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In the case of online sales it is the shipping address.
In the past, yes the company collects sales tax on sales shipped to addresses in the state they are in (you know the tax laws for where you are located), all catalog and online sales that are shipped to other states are not charged the sales tax of the buyers location (a mess to figure out and settle up for).
That is what is changing. Because few individuals actually self report and pay the sales tax due to their state/taxing district on out of state purchases. The taxing entities are taking the short cut of dropping the collection/payment processing requirement and cost on the seller.
Interesting that even the rich avoid sales tax due. John Kerry the senator and presidential candidate had his new yacht delivered outside of Massachusetts so he could avoid their state sales tax. John Kerry Saves $500,000

Just like the US Constitution, the Pythagoras' Theorem can't be valid, because its author is a long-dead White slave-owner.

Recently I've found different solutions with similar goals to be more promising and less problematic, such as universal basic services and/or a citizens' dividend.

Problems with UBI:

https://www.nakedcapitalism.co...

http://neweconomics.org/2018/0...

Some better solutions:

https://www.independent.co.uk/...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com...

We have a national employment database. It's called e-Verify. It's been illegal to hire undocumented workers since the 1986 Immigration Act and e-Verify has been around since 1996.

The issue is that it's not mandatory to use e-Verify (although some mainly southern states do require it), so only about 50% of employees are screened. Attempts to make it mandatory have repeatedly failed, largely due to Democratic refusal (there are some small business Republicans who are against it too).

Mandatory e-Verify has been in every Trump budget and he brings it up routinely, as do a bunch of Republicans. Democrats and libertarians are largely against it, albeit for different reasons. Immigration advocates are against e-Verify "unless it includes some kind of help for the unauthorized workers who are already here".

I'm not taking any position pro or con its use or the motivations of its supporters or detractors.

Can we maybe talk about how Trump's administration is moving to end protections for pre-existing conditions? That's kinda big news if you're a human being with a body.

Why is that news? That's how insurance WORKS.

You can insure your car only after it's had a tree fall on it and you can't insure your house only after the tornado hits it. Disallowing preexisting conditions is the ONLY way to make health insurance solvent. One of the reasons costs started spiraling out of control due to Obamacare is that Obama didn't understand this very basic fact.

Who the hell _cares_?

Can we maybe talk about how Trump's administration is moving to end protections for pre-existing conditions? That's kinda big news if you're a human being with a body.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com... There are other references but the bottom line is that you have a reusable bag that sometimes houses meat and sometimes houses vegetables. That is not a good combination. Plastic bags exist for a reason and most of the world can deal with the waste responsibly. As far the hygiene goes, San Francisco is joining so many other places in having open-air homeless encampments with their own dumps and no proper sanitation. Watch for another round of infectious disease this summer. People living near garbage and rats and fleas leads to not-good things. This is the direction of many progressive policies.

Interesting, as I recall John Kerry big tax everything democrat and past presidential candidate who lived in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Taxachusetts) keeps his new yacht in a different state to avoid the taxes.
John Kerry Saves $500,000

Just my 2 cents ;)

odd.. because your illiteracy rate hasnt changed in 10 years, and is higher then china's with their "primitive chicken scratch"

https://www.huffingtonpost.com...

Care to explain that one for us?

And btw this one which is one of your links: https://www.huffingtonpost.com... is about the US appeals court agreeing with my parent post that Monsanto writing on their own web site that they "It has never been, nor will it be Monsanto policy to exercise its patent rights where trace amounts of our patented seed or traits are present in farmer's fields as a result of inadvertent means" would be held against them in a court of law if they really attempted to do so and thus the court threw out that preemptive case.

Please do read the article, it could give you some insight into exactly how crazy these anti GMO people actually are. I mean a preemptive court order?

The problem I have with your argument is that all of your sources are from monsanto.

A 2 second web search provided tens of articles, here is six:

monsanto-sues-farmers-seed-patents
monsanto-sued-farmers-16-years-gmos-never-lost
monsanto-patents-sue-farmers
the-enemy-of-family-farmers
monsanto-wins-lawsuit
seeding-fear-the-story-of-a-farmer-who-took-on-monsanto
All of which tell a different story.

The problem I have with your argument is that all of your sources are from monsanto.

