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I'll likely be downvoted for this, but....America can do a lot to help the protests by putting sanctions on the upper class in government who enjoy/Live in Western countries as well their kids and freezing assets abroad. This is actually what a lot of Iranian commentators have been calling for from western countries. I'm actually glad Biden spoke up about this, now it's time for him to take action. | edit: note that I acknowledge in my post that Biden does indeed misspeak. I've received the same response a dozen times. You don't need to tell me Biden misspeaks because, and this is the part I want you to read carefully, I acknowledge that Biden misspeaks. | 1 |
Below are the sequence of events in chronological order following the lawful search warrant to recover classified materials from Mar-A-Lago. The Department of Justice is investigating Trump for mishandling hundreds of classified documents. | 3. Special Master Judge Dearie - A Reagan appointed judge from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He also served as a judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) from 2012 to 2019. Judge Dearie is known as a very fair judge and is historically respected by both Republicans and Democrats. Trump's team and the DoJ provided Judge Cannon with a shortlist of judges to be the Special Master, however they only agreed on Judge Dearie.^ Judge Dearie has questioned the authority of District Court Judge Cannon and is demanding to see evidence of Trump's outlandish allegations such as the FBI planting evidence.^. | 0 |
Renewables won’t be enough for current demands for years to come (if ever at this consumption rate). | So maybe these people should stop using electricity, cars, and anything that uses coal, oil, or nuclear power to cut down on demand. Without the need for the coal, this wouldn’t happen. The clean electric isn’t quite there yet, not enough to power nations and industry. I can understand them wanting to protect the town from being destroyed though. | 1 |
Even if we view them as worse then most because they're an exporter of fossil fuels, I think much of the blame continues to fall on the west. The people who buy the fuel and then burn it are also at fault (looking at you Germany). | You hear it all the time in the states "we can't do anything about Climate Change, even if we tried China and Russia would continue emitting.". | 0 |
Though there could be some benefits to that method, like providing on-site testing of heroin and other drugs to see if it's got too much Fentanyl in it. And some of the more trendy heroin users like suburban kids and celebrities would not be getting tainted dope because they could afford to buy the real thing if it were legal. | Then they lost a massive lawsuit over it and not a penny of the billions of dollars they paid went to the victims or the families of victims. It all went to various governments to pay for the "extra police, prison, and hospital resources" they had to use for all the people Big Pharma got hopelessly addicted to opiates. But the parents of teenagers who doctors got addicted to opiates and died from ODs got nothing. | 0 |
And with Russia not for rescue, there is no way India can fight a long war with China alone. China domestic arms industry is expanding at mind blowing pace even to give US generals sleepless nights. India on the other hand is mostly dependent on other countries namely Russia and USA/France. Make in India is still in nascent stages and India still depends on other countries for critical components. | Moral issues aside, India might regret this later. Russia would be China’s bitch after this war, so India would have no support from Russia against China and no western support for its alignment with Russia. | 0 |
Federal government throw money you mean mess up the rental market some more. You think citizens will be happy, biden starts giving section 8 vouchers to asylum seekers, while Americans are struggling to pay rent and can’t find housing? Pls tell me you missed the whole concept of inflation the past year? | Temporary visas is different from many just coming across, many are underage. And if a state relies heavily on slave labor, that state needs a reckoning for undermining American workers. | 0 |
The still relevant questions here are: 1. Were the documents properly handled given their classification level? (probably not). 2. What are the relevant laws to improper handling of classified documents. 3. These are records under the PRA and should have been turned over to NARA. (While that is a law there are no legal consequences to breaking it). | That's not true. Biden maintained a security clearance during his time out of office. He still had clearance for these documents. | 0 |
I get it. You're probably one of those dipshits that likes to say "Herp derp, we're a republic, not a democracy!" while conveniently ignoring that a republic is just any form of government without a hereditary monarchy, and the US is a constitutional federal democratic republic. And it's usually because you're poorly educated, but occasionally just because you're a liar. . | Well. That's kinda what happens once you have played your last card. In regards to Iran, that card was played over a decade ago. So much so, that in the last decade the direction was reversed into: | 1 |
Notice the conservative emphasis ("due process" and especially "unprecedented") so rarely heard from Republicans but slowly getting more common. It just goes to show that the nutcases are having a hard time purging conservatives from the Republican party. | Nancy Mace (who certified 2020 voters' decision on Jan 6) beat Katie Arrinon (who supported Trump) in the 2022 primary. | 0 |
What if I told you that there has always been weather balloons and spy balloons and they could be shot down whenever they really needed something for everyone to focus on? | Basically, balloons are excellent bang for the buck, plus it's easy to claim it's an atmospheric research tool that just happened to go off course, and not an intelligence gathering platform. A stratospheric solar powered plane with a 30 meter wingspan, studded with camera domes and directional antenna cowlings is a little harder to explain. | 1 |
Did they ever let those Ukrainian women carrying Russian rapist babies get abortions or did they continue to help the rapists by forcing the victims to carry their babies? | Well even now after further restriction of access to abortion in Poland rape and health risk or life risk of the mother are legitimate causes for fully legal abortion in Poland. Doctor who refused to execute the procedure should be prosecuted for the failure to comply with their professional obligations as a doctor. | 1 |
