You really think the majority of Trump's base are long-term unemployed adults? Let's think about that - you think millions and millions of long-term unemployed adults with no means other than government handouts, are die-hard trump supporters cheering him on to wipe out the very programs they personally rely on to survive? Conventional wisdom is that those without other means of support tend to fall on the democratic end of the political spectrum.
It may not be a majority, but to think they don't represent some of this percentage is willful ignorance. You seem to asserting that the decisions of Trump supporters are derived from a place of logic and not from a place of emotions.
Conventional wisdom is that those without other means of support tend to fall on the democratic end of the political spectrum.
Conventional wisdom also says you probably shouldn't trust a candidate for president who isn't willing to show their tax returns when everybody else has for the last 40-or-so years or who can't string words together without sounding like a drunken homeless guy with more than a few loose marbles, but look where that got us. There are plenty of poor white racist Trump supporters out there who can blame the colored guy for doing EXACTLY WHAT THEY THEMSELVES DO, but don't see the hypocrisy.
You can't possibly be asserting that southern states like MS, NM and AL who rely heavily on financial aid and tend to always vote Republican don't have ANY Trump supporters hurting their own interests, can you? Maybe even a not-so-insignificant portion?! Oh well though... it's 2018. Words don't mean much anymore. Just keep on believing whatever I guess.
By that logic, you could argue that even if we only had one ISP in the whole USA, it would still be competitive based on comparative rates with international ISPs, right? Also have you ever lived in rural Indiana? I'm from there and I can tell you that service in those areas is nowhere near as good as the larger cities. To be competitive you have to have comparable services. Quality rural service is an afterthought to these companies because they know there are no other options.
Also, if they cared about competition, they wouldn't lobby against municipal ISPs with such vigor. They don't WANT to be competitive. When used by telecomms companies, words like "competitive" and "unlimited" are just buzz words.
You read the CNN article though before posting it, right? Which means you probably saw the line that says "The move got Trump some laughs, and a smile from Abe, who actually appeared to dump out his box of food ahead of Trump."
There's a difference between spin and falsehoods. Spin has always been a thing, but as long as they aren't lying, I would argue they can be trusted for the most part. That doesn't mean don't be skeptical of your news, but it also means you shouldn't completely dismiss the truths within because the title has a little spin. Nothing about that title is false as he did "wind up pouring his entire box of food into koi pond".
If you're going to come out swinging, at least pick a better story and Snopes article to support your beliefs.
Just because someone explains how the existing law works to you (for the first time?) doesn't mean they've expressed support for that aspect of it, try to keep up with what is actually said please.
Yeah they were so sure of their statement they posted as AC, just like you.
PROVING that is trickier. You seem more intent on trying to prove you're an asshole out to smell my balls instead, I don't know why.
Look nobody can smell what you don't have you eunuch. If you had balls you wouldn't hide behind AC and talk from high upon your pedestal.
The fact that your retort talks about another man sniffing your balls says far more about you than him. How much experience do you you have with crotch sniffing? WHY WOULD YOU EVEN SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT YOU ANONYMOUS BASTARD?!?!
And yet, the US still has a higher incident of rape per person. It's OK to leave your house once in awhile to make sure the world is still in one piece, despite whatever Fox might claim.
And there's nothing they can do to "attack the base" that is going to work short of somehow getting him to NOT put America first, and start cooperating with the globalists to F the USA and move jobs out of the country again, put everyone back on welfare that was before, etc. Not going to happen.
You know he has a lot of his own factories outside of the USA right? Guess it's a "Do what I say and not what I do" situation here.
Also what about the times where he threw American intelligence under the bus in favor of appeasing Putin? Guess it's a "good guys on both sides" situation here.
Globalists to F the USA? Alex Jones, is that you?! Yo whatup dawg. I'm right down the street from you!
Donald doesn't care, he's got all the money he needs so they cannot bribe him.
So much money that they are still working on his tax return.
And he will continue to attempt to bring jobs back from outside the country, advocate for US companies that are getting raped by Mafia-like organizations like the EU, and so forth.
LOL unless you're Amazon, Harley or somebody who gets on his bad side. Let me guess, he isn't going to start with his companies though.
This $5B is simple a "protection racket", just like the mob.