A 2 second web search provided tens of articles, here is six:

monsanto-sues-farmers-seed-patents
monsanto-sued-farmers-16-years-gmos-never-lost
monsanto-patents-sue-farmers
the-enemy-of-family-farmers
monsanto-wins-lawsuit
seeding-fear-the-story-of-a-farmer-who-took-on-monsanto
All of which tell a different story.

Not consistently. Nate Silver only started downgrading Hillary's chances sometime in the late summer/early autumn of 2016. I remember there being a discussion on his site where someone claimed Nate was playing a dangerous game of small potential gains and huge potential loses. If Hillary won, the argument went, no one would credit Nate because it was obvious to all that she would. But if Trump won, everyone would say that if Nate Silver was so wrong about that how could he be right about anything else. He would not only ruin his reputation -- as the front runner of the social statistical science his failure to predict Trump victory would give his entire scientific field an irrecoverable blow. Someone said in his defense that Nate didn't fudge data, but the reply was that of course he didn't, that was for amateurs -- what Nate was doing was in a way worse, he was ignoring his hunch that the polling data was bad but went with it anyway because he so desired one outcome.

A couple of weeks after that discussion Nate started giving Trump more chance. In November he was accused by Huffpo of tweaking the data: "The short version is that Silver is changing the results of polls to fit where he thinks the polls truly are, rather than simply entering the poll numbers into his model and crunching them." https://www.huffingtonpost.com...?

The article concluded "By monkeying around with the numbers like this, Silver is making a mockery of the very forecasting industry that he popularized." Turned out it was the opposite -- by acknowledging his hunch (or the danger of his game) he may have given it the lifeline.

Seems to be the party that's attracting them though. And no wonder why.

Others beg to differ with that opinion.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view...
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...

You must really want to get the SLS up. Although I have to hand it you, that sort of thing just might get you enough money to get the damned thing off the pad.

$5.80 A GALLON??!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What socialist HELL HOLE do you live in?????

Just $5.80/gallon? Here in Norway the gas price is closer to 8 USD pr. gallon (or rather, 16.65 NOK/l)

Here, 37% of new cars sold in March 2018 were electric vehicles. In addition, about 27% were hybrids.

This is why you never go Full Authoritarian, it makes you attack stupid straw men to win stupid prizes.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com...

This is a good step in the direction of legalizing climate bets. If those who deny climate change were willing to place money on global temperatures stabilizing or falling, the rest of us could retire early!

There I thought that there was undeniable proof via the genealogy and taxation records of the Roman Empire that Yeshua bar-Yosef existed,

"Jesus is not mentioned in any Roman sources of his day". (Article then goes on to make numerous highly specious arguments in favor of the existence of Jesus Christ, like this one:

The earliest followers of Jesus declared that he was a crucified messiah. But prior to Christianity, there were no Jews at all, of any kind whatsoever, who thought that there would be a future crucified messiah.

This is the usual level of thinking involved in trying to prove the existence of Jesus. It's pathetic. What does that have to do with anything? Nothing. Jews were regularly being crucified at the time, so it makes all the sense in the world that they would invent a crucified messiah.

and it was Paulos who first referred to him as Yeshua bar Jehovah.

Who is Paulos? Did you mean Saul of Tarsus? He's the obviously fake author. His writings are super different from everyone else's and they're the only place Jesus claims Godhood.

There's also the beatings of gay people, rampant islamophobia, and descendants of European invaders calling descendants of native american's "illegal immigrants." Yet here you are, with your wingnut persecution complex.

Undoing moderation to say this, but it has to be said. Unless you are naive enough to believe that the U.S. justice system works 100% of the time in capitol cases and always gets the right man, a death penalty by necessity kills innocent people some percentage of the time. Killing innocents is immoral and unwarranted, and by your own terms, murder.

Now some people may be ok with a "small" number of innocent people being killed for no reason, I am not. Supposedly about 1 in 20, subject to locality. I wish I could find a link but I saw an interview with the former pro-death penalty D.A. of chicago who's mind was changed when a DNA evidence review law was passed and almost half of death row inmates were exonerated. (I hope I am not mis remembering details there).

In any case, a country that concerns itself with justice would never take from one single man that which it can not return without just cause.

As I said, mistakes are made. I don't know what percentage of death-row inmates are eventually cleared. You realize it normally takes decades between a conviction and an execution to allow proper appeals? A conviction in the US does not mean 100% absolute certainty, just "beyond a reasonable doubt." I have not argued for or against capital punishment in this thread because it is too nuanced. The lawful execution of someone convicted of a capital offense but posthumously found not guilty is classified as "wrongful death" and not "murder".

