once Trump's safely out of the picture, the left-wing needs to have a long, hard look at itself.
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  1560.  @71suns  Come again? If I understand you right, you're assuming Trump's my poor Daddy? Reread the thread.
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  1561.  @samizdat113  Avoiding the inconvenient purpose of the prefatory clause?
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  1562.  @TomdeSabla  It's not a "belief", the purpose is explicitly stated in writing.
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  1563.  @TomdeSabla  "...peeled potato..." Clearly you've not taken any classes in logic, nor have any natural aptitude.
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  1564.  @angermgt1  It wasn't a preexisting right. It was defined for public ownership of guns for purpose of the public to be used as militia. And regulated didn't mean regulation(s), nor "well-functioning", it meant managed, coordinated, supervised. Gun Owners Of America contorted this as somehow the right to unmanaged, unsupervised, uncoordinated ownership of an AK47.
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  1565.  @angermgt1  Way, way off. Context: Liberty was from governance "without representation". And it is not a right separate from militia, as it is codified exactly as such. Inconvenient to gun sales, based on "your neighbor is your enemy/arm your personal bunker" dystopia, doesn't change that fact.
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  1566. Half the story, may be accurate, but is not whole truth. Historic rhythm, oligarchy wax and wane, and right now, their interests run both parties and their policies.
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  1567. And OCD. And fixation. And passivity. Your habits become your life, which can be good and bad.
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  1568. Do I have this right, Massachusetts has official 'non-cooperation' policy regarding ICE prosecuting the law but has a problem with ICE having a 'non-cooperation' with Mass prosecution? Brings to mind "you reap what you sow".
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  1569. Since you brought it up, 15M, last count by UN, 15M in the US living in 3rd world level poverty. Apparently people don't recognize there are consequences, to retooling the economy for benefit of billionaires. All kinds of consequences, public hysteria, for one, and putting the hysterical to use.
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  1570. ​ @crc5795  That is commonly known as "systemic racism". Racism is solely a macroeconomic term, is your opinion.
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  1571.  @crc5795  Pull out a dictionary.
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  1572.  @crc5795  "No other group? Well that's interesting. I remember til the 1970s "domestic violence" was swept under the rug, along with rape. And isn't #metoo indicative of male protection of lewd men? And didn't all men have the right to vote well before any women did? And wasn't it only in the past few decades women were only recognized as having any rights to property and children? And aren't women of all races paid less then men? Hmmm... no other group...
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  1573.  @crc5795  Ironic. Ditto.
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  1574.  @crc5795  That's exactly why I said ditto. But, I don't see women constantly crying about not having male privilege. They move on what they want.
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  1575.  @crc5795  Charming.
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  1576.  @crc5795  "no other group of people", those were your words. Not the video's.
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  1577. News has had a blackout of Israeli aggression for decades. But this is too big to hide.
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  1578.  @t-talk-time3582  You're ignoring: - president alone cannot change the tangent of the nation - even that election is gerrymandered, via the many states who disallow Independents from voting in primaries (who're now 50% of voters), and states who put all their electoral votes behind the one party winning in their states. Ridiculous to claim any state is red or blue, without ignoring the non red/blue votes that came in.
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  1579.  @55points  Please take a minute to look up authoritarian. Please take a minute to look up Evangelicals, as it isn't them pushing anti-abortion, anti-gay agenda - globally. Please take a look at Supreme Court, to discern who's packing the court. And, we're a democratic republic, the two aren't mutually exclusive (do you even live in the US?). Get back to us, when you've done some basic homework.
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  1580. Industry is making record profits from imported labor glut. They aren't going to hire an American engineer when they can get a visa indentured worker from India at $8.10 an hour, or an American blue collar worker when they can get an illegal immigrant at wage theft rates of less than min wage. 35 years of this, and it's only gotten worse.
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  1581.  @laurakibben4147  "and raised their children into it keeping the cycle going" Because our economy's only gotten better and better at payrates? Yes, I'm ridiculing your caustic ignorance.
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  1582.  @G1Joe  Joe, the BS that "people are inherently lazy" is deflective cover for those exploiting the poor. And no adult with half a brain should be swallowing that malarkey, when the evidence of our economy going bust has happened over, and over and over, in front of our eyes.
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  1583. Not true. Saw that personally, when in 2012 the gov workers panicked during sequestration, and personally killed the actual contracted productive projects, to save their jobs.
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  1584. Reconfigure our voting processes, to take them out of the self-serving parties' interests.
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  1585.  @mickey1849  Avoiding the question...
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  1586.  @mickey1849  "Since we don't know..." Correct. Hence the deliberate inclusion, "well regulated militia".
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  1587. God didn't write the bible. Some two thousand years ago a handful of men wrote a few stories, and then a few of them were selected to create a religious narrative.
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  1588. Scroll up. Mainer saying many houses in his former neighborhood now used by snowbirds.
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  1589. Journalists and reporters don't inject their opinion. It's not about _them_.
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  1590. I agree. It's a lot of homework to get down to the facts, all of the facts. We're heavily peppered by both sides with half truths, when whole truth leads to entirely opposite conclusions.
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  1591. Bull. There is one and only one way to get as rich as our billionaires now are. Take far too much from far too many in exchange for far too little. Bezos: 20 years of no city/state sales taxes on sales, local facility tax free as "job creator", and shunt the wage shortfall, $.25 for every $1 paid their warehouse workers, to city/state welfare bills.
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  1592.  @dahliafully  Middle class is attained by making more than you require to live (food, housing, etc.). Investing isn't powerful, it's unearned income, taking of some of the value of the labor of others. And average joe "investor" is getting their clocks cleaned, as the intermediaries, brokers, make their living enacting the choices that first and foremost put money in their pockets. As PBS/Frontline's Retirement Gamble pointed out, average joe will be lucky to get back $.33, for every $1 they put in.
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  1593. True. The "feel good" deflection by gov, "Hey you, you're all banished to LED crap lighting.", so industry can keep their high CO2 productions going.
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  1594.  @philwelling7172  Hmm, well, someone better cite sources for their numbers.
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  1595. I do it in my daily life. Yes, there is such a thing.
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  1596. India's degree'd millions aren't going to fit in targeted Western/Westernized nations. They need to move on from their British business model: offshoring of cheap labor. And, Harvard isn't going to tell them of the originally H1 IIT and O visa'd unemployment. 3 of whom I know personally. Green card? Laid off.
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  1597. As it should be. Big clang in my ear, every time I hear the reporter us the word "me", because news is not about the reporter. And then there's the tainting of facts reported, painted with subjective adjectives. If I hear the Euro "draconian" one more time ...
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  1598. A reaction which would fuel yet more aggression.
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  1599. Well, that is the ironic part, isn't it. His nonsense will hit his voters, and everyone else's, pockets. I believe the common vernacular for this is: jerk. He's no idea what he's doing, so trying to look like a strong man, he's jerking others around.
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  1600.  @CharlesHepburn2  Are you talking about the over a decade inaccurately cast "good economy"?
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  1601.  Jody Owen  Looking back over my shoulder (pre-corona), I saw far and wide, the opportunities I had, now gone for those coming up behind me. All benefit of the economy retooled for investors-only. I don't care if the "global" supply chain burns to the ground. This virus traveled on its wholly unnatural conduit, and the planet will be better off if it never returns.
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  1602.  @KevinWendigo63  It's not a voter turn out problem. It's a political parties own the voting process and the oligarchy own the political parties problem.
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  1603.  @vooodkathetruthseeker6747  Voodoo The Coward
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  1604. The Mr cried like a baby, when his father died. "Why does this hurt so bad?", he asked. "Because you won the lottery. Good parents." I hope you keep that in mind, it'll help you be patient with so many others, who weren't so lucky. And their behavior reflects it.
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  1605. "and not because they're the most competent person" Men have done so, for years. And still do: Google, for instance. Far and wide across the US, the minority hires are the cheapest, indentured by illegal for blue collar, indentured visa'd for white collar. Where oh where are you getting the idea hire is on merit? I haven't seen that since the mid-1990s.
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  1606. Hence, 50% of voters now registered as Independents. The two parties are actually minorities now. And with their 25% of voters each, their 9% of radical Far Left/Far Right, are minorities within the parties. And the parties' alignment with their excessively loud Far [X] louts, they continue to alienate their moderate, who leave.
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  1607.  @mariofigueroa9254  a) We, the general public, are presumed to not know that, and b) the people who pay less or no taxes getting the most help are well aware they're freeloading off of those who do. Ex., 2008, Kochs were vehemently against Fed bailout ... until they discovered their investments were involved.
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  1608. I'm sure plenty have.
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  1609. ->"at a time... " That time has passed...
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  1610. I can't tell you what a slap in the face it is, when newscasts, amid crisis, declare, ramming down our throats, "[X] Strong!"
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  1611. DEI candidate is derisive slur for racists' only white men are competent. As infantile as "haters" and "double-haters". The Mr remarked on the fundraising spike. I told him, it didn't work for Sanders. It's not over til the fat lady sings, as the saying goes.
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  1612. And the R controlled House, Senate and White House moved on raising min wage? No, no such thing. Yes, the Ds and Rs politicians are near indistinguishable, it's just a variation in the level of expressed contempt for the public.
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  1613.  @marymccluer1630  Slavery was not really so bad? I believe the photo of the man with whip marks all over his back says it all. Or casket photos of Emit Till, re: Jim Crow.
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  1614.  @TheGuy030770  This kind of bad behavior? (That's billion, as in $13 billion) https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/prog.php?parent=&statesum=WA&fedsum=&major_industry_sum=&hq_id_sum=&company_op=starts&company=&major_industry%5B%5D=&hq_id=&free_text=&subsidy_level=&subsidy_op=%3E&subsidy=&face_loan_op=%3E&face_loan=&subsidy_type%5B%5D=&sub_year%5B%5D=&state=&federal=
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  1615.  James Rooks  Murdock rabble rouses in both the US and the UK, and his messaging is basically people who make $700 per hour convincing people that make $25 an hour that people who make $7.25 per hour are the problem.
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  1616.  @johnathansaanga4432  Using police is theatrics. It changes nothing, and makes fools of them.
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  1617.  @ytubeanon  First, why is that funny? And second, not at all likely a coincidence the homeless would be mainly white. Seattle is a tech town and tech imports a lot of cheap 3rd world white collar labor, to supplant citizen workers.
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  1618. Disposable isn't the problem, held to respectable account is. Living wage, for one. Yes, unions are essential when employers are abusive.
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  1619. Illegal. Familiarize yourself with labor laws, posted at the Department of Labor web site.
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  1620. He's not attracting people who're looking for integrity or decency. He attracts - the angry. And millions have good reason to be angry, and the politicians have been deflecting that for a long time, or out and out ignoring that. - the any means to an end religious, for overturning Roe v Wade. - the monied. He's like putty in their hands, for the low price of stroking his ego.
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  1621.  @goarmysleepinthemud.  Americans are messaged by elite that excessive wealth is "success" and they are poor because they don't work hard enough. Not that a) they control the labor market, b) control the politicians and thus laws tipped to their favor and most damaging c) the voting processes. Note the deflection to "public has a character flaw: racists and xenophobic", for dousing the labor market ... coincidentally highly favorable to industry, tanking wage rates.
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  1622.  @charlieross-BRM  A narcissist is a perpetually unaccountable 3 year old, including bluster to deflect. At work, nicknames emerge. Teflon Man, never accountable. Blister, shows up after all the work's done.
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  1623.  @imperialmotoring3789  "disaster", a prolific mindless veneer, every bit as mindless as "draconian".
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  1624.  @barbaramonaco105  "trump is their Cyrus", they are told. Their divine interest being overturn of Roe.
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  1625.  @susanwhite7474  "poorly educated" It has nothing to do with "educated". I work with highly educated, many of whom are mighty self centered. What an denigrating and arrogant statement.
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  1626. Poverty and contempt aren't bubbles, though given how little action on it, you certainly can see how people would feel they were in one. "NO BODY SEES ME!" screamed a homeless lady at us, on a visit to NYC.
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  1627.  @UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana  Observation alone, it certainly appears to be inherited. My friends' identical twins alone, one has Mom's sunbeam outlook, the other has Dad's brooding apprehension. Seeing my nephew's son with the same deep sensitivity as my brother's. Etc.
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  1628.  @UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana  They are identical twins. Who have different personalities. Identical twins is 1 fertilized egg, that split, there's no confirmation bias built into that science. Confirmation bias is a psychological state.
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  1629.  @UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana  I don't see all over the place. Families conflate contrasts, and it can get rough, if it's a control thing. Trouble can also come from two having the same negative trait - two who have to have the last word will never get along. The Mr this week said something about helping a friend of a friend, nasty divorce, and I told him, if a marriage is breaking up over control issues, the divorce isn't going to go any smoother.
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  1630. Far Left are also extremists.
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  1631. Far Left and Far Right make up a total of 15% of the registered voters. And all the noise makers.
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  1632.  @MrGreen-fi5sg  First and foremost, denial. Far Left and Far Right practice denial. That any constraints is intolerable. Ex: - Far Right, guns. - Far Left, migration. Far Left + Far Right = 15% of registered voters. Extreme, our politicians catering to 15%. Far Left are also extremists and radical.
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  1633.  @w.schott9260  Meaningless accusation, schott.
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  1634. Deport. Borders and ports of entry don't need bigger locks, they're walking around them. Deport.
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  1635.  @cmossman6580  Max Profit, the sole interest of the investors. No Western John Q. Public citizen ever said "Make my hair comb and toothbrush in China, polluting there, and burning max fuel on cargo ships to bring it to me here for the same price, so you can hide your newly found max profits offshore in tax havens.", nor "Stop storing US apples for the winter and start sending up Chile's." The West, and their shrinking population, is the root cause of the bulk of the environmental damage. So generic "decrease population" is a wholly ineffective answer. We've no obligation to what "...industry wants..."
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  1636.  @jenniferbringman9054  The problem with "out west" has to do with expansion of 1) population way beyond realistic viable natural use of water, along with 2) unrealistic expansion of farming also well beyond what the regional population needs.
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  1637. What's going on in France where you have to define "safe" spaces for children? Genuine question.
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  1638.  @71suns  ?!? It's in rsh's posted comment, "the children having somewhere safe". Did you not read the comment you're posting under?
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  1639. No that would be the two fundamentalists of science and religion at battle. No sane scientist says with absoluteness - because it's literally state of the art. Just as no sane religious cleric says the words are literal and not metaphorical.
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  1640.  @negydimenziosember  In that case, yes, is is similar. The fundamentalists are in battle. All abortion is unnecessary and bad. All migration is necessary and good.
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  1641. The states shouldn't have any rights over my uterus.
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  1642.  @stclemmons1969  The US gives 1 million green cards per year. There's no delay in "processing" the applications, the legal applicants are waiting their turn in the queue for the annual 1 million. John clearly ignores the glut of applicants. What is so horrible about getting a No, and returning to England, is beyond me. "Temporary", a work visa is temporary, and they know that from Day 1. The illegal presence never applies. Hence the instructions, pre-ICE raids, on avoiding the "due process" of getting caught by ICE. Legitimate asylum seekers have 1 year to apply for legal asylum. We have between 11 million (Pew) and 22 million (Yale/MIT) here illegally who never applied.
