That includes the Texas independence movement, and of course the California succession one (#calexit).
And those are conservative or Republican... how?
And of course we know that they were supporting the Republican campaign at the time.When you try to tie it to "leftists" it makes me wonder if you are a paid Russian troll trying to seed dissent.
You need to seek professional help: you obviously suffer from paranoid delusions.
Every citizenship is different - entailing different rights, duties and values.
And right there, you have the justification for why the federal government can treat Puerto Rico different from Florida: being "a citizen of Puerto Rico" entails different rights from being "a citizen of Florida". Glad you agree and stated it so clearly yourself.
To his credit, MLK rejected the Soviet funds and refused to work with them
Of course not all of the civil rights movement was controlled by the Soviet Union/Russia; much of it was motivated by a desire for justice and equality.
Unfortunately, Soviet/Russian influence has seriously damaged the movement (and hurt African Americans) by turning the movement from liberal objectives to a movement that is about government handouts, externalizing blame, and perpetual grievances.
RBC counted 16 groups relating to the Black Lives Matter campaign and other race issues that had a total of 1.2 million subscribers. The biggest group was entitled Blacktivist and reportedly had more than 350,000 likes at its peak.
Russia paying money to leftist and progressive groups in the US in order to create dissent and foment violence has been going on for more than half a century, as has their placement of operatives in Washington. That makes Democratic complaints about supposed Trump-Russia ties so ludicrous.
Google's attempt to promote a healthy lifestyle caused a number of people to lambast the feature on Twitter, claiming it would "shame" and even "trigger" those with eating disorders.
People with diagnosed eating disorders are under medical care and hence constantly reminded of their disorder. The people who are likely complaining here are people with obesity who do not actually have a diagnosed eating disorder and merely claim an "eating disorder" as an excuse for their weight problem.
First, I doubt that's true of "most of the world". Certainly a large part, but lots of people live in wealthy countries with access to health care, a "luxury" not possessed by the lower classes in the US.
The remark was in the context of fast food workers; fast food chains in the US certainly do offer healthcare.
Second, you're dismissing one person's problems by saying someone else has it worse, which is callous at best.
I'm not "dismissing" anybody's problems. We were discussing the relative benefits of capitalism or socialism/communism.
Third, you're moving the goalposts along with the luxury boxes
No, you are moving the goalposts. In fact, you are trying to derail an argument about capitalism vs socialism/communism with your irrelevant and ill-informed drivel.
Which is perfectly valid when Puerto Rico is replaced by Florida.
No, it's not "perfectly valid", it's nonsensical: Florida is not a territory or a nation, hence you cannot be a "citizen" of it, at least not in the same sense that you can be a citizen of the US or of Puerto Rico. If you try to base an argument on using the term "citizen" this way in two different ways, then you are committing the fallacy of equivocation.
The fact remains that the relationship between Puerto Rico and the federal government is fundamentally different than the relationship between any US state and the federal government. Therefore, it is perfectly legitimate for the federal government to treat Puerto Rico differently from any state when it comes to disaster relief or rebuilding after a disaster. In particular, Puerto Rico, in many ways, is more like an independent nation and hence US tax payers might well choose to treat it that way.
Yet, your statement is equally applicable to Florida.
Which part of You can become a "citizen of Florida" by moving there. You are a Puerto Rican citizen only by birth. Internationally, Puerto Rican citizenship is recognized as distinct from US citizenship. did you not understand? The relationship of US tax payers to Puerto Rico is fundamentally different than their relationship to Florida.
In order for that to make any sense you'll need to explain how the "communists" at Foxconn operate differently than "capitalists" elsewhere.
They don't operate differently. The make a useful product and keep labor costs as low as possible, as they should.
But now that you've been locked into this ideologically inflexible binary thinking, you're ready to jump to defend their exploitation.
Foxconn isn't forcing anybody to work for them. So, when people choose to work for them it is because their alternatives are even worse. Therefore, no matter what you may think of the working conditions, Foxconn actually improves the lives of the Chinese workers working for them, and the fact that their lives are so miserable to begin with is the result of decades of communism.
As Robinson once said: "The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all."
(I would also point out that working hours and suicide rates at the expensive, highly competitive university I went to were longer/higher than at Foxconn. If people believe something improves their lives in the long run, they are willing to subject themselves to such stressful conditions.)
The iPhone is made using conflict minerals... You have wage slaves literally throwing themselves off the roof of the Foxconn plant...
Note how these problems are not typical of capitalist countries.
With the food service industry... But the majority of people in that industry barely scrape by.
What you call "scraping by" is considered luxurious by most of the world.
