As AC pointed out earlier in the thread, the number is irrelevant, the effect should be the focus. The desire to frame the argument to a simple number rather than the obvious implicit meaning of "number of EO's that matter to me" is a absolute tip off that a left wing shill is operating the keyboard.
However you want to rationalize blatant wingnut hypocrisy. You don't have to be as bad as the Democrats that now want a sitting president to resign over a sex scandal.
I will also point out that illegal immigration harms those whom the Democratic Party claims to work on behalf of. Illegal immigration harms those at the bottom of the economic pile, those who are better off benefit from illegal immigration (which explains why Democrats so vociferously fight for illegal immigration).
And I'll point out that the US should pay trillions in restitution for centuries of the Monroe Doctrine, and extradite pretty much every high level State Department and CIA official to stand trial. Aside from overthrowing pretty much every country in latin america, you also bankrupted millions of Mexican farmers with NAFTA and turned their country into a violent hell hole with your War on Poor Drug Users.
Of course that's not going to happen, so in the meantime you could STFU and let Miguel sneak across the border to work at a gas station, after a CIA-backed death squad killed his parents.
So you want to enjoy a steady income made possible by living in a first world society, without having to pay for it (civilization isn't free). Just visit the libertarian paradise to see how well you can do without it.
A term used by the descendants of European invaders to refer to the descendants of native inhabitants. Inhabitants to whom the USG should pay trillions in restitution for hundreds of years of ethnic cleansing, aparthied, and the Monroe Doctrine.
Tesla told TopGear that the car would last 55 miles on TopGear's track, remember?
No I don't - because that was Top Gear's claim. Not Tesla's.
So TopGear pretended to drive 55 miles and then pretended to push the car, charge the car, all the motions one would go through if Tesla is not lying about its own car.
Which BBC knew about as soon as it got them in court, which was the point to begin with.
I can admit for you that YOU are being willfully obtuse.
You were saying? I'll leave you now to get back to mashing beetles.
See every single article on the subject where the BBC says it was a representation of what would have happened if it had ran out of a charge, as opposed to saying it did run out and actually had to be pushed into a garage. Which would have been the first thing they would have said in court if that had actually been the case.
So feel free to stop being willfully obtuse at any time.
Why the hair splitting? Did the BBC admit to it in court (what the link covers) or did they not? All the sexual harassment lawsuits against Fox - they only happen if Fox reported on them?
People also have the right to take pictures in public, which would be impossible if you couldn't include private property in your shot.
Because people taking pictures with a cell phone is totally the same thing as an automated tracking system plugged into a massive location database on anyone who drives.
Because the company was Samsung and not Apple. They had to recall an entire product release because their batteries were blowing up and it was a two day story. If it had been iPhones setting people's homes on fire, you haters would have been pressing for war crime trials for Apple executives.
It's super messed up that a Tesla crash resulting in a broken ankle is front page news and the ~40,000 people who died in US auto accidents alone in past year get almost no coverage. What's actually amazing about this accident is that a Model S hit a fire truck at 60mph and the driver only broke an ankle. An impact at that speed usually results in severe injury or death.
Elon should go have a beer with Tim Cook. Literally half a dozen iPhones behind the (awesomely named) Bendgazi yet it was a huge story. Media clickbait plus food for the haters = amplified beyond all reason. Bendgazi only went away when it turned out Samsung's phone shattered at the same pressure where an iPhone 6 would bend.
That said, Tesla should just ditch the autopilot feature until self-driving technology is not just equal to humans, but vastly superior. Human brains just aren't built to take concentration way from the task at hand yet yank back to 100% at a moments notice.
Musk LOVES it that every little thing he says and does is in the news.
By that line of "reasoning" he should have been happy when Top Gear pretended a Tesla had to be pushed when its charge ran out when that wasn't the case. Your argument is invalid.
Libya had the highest standard of living which is the same thing as "most prosperous" for me. You could call the USA the most prosperous country in the world based on GDP - but I'd call that a failed system when half the country is poor with the top three billionaires having the same amount of wealth that they do.
I cited some of the claims without citations - you even read, bro?