If there is anybody who knows about mob mentality, it's Trump who employed Roy Cohn who ACTUALLY represented mafia members.
What I find "funny" about this last statement is how when poor Mexicans seeking asylum are crossing the border, they're enemy #1 and separating families is "just part of doing business" because they "broke the law". When Google breaks the law, you make up excuses instead of using previous rhetoric about "breaking the law". If that's not hypocrisy, I don't know what is. Turns out, if you break the law, you get punished.
You know, as a person who pays into health insurance for others "unhealthy lifestyles" without ever taking out, I'm one of the dumbasses who wants to keep it that way. Insurance, by it's very own nature, is going to have people people who take more and those who give more. There is no way around that.
But you know, if we decided we wanted to care about other people and not just ourselves, universal healthcare would also bring about broader policies to help people get into and maintain "healthy lifestyles". With privatized healthcare, that's just not the case. No health care company is going to get you in the door preemptively to help fight against diabetes before it happens. They're more happy to let it happen and and then charge you out the ass for it because they're in the MONEY business and not the HEALTH business. It's the whole reason why we pay more per person than other nations for our precious privatized health care.
So, why did I put "healthy lifestyle" in quotes? Who's going to determine what is healthy? Certainly not you. I don't need my premiums raised if I'm a non-smoker and non-drinker just because I might be into rock climbing. Should my premiums go up because a healthy activity I find enjoyable could cost an insurance company more money? No. Fuck that noise.
If you want to stick it to the unhealthy, why not just tax the things that make an unhealthy lifestyle? Is it because you don't agree with the regulation or is it because you yourself engage in said unhealthy lifestyle from time-to-time?
What is the correlation between being poor and being unhealthy? Does it make sense that the people with the highest premiums should also be the poorest? I think not. How is a person supposed to pull themselves out of the healthcare-poverty loop? Do you just expect a large swath of the population to just get rich?
Either way, I don't think you really thought this through. I sincerely hope you get financially fucked and get into some shit situation because it seems like that's what it takes these days for people to feel empathy. Maybe you'll get a couple fingers chopped off and then you can decide which one is more important (and cheaper) so they can reattach it. Not like those chumps in Canada who would get ALL of their fingers back just for showing up. Don't they get a choice? Where is THEIR freedom? Who would assume I want all of my fingers back?! That's absurd!
Please don't use 'social "justice" idiots' anymore. You sound like my geriatric relatives who spend 83.7% of their day shouting at the TV. Regardless of what good points you've made, they get watered down by unnecessary bias tacked on at the end.
False. Bernie Sanders was telling them what they NEEDED to hear. The truth. Is it any surprise the elites want to bury annoying facts? No. Can't have some guy who is talking about sensical things to become a candidate!
Telling people what they want to hear is "I'll fix everything because I'm the best and I know all the best people." Don't even try to paint Bernie and Trump with the same brush. One of em has a color palette that is red, white and blue. The other one has one that is green, brown and orange. I'll let you figure out which palette the giant orange man who loves money and covers everything in shit uses.
Wouldn't think it would make much difference. Lobbying drives a lot of policy anyways and said corporations are still going to lobby to 3 smaller states just as they would to a single state.
The difference, of course, being that an actual human driver would have actually been watching the road (imagine that)
Where do YOU live that people are so perfect? Every day on my way home there are handfuls of assholes who can't be bothered to do the most simple things we learned in drivers education like using turn signals, looking before merging, using the left for passing, turning headlights on at night, etc. That's not including those who are preoccupied by using their cellphones, talking on the phone, watching something, focusing on a podcast or whatever else they might be doing. What makes you think a human driver wouldn't be trying to send a quick text while they think there are no traffic issues to worry about?
Fact of the matter is, in all my years of biking on the road and crossing streets illegally (whose got time for sidewalks on campus?), I haven't been hit once. I take it upon myself to ensure my own safety by not making assumptions and using the senses I was born with to accumulate data about the world going on around me. I look 2-3 times (both ways), listen to sounds, judge the relative speed and how long it would take me to cross comfortably or whether I would need to hurry it up to avoid a close call, account for visibility and night-time conditions, installing lights on not only the front and the back of the bike, but also on the spokes so you can see me from the side, I wear light-colored clothing at night, I have lights on the back of my helmet, blah blah blah.