"These people" contribute no more to society than ticket scalpers.
Well, actually, most of those people contribute a lot more. But ticket scalpers contribute a lot as well: they share risk, create liquidity, and provide market efficiency.
They put the product of someone else's labor in your hands and tell you to fixate on that, ignore their trail of destruction.
It's you who is ignoring the massive "trail of destruction" that socialism, communism, and similar ideologies have caused throughout history: worker abuse, imprisonment, forced labor, environmental destruction, and widespread poverty.
Churchill's quote applies here as well: "Capitalism is the worst form of economic organization, except for all those other forms that have been tried."
Every country in the world's history that has eliminated poverty, achieved individual liberties, and achieved safety and security has done so through capitalism. No country has ever done so through socialism, communism, or any other collectivist form of government or economic organization.
Most Americans are not citizens of Florida. Why does Floridans get central/union government aid in the event of a disaster ?
I'm sorry, but you don't seem to understand the legal status of Puerto Rico; it is fundamentally different from that of Florida. You can become a "citizen of Florida" by moving there. You are a Puerto Rican citizen only by birth. Internationally, Puerto Rican citizenship is recognized as distinct from US citizenship.
So you are saying that a restaurant that becomes very popular because it makes excellent food is "harming humanity as a whole"? That iPhones are "harming humanity as a whole"? That life-saving medicine is "harming humanity as a whole"? Because all of those make people a lot of money.
In what way does inventing and producing something that lots of people want to buy make you a bad person or harm humanity?
You still haven't answered the question. As an American, I am not a citizen of Puerto Rico. Why do you think I am obligated to pay for the rebuilding of Puerto Rico?
Donald Trump even believes that Puerto Rico is foreign country and does not deserve our help.
Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory, and the UN has called for its self-determination as a Carribean nation. Furthermore, while Puerto Ricans are American citizens, Americans are not Puerto Rican citizens. So, why not fully "decolonize" Puerto Rico, give them self-determination, and let them deal with their own problems, including coming up with their own disaster plans? Can you justify your assertion that American citizens have a special obligation towards Puerto Ricans, as opposed to any other developing nation?
The fact is that the more tightly integrated our society become the more brittle it gets. Specialization is more efficient but it also means "no man is an island."
You can choose the degree to which you depend on others. If you like, you can live in a 700 sq ft studio on the 30th floor with a panoramic view of the city and eat in restaurants every day. You can also have a 10 ac rural property growing your own food, with your own solar and backup generators, amateur packet radio station, and commuting into work. Both of those are lifestyles highly specialized tech workers choose. So there is nothing inherently brittle about "our society".
I still do not understand why manufactures do not place physical shutters over camera, considering all of the 3 letter agencies and criminals that target our devices
What makes you think that manufacturers are interested in helping you protect your privacy?
According to Kuo, Apple will embrace Face ID as its authentication method for a competitive advantage over Android smartphones. Kuo has previously said that it could take years for Android smartphone manufacturers to produce technology that can match the TrueDepth camera and the Face ID feature coming in the iPhone X.
That seems like wishful thinking. Android has had both face-based biometrics and depth cameras for a few years, they just haven't been very popular. In addition, Google probably has the best machine learning groups in the world right now, so even if they needed to catch up, they could do so rapidly.
U.S. politicians have been warning for years that America couldn't let China win the clean energy race. That's exactly what has happened,
Yes, because China has much lower labor costs and much less regulation.
Air pollution is at dangerously high levels across many of China's cities
And air pollution is quite low in most US cities, which is another reason why switching away from fossil fuels isn't as urgent for the US transportation sector.
Time to examine your life, priorities and attitudes.
I did examine my life, priorities, and attitudes and decided to leave the Democratic party a few years back and become an independent.
This is a discussion about a supervolcano.
I see: you are sarcasm impaired. So, let me walk you through it: both climate change and supervolcanoes are phenomena that government can do nothing about, yet for some reason, people don't seem to grasp that when it comes to climate change. Hence, I'm explaining how ludicrous the position is on climate change by translating climate change policies to supervolcanoes.
Development of renewables has benefitted from a lot of subsidies, publicly funded research, and other government programs
There is not a shred of evidence for that.
So our average world economic culture of "freeish enterprise harnessed by intelligent public guidance" does seem to be about to save us.
The "average world economic culture" has done nothing for renewables: neither through government action, nor through the free market. The "average world economic culture" gives you disasters like Spain, France, Greece, Venezuela, etc. From personal experience, I can tell you wholeheartedly: you don't want to live in the "average world economic culture": it consists of corrupt governments running their countries into the ground.