Why are other countries bending backwards to accommodate passengers from any country that has given up control of the virus? | Which country is still trying to control the virus at this point? Hasn't just about every place ditched all internal restrictions and lets the virus spread freely? | 1 |
They have annual PTO, which is used for sick days (as in many other companies). They start out with one week annually, but the average employee has three weeks annually. | > At the start of February, workers got 30 points. Taking time off almost always costs them between two and 15 points. They can only earn [four] points back by being available for work with 90 minutes’ notice for 14 consecutive days, meaning they can’t go out of town, schedule doctors appointments, or go to a movie. Use all 30 points and they get suspended and given 15 more points. Use those 15 points and they get suspended even longer and given their last 15 points. Use those and they’re fired. | 0 |
No it's not aliens lol. Extra terrestrial life obviously exists considering the vastness of our universe but there's no logical way they'd have the technology to be able to travel this far and also being vulnerable enough that a human weapon can shoot them down. | People often offer theories about alien species invading to steal our resources, but an alien race capable of interstellar and intergalactic travel, probably has far more resources than we do. If they were here to enslave or subjugate the human race, there would be little pretense for hiding it and it doesn't make a lot of sense to spend decades or centuries "secretly" enslaving humanity by making people think it's okay to be nice to each other, which is an argument the American political right would make and HAS made. | 1 |
No, Trump himself was not indicted, but drawing conclusions about Trump's own individual conduct was also not in the direct scope/authority of Mueller's investigation. This is very different from the current DOJ action, where we already know that Trump himself is the subject of the investigation. | "If you take the exact same conduct -- and make it not about Donald Trump and not about a former president of the United States, would the case have been indicted? It would have been indicted in a flat second," Pomerantz said Sunday. He called Bragg's decision not to bring the case a "grave failure of justice.". | 1 |
So, if you are younger and vote, good for you. If you are too jaded and cynical to vote you are getting what you deserve. And if you do vote, vote single payer. Be a one issue voter. It will be good for all of us. | This is good news. It's just too bad that due to the omnibus bill that broke the link between the public health emergency and extended health coverage. | 1 |
Of course Russia does have a lot of armored police vehicles and other equipment meant to squash protests. But it remains to be seen if they can actually spare any forces to send there. Kazakhstan is a different case, being a part of the CSTO and they helped them when they weren't waist deep in a massive war yet. | Aren't there any weapons being smuggled from Iraq's Kurds to the Kurdish people of Iran in the regions where there are a lot of them? | 0 |
I'm GenX and for like ten years I was able to rent a house alone, pay my car payment, and save money too. Rent was $650/mo. for a 1 br house with a nice yard. That was only about 20 years ago. Wages have not gone up much but that same house probably rents for $2k now. | If you can pay $2,000 a month for rent, but the cheapest possible rent you can find is $2,100. You can’t make that rent payment. If you live at home for two years and save that $48,000 instead of blowing it on luxury goods you can pay the extra $100 you don’t earn monthly on rent for 480 months. | 1 |
New US $2.2 billion military aid package to Ukraine includes longer-range missiles (150 kilometers) for HIMARS, two HAWK air defense firing units, 250 Javelin anti-tank missile systems and 2000 rockets, 181 MRAP vehicles and 190 heavy machine guns with thermal imagery sights. | ⚡️US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the assets confiscated from the sanctioned Russian oligarch will go to help Ukraine. | 0 |
Allegedly, both sides will use propaganda, we probably won't know true death counts for Ukraine and Russia until long after the war. Fair to say Russia ironically getting their shit pushed in though. | Russia's figures are off by a factor of ten from everyone else. Everyone else is Ukraine's numbers +/-10%. | 1 |
So to add onto what others have said, a Prion isn't a virus or bacteria, it's literally just a highly complex misfolded protein. Its full name is "proteinaceous infectious particle". A Prion's form is extremely stable and resists being denatured even by autoclaving. | Prions are fairly close to indestructible, they don't get destroying simply by burning. You need an autoclave that can create both immense heat and a lot of pressure just to destroy it. | 1 |
Finland joining is about as good as them joining with Sweden, as it provides the protection to Sweden and the rest of Europe, can easily blockade St.Petersburg and it makes it so that the Baltic is now a Lake NATO. | Finland joining NATO and with several NATO members surrounding it; Norway to the West and the North, Denmark, Germany and Poland to the South and the Baltic states to the East, Sweden would find itself protected inside a "NATO cocoon", with only the Baltic Sea as the only way for Russia to invade. | 1 |
You are right people hold fascist ideas but everyone all across the political spectrum engages in some form of fascist ideology, they just believe they are righteous as they engage in fascist activity so it's okay when they do it they will just say it's for the good of the public. | No the argument was they're not truly fascist and I never said everyone's fascist only that you all have some fascist ideas and engage in fascist activity whether you admit it or not it doesn't mean you're a fascist, the CCP is a pretty fascist acting government but they don't categorize themselves this way. There's nuance in politics I am not going to just accept I should demonize an entire percentage of US adults and label them all fascist because some people believe it's true. | 0 |
I don't think it can be described as perfect when you get a tiny portion of people who can control the narrative. | But you don’t get a tiny portion of people controlling the narrative. You’re missing that there’s a second house. The Senate is important because it gives people in small states a more equal voice. | 1 |
What russia is attempting to do here is genocide. They're trying to erase Ukraine from history. They use the word "nazi" for anyone they see as an enemy with no regard to the actual definition. | It is beyond irony that the Russian crime empire uses anti Nazi rhetoric for propaganda purposes when they are behaving like textbook Nazi's without the German. | 1 |
