Sounds like the Jews. They whine about their enslavement for half of their religious calendar. Yet they don't seem to be trapped by the idea of once being slaves.
On the other hand, there is a thriving black middle class that liberals don't want to acknowledge. Like Asians, it interferes with the narrative.
I'm not sure what value rebel songs and marinara recipes have when it comes to taking responsibility for yourself and going out and accomplishing something. A lot of Americans have no clue about their ethnic heritage. Plenty of people are broke regardless.
> Check out how many houses have been taken under foreclosures for terms of oppressive mortgages(and even fraudulently filed mortgages),
You mean someone got a mortgage they couldn't handle because the rules were relaxed? You can blame the banker for writing a junk mortgage but that still doesn't get the consumer off the hook for their own stupidity.
We're all adults here. That includes taking responsibility for your own stupitidy.
> Yeah, that stuff happens. We don't notice when we make 50% of what we should because of the totality of white collar crime or other aristocratic bullshit.
You want people to really rob you? Then try communism. Under communism, doctors and engineers made less than retail clerks.
Even under socialism-lite, you end up with less effective income and severe material compromises.
> If you take the ethical and legal theories under which underpin intellectual property seriously,
What makes you think the rest of us do?
I view copyright laws as strictly a means to an end. You have no natural right to boss other people around when it comes to your work. Your legal monopoly should be VERY temporary and exists only as a means to and end.
Namely you making stuff.
Beyond that, I don't give a rats ass about your little temper tantrum.
If you want to engage in artistic megalomania, I would rather you never bothered.
I remember when progressives defended them. There was a time when they actually believed in liberty and equality. They didn't pick and choose who they thought were "worthy".
"Hate speech" simply isn't a bogey-man for conservatives like it is for liberals. If Fox does complain in this manner, I would expect them to use different terminology to suit their audience and their hangups.
It's liberals that primarily want to censor based on their perception of "hate" or "bigotry".
He's a jackass. His "red state" example was obviously from some sort of fair or festival with a bunch of carnie food booths. Fairs are like that everywhere, not just red states. European carnie food is probably like that too.
anti-smoking prevention? You must be joking. Smoking rates for Europe and Japan are MUCH higher than the US. It amazes me that that doesn't translate to worse outcomes. I suspect it does and nobody wants to admit it.
There really isn't anything wrong with American food labeling. It's quite good actually. It's just that Americans don't actually want to bother. "Better" labeling won't help. It will just get ignored like the old labeling.
You have to add a LOT of salt to a real recipe to get it to resemble anything pre-packaged or bought at a restaurant. If you cook for yourself, "normal" people tend to think you're on some sort of radical low salt diet.
Sometimes I need to consume extra electrolytes if I drink too much water to flush down my daily pharmacy with.
I certainly wasn't planning on replacing my own primary TV any time soon and it wasn't even that expensive. I also don't relish the idea of wasting an input either. I already have plenty of stuff hooked up to it.
I certainly don't want to waste an entire input on "emergency TV" viewing.
Some of the controls on newer smart TVs are just insane. They're like the guys at Apple decided to take acid. Very bad attempts at being Apple-esque.
It sound like the person didn't retire. They fled the profession for some reason. Likely some nonsense driven by government meddling. I know multiple doctors that want to retire because of Obamacare. Those "good intentions" led to interesting variations of hell in some states. It should be a case study on unintended consequences.
No health person wants to retire at 40, even if they can.
If I spent all that time being able to treat your sorry ass, I would want to be rich too. They are the most highly trained people in our society and you want to stiff them. You wonder why some of us resist the idea of socialized medicine.
Residents on strike. Nurses paid like burger flippers. Not enough hospital beds. Wait lists for cat scans. Wait lists for hip surgery. Wait lists for HEART surgery.
These shared services sound like nothing more than anything else that would be on the first floor of high rise apartment blocks in a big city. The only difference here is that there's a cohesive management plan.
It's like a master planned community for apartments.
