Disproportionate representation among the states exists for a reason
Bullshit reasons that aren't even historically accurate, as the number of House seats was capped. If the number of citizens per district had stayed constant from the Constitution, California would have ~650 representatives today, whereas low population states like Alaska would have a dozen.
Except he didn't. Blow jobs were not included in the court's definition of "sexual relations". Right-wingers tend to get all poutraged over that but it doesn't change the fact that Clinton did not commit perjury.
What are you talking about? Trump has already obviously committed several crimes, the least of which is violation of the emoluments clause, and the nepotism clause. I have a close friend who worked with the Trump org and he told me they were in bed with Russian mafia long before the election. I just laughed when the evidence that Trump is laundering money using his foreign Trump towers came out.
None of which has anything whatsoever to do with the Russiagate narrative. Which is the entire impetus for Mueller's "investigation".
No one cares about giving Uranium to the Russians.
Because we're supposed to be too focused on so-far imaginary Trump deals to pay attention to the one the Clinton's actually made.
They didn't even care when Obama gave Uranium to Iran.
The only thing Obama "gave" to Iran was their own money, held by a butthurt United States still pissy that Iranians dared to overthrow the U.S.-backed dictator that had run the country since the CIA-backed coup of their elected government in '53.
and don't even remember the Iranian hostage crisis that Raygun ended
If the memo was real, it would have been released already.
If Mueller was running a real investigation, the first thing he would have done is subpoena the DNC servers for a proper FBI investigation, as the Putin-hacked-DNC-servers idea is the Jenga block holding up the entire Russiagate narrative. Without that, you have no reason for a special prosecutor. Don't waste your time and mine by brining up his indictments which have nothing to do with Russiagate.
That is how it used to work. Today if you question anything a scientist says you are called a 'Science Denier' and excommunicated from the brave new world of social media.
Only if you're a fundie or corporatist tool who thinks his unjustifiable ideology should be treated with the same weight as peer-reviewed theories.
n interviews after the book was published, RAH stressed that military service was not the only path to the sovereign franchise in the Starship Troopers world. He envisioned any number of public service paths - specifically including something very much like the Peace Corps - as routes to voting status.
Ah, the Peace Core - the PR wing of the military-industrial complex. All these "it wasn't really a fascist society" stuff reads just like the "Ender's Game wasn't really apologia for total genocide" because Ender felt very, very guilty about it after the fact.
Conservatives hate his view on government because he didn't buy into legislating morality. You don't grok if you think he didn't piss off the right as much as the left...
As if all conservatives are religious fundies. Bush's neocon cabal DGAF about religion (aside from election year pandering) yet they were all right-wing assholes.
Conformance was only required during service. After service no conformance was required, an enfranchised citizen was free to believe and vote however they cared to.
Yes, nevermind the indoctrination they would have went through in said service, which starts out by deliberately breaking them down as individuals and rebuilding them into literal tools. So what if a handful of them become peacenicks after their service - not only will they be in a minority, they'll have a reflexive desire to "support the troops" since they were one.
Verhoeven also injects racism where there is none, again part of his agenda that has nothing to do with the actual book. John Rico, aka Juan Rico, is not white, not an "aryan", he is of Philippine descent if I remember correct.
That's not racism. And the United States was perfectly happy to draft minorities to fight and die in Korea and Vietnam, only for them to return home to a viciously racist society.
That's not quite Starship Troopers. The military was heavily glorified in the book, the vote was only given to ex-military (with a few exceptions) since they had proven that they put the needs of the nation first. Enlisted infantry were basically depicted as the most noble members of society.
Which is pretty damned fascist. And even peaceniks who reluctantly joined up would participate in napalming bugs Mai Lai if it means helping "their buddies".
But in the early stages of the war instead of recruiting they actively discourage people from joining the military.
Who couldn't vote unless they did. So either people sign up to be imperialist occupiers (and be indoctrinated in the process) or they have no political power.