Republicans are literally pushing women to death’s door through abortion bans, so while we bash Boebert, let’s try to keep in mind who is on control and who is setting the stage and dictating who is to be hated and who is to be approved. It isn’t crazy Boebert. She deserves to be dragged for her hateful comments, but the entire GOP needs to be turned into dust for it’s hateful agenda. | She calls these people degenerates and groomers, she was absolutely pushing hate in those tweets. The fact that you can't acknowledge that tells me exactly where you stand on this issue, and why you don't have a problem with any of this. There's plenty of people out there who are willing to take their kid to see a man in a dress and a wig, just because you have a hang up about it doesn't mean everyone has to accept your intolerance. | 1 |
we’re getting both and native texans that are both liberal/conservatives leave the state as well… so idk wonder what the balance will end up being lots of non voters too. | I'm uncertain if the influx of residents from CA and other states is really affecting the political makeup of Texas or not. I've heard assertions that we're getting all of the conservatives leaving CA. I've heard that no, we're getting the tech workers who were priced out of living in places like SF and they're liberal. | 1 |
But if you extend wind and pv (which is happening) you will have more and more days reaching 100%, where you don't need any other power. Let's assume you now make 80% with renewables in average - that probably means that probably half a year you don't need anything else, but for something like two weeks a year you need to cover 100%. This is not something you want to do with a nuclear power plant for technical and economical reasons. | Nuclear power plants can reduce power to 80% load quite easily, newer ones even to 50%ish range. Going below drastically reduces cycle treshhold (can't recall exact numbers, but it was something like from 20.000 to 2000).). | 0 |
But not one single European country have been even remotely close to have aspirations to invade Russia? | The very existence of Western leaning, democratic Ukraine on Russia's border is an existential threat to Putin's regime. | 1 |
First of all, chill out lol, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with ranked choice voting in general. But ranked choice voting can sometimes help moderates and sometimes help progressives based on the breakdown of the constituency. In NYC it definitely benefits moderates more because it frees up Republican voters to vote for the moderate Dem and NY Democrats tend to be more moderate so a lot of them are putting the moderate Dem as their first choice anyway. | If you accept the hypothesis that Republican voters will prefer a moderate Dem to a progressive, then the progressive must outperform the moderate on the first round of voting in order to win. The moderate has a margin for error, because they can come second as long as they get enough second-choice votes to make up the difference. | 1 |
I think the correct response at this point is full-bore, non-stop mockery of Mohammad, the Quran, the whole stupid Shia/Sunni thing, and the precepts of Islam generally. | And I ask this because in the USA you have lots of not Muslims who froth at the mouth for insulting their religion. They get violent and take over government positions to assert authority. They are currently waging war against women's rights. They might be using different tactics currently, but that will change. | 1 |
If Chicago to Minneapolis arcing through Wisconsin makes sense economically, and it certainly does topographically, then no good reason not to improve rail travel through there. | Looks like the distance is about 80 miles. About the same as in the San Francisco Bay Area from Fremont to Antioch by BART. My point: 80 miles sound like a job for light rail. | 0 |
See, that's the thing. Americans often use that "aiding an enemy state" definition, when the general meaning of treason is more "betray your country or try to overthrow the government.". | Ahh. Sadly, I almost forgot about that. Thanks for the reminder. So I guess we can chalk that up to at least two Republican presidents who let millions die through their incompetence and maleficence. | 1 |
All a "short truce" would do is give Russia time to regroup and rebuild its forces, and Ukraine currently has the momentum in their favor and truly has Russia on the defensive. That's what Russia is trying to do with this, and Ukraine isn't taking that bait. | And let's not forget, this isn't the first time Russia has pulled this sort of stunt, just look at Moldova and Georgia as an example, they aren't going to stop. What do you think happens to Belarus if they suddenly also decide to move towards warmer relations with the West? And other countries like China is keeping a close watch on the conflict as well, as they too also have dreams of imperialist expansions to neighbouring territories, and in fact have done so in recent memory, just look at Tibet. And we know they're really eyeing up Taiwan right now. | 1 |
Neocon and neolib aren't just liberal and conservative with modifiers. They're fiscal and foreign policy positions. That's why someone like Reagan, who was very much a conservative, is also a neoliberal. Yes, he's a fascist. That label applies to the vast majority of Americans and American politicians. | I don't think you understand what neolib and neocon mean. A person can be both, which Reagan was. Neocon being their foreign policy position with neoliberal being their economic position. Tucker is not hawkish. He's just a neolib, but not a neocon. | 0 |
If the intent of these changes is to ensure that lower income families can raise healthy children then that is great. If the intent is to stimulate birth rates then this needs some rethinking. | But you're right: it has proven to be true that government incentives for having kids tend to have little effect on birth rate. | 1 |
Dems are around 30-35 of the vote in most races and there are 0 dems (2 senators, 4 house reps) elected, the main democratic area has been cracked into 3 60/40 conservative districts to neutralize the democratic voters. | It was extremely effective in 2012 (based on the 2010 Census and the gerrymandering done from that), and got republicans a 33 seat lead even though democrats received 1 million more votes overall than republicans did. | 1 |
Dems don't even have to do anything unethical or illegal to get Republicans all worked up...look at the stink they've been trying to raise about Hunter Biden for the past two years. It's a big nothingburger and they can't let it go. | Also, remember their greatest hits from the Obama days: Tan Suitgate, Dijon Mustardgate, Saluting with the Coffee Cupgate, etc., etc. | 0 |