Not only did she not have the right of way, she didn't even make any attempts to be a "good" biker or pedestrian. If she was in all black but had lights, then at least I could give her some benefit of the doubt. If an adult jumps over the fence into the den of bears at a zoo and gets eaten, do you blame the zoo for not building a fence high enough or the guy who put himself into a bad situation that could have been avoided?
I hate Uber too, but pretending this woman doesn't deserve some sort of Darwin Award is absurd.
I can forgive that you don't understand this given the 2008 Heller decision is what clearly established the individual right to bear arms. But do please try to keep up, it's been 9 years now.
Yeah because everybody should be expected to keep up with everything a court decides. Hell, if they didn't even read the dissenting opinions it's not worth talking about, right?!?!
Here's a mind-blower for you. Maybe the court decisions aren't always right? Citizens United comes to mind.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Anybody who has finished high school English with decent grades could read this sentence and tell that the founders intended for there to be a militia... you know... being necessary to protect the security of a free State. This all came on the back of breaking away from Britain. Now we pay taxes and have a police force in place of a militia. If a militia is no longer necessary to the security of a free State, maybe the 2nd amendment isn't as relevant as we all thought. In the everlasting words of Immortal Technique as it relates to what the Founding Fathers though:
But you know what the fuck I think is just pathetic and gay?
When n***** speculate what the fuck 'Pac would say
You don't know shit about a dead man's perspective
I'm all for owning a gun as an individual, FYI. It would be great though if we could have an actual argument without the gun nuts getting all uppity every time. I'm referring to just talking. But alas, they run only on emotions. It's hard to have a logical debate when somebody wants an emotional debate.
Maybe the government had it right back in the day of the Three-Fifths Clause? We had such free-thinkers back then and they knew how to write such perfect perfect laws. I mean... seriously guys... when has the government ever been wrong?!/s
Doesn't that have to do more with efficiency? It's easier to allocate resources to investigate infringing material than it is to have those resources check every piece of material that comes through. Regardless of whether it's censorship or not, that's pretty much how sites with a lot of content are going to operate.
Not even Musk was proposing one big site. He was just saying, for the sake of argument, the total amount of land required would be negligible compared to the land we have available.
Do you really think he'd risk the whole grid going down because it was all located in one site? You'd want that split up to avoid catastrophes or potential sabatoge. Also I can't imagine it's efficient to transport energy all around the country from/to one site.
That being said, 10000 square miles really is nothing compared to the 3.797 million square miles we have.
I don't know anything about either of those projects, but they don't seem very important in the grand scheme of things. I can understand why the city wouldn't focus on them. They also sound like they are relatively small projects so it would be easy to throw money at and fix it if you set your mind to it. It's not like Trump has any special gift. Just money.
How long has it taken him to build the wall? What? He hasn't started?!?! Looks like he isn't up to the task of handling every project.
No. We just elected a president whose existence is predicated upon lies. I'm not saying nobody else lies (everybody does to some degree or another), but if we can put trust in somebody who says things that are verifiably false, like how much more popular his inauguration was vs Obama's, how do we expect "truth" to become a norm?
At one point politicians at least tried to spin the truth to fit their agenda. Now they've figured out lies and heated emotions carry more weight than facts and level-headedness. Finger-pointing works wonders. "That Mexican took my jerb!!!!!!!!!"
And I take it that neither have you, because if you knew of any evidence, you would need to accuse Russia of attempting democracy and freedom of speech.
LOL. Would you say the Westboro Baptist Church is also promoting democracy and freedom of speech? I hope not. Just because they are using free speech and the freedoms democracy has given them to spout their hate, there is no way they are promoting anything but hate. Same goes for Russia. Don't you dare refer to Russia's assassinations of political opponents, state-run media, persecution of gays, etc. as "attempting democracy and freedom of speech".
Correct, but those mails were released to the public, so they could see who they were really voting for. Allowing people to know who they are voting for is an important part of something called "democracy".
Democracy had nothing to do with the release of the e-mails and you're ignorant if you think so. If it was about democracy and transparency, then we might have seen Trump's tax return. Or maybe investigations spurred by all the women coming forth with accusations. Even before this most recent election, you had claims that Obama was Muslim or not born in the US and constant investigations into Hillary and Libya.