> Plan A: Build a Wall. > > Plan B: Make it so no-one want to come here.
The wall is actually already there. Trump just wants to add to it.
That's the problem with this kind of thing. There's a remarkable degree of ignorance here that is easily exploited by anyone out to push a particular narrative.
This ignorance is encouraged by those very people that are supposed to be informing us.
You haven't managed to control for all the potential variables. Your response to being told this is screaming like a toddler with your fingers in your ears.
This kind of response is why illegals enter the discussion. You've gone from sane policies to pretty much implying that we should have no borders at all. You seem to be pretty close to implying that.
We could deport every illegal in the country tomorrow and that would still not impact the openness of our borders with regards to the legal immigrants we allow in.
That's especially true for foreign students.
Even in the worst Trump nightmare scenario we still have plenty of people interested in taking advantage of what America has to offer. The only real problem is how liberals in the media spin it. Are they going to trash a Republican or give a Democrat a free pass.
It's pretty much all the same. The only real difference is the date on the calendar. That even includes the wall (which was already started by previous administrations).
Obama even had a big immigration raid to his credit that made him look like Himmler. The media just doesn't talk about it much.
Travelers? What deranged nonsense. This kind of constant bullshit is what dissuades people. Trump can only say so much by himself. It takes a concerted effort by a much larger cabal of screeching idiots in order to dissuade people.
Bus routes are NEVER convenient. They become LESS convenient the more crowded they become. Have you actually ridden a bus ever in your life? They're all the same. Doesn't matter if it's Moscow, Madrid, or Peoria.
Busses are so bad that you can fight the traffic and still come out ahead.
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Sounds like the Jews. They whine about their enslavement for half of their religious calendar. Yet they don't seem to be trapped by the idea of once being slaves.
On the other hand, there is a thriving black middle class that liberals don't want to acknowledge. Like Asians, it interferes with the narrative.
I'm not sure what value rebel songs and marinara recipes have when it comes to taking responsibility for yourself and going out and accomplishing something. A lot of Americans have no clue about their ethnic heritage. Plenty of people are broke regardless.
> Check out how many houses have been taken under foreclosures for terms of oppressive mortgages(and even fraudulently filed mortgages),
You mean someone got a mortgage they couldn't handle because the rules were relaxed? You can blame the banker for writing a junk mortgage but that still doesn't get the consumer off the hook for their own stupidity.
We're all adults here. That includes taking responsibility for your own stupitidy.
> Yeah, that stuff happens. We don't notice when we make 50% of what we should because of the totality of white collar crime or other aristocratic bullshit.
You want people to really rob you? Then try communism. Under communism, doctors and engineers made less than retail clerks.
Even under socialism-lite, you end up with less effective income and severe material compromises.
> The only part of crime that matters is the dollar amount, silly!
Says someone that's never ever had to worry about violent crime or been a victim of same.
If you think you "know" anything, you have no clue about how science works.
> If you take the ethical and legal theories under which underpin intellectual property seriously,
What makes you think the rest of us do?
I view copyright laws as strictly a means to an end. You have no natural right to boss other people around when it comes to your work. Your legal monopoly should be VERY temporary and exists only as a means to and end.
Namely you making stuff.
Beyond that, I don't give a rats ass about your little temper tantrum.
If you want to engage in artistic megalomania, I would rather you never bothered.
> While I don't know about 'progressives'
"It's OK to punch a Nazi."
I remember when progressives defended them. There was a time when they actually believed in liberty and equality. They didn't pick and choose who they thought were "worthy".
> Because it shows that the poster's conception of free speech is broken.
No it doesn't. It's just a strawman.
"Hate speech" simply isn't a bogey-man for conservatives like it is for liberals. If Fox does complain in this manner, I would expect them to use different terminology to suit their audience and their hangups.
It's liberals that primarily want to censor based on their perception of "hate" or "bigotry".
He's a jackass. His "red state" example was obviously from some sort of fair or festival with a bunch of carnie food booths. Fairs are like that everywhere, not just red states. European carnie food is probably like that too.
