This report states that roughly 8.5% of Muslims explicitly endorse attacks on American civilians in the US, and another ~10% have mixed feelings.
So "feelings" are the same thing as actions? No doubt you support drone bombing the shit out of rural Pakistan - does that mean there's no difference between you and the guy pulling the trigger, and the men in charge of the trigger-pullers?
ORLY? When did Apple get a monopoly on music distribution - did the buy out Sony and BMG when no one was looking? How long have you been unable to buy the same music at similar prices at similar stores? When did Apple revert back to protected-AAC formats, preventing you from playing iTMS-purchased tracks on non-Apple devices?
Or maybe you're using that word, "monopoly", and it doesn't mean whatever it is you think it means. Consider switching to decaf hatorade....
It's not like there aren't a thousand and one legit ways to slam Obamacare - like it's inclusion of the mandates and excise taxes that Obama ran against in 2008. It's like the wingers are so used to running on BS all the time that they walk right bast the honest arguments just so they can make shit up.
State and federal authorities have caught criminals that have killed far more people than these two brothers have without shredding the 4th Amendment or enforcing what was basically martial law across one of America's most populous cities.
It's not "do little to nothing" vs "Defcon 4", it's losing our shit vs the sort of manhunt that's done hundreds of times a year in varying locations across the country.
I suppose you'd rather let a couple of people who want to do nothing more than kill innocent people go than disrupt the city they planted explosives in.
I suppose you think our only two choices after capturing alleged Al Queda operatives was to either torture the shit out of them for months on end or just let them go.
Which is why most of their cops don't even carry guns. Or, maybe, you're using that term "police state" but it doesn't mean whatever it is you think it means.....
I assume these infringements include ridiculous infringements like the power to arrest people and... well pretty much any power any police agent or government has over that of a common citizen.
Yeah that doesn't sound prejudicial at all. Guess what, there are jerks who spit on your burger at McD's, scientists that fake results and janitors who leave soap slime on toilet seats too.
Guess what, your attempt at an equivalency is false. "Cop" is not a race, religion, or ethnicity. And how many "good cops" wont look the other way when a colleague is planting evidence or committing police brutality. How many wont willfully commit perjury in court when testifying on behalf of said colleague.
Decades of bombing the shit out of predominantly muslim countries, supporting brutal dictators in predominantly muslim countries, and supporting an apartheid state in Israel have pissed off a few people around the world.
Fixed your bigoted American exceptionalism for you.
their modus operandi (e.g. IED-style device) matches
Muslims like Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols and Eric Rudolph?
Right, which is why black and brown men make up the vast majority of drug arrests, when they use drugs at the same rate as white women. It's why the FBI was able to find Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, and Eric Rudolph so quickly.
Or, since profiling does not work, maybe you could just give that excuse for bigotry a rest along with the rest of your right wing bullshit.
While of course not all Muslims are terrorists, you can't ignore the fact that a sizable portion, perhaps 1/3 to 1/2 of the Islamic community, indeed supports jihad against the West and Israel.
Where "jihad", "terrorism", and "Al Queda" are stand-ins for "any Muslim or person from a predominantly Muslim country that resists America's and Israel's bullshit."
Escaping from the "friend zone" requires maturing enough to realize that women aren't just vending machines you put niceness tokens into until sex comes out.
/rolls eyes
Escaping from the "dating zone" requires women maturing enough to realize that men aren't just vending machines you put niceness tokens into until money comes out.
Or, we could deal with the fact that human beings, of either gender, tend to be given shitty dating advise from society and social circles. But why waste time on that when you can pigeonhole people with sexist stereotypes?
Which part of "Real austerity is cutting spending until outlays match receipts" was unclear?
What part of "austerity leads to lower employment and lower wages - which leads to lower tax revenues" don't you understand? Your "real austerity" is impossible unless you are willing to continue slashing government until you don't have a government anymore.
Or is that part of the goal for you?
As the linked chart shows, the overwhelming majority have raised taxes or continued deficit spending.
The stated goal of "austerity" is to drastically reduce debt and deficits. Which can either be done with spending cuts, or tax increases, or both. So you have a false framing of a false premise - neat trick.
You appear to have left out "health care" from the "welfare" part, because the graph you got your numbers from didn't call health care "welfare."