Also, Trump's base wasn't enough to win an election in 2020 and there's no reason to believe it's grown since then, and DeSantis doesn't have the record to campaign as anything but Trump with a college degree. | The only shot they have is if they somehow get Trump to both step aside for Desantis and not run 3rd party (good fucking luck and even then much of his base will feel betrayed), or get DeSantis to step aside in favor of Trump and wait for 2028 (but Trump lost 2020 and isn't likely to do much better in 24). | 1 |
This reminds me of the story about the billionaires prepping for the apocalypse by building huge bunkers and hiring private security, but realizing once the apocalypse has happened and they're safely in their bunkers that the security doesn't need them anymore and worried how to stay in power. | >More questions came about these guards, like 'How would you pay them once crypto was worthless? What would stop them from eventually choosing their own leader? Perhaps robot guards would be better?'. | 0 |
So are Payday loans nasty and exploitative? Yeah I think so. All I'm saying is "OMG LOOK AT THE HUGE APR!" is misleading. | Wellll... I mean I do agree with the notion in that these loans are predatory because if you can't afford to pay your bills this week, adding more charges will simply keep compounding the problem... | 0 |
Corrupt slob Trump revealed his own investigation. No one knew NARA and the DOJ were trying to get Trumo to return the classified documents for over a year. They had to issue a subpoena, and Trump still did not comply. He only returned some of the boxes he had in his possession. Then, after not complying again, a search warrant had to be issued! | President Biden requested items from his official at the Penn Biden Center. In those boxes were items pertaining to his son Beau's death from brain cancer in 2015. Among those items was an envelope marked VP Personal. As soon as his lawyers found it contained classified documents, they immediately closed it and reported to NARA. DOJ did not have to pull teeth to retrieve the documents and immediately searched other places. Even if documents were packed up inadvertently, there is no excuse for anyone to be sloppy. Better procedures need to be put in place. President Biden had 1 document marked top secret, and Trump had 60. The bottom line is President Biden did the right thing, and Trump obstructed and claimed they belonged to him, which is not true. | 0 |
Some, yes, but you get highly educated people believing this bullshit, too. You can have all the smarts in the world, but it doesn't make a whit of difference if you want to believe it's true so badly you refuse to engage them. | You're right that Putin doesn't see Trump as anything more than a useful idiot and would love nothing more than for us to fall to civil war. But he did specifically want Trump to win... because he . | 0 |
Publicly, they can’t be too antagonistic with China, but the South China Sea dispute and Vietnam’s growing ties to America seem to suggest a different view…. | Again, China doesn't want to engage in war against the American navy where they've many carriers, submarines, plenty of missiles to destroy all Chinese main naval and shipping ports within a week. The US can comfortably impose a full blockade of all ships out of the south China sea with their airforce, carriers and submarines. Don't think China has a chance to go head to head with the F35s, submarines and aircraft carriers on top of sanctions. | 1 |
This is a good source of information, regarding Crimea. This guys name is William Spaniel, and he's got a lot of really solid informational videos about the war in Ukraine. | This guy has some really on point videos about the war in Ukraine. His name is William Spaniel. This video is about Crimea specifically. | 0 |
If we want nuclear to have a future, that trend needs to be reversed. Its competing against renewables that have managed to decrease prices by like 90% in the past 20 years. | The cost of grid storage fell by 90% in ten years. It’s getting exponentially cheaper over time, already, today. | 1 |
One such study, yes. But a large number of later studies have confirmed that people with AD do have lower levels of amyloid-beta and higher levels of tau in their CSF. The study was about a specific oligomer of amyloid-beta and a specific mechanism of action for the disease, meant to explain the presence of amyloid-beta, not claim or disclaim its existence in people suffering from AD. | All Alzheimer's research in the past 15+ years was based on one study establishing links between amyloids and Alzheimer's, a study which has recently been openly called into question (and it was called into question behind closed doors before, to be shot down by the so-called amyloid mafia). I mean the study literally had photoshopped western blot images. | 1 |
Yes the Max's have crashed (the Airbus not so much) but with improved technology and the minimal increased costs to operate a larger aircraft, it makes sense for most folks to take on the extra seats due to the increased revenue. | During 2020 the Boeing 737MAX fleet was grounded because the planes had a fatal flaw, so the older planes were being flown not because the airlines were poor, but because Boeing sells unsafe aircraft with single redundancy flaws that kill passengers to save money in manufacturing costs. | 1 |
And Russia invaded anyway. Absolute scum of the earth. They will die, rot, and fade into the lost abyss of history. And it’s all on Putin’s hands. | You neglected to mention the most important aspect of that memorandum: UKRAINE GAVE UP THEIR NUKES IN RETURN FOR A PEACE GUARANTEE FROM RUSSIA. | 0 |
Social media has really removed most kinds of nuance in favor of ingroup buzzwords and catchy or emotion inducing titles. | The difference is that most people(hopefully) can at least tell that they are low effort arguments even if they agree with the sentiment, and if you CAN counter them they fall apart pretty fast. | 0 |
doubt that ... African governments, elites and rebel groups are just as deep into the exploitation at the expense of their own people as everybody else. | Capitalism is looking to destroy and reduce the lives of Africans, and everyone here is focused on religion? | 1 |
Outside of that I also listed how both parties have a set of rules on how to oust a Speaker. Ousting a Speaker doesn’t have set rules by the House so it’s established in the party rules that’s based at the beginning of each congressional session. | The Speaker can block a general motion to vacate but they cannot block a party-led motion to vacate since they can’t unilaterally change the rules. Like I said, for Republicans the current threshold to initiate a motion to vacate is 5 members, once that threshold a reached it goes to a vote, the Speaker can’t block it. | 0 |