None of that had to do with democracy. It's all about advancing one party at any costs, whether immoral or not. They don't care for you any more than they do about democracy. Unless of course, it happens to align with what they want.
If you don't have 100% control over the money, then by default it is somebody else's business.
It's like saying nobody has the right to know how much money is in your bank account. Well, I beg to differ. Employees at the bank DO have the right to know considering they are part of the equation. Nobody is stopping you from buying gold and storing it in a safe in your closet.
That's not very suave of you. You lost the argument before you even tried.
200 years ago, everyone was completely on their own regarding healthcare. 100 years ago, it was family and trading a chicken for some care. STFU and be thankful for the advances since then, you don't deserve the benefit.
Good thing it's not 200 years ago or even 100 years ago. Hell, 100 years ago we didn't have computers. Should I be eternally grateful and let people shit all over my need to use a computer because people lived without it 100 or even 200 years ago? No. Times change, just like technology and medicine. You can go kindly fuck yourself.
Nice plug and antecdote. We all have them and yours is no different. I've moved about every three years since I was five due to being a military brat. Hands down, every location I've been, whether it's Texas, Georgia, Germany, etc. has always had a better USPS than UPS.
I'm glad you've got everything figured out in bumfuck Iowa, but you should probably get more data points for your stellar insights into the package industry.
Because Elon needed something to do and was bored. Are we REALLY at the point where people are shitting on NASA because we hate the government so much we can't differentiate one part from another?
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
Should it be obligatory though? What I believe you're implying by providing this quote is that it's better to keep the fox (robber baron) in the hen house with the hens because even if he does wreak havoc (cruelty), eventually he will be satiated for a bit (may sometimes sleep), than it is for the farmer (omnipotent moral busybodies) to enclose the hen house with a fence to keep said fox out and the hens safe (tormenting them for their own good), correct? I like books too, but quotes are not infallible.
Speech argument aside, I don't think caring about the environment or wanting to make sure people are healthy enough to be productive individuals of society could be considered authoritarian, fascist or totalitarian.
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You really think the majority of Trump's base are long-term unemployed adults? Let's think about that - you think millions and millions of long-term unemployed adults with no means other than government handouts, are die-hard trump supporters cheering him on to wipe out the very programs they personally rely on to survive? Conventional wisdom is that those without other means of support tend to fall on the democratic end of the political spectrum.
It may not be a majority, but to think they don't represent some of this percentage is willful ignorance. You seem to asserting that the decisions of Trump supporters are derived from a place of logic and not from a place of emotions.
Conventional wisdom is that those without other means of support tend to fall on the democratic end of the political spectrum.
Conventional wisdom also says you probably shouldn't trust a candidate for president who isn't willing to show their tax returns when everybody else has for the last 40-or-so years or who can't string words together without sounding like a drunken homeless guy with more than a few loose marbles, but look where that got us. There are plenty of poor white racist Trump supporters out there who can blame the colored guy for doing EXACTLY WHAT THEY THEMSELVES DO, but don't see the hypocrisy.
You can't possibly be asserting that southern states like MS, NM and AL who rely heavily on financial aid and tend to always vote Republican don't have ANY Trump supporters hurting their own interests, can you? Maybe even a not-so-insignificant portion?! Oh well though ... it's 2018. Words don't mean much anymore. Just keep on believing whatever I guess.
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By that logic, you could argue that even if we only had one ISP in the whole USA, it would still be competitive based on comparative rates with international ISPs, right? Also have you ever lived in rural Indiana? I'm from there and I can tell you that service in those areas is nowhere near as good as the larger cities. To be competitive you have to have comparable services. Quality rural service is an afterthought to these companies because they know there are no other options.
Also, if they cared about competition, they wouldn't lobby against municipal ISPs with such vigor. They don't WANT to be competitive. When used by telecomms companies, words like "competitive" and "unlimited" are just buzz words.
You read the CNN article though before posting it, right? Which means you probably saw the line that says "The move got Trump some laughs, and a smile from Abe, who actually appeared to dump out his box of food ahead of Trump."
There's a difference between spin and falsehoods. Spin has always been a thing, but as long as they aren't lying, I would argue they can be trusted for the most part. That doesn't mean don't be skeptical of your news, but it also means you shouldn't completely dismiss the truths within because the title has a little spin. Nothing about that title is false as he did "wind up pouring his entire box of food into koi pond".
