As soon as "cashless" becomes a reality, police won't have to lift a finger to arrest anyone accused of a crime. They'll just turn off his phone. The suspect will turn himself in to avoid starvation.
That's the good part of police states. Petty crime virtually disappears. The bad part is that the definition of "crime" expands so far as to encompass anyone who does something the rulers don't like. We're already seeing people being denied financial services like Paypal, Patreon, and even bank accounts simply because they speak their opinions in public. It's a new, terrifying level of control and since corporations control it instead of government, it's doing a nice job of boiling the frog.
American universities attitude about people accused of crimes:
"If there are ten people who have been accused, and under a reasonable likelihood standard maybe one or two did it, it seems better to get rid of all ten people."
Rebel territory. It doesn't matter which part of the US tries some shit. We'll fuck you up no matter where you are. One country, indivisible although I'm sure you missed that part of the Pledge because whatever America-hating school you went to skipped that. We're America, bitch, and we will burn down your cities and rape your women. Don't try anything, you're not going anywhere.
Rebels are rebels no matter where they come from. Be warned, we Americans will stomp the living shit out of you if you try anything. You're not going anywhere. We genocided the natives so you could immigrate there, we can wipe the slate again and replace you with new immigrants, no problem.
If you fucking traitors try that shit, the US government will crush you just like it did last time you scum tried it. We burned a path hundreds of miles long through your territory to show you you'd been defeated. We meant to cause a famine and mass death just to put a point on it, but it turned out you could eat black-eyed peas so it didn't happen. Evidently the lesson has been forgotten. Still, if you need another lesson we'll be willing to oblige.
Without DST we're going to emit more carbon for heating and lighting. Go ahead, kill the planet so you can be a grouchy old man. It gets light at 430 or earlier in the morning, light that is just wasted. It made sense when we were tied to the sun, but now it's dumb. Also enjoy it getting dark way too early. I lived in a country with no DST and it's a waste.
Institutions had to start acting as the police because the police refused to actively combat the campus rape epidemic. The standards of proof are far too high and offenders are let off with light punishments.
Who said that phrase "I got mine, fuck you"? Can you provide a citation? Or is it something you made up and attributed to others?
One of today's biggest problems is making shit up, handing it to people you regard as the enemy, and telling them they hold this position they don't have. You then hate them for what you made up. It's called psychological projection and is rampant on the left today. A journalist just said that the Captain Marvel reviews are proof positive that we hate cinema.
Slashdot has always had this stuff. The solution is not to brows at score 0 unless you're moderating. Jeez. Those people spend SO much time on their bullshit and so few people read it. There's no such thing as -2, by the way.
The voters don't pick the candidate. Remember when Hillary rigged the nomination? The DNC won in court saying they were a private organization who could nominate whoever they liked.
Of course they didn't succeed, but they sure tried.
Fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who also served as acting director after James Comey was fired, revealed in a 60 Minutes interview that the Department of Justice seriously considered removing President Trump from office...multiple times
A cabal of FBI and Justice Department officials deciding to oust the president through some arcane constitutional mechanism could easily be described as a coup attempt. Impeachment/conviction is legal. Their cockamamie 25th Amendment scheme was by no means straightforwardly legal
What McCabe told 60 Minutes: "There were meetings at the Justice Department at which it was discussed whether the vice president and a majority of the cabinet could be brought together to remove the president of the United States under the 25th Amendment."
Ever since #elevatorgate atheists were cast out of the SJW left. Remember that? A dork made an artless pass at a woman in an elevator and she claimed victim status. Instead of falling in line, the atheist community mocked her for being a fragile snowflake. Bad move, after elevatorgate they were finished as a movement.
You are not talking about liberals, you are talking about leftists. Liberals believe in free speech. They might disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it. Leftists, on the other hand, will happily censor and we see this every day on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.
Quick question, how many offices, government and corporate, are held by these toxic rightists? How many people do they censor every day? Now compare this to the toxic left, which has real power. One need only look at the Covington kids to see how things turn out. The leftist view was "our reaction was factually wrong but morally right."
And like all patriotic Americans, your feelings are rooted in fear, racism, and hatred of immigrants. The Chinese Exclusion Act had a lot in common with how you feel: "keep the dirty slants out of our pure USA". What's next, reestablishing Jim Crow?
Maybe there's more to it than money. It baffles me that people can't see this. Being in charge of your own destiny is priceless. Moreover a democratic change must be celebrated, not overthrown because it harms the interests of the plutocrats.
There's no true socialist country to point to. Not one exists today. It used to be Venezuela, but now that the wheels have fallen off the narrative is that Venezuela isn't socialist and never was. Odd, for a country that Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders both called proof positive that socialism could be made to work.
This is why they attempted a coup and committed multiple felonies trying to keep Trump out of office. Why's it a surprise, the FBI has a long history of exactly this.
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You joke, but kids won't be able to babysit or mow lawns unless they register a company and pay taxes on the income. It's coming, just wait.
Always find a way, no matter how tenuous, to link whatever the current article is to Trump. This is Trump Derangement Syndrome. -1 Offtopic.
As soon as "cashless" becomes a reality, police won't have to lift a finger to arrest anyone accused of a crime. They'll just turn off his phone. The suspect will turn himself in to avoid starvation.