Juan Rico, who is revealed to be Filipino at the end of the book and we don't know where he grew up, joins up to win the ability to vote
You came so close yet remain so far.
and is trained in a melting pot camp in Western Canada (I'm presuming that because of the name of the camp, Arthur Currie). There is no discussion, let alone glorification of a central "leader", nor is there any apparent racism.
So? The U.S. military was happy to send native americans, latinos and blacks off to kill an eventual 6 million people between the Korean and Vietnam wars, yet the there was more than enough racism for those people to come back home to after "serving their country".
That's essentially the source of the problem. You can't expect a market and therefor choices to exist when it's been explicitly prohibited by law, and no one is really interested in starting their own black market internet over the whole deal.
Distinction without a difference. Limited monopolies are a deal to get ISP's to accept government regulation. End said regulation and you'll still end up with a single (or dual) provider anyway due to market consolidation. And then they'll really gouge you. The only alternatives are:
a) Even more government regulation to mandate levels of service, equipment upgrades, and price caps
b) Make the ISP a government run utility
But the people who tend to complain about government trading limited monopolies for regulation tend to oppose more regulation or ermagerd socialism even more strongly.
Name a country or region that the US has annexed in the last 15 years. Of the top of my head I could name the Crimea and other parts of the Ukraine
Crimea voted to join Russia after your literal neo-Nazi pals overthrew the elected government of Ukraine, and started passing legislation that was extremely hostile and discriminatory to minorities. Like the ethnic Russians and Tatars living in Crimea.
As far as kidnapping and torture, you making me laugh. Google Pussy Riot you fucking ignorant moron.
Were Pussy Riot waterboarded or beaten to death you god. damned. dumb. fuck? The United States killed at least one hundred people through torture that we know of.
I have not kept close count on Russia's illegal invasions
Try.
but I know they have a higher count than the US for illegal annexations over the last 15 years
Zero and zero are equal numbers. Unless you care to explain why the US-backed coup in Ukraine against the elected government has legitimacy, but the super-duper majority vote in Crimea to be annexed does not. Be careful not to break your spine in six places with the contortions necessary to justify such a position.
have a foreign assassination program
So how many thousands of people has Russia murdered with robot planes in Central America - about as far away from Russia as Asia is from the U.S.?
and also assassinate their own dissidents and critical journalists domestically
And you'll be providing more evidence than there is to support the idea that Seth Rich was assassinated, any minute now?
I suspect they would like to spy at least as widely as the US would
The entire Russian defense budget is smaller than the size of the last increase to Pentagon spending, which itself is over a trillion dollars a year. So, no, they don't want to.
And trying to hack an electrical grid. And voting machines.
So, hacking.
Voting machines and power plant systems aren't online. So, not online hacking.
You do understand that Crimea is part of Ukraine, right? Also, are you denying that Russia invaded? I mean, you're at holocaust-denial levels of denial if you are claiming Russia didn't.
You fell off the neocon turnip truck if you think they did. Russia had an existing base in Sevastopol and an agreement lasting decades into the future. If moving forces through that base constitutes an "invasion", here's a fraction of the list of countries the United States is constantly invading with troop movements:
Cuba England Italy Saudi Arabia Japan South Korea Brazil
Hell, Germany alone has over 30 US military installations.
Without going to Google
Why not? How would that change anything?
That you're mindlessly repeating talking points without having anything to back them up (aka propaganda).
Facebook and Twitter. If you are claiming those are "hysterical accusations" then you have some serious denial in your blood because both the corporations and multiple government agencies have confirmed their efforts.
Not even remotely close. You look at any of these claims and they fall apart like tissue paper after a bad case of Montezuma's Revenge. Like the ZOMFG Russia paid for Facebook ads story. Except when you looked at the details, it was for a few thousand dollars, many of the ads were placed after the election, some were pitching Obama merchandise, and some were pitching a documentary criticizing Trump's golf course in Scotland.
Y'all are insisting the Emperor is wearing clothes here, when it's been obvious to anyone who isn't a moron, born with a hole in their head, or learned a damned thing from the lies told about Iraq that he's been bare-assed naked from day one.
If you're implying your fellow Russians had nothing to do with that, you're a fucking disgrace.