Global Warming and Mass Extinction, are slow disasters which is why there are so many more deniers
"Mass extinction" is a technical term and the loss of species we are experiencing doesn't meet the criteria.
"Global warming" is happening to a limited degree, but it's unclear whether it's a "disaster"; what is completely clear is that none of the proposed policies for dealing with it are effective.
"Deniers" is a loaded term deliberately reminiscent of "Holocaust deniers"; it is used by irrational political ideologues are using to manipulate public opinion and prevent any kind of rational discussion.
it requires a long fix having a change in our culture and how we do things.
Most anthropogenic carbon emissions will naturally come to an end within a few decades as renewables become more efficient. Therfore we don't need to "change our culture"; it is our culture of free enterprise that is bringing about this change.
The fact that ideologues are trying to use climate change to "change our culture" is what angers people, and the fact that they are trying to use it to impose additional controls on the economy is counterproductive: generally, the more government controls the economy, the more the environment suffers.
What, exactly, are you going to do to prevent its eruption? Send it a strongly-worded letter?
The usual: tax increases, massive subsidies to companies creating innovative anti-volcano technologies and making big donations to the Democratic party, a massive increase in funding of anti-volcano research at universities, big payments to foreign nations potentially harmed by American volcanoes, increased immigration, and strong public condemnations of Republicans.
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And those are conservative or Republican... how?
You need to seek professional help: you obviously suffer from paranoid delusions.
And right there, you have the justification for why the federal government can treat Puerto Rico different from Florida: being "a citizen of Puerto Rico" entails different rights from being "a citizen of Florida". Glad you agree and stated it so clearly yourself.
Of course not all of the civil rights movement was controlled by the Soviet Union/Russia; much of it was motivated by a desire for justice and equality.
Unfortunately, Soviet/Russian influence has seriously damaged the movement (and hurt African Americans) by turning the movement from liberal objectives to a movement that is about government handouts, externalizing blame, and perpetual grievances.
Russia paying money to leftist and progressive groups in the US in order to create dissent and foment violence has been going on for more than half a century, as has their placement of operatives in Washington. That makes Democratic complaints about supposed Trump-Russia ties so ludicrous.
In other news, turns out there is more to the Russia-Clinton-Uranium story.
People with diagnosed eating disorders are under medical care and hence constantly reminded of their disorder. The people who are likely complaining here are people with obesity who do not actually have a diagnosed eating disorder and merely claim an "eating disorder" as an excuse for their weight problem.
The remark was in the context of fast food workers; fast food chains in the US certainly do offer healthcare.
I'm not "dismissing" anybody's problems. We were discussing the relative benefits of capitalism or socialism/communism.
No, you are moving the goalposts. In fact, you are trying to derail an argument about capitalism vs socialism/communism with your irrelevant and ill-informed drivel.
No, it's not "perfectly valid", it's nonsensical: Florida is not a territory or a nation, hence you cannot be a "citizen" of it, at least not in the same sense that you can be a citizen of the US or of Puerto Rico. If you try to base an argument on using the term "citizen" this way in two different ways, then you are committing the fallacy of equivocation.
The fact remains that the relationship between Puerto Rico and the federal government is fundamentally different than the relationship between any US state and the federal government. Therefore, it is perfectly legitimate for the federal government to treat Puerto Rico differently from any state when it comes to disaster relief or rebuilding after a disaster. In particular, Puerto Rico, in many ways, is more like an independent nation and hence US tax payers might well choose to treat it that way.
Which part of You can become a "citizen of Florida" by moving there. You are a Puerto Rican citizen only by birth. Internationally, Puerto Rican citizenship is recognized as distinct from US citizenship. did you not understand? The relationship of US tax payers to Puerto Rico is fundamentally different than their relationship to Florida.
They don't operate differently. The make a useful product and keep labor costs as low as possible, as they should.
Foxconn isn't forcing anybody to work for them. So, when people choose to work for them it is because their alternatives are even worse. Therefore, no matter what you may think of the working conditions, Foxconn actually improves the lives of the Chinese workers working for them, and the fact that their lives are so miserable to begin with is the result of decades of communism.
As Robinson once said: "The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all."
(I would also point out that working hours and suicide rates at the expensive, highly competitive university I went to were longer/higher than at Foxconn. If people believe something improves their lives in the long run, they are willing to subject themselves to such stressful conditions.)
Note how these problems are not typical of capitalist countries.
What you call "scraping by" is considered luxurious by most of the world.
Well, actually, most of those people contribute a lot more. But ticket scalpers contribute a lot as well: they share risk, create liquidity, and provide market efficiency.