According to DeathPenalty.info, 162 death row inmates have been acquitted, had their charges dropped, or received a "complete pardon based on evidence of innocence" since 1973. DNA was a factor in 20 of these cases.

A report from 2014 which looked at convicted death row inmates from 1973 to 2004 found that 1.6% were exonerated; another 35% were "spared from capital punishment, but remained incarcerated".

You seem to be unable to understand the simple economic concept that teachers are only paid for the actual time worked (typically 10 months) and do not get paid summer vacations

Teachers also don't get unpaid summer vacations; what teachers get is several months where they can sell their labor to anybody who wants to hire them, often taking advantage of the status, security, and education that their government job confers upon them. That's a sweet deal that almost nobody else gets. At a minimum, you need to add another 25% of salary on top of the teacher's salary to make it comparable to other salaries just to account for the smaller amount of time they work (185 contracted work days vs about 230 for private sector employees). And that's not even taking into account benefits like health insurance and retirement, which keep accruing.

If you look at the OECD, US teachers are paid below the OECD average

That's simply not true even if you look at nominal salaries (the analysis in HuffPo is bogus, just look at their numbers). But HuffPo doesn't tell you the whole picture: you need to add another 25% because of the shorter work year, and then another 25% on top of that for the nice benefits teachers receive. And on top of that, taxes in the US are much lower than elsewhere, and teachers also receive benefits like 403(b) plans that are not available to teachers in other countries. Just the fact that teachers don't have to pay into social security is a huge benefit by itself.

Take it from someone who has known teachers in both the US and several other countries: US teacher are being rewarded lavishly.

Sigh, I don't know if you are deliberately being obtuse or simply fail to understand simple economics and prefer to ignore facts that don't fit your narrative. At least you admit to being a former teacher and thus no longer miseducating anyone. HAND.

FYI: Brookings Institute https://www.brookings.edu/blog...

You seem to be unable to understand the simple economic concept that teachers are only paid for the actual time worked (typically 10 months) and do not get paid summer vacations

Teachers also don't get unpaid summer vacations; what teachers get is several months where they can sell their labor to anybody who wants to hire them, often taking advantage of the status, security, and education that their government job confers upon them. That's a sweet deal that almost nobody else gets. At a minimum, you need to add another 25% of salary on top of the teacher's salary to make it comparable to other salaries just to account for the smaller amount of time they work (185 contracted work days vs about 230 for private sector employees). And that's not even taking into account benefits like health insurance and retirement, which keep accruing.

If you look at the OECD, US teachers are paid below the OECD average

That's simply not true even if you look at nominal salaries (the analysis in HuffPo is bogus, just look at their numbers). But HuffPo doesn't tell you the whole picture: you need to add another 25% because of the shorter work year, and then another 25% on top of that for the nice benefits teachers receive. And on top of that, taxes in the US are much lower than elsewhere, and teachers also receive benefits like 403(b) plans that are not available to teachers in other countries. Just the fact that teachers don't have to pay into social security is a huge benefit by itself.

Take it from someone who has known teachers in both the US and several other countries: US teacher are being rewarded lavishly.

Everyone wants to make money on their homes, not just Californians

Well yes, but you asked about California. This graph makes clear that it's a supply problem in California. Unless you want people to leave the state.

If you want to talk about other areas of the country, you have this sort of angry citizen showing up to city council meetings:

“Have you considered the racket and the lights and the crowds and the traffic, and everything that’s going to happen to those of us who live here?”
It is a familiar sight in America: the public meeting, the angry residents, the housing developer trying to explain himself over the boos.
“Take the money you’ve got and get out of here,” one person shouts. A chant begins: “Oppose! Oppose! Oppose!”

And of course, this sort of thing happens in California, too. For years there's been a billboard along highway 580 opposing new housing in the bay area.

Describe to me the new tech they're using to enrich uranium. Or encryption methods used to communicate between countries. Or laws and embargo that are going to affect tech and equipment. Or at least something interesting.

Otherwise skuttle away to breitbart or huffpost or somewhere else that suits your fancy.