If only a competent politician could rise and gain popularity. I blame the lack of options in India’s democracy squarely in the decision of the main (and once dominant) opposition party’s insistence that only someone from the Gandhi family can be their choice of PM. People are sick and tired of the nepotism and would rather have Modi than throw the dice with another Gandhi. The congress party only reversed this decision in recent months, and even then chose a completely unlikable party hack as their lead candidate — more likely to reward his loyalty than with any intention of winning an election. It’s a sad state of affairs. | Very sad. India may hold the geopolitical key to stability in the region - by virtue of rapid modernisation of its economy and industry. If China has a near-peer neighbour it might think twice before expanding with impunity across everyone’s borders. | 1 |
I bet the pro-DST sleep researchers were paid off by Corporations to argue that perma-DST is superior to perma-standard time. | I mean, we saw a rampant increase of productivity since the '70s. We could have saved energy by cutting labor hours for the same wages. This could promote more outdoor activity and 'traditional family values.' How would that profit corporations though. | 0 |
The problem is that if the state government secedes, real people will be affected—including people who aren’t fascists (which is the majority, but Texas is currently under minority rule). | The de facto regime of the region formerly known as "Texas" has engaged in such extreme voter suppression efforts that it no longer qualifies for statehood, which requires each state to have a republican government. | 1 |
agree with the other comment - all of these limits are just excuses for voters voting shitty people into office. | Gerrymandering affects statewide elections as well, because if the majority of your votes feels meaningless because of it, why turn out at all? | 1 |
Iirc, some models of hybrid American pickup trucks work that way - they're designed to operate as a worksite generator and, if equipped, sometimes feature a 240v, 30amp connection. ... Heck, one guy I know has a regular has powered pickup and he has that ability. | A plug-in hybrid like that would likely have a 16 to 20kWh battery - I say 'likely' because I haven't done any reading on that since just before covid hit. | 0 |
"Australia, are you cunts alright?" sounds like a poorly translated Chinese tshirt or wristband you would see in a Vietnamese market. and yes we are apparently. | What he is saying is definitly plausible. Though as I said, they spend a few days with you explaining what you can expect and a way to tap out if you feel like things go too far. | 1 |
Yes, good point. I also wonder if since Putin can stay protected for longer, that a physical illness or assassination attempt could end him too. | Mental breakdown on Putin's part is probably what will happen unlike Hitler who put bullet in his temple. | 1 |
But, of course, if Google Earth offered that kind of detailed aerial photography to me for free 10 years ago, then the United States may well offer the results of better aerial photography to Ukraine now. Chances are the main obstacle to the mole screening program would be that Ukrainian military strategists have no interest at all in seeing pictures of Belarusian soldeiers' moles. | Maybe a good way for NATO to communicate its interest in Belarus would be to send text messages to soldiers in Belarus who seem to have moles that a dermatologist should check out. | 0 |
Focus on the Family is a terrorist organization. They terrorized me as a queer kid. The fact that they still persist is a stain on the nation along with all the other hate groups. I’m glad you survived their attempts to brainwash and destroy you. <3. | Yep. Growing up, I remember there being a distinct separation between Denver, Castle Rock, and the Springs. Last time I was out there, it was one, unbroken suburb between all of it. It was shocking. | 1 |
As long as it's coupled with other assistance programs instead of switching one for the other, yes. Most of the time, people try the "well-with-universal-income-we-can-remove-the-other-programs!" argument which only exacerbates the problem; universal income has to be in addition to other programs in place to truly be effective. | Iirc, when a universal income was being debated during the last round of presidential primaries, the logic behind it was it saves money. All of the applications and bureaucracy behind our current welfare system are very expensive. Guaranteed income to everyone is much more efficient. | 1 |
There can be a need for nuclear when wind and solar is at it's limit but that isn't the case in any country right now. | But if you extend wind and pv (which is happening) you will have more and more days reaching 100%, where you don't need any other power. Let's assume you now make 80% with renewables in average - that probably means that probably half a year you don't need anything else, but for something like two weeks a year you need to cover 100%. This is not something you want to do with a nuclear power plant for technical and economical reasons. | 1 |
He knows what country this is, right? He's apparently running as a conservative in a country where Mehmet Oz had to run as Dr. Oz so his base wouldn't be turned off by his foreign name. | He ran as Dr. Oz because he's a celebrity and trying to ride off the name that gives him the most name recognition. It wasn't because his name was Mehmet. | 1 |
At no point did you address the statements I made or the supporting documentation I presented. You simply called me a liar and declared that you were right. | I did, I said he was a liar and he is. None of what he linked was compelling enough in 2008 to alter Heller and it didn't make a lick of difference in Bruen either. It's garbage peddled by people who torture the historical record and they have failed. Bruen made the threshholds pretty clear and they're pretty easy to meet, yet so far gun control activists have come up short. | 1 |
Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York delivered an impassioned speech defending Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota as Republicans seek to remove Ms Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. | House Republicans have sought to remove Ms Omar for comments they consider antisemitic, for which Ms Omar apologised. But Democrats say that Republicans are engaging in Islamophobia. | 0 |