Because that would be asinine? Medicare is an earned benefit that you earned by paying for it with payroll taxes, and of course the VA is entirely military spending. You could try arguing that Medicaid is "welfare", but without it you'd have the poor dying in the streets. Literally.
It seems the spin is "there was an error, therefore there is never a problem with debt" - this really seems to be missing the original point.
That really seems to be a straw man, as no one has said "there is never a problem with debt", except maybe Dick Cheney.
then why not reduce all taxes to 0%, and fund government exclusively through deficit spending?
Why not instead deal with the fact that austerity is the wrong cure for the disease, and the data points used as an excuse have been shown to be false. Every country that has tried it has seen unemployment skyrocket while the standard of living plummets.
You should read more Krugman, who makes the simple point that while long term debt can be a problem, causing a Great Depression with deficit terrorism is a far larger problem.
It would be nice if these companies would be putting this time and effort into pushing for / funding more S.T.E.M. education in the US.
Except they already do that. A lot. As long as someone else is footing the bill, anyway.
Because more graduates mean a larger labor pool which means lower salaries. That's why right wingers like Obama keep pushing for more STEM graduates, even though he knows there isn't enough demand to support the existing labor force.
You could argue the reason tech workers want to keep or tighten immigration controls is to keep wages high. There is greed on both sides, and overall tech workers are not the worse off either.
That equivalency is asinine. Low skilled workers have to accept shit wages because "the market" can replace them with someone else who will do the same job for the amount of money offered. But when highly skilled workers command higher wages, lets have our government import workers to depress wage scales. And complaining that hypocrisy is greed? Bullshit.
Call us when we have the benefit of third world prices to go along with competing with third world labor. Call us when the Mark Zuckerburgs are being laid off and replaced with experienced software managers who are willing to do the same job for a fraction of the salary.
The software engineers of the companies talked about in these discussions are not 1%, but they're stretching the definition of "middle class". My wife and I are senior software engineers, and according to any statistics I can find, we're squarely in the top 2-5%, depending on how you look at the data.
Could you and your wife quit your jobs tomorrow and still maintain your standard of living, with multiple vacation homes, private jets, and privately owned islands? Do you have so much money that your descendants will have easily lives for the next few hundred years, even if they never work a day in their lives? No?
So yes, I'd say, clearly equivalent.
Then I'd say you're using a different definition of "clearly" and "equivalent" than the rest of us.
When you have a nation that vote themselves more stuff at the expense of the productive members of society, that nation is on a paved path to ruin.
Does your Randian Sociopathy explain why there's 6 unemployed people for every job, or why the minimum wage should remain far below the poverty level while at the same time 500 Americans have as much wealth as the bottom half of the population? Does it explain why our current massive deficits were not caused by any of the "stuff" you're whining about but by capitalist wars and massive tax cuts for capitalists?
The "productive members of society" are those that work, pay taxes, and keep their money in the economy - in other words the very people you're sneering at. The unproductive ones are the investment class that has their money work for them (in offshore accounts) so they don't have to.
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So "feelings" are the same thing as actions? No doubt you support drone bombing the shit out of rural Pakistan - does that mean there's no difference between you and the guy pulling the trigger, and the men in charge of the trigger-pullers?
Moran.
Citation? Lots of accusations are made against Iran, but most of them are just that - accusations.
ORLY? When did Apple get a monopoly on music distribution - did the buy out Sony and BMG when no one was looking? How long have you been unable to buy the same music at similar prices at similar stores? When did Apple revert back to protected-AAC formats, preventing you from playing iTMS-purchased tracks on non-Apple devices?
Or maybe you're using that word, "monopoly", and it doesn't mean whatever it is you think it means. Consider switching to decaf hatorade....
It's not like there aren't a thousand and one legit ways to slam Obamacare - like it's inclusion of the mandates and excise taxes that Obama ran against in 2008. It's like the wingers are so used to running on BS all the time that they walk right bast the honest arguments just so they can make shit up.
State and federal authorities have caught criminals that have killed far more people than these two brothers have without shredding the 4th Amendment or enforcing what was basically martial law across one of America's most populous cities.
It's not "do little to nothing" vs "Defcon 4", it's losing our shit vs the sort of manhunt that's done hundreds of times a year in varying locations across the country.
I suppose you think our only two choices after capturing alleged Al Queda operatives was to either torture the shit out of them for months on end or just let them go.
