The problem is that Corporations are given a right that people do not have. Very large personal donations must be disclosed and are a matter of public record. Very large corporate donations are anonymous. You see the difference here? And in the case of corporate donations, they are not a group coming together for a common political purpose, but are instead thrust together for varied economic purposes.
If a corporation donates to a political cause anonymously... The shareholders can not vote their outrage at board meetings. The shareholders can not dump their stock. The employees can not quit their jobs. Their customers can not boycott their products. It allows a very small minority within the corporation to spend the money of other people for political cause without repercussion. This specifically disenfranchises the political and economic freedom of multitudes of individuals in very real ways.
Money is not speech and corporations are not people. Citizens United is an abomination.
The thing is, the ACLU does not consider the right to bear arms to BE a civil liberties. They are wrong about that, but within the context of that perspective they are not ignoring it.
Citizens United? WTF. Corporations are not people, supporting Citizens United actually harms the liberties of actual people.
Actually... the ACLU does not defend the 2nd amendment. They view it as a right to form a militia, not as a right for private citizens to own firearms.
Now, the ACLU does a ton of other great stuff, but they are not perfect.
Inexplicably? The 2nd amendment is the only amendment affecting the profitability of a single specific industry. There is money in gun sales... Not so much in the other amendments.
So... you are suggesting that the god described in the bible... is Satan? Or am I misinterpreting you?
The bible clearly shows god actively committing genocide in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, as well as the biblical flood. The bible clearly shows god playing loyalty games by demanding he sacrifice his son. The bible clearly shows god sending bears to maul and kill children who insulted a prophet by calling him old and bald. The bible clearly shows god demanding genocide and the sexual slavery of children in the conquest of Canaan where every man, boy and adult woman were to be slain and the virgin girls distributed among the priests and warriors as a reward. Those are just a few examples. I am sorry, but anyone who would bow before and worship that monstrosity, even out of fear, is unworthy of being called a good and moral person.
I don't have to confront those religions every single day of my life. So I don't put nearly as much effort into deconstructing them. Though I have studied Hinduism a bit more than the others (as if my nickname wasn't evidence of that) and its pretty much the same bullshit.
I don't have to rely on my own admittedly horrific personal experiences with religion to call god a vile monster. Reading the bible on my own and in its entirety is what finally showed me the immorality of god itself and set me on a path to find something better to base my life on. I am correct based on the evidence.
If you accept that the bible is literal truth, and most Christians do or at least claim to, then the thing it calls god is a monster. It displays the behaviors of a psychopath. Commits wonton acts of violence and destruction for the smallest of perceived slights. Commits genocide, repeatedly, sometimes on a global scale. Sends bears to maul and kill children for calling a prophet an old bald man. Endorses the rape of women and the sexual slavery of children. Its all laid out in plain and simple terms throughout the text.
I did worship that god as a child. I grew up in an Independent Fundamentalist Baptist household. I grew up knowing that humanity was unworthy of existing and that if I prayed hard enough, perhaps god would rain fire from the sky and purge humanity from the world. I also grew up in a house where my father very intentionally placed himself in a position where he would be able to do that very thing, to put his finger on the nuclear launch button within the USAF:SAC.
Part of the reason many "Christians" are "Good" while they worship an unquestionably evil god is that their faith demands obedience and submission, and the demand for horror and destruction from the christian power structure isn't as common as it once was. This is not universal, and the trend is rapidly reversing. The selection pressure on variants within the memetic parasite population of religions are not constant. It only takes one particularly viral mutation to turn the whole thing into a potential catastrophe.
Unless we live on multiple planets all of humanity will die with nearly absolute certainty unless we can figure out a way to stop our sun from expanding at the conclusion of the hydrogen fusion life cycle.
I for one am critical of Christianity because your own holy book describes a vile and evil god who inflicts uncountable horrors on mankind, and you dare to bow before his monstrosity and give praise to his sins. Your god is personally responsible for genocide, murder, arguably rape and countless other crimes against humanity. And that is not even counting the crimes committed on his command by his prophets, praised by the leaders of his faith or by his followers in his name.
Of course I am also critical of ALL religion because it is nothing more than a memetic parasite that infests and corrupts the human mind and subverts free will through the use of brain washing and mental degradation. And in some cases, these religions pose an existential threat to the long term survival of humanity.
Thankfully sadism will save the human race. Its not as fun to torture and enslave robots. Therefore there will always be a place for us working class chattel among the elite.