That's the good part of police states. Petty crime virtually disappears. The bad part is that the definition of "crime" expands so far as to encompass anyone who does something the rulers don't like. We're already seeing people being denied financial services like Paypal, Patreon, and even bank accounts simply because they speak their opinions in public. It's a new, terrifying level of control and since corporations control it instead of government, it's doing a nice job of boiling the frog.
American universities attitude about people accused of crimes:
"If there are ten people who have been accused, and under a reasonable likelihood standard maybe one or two did it, it seems better to get rid of all ten people."
Read more here.
Rebel territory. It doesn't matter which part of the US tries some shit. We'll fuck you up no matter where you are. One country, indivisible although I'm sure you missed that part of the Pledge because whatever America-hating school you went to skipped that. We're America, bitch, and we will burn down your cities and rape your women. Don't try anything, you're not going anywhere.
Rebels are rebels no matter where they come from. Be warned, we Americans will stomp the living shit out of you if you try anything. You're not going anywhere. We genocided the natives so you could immigrate there, we can wipe the slate again and replace you with new immigrants, no problem.
If you fucking traitors try that shit, the US government will crush you just like it did last time you scum tried it. We burned a path hundreds of miles long through your territory to show you you'd been defeated. We meant to cause a famine and mass death just to put a point on it, but it turned out you could eat black-eyed peas so it didn't happen. Evidently the lesson has been forgotten. Still, if you need another lesson we'll be willing to oblige.
Without DST we're going to emit more carbon for heating and lighting. Go ahead, kill the planet so you can be a grouchy old man. It gets light at 430 or earlier in the morning, light that is just wasted. It made sense when we were tied to the sun, but now it's dumb. Also enjoy it getting dark way too early. I lived in a country with no DST and it's a waste.
Institutions had to start acting as the police because the police refused to actively combat the campus rape epidemic. The standards of proof are far too high and offenders are let off with light punishments.
Who said that phrase "I got mine, fuck you"? Can you provide a citation? Or is it something you made up and attributed to others?
One of today's biggest problems is making shit up, handing it to people you regard as the enemy, and telling them they hold this position they don't have. You then hate them for what you made up. It's called psychological projection and is rampant on the left today. A journalist just said that the Captain Marvel reviews are proof positive that we hate cinema.
Slashdot has always had this stuff. The solution is not to brows at score 0 unless you're moderating. Jeez. Those people spend SO much time on their bullshit and so few people read it. There's no such thing as -2, by the way.
Don't browse at score 0, problem solved. Or am I missing something?
Who, the deplorables? The cultural distance between progressives and working class people is now vast and I see little reason why that should change.
The voters don't pick the candidate. Remember when Hillary rigged the nomination? The DNC won in court saying they were a private organization who could nominate whoever they liked.
Of course they didn't succeed, but they sure tried.
Fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who also served as acting director after James Comey was fired, revealed in a 60 Minutes interview that the Department of Justice seriously considered removing President Trump from office...multiple times
A cabal of FBI and Justice Department officials deciding to oust the president through some arcane constitutional mechanism could easily be described as a coup attempt. Impeachment/conviction is legal. Their cockamamie 25th Amendment scheme was by no means straightforwardly legal
What McCabe told 60 Minutes: "There were meetings at the Justice Department at which it was discussed whether the vice president and a majority of the cabinet could be brought together to remove the president of the United States under the 25th Amendment."
Anti-SJW and anti-feminist are not "far right". They are center-moderate and liberal positions. Only the left and the far left think that SJW and feminist ideas are good ones. LGBT Magazine Says It's 'Racist' For Trump To Demand Iran Stop Killing Gay People
Ever since #elevatorgate atheists were cast out of the SJW left. Remember that? A dork made an artless pass at a woman in an elevator and she claimed victim status. Instead of falling in line, the atheist community mocked her for being a fragile snowflake. Bad move, after elevatorgate they were finished as a movement.
You are not talking about liberals, you are talking about leftists. Liberals believe in free speech. They might disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it. Leftists, on the other hand, will happily censor and we see this every day on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.
Quick question, how many offices, government and corporate, are held by these toxic rightists? How many people do they censor every day? Now compare this to the toxic left, which has real power. One need only look at the Covington kids to see how things turn out. The leftist view was "our reaction was factually wrong but morally right."
And like all patriotic Americans, your feelings are rooted in fear, racism, and hatred of immigrants. The Chinese Exclusion Act had a lot in common with how you feel: "keep the dirty slants out of our pure USA". What's next, reestablishing Jim Crow?
Maybe there's more to it than money. It baffles me that people can't see this. Being in charge of your own destiny is priceless. Moreover a democratic change must be celebrated, not overthrown because it harms the interests of the plutocrats.
I like how you put left-wing screeds in a different category than factual stuff. Good job!
There's no true socialist country to point to. Not one exists today. It used to be Venezuela, but now that the wheels have fallen off the narrative is that Venezuela isn't socialist and never was. Odd, for a country that Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders both called proof positive that socialism could be made to work.
Did Hoover answer to the president? How naive. The FBI views itself as above the elected government.
It's frightening how fast people come out of the woodwork to defend a man who wants to turn America into a literal police state.
This is why they attempted a coup and committed multiple felonies trying to keep Trump out of office. Why's it a surprise, the FBI has a long history of exactly this.