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  1643. ​ @johnkelly5949  Take a hard look at the "companies" being started by immigrants these days: offshoring work and onshoring visa'd workers/relatives, etc.
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  1644.  @johnkelly5949  Pay close attention the next time you hear a media report. "Immigrants contribute ...", not "Illegal immigrants contribute...". Media is co-mingling Legal immigrant (green card and naturalized), with visa'd temporary workers and illegal presence. We give 1 million green cards (for permanent residence, who can then naturalize/citizenship in 5 years), hundreds of thousands of "temporary" work visas and student visas, and tens of thousands of illegally present. John cites small numbers, and all of the above don't amount to small numbers.
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  1645.  @stclemmons1969  Are these people going to bring their tents, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/refugee-crisis-outgrows-usual-fixes-heres/ so these people can use them http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/column-5-2-percent-income-growth-doldrums/ ? There's something like 65 million refugees on the planet. How many of the 1 million green cards we give per year do you want going to them? According to John, all allocation/all waiting is cruel and unnecessary, while our citizens are going homeless from the crush on unaffordable housing.
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  1646.  @stclemmons1969  Gang violence in Chicago and Watts doesn't qualify all US residents as "asylum seekers" entitled to select any country on the planet to emigrate to. Refugees do get green cards but not all 65 million refugees. Nor do the hundreds of thousands of work and student visa'd who come here every _year_. John has no scope/scale addressed in his rant.
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  1647.  @johnkelly5949  "I seriously don't see a difference..." Scale and scope.
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  1648.  @trent_k  Many ways it cuts revenue, - wage theft, as they're easy targets - as illegal, they work for less wages, which I consider collaborative/conducive to illegal employer interests - not filing tax return at all, with high W4 dependent claims ITIN are also used by foreign business and the number of ITIN returns are vastly smaller than illegal presence.
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  1649.  @lauraa222  Still broader. More who die due to no medical services left available, for other lethal illness/accident or even those who're only surviving it due to medical intervention. Also, who says "the economy would be saved", by letting corona roll on through? Prolific hospital/ICU bills, 2 week rolling sickout employees, rolling sick out of customers, another 2 week sickout with kids, and 3 months of family medical leave to attend to elder parents who may/may not end disabled. Or as Erma Bombeck put it, "The grass is always greener over the septic tank."
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  1650.  @bobwallace9753  The mine was offshored.
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  1651.  @jcr-studios  Or the prolific lies and corruption of the politicians.
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  1652. Your subjective viewpoint is missing ethics. Living wage. If a purported "business" isn't paying living wage, then the public is supplementing that shortfall - which is a circuitous charity, not a business. In which case, they should close their doors, and we, the public, should put these people to work, for our benefit - being as we're paying their living.
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  1653.  @watamutha  Gluttony? How so? 1 car, 1 TV, 1 phone, vacation was a trip to the beach, a blowout weekend was a barbecue with the neighbors, etc. That'd be the day they'd blow a fortune flying their little 5 year old darling to Brussels to see Taylor Swift.
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  1654.  @watamutha  Clarify what you mean by entitlement increases. I see boomers' direct voting at town meeting on raising property tax exemptions for themselves and for absurd zoning restrictions to keep 1950s' concepts in place (BSing themselves with cheap housing == poor people == crime, and we're really about land conservation). Do tell how boomers control any spending, with respect to infrastructure projects.
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  1655.  @watamutha  Sorry, youtube not posting responses, or is doing so selectively. It appears you resent boomers, and followons are entirely innocent... including the corrosion of politicians.
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  1656.  @iw12  Do explain how a Palestinian living in Israel is Palestinian ? Are you talking about the violent settlers/settlements in West Bank, counting Palestinian as "living in Israel"? Or are you talking about the Gaza Palestinian queued up by 2am like cattle at the gates of Israel, to await entry into Israel, for their only Israeli-allowed opportunity to work?
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  1657.  @zw9802  "which may or may not have had some medical equipment in them" And this dismissive contempt, that a hospital "may or may not have had some medical equipment in them" belies the amoral objective.
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  1658.  @iw12  So only those of a particular faith are entitled to claim land there? Is that your argument? So if I were to convert today, I'm entitled to oust the Palestinian, Arab, but not my "ancient identity" cohorts?
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  1659. "What kind of man do you want right next to you, to defend you, your family and country?" One that is not under the impression he's here to "defend" me, or my family, nor my country. Bible says nothing about embryos - that's a political fabrication to wrangle voters. As is "Be prepared to kill thy neighbor."
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  1660. Presumptions, - black representation does/will produces different results - black people only vote for black people and white people only vote for white people - inclusion and diversity means every state must be statistically homogenous, everywhere, and if not then should be reconfigured to minority state enclaves - a nation of mainly white race origin is defective if the population is majority white - minority race enclaves will solve poverty/the economic class warfare, that is affecting all Americans
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  1661.  @ayoungethan  I'm responding to his statements in this video. Not his book.
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  1662.  @ayoungethan  ps - my female congresswomen are just as BigDonorLeaning as Rs. token "tax credit!" versus token "tax cut!" is a distinction without a difference.
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  1663.  @bethetruth9560  I voted for Obama, twice. Not because he was black. Because he was the best candidate, twice. As for "out of touch", do tell, what is out of touch?
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  1664.  @r.pres.4121  All electors going to a state's majority vote is voiding the votes of the others in that state. Win/win for the parties, lose/lose for the voters.
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  1665. Clearly you don't understand that he said the same thing, but addressing exactly how, sociologically, bad standards, immoral behavior and being opportunistic, is slipped into every day conversation, so that people do get used to it. Evolutionary advantage of altruism and teamwork is only a biological advantage over the long haul . Not the short term interests of the ruthless.
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  1666. ?!? We aren't the country we once were. Both the Tea Party and Howard Dean crowds chanted "Take Our Country Back". And the politicians have since doubled down on money for/from the elite. Aka, corruption. But yeah, let's go with, "And they're jealous of rich people." Because freeloading monopolists are what's was meant by the declaration of independence's "promote the general welfare".
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  1667.  @Gogetta80  It is the public who recognize they've no power. And no representation. The politicians on both sides are claiming it's due to the other side. None but Sanders will utter Living Min Wage. But gerrymandering of the voting processes by the parties saw to it that he was eliminated, by their primary rules. Independents unable to vote, in some states' primaries.
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  1668.  @Gogetta80  I've not seen that. And this was the public saying this, not the politicians. Given when they were saying it, I take it they were well aware our purported democracy is no longer a democracy, in our hands. Regardless of the last vestige being intact, voting. What a thin thread that is.
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  1669. Due to the multitudes of Tammany Halls. When racist discrimination comes from immigrants, they fail to acknowledge their hand is creation of the hostility.
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  1670. Thanks for weighing in from France. But wasn't France one of the two originators of the coolie system, with England? We don't yet have France and England's cultural enclaves where national laws carry no weight. It appears globalism includes the spreading of worst policies/practices, in hyperdrive.
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  1671.  @edwardst-pierre1020  The Opium Wars kicked it off, the second one in particular. Note the similarity to today's fentanyl arriving in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars#Second_Opium_War
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  1672.  @edwardst-pierre1020  Trafficking Asian as indentured cheap labor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolie
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  1673. So would democrats. We don't have millions of "asylum seekers". Both sides of the aisle, we don't have "a worker shortage".
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  1674. Where'd you get $3B??? $38B, during Obama's tenure alone.
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  1675.  @chriscupp  That's it's every bit as much of Far Right's agenda, as open borders is of Far Left's. Are they too going to let it be taken to the breaking point?
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  1676. Huge firewall on the decades of Israeli criminal abuse, in media, for decades. This, too big to hide.
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  1677.  @Jamessmith-12  Farce. Scam.
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  1678.  @David_Lloyd-Jones  Sorry, migrant was a typo, now corrected, migrate. Your post is convoluted in claiming misuse of forest fires, as they are forest fires regardless of root cause, that they burn until in compliance (not essential as lots of dead unburned forest areas in NEast due to road installations cutting off watershed), and the strange use of "compliance", as though this human damage has a rule set to avoid extinction by complying.
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  1679. As of the early 1970s, the international elite were very angry about losing control over the publics. Church loss of control over populations was one of their frustrations aired.
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  1680.  @5353Jumper  It is regressive. There's nothing conservative, nor capitalism for that matter, about retooling the economy and government to bloat ineffective bilking business. Remarkably, media's been labeling it [x-]capitalism, avoiding calling it what it is, corruption. A huge step forward, eliminate party-affiliation, from voter registration. We need to stop enabling/arming the corruption of the parties, and boot them back out of the processes of voting. It is inherently a conflict of interests.
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  1681. "We all get the constitution." Including the "well regulated militia" part?
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  1682. Which the supreme courts dismiss.
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  1683.  @jrutman4441  Our corrupt governance allowed big Pharma to push opioids. 80% of drug addicts started with prescription drugs. Worst opioid use in Ohio and NH, and they don't look like Seattle.
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  1684.  @jrutman4441  Fix root cause: Pharma + WA's industry subsidies (no monies for solving) + incessant influx of cheap foreign workers (supplanted citizens/wage suppression/no extra housing to accomdate). Only treating symptoms (homelessness and drug addiction) is not a solution. Even more ignorant, try policing this away. It's not a police thing.
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  1685.  @tombolo4120  Years back, wrote my senator asking why she voted for allowing corp to give synthetic blood, w/bad survival record, to patients in ambulances, w/o consent. She said where else are they going to test drive their (failed) product. Corrupt, corrupt, corrupt.
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  1686.  @tombolo4120  There's nothing pragmatic about it, it's corruption to presume corps have a right/entitlement to experiment on public w/o consent. Hospitals kicked them out as survival rate dropped from 100% to 50%.
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  1687. We? 2/3rd were on the Mayflower for commerce venture.
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  1688. Prior owners of exceedingly tiny expensive houses of San Francisco, San Jose, Boston, etc. Transient employment is expensive.
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  1689.  @stevechance150  "they don't see value in airing a volcano of lies" Oh really? Is that not the entire slant on illegal immigration? It's been a good 10, 15 years here in the northeast since they've aired anything coming close to critique of it. Up until the past year, a mere 1 documentary 12 years back, on Israeli aggression/oppression of the Palestinian, here in the northeast. PBS, now promoting Facebook, Amazon, etc. Coin-boxed the "public" broadcasting.
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  1690.  @johndillon9791  Ignorance, Far Left. Fury, Far Right. Both tiny factions, but very very loudly taken over party personas.
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  1691.  @johndillon9791  They turn off their media for at least 6 months. So said a Far Left friend of mine, who did so. I've yet to hear a Far Right willing to do so. Online, the Far Left/Far Right pepper the majority with slurs, and presumptions these tiny factions are far more than the tiny 9% that they are.
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  1692.  @johndillon9791  Yes, John, hate. A volley of slurs: snowflake, libtard, racist, etc. etc. etc. Sickening. Schoolyard.
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  1693. "mowing the lawn", is what Netanyahu calls this.
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  1694. Not the case around the globe?!?
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  1695.  @samanthaizzoscheffler8272  That's because Left is also operating for benefit of elite. A different set of elite, but none the less elite. Re: Trump, consequence is 1 million dead. Would not do a short term national shutdown of a mere 3 weeks, to bring covid to a halt. Re: the court, consequences, will be defused impact, just as the public welfare has been slow rolling decline. The politicians through accusations, to avoid culpability.
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  1696. Well that's highly dependent on what school one goes to. And the US was and still is no better, colonialism/imperialism moving west. Suggested reading: Slavery By Another Name, and White Trash.
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  1697.  @kwaltonverner  Brian Moynihan, Bank of America CEO, on Charlie Rose, Re: immigration, "If we don't grow the population, everything's harder.", "Immigration ... is a growth acquisition program"
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  1698.  @kwaltonverner  And power. Both groups, targeted for felonized citizens, and illegal presence, no voting rights.
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  1699.  @HusseinDoha  What is bull? Wall St benefits, and that's not contradictory to what the activists want, that anyone who comes gets to stay. The falsehood this activist is claiming is that they're after legal asylum, when I don't believe they are. The majority coming do not file a legal claim for asylum.
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  1700. Whereas the rest of the planet didn't come to a stop on October 7th.
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  1701.  @oskarrohde9172  We can do far better that we're doing, and there's no good reason we can't establish a floor, for everyone within our borders.
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  1702.  @R0yL33  Recently read a definition of culture as having common understanding of behaviors and expectations. Basic flaw in "multiculturalism" - groups with no such commonality.
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  1703.  @jsnumber7  We are no longer "in the time period". We are no longer throwing off a king. Well, at the moment. MAGA King may come to rule.
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  1704.  @jsnumber7  The second amendment doesn't equate to the farce of "self protection" basis. "well regulated militia" - the explicit intent, "at the time of drafting". Furthermore, it legitimizes the paranoia of being under attack at any time, for sake of gun sales. But I'm not aware of psychological evaluation of why individuals feel they need a gun with them at all times. Ironic the same people who pass these laws bar them at their own workplace: court, capital buildings, etc.
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  1705. Poorest workers in the country are the illegally present - courtesy of the Far Left. I guess why that's why "the highly educated" Ds vote D, cheap "domestic help", eh?
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  1706. White Trash, excellent book on exactly that. Slavery was for unpaid black slaves' labor, to avoid workers who had legal rights and mobility. Not unlike today's illegal and visa'd foreign workers.
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  1707. Elite protecting domain of ... elite. "the market" being labor market, cheap labor market. Trilateral Commission's 1973 report, The Crisis of Democracy, a compilation of international elite complaints of losing their grip on labor, which says a lot about how we're regressed since then, and why offshoring and influx of migrant labor's occurring.
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  1708.  @hannejeppesen1809  "3 of our political heroes and leaders were shot and killed" - sheer logic, odds are this was no coincidence.
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  1709.  @adiliareis3631  "you must like communism" You must not know the definition of communism.
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  1710.  @hannejeppesen1809  I've not read any of the conspiracy theories on it. I just don't believe the numbers are coincidental.
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  1711.  @michaelhill7878  When was the last time a campaigner put whole truth out there, and not just cherry picked facts? The fact of the matter is, Harris is speaking about the public's well being. While Trump's pursuing tax breaks mainly for the rich may be a fact, it's not useful to the general public.
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  1712.  @dropletsonbardi  Last week my manager said he's looking forward to the birth of his first grandchild as he and his wife help take care of the baby. My male coworker said, "Just make sure there's someone to hand the baby to when it needs a diaper change.", laughing. I've only once in my life heard a man chide another man for being childish. Furthermore, those kinds of comments have done fathers enormous damage in divorce court, regarding custody. Fortunately, overall the younger men seem less man-babies.
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  1713. D and R, two sides of the same coin - both given over their parties to Far Left and Far Right camps fighting over what's most beneficial for the elite.