In a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan responding to a flurry of document requests, the DOJ said that “any oversight requests must be weighed against the department’s interests in protecting the integrity of its work.”. | The letter added: “The Department’s mission to independently and impartially uphold the rule of law requires us to maintain the integrity of our investigations, prosecutions, and civil actions, and to avoid even a perception that our efforts are influenced by anything but the law and the facts.”. | 0 |
These are police officers that like to think they’re hardcore but in reality? They’re too chickenshit to sign up for the military. But they sure do like to pretend they are. This is why we have a 2A problem in the United States, also why people feel like they need to carry concealed. | We are held to a higher standard and often held accountable for fuckups like you mentioned above. But it is war and shit happens. Domestic law enforcement attacking civilians and it’s not even a war zone? What’s their excuse? | 0 |
But this probably wasn't the Ukrainians because the Russians aren't blaming them for it; in the assassination that was carried out by Ukraine earlier this year they didn't try to pretend it was a suicide. | Who actually thinks Putin then would not take this opportunity to blame Ukranian insurgents for this after locals killed his thug? | 1 |
I suppose someone can always find a way to worry about extremists and nuclear weapons, but that’s the ONLY other card someone new could actually play, and not just talking about it, but doing it. But that’s obviously a lose to lose to Russia, there’s no winning there, period end of story. | - So, in the end the Russia's complete victory will be the only choice for Russian authorities, but it would have much lesser cost if they acted correctly from the start. | 1 |
Also, immediate care of a sick neonate is really something that should not be done outside of a suitable environment. If the prison authority wants to reduce uncertainty, why not let the mothers-to-be have a, y’know, normal human conversation about options for induction/Caesarian _after they are moved to a labour ward_? | I ask this as someone who was faced with having to potentially resuscitate a sick baby on a baby-change mat, placed on a desk, inside a patently unsuitable room in a psychiatric hospital. Having been told I might be sprinting 200 yards with a kitbag from the SCBU when I got the call she was dropping. This situation was different in that the lady was psychotic but had a midwife with her, and _did not consent_ despite understanding our detailed explanation of the risks, or you bet we would have taken her straight to labour ward. Even in these extreme cases, consent and autonomy have to be respected even if it seems mad to a reasonable person and makes our professional decisions harder. | 0 |
Since the first WTC bombing at least. . . I felt it as a kid but never really understood why everything I was taught about being a nice person, sharing, courtesy etc. was ignored by the same adults and types who pushed these ideas. First I thought maybe because I'm a child and adults don't have to be nice to us (I mean, adults in my family weren't very nurturing either. . .just religion), maybe the way my mom would allow me to dress (no MC Hammer baggy pants or vanilla ice lined haircut for me!), maybe because I was apparently poor at the time? Not once did it cross my mind that it was due to my black hair, brown eyes, and skin that didn't show all my veins. . . | Oof. I can relate. I’m still having record scratch, freeze frame moments when I realize that no, it wasn’t me, it was because I was disabled. Some adults treated me horribly and hypocritically just because they hated how I made them feel. By pointing out their own mortality. How Just World Fallacy can’t fit disabled kids. How their cruelty was noticed and recognized to angry retorts of “bleeding heart, crybaby, too sensitive” or as I got older “you’re paranoid, alarmist, you see a therapist”. | 1 |
Yeaaah. Since the war in Ukraine began, I've seriously started to wonder how many of their nukes are even functional let alone have a reliable vehicle for delivery. | That was a big reason but it is my understanding the much bigger issue is the cheap Chinese tires they use for all of their vehicles. Tires which aren't rated anywhere near the necessary standards to support the weight they were expected to carry. | 0 |
He voted against gay marriage more so than voting for protection for interracial marriage. It’s the fact that they’re tied together that makes it an easy headline grabber to demonize him. He’s a piece of shit but the fact is he prioritized being against gay marriage rather than codifying protection for interracial marriage. It actually shows more that he won’t back down from gay marriage regardless of the benefits that would help his own. | 3) Marriage is religious and our religion is allowed to ban gay marriage. You can have civil unions if you want, but I'm going to vote against that too because gays are gross and I just feel so icky whenever anyone respects them. It's unnatural. | 1 |
Visible at top left at 0:50, they already lined up some dead at the edge of their hobo camp. That helps identify some shapes seen in the wide shot at 0:04, looks like at least four corpses. | Very thinly manned. Artillery is still going jagga jagga as the video starts. We're watching the final moments of yet another hapless platoon. | 0 |
So you are just a pussy I gather? People have to defend their homeland from time to time, sorry it offends you but it’s reality. It’s nice to think other people should defend your life, but you don’t have to do anything. | I'm not asking anyone to defend my life. If a country attacks mine or vice versa I have the right to decide if I think the conflict is worth fighting for or not. If its not then my death is not the automatic outcome even if my country losses. I'd have to weigh the consequences of that situation out and decide if I thought it was worth it or not. | 1 |
Not too long ago the Mexican DoD (I forgot their real name) was hacked by a "Guacamaya group" or something like that and they basically said "Hey we got everything the DoD had in their servers, we did it like this, oh and btw we noticed there were like 30 other backdoors, so we're probably not the first ones to hack the DoD"; anyway they're not gonna drop all the information on the public because there is 'a lot of sensitive information' which most likely means that a shit ton of past and current important people in the government are in some way strongly involved with organized crime, and releasing the info would end with a shit ton of 'tying lose ends', not to mention the loss of any legitimacy the gov. has in the eyes of the Mexican public. | So yeah, it's basically common knowledge that the gov. Is heavily crooked and plays a mayor role in organized crime, the public just needs hard proof of it, but tbh the hard part is not proving that the gov. Is crooked, it's cleaning it up without turning Mexico in an actual Warzone. | 0 |