You're either an idiot or an outright troll/liar.
No, just a person who can spot someone working overtime with confirmation bias, and has heard the phrase "lies, damn lies, and statistics". Like the aforementioned "dangerous encounters" stat that neglects to define what a "dangerous encounter" is.
You're confusing inclinations and ethics with power and ability.
Uh, no, that's what Western Exceptionalists do. The prime minister of Bumbfuckistan, with a GDP equivalent to that of the Dallas Cowboys, might want to spy on the electronic communications of every person on the planet. So it's A-OK if the NSA/CIA actually does it.
Russia made very clear during its soviet period that it was very capable and very interested in going to war to expand its empire.
Having taken it up the ass from western empires two times in less than 150 years, the USSR wanted a buffer against future western aggression. A fear that American presidents have shown to be completely irrational paranoia, by breaking a promise not to expand NATO in return for German unification./s
The anti-Russian alliance has nearly doubled in size, expanded right to Russia's border, deployed a fleet to the Black Sea (like Putin sending a carrier group to the Gulf of Mexico). And you have artillery units in range of St. Petersburg, Russia's second largest city. I'm sure you'd be totally ok if Putin overthrew the elected government of Canada (what Obama did to Ukraine) and had artillery units in range of New York City.
If the US lost hegemonic power and some other power held it
The only countries interested in global hegemony are the United States, France and England - so your own country plus your shitbag allies. If Russia wanted an empire, they wouldn't have just cut their already tiny defense budget to $45 billion dollars. The U.S. spends ten times that much - then another three times on top of that. If China wanted an empire, they wouldn't have a single second hand aircraft carrier. They'd be building their own carrier fleets instead of a high speed rail network all the way to Europe.
What given that knowledge leads you to believe that if the US ceded its hegemony you'd be in a world of peace and harmony?
Your straw man aside, the United States far far FAR and away the worst purveyor of death, instability and outright terrorism since WWII. You could add up the next dozen countries of your choice and together they wouldn't hold a candle to the American Empire.
There any data to back this up? Because so far this sounds like Alcoholics Anonymous or Prosperity Gospel - "look at how great it's worked out for some people!" But you step back and look at results and its pretty much rubbish.
Say you have 100 kids in this Buddies for Bully program and it runs out of money. So you tell the kids to start wearing red socks to school because that will keep the bullies away. Ten of the kids may report an end to the bullying in a month or two - but does it have relation to the socks they put on? And there's still the risk this program would make things worse for some kids - is it worth it if 20 report being better off, but five end up on drugs, two start cutting themselves, and one kid hangs himself?
Sometimes I wish we would disengage from the world and build two walls to the north and south and only worry about our defense. Then, you would be speaking Chinese or Russian and we wouldn't have to listen to your nonsense because you wouldn't have a right to express you opinion under your new masters.
How many countries have Russia and China put together invaded over the last 100 years? Compared to how many the United States has just this century.
So you use plastic sheets or Depends for your bedwetting?
I find the pro-minimum-wage arguments to be uncompelling.
Hard to reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
But minimum-wage proponents claim that it's possible to increase the cost of hiring employees without businesses cutting back on hiring.
That's because the level of the minimum wage is more or less irrelevant when it comes to hiring. If a business generates the most profit with $X workers, they aren't going to hire $X+5 out of the goodness of their hearts if they can pay them crap wages.
As the guy from the hamburger chain said, his chain will be expanding in cities other than Seattle.
A higher minimum wage would mean more customers for his business with more money to spend. It also means the man would be paying less taxes for food stamps and Medicaid as people working 40 hours a week would no longer be in poverty. But it sounds like the both of you would rather cut off your noses - very slowly and with a very rusty spoon - to spite your faces.
Regarding your last argument, "It's not Russia occupying Europe...", I don't know if you consider the Ukraine to be Europe but the reason the US is there is because we want to discourage Russia from blitzkrieging its way up to the Spanish border.
In 2018, that's as embarrassing as saying the United States invaded Iraq because Saddam planned 911. It was the United States that overthrew Ukraine's elected government, not Russia. And Russia didn't get in bed with literal neo-Nazis to do so. It also wasn't Russia that doubled the size of the Warsaw Pact (after promising not to to allow German unification) or shredding the ABM treaty.