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  1714. You're avoiding the law against "dumping", which is when a company sells something at a loss, to kill their competitors, to own/monopolize a market. Which is what the tariffs on some Chinese goods are doing. Same thing with the labor market, with open borders, importing a labor glut. Killing the citizenry micro businesses, known as workers, who sell their labor. Illegally waged illegal migrants and visa'd workers sell their work at a loss - and are subsidized by the public, for food/housing/medical.
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  1715.  @emilyfeagin2673  Churches provide power concentration. Elites miss that. As cited in Trilateral Commission's 1970s' report on "The Crisis of Democracy". Apparently we've "an excess of democracy".
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  1716. "that almost no human being in power has ever made" Are you kidding? McCain, who stopped and corrected a ridiculous statement about Obama being a Muslim, during a debate. George Bush Sr, who paid the US debt off, despite great hostility from banks who wanted the durable interest on them. George Washington, who was being pressured to stay in power for life. Granted, integrity in office is becoming rare, but there are plenty in history, and still some occurring.
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  1717. Why does it help to banish the question, what were you paid at your last job? Because once lowballed, relative to the men, it's perpetuated forward for the rest of your life. For no good reason. Same job, same pay.
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  1718.  @FeminismDebunked  I worked at a big company in cost accounting, and could see everyone's salary. It always was justified with His Ed/Experience/Workload (pick any one) trumps Her Ed/Experience/Workload (pick any one).
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  1719. "our society hates kids" Well, I wouldn't put it that way. It appears the economy is now configured for Investor Security (deregulation of market safety and integrity, employment instabilty, tax funded bailouts, etc.). Top priority, the billion dollar babies, at the expense of everyone else. Ironic, the Republicans' "anti-abortion" agenda, given their decades of "If you can't afford kids, don't have them."
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  1720. "well regulated militia" is the written law.
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  1721.  @pwrmx24  Do cite the militia and its regulation. Because the entire statement counts.
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  1722. "vote blue" loyalists, 25% of the registered voters, 75% are not. Vote red loyalists, 25% of the registered voters, 75% are not. Far Left are 9%, 91% are not. Far Right are 9%, 91% are not. Are the Far [x] worth it?
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  1723. Hmmm, not really. Public monies are to be distributed as beneficial in accordance with demographics.
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  1724. It's not under-educated, it's radicalized. There's no think going on, when spun up with emotion. Which is what Libertarian are doing. What told me this is a Koch/ALEC "Libertarian" project, is big picture statement in this interview, the radicals come out to vote and put radicals in office.
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  1725.  @dtsh4451  Yes indeed, a bozo remark. We will always have the dead voting, because some will die in between their mail-in vote, and election day.
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  1726. How about how electing someone to run the country who says he likes to grab their pussies? That'd be political alliance corrupting faith. Particularly coming from a group who vehemently proclaimed Clinton unfit for office for having an affair. Every bit the hypocrites as Gingrich.
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  1727. He started by learning something himself, didn't he.
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  1728. Zinn, A Peoples History of the US: England sweeping their streets of the orphaned and indigent, sent off to the US colony as indentured. The English class requirement for subservience, visible even today. Worst of the worse, US industrial corruption, has cross pollinated with British ruling class entitlement.
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  1729. Yes, 2nd amendment wasn't about Kill Thy Neighbor.
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  1730.  @Drinkingyoursaltytearsallah  Yes.
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  1731. You too, TED? Giving over to Trump anxiety spasm? Did no one learn from 2016?
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  1732. "Einstein" visa like Oliver...
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  1733. They do. Many a hospital asks what religion you are, as part of their sign-in.
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  1734.  @1ApeinSpace  Metaphors are fiction depicting non-fiction.
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  1735.  @1ApeinSpace  A trope is a metaphor. Despite the term being used inappropriately.
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  1736. Now cover the other end of the spectrum: Chinese only willing to hire Chinese, or "American born" Chinese. The racism is bi-directional.
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  1737. The rich have been exempted from so many taxes, that they've a glut, and going after more market, in this case, housing. They can get an easy 40% interest annually, by buying an apartment building, raising the rent, and then dumping it when the repairs needed build up.
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  1738. "Will not use Amazon" That was never a good idea. One of the most toxic US creations, weasel Bezos.
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  1739. 16 years ago. That is how dictatorship types of governments work. Suspend elections once in power. Or, like Putin and Trump, claim to have won regardless of the vote.
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  1740.  @mister_manager  Ranked voting, open primaries, for a start.
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  1741. No, it isn't. But with the voting process controlled by the parties, and [Not-Necessarily-]Citizens United granting (why the heck, I'll never know how this got bundled in) anonymous tax exempt campaign spending, yes.
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  1742.  @jps0117  I disagree. In the gerrymandered voting process, I can't think of a single good reason party affiliation for voter registration should be allowed. I can't think of a single good reason Independents should be barred from voting in primaries, in any state. They should all be on one ballot, top 3 continue to general election. It goes downhill from there. The public is "registering" their disgust, 50% are now Independent. Which makes both parties, "minorities", each with 25% of party affiliated voters. Whole Truth Matters
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  1743.  @carolyn7691  Removing party affiliation from voter registration and changing to ranked choice would be great first steps in taking our voting processes out of the hands of the two parties.
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  1744. He isn't a US citizen. He was ordered deported almost 2 decades ago Incessant legal appeals is why our immigration court is clogged. Our immigration law is so broken, that someone can be here, working, for decades on a student visa. Students and others on quasi-legal visas are entitled to welfare benefits.
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  1745. Isn't the largest block of registered voters Independents? And, am I "right wing" because I don't support illegal migrant amnesty? Nor do the majority of the public, for DAPA? This is spin.
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  1746.  @sidewinder3781  What does that have to do with killing people in Vietnam?
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  1747.  @sidewinder3781  "at least the US and the western world try to be better" Isn't US support of Israel bombing the he&& out of Gaza violations of human rights, international laws and institutions, and undermine the current world order via a multitude of actions?
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  1748. Sssshhhh! Americans have no idea they've been funding this, for decades. Shhhh!
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  1749.  @malaikasmith3949  How's "this is something you all have always been." not just as racist?
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  1750.  @Ketowski  The prolific use of we, you, they are root cause of 1 falsely believing they speak for/against the demographics. Speak for yourself.
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  1751. Many of his are, but it is food for thought.
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  1752. Hard to pin down who's more deviant these days. Ex, the Rs who publicly bristle against illegal presence while exploiting them as an illegal workforce, or Ds who also employ them while publicly bristle against stopping illegal entry and blaming the public for the poverty of poor illegal minorities who come to sell their labor at illegal rates/illegal terms.
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  1753. "rich people sell their souls to feed their kids" Ridiculously generous presumption of motive, for their exorbitant greed. " being thoughtful and responsible about multiplying sentient life on Earth" Another presumption, that people who didn't have any did so over concerns for the population level or earth.
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  1754.  @Ali-e5h1b  "rich people" It doesn't take billions of dollars to feed a kid.
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  1755.  @ronny-lb1cr  Look at your nation's immigration policies. They, like most nations, are not "free movement" of Western nations' population.
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  1756.  @ronny-lb1cr  Your advice is trite, and assuming, that is my point.
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  1757.  @ronny-lb1cr  Very few are willing to leave entire family behind, yes, I'm assuming someone isn't going to compel their entire extended family to move with them to another country. Having read on immigration policies of several nations, yes, I'm assuming Germany is not open borders for any/all to decide to go live there.
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  1758.  @lewisjohnson8297  Or political corruption. And that's not something one will learn, from the standardized approved narrative sources, such as national grade school text books, national news, etc.
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  1759. Bizarre that commerce should be given responsibility for vaccines. I see no reason they're equipped.
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  1760. Didn't see this coming, really? The politicians' under oligarchy thumbs, really? I think it was 2006 when washington turned publicly shameless, in their voting for any oligarchy interests. And 2008, handing over the national wallet to bailout the criminal wall st?!? Perot? Nader? Sanders? All opportunities to ditch the oligarchy aligned candidates, passed on? Did you not notice the R and D loyalist voting was producing undemocratic candidates?
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  1761.  @oidbio2565  Well, since you brought it up... We're back to taxation without representation.
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  1762.  @oidbio2565  Recent Amanpour guest, Dr. Jerry Avorn, discusses how citizenry is shunted the R & D bill, for pharma research. He says they call it "de-risking". For the most part, a whole lot of commerce is now shunting business expenses to the public. Amazon, one of the extreme, but medical development, just as bad.
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  1763. "Why attack Hillary" Many are disappointed the Ds offered an establishment R candidate.
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  1764. Unfortunately for you, you live in a democracy.
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  1765. I'm finding people who accuse others of stupidity, etc., have reached the limits of their own knowledge/intelligence.
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  1766. Remarkably ignorant comment, and, self aggrandizing.
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  1767. I've had similar response to the same question. "pro-life" hypocrisy extends in multiple directions. Guns all around, for "self-protection", religious skew "Kill they neighbor!". Pro war. Pro death penalty. Similar with complaints of "Big Government", but a-okay with their creepy perv legislative fixation on sex, gender, control over uteruses, etc.
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  1768. "...good economy...", Clang! Tone deaf. Reflects the state of the wealthy, and the increasingly scant number of those who've had steady life long living wage employment. Nervous laughter candidate, Clang! It didn't work for Clinton, it's not going to work for Harris. "I'm the daughter of immigrants!", Clang! When clearly her Far Left party have shot themselves in the foot with years of endorsing "Rah! Rah! Open Borders! you racists!"
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  1769. It's not a matter of cruelty, it's a matter of moral debt. In this case, they're quite literally owed refuge.
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  1770. You missed the definition of greying.
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  1771.  @Scuba_Rocky  Jean's argument isn't about feelings, it's about lack of adequate public transport. This isn't going to be getting any better, as people live longer, and zoning law keeps retail separate from residential.
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  1772.  @Scuba_Rocky  By 21 years old, my friend had racked up a few cars. My ex, regular accidents from high risk choices (crossing 3 lanes, versus shopping plaza's traffic light exit). My point being age doesn't determine competence at driving. And if we're going to veer off into "selfish", a) none more so than parents pushing Jr to drive, while still incompetent and b) you - all drivers over age [scientifically determined] because you're having a problem with some elder. And I'm not trying to pick a fight here, but broadbrushing who's competent and selfish are subjective.
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  1773.  @ik1408  "is the worst" Not even close. #1, clean air, #2, clean water, #3, nutritious food. And at any time, shelter can preempt the above priorities. re: essence I take it you've never read Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations.
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  1774. "you only have 19K subs" Petty.
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  1775. The supreme court legitimizes it, while previously industry had to go to congress and state legislators. Of course this short-circuits just how many the wealthy have to buy off.
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  1776.  JGD  Shipped, one, by one, by one. Carbon and pollution temporarily dropping, w/China production in neutral. Market safety and integrity regs are being rescinded (it's why 2008 happened, bank regs rescinded). Market monopoly regs are growing.
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  1777.  JGD  I'm old enough to know the extreme vacillating of temps, is not what I grew up with. Additionally, right now, it's a good two months off. End of April/early May weather in February.
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  1778. Other nations have the US' higher priced market to sell to. And picking up the NATO tab. Which is how/why they're "doing things much better", because it's not them footing the bill.
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  1779.  @Interglacial_optimist  Illogical, and bad at math. I wonder how you get your shoes on the right foot - just joking. Primaries, most people don't vote. But the radicals make it a point to. This is how we end up with Far Left and Far Right on the general election ballots.
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  1780.  @nanorider426  Interesting selection, all military and power history.
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  1781.  @nanorider426  I'd look for him, to help out, but 1 post alone has 179 replies. In any case, thanks for trying to help out.
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  1782. Looks like they're bringing the work terms of Mexico here. They need to stop complaining and join a union.
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  1783.  @KandiMan  Absolutely. They go for the servile ultra cheap workforce, lack of labor and environmental laws. The magic record profit machine includes the flip side, sell their junk here in the high priced markets. Transfer of middle class wealth to the ultra rich is the net effect. In the end, no disposable income, no disposable income markets.
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  1784.  @casualsuede  It's not just EU banking on US' high priced consumer market.
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  1785. "to my knowledge" Well, that's because deporting white illegal migrants aren't on page 1 for sake of partisan rabble rousing. https://www.npr.org/2018/01/22/578930256/undocumented-irish-unexpectedly-caught-in-trumps-immigration-dragnet And Europeans would be ashamed to leave their kids behind deliberately in another country. https://www.npr.org/2020/10/24/927384388/parents-of-545-children-separated-at-u-s-mexico-border-have-not-been-located
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  1786.  @pearlbarkley1019  Who said "without a care"? Did you read the article? The activists created the "kids have a separate right to asylum from their parent", and the kids are paying the price.
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  1787.  @laliday  "rich people to look in the eye of poorer people" Avoided at all costs. Note the poorest, janitorial, subcontracted, and after hours.
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  1788.  @stinkfinger630  1 in 3, of US under 35, live with their parents and have no job. Imported labor glut killed their future. I can't even imagine applying for any job, at 30 years old, with no work history, and having a better than snowball's chance in hell. Bull horned to the public: "skills shortage", while they have 15 year old illegal migrants working in construction, like a 15 year old is "skilled".
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  1789. Less than handsome Adam believes descriptors have no influence because they're objective fact? I suspect less than handsome Adam would have a problem with this descriptor used as his Beat The Press introduction for the next 6 months. I suspect less than handsome Adam is unfamiliar with some basics of communication.
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  1790. Mental acuity and speech acuity are two different things. I've defended a very aged friend, many a time, due to that distinction.
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  1791.  @coolworx  Ds cast this as race clash for 2016 election purpose, but with so many damaged, class is becoming perfectly obvious.
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  1792.  gary grine  Missed one, arrogance.
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  1793. And they've been ignoring us for years.
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  1794.  @ggrthemostgodless8713  Didn't they bail out (at least) the car industry in the late 1980s? And the housing/bank industry with low interest rates in 2001? So really this would be the 4th round.
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  1795.  @ggrthemostgodless8713  And then there's the perpetual parasites, fossil fuel industry at $700B a year, corn/ag (no numbers for this) and the royal screwups handed over such as the "super fund" sites, and the custom tax avoidance schemes such as Double Irish.
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  1796.  @ggrthemostgodless8713  ps, Listening to an economist talking, he said right now, banks take "an overnight loan", and in the morning are obligated to only pay some of it back. That's not zero interest, that's giving banks free money.
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  1797. Native populations of West/Westernized countries are already in decline. Hence, throwing the doors open, on migrants, legal or otherwise.
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  1798. "If I were her, I would leave" the problem, for others. I live next to a mental case, and someone advised the same, move away from this person. I get the choice, to not take on problematic personalities. It's highly disruptive to one's life, takes energy and persistence. I also understand, the aggressive only grow worse. Until, before you know it, the aggressive's amassed a fan base, enough to run for office...
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  1799.  @lkeke35  It's not just about the children. It's about letting a fellow citizen, or a handful, censor all the patrons.