It costs my family over $800 a month for food and basic consumables (toilet paper, soap, etc), and that is for only the equivalent of 3.5 people. That is without eating out. And they are not even eating well, the bulk of their food consists of plain white rice and the cheapest cut of chicken possible. They can't afford even bread or ground beef regularly anymore.
The Model S is not meant to be comparable to a bottom of the line Hyundai. Neither are the top end Audi and BMW in the same class of the Model S.
The Nissan Leaf is a lot closer, coming in as low as $21k (after tax rebates), and still offers range in excess of the regular needs of 90% of the population.
You can: a: run an extension chord out your window to trickle charge. b: demand that you get metered outlets on the street. c: use a rapid charging service. d: demand that your employer offer charging in the employee parking lot as an employment perk. e: move. f: recognize that you are still greatly outnumbered by all the people that do have access to overnight power reasonably close to where they park their car because they don't live in low rent housing projects.
The demand for electric cars is already here, and the market is growing now.
90% of drivers require a range greater than 50 miles less than once or twice a year.
The perceived necessity of range is largely a product of applied psychology (propaganda).
The first vehicle (daily commuter) of almost every household could easily be electric with current tech (with range less than a Tesla). Single vehicle households can supplement with rental vehicles on rare occasions where long distance travel is necessary.
I am going to go with... no. 0.14 to 0.25 ppm is a ridiculously low concentration. And its going to be mixed up with the much more common sodium and potassium if you are trying to chemically separate it.
Possibly. But I am not confidant that there would be enough people willing to work enough to pay enough taxes to provide a poverty level stipend to every household in America given our currently incomplete state of automation.
For example: the official inflation since then is about 16fold. The average cost of rent, basic food and gasoline since 1938 has increased by around 40 fold. Education and medical care costs have increased even more.
The calculated inflation rate does not match the actual inflation rate for the basic requirements of life. Low end rent, food, transportation, medical care and education have all expanded at rates VASTLY higher than the standard inflation rate. In practice this would place the minimum wage near $18.
The government should offer basic insurance coverage to every American. Private insurance companies would still have the option to compete for premium services.
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The problem is that Corporations are given a right that people do not have. Very large personal donations must be disclosed and are a matter of public record. Very large corporate donations are anonymous. You see the difference here? And in the case of corporate donations, they are not a group coming together for a common political purpose, but are instead thrust together for varied economic purposes.
If a corporation donates to a political cause anonymously... The shareholders can not vote their outrage at board meetings. The shareholders can not dump their stock. The employees can not quit their jobs. Their customers can not boycott their products. It allows a very small minority within the corporation to spend the money of other people for political cause without repercussion. This specifically disenfranchises the political and economic freedom of multitudes of individuals in very real ways.
Money is not speech and corporations are not people. Citizens United is an abomination.
The thing is, the ACLU does not consider the right to bear arms to BE a civil liberties. They are wrong about that, but within the context of that perspective they are not ignoring it.
Citizens United? WTF. Corporations are not people, supporting Citizens United actually harms the liberties of actual people.
That is admittedly better than how the NRA counts to 10... 2.
Actually... the ACLU does not defend the 2nd amendment. They view it as a right to form a militia, not as a right for private citizens to own firearms.
Now, the ACLU does a ton of other great stuff, but they are not perfect.
I've actually donated to both organizations. Though the ACLU generally does much more good than the NRA.
Inexplicably? The 2nd amendment is the only amendment affecting the profitability of a single specific industry. There is money in gun sales... Not so much in the other amendments.
yes, they will tell that lie. Someone just needs to be able to stand up to them in a court to get that changed.
Paypal has no right to withhold funds on demand of this information, that money belongs to the organization.
Its a prime example of what banks would try to get away with if they were not subject to strict regulation.
So... you are suggesting that the god described in the bible... is Satan? Or am I misinterpreting you?
The bible clearly shows god actively committing genocide in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, as well as the biblical flood.
The bible clearly shows god playing loyalty games by demanding he sacrifice his son.
The bible clearly shows god sending bears to maul and kill children who insulted a prophet by calling him old and bald.
The bible clearly shows god demanding genocide and the sexual slavery of children in the conquest of Canaan where every man, boy and adult woman were to be slain and the virgin girls distributed among the priests and warriors as a reward.
Those are just a few examples. I am sorry, but anyone who would bow before and worship that monstrosity, even out of fear, is unworthy of being called a good and moral person.
I don't have to confront those religions every single day of my life. So I don't put nearly as much effort into deconstructing them. Though I have studied Hinduism a bit more than the others (as if my nickname wasn't evidence of that) and its pretty much the same bullshit.