Just because Obama did it doesn't automatically make it right; just because Trump is doing it doesn't automatically make it right either. Go away and do something useful -- like come up with ideas, not just complain, to your mayor or state representatives. Otherwise, like talk radio, we're just wasting each other's time. I'm not going to convince you, you're not going to convince me, and neither one of us knows what's really going on.

BTW, in the '70s, the world was all "going to soon come to an end" as well. I just wish that this time they'd hurry up and do it before next Christmas so I won't have to shop.

If he can't agree to those minimum standards of acceptable behavior, then sure he shouldn't be admitted to the conference.

This is bullshit, and you know it. First of all, having to explicitly agree to this to attend a conference is like having to pledge allegiance every time to get food in a mess hall (as mocked so brilliantly in Catch-22 — great read).

How would like you like a daily popup on /. asking you to promise not to molest children today? Your probably would not... But, if you can't agree to that (much lower!) minimum standard of behavior, why should you be allowed to have Internet?

Seriously, like most corporations, LLVM has no separation of powers. The same people writing the Code of Conduct, are the ones enforcing it... Having it simply gives them a weapon to enforce their point of view.

And we know — from their choosing to associate with the trash like Outreachy — what that point of view is...

"Common sense is not too common" goes the saying. The code asks you to be "respectful" — what does it mean? If one were to show up to a conference in a T-shirt with a picture of AR-15, or a portrait of President Trump, would that be Ok? I've worked with people IRL, who'd file a complaint with Human Resources over such a thing — because they'd "feel unsafe". And it could get worse!

Likewise, what if a woman encounters an obvious man in a female bathroom — because he is "genderfluid" and felt feminine at the moment the nature called? Would the woman's negative reaction be "disrespectful"? By the standards of the Social Justice assholes, who'd consider yoga practice to be racist, it certainly would be...

We've been slowly boiled by these asshole for years. This man is a hero for raising awareness of this growing threat to our freedom.

"Muslim" isn't a race any more than "Catholic" or "American", you numpty fucking cunt.

There is no such thing as race within the homo-sapien species. Racism has never been exclusively biological and has often if not primarily had cultural origins. The more we assume that race is limited to skin color, the less we understand about contemporary racism faced by Muslims at home and abroad.

Perhaps you also believe antisemitism is not racism either, or are you simply inconsistent in your beliefs on racism and race in general?

But the idea that physical attraction is a social construct is bullshit.

It is, partly. Standards of beauty have varied over historical times. There are things that haven't changed (preferring smooth skin and symmetrical features) and things that have (preferred breast size)

Very true. At one time, a woman we would consider "chubby" today was considered the height of physical charm. Probably as a sign of health at a time when a lot of people were a lot less healthy than today. In men, a pot belly in older men was considered a sign of success. .

It's funny how after so many years, homosexuals are accepted as a built in preference, and not a choice, that certain groups of feminists are pretending now that everything is a choice, because you can if you want, raise a child to be a male or female, and if you want you can take a child born with a penis, which the evil world of cisgender would demand that he be called a boy social construct, and by social molding have him identify as both a female, and a lesbian. A female who identifies as a lesbian can have sex with this lesbian with a penis. and not be sexual, but a true lesbian who has never had sex with a male, and is repulsed by males. In the world ot total social construct, that is completely valid - if not quite sane.

Um, huh? Where did this come from?

Indeed - sounds crazy. But here is the thing. There are people who are raising their children genderless because they believe that gender is a total social construct. This is a typical one. https://www.huffingtonpost.com...

With the concept of society acting as the enforcer of gender identity - who individuals desire to mate with - the concept is that without enforcement, the child will choose any of the huge number of genders as defined by those who insist gender is a social construct.

The keywords are that the child will make a deliberate and conscious choice.

This means that there is no hard wiring, no natural proclivity, that all is a choice. The mind as a completely blank device that can be programmed any way society wants it to be programmed. Sex with goats? If society wants it. Homosexual behavior? If society wants it.

It is obvious that social mores will determine in several aspects the sexual practices of those societies. But in no way shape or form do they make the basic determination. repression, suppression or expression is not what determines gender "choice". So here we have people who just like fundamentalist homophobes, have decided that who a person wants to engage in sexual activiteis is a choice that that person makes all by themselves, that they think one day "I have come to the decision that I want to have sex with men, so I will train myself to be sexually aroused by men." In both gender as a social construct and religious homophobia, a person can believe the same thing.