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  1800. Israel's been creating settlements, some by bulldozing Palestinian housing. What she's after is recreating the Jewish Gaza settlements. Also known as "violent settlers", they do things like cut the Palestinians' water lines, so they have to vacate. Palestinian street vendors have nets over their stalls, to catch the trash Jews in their cities throw out the window to land on them.
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  1801. Yes, we've let "the parties" own our voting processes, and they reflect the two parties' interests. Root cause of us losing control over "representation". "gerrymandering" alone: Democrats with Open Borders and "sanctuary cities", which skew allocation of House of Representative seats (gerrymander the population, expand non-voter count). Republicans with gerrymandering of the district definitions, and via felonizing the typically D demographics and prison location in R districts, which skew the allocation of House of Representative seats. Then there's elector gerrymander, state laws that eliminate the 49% voters by committing electors to voting for the 51% winner of their state.
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  1802. My catholic class teacher said some people are Jewish because they don't know any better. Maybe teacher and librarians are also mere mortals.
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  1803. I didn't vote for him, but I can certainly see people voting for him on this issue alone. One lawless leader, or millions lawlessly entering the nation. NYC, Boston, Chicago, imploding under the fiscal weigh of the millions dumped into the cities. NYC has recently spoken of the $Bs being spent to support the unrestrained thousands being poured into the cities.
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  1804. And it's just the beginning...
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  1805. Shall we all retract to the tiny African village, where the entire human race came from?
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  1806. The "un-vaxed". They aren't hesitant, some reject it and some arrive here from other countries that don't require or provide vaxes. Arrogant/agenda: "Fearful" is a judgement call. "I hate to go easy on them" - WTH? Anti-vaxer is okay? Well then, so is illegal immigrant.
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  1807.  @Sarcasmarkus  Okay let's go back to the originalists. "well regulated militia" is the exact phrasing agreed to by all, not just Samuel Adams. And he is no less dubious in his values, when claiming that foreigners ("British emissaries") were instigating treason among citizens during Shay's rebellion. Adams helped draw up a Riot Act and a resolution suspending habeas corpus so the authorities could legally keep people in jail without trial. Which is against the bill of rights.
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  1808. News blackout, on Israel as a menace, for decades.
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  1809. Less than full disclosure. The US gives out 1 million green cards per year. No matter how its allocated, there are going to be bitter complaints. And that doesn't include the hundreds of thousands of work and student visas per year. Current estimate, 148 million people on the planet want to emigrate to the US. Get real, John.
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  1810. Black box is still black box. Industry is not transparent on personal data distribution, let alone damage done with it (credit interest rates, insurance premium rates, etc.). Turning on LightBeam add-on, visiting 1 website alone sent out 800 notices of where I was on the web.
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  1811. On the one hand..., on the other... We've a long list of sacred cow topics that won't be in children's books, but the green imperative, $$$, will always take precedence.
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  1812.  @RobertBroatch-dc5qw  No where, across the country, is $2.13 an hour livable.
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  1813. Define "inappropriate". In the late 1980s, my (now ex-)husband went to HR with his coworker. Their boss, in staff meetings repeatedly told this woman in the most crass lewd terms, he wasn't going to let her change departments until she [list of sexual acts] with him. The boss was promoted, "to put some distance between him and the workers", the woman was moved to the department she requested, and my ex was shipped off to a job at another of their facilities. At the time, "nothing terribly inappropriate", "immature" by men's standards.
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  1814. Further down that path, with every Amazon order, every use of self-checkout, Uber, DoorDash, etc. All made possible, by offshoring production, while simultaneously importing a labor glut. Win/win for the wealthy, lose/lose for the public.
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  1815. We have bias, and much conversation leads to discovery of it. He is no different.
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  1816.  @karenkoerner6015  So "income inequality" doesn't exist? Nor "the rust belt"? Nor Detroit?
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  1817.  @karenkoerner6015  I question what you believe is the origin of "their" problems. And what you believe is "the big lie".
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  1818.  @constituenta5293  The wall for H1 (and L1 and OPT and CPT and H2) would be competitive wages, and never for sake of laying off citizens. "wasn't even addressed" The usual political ploy, H1 solution in place, but to be addressed "later". First by Trump and now Biden, "later". https://www.reuters.com/business/legal/brief-dol-delays-trump-era-h-1b-wage-rule-18-months-2021-05-13/
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  1819.  @constituenta5293  Whole Truth Matters
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  1820. Having read other countries' immigration policies, I can assure you the US' is quite generous by comparison - before consideration of our massive illegal presence. Interviews such as this, prey on US citizens illiteracy on the topic, including our own laws, and the US unwilling to enforce what laws we do have. According to Pew's dubious estimate, there are 12M here, who never applied for asylum, and haven't been deported.
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  1821. Wokeness described as a variant of moral superiority, coming from a white male's mouth, would look like a right winger shot at left wingers. Which would be rooted in the tribal encampment mind, so wide spread right now.
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  1822. So Hamas started the war, because "violent settlements", "mowing the lawn", shooting Palestinian kids from the border walls, etc., was perfectly okay for them to live with? Genocide isn't "complex".
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  1823. The history of the US is dependence on immigration, because yes, US kills off its own population. Wars, industrial diseases, etc.
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  1824. Democrat party is also an extremist faction. The issue is the 15% of Far Left/Far Right voters claim to speak for us all. Higher level: this author (Yascha Mounk) claims Far Left is doing more damage than Far Right, with "don't even think about voicing anything I disagree with".
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  1825. "How can an "open" and "free" society allow the war atrocities" Donor monies.
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  1826.  @hartubmoses6645  Gaza's the only place we see dotted line between US tax funding and genocide, at the moment.
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  1827. Targeting enterprise first didn't work out so well for the mainframe manufacturers. So why is 3D printing following THE SAME model?
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  1828. That's because we have no explicit cultural drivers for expectations - they've evaporated. Nor have we yet developed its replacement, cultural habits of discussing expectations - for dating, or any other aspects that've disappeared.
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  1829. Great deal of political warring going on right now over visa policy. Built by/for/of elite, it's quite the rat's nest. Well, for everyone (citizens, migrants) but elite, bilking visa'd workers. Visa work needs to be axed in its entirety.
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  1830.  @gmun2248  The farce is calling the visas "temporary", and congress does not want to get off the fence on "temporary", as non-committal to Yes/No, first and foremost suits Wall St, as is.
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  1831.  @fknutz4400  I have been swimming in this issue for 20 years, both as impacted, and with immigrants.
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  1832. Here's one: Combative defense of the presence of excessive illegal and visa'd workers, ignoring/denying the damage to the citizenry and legal permanent resident workers' interests. No different than the "benevolent" faction of plantation owner justifications for slavery, "We're helping the hapless, who'd suffer starvation wandering lost in the woods if not for us."
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  1833. Watching Hamilton in the past week, the musical's author chose, "his mother was a whore and his father was a Scotsman". Amazing. This would be an example of dis-empowering. Hamilton's mother summarized with judgement as sexually promiscuous, but, not his father. Aka, double standards.
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  1834. Not really. "worst selves" was Limbaugh. Mr I Don't Need Any Rationality, emotive spew.
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  1835. Origin of the contempt for "experts", who've caused damage, via root cause for their mistakes, arrogance. This one, "fixing" sociological issues, via Middle Age "bleeding" the public of their democratic agency. Current damage, feudal and robber baron era economic "bleeding" the public of their democratic agency.
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  1836. When we recognize that this behavior comes from povertizing the public.
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  1837.  @questcore636  We aren't in all out culture war. There's a small percentage of Far Left/Far Right who're the army for the elite, in the bigger war: class warfare. Yes, the 82% need to show up to stop the Far Left/Far Right skirmishes. But they, and us, are monopolized with this, while the elite pocket the power of Washington. Most notably, most visibly, monopolizing the economy.
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  1838. They are our libraries and librarians. We need to check in with them.
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  1839. "the left has no conception of the family" They've lots of conception prevention, to avoid breeding like rabbits. I don't see the stereotypical right doing any differently. And is it not the right who've said for decades, "Don't have kids if you can't afford them.", while promoting wage suppression? What'd you think was going to happen?
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  1840.  @jsnumber7  My neighbors own a cannon. And the local PD takes it away, when they've had too much to drink. The boundaries start right here, "well regulated militia". There was and is still nothing in the 2nd amendment about personal self defense.
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  1841.  @jsnumber7  The entire statement counts, "well regulated militia", the purpose of the weapons ownership. Your absurd argument equates to we don't have to register cars, because we first have to own a car, so registering them doesn't count. Totally defective logic.
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  1842.  @jsnumber7  Tap dancing right past the obligatory basis of the right: "a well regulated militia". Gun Owners Of America version, "It's about me. Only."
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  1843.  @jsnumber7  The text is not ambiguous: "A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State,..." There is no "well regulated militia" enacted, in gun ownership. This is not complicated, nor ambiguous.
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  1844.  @jsnumber7  "leave me alone" The purpose of chat boards are two: posting thoughts/opinions/etc., and conversation. Anyone can reply. When you do, you change your activity from only posting, to conversation. The 2nd amendment is explicit.
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  1845.  @jsnumber7  There's a reason they listed out an explicit list of bill of rights. They weren't historic scholars. Nor forecasters of the future. If only they had you, to tell them what they meant. ?!?
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  1846. What an absurd statement. He'd put Anita Hill in slavery if he had his way.
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  1847. And yet Californians aren't demanding "asylum" in Switzerland.
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  1848. Who's this we you're referring to?
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  1849. "It means jobs!", they take us for idiots. The money can produce jobs, without the end product being war. And, I'd like us to cut out the syphoning middle-men, corporations. If the public is paying for it, then they should be gov jobs.
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  1850.  @pjpredhomme7699  Professors don't conduct research, they oversee others that do. And those others, the RAs, post-docs, etc. are paid so little they're protesting and going on strike. If Perdue could hold the costs down, others can. They choose not to. Preserving their personal stature, we call corruption. Ethics comes at a price.
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  1851. https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/pdf/ageing/replacement-cover.pdf
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  1852.  @pisces031372aj  "My part of the US..." Do tell pisces, of your expertise on Rick Martin's part of the US. Observations on my part of the US, the two metros within 20 minutes of my town, are spiking in stabbings, shootings, high speed chases/crashes, and 95% of the names on the news about these events are Hispanic. And I live a long way from what Texas, Los Angeles, etc. experience. It is naive to believe anywhere near 100% of people coming from elsewhere are not going to bring their culture with them. Rate of influx makes assimilation harder. Even more so, in a tanking economy. Ignoring/dismissing problems, shoot the messager doesn't solve/improve anything.
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  1853.  @pisces031372aj  And you are shooting for what, Ostrich Award?
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  1854. Trilateral Commission Report: The Crisis of Democracy, approx early 1970s. International elites' list of complaints of "an excess of democracy", and one of the methods (religion) losing control over the population. There's a link to the report, in Wikipedia.
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  1855.  @carolinemaybe  There is no good reason for "campaigning" any more. "Campaign donations" are bribes, a purchase of legislation.
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  1856.  @mauriceharting5877  "You must live in a home that..." Not even close. You must assume code where you live is national.
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  1857.  @mauriceharting5877  Key words: "in British Columbia"
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  1858. A total fabrication. It's not one lawless person. And there's a world of difference between a musket and bump stock for use on fellow citizens.
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  1859. Excellent. I don't think the answer is don't talk to the crazies. They don't know they're tilting. Friend's wife, on the receiving end of a few "What?!?" said she turned off social media for 6 months of detox, and was feeling much better. Yes, we aren't going to gain anything by engaging with trolls online, but our personal relationships, yes we can talk them down off the ledge.
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  1860. His nomination tells me - most people are unfamiliar with narcissism/narcissists - the parties are alienated from the public
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  1861.  @AmateurHistorian999  "watershed management" Not at all the case. States don't have rights to poison their public, nor send their toxic waste downstream.
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  1862. As though these accidents ONLY happens to elderly drivers. Jim, you have "issues". The most deadly are teenagers and in particular males under 25. Every single year, due to her harpie children, my elderly friend in her 90s, takes a driving test, and has no problem passing.
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  1863.  @banhithecrow990  "so many rules and regulations" Not where Jim is. Regular feature on Boston news, carload of teenagers crash, all dead.
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  1864.  @stanmarsh9984  Are elder the only ones who accidentally drive wrong way on a highway? No, but they are the only ones having hoopla over their age blamed for their mistakes. I'm not elderly, so all your "your" and "you're" and "you" are presumptions.
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  1865.  @Scuba_Rocky  Driving manual, when I first got a license, said 70% of accidents involving motorcycles are clearly the car drivers fault. I can believe that, as they fit perfectly in wing-man blind spot. Up this way, New England, it's a car load of teenagers who mainly kill off themselves.
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  1866. Mind your own uterus.
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  1867. US only assesses physical normalcy.
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  1868.  @quick65filly  Settled? The precedents are being overturned. "What goes around, comes around."
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  1869.  @quick65filly  And yet, here we are, the gun owners are the domestic threat.
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  1870. Less than whole truth isn't the truth. Our unemployment rate, redefined in 1994 for exclude the long term unemployed. A 25 year lie used bipartisan. Romney's 47% pay no taxes. 46% students and retired working less than 13 weeks a year (no income, no income taxes) and the other 1%, being The 1%. etc.
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  1871. It's not a rare case. It's common, having US workers train an H1B, and then US worker is laid off. Earliest report by CBS, 1995, at AIG. "Diverse" is not exclusive H1B hires from India. Yes, Silicon Valley makes a ton of money, and hiring cheap visa indentured is certainly 1 way they've managed that. Peak age for an engineer in Silicon Valley, 30. Here's your green card and your pink slip, Next! Yes that is how America runs.
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  1872. Absolutely. Picking "winners", by bailing out the unethical and incompetent. And repeatedly doing so.
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  1873. The Clintons kicked off "Centrist" democrats - and tipped min wage has been at $2.13 ever since. It shouldn't take a village, to feed a child. Living Min Wage. Nationally.
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  1874.  @oldbeatpete  US tax monies is being used to fund a genocide. They've every right to protest. User's argument would've stopped: Selma, Million Man March, Vietnam protests, etc..
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  1875. Snob Zones, swift reading on zoning affordable housing out of wealthy communities, written by a wealthy lawyer who fights the zoning laws, in Connecticut.
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  1876. ACLU. Pursued "children have a separate right to asylum, from their parents". I don't think that takes precedence over parental rights, let alone parental obligation. And for clarification, refugees apply for asylum remotely. Asylees file a legal petition for asylum within a year of arriving. The vast majority do neither - millions upon millions have done neither.
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  1877. Similar with Far Left. We have Far Left and Far Right overrunning the public. They're the expendable front line for the goals of the rich, with the politicians as the officers calling the battles.
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  1878.  @DeuxChatsNoir7074  Toxicity is a contagion, via osmosis and smug confirmation bias. Far Left/Far Right, collectives of: the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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  1879.  @jimmydyurko  I know several Ds who changed to Is, who voted for Sanders and some who did so in the general also.
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  1880. Industry. Growing population equals growing profits. Yes, had they not imported a glut, shrinking population would've brought down prices, and likely, population, wages, employment would've all stabilized.