Without direct access to the information and validation of those sources, Michael Parenti can be dismissed entirely out of hand. | With respect, there were 15,000 executions in the entire history of the USA. Even taking this at face value (which is beyond difficult to do), 700k executions is insane and barbaric. | 0 |
The argument that Jews are in fact allowed to help the victims of the earthquake and that’s a good thing is like praising someone for not being a total asshole, where I would argue that it’s the absolute minimal requirement to not be a terrible human being. | More to the point, if religious Jews are still helping sift through the rubble two months after the earthquake, there would be no expectation that doing so would save lives (even if it's still important work). The helpers would at that point be expected to refrain from their work on Shabbat. | 1 |
It was never meant to be justice. She is a Federalist society bot - their judges and supporting judges are put in place to support the conservative federalist cause i.e. electing Republicans and policies. This was a way to NOT demoralize Republican voters directly before the election and/or to prevent more motivation to Democratic voters. We will never be able to accurately quantify but it may have helped them in some close elections. She is just one of the terrible people we will have to deal with because of Trump. She should be impeached. | Rather than impeach her for explicit crimes, it might be faster and better to impeach her for incompetence. | 1 |
When describing that socialism will actually mean more control over your work day and a claim to the money you boss makes off your work, it is more popular than the common American imagining of "socialism" of your taxes go up and maybe you get some more services, but maybe not and it all goes to the army and Congress's dumbest nephews' contracting firms. | Those public goods are technically socialist in nature, but when people are talking about capitalism and socialism, they are exempting all the things that everyone agrees government should provide. Both socialists and capitalists agree on those things, so it is pointless to include them in the debate. The conversation is only really over the parts where the two sides disagree. It is sort of like how you would assume a pacifist would still want to defend himself if attacked, even though that isn’t really pacifism. | 1 |
Agree. This was a significant unforced error on Biden's part, one that he knew better than to commit, but I can't see myself ever voting for a candidate from the insurrection-embracing Trump party in the future. | It's not a difficult decision for us, but we have to recognize that non political, undecided, or ignorant voters might be inclined to think it's the same thing or that Bidens case is even worse for whatever stupid reason. This is going to hurt Bidens reelection chances if only because the GOP is better at weaponizing things like this and their voters and many undecideds will eat it up. | 1 |
Are you saying the right is how they are because of propaganda alone? Sure there are irrationalist sheeps but there are much more "rational" reasons. Yes those reasons are utterly selfish and partisan but they are still rational, in the sense that it's humanly understandable. An SKn supporting NK is irrational to the extreme. It's not even like someone believing in tarot or shamanism for personal benefit. There is no benefit. | I mean, just to name a couple... the whole Halloween incident, the president's recent (supposed but probably true) swearing against Biden and generally making a fool of ourselves overseas, losing our position in UNHRC for the first time in history, the usual continuous exposures of politicians' shady activities, NK keep firing missiles lest we forget about them (which somehow triggers old people like my mum with minor war panic). Socially people are just becoming bitter, hateful, and just selfish in general, and of course, there's the usual economic panic, although these are apparently global patterns. | 0 |
Increasing rates induces a cycle of default and consolidation for firms that are over leveraged and are unable to continue rolling over their debts. The liquidation of these assets can be considered like a tax that is apportioned to the firms that underwrite the debt, as the capital is taken out of circulation and is applied to settle accounts. This allows the monetary system to apply huge tax rates to the victimized firms and asset classes, while never having to go through the process of passing legislation or incurring the negative political capital. This is modern monetary theory, and it seems to be validated. If this process does not occur, you will see what hyperinflation actually looks like. | Are you referring to hyper-inflation like the other commenter? Arguably not possible in US due to reserve currency status and the petro-dollar. | 1 |
Personally I think we should go with a literal interpretation of the 2nd amendment, as the Founding Fathers wrote the Militia Acts in the same time period that clarifies what it is exactly they meant: | And insofar as this all relates to 2nd Amendment, it directly counters the anachronistic insistence that it only guarantees the militia and not the right to keep and bear arms, and ALSO directly counters the similarly anachronistic insistence that the militia has nothing to do with it. It does, but not because of the guns. The militias had to be protected so the Army couldn't stop them from hunting down black people escaping to the North. The only way to do that is to ensure the people are able to be armed, because, again, by definition, the militia cannot exist without an armed population to draw from. | 1 |
Blaming someone, and saying that someone is not without blame are two very different things. And I've been saying that she's not without blame since the beginning. | Whatever reason why she's there when it's already May, is not of concern. She had November, December, January, and February to leave. When Russia invaded and it became a warzone it was already too late. You're just ignoring all my arguments and focusing on the circumstances where she had no longer had control. | 0 |
His testimony may be useful in identifying perpetrators of war crimes and perhaps assist in bringing some of them to justice. | Medvedev said he wanted to speak out about his experiences in the war so "the perpetrators are punished" for their crimes in Ukraine. | 0 |