Fuggidaboudit! I knew real young who I was attracted to, and what the physical characteristics of women I found exciting. My gay friends also knew early on, even if they were closeted. I think the traits are what we are born with. Some cisgender, some gay, some bisexual, some asexual.

Parents, community, and teachers all contribute to the education of a child. The stresses todays kids face aren't that different than the ones their parents faced, poverty, hunger, drug addiction aren't new.

Teachers (in my experience, and I worked in public education for 5 years in NJ, then taught for 6 montsh in TX in a charter school) today aren't like the teachers I had growing up (I worked 5 years in the district I grew up in) - Every teacher from 7th to 12th grade feels it is their responsibility to inject "current events" into their classroom, no matter the subject. While it's OK if one or two teachers in the school do it, when every teacher wants to "discuss" BLM, Gun Control, #METOO, et al, it takes away from the education process. In addition, taking out Practical Arts classes (Wood shop, metal shop, auto shop, etc.) forces kids that wouldn't have been on a college track into one, slowing down the process because they can't keep up - but, they are there because "everyone needs to go to college" (true story, in my district in central jersey we had 97% of graduating seniors going off to college, and a handful were going in various military branches - there were more than a few parents that argued the district had failed them because 100% of the seniors weren't going off to 4 year colleges!) Then we get to Learning Disabilities, I grew up with siblings that had learning disabilities, and their differences were managed outside the classroom one-on-one and in small groups. The current trend is to try and "mainstream" children with differences, again, dragging down the class average as the teacher and aide(s) try and steer the class though the material. It wasn't that long ago that programs like "No Child Left Behind" quickly morphed into "No Child Gets Ahead" when Honors, AP, and other "gifted and talented" classes were cut to bring up the lower-performing students.

But, you bring up parenting, and I agree it is a major component, but many of todays parents are simply disconnected from their education, continuing the neglect and lack of concern about their children's education their parents showed them. When I taught at the charter school they had an interesting program - when a child was at risk for failing two or more classes, they were required to attend evening study halls with a parent until their grades improved to passing in all grades. The parents would get mad at the school for this policy, not their children for not doing their class/homework, but they were forced to put up with it because they chose the school, they agreed to the terms - the alternative was a public school that spent the bulk of the day trying to keep the children safe from each other.

Teachers burnout, and tenure and unions keep them on the payroll, hurting student's chances of getting an education, and for that I hold them responsible - to the unions public schools exist to hire teachers, to parents schools serve a different purpose. What could the NYC public schools do if they didn't have hundreds of teachers collecting full salary & benefits, sitting idly in the so-called "rubber rooms" while their performance and offenses are slowly, meticulously debated by lawyers?

You can try explicit studies like this one, that show that the pesticide isn't harmful to bees.

Or you can read some rollup articles about all the problems with Lu's study, like this one or this one.

Yeah, the problem is that actual studies on the effects of neonicotinoids on bees show that there are no effects.
Seriously. Read it for yourself.
The original study that started all these claims is bunk, too, full of twisted data and misleading analyses unsupported by data. Of all places, HuffPo produced a roundup of all the ways Lu is wrong. Read some of the linked studies there, too. Plenty to learn about bad science.

This act bans a safe, cheap, and popular insecticide for BS reasons while ignoring the actual causes of Colony Collapse Disorder.

But the evidence that "hunting elephants saves them" is thin.
https://www.theatlantic.com/sc...

The science is clear, lion populations decline where there is hunting.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...

People who would rather keep their benefits are an extremely small number. Most people are off the program as quickly as possible.
Here is my citation, where is yours?

Alex Jones is so 2015. He wasn't nutty enough for the True Believers, so they'ave graduated to something called #QAnon, which posits that Barack Obama has been arrested and is in Guantanamo awaiting execution and the guy who went to Barbara Bush's funeral was really a body double.

He's also being sued by a number of people. Some Sandy Hook Parents: http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/1... Some folks from Charlotteville. https://www.huffingtonpost.com... Chobani Yogurt and Pepe the frog's creator as well.

While he claims Freedom of speech, there are some problems with purposely spreading lies that you know to be lies.

I think in the first two cases, they have no intention of settling, so there might be a bankrupt the asshole sthick happening.

I've tried listening to Infowars, but it is just impossible for me to spend more than three minutes listening to that weirdo. It was long enough to state with some certainty that he is one brain cell away from playing with his own turds.