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  1881. "the american borns". When are Chinese actually American, and not "American-born Chinese"? I love the [X]-American invented by George Carlin, Gyno-American, when this identity BS started up.
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  1882. Rare championing of issues relevant to the general public. Loved it. As for the southern border, there is nothing "irregular" about that migration - it's pervasive and illegal.
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  1883.  @DrCruel  Do your homework. You're part way there.
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  1884.  @rosih.5716  I am against it. There would only be one vote that'd count, the Palestinian vote. "We decided to give half of Rosih's house away, they'll be moving in ASAP."
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  1885. "We" aren't blaming people. A very small faction of the Far Left and Far Right are.
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  1886. I disagree with the inference that we can't be doing far better/more in our education topics through high school and college. It is deliberate hiding of unflattering history. And this occurs East to West.
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  1887.  @chrisfreebairn870  There is no "moving on", unless/until the one doing/having done wrong admits so. Adults call it culpability, and it is essential, to civil relationships.
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  1888.  @chrisfreebairn870  What you present is the immature human. The unwillingness to address one's own failings. It's not complicated, it's morality. And it has personal consequences, when dealing with dangerous, pushy, etc. Broad public failure, of individual morality, leads to events like Nazi Germany. ...history...doomed to repeat...
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  1889. Rob the poor, give to the rich. He claims they already pay most of the taxes. I'd love to see that actual math. Because when any year goes by in which Bezos not only pays nothing, AND gets a check for child care credit, his claim rich pay 70% of taxes looks to be entirely BS. Furthermore, he calls the business community "investors" when the bulk are peddlers of imports. We, the public, who foot the bill for airports, roads, rails, seaports, etc. etc. are the investors.
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  1890.  @sandal_thong  Or even some First Lady - Hillary. Societies built on predation needs a story both to justify and preserve that predation. It's cover for failed policy. Homeless: bums, drunkards, irresponsible, etc. Current "skills shortage", we have citizens living on the streets, others working for $2.13 an hour, while we import labor gluts.
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  1891. Researching the number who actually apply for asylum, just about no one does. The norm is, they don't apply.
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  1892. Lots of push for assessing presidents' physical health, but as is the case with the public, zero assessing of mental health. Except for criminal... hey, I think you're on to something...
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  1893. Not the place to advertise you're willing to give your money away.
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  1894. Franchise, pick a good franchise. Wall St blows up on a regular basis, mutual funds are slow but steady theft of your principle and interest via compounding fee damage, banks are dead ends.
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  1895.  HongLinh-j4p  Plant. Both the question, and the prolific Liza responses.
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  1896. Yes, poverty does have that effect, it pisses people off.
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  1897.  @Im-ahthegreat  The full on class warfare attack, would take a full on response. But right now, life in the US is so complex, that the public is stunned, kept busy with the blitz of fiscal attack. The regulatory floor dropped away, no market integrity nor safety. Both job and product markets. Project 2025 will make that so visible as to be indisputable. Along with stripping away what's left of the democracy facade.
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  1898.  @ThatonedudeCR12956  Aka, corruption.
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  1899.  @omnidentalstudio  Iran is anti-capitalist interests, as was Iraq, which is the "national interests" the West/Westernized uses to define "axis of evil".
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  1900.  @lesliepiper3115  "nobody at my door"...yet. Here in NH, people are moving onto the street, homeless. But all's right in the universe because no one's at your door?
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  1901. Sex, R has nothing to offer the public but hysteria over imagined sexual perversion. And the pretense of saving "the children". Migrants, D has nothing to offer the public but hysteria over illegal migrants. And the pretense of saving "the children". Meanwhile, the population moves into tents, as we proliferate billionaires.
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  1902. We, in the US, are taught nothing of south of our border. It's like they're hiding the entire space.
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  1903. Not really. The majority are on the same page for a vast amount of issues. The politicians are failing, hence Far Left and Far Right. We're now at 50% of voters registered as Independent, with both parties being minorities.
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  1904.  @sophigenitor  Sexual mores and marriage are dying for a few reasons: 3 machines do the worst of the housework (washer, stove, refrigerator), birth control, women earning their own incomes. Collectively are killing off the necessity of marriage. Anti-vax is distrust. Warring for plunder revealed lies, that damage isn't going to be undone any time soon. Religious taboos, the vast majority of which are fabrication by clerics, have no place in US law. As of day 1, of US creation. It's one thing to follow them, it's a whole different thing to impose them on others.
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  1905.  @DeuxChatsNoir7074  A step too far with, "a grievance-based bunch who want to preserve the old ways". There's lots of valid reasons for grievance, most notably, the decimation of the job market. Intentional decimation of the job market. Close second, decimation of product and service market integrity and safety. Intentional decimation of product and service market integrity. Both of which are "old ways". We're knee deep in class warfare, deflected by our politicians, who intend to "stay the course", including running the ship aground.
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  1906.  @DeuxChatsNoir7074  re: "monoculture", do tell. Because a lot of corruption in the workplace is coming in with Asian workers. Those who're natively honest complain to me, of their coworkers' theft, but will not speak up. I never saw this with people coming from elsewhere (Europe, Middle East, Russian, etc). And, we're importing racists. My Indian and Chinese coworkers would only hire Indian or Chinese, and openly argued between them, next hire must be [their race]. 100% of facility maintenance at more than one job, Hispanic. Malcolm Gladwell said when influx reaches more than 15%, is when the native population gets angry. When I read US history, it's tied to wholesale workplace citizen replacement with new immigrants.
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  1907.  @DeuxChatsNoir7074  Yes, it is a lost cause. Because the heart wants what the heart wants. The Mr's father, upset, flabbergasted, "Of course, a white woman." He got over it.
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  1908.  @Sarcasmarkus  Bull. "well regulated militia", for instance.
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  1909.  @Sarcasmarkus  You're ignoring "well regulated militia" doesn't make it not there...
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  1910.  @Sarcasmarkus  Still avoiding the requirement, "well regulated militia". Do point out where or how this is a requirement for a gun owner, their militia participation and that militia's regulation.
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  1911. Do tell how a $1K monthly check makes this employer more responsible? Particularly, do tell how taking $1K from someone's back pocket (via VAT) and handing the same money back to them fixes ... _anything_?
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  1912. "good Samaritan with a gun"? Between this, and Greater Boston report of MA cities stealing houses over minor tax debt, yes, Mass. is turning Florida.
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  1913. Looking for recommendations for better, less complicated tools that do this same functionality. Thanks.
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  1914.  @kirstencorby8465  You have to be kidding. Welfare queen, a very broadly used public slam, for women who have kids, without the father present to support them. Deadbeat dads, widowed, etc. People don't "have to justify" their choices, well, adults don't. How old are you?
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  1915.  @earthian3658  Critiquing an idea is not the same as banishing or insulting the speaker, which is what's been occurring.
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  1916. Wholly unrealistic. Far Left's Open Borders push is the cause.
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  1917.  @jamesk8s1  He was smart enough to know he was a cherry picked dupe, and f'ed over by the Rs' Cheney and Rumsfeld, for a) attack Iraq, and b) 2008 implosion.
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  1918. Aka, male ego. Something that needs to be managed, just as tempers do. I'm thrilled by the (relatively) young men, who were never taught the "tough guy" John Wayne'isms, the "female value is sexual attraction only" Howard Hugh'isms. 1 in 3 under 35, live at home, never had a job. That's a failure of government policy, promoting the offshoring of work and onshoring of a labor glut. And they're often taking it on the chin a second time, with parental judgemental chiding, "failure to launch".
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  1919. Because sex happens, across the spectrum. But when you go looking for division, you'll certainly find it. By the way, melting pot is not equal to homogeneity. And that is the BS expectation for sake of political control, homogeneity, over race and gender. It keeps the population from converging on the damage of globalism, which serves the billionaires.
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  1920. Ahmad, there's been a concerted media blackout, to keep this information from the public, including Israel's public. These are ultra orthodox.
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  1921.  @jeffbillings-el6110  Stranded at the ballot box. Restricted by the primary (40% of voters are Independents, and not allowed to vote in primaries), the vast public in the general have habituated to selecting from "the lesser of two evils", as we coast to more and more evil. Who votes in the primaries? Far Left and Far Right. So it's no wonder the candidates are radicals, mainly the 1%'s picks.
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  1922.  @lauraramnarace1649  We're veering from historic norms, which seems to shock some, that women are no longer required to marry, change their names, have babies. Former in-laws had a jolt when I didn't change my name, lots of form handlers "corrected" my paperwork when married name and maiden name were the same, some assumed my last name was his last name and called him Mr. [my last name]. One ex in-law who'd made an issue of no name change sent a holiday card to the house addressed Mr & Mrs [his last name], which went into the trash unopened - I take it the Mr talked to her, it didn't happen again. I'm leaving off the lengthy years of "Women can't ..." conversations at work, educating the men.
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  1923.  @ST-ys6jm  There is so much irony in your comments. Re: Taiwan life & wealth "Do we regret it yes", in contrast to "American Dream" mythology and the incessant D drumbeat that all migration comes from extreme poverty and violence. The Mr, from middle class India, same contrast as you. Re: black man/go back to your country, our news does not report aggressor's race if not white. You've my sympathy, re: military being militant Rs. As defense worker, talking to a Major about it, he said "Don't blame us, they're already broken before we got them."
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  1924. Scroll down just below the video, and you'll find "Share". Or, Copy the URL (https etc.) at the top of your browser, and paste it (to email, facebook, etc)
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  1925. Well that's one broad brush slam. Apparently you don't know any republicans.
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  1926. There are racists everywhere. "more people" are now angry, due to the influx glut, and resultant damage. As expected.
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  1927.  @ernestmwape  It's exemplar of "it's nothing personal". The actual person experiencing this may or may not have done damage to the random insulting person who told them to go back to their own country. The actual person who said this may or may not have personally experienced damage from immigrants/immigration. That is the fatal flaw in globalism damage, "It's nothing personal."
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  1928. Trump appealed to white racists. Democrats have a lock on the non-white racists.
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  1929. It has nothing to do with religion. Ruthless will use any excuse to grab power, and abuse it.
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  1930. It has to do with being well aware our situation is precarious. Most Americans are well aware we're but one missing paycheck from living on the street. Very likely so around the planet now that Max Profit's gone global.
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  1931. Bush1 was well aware. He called them the party's "nutjobs".
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  1932.  @timothykozlowski2945  No, they aren't. A democrat says we need to do some social safety net spending, while a liberal says what do you mean some? A republican says business should be engaged in any fed spending so they can get a cut, while a conservative says spend that in the most effective way, not the most profitable. Their libertarian faction says give me the money, and I'll think about providing any services for it.
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  1933.  @stevendavis718  Responsible adult behavior. Nixon, pragmatist on environment, "You wouldn't throw your trash in your neighbor's yard.", on passing the EPA. Reagan, upon hearing loss of ozone will cause rampant skin cancer, "Dupont, find something else to do the job." Bush1, paid off debt created during Reagan's tenure, while industry screamed about losing interest on it.
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  1934. Yes, friends, acquaintances complaining doctors are still trying to prescribe them opioids for manageable pain.
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  1935.  @oldbeatpete  "Feelings" being ethics.
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  1936.  @oldbeatpete  We can see that.
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  1937. Vested interests in status quo.
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  1938. Native were immigrants. Over the Bering Strait.
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  1939.  @isnotanexpert  And therefore, its an absurd claim, in a modern world.
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  1940. Buy East/Sell West or Westernized. Importing to the high priced markets of the US, as intermediaries profiteering, many nations are running on US importing and tourists. You don't think European and Australian will be giving up their 6 weeks of annual vacation for dying African, do you? But they will pay lip service, slamming the US. No, they won't be stepping up.
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  1941. Paid for by who? I fail to see how taking money out of our back pockets, to send it back to us as UBI solves anything .
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  1942. "If this is the best of Capitalism..." It isn't capitalism. There is no such thing as bailouts in capitalism. As a matter of fact, bailout is anti-capitalism, as bad ineffective businesses are supposed to die, to make way for healthier businesses. What we have is corruption.
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  1943. Greed. You do realize the wealth of the monarchy is from feudalism (land grab and peon labor) and global plunder, yes?
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  1944.  @jonathantrenn5163  Please do iterate the 40 years, of anti-male stuff.
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  1945. No. Large lot/large house zoning laws, major metro relocaters to (relatively) cheaper locations competing with institutional investors.
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  1946. Suggested reading: Trilateral Commission report, "The Crisis Of Democracy", from the early 1970s. Where Euro/Japanese/American elite outline the reasons they believe we have "an excess of democracy".
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  1947. "dramatically reducing the need for manual workers."? Really? Lots of double-speak from the politicians on job market info. The feds redefined "unemployed" in 1994 to exclude long term unemployed, and have been importing a labor glut ever since. "manual workers" glut via millions of illegal workers present, and tech/med/finance/etc. industries' imported glut via visa indentured Asian. I've yet to hear a politician (or anyone else) explain how we're better off by having our hair combs and toothbrushes made in China, with its huge carbon footprint per item, or how we're better off by training our foreign replacement for our jobs before we're laid off. As near as I can tell, we the publics get extraordinary climate change, pollution, destabilized economies (households', regions' and nations'), pandemic disease, etc. while the billionaires siphon profits from the global transporting of labor arbitrage and Catch Me If You Can on taxes.
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  1948. How can you not fight, if you are being emaciated?
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  1949.  @liasosa4100  If only you were spokesperson for every nurse across the US...
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  1950. Rs would've gone under years ago without the rabble roused MAGA and gerrymandering. Bush Sr decades back called them "the nutjobs of the party". It's been interesting to watch them back themselves into a corner. Ds no better, "centrists" selloff, to industry interests. Tax credit BS, as trivial con/compensation for the public's interests selloff. Lesser of two evils is merely quibbling over rate of descent into more evil.
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  1951. Justifiably.
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  1952.  @captainbobsparrow9092  It came over with the English. Great swatches of land, gifted by the English king to his buds. There's much to be gained, with collaborative living. Lose control over corruption, and there's much to be lost. Our current feudal kings are called billionaires. They get to bilk, internationally, and still blanket the populous with claims of "national security [of their own interests], for warring.
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  1953.  @yves3560  Not to the tune of the billions given to Israel. But then, the US tax payer is used to insure anyone's financial interests, except for of course their own citizenry's. And this is spreading, aka "globalism".
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  1954.  @simonkapadia7582  Ally?!? Israel is ally? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93United_States_relations#Israeli_espionage_against_the_United_States
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  1955.  @firekram  I'm missing your point. Did they not reserve seats for their staff? Not like this should've come as a surprise to them. ???
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  1956.  @firekram  In reality, they're selling something they can't deliver, every time they ask someone to get off a plane. I'm not trying to defend the guy freaking out refusing to leave.
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  1957.  @firekram  When they overbook, they are selling standby for full fare.
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  1958.  @timothyburnett2770  Abuse of power isn't reserved for white people. Welcome to "equality".
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  1959. Because the US refuses to evolve. EU would be stunned by the work terms alone in the US.