I don't have to rely on my own admittedly horrific personal experiences with religion to call god a vile monster. Reading the bible on my own and in its entirety is what finally showed me the immorality of god itself and set me on a path to find something better to base my life on. I am correct based on the evidence.
If you accept that the bible is literal truth, and most Christians do or at least claim to, then the thing it calls god is a monster. It displays the behaviors of a psychopath. Commits wonton acts of violence and destruction for the smallest of perceived slights. Commits genocide, repeatedly, sometimes on a global scale. Sends bears to maul and kill children for calling a prophet an old bald man. Endorses the rape of women and the sexual slavery of children. Its all laid out in plain and simple terms throughout the text.
I did worship that god as a child. I grew up in an Independent Fundamentalist Baptist household. I grew up knowing that humanity was unworthy of existing and that if I prayed hard enough, perhaps god would rain fire from the sky and purge humanity from the world. I also grew up in a house where my father very intentionally placed himself in a position where he would be able to do that very thing, to put his finger on the nuclear launch button within the USAF:SAC.
Part of the reason many "Christians" are "Good" while they worship an unquestionably evil god is that their faith demands obedience and submission, and the demand for horror and destruction from the christian power structure isn't as common as it once was. This is not universal, and the trend is rapidly reversing. The selection pressure on variants within the memetic parasite population of religions are not constant. It only takes one particularly viral mutation to turn the whole thing into a potential catastrophe.
Unless we live on multiple planets all of humanity will die with nearly absolute certainty unless we can figure out a way to stop our sun from expanding at the conclusion of the hydrogen fusion life cycle.
I for one am critical of Christianity because your own holy book describes a vile and evil god who inflicts uncountable horrors on mankind, and you dare to bow before his monstrosity and give praise to his sins. Your god is personally responsible for genocide, murder, arguably rape and countless other crimes against humanity. And that is not even counting the crimes committed on his command by his prophets, praised by the leaders of his faith or by his followers in his name.
Of course I am also critical of ALL religion because it is nothing more than a memetic parasite that infests and corrupts the human mind and subverts free will through the use of brain washing and mental degradation. And in some cases, these religions pose an existential threat to the long term survival of humanity.
Thankfully sadism will save the human race. Its not as fun to torture and enslave robots. Therefore there will always be a place for us working class chattel among the elite.
You seem to think that I think otherwise?
Food is not cheap.
It costs my family over $800 a month for food and basic consumables (toilet paper, soap, etc), and that is for only the equivalent of 3.5 people. That is without eating out. And they are not even eating well, the bulk of their food consists of plain white rice and the cheapest cut of chicken possible. They can't afford even bread or ground beef regularly anymore.
The Model S is not meant to be comparable to a bottom of the line Hyundai. Neither are the top end Audi and BMW in the same class of the Model S.
The Nissan Leaf is a lot closer, coming in as low as $21k (after tax rebates), and still offers range in excess of the regular needs of 90% of the population.
You can:
a: run an extension chord out your window to trickle charge.
b: demand that you get metered outlets on the street.
c: use a rapid charging service.
d: demand that your employer offer charging in the employee parking lot as an employment perk.
e: move.
f: recognize that you are still greatly outnumbered by all the people that do have access to overnight power reasonably close to where they park their car because they don't live in low rent housing projects.
The demand for electric cars is already here, and the market is growing now.
90% of drivers require a range greater than 50 miles less than once or twice a year.
The perceived necessity of range is largely a product of applied psychology (propaganda).
The first vehicle (daily commuter) of almost every household could easily be electric with current tech (with range less than a Tesla). Single vehicle households can supplement with rental vehicles on rare occasions where long distance travel is necessary.
I am going to go with... no. 0.14 to 0.25 ppm is a ridiculously low concentration. And its going to be mixed up with the much more common sodium and potassium if you are trying to chemically separate it.
Possibly. But I am not confidant that there would be enough people willing to work enough to pay enough taxes to provide a poverty level stipend to every household in America given our currently incomplete state of automation.
For example:
the official inflation since then is about 16fold.
The average cost of rent, basic food and gasoline since 1938 has increased by around 40 fold.
Education and medical care costs have increased even more.
The calculated inflation rate does not match the actual inflation rate for the basic requirements of life. Low end rent, food, transportation, medical care and education have all expanded at rates VASTLY higher than the standard inflation rate. In practice this would place the minimum wage near $18.
The government should offer basic insurance coverage to every American. Private insurance companies would still have the option to compete for premium services.