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  1. Instead of just seeing a headline on your twitter feed, watch an in depth interview. She can't answer the simplest of questions. EVERYTHING asked of her ends up with an "Aleppo moment."

    Yet, she is still brighter than 80% of House Republicans.

  2. Re:Who died due to capitalism? on Fewer Than Half of Young Americans Are Positive About Capitalism (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you name a single instance of capitalism being used as justification to brutalize and murder millions of people?

    The Vietnam War.

  3. Says the guy with a country in massive poverty, practically indentured corruption, sexual inequality, a wealth gap that is shocking with people having bones sticking out of their rotting flesh being passed on the street without a blink because that shits just tuesday there, people crapping all over the place due to lack of basic infrastructure, 64 babies dying due to the hospital not being able to afford oxygen...like the list just never ends.

    Wait...are we talking about India of the U.S.?

  4. Re:The American Dream is a con. on 'The Cashless Society is a Con -- and Big Finance is Behind It' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The joke is on us for handing over the reigns to corporations whenever that happened.

    It was a slow drip over the course of 100 or so years, but dam broke with Buckley v. Valeo (1976).

  5. When the US government takes over something, costs go up and efficiency goes down over time.

    Do you have any data to support that statement?

    And if you need an example, take a look at healthcare under the Veterans Administration and how horrible it had become.

    VA issues are regional. Some VA hospitals are fantastic.

    Everyone else sees the consequences coming.

    The consequences of not going to socialized medicine have already been determined; They are tens of thousand of needless deaths every year.

  6. you'd rather have the government make the rules.

    Yes.

    You want that heart bypass surgery? No problem, we'll pencil you in for July 6th, 2028.

    An absurd exaggeration that flies in the face of actual data from countries with socialized healthcare systems, but absurdity is guaranteed when your argument has nothing of substance to stand on.

  7. Dude. He's a billionaire with a platform that reaches tens of millions of people and he called some random guy a pedophile.

    Who gives a crap "who started it."

  8. Someone whose specialty is killing jobs.

  9. For the most part, conservative judges make rulings based on precedence and the constitution. They behold themselves to strict interpretations of the law. It's liberal judges that legislate from the bench.

    Our current Supreme Court has ignored longstanding precedent in several major rulings in the last few years.

  10. Re:Will be confirmed before then. Doesn't matter o on Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Texas and Utah would have significant regulations, and the other 48 states would be pretty much unaffected.

    It's more like 17 states.

    https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/abortion-policy-absence-roe

    From the linked page:

    17 states have laws that could be used to restrict the legal status of abortion.


    • 4 states have laws that automatically ban abortion if Roe were to be overturned.
    • 10 states retain their unenforced, pre-Roe abortion bans.
    • 7 states have laws that express their intent to restrict the right to legal abortion to the maximum extent permitted by the U.S. Supreme Court in the absence of Roe.
    • 9 states have laws that protect the right to choose abortion prior to viability or when necessary to protect the life or health of the woman.
  11. Re:Thanks for the info on Bill To Save Net Neutrality Is 46 Votes Short In US House (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    There are not really that many truly "independent" voters.

    Americans Arent Becoming More Politically Independent, They Just Like Saying They Are

  12. Re:How Could This Happen... on Blogger Stabbed To Death After Internet Abuse Seminar (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    When are you guys going to start a revolution with your pea-shooters?

    Just as soon as they can find a pea-shooter that can hit a drone at 20,000 feet and take out a Abrams.

  13. Re:How Could This Happen... on Blogger Stabbed To Death After Internet Abuse Seminar (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If it's ever necessary, it will happen the same way it did last time. Citizens with guns, mostly ex-military and led by ex-military, will take military armories on the first day of the war. Military bases are gun-free zones, after all. (Yes, really, a soldier can't even carry his own personal gun on base.)

    In your fantasy, would they also take control of all of the tanks, planes and drones?

  14. Re: Not News For Nerds on Judge Backs Parents, Saying Their 30-Year-Old Son Must Move Out (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Try a mortgage payment in the 16 percent democrat Jimmy Carter years...

    Those 16% rates actually accured during the Reagan years, and were the result of economic policies that were implimented during the Nixon administration.

    You were in the ballpark though.

    You get a participation trophy!

  15. Re: good for china on China Plans $47 Billion Fund To Boost Its Semiconductor Industry (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The poor have full access to healthcare

    No, they don't.

  16. Plastic tube? Wtf are you talking about? What fucking backwards nation are you from?

    Well, it's actually a series of tubes.

  17. That's because we have real security in place and we can easily handle trivial things like the use of flash drives. Your network administrator and IT department need to be fired and replaced with people who know what they are doing.

    Where the parent works and where you work probably have drastically different security, privacy and regulatory requirements.

  18. Windows XP also doesn't know or understand what an NTFS filesystem is anyway

    NTFS is XP's default filesystem.

  19. Re:Electric cars are still toys on Ford To Stop Selling Every Car In North America But the Mustang, Focus Active (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Ford was able to secure a huge loan before the credit markets seized in 2008, which allowed them to ride out the worst of the recession. If not for that loan they would have gone bankrupt too.

    Well-Timed Borrowing Sets Ford Apart From Rivals

  20. Re:"A Higher Loyalty"? The sounds a lot like treas on Former FBI Director James Comey Reveals How Apple and Google's Encryption Efforts Drove Him 'Crazy' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Can people in the FBI decide themselves who to be loyal too?

    In the title, Comey is referring to Trump's demand of him for loyalty, which was highly inappropriate. The "higher loyalty" refers his loyalty to the Constitution of the United States, which rules above all men - including the President.

  21. Re: How to get SHOT 101 on Man Starts 'Gunbook' Social Media Site After His Gun-Loving Friends Were Kicked Off Facebook (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...the modern Democrat party.

    It's the Democratic party.

    The political circles one runs in are exposed by the usage of that pejorative term.

  22. Re: It won't be viable until charge times are down on BMW Says Electric Car Mass Production Not Viable Until 2020 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, letÃ(TM)s u vest in polluting batteries

    Lithium ion batteries are not toxic, though they should still be recycled.

    low efficiency and expensive charging stations

    Charging is about 85%-90% efficient and the cost to build a charging station is a fraction of what it costs to install an underground fuel tank and gas pumps.

  23. Re:The chances of such legislation passing on Apple Must Explain Why It Doesn't Want You To Fix Your Own iPhone, California Lawmaker Says (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the "Democratic" Party, not the "Democrat" Party.

  24. Re:ludicrously and patently unconstitutional on Rhode Island Bill Would Impose Fee For Accessing Online Porn (providencejournal.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    How are the Democrats against the second amendment?

    According to the most current interpretation by our conservative Supreme Court, the second amendment only allows for civilians to posses handguns inside their homes for self-protection.

    Prior to that, the court had ruled repeatedly that the second amendment gave civilians no right to posses firearms outside of the context of a government-run militia.

  25. Re:..and Mueller is just getting warmed up, folks on US Charges Russian Social Media Trolls Over Election Tampering (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If Russian influence is so bad for our elections, then I don't want California people campaigning for democrats in Nebraska.

    It's not illegal for Californians to campaign for Democrats in Nebraska.

    This is a bullshit story.

    It sure wasn't bullshit to Republicans when accusations of the Clintons taking Chinese money were floating around.