If you're going to come out swinging, at least pick a better story and Snopes article to support your beliefs.
Just because someone explains how the existing law works to you (for the first time?) doesn't mean they've expressed support for that aspect of it, try to keep up with what is actually said please.
Yeah they were so sure of their statement they posted as AC, just like you.
PROVING that is trickier. You seem more intent on trying to prove you're an asshole out to smell my balls instead, I don't know why.
Look nobody can smell what you don't have you eunuch. If you had balls you wouldn't hide behind AC and talk from high upon your pedestal. The fact that your retort talks about another man sniffing your balls says far more about you than him. How much experience do you you have with crotch sniffing? WHY WOULD YOU EVEN SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT YOU ANONYMOUS BASTARD?!?!
And yet, the US still has a higher incident of rape per person. It's OK to leave your house once in awhile to make sure the world is still in one piece, despite whatever Fox might claim.
And there's nothing they can do to "attack the base" that is going to work short of somehow getting him to NOT put America first, and start cooperating with the globalists to F the USA and move jobs out of the country again, put everyone back on welfare that was before, etc. Not going to happen.
You know he has a lot of his own factories outside of the USA right? Guess it's a "Do what I say and not what I do" situation here.
Also what about the times where he threw American intelligence under the bus in favor of appeasing Putin? Guess it's a "good guys on both sides" situation here.
Globalists to F the USA? Alex Jones, is that you?! Yo whatup dawg. I'm right down the street from you!
Donald doesn't care, he's got all the money he needs so they cannot bribe him.
So much money that they are still working on his tax return.
And he will continue to attempt to bring jobs back from outside the country, advocate for US companies that are getting raped by Mafia-like organizations like the EU, and so forth.
LOL unless you're Amazon, Harley or somebody who gets on his bad side. Let me guess, he isn't going to start with his companies though.
This $5B is simple a "protection racket", just like the mob.
If there is anybody who knows about mob mentality, it's Trump who employed Roy Cohn who ACTUALLY represented mafia members.
What I find "funny" about this last statement is how when poor Mexicans seeking asylum are crossing the border, they're enemy #1 and separating families is "just part of doing business" because they "broke the law". When Google breaks the law, you make up excuses instead of using previous rhetoric about "breaking the law". If that's not hypocrisy, I don't know what is. Turns out, if you break the law, you get punished.
You know, as a person who pays into health insurance for others "unhealthy lifestyles" without ever taking out, I'm one of the dumbasses who wants to keep it that way. Insurance, by it's very own nature, is going to have people people who take more and those who give more. There is no way around that.
But you know, if we decided we wanted to care about other people and not just ourselves, universal healthcare would also bring about broader policies to help people get into and maintain "healthy lifestyles". With privatized healthcare, that's just not the case. No health care company is going to get you in the door preemptively to help fight against diabetes before it happens. They're more happy to let it happen and and then charge you out the ass for it because they're in the MONEY business and not the HEALTH business. It's the whole reason why we pay more per person than other nations for our precious privatized health care.
So, why did I put "healthy lifestyle" in quotes? Who's going to determine what is healthy? Certainly not you. I don't need my premiums raised if I'm a non-smoker and non-drinker just because I might be into rock climbing. Should my premiums go up because a healthy activity I find enjoyable could cost an insurance company more money? No. Fuck that noise.
If you want to stick it to the unhealthy, why not just tax the things that make an unhealthy lifestyle? Is it because you don't agree with the regulation or is it because you yourself engage in said unhealthy lifestyle from time-to-time?
What is the correlation between being poor and being unhealthy? Does it make sense that the people with the highest premiums should also be the poorest? I think not. How is a person supposed to pull themselves out of the healthcare-poverty loop? Do you just expect a large swath of the population to just get rich?
Either way, I don't think you really thought this through. I sincerely hope you get financially fucked and get into some shit situation because it seems like that's what it takes these days for people to feel empathy. Maybe you'll get a couple fingers chopped off and then you can decide which one is more important (and cheaper) so they can reattach it. Not like those chumps in Canada who would get ALL of their fingers back just for showing up. Don't they get a choice? Where is THEIR freedom? Who would assume I want all of my fingers back?! That's absurd!