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  1960. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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  1961.  @pcbacklash_3261  Have you not noticed, - polls come back from ... people who answer pollsters - are usually r and d voters, where 50% of voters are independent - the last far and wide polling of all voters were solidly Sanders, who included the independents who're not allowed to vote in some states' primaries - polls are for donors, to direct their monies
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  1962. David Brooks: "If you meet a jerk once in a month, you've meet a jerk. If you meet a jerk just about every day, maybe you're the jerk."
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  1963.  @lonzo61  Take it up with David Brooks.
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  1964.  @TroelsNybo1st  Here in the US, public broadcasting stations show tours of Europe, of castles and gargantuan manors, in effect, loot. Denmark, a jewel. Overall, I thought it was a cut above Paris.
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  1965.  @thespadestable  "other uninformed entitled babies" Agree with me or I'll turn insulting - nice, you're a real charmer. 2008, clearly never cracked open a newspaper.
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  1966. It is. Much like any other nation that imports cheap/free labor.
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  1967.  @CristinaLopes-e4g Name one nation that's not importing a labor glut, or offshoring their production of essentials to a cheap labor country. The elite are "helping [themselves to]" third world.
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  1968. Opinion by Oval Office means nothing, while congress, both sides of the aisle, support funding this.
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  1969. Issue #1, theft of the seat by McConnell, refusing hearings for nominees. Issue #2, Federalist Society picking who would be seated. Make America Grate Again, and they certainly are grating law, aren't they.
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  1970.  @willmont8258  Do tell on what legal basis does the supreme court have a right to - put a president above law, using "as an official act"? - gut congressional authority to create an agency, and defer regulation to support that? Cite where in law they derive this basis.
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  1971.  @willmont8258  Yes, president now is, for anything officially part of his job. He's not above the law, for his personal interests. You must not have understood the ruling. Congress enacts laws, that hasn't changed. Congress creates agencies, that hasn't changed. Congress defers regulatory power to their agencies, that has changed. The court said judges far and wide will be discerning any "ambiguity" commerce can manufacture. You must not have understood the ruling. As for the constitution, do cite where the supreme court has any regulatory authority defined. Because this sure looks like a power grab, obliterating separation of powers between the 3 branches.
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  1972.  @willmont8258  You didn't read a thing on it, have you.
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  1973.  @willmont8258  By law, congress creates agencies to define rules for their laws. That isn't the court's purview to divert that to judges. You've a lot of opinions but little understanding of the three branches, and the laws and reason for separation of power.
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  1974.  @willmont8258  "things done exercising the powers of President" can also be illegal. President can decide national security requires removal of all weapons from nearby citizens during upheaval. Such as through-out Washington on January 6th. And arrest and detain all present, without charges.
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  1975. Breast cancer.
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  1976. The politicians have been busy peddling Demographic Block Identity. It's been mighty effective cover, for retooling the planet's economy, for benefit of the international elite. Right now, that is at odds with the usual, Leave The "National Interests" Concerns To Us crowd.
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  1977. It's rationalizing.
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  1978.  @theanomaloushousewife886  Religious fundamentalists only trust their church. The leads used to run the congregation, and some of that is flipping, with subset of the congregation running the congregation and the leads.
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  1979.  @marymccluer1630  Keep going, Mary. Root cause of these is ...?
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  1980. And cheap labor, for what has to be made within a nation. And that is all they care about. Max Profit.
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  1981. We are in class warfare. And the political narratives are doing a fine job of deflecting.
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  1982. Plan B.
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  1983. White Trash, Slavery By Another Name, The New Jim Crow, excellent resources on our history. All dotted lines, to how we got where we are.
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  1984. Because his hysteria is based on half truth that leaves people at emotive deadends. His "we need to have a conversation" should've started with him doing his homework - first. This half truth BS used to solely come from Far Right, but now is also coming from Far Left.
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  1985.  @audreymuzingo933  Not once did he iterate any depth on: - US gives 1M GCs (green cards) per year, - backlog due to far to many allowed to move to US on "temporary" status, queuing well beyond the 1M GC, - family migration, which does indeed allow sponsoring of extended family, parents sponsored can then sponsor their parents and their siblings, etc. - refugees allocation cut, with those GCs going to ...? - zero understanding how/why 1 country, India, has been gaming "temporary" work visa hiring, with nearly exclusive hiring of Indian nationals, for compatriot immigration purposes and that's why country of origin GC allocation is blowing up - etc. etc. etc.
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  1986.  @audreymuzingo933  "I don't see the same equivalency you describe about the far-Right news" For good reason. Far Right was, from the start, sensationalizing hype base on at best half truth. John is starting to lean the same, which is not "comedy".
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  1987. He discounts the damage from shipping toothbrushes, hair combs, etc. from the other side of the planet, for no good reason. Economic damage, environmental damage. Israel is not a good example, as they've been bleeding Palestinian of labor and land for decades.
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  1988.  @7135HOLLY  Define "remaining land". Who had any right, but those living there, deciding any partitioning? It has everything to do with land. "Violent settlers" included.
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  1989.  @7135HOLLY  Who had any right to give any land, to create an Israel? The withdrawal of the British should've resulted in a negotiation among those living there. What EU does in 2021 doesn't make up for Israel incursion and oppression. Of course it's about land. And, "occupation".
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  1990.  @7135HOLLY  "moral clarity"? This is well into genocide. And the intent, is perfectly clear.
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  1991. Where oh where does the idea come from that women are [x]? Yes, management is management, most of whom are angry they have dependents called employees, while simultaneously have to manage those over them, who want endless slide-ware that makes them look good while they withhold the resources to get the work done.
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  1992. What's the right time? It's been avoided, since UN gave away what was not their's to give, Palestinian land.
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  1993. Living wage. And building spree.
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  1994. Every person born in America is native American.
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  1995. Name one major news outlet that isn't at the very least leaning partisan? One, name one. We're now in the position of having to get news from several, national, and international, to piece together the half-truths.
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  1996. The 7 men were innocent, the DNA proved it. Not that you don't have a good point, that average Joe doesn't have the funds for DNA testing for exoneration.
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  1997. They are deregulating. States are no longer required to have any credentials for teachers, for instance. Integrity and safety regulations are being gutted. Not monopoly regulations. Suggest you follow Twitter GovTrack for a while to see what's vaporizing.
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  1998. Cars need to go. SkyTran, we need SkyTran.
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  1999. What happened? Have you not been paying attention? Offshoring of living wage work, onshoring of workers to depress wages of what's left. People are barely getting by. Started with "centrist" Clinton pairing off w/Reagan/Bush, passing NAFTA. 30 years of $2.13 an hour for tipped wage, regardless of who's held the congress. Shamelessness in our politicians, visible by 2006, which is a hallmark of untouchable/unaccountable. Both sides of the aisle, peddling half truth. Verifiable facts, but a long way from whole truth. Children. "But Mom..."
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  2000. Exhaustion from one's job is incompatible with the years of classes at night...
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  2001.  @hahadarrie  College tuition assistance is irrelevant, if the staff is too dead dog tired to sit in classes.
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  2002. Boston closed a few of their school libraries. But not over this issue, lack of funds. Very expensive to have ESL for 190 different languages. Net effect the same.
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  2003.  @serraangel7465  Sorry serraangle, apparently @risingphoenix1484 has their own "issues".
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  2004. ??? FBAs may very well be the descendants of those in Africa who sold slaves. Ironically, for cotton fabrics.
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  2005.  @RestInFreedom  Great job enlisting support...
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  2006. What? We can't hear you from up there on your high horse! What?
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  2007.  @ceregirl5852  US' current generation thinks parenting ends at dropping a bowl of cereal in from of kids 3 times a day. My coworker brought her kids to a mutual friend's gathering. Her 4 year old climbed up on a 4 foot tall glass table, jumping/dancing on it, and her parents just laughed. Idiots, a term I rarely use, to describe someone ignoring danger. This girl's parents, idiots.
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  2008. I see no distinction between the two token "tax cuts!" and "tax credits!". Both sidestep Living Wage, for benefit of Wall St.
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  2009. A low income A is far harder to achieve than a wealthy student's tutored-to-A. But what Ivy League sells is the prestige of their seats. Not talent, not grit, not ethics. We, globally, wouldn't be in the train-wreck economy and burn down the house climate melt down, if Ivy League had any ethics metrics.
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  2010. "Citizens of the world", aka globalism, has been disastrous, for the citizenry, species and environment, around the world. For sake of billionaires.
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  2011. Always. Hari is always excellent. He's one of the few, who doesn't appear to drag in promotion of agenda, as an interviewer.
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  2012.  @NowHari  Thank you, for the consistent quality of your work.
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  2013. This isn't Facebook.
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  2014. @DJ Jones "After five years of hearings, arguments and appeals ..."
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  2015. Zionism, the purge of non-Jewish, is racist. Living up to its goal, escalating from terrorists, to genocidal. They've become the monster.
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  2016.  @msship8234  Likely Simon interview is on CNN web site.
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  2017. That's on the news, live. It's lost media blackout status.
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  2018. Do cite her omitted facts, such as many of the parents who were found and contacted do not want their children back. Do cite information on illegal presence in the US. We had 12 million who' never applied for asylum. Millions have since entered the US. Do tell what the current number is, of who's illegally present. Do tell who is it, that the ACLU has for donors, who they don't want the public to know about. Because they objected to legislation that proposed donors be published for tax exempt organizations.
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  2019. Facist tactics: breaking immigration law with everyone gets a pass, breaking the Leahy Act sending money to Israel, FDA granting international Pharma shipping in "prescription drugs" with nothing medicinal in them, etc..
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  2020.  @ryanscottlogan8459  This isn't facebook.
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  2021. If women needed a role model to aspire to, we'd all be back in the kitchens, barefoot and pregnant.
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  2022.  @weston.weston  What conservatives? So few they're near invisible.
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  2023.  @weston.weston  The party of Trump is not conservative. I assume you're hiding from that clearly visible fact. As of a few decades back, Canadian conservatives have been appalled at just how corrupt US "conservatives" are. First and foremost, on healthcare spending, configured to be the most expensive on the planet.
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  2024. So you're the bastidge! Just kidding. I was a democrat, til the party made a sharp right turn, to "centrist" (corporate) democrats, and dealt the public a slap in the face, with open borders.
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  2025. There's a giant wall of cowardice preventing that.
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  2026. As near as I can tell, Reagan/Thatcher was a cross-pollination of worst practices.
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  2027.  @awaken1761  There is nothing socialist about neoliberalism, and we are overrun politically, economically and culturally with neoliberalism. By/for/of benefit of the elite.
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  2028.  @awaken1761  Well aware public welfare is a circuitous corporate welfare. Fix root cause: corruption of politicians.
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  2029. What "chains"? Is F1 interfering with study?
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  2030. Regional production is useful for redundancy/security. Euro is anxious because East sells West in westward's higher priced markets. Our cyclical inflation spikes are oil driven. We need to dump oil dependency, for several reasons.
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  2031. "Failing to launch" is an outdated derisive parental expectation, given the failed "job" market alone.
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  2032.  @Kunfucious577  Well let's see, Rs in office when late 1980s bailout happened, Bush Jr following Sr's footprints, did the 2001 bailout and had the 2008 bailout drafted and handed to Obama to sign off on, and then the most recent, kicked off by Trump and continued by Biden. Hmmm, looks like both sides of the aisle working in tandem.
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  2033.  @Kapoloma  Labor is a micro business. A worker, as an asset, is only an asset, if it can be "held" - examples of such are slavery, "non-compete" business agreements that in effect "hold" employees by agreement to not hire each others', etc.
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  2034.  @albertedwards1612  Why is racism in Canada hard to believe? West/Westernized nations importing a labor glut is going to be abrasive, far and wide.
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  2035.  @lasercladjoe  I do wonder why anyone would value the opinion of a random person walking by. By the way, you aren't going to be welcome, by everyone , no matter where you are, homeland, or otherwise. The insecure, and hostile about it, will pick something about you, to fling an insult about. Having a spine, is acknowledging their insult is their problem.
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  2036.  @whyukraine  Loads of people have interesting things happening in Gaza and Ukraine, and the only people who want to be there for that are journalists.
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  2037.  @whyukraine  My freedom? Really, my freedom? What in the world are you assuming about me?
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  2038.  @briganja  Ds are honest, but they'll catch on to BSing too. When I asked why my D senator why she voted to let synthetic blood be used in ambulances, without patients' knowledge/consent, when it was booted out of hospitals for dropping surgery survival rate from 100% to 50%, she said "Where else are they going to try it?"
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  2039.  @briganja  Senator Shaheen. And yes, Shaheen voted on it, so it wasn't a "grey area". Shame on you: "outweighed the risk". No consent. And people wonder why people lean No vaccine, it's this kind of bull shit.
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  2040.  @briganja  I read the bill she actually voted on, and wrote to her in the mid 2000s. "without their knowledge or consent" I have heartburn with. Apparently you're glossing over that part where they didn't have informed consent at the hospitals either - in the very article you posted.
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  2041.  @briganja  No trust. "Bottle of Lies", Katherine Eban, documentary Prescription Thugs, Glaxo Smith Kline "50% of our drugs do nothing", etc. About to bite us in the ass again: about half the country says they won't get covid vaccine. Just how bad does Pharma have to f'up to mandate a clean house?
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  2042.  @briganja  You're claiming the ends justify the means (without informed consent), and I don't agree. "bad information ecosystems" is only possible due to less than Full Disclosure/Whole Truth, a self-inflicted wound. When Pfizer exec said (on recent Amanpour interview) merely half the public willing to take covid vax, I thought "What?!?", and he went on to say they, Pharma, have trashed their reputation. Yes, that's true, they have.
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  2043.  @briganja  I do understand you. I'm saying no excuse for "without informed consent", in ambulances used for trialing it. I'm saying the groundwork for Qanon was laid years back. Lots of angry people looking for answers, How the hell did we get here? Qanon is deflection, along with a whole lot of political narratives being bullhorned at us. My biggest problem is regulation or child care credits or gay marriage rights? Really?!?
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  2044.  @briganja  There is nothing emotive about science experiments w/o informed consent.
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  2045.  @briganja  You can argue til the cows come home. Does not change: Trialing on people without informed consent. It's not one senator. A bill doesn't pass with the will of one senator.
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  2046.  @ik1408  It worked well for decades.
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  2047.  @ik1408  Things work well, at any point, for some people. As always, the contention, is it because some benefit by disadvantaging others, or is it because what works well, isn't spread far enough. Civil Rights, spread it further, is an example of spread what works.
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  2048. Both parties promote importing a labor glut. Rs' visa indentured white collar, Ds' blue collar Everyone Here Illegally Should Stay Here. Both parties, regardless of being in control of both white house and congress, have left min tipped wage at $2.13 an hour. Washington is anti-economic household stability for the public.
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  2049. They were sold off, for political power. Rally them as voters, with "Buy a gun, join the NRA!", "Anti-abortion!", "Christian values!", "Family values!", etc. What Bush Sr used to call "the nutjobs" in the party.