Nope. McCain (2008) and Romney (2012). You are bad at your trolling job Ivan, go back to training school. You failed army reject!

You one of those crazy coincidence theorists? I mean, I thought it was an outrageous lie that the Democrats rigged their primaries to prevent Bernie Sanders from winning. Turns out, it was true. I thought it was crazy that the media was running stories past the Democrats for approval before publication. That was true too.

"We heard loudly and clearly yesterday from Bernie supporters that the process was rigged, and it was. And you've got to be honest about it. That's why we need a chair who is transparent."
-- former Secretary of Labor Tom Perez, February 8, 2017
http://observer.com/2017/02/dnc-chair-candidate-tom-perez-admits-democratic-primaries-rigged/

Because I have become a hack I will send u the whole section that pertains to u
Please don't share or tell anyone I did this
Tell me if I fucked up anything
-- Glenn Thrush, senior editor of Politico
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/36329

Here's a bunch of New York Times employees talking behind the scenes.

Person B: and frankly microaggressions and people being obtuse cut the deepest. and this is DAILY.
Person M [an editor on the masthead]: Hey all, a lot of smart thoughts here and just wanted you to know I am following along. Definitely worth more discussion.

So yeah, this stuff happens and it happens a lot. The school shooting thing with Hogg was definitely coordinated behind the scenes. There are apps like Signal that allow secure communications, we will never see leaked emails again.

Many studies have shown that when people retire early, they tend to die early.

Perhaps Kurzweil doesn't understand that meaning and purpose are inextricably tied to...WORK.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com...

Apparently, there have been studies and the numbers are known.
Having snap for part-time or seasonal might make sense, but if somebody is working 2 part-time jobs or is working full-yime, they should be able to live on the wage for at least 1.5 ppl. Obviously, if you are minimum wage and have 6 kids, you have other issues to deal with.
BUT, it is time to raise minimum wage to the point that it supports 1.5 person for that area. For some, that is simply $8 / hr. For others, it is $12-$15/hr.
Better to pay them that, and then cut taxes.

The right wing extremists have a bit of catching up to do then, it seems. I haven't observed any right-wing extremists shutting down political rallies, smashing storefronts, or shouting down public speakers on campus lately.

You must have missed their actions at Malfeur, preceded by Bundy Ranch, or their recent conviction. Not to mention their fraternity hijinks.

But perhaps you had your eyes and ears covered, so you couldn't see a thing.

This is how you lose credibility, by the way, by being out of touch with reality.

There's this idea that if prostitution was legal, men would rape less because they'd have an outlet for their sexual urges. This mistaken idea goes against the concepts of feminism and must be resisted every time it pops up.

Some of them might. Some of them might rape more. The correct response so such ideas is always "Show me the data."

Unfortunately for you, someone did just that, and the numbers strongly suggest that you're wrong. And lest you think the phenomenon is limited to Europe, a present Rhode Island as a counterpoint.

Disturbing as it might seem to many, legalized prostitution actually does reduce rape and sexual abuse. A lot. We're not talking about some small variation that could be attributed to chance. We're talking about 30% reduction within just two years. Much of this is likely because prostitutes in those areas feel safe admitting what they do to police, which means they can turn in people who commit crimes against them, thus putting people who harm other people behind bars.

More to the point, the argument in favor of legalizing prostitution is precisely the same as the argument for so-called "sancuary cities" that are hostile towards attempts to deport people solely for being undocumented immigrants. Sanctuary cities have lower crime rates as a direct result of those policies, because the immigrant community isn't afraid to report crimes. What possible reason, then, could anyone have for believing that legalized prostitution would not reduce crime in the same way?

Rape is a core feature of patriarchy.

And of course, preventing women from charging for sex means that any woman who feels that this is her only plausible way out of abject poverty is denied the opportunity to be so empowered legally, and therefore must therefore do so illegally. This means those women are much more at risk of abuse, at risk of getting caught up in networks of people who "protect" them in exchange for skimming part of the profit, because they aren't eligible for protection by law enforcement, and at risk of rape by former customers. And of course, they can't usefully report those rapes, because the first question out of the defense attorney's mouth will be, "How did you know the defendant," and if the witness's answer is, "Your honor, I plead the fifth amendment," the case isn't going to go well for the prosecution.