You're pushing a false dichotomy and it's bullshit.
You can let "loose on" special occasions without completely destroying the efficacy of your normal routine.
anti-smoking prevention? You must be joking. Smoking rates for Europe and Japan are MUCH higher than the US. It amazes me that that doesn't translate to worse outcomes. I suspect it does and nobody wants to admit it.
There really isn't anything wrong with American food labeling. It's quite good actually. It's just that Americans don't actually want to bother. "Better" labeling won't help. It will just get ignored like the old labeling.
You have to add a LOT of salt to a real recipe to get it to resemble anything pre-packaged or bought at a restaurant. If you cook for yourself, "normal" people tend to think you're on some sort of radical low salt diet.
Sometimes I need to consume extra electrolytes if I drink too much water to flush down my daily pharmacy with.
If you think a Hillary administration would have don't any different, I have some beach front property in the Caribbean to sell you.
I certainly wasn't planning on replacing my own primary TV any time soon and it wasn't even that expensive. I also don't relish the idea of wasting an input either. I already have plenty of stuff hooked up to it.
I certainly don't want to waste an entire input on "emergency TV" viewing.
Some of the controls on newer smart TVs are just insane. They're like the guys at Apple decided to take acid. Very bad attempts at being Apple-esque.
It sound like the person didn't retire. They fled the profession for some reason. Likely some nonsense driven by government meddling. I know multiple doctors that want to retire because of Obamacare. Those "good intentions" led to interesting variations of hell in some states. It should be a case study on unintended consequences.
No health person wants to retire at 40, even if they can.
If I spent all that time being able to treat your sorry ass, I would want to be rich too. They are the most highly trained people in our society and you want to stiff them. You wonder why some of us resist the idea of socialized medicine.
Residents on strike. Nurses paid like burger flippers. Not enough hospital beds. Wait lists for cat scans. Wait lists for hip surgery. Wait lists for HEART surgery.
California has more than it's share of layabouts and ghetto.
An old and tired argument. You sound like Swedes trying to kid themselves that they aren't miserable.
Companies flee California for a reason. So do the residents.
These shared services sound like nothing more than anything else that would be on the first floor of high rise apartment blocks in a big city. The only difference here is that there's a cohesive management plan.
It's like a master planned community for apartments.
> Plan A: Build a Wall.
>
> Plan B: Make it so no-one want to come here.
The wall is actually already there. Trump just wants to add to it.
That's the problem with this kind of thing. There's a remarkable degree of ignorance here that is easily exploited by anyone out to push a particular narrative.
This ignorance is encouraged by those very people that are supposed to be informing us.
> Whataboutism!
You haven't managed to control for all the potential variables. Your response to being told this is screaming like a toddler with your fingers in your ears.
You're clearly not one of the best and brightest.
This kind of response is why illegals enter the discussion. You've gone from sane policies to pretty much implying that we should have no borders at all. You seem to be pretty close to implying that.
We could deport every illegal in the country tomorrow and that would still not impact the openness of our borders with regards to the legal immigrants we allow in.
That's especially true for foreign students.
Even in the worst Trump nightmare scenario we still have plenty of people interested in taking advantage of what America has to offer. The only real problem is how liberals in the media spin it. Are they going to trash a Republican or give a Democrat a free pass.
It's pretty much all the same. The only real difference is the date on the calendar. That even includes the wall (which was already started by previous administrations).
Obama even had a big immigration raid to his credit that made him look like Himmler. The media just doesn't talk about it much.
Travelers? What deranged nonsense. This kind of constant bullshit is what dissuades people. Trump can only say so much by himself. It takes a concerted effort by a much larger cabal of screeching idiots in order to dissuade people.
Bus routes are NEVER convenient. They become LESS convenient the more crowded they become. Have you actually ridden a bus ever in your life? They're all the same. Doesn't matter if it's Moscow, Madrid, or Peoria.
Busses are so bad that you can fight the traffic and still come out ahead.