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  2050. My state's female congressmen are just as loyal to the elite's interests as were the men. Rationing distribution of corruption isn't "diversity".
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  2051. Suppressed min wages. Foreign worker influx. Snob zoning. Airbnb. Workers cashing out of high cost areas, competitive bidding up prices in relatively lower areas' housing. It's not one thing.
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  2052.  @imperialmotoring3789  Not going to happen. We are now officially Open Borders. Pew's given up on even vague speculation on how many are now illegally present.
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  2053. It doesn't say "keep and bear arms". It does say "well regulated militia", as part of the statement on arms.
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  2054. 1) as of 1994, "unemployment rate" was altered to disregard the long term unemployed, shunted away in a category called "labor participation rate". 2) the quality of "employed" also tanking. As of 2015, 40% of workers were categorized as "contingent", meaning temporary, contractor, etc., without benefits such as unemployment insurance, etc. Your wage, as employee or contractor may be identical, but the cost of those benefits have moved from employer, to employee as contractor, or temp.
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  2055.  @rikcoach1  Aging population is the case in all West/Westernized nations. Because globalism is economic reconfiguration for benefit of wealthy only. Ex., 1/3 of those under 35 in the US live at with their parents and are jobless. Globalism is a dismal failure, for all participant nations.
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  2056.  @girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288  Scale. You seem oblivious to scale. Along with the reality of hitting the wall, on available residences versus ever increasing influx.
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  2057.  @girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288  They're housed in hotels, at this time. How's this fixed by housing in apartments, with the same billions in bills? And, more on the way. Are you under the impression their $2.13 an hour jobs are going to be paying the rents? Or are you suggesting rents drop the accomodate $2.13 an hour jobs? LaGuardia won election because the public was PO'ed at the massive slum NYC turned into with Irish and Tammany Hall. 3 feet deep trash in the roads, at the time.
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  2058.  @girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288  He doesn't own the properties you cite. Again, you fail to acknowledge the scale of this.
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  2059.  @girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288  First and foremost, you're still skirting law - they aren't asylum seekers unless/until they file a legal case for asylum - within 1 year. And your presumption NYC can accomodate any/all is based on unfounded theory. Magically, people turn over their warehouses, commercial property, etc. and, in a snap, they're rental units for the $2.13 an hour workers the glut will be shunted into.
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  2060.  @girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288  He's looking for relief from the influx bombardment, and federal funds for the expense to support the influx. As for being afraid of asylum seekers, do cite how many have a) passed credible fear assessment and b) applied for asylum. It's a shameful thing, that you should equate illegal migrants with the nation's legal immigrants.
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  2061. More info on NPR. https://www.npr.org/2020/10/24/927384388/parents-of-545-children-separated-at-u-s-mexico-border-have-not-been-located
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  2062. Fox, keep the R treadmill going, Kamala, don't let Trump run the nation off the rails. Trump is not under self (or any other) control.
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  2063. There is no republican party any more. It's the trump party.
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  2064. Brings to mind so much of the repressed anger in society. Road rage, for instance, comes to mind.
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  2065. That's quite a list you've added to your discretionary spending.
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  2066.  @analienfromouterspace  You don't have to get married, to have a baby. Marriage has outlived its usefulness, given divorce rate. But given the nature of our tenuous employment market, I don't know how much someone has to save, to ensure you've enough money to raise a baby.
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  2067.  @atropabelladonna  "only for married couples" That is coercive. And discriminatory.
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  2068.  @atropabelladonna  Governments are slow to catch on.
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  2069.  @whelancommunications  Simplistic shallow thoughts there, Mike. Do tell, where is this miraculous Libertarian fabricated city of employment for the millions un/under employed? Because it doesn't matter if a house is $15K if the city has no jobs.
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  2070.  @whelancommunications  Your arguments are simple minded and assuming.
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  2071.  @whelancommunications  At non-living wages, they need to close their doors. I'm paid exceedingly well. And also well aware who is and isn't paying their workers' a living wage, nor paying fair share of local nor national expenses. Aka, freeloaders.
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  2072. "the path I took out is simply not available to those growing up there today" That's pretty much the case for all but the shrinking number of wealthier communities. What's new is the the language around "disproportionately affects [demographic]" numbers and "the odds" of those "making it out" of poverty. Like somehow the goal is equal distribution of poverty, and opportunity to test "the odds". Ridiculous, that a) billionaires don't have to compete for their "opportunity", and the public's told to accomodate the billionaires offshoring living wage production of our consumables, the goal is now equal demographic distribution of the despair of poverty. Ridiculous!
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  2073.  @ireneswackyjournals8810  Malarkey. A whole lot of business is raking in obscene profits. They don't want to afford it, and have been seeing to it that US imports a labor glut making a non-competitive job market to immobilize workers.
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  2074.  @ireneswackyjournals8810  Not sure what you mean by "the issue". Some Mom & Pops also feel entitled to ultra cheap labor.
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  2075. Hitler wasn't all Germans, and this woman isn't all Jews.
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  2076. Declaration of independence's governance "to promote the general welfare" is being thrown under the bus.
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  2077. I have to agree. What a junker these are.
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  2078. Rich people are powerful.
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  2079. Our government is no more under the public's control, than other nations. Elite own/operate governments. Stop and think about this, are 1 million people ever furious with 1 million other people? No. It takes rabble rouse to get soldiers to go kill other people they don't know.
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  2080. It's known as the "dupe" smile. Sociopaths smile when they feel they've successfully duped someone. It was the same rare smile flashed by Zuckerburg during congressional testimony on Cambridge Analytical.
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  2081. "benefited" is in the eye of the beholder. - India, who gained the offshored IT jobs, got the endless hours, infertility, layoff/turnover instability, etc. that goes with it. And Big Pharma. West got crap software and tainted prescription drugs. Suggested reading: Bottle of Lies, K. Eban. - China, who gained the manufacture, farmers/farmhands driven off their land by Big Ag dumps of produce into their markets, made into wage slaves burnt up by 30 years old and were not allowed to bring their families east with them to their manufacture jobs. West got a marked drop in the quality goods. Then there's the eco-damage we all share. Reading a $4 package of seafood from the grocery store when I (in US east coast) went to cook it: Product of Chile, Processed in Thailand. Insane
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  2082.  @douglaslett7504  That doesn't make Kml wrong, yes?
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  2083.  @patriziacasagrande3833  How's that any different than (our?) US democracy that teaches/habituates contempt (smokers! french fry eaters! seat belt rejecters! anti-vaxers! etc.) and then appears surprised when it coagulates and turns against half the population? Turf wars of the powerful, by any means, even if they have to fabricate contention.
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  2084. Beyonce, Trashy Poll Dancer Goes Big
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  2085. Every single day, women drive direction of the economy. - Every credit card swipe or online purchase, sends $ to Wall St, called "transaction fees", built into vendor price - Every purchase of high carbon footprint long haul distance imported apple, over local - Every harried purchase of "this will do" gifts, over something more meaningful for the person - Every distant plane ride to Disney, over a backyard tea party for the 2 year old and her friends - etc. is something we can back out of. It's taken me years to rehabilitate my habits.
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  2086. Anything for benefit of Wall St. Send money for your baby's future! Yeah, that's it, because putting money in a volatile uninsured account, that's currently in an extraordinary bubble, is one way to "secure" your kid's future. <facepalm> Notable, Musk's "DOGE" didn't touch his extraordinary welfare benefit, the federal monies for his "rockets are hard" SpaceX foray. Billionaire deadbeats.
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  2087. Whereas the republicans are focused on women's uteruses as a publicly controled resource.
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  2088. Original is musket.
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  2089. And that simple language included "well regulated militia".
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  2090.  @willmont8258  Go collect that bet, because I won't.
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  2091. 50% of voters are declared Independent. The two parties each have 25%/25%, but dominated in noise by their radical Far Left/Far Right, who're loud 9%. It's not you, nor majority, the radicals are loud and funded.
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  2092.  @Xaxtarr_Neonraven  It is. Globalism, retooling economies around the globe for benefit of the wealthy, has decimated nations stability for their publics. Aka, corruption.
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  2093.  @renzo6490  Yes, billions were put out of work by Crowd Strike alone - but not unemployed. Same with M365 cloud. Same "out of work" tripe said of all software development. Truckers! We're going to lose all truckers with automated truck driving! "Save money, automate!" The $20K a year secretary was let go, so we can spend thousands per year on Word installations du jour, paying $75K to $200K staff instead to type up their own documents and travel arrangements, hundreds of thousands for sys admins to find solutions around Microsoft bugs. Hype. Marketeering hype.
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  2094. Wild, isn't it. US government claims no money for US homeless, but has billions to supply Israel with bombs.
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  2095. "friendly fire", "shooter", "collateral damage", lots of new euphemisms spun out, in the past 50 years.
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  2096. Actually, the smokescreen for funding Palestinian genocide/funding Israel to do so, is demonizing Ukraine. Tariff smokescreen is for the closer to home blitzkrieg, gutting federal functioning, like market safety and integrity regulation, like Civil Rights, etc.
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  2097. We aren't enforcing our laws. And therefore millions more come, as millions more learn of that. Yes, it's not sustainable, and wholly out of any pretense of control. The primacy of economic interests has created quite the wreckage, and this aspect's no different. Unregulated lawlessness at the top begets unregulated lawlessness at the bottom.
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  2098. Our psychologists have yet to define ruthlessness as a mental illness. And the follow-ons, evaluation annually, along with confinement and treatment.
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  2099. Not only not helpful, but comments like that promote belligerence. There's a whole lot you don't know. Doesn't make you an idiot.
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  2100.  @JHimminy  It's arrogance. A self-assured sense that what one knows is important, and what others know is irrelevant.
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  2101.  @michelerenea6477  "difference between the two - intellectual and emotional" It's come up a few times, some people make decisions intellectually, some make them emotionally. Coworker asks if his sister is "stupid", mother with dementia has to go to a nursing home for safety, while his sister says he's "mean" to place her in a nursing home. It isn't a "we as women" thing, my brother is 100% emotive decision maker, whereas I, a woman, is 100% logic decision maker. He makes untenable decisions, while the Mr said I could use lessons in more congenial use of language. ;)
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  2102.  @michelerenea6477  re: snide "enemy", would be helpful if you used Edit on the comment. It's the kind of trash comment that just instigates further contention. "couldn't help myself" - yeah, points out where a good part of our problem lies.
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  2103. Our bouts of inflation is spasmodic greed, 1970's was oil barons, late 1980s' banks, mothership of greed was 2008's bust. Marriage is a relic of male ownership of property, women, a legal ownership. Extensive welfare due to government handshake with industry. We pay for sea and air ports, intermodal facilities, highways, etc., and the shortfall in their non-living wage, along with billions and billions in bailouts, and billions just because our congress is corrupt. Local face-to-face institutions don't meet people's needs, they're depleted by the corporate tax free freeloading.
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  2104.  @christophergraves6725  Greed's a constant in some humans' psychology. One native tribe used to take anyone hoarding to the edge of their village and kill them, as they're perceived as a threat to the whole village. Divorce wouldn't be so prevalent if "best for everyone involved". Did that study also include stable long term relationships outside of legal marriage, or just legal marriage versus non-married? Government social welfare programs cover the inherent [undeniably growing] flaws of capitalism. Free market, particularly damaging to public interests.
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  2105.  @christophergraves6725  What's this tapdancing, "monetary phenomenon"? Like the price gouge profits don't end up in pockets, but vaporizes into thin air. The number of studies can say what they will, the fact of the matter is, people will do what they will.
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  2106.  @christophergraves6725  I'd expect quite the opposite, a glut of money pumped out would cause deflation - far too many dollars around making their less valuable (relative to purchases).
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  2107.  @christophergraves6725  You're talking about theory, and some assumed metrics. For example, prices don't reflect the drop in cost to produce, when production is moved to a low wage/low cost countries.
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  2108.  @christophergraves6725  "That is a first in modern history." ?!? That has been the entire cyclical history of the US since its beginning. Douse the labor market. The US colonies began with indentured and slaves. The historians cast the backlashes as racist and xenophobic. Malcolm Gladwell said "the tipping point" is when import of workers goes over 15%.
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  2109. ​ @christophergraves6725  You do realize, selective stats only further anger the roused: "...real wages rose...Even in the Great Depression real wages rose" Statements like that, particularly Great Depression statement, attempts to hide from the elephant in the room, the unemployed, the phenomenal number of unemployed. It's so silver-lining focused, as to diminish as credibility. As my favorite Scottish economist says, "Bill Gates walks into a bar, and on average, we're all extremely well off."
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  2110. Oligarchy infested, that's why.
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  2111.  @frankbenevolence  How's "violent settlers" and "mowing the lawn" skew by the dominant ethnicity and religion in the middle east? Israel can't commit to what it claims is its own border. How's that supposed to work?
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  2112.  @D34d1y1  Thanks for your response.
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  2113. There is nothing sensible about God wants me to be prepared to shoot my neighbor.
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  2114.  @weescotties  One sided accounting is disingenuous and illegitimate.
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  2115. Too big to hide.
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  2116. "the economy is in a good place" No one is questioning the definition of "the economy", as experienced as cost of living by the majority. The past 40 years has moved investor and commerce risk onto the lap of the majority, along with the cost of investor and commerce's failures. There is no benefit to the poor ...
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  2117. Yes, white people cannot afford to have children any more. The US' native population is in decline, as is the case with the West/Westernized. Yes, "immigrants are the future of this region", past, present and future, due to ... Facts Jim will never be talking about, nor will the Boston Globe be covering, https://www.dol.gov/sites/default/files/newsroom/newsreleases/OFCCP20170071.pdf
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  2118. Its cells, zygot.
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  2119. You people are just plain nuts. Washington's so subsidized the rich, they can't afford to run their cities. If you're working at one of these companies, you're benefiting from their homelessness. https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/prog.php?statesum=WA
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  2120. They were supposed to be load balancing between the banks, not fabricating their own money supply.
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  2121. Not seeing much reporting on the gutting of regulatory agencies, which has been prolific. Mainly political sportscasting has taken over media.
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  2122. My purple state has min sq footage on large acreage. Bay Area is not representative of the majority of the US.
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  2123. #metoo the time is "right", via me too.
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  2124. Do understand, BecomingfreeCOUK, "she's a liar" is coalition of creeps who do this kind of thing.
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  2125. "u idiot" - the smug harbor of insults, where those who reach their limit of their own mind park. Kevin Spacey accusations, yeah, that's it, they're an international collaborative of liars. Court of public opinion, not the same as court of law. Kevin Spacey himself is not denying it. "she's a liar", by default, "no proof", I can only wonder, what are you hiding from?
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  2126. And now their defenders have the gall to claim the federal government forced them to loan mortgage money to people they knew couldn't afford to pay it back. Deviants.
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  2127. a) no idea why US immigration is so important to you b) many a legal immigrant physician washing dishes (shortage of residencies, for one thing) c) many a US med grad shut out of practicing medicine due to shortage of residencies (doctorswithoutjobs dot org)
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  2128.  @Dazak  Because it is just about always cheaper to hire a visa'd worker. Residencies are paid for with tax monies. Not a one of them should be given to a foreign worker before all citizen grads are placed.