Anti-prostitution laws actually contribute to the subjugation of women. They don't prevent it. Anyone who says otherwise is kidding him/herself. The numbers speak volumes, and they say you're wrong. Very wrong. Want to convince me otherwise? Show me your numbers, and tell me why your numbers are better.

If anything I am a little surprised no news media focused on how California's laws, making it so much more difficult to get semi-automatics rifles and big clips... may have reduced the impact of this crime, could even have something to do with California being 42nd out of the 50 states in gun homicide rate.

Semi-automatic rifles are rarely used in crime, although their has been a recent spate of well-publicized incidents involving semi-automatic rifles. I'll cite a Huffington Post article to avoid accusations of bias https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/assault-weapons-deaths_us_5763109de4b015db1bc8c123. It seems unlikely that California's laws restricting access to such firearms are responsible for the claimed ranking.

Where are exactly are these toxic masculinity articles you're reading all the time?

A selection of the first google results page:

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com...

https://www.politico.com/magaz...

https://www.care2.com/causes/w...

https://www.refinery29.com/201...

http://thefederalist.com/2018/...

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

https://www.them.us/story/beyo...

Mass shootings are blamed on toxic masculinity, male entitlement, male fragility, "boys are broken", "its us or them [men]", "toxic masculinity is killing us", "end men", the list is hundreds of thousands long.

Also, let us know when there's another female shooting like this to support your article. You need at least 2 to start I think.

Women aren't called mass shooters for whatever reason. They are called rampage killers or mass killers.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/art...

The reason there are so few women that kill many people? Same reason why there are so few successful business women, female CEO's, and female prisoners: risk aversion. Both good and bad risk taking brings radical success or failure. Men do it more and reap the consequences for good or ill.

It's people like you that are making folks switch to Republicans. Keep it up.

O RLY?

"The percentage of Americans who consider themselves Republican or lean that way has dropped since Donald Trump was elected president, a Gallup poll found."

The one bright spot for the Republicans is that they've actually been a minority for awhile but have been able to outmaneuver the Democrats for most of the past two decades because the Democrats are incompetent. So becoming even more of a minority isn't necessarily a death knell for the Republicans.

Well, maybe we should ask our cops in America to just look the other way and pretend crimes aren't happening, like your UK cops do.

How about instead we ask them to stop committing crimes, especially while on duty. They should especially stop raping so many women, and killing us at unprecedented rates even though it's the safest time in history to be a cop in America.

He was facing a possible 99 year sentence in the US. If his crimes were as harmless as you state then it certainly would have been less.

Wut.

Aaron Shwartz was threatened with 35 years for what was, at worst, trespassing. That's what the Feds do - threaten draconian prison terms that would make Saudi Arabia blush in order to get people to accept plea deals, saving the prosecutor the work of having an actual trial. That's why Chelsea Manning pled to a 35 year sentence despite it being a much longer sentence than spies who sold secrets for actual money after Obama's unlawful command influence in her trial - something that has gotten other soldiers out of discharges.

It's not "racially motivated" to be against slavery.

Immigrant labor is not "slavery", and their jobs are superior to what they would be paid in Mexico, or otherwise they wouldn't come here.

The worst racists are those that justify it by saying it is "for their own good".

The worst racists justify exploitation by saying things like "it's worse where they are coming from".
Do you feel good when you cover your eyes and rationalize like that?

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Correlation is not always causation. E.g., violent crime in the US has also dropped as the rate of gun ownership has gone up over the same time period. Which one is it?

This isn't any different from pulling over all the people driving red cars because a red car was used to rob a convenience store. Unless there's more than just a car color, there's no legal cause for pulling them over.

A coupe years back, a guy robbed a bank. He took off just before the cops got there, but stopped at a red light. The police realized he was in one of the cars waiting for the red light, but with 25 cars, they had no idea which one. Should they just let all of them go because there's no legal cause to stop the innocent people in the other two dozen cars?

No, the cops did not let them go. They blocked the traffic, got dozens of officers on site, and then proceeded to search each car one at a time. Each driver was taken out and handcuffed, the car was searched for weapons and cash, and as it was cleared the cops moved to the next one. Eventually they got to the car with the bank robber, who was arrested. No shots were fired, no one was hurt.

That is what is legal in finding and arresting someone when you don't know who is the guilty one.

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