Reality has a well-known ant-American-Exceptionalist bias. You're a goldfish swimming in a CIA fishtank that's never been cleaned - you're up to your eyeballs in shit but it's the only thing you've ever known, so you have zero awareness of it.
Don't like it? Come up with a list of countries bombed/overthrown over the entire history of the USSR/modern Russia and compare it to the list of what the U.S. has done over the last 18 years alone. Then remember your worldwide kidnapping and torture program, which is about to see one of it's actors named to the top spot at the CIA. Then blow all your exceptionalist bullshit out your ass.
China has a single aircraft carrier, a sloppy jallopy they got second hand. The United States has a thousand military bases around the world - can you name a single one that China has?
You tough guy bedwetters can stop trying to make this comparison happen. It's not going to happen.
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However you want to rationalize blatant wingnut hypocrisy. You don't have to be as bad as the Democrats that now want a sitting president to resign over a sex scandal.
And I'll point out that the US should pay trillions in restitution for centuries of the Monroe Doctrine, and extradite pretty much every high level State Department and CIA official to stand trial. Aside from overthrowing pretty much every country in latin america, you also bankrupted millions of Mexican farmers with NAFTA and turned their country into a violent hell hole with your War on Poor Drug Users.
Of course that's not going to happen, so in the meantime you could STFU and let Miguel sneak across the border to work at a gas station, after a CIA-backed death squad killed his parents.
So you want to enjoy a steady income made possible by living in a first world society, without having to pay for it (civilization isn't free). Just visit the libertarian paradise to see how well you can do without it.
A term used by the descendants of European invaders to refer to the descendants of native inhabitants. Inhabitants to whom the USG should pay trillions in restitution for hundreds of years of ethnic cleansing, aparthied, and the Monroe Doctrine.
No I don't - because that was Top Gear's claim. Not Tesla's.
Which BBC knew about as soon as it got them in court, which was the point to begin with.
You were saying? I'll leave you now to get back to mashing beetles.
I understand that you're rambling instead of making any response to any of the numerous points I've raised. Go on, Sparky, give it a try.
See every single article on the subject where the BBC says it was a representation of what would have happened if it had ran out of a charge, as opposed to saying it did run out and actually had to be pushed into a garage. Which would have been the first thing they would have said in court if that had actually been the case.
So feel free to stop being willfully obtuse at any time.
Why the hair splitting? Did the BBC admit to it in court (what the link covers) or did they not? All the sexual harassment lawsuits against Fox - they only happen if Fox reported on them?
This argument is also invalid.
Because people taking pictures with a cell phone is totally the same thing as an automated tracking system plugged into a massive location database on anyone who drives.
Because the company was Samsung and not Apple. They had to recall an entire product release because their batteries were blowing up and it was a two day story. If it had been iPhones setting people's homes on fire, you haters would have been pressing for war crime trials for Apple executives.
Every word in your post was false.
Elon should go have a beer with Tim Cook. Literally half a dozen iPhones behind the (awesomely named) Bendgazi yet it was a huge story. Media clickbait plus food for the haters = amplified beyond all reason. Bendgazi only went away when it turned out Samsung's phone shattered at the same pressure where an iPhone 6 would bend.
That said, Tesla should just ditch the autopilot feature until self-driving technology is not just equal to humans, but vastly superior. Human brains just aren't built to take concentration way from the task at hand yet yank back to 100% at a moments notice.
By that line of "reasoning" he should have been happy when Top Gear pretended a Tesla had to be pushed when its charge ran out when that wasn't the case. Your argument is invalid.
Libya had the highest standard of living which is the same thing as "most prosperous" for me. You could call the USA the most prosperous country in the world based on GDP - but I'd call that a failed system when half the country is poor with the top three billionaires having the same amount of wealth that they do.
I cited some of the claims without citations - you even read, bro?
No, just a person who can spot someone working overtime with confirmation bias, and has heard the phrase "lies, damn lies, and statistics". Like the aforementioned "dangerous encounters" stat that neglects to define what a "dangerous encounter" is.