Which is why most of their cops don't even carry guns. Or, maybe, you're using that term "police state" but it doesn't mean whatever it is you think it means.....
No. That's you missing/ignoring the point.
Guess what, your attempt at an equivalency is false. "Cop" is not a race, religion, or ethnicity. And how many "good cops" wont look the other way when a colleague is planting evidence or committing police brutality. How many wont willfully commit perjury in court when testifying on behalf of said colleague.
Fixed your bigoted American exceptionalism for you.
Muslims like Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols and Eric Rudolph?
It's not 90% of one vs 90% of the other. It would be 50-50, like Israel's mandatory service for both men and women. Duh.
Right, which is why black and brown men make up the vast majority of drug arrests, when they use drugs at the same rate as white women. It's why the FBI was able to find Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, and Eric Rudolph so quickly.
Or, since profiling does not work, maybe you could just give that excuse for bigotry a rest along with the rest of your right wing bullshit.
Where "jihad", "terrorism", and "Al Queda" are stand-ins for "any Muslim or person from a predominantly Muslim country that resists America's and Israel's bullshit."
Pretty well, until the United States started supporting the next brutal dictator that would play ball with them, like Suleiman in in Egypt.
Irony or example of why he should be remembered?
Escaping from the "dating zone" requires women maturing enough to realize that men aren't just vending machines you put niceness tokens into until money comes out.
Or, we could deal with the fact that human beings, of either gender, tend to be given shitty dating advise from society and social circles. But why waste time on that when you can pigeonhole people with sexist stereotypes?
Or, you could try reading up on terms like "discrimination" or "false equivalency" and try again with a relevant comparison....
What part of "austerity leads to lower employment and lower wages - which leads to lower tax revenues" don't you understand? Your "real austerity" is impossible unless you are willing to continue slashing government until you don't have a government anymore.
Or is that part of the goal for you?
The stated goal of "austerity" is to drastically reduce debt and deficits. Which can either be done with spending cuts, or tax increases, or both. So you have a false framing of a false premise - neat trick.
Because that would be asinine? Medicare is an earned benefit that you earned by paying for it with payroll taxes, and of course the VA is entirely military spending. You could try arguing that Medicaid is "welfare", but without it you'd have the poor dying in the streets. Literally.
That really seems to be a straw man, as no one has said "there is never a problem with debt", except maybe Dick Cheney.
Why not instead deal with the fact that austerity is the wrong cure for the disease, and the data points used as an excuse have been shown to be false. Every country that has tried it has seen unemployment skyrocket while the standard of living plummets.
You should read more Krugman, who makes the simple point that while long term debt can be a problem, causing a Great Depression with deficit terrorism is a far larger problem.
Oh, we do indeed see a lot of false equivalencies like this one here.
Except they already do that. A lot. As long as someone else is footing the bill, anyway.
Because more graduates mean a larger labor pool which means lower salaries. That's why right wingers like Obama keep pushing for more STEM graduates, even though he knows there isn't enough demand to support the existing labor force.
That equivalency is asinine. Low skilled workers have to accept shit wages because "the market" can replace them with someone else who will do the same job for the amount of money offered. But when highly skilled workers command higher wages, lets have our government import workers to depress wage scales. And complaining that hypocrisy is greed? Bullshit.
Call us when we have the benefit of third world prices to go along with competing with third world labor. Call us when the Mark Zuckerburgs are being laid off and replaced with experienced software managers who are willing to do the same job for a fraction of the salary.
Could you and your wife quit your jobs tomorrow and still maintain your standard of living, with multiple vacation homes, private jets, and privately owned islands? Do you have so much money that your descendants will have easily lives for the next few hundred years, even if they never work a day in their lives? No?
Then I'd say you're using a different definition of "clearly" and "equivalent" than the rest of us.
Does your Randian Sociopathy explain why there's 6 unemployed people for every job, or why the minimum wage should remain far below the poverty level while at the same time 500 Americans have as much wealth as the bottom half of the population? Does it explain why our current massive deficits were not caused by any of the "stuff" you're whining about but by capitalist wars and massive tax cuts for capitalists?
The "productive members of society" are those that work, pay taxes, and keep their money in the economy - in other words the very people you're sneering at. The unproductive ones are the investment class that has their money work for them (in offshore accounts) so they don't have to.