It's you who is ignoring the massive "trail of destruction" that socialism, communism, and similar ideologies have caused throughout history: worker abuse, imprisonment, forced labor, environmental destruction, and widespread poverty.
Churchill's quote applies here as well: "Capitalism is the worst form of economic organization, except for all those other forms that have been tried."
Every country in the world's history that has eliminated poverty, achieved individual liberties, and achieved safety and security has done so through capitalism. No country has ever done so through socialism, communism, or any other collectivist form of government or economic organization.
I'm sorry, but you don't seem to understand the legal status of Puerto Rico; it is fundamentally different from that of Florida. You can become a "citizen of Florida" by moving there. You are a Puerto Rican citizen only by birth. Internationally, Puerto Rican citizenship is recognized as distinct from US citizenship.
So you are saying that a restaurant that becomes very popular because it makes excellent food is "harming humanity as a whole"? That iPhones are "harming humanity as a whole"? That life-saving medicine is "harming humanity as a whole"? Because all of those make people a lot of money.
In what way does inventing and producing something that lots of people want to buy make you a bad person or harm humanity?
You still haven't answered the question. As an American, I am not a citizen of Puerto Rico. Why do you think I am obligated to pay for the rebuilding of Puerto Rico?
Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory, and the UN has called for its self-determination as a Carribean nation. Furthermore, while Puerto Ricans are American citizens, Americans are not Puerto Rican citizens. So, why not fully "decolonize" Puerto Rico, give them self-determination, and let them deal with their own problems, including coming up with their own disaster plans? Can you justify your assertion that American citizens have a special obligation towards Puerto Ricans, as opposed to any other developing nation?
Your ignorant, naive nationalism would be charming if it didn't have such a sordid history.
You can choose the degree to which you depend on others. If you like, you can live in a 700 sq ft studio on the 30th floor with a panoramic view of the city and eat in restaurants every day. You can also have a 10 ac rural property growing your own food, with your own solar and backup generators, amateur packet radio station, and commuting into work. Both of those are lifestyles highly specialized tech workers choose. So there is nothing inherently brittle about "our society".
What makes you think that manufacturers are interested in helping you protect your privacy?
That seems like wishful thinking. Android has had both face-based biometrics and depth cameras for a few years, they just haven't been very popular. In addition, Google probably has the best machine learning groups in the world right now, so even if they needed to catch up, they could do so rapidly.
Yes, because China has much lower labor costs and much less regulation.
And air pollution is quite low in most US cities, which is another reason why switching away from fossil fuels isn't as urgent for the US transportation sector.
I did examine my life, priorities, and attitudes and decided to leave the Democratic party a few years back and become an independent.
I see: you are sarcasm impaired. So, let me walk you through it: both climate change and supervolcanoes are phenomena that government can do nothing about, yet for some reason, people don't seem to grasp that when it comes to climate change. Hence, I'm explaining how ludicrous the position is on climate change by translating climate change policies to supervolcanoes.
Get it now?
That "2016 study" is bullshit; for example, it counts putative externalities as "subsidies".
There is not a shred of evidence for that.
The "average world economic culture" has done nothing for renewables: neither through government action, nor through the free market. The "average world economic culture" gives you disasters like Spain, France, Greece, Venezuela, etc. From personal experience, I can tell you wholeheartedly: you don't want to live in the "average world economic culture": it consists of corrupt governments running their countries into the ground.
"Mass extinction" is a technical term and the loss of species we are experiencing doesn't meet the criteria.
"Global warming" is happening to a limited degree, but it's unclear whether it's a "disaster"; what is completely clear is that none of the proposed policies for dealing with it are effective.
"Deniers" is a loaded term deliberately reminiscent of "Holocaust deniers"; it is used by irrational political ideologues are using to manipulate public opinion and prevent any kind of rational discussion.
Most anthropogenic carbon emissions will naturally come to an end within a few decades as renewables become more efficient. Therfore we don't need to "change our culture"; it is our culture of free enterprise that is bringing about this change.
The fact that ideologues are trying to use climate change to "change our culture" is what angers people, and the fact that they are trying to use it to impose additional controls on the economy is counterproductive: generally, the more government controls the economy, the more the environment suffers.
The usual: tax increases, massive subsidies to companies creating innovative anti-volcano technologies and making big donations to the Democratic party, a massive increase in funding of anti-volcano research at universities, big payments to foreign nations potentially harmed by American volcanoes, increased immigration, and strong public condemnations of Republicans.
Well, the fact that you throw a hissy fit over publishing your salary doesn't amount to a rational, convincing argument against such a policy.