Uh, no, that's what Western Exceptionalists do. The prime minister of Bumbfuckistan, with a GDP equivalent to that of the Dallas Cowboys, might want to spy on the electronic communications of every person on the planet. So it's A-OK if the NSA/CIA actually does it.
Having taken it up the ass from western empires two times in less than 150 years, the USSR wanted a buffer against future western aggression. A fear that American presidents have shown to be completely irrational paranoia, by breaking a promise not to expand NATO in return for German unification. /s
The anti-Russian alliance has nearly doubled in size, expanded right to Russia's border, deployed a fleet to the Black Sea (like Putin sending a carrier group to the Gulf of Mexico). And you have artillery units in range of St. Petersburg, Russia's second largest city. I'm sure you'd be totally ok if Putin overthrew the elected government of Canada (what Obama did to Ukraine) and had artillery units in range of New York City.
The only countries interested in global hegemony are the United States, France and England - so your own country plus your shitbag allies. If Russia wanted an empire, they wouldn't have just cut their already tiny defense budget to $45 billion dollars. The U.S. spends ten times that much - then another three times on top of that. If China wanted an empire, they wouldn't have a single second hand aircraft carrier. They'd be building their own carrier fleets instead of a high speed rail network all the way to Europe.
Your straw man aside, the United States far far FAR and away the worst purveyor of death, instability and outright terrorism since WWII. You could add up the next dozen countries of your choice and together they wouldn't hold a candle to the American Empire.
There any data to back this up? Because so far this sounds like Alcoholics Anonymous or Prosperity Gospel - "look at how great it's worked out for some people!" But you step back and look at results and its pretty much rubbish.
Say you have 100 kids in this Buddies for Bully program and it runs out of money. So you tell the kids to start wearing red socks to school because that will keep the bullies away. Ten of the kids may report an end to the bullying in a month or two - but does it have relation to the socks they put on? And there's still the risk this program would make things worse for some kids - is it worth it if 20 report being better off, but five end up on drugs, two start cutting themselves, and one kid hangs himself?
How many countries have Russia and China put together invaded over the last 100 years? Compared to how many the United States has just this century.
So you use plastic sheets or Depends for your bedwetting?
Given the prices of the Nissan Leaf and the Model S, that's just dumbfuckery. And that's not even looking at hybrids.
Hard to reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
That's because the level of the minimum wage is more or less irrelevant when it comes to hiring. If a business generates the most profit with $X workers, they aren't going to hire $X+5 out of the goodness of their hearts if they can pay them crap wages.
A higher minimum wage would mean more customers for his business with more money to spend. It also means the man would be paying less taxes for food stamps and Medicaid as people working 40 hours a week would no longer be in poverty. But it sounds like the both of you would rather cut off your noses - very slowly and with a very rusty spoon - to spite your faces.
What color is the sky on your planet?
What percentage of Amazon's customers and employees were not educated through a public school system? They can at least give back to Washington's.
In 2018, that's as embarrassing as saying the United States invaded Iraq because Saddam planned 911. It was the United States that overthrew Ukraine's elected government, not Russia. And Russia didn't get in bed with literal neo-Nazis to do so. It also wasn't Russia that doubled the size of the Warsaw Pact (after promising not to to allow German unification) or shredding the ABM treaty.
Reality has a well-known ant-American-Exceptionalist bias. You're a goldfish swimming in a CIA fishtank that's never been cleaned - you're up to your eyeballs in shit but it's the only thing you've ever known, so you have zero awareness of it.
Don't like it? Come up with a list of countries bombed/overthrown over the entire history of the USSR/modern Russia and compare it to the list of what the U.S. has done over the last 18 years alone. Then remember your worldwide kidnapping and torture program, which is about to see one of it's actors named to the top spot at the CIA. Then blow all your exceptionalist bullshit out your ass.
China has a single aircraft carrier, a sloppy jallopy they got second hand. The United States has a thousand military bases around the world - can you name a single one that China has?
You tough guy bedwetters can stop trying to make this comparison happen. It's not going to happen.