Please don't use 'social "justice" idiots' anymore. You sound like my geriatric relatives who spend 83.7% of their day shouting at the TV. Regardless of what good points you've made, they get watered down by unnecessary bias tacked on at the end.
False. Bernie Sanders was telling them what they NEEDED to hear. The truth. Is it any surprise the elites want to bury annoying facts? No. Can't have some guy who is talking about sensical things to become a candidate!
Telling people what they want to hear is "I'll fix everything because I'm the best and I know all the best people." Don't even try to paint Bernie and Trump with the same brush. One of em has a color palette that is red, white and blue. The other one has one that is green, brown and orange. I'll let you figure out which palette the giant orange man who loves money and covers everything in shit uses.
Wouldn't think it would make much difference. Lobbying drives a lot of policy anyways and said corporations are still going to lobby to 3 smaller states just as they would to a single state.
It's always the overly emotional people who post anonymously, isn't it?
The difference, of course, being that an actual human driver would have actually been watching the road (imagine that)
Where do YOU live that people are so perfect? Every day on my way home there are handfuls of assholes who can't be bothered to do the most simple things we learned in drivers education like using turn signals, looking before merging, using the left for passing, turning headlights on at night, etc. That's not including those who are preoccupied by using their cellphones, talking on the phone, watching something, focusing on a podcast or whatever else they might be doing. What makes you think a human driver wouldn't be trying to send a quick text while they think there are no traffic issues to worry about?
Fact of the matter is, in all my years of biking on the road and crossing streets illegally (whose got time for sidewalks on campus?), I haven't been hit once. I take it upon myself to ensure my own safety by not making assumptions and using the senses I was born with to accumulate data about the world going on around me. I look 2-3 times (both ways), listen to sounds, judge the relative speed and how long it would take me to cross comfortably or whether I would need to hurry it up to avoid a close call, account for visibility and night-time conditions, installing lights on not only the front and the back of the bike, but also on the spokes so you can see me from the side, I wear light-colored clothing at night, I have lights on the back of my helmet, blah blah blah.
Not only did she not have the right of way, she didn't even make any attempts to be a "good" biker or pedestrian. If she was in all black but had lights, then at least I could give her some benefit of the doubt. If an adult jumps over the fence into the den of bears at a zoo and gets eaten, do you blame the zoo for not building a fence high enough or the guy who put himself into a bad situation that could have been avoided?
I hate Uber too, but pretending this woman doesn't deserve some sort of Darwin Award is absurd.
I can forgive that you don't understand this given the 2008 Heller decision is what clearly established the individual right to bear arms. But do please try to keep up, it's been 9 years now.
Yeah because everybody should be expected to keep up with everything a court decides. Hell, if they didn't even read the dissenting opinions it's not worth talking about, right?!?!
Here's a mind-blower for you. Maybe the court decisions aren't always right? Citizens United comes to mind.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Anybody who has finished high school English with decent grades could read this sentence and tell that the founders intended for there to be a militia ... you know ... being necessary to protect the security of a free State. This all came on the back of breaking away from Britain. Now we pay taxes and have a police force in place of a militia. If a militia is no longer necessary to the security of a free State, maybe the 2nd amendment isn't as relevant as we all thought. In the everlasting words of Immortal Technique as it relates to what the Founding Fathers though:
But you know what the fuck I think is just pathetic and gay?
When n***** speculate what the fuck 'Pac would say
You don't know shit about a dead man's perspective
I'm all for owning a gun as an individual, FYI. It would be great though if we could have an actual argument without the gun nuts getting all uppity every time. I'm referring to just talking. But alas, they run only on emotions. It's hard to have a logical debate when somebody wants an emotional debate.
Maybe the government had it right back in the day of the Three-Fifths Clause? We had such free-thinkers back then and they knew how to write such perfect perfect laws. I mean ... seriously guys ... when has the government ever been wrong?! /s
Doesn't that have to do more with efficiency? It's easier to allocate resources to investigate infringing material than it is to have those resources check every piece of material that comes through. Regardless of whether it's censorship or not, that's pretty much how sites with a lot of content are going to operate.
Not even Musk was proposing one big site. He was just saying, for the sake of argument, the total amount of land required would be negligible compared to the land we have available.