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  2129.  @taz24787  Built on assumptions: "great" Italian, "awful" US-american. Arrogant.
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  2130. Same uproar over kids using calculators for math homework. Dismissed as hype. But underlying, the same issue, taking what comes out of software without question. Kids didn't recognize when calculator was giving them wrong answers, even grossly defective answers, that anyone familiar with basic math would've recognized immediately.
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  2131.  @dawnmwalton1774  MIT professors said the inability to focus is showing up in the students' papers. Can't write two contiguous paragraphs with obvious concept flow. MIT, deep research requiring deep focus, now in the hands of ... can't focus.
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  2132. "We the voters" have only the facade of democracy left - the highly gerrymandered voting laws and allocation, for the parties to squeeze the outcome they've cattleshooted the populous into. 51 to 49, my hiney. Life got so much better, when congress and White House were both [R] ... it didn't ... were both [D] ... it didn't. Rate of decline is arguable, but not decline is not. Except for 1 tiny group, billionaires. Washington is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wall St.
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  2133.  @supernautacus  D and R gerrymandering of voting process handed the Far Left/Far Right the two Wall St approved candidates, for the primaries. And the party loyalists fall to the left and right on general election, the 25% Ds and 25% Rs. Independents, 50% of the registered voters, weigh in at the general, on the two, "lesser of two evils". Party affiliation for voting registration, the partisan kickoff, of Divide And Conquer. As the public is busied with bickering over rate of descent of the general public's well being. "They started it, Mom!"
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  2134. Biggest lie in this segment, "lowest unemployment rate". Unemployment was redefined in the early 1990s, to exclude counting the long term unemployed. Neoliberalism, aka globalism, is an epic fail. Environmentally, politically, economically for the publics, and culturally. The question is, are they going to bring it to a 1929 crash, or is it going to be taken to a global environmental crash.
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  2135.  @aj25055  Earn it. Earn the support. Not enough, "lesser of two evils".
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  2136.  @Shebaqueening  "Unlike any legitimate Democrat or Republican" Define legitimate. The broad public do not support D nor R policies. State rule over my uterus, or open borders. Give me a flippin' break.
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  2137.  @simonkapadia7582  Not really, because these kind of views have never really revealed to Americans until recently.
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  2138.  @patricialongo5870  Likely rural people don't "plan for a better future" because they're subjected to the same wild swings in national economic and trade policies that no one in Washington's consulting any of us about. <face palm>
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  2139. Well then what are you proposing, we officially acknowledge that Congress is a House of Lords? Not that I'd disagree with that.
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  2140.  @ThisIsF-dUp  And how will the WE THE PEOPLE branch end up no less corrupt than the existing congress?!?
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  2141.  @larrybutler6470  Also requires ax'ing party affiliation to register to vote. "The parties" interests need to be removed from the voting processes.
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  2142. Cherry picking. Both sides of the aisle, cherry picking which laws are applicable, which parts are applicable and cherry picking who they're applicable to. The pulsing of citizenry lives', blown out of the water. With it, so went economic, political and cultural stability.
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  2143.  @biekgiek  Isn't the official ceremony of the start of a presidency taking an oath to uphold the constitution, with his hand on the bible?
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  2144.  @biekgiek  Specific to separation of church and state, "In God We Trust", on every last dollar. Required in 47 states, pledge of allegiance's "one nation, under God". Specific to cherry picking of laws, and who they do/don't apply to, Far Left's exemption of (at least) 12 million present illegally, and Far Right's exemption of Trump's felony conviction resulting in no jail sentence any one else would've received. Fraud, Wall St, especially Moody. Sacklers, the opioid pushers. etc. etc.
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  2145.  @marysharvey  Yes. Relevance?
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  2146.  @joeblow5087  Holy moly! Christians would be in an uproar! ;)
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  2147.  @communitygardener17  The money is a federal issue.
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  2148. How's that any different than people who cling to the god-figure free market, who's magic wish fulfillment can be found at the local Walmart? It's not that you're wrong, it's just no different than deferring to any other "thought leaders".
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  2149.  @jennifera4350  "wiser and more aware"? Neighbor's oldest daughter cried for 6 months at college: culture shock.
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  2150. Well, as I explained to a Canadian some years back, implosion of visibility, in what's occurring now, and what's occurred in the past, including long past, all at once. A grand reckoning, so to speak.
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  2151. A crash and burn on (false) expectations. I attribute hers to her parents. Clearly fed a definition of "exceptional", along with a definition of what it'll translate to later in life. We are surrounded with people who've false expectations, at work and at home.
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  2152. http://www.forbes.com/sites/elainepofeldt/2015/05/25/shocker-40-of-workers-now-have-contingent-jobs-says-u-s-government
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  2153. "They may grow our food" It doesn't get any more important than that. 5 min, w/o air. 5 days, w/o water. A few weeks, w/o food. Most of humanity lived w/o engineers, architects, scientists, doctors.
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  2154. I've gone back to friends, and told them the doctor recommended was the pits. Fortunately, and she found another who sent her to the hospital immediately for the quadruple bypass she needed.
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  2155.  @melaniethomas8401  Her point, fiber, is essential because, what, EU has it? Do we, the vast majority, have through put problems? Gamers, yes, others ...? "should" re: public ownership/buildout of internet infrastructure, different issue, does not mean we have politicians with the spines to enact.
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  2156. "And there is such a thing" For some. Legacy admissions, for example. But to push that statement out there in generic form is just as bigoted discriminatory as "all black people...". I think it was mid 1970s before Americans started to question: Do men have the right to beat their wives and kids? Dismissed as "domestic incident". If ever you've watched a fist come down on your face, you'd realize in that instant societal hierarchy.
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  2157.  @destinyrae69  Senator Whitehouse, a prior moderate Left champion, quoted Reagan regarding our importation of a labor glut: "A rising tide lifts all boats." The R and D politicians are indistinguishable these days.
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  2158.  @AisuruMirai  When my purportedly D congressional representatives defend my being replaced at work with a "guest" foreign worker, after being made to train them, with responses such as "Business tells me there's a worker shortage.", it's not Fox News fabricating grievance. Times millions of us, that this has happened to.
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  2159.  @hypnokitten6450  Bernie was #1 in the polls, for the 2016 general election. How'd he lose? Gerrymandered election process. Ds just as bad as Rs.
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  2160.  @hypnokitten6450  I'm told I'm one of the most privileged people in the world: a white woman. The Mr, from India, is considered in need of help, an immigrant from a poor country. His life story would be upper middle class, by US standards. He doesn't like it when I talk about my life - it disturbs his embracing The Powerful America and Life Is A Cakewalk For Americans, on our shiny brochures sent abroad. White women don't get black eyes, find themselves homeless, aren't groped by men, etc. That's a minority thing, eh? Many a "white guy" out pan handling on the streets, while we fund sheltering/feeding the open border millions arriving. And he's not supposed to resent that?
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  2161.  @destinyrae69  Exactly what statement makes you jump to that conclusion.
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  2162. Summer Lee will not accept the public doesn't support Far Left's Open Borders. We have asylum law, and it is generous. That isn't lawless open borders. Furthermore, Far Left blackball all conversation about the high expense of open borders - which should be actually called open boarders. The housing per person, the fiscal pressure on all from spiking the housing prices, the schools and ESL costs, the spike in Defense spending on borders and clearances such as for international travel, etc. etc.. While tanking wages, particularly blue collar. Gov Stitt's helping first time buyers is "communism"? And our tax law subsidizing bank interest, as tax deductible for mortgages, isn't?!? Amazing the Rs are dead quiet on the "communism" of billions gifted to corporations. AND bailouts. Is it any wonder the US is crumbling?
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  2163. Tariffs are a sign the public's had enough of the importer predation. Name 1 good thing about shipping toothbrushes from the other side of the planet. Along with the billing of US public for military escort of the cargo on the high seas.
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  2164.  @lamontkhoza2856  Importer wholesalers to the US got cheaper products, not the public buying retail. Tech industry is develop it once, sell the one thing over and over, reskin the GUI on occasion using the cheapest of H1/OPT/CPT visa'd workers, and pitch it as "new", insanely high profits and the one product that's no returns. Steve Jobs, a lurch forward, the rest on his coat tails. Re: innovative, do tell. I've a phone that needs daily babysitting/attention, plugged in, surveillance on my household, occasionally goes out the door with me to use a map, has a calculator. Incredible numbers of them at work, diminishing productivity. The government never had any plans for those losing their jobs due to the onshoring of a labor glut and the offshoring of what could be offshored. Left high and dry, populist revolt is inevitable.
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  2165.  @spxram4793  You falsely presume I meant MX/CA/etc., when I mean the predation is from industry in service of Max Profit.
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  2166. @ International trade solely for lowest price [x] isn't useful trade, and I'd even call it destructive.
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  2167.  @StoccTube  "The US has grown incredibly wealthy" Clarification, national and international elite has grown incredibly wealthy. Quite different than generic "the US". re: F35 Yes, US governance trashed, by the arrogance of one, who's surrounded himself with equally arrogant and governance illiterate. BANG! The other nations fire back, cancel, cancel, cancel. Quite the void for Russia and China to step into and take advantage of. "why are they ..." They being the little boys running Washington, operating on the epitome of greed, Project 2025.
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  2168. Time to put on your big boy pants and do your own homework.
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  2169. The 99% is a foreign concept to Fed Chair. A "puzzle", to be specific. http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-weak-wage-growth-powell-fed-20180614-story.html
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  2170. What's your beef with his Civil War series?
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  2171. World Channel, non-stop documentaries by multitudes. So, what's with the drill down on Ken Burns?
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  2172.  @RightHereInMyPocket  So you're not after air time, you're after spotlight. At his start with PBS, most people couldn't find PBS. He created his spotlight, his audience. Disagreeing with your opinion is not disrespect.
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  2173.  @RightHereInMyPocket  Venom comments are not useful nor productive. "shut up" is respectful? Thus, I leave you with "Talk to the hand."
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  2174.  @dianablackman4528  It does come off that way, with no mention of others, like Henry Gates. Both have broadcast excellent documentaries. May also be due to living in dystopia, "disproportionately [x]", when NYC demographic looks nothing like the rest of the US. Nor does Boston. Nor does L.A. Living near Boston, I also see push toward minority privilege. "What's yours is ours and what's mine is mine." Ex., women demand to enter men's gym, whilst also bar men from women's gym.
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  2175.  @ymcpa73  That's some kinda fabrication you're weaving there. Yes, I worked hard, schooled nights, bought a house. And looking over my shoulder see those opportunities gone for others. What degree did someone get? Well, that doesn't matter a whole heck of a lot these days, because industry LOVES to hire migrant workers, and have US workers train them before laying them off. Now, ask me how I know that. If you're not Indian, you won't be getting a job at Oracle. Or Disney. Or Walmart. No matter how well educated an American you are.
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  2176.  @NicoleUntch  What was, is no more.
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  2177.  @JaMaAuWright  "they're terribly over worked, underpaid, and underappreciated." Labor glut, the US has a labor glut. The US is importing far more workers than needed. It's just another "gift" to industry.
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  2178.  @JaMaAuWright  US' labor glut is beneficial to just about all employers. It kills labor mobility. As for "there is a need", purported "businesses" that don't pay living wages are charities on the public dole, via social welfare programs paying their employees. If we're paying them, think we should redeploy them for work that benefits the public. I see loads of buildings that need work, and have for a long time. I take it the owners have no funds for repairs or maintenance.
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  2179. It's "well regulated militia", and it precedes the right to bear arms. Interpretted by the court as all privilege (to own), no responsibility (to regulate).
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  2180.  @willmont8258  Pick up a dictionary. A 5 year old or 40 year old with a gun is armed, but not a militia.
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  2181.  @willmont8258  The right comes with obligation, "well regulated militia".
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  2182.  @willmont8258  You still are in denial about the presence of "well regulated militia", the entire context of the right.
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  2183.  @willmont8258  Every last person who supports Gun Show Loophole. A Gun Owners Of America deception to engage NRA members with "They're trying to take your guns away!" farce.
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  2184.  @willmont8258  Use any of the dictionary definitions. Then apply how it is "well regulated".
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  2185.  @willmont8258  "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State" A well regulated militia, for the security of a free state. It was not then, and still is not, for personal security. Clearly you've a reading comprehension problem.
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  2186. Globalism isn't "mismanaged". It's working as designed: by, for, of benefit to elite, and elite alone. Suggested reading: Trilateral Commission Report, A Crisis Of Democracy Summation: early 1970s, international elite decided there's "an excess of democracy", because they lost control over the population: war protests, women working, civil rights for their most exploited workers, etc.
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  2187. You aren't looking for consistency in Trump aspersions are you?
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  2188. Why? Because their personal identity is attached to the population-fed national mythology of having the moral high ground.
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  2189. Hmmm, I beg to differ. Just because democrats have a different hierarchy based on race doesn't make them not racist. In fact, they've excelled at promoting a race based hierarchy, alone with other casts of favored. Quite popular these days, "Not all republicans are racist, but all racists are republicans.", while it looks to me like, "Not all republicans are racist, but all pro-white racists are republicans." Democrats have the rest of the racists, white and non-white.
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  2190. Do cite the women saved by their gun "reality" you claim. As for Skid Row, I take it you've not lived long enough, to see the relationship of crime at the top relative to crime at the bottom.
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  2191.  @sj6986  Total farce. An incredibly tiny number are fixated on IOS release. Between the parties owning election process, and corporations vetting candidates before "the parties" endorse one, voters don't stand a snowball's chance in he!!.
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  2192.  @pete23234  How did the Jewish "win" this land?
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  2193. Whereas in Florida, they focus predation on blacks. The extent to which the South engages in this, target and leach, looks to be some fundamental immorality they can't shake off. Reputation laundering with "Good Christian" for 1 hour, on Sunday church attendance.
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  2194.  @edubeast-g9m  "We hope US citizens will organize" Thank you for your well wished. Citizens would have to recognize how this happened. Brought to tenuous, most are busy trying to keep their households intact. We've an infection disease brought on by oligarchy, libertarianism. Aka, the world owes me a living and I owe the world nothing. #1, the public would have to first take our voting processes out of the hands of the politicians, who've skewed it to their parties' benefit. Sanders, clearly ahead in the polls, yet Independents not allowed to vote in many states primaries, for example.
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  2195. They are supposed to be evaluated for credible fear upon finding them illegally entering the US, and issued deported, if no basis for asylum.
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  2196. I've only heard of Debbie Allen picked up and sent off to artistic school, by the good fortune of having a teacher notice her leanings. She demonstrated it, to Debbie's parent, who immediately understood. Schooling is designed to regiment kids, for industry's purpose, workers. Note what they're not taught, in this purported capitalism democracy: civics and entrepreneurship. Artistry is a skill far harder for industry to reliably exploit for profit.
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  2197.  @jimcoulter5877  American tax money, billions upon billions, funds Israel. $38B in a single shot, by Obama (R congress approved) alone. No idea how much sent, since.
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