Yes, they turned out to be. But Trump didn't know that when he took them, and it doesn't matter anyway. He took the ambassador's personal decorations away to place in the White House, the ambassador did not know until Trump had left. When pressed, the White House responded that they could have them back after Trump's second term would have been up in the 2024 election. | Scrolling through the long list of atrocious shit by this guy, during a 2018 visit to Paris, (same visit where he called veterans, “suckers and losers”) he transferred art from the home of the US Ambassador to France to the presidential residence of the White House, flummoxing many…How do you respond to a president who acts like an emperor visiting the house of a feudal lord? | 0 |
German society in 1933 was very very different than American society 90 years later. The fascist playbook is the same, and they will no doubt wreck havoc, but the internal resistance to it in 2023 America is far more powerful than the authoritarian leaning social order of 1933 Germany. | Some good news is that these Swings toward Fascism in the past tend to last only around 10-15 years and are then followed by a pretty strong progressive period as people strongly reject it when it inevitably falls apart. | 1 |
Michael Rockefeller was poking his nose into Asmat territory which at the time included the river coming down from Ertsberg in which their Freeport mining company wanted to build a port for exporting Papua's gold, silver and copper to the US and other markets. | Freeport WAS owned by the Rockefellers and members of Robert Lovett's bonesman network, the first open pit site Ertsberg was depleted twenty years ago and the second larger Grasberg depleted several years ago since when they have been digging under the base of the mountain to reach more of the gold, silver and copper. Because the extreme high profitbility era (open-pit) is over the US shareholders have been selling their holdings to the Indonesian government that shares their interest to keep their looting of Papua secret. | 0 |
impossible, precisely because there are no more foreign students, therefore the costs of universities (and everything gravitating around universities) will be borne by British students. | if the British universities cost for example a billion and instead of for example two million students now there are only one million who pays this billion? Do you want British students to really not have to pay more? | 0 |
1) Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, really anybody - will use this nuclear blackmail strategy to get what they want. We’d be in for a shit future. | I just want to clarify that anybody labeling proxy, compares it to the fear of “communism” spreading or other small-ish consequences in this the past. | 0 |
"Everything that used to be part of the Russian empire and then part of the Soviet Union is the territory of Russia's strategic interests," the academic added. | Referring to the ex-Soviet states, Sardaryan told his fellow guests on Russian state TV: "This is our land, our territory of strategic interests.". | 0 |
Your order of events is wrong and incomplete. First came the French AMX-10RC "light tanks"/heavy armament combat vehicles, then a day later came the joint announcement of US Bradley IFVs and German Marder IFVs, and later the other vehicles you mentioned. | This all came on the heels of the US sending Bradley fighting vehicles, Striker light tanks, and the British sending Challengers tanks to Ukraine. The fact of the matter is that even despite the unprecedented aggression on the part of Russia, Germany has so far been a very weak ally in NATO, and has been dragged along by the ear up to now. I can even recall early in the conflict the British setting up an air bridge with C-17s to send NLAWS to Ukraine, and their flight paths were identified as having skipped around German airspace, heavily implying that the Germans were refusing transit of the weapons-- shipments that were critical in the early phase of the war at repelling a Russian invasion of Kiev. | 1 |
Im not familiar with TN laws, but here in PA having a firearm loaded or capable of being loaded in a vehicle counts as concealed carry. Without a LTCF the ammunition or firearm has to be stored where the driver does not have access. With an LTCF they can be loaded, including pistol AK variants. | The bill does not mention the AK47, it changes the text of current conceal carry laws from "Handguns" to "Firearms". That is all. The comment about the AK47 was added by someone else as a way to scare people and drive up engagement. | 1 |
When it all went wrong and Russia doubled down rather than give up and back out again they ran into the problem of the makeup of the Russian armed forces being based round the conscripts and the lack of them for the "special operation". It's a major stumbling block for them and has directly been the cause of some major loses. It's also as I understand it why Putin has been so desperate to label the conquered parts as "Russia", it then allows them to be defended with the full conscript bolstered army rather than merely the career army backed up with mercenaries. Even there however the mechanisms for calling up the reserve have all atrophied and fallen into neglect. | That's also not mentioning of course just how much their remaining armed forces have atrophied since the fall of the USSR. Had they come storming across the Fulda Gap they would have thrown everything at us including their air power. All of which was much more impressive during the 80's. | 0 |
This is not how the US MILITARY fights wars. However arm someone not US military to fight the war instead of sending our military is very much a part of how the US fights wars. such such we need the equipment not only are military needs, but also the equipment we don't need but someone else ew are arming needs. | It wouldn't be burdensome to strap a pair of emergency stingers, or some more up to date equivalent, to one vehicle in a platoon. Just in case. | 1 |
I’m not too concerned about age because he has the best healthcare in the world and if he’s in good health (which he seems to be), then he should continue doing this country a service. | Let us have 4 more years of a damn good politician and progress and we’ll talk in 2028 about a younger, Democrat president. | 0 |
Here's some not weird math.... since California is <12% the nation's population, they have had job growth nearly double their per capita share. | Not to knock anything on California, because this is great news, but the answer to your question is likely to be mostly just math. California has right around 12% of the us population. It makes sense they would own a disproportionate share of job creation. Obviously 20% is bigger than 12%, but knowing nothing about where the numbers come from they could probably easily be explained by the massive shutdowns California had. Relative to a lot of states, they likely (again, I'm guessing, but it seems like a strong guess) lost a lot more jobs too leaving a larger deficit to recover. | 1 |
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