Do you really think he'd risk the whole grid going down because it was all located in one site? You'd want that split up to avoid catastrophes or potential sabatoge. Also I can't imagine it's efficient to transport energy all around the country from/to one site.
That being said, 10000 square miles really is nothing compared to the 3.797 million square miles we have.
I don't know anything about either of those projects, but they don't seem very important in the grand scheme of things. I can understand why the city wouldn't focus on them. They also sound like they are relatively small projects so it would be easy to throw money at and fix it if you set your mind to it. It's not like Trump has any special gift. Just money.
How long has it taken him to build the wall? What? He hasn't started?!?! Looks like he isn't up to the task of handling every project.
I would still rather deal with trolls than bots. At least trolls have to put in some effort, even if it's low.
No. We just elected a president whose existence is predicated upon lies. I'm not saying nobody else lies (everybody does to some degree or another), but if we can put trust in somebody who says things that are verifiably false, like how much more popular his inauguration was vs Obama's, how do we expect "truth" to become a norm?
At one point politicians at least tried to spin the truth to fit their agenda. Now they've figured out lies and heated emotions carry more weight than facts and level-headedness. Finger-pointing works wonders. "That Mexican took my jerb!!!!!!!!!"
And I take it that neither have you, because if you knew of any evidence, you would need to accuse Russia of attempting democracy and freedom of speech.
LOL. Would you say the Westboro Baptist Church is also promoting democracy and freedom of speech? I hope not. Just because they are using free speech and the freedoms democracy has given them to spout their hate, there is no way they are promoting anything but hate. Same goes for Russia. Don't you dare refer to Russia's assassinations of political opponents, state-run media, persecution of gays, etc. as "attempting democracy and freedom of speech".
Correct, but those mails were released to the public, so they could see who they were really voting for. Allowing people to know who they are voting for is an important part of something called "democracy".
Democracy had nothing to do with the release of the e-mails and you're ignorant if you think so. If it was about democracy and transparency, then we might have seen Trump's tax return. Or maybe investigations spurred by all the women coming forth with accusations. Even before this most recent election, you had claims that Obama was Muslim or not born in the US and constant investigations into Hillary and Libya.
None of that had to do with democracy. It's all about advancing one party at any costs, whether immoral or not. They don't care for you any more than they do about democracy. Unless of course, it happens to align with what they want.
If you don't have 100% control over the money, then by default it is somebody else's business.
It's like saying nobody has the right to know how much money is in your bank account. Well, I beg to differ. Employees at the bank DO have the right to know considering they are part of the equation. Nobody is stopping you from buying gold and storing it in a safe in your closet.
Hey guys, get a load of this. The guy who said "most richest men" called one of the richest men stupid!
Eat shit and die.
That's not very suave of you. You lost the argument before you even tried.
200 years ago, everyone was completely on their own regarding healthcare. 100 years ago, it was family and trading a chicken for some care. STFU and be thankful for the advances since then, you don't deserve the benefit.
Good thing it's not 200 years ago or even 100 years ago. Hell, 100 years ago we didn't have computers. Should I be eternally grateful and let people shit all over my need to use a computer because people lived without it 100 or even 200 years ago? No. Times change, just like technology and medicine. You can go kindly fuck yourself.
Nice plug and antecdote. We all have them and yours is no different. I've moved about every three years since I was five due to being a military brat. Hands down, every location I've been, whether it's Texas, Georgia, Germany, etc. has always had a better USPS than UPS. I'm glad you've got everything figured out in bumfuck Iowa, but you should probably get more data points for your stellar insights into the package industry.
Because Elon needed something to do and was bored. Are we REALLY at the point where people are shitting on NASA because we hate the government so much we can't differentiate one part from another?
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
Should it be obligatory though? What I believe you're implying by providing this quote is that it's better to keep the fox (robber baron) in the hen house with the hens because even if he does wreak havoc (cruelty), eventually he will be satiated for a bit (may sometimes sleep), than it is for the farmer (omnipotent moral busybodies) to enclose the hen house with a fence to keep said fox out and the hens safe (tormenting them for their own good), correct? I like books too, but quotes are not infallible.
Speech argument aside, I don't think caring about the environment or wanting to make sure people are healthy enough to be productive individuals of society could be considered authoritarian, fascist or totalitarian.