They didn't have anything to do with the United States overthrowing the elected government of Ukraine with the help of literal neo-Nazis. Which prompted the population of Crimea to vote to succeed and join Russia. This was already covered in advance....so you're fucking stupid.
I tried to install an Apple OS on one of my machines, but they are terrible with driver support. They support about 1/1000th of the hardware that the other more open OSes (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, even BeOS) support.
Attempt at sarcasm is noted. So how is Apple evil for not publishing their OS for use on other people's hardware? You do know that was the subject at hand, yes?
So are you the new Apple shill? Or did somebody sell their old account to an Apple PR agent?
You should cut back on the hatorade...it makes you stupid. You sound like the political partisans who call you an Obamabot if you say he actually was born in Hawaii, or that you're a MAGA hat wearing Trump voter if you're skeptical of Russiagate.
The big lie. You say so many ridiculous things in your reply that the numerous untruths are hidden in the mess. Only cult members spend their time labeling non-cult members 'haters. So go fiddle around with your eMeter, or blah blah blah blather blather blah blah
Neither do the vast majority of unions. Every single one of the large unions has been caught red handed in some kind of corruption scheme -- AFL-CIO, CWA, UAW, Teamsters -- you name it. That last one also felt a sense of accomplishment for holding their ground when they forced hostess into bankruptcy, and the union boss talked it up as a victory even though all of the workers lost their jobs while he went home still having a fatter paycheck than those workers ever dreamed of.
Uh, bullshit. Hostess union accepted cut after cut after cut jackass, to keep the union afloat. Because unlike corporate executives, the long term welfare of the union is dependent on the company's well being. As opposed to the corporate executives who DGAF if they run the company into the ground, if they make millions in bonuses in the process, secure millions in golden parachutes, and make millions more selling off the companies assets when it goes belly up.
It's no contest whatsoever. If you are concerned about the long-term health of a company, trust the union over the executives and board of directors.
Living paycheck to paycheck has little to do with income and a lot to do with spending.
Sounds like the "up from your bootstraps" mantra. Except you look at statistics and the #1 correlation to how far you get in life is "how much money my daddy had". When people can't make a living wage, they have no choice but to spend what they make.
Bourgeoisiesplaining to the poor is incredibly obnoxious. "Hey poor person, eat Ramen for two meals a day for four decades straight and you can afford a house you can enjoy in retirement - for two years before you die!"
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Bullshit reasons that aren't even historically accurate, as the number of House seats was capped. If the number of citizens per district had stayed constant from the Constitution, California would have ~650 representatives today, whereas low population states like Alaska would have a dozen.
Who said it was?
Except he didn't. Blow jobs were not included in the court's definition of "sexual relations". Right-wingers tend to get all poutraged over that but it doesn't change the fact that Clinton did not commit perjury.
None of which has anything whatsoever to do with the Russiagate narrative. Which is the entire impetus for Mueller's "investigation".
Because we're supposed to be too focused on so-far imaginary Trump deals to pay attention to the one the Clinton's actually made.
The only thing Obama "gave" to Iran was their own money, held by a butthurt United States still pissy that Iranians dared to overthrow the U.S.-backed dictator that had run the country since the CIA-backed coup of their elected government in '53.
By giving them weapons.
If Mueller was running a real investigation, the first thing he would have done is subpoena the DNC servers for a proper FBI investigation, as the Putin-hacked-DNC-servers idea is the Jenga block holding up the entire Russiagate narrative. Without that, you have no reason for a special prosecutor. Don't waste your time and mine by brining up his indictments which have nothing to do with Russiagate.
Only if you're a fundie or corporatist tool who thinks his unjustifiable ideology should be treated with the same weight as peer-reviewed theories.
Ah, the Peace Core - the PR wing of the military-industrial complex. All these "it wasn't really a fascist society" stuff reads just like the "Ender's Game wasn't really apologia for total genocide" because Ender felt very, very guilty about it after the fact.
As if all conservatives are religious fundies. Bush's neocon cabal DGAF about religion (aside from election year pandering) yet they were all right-wing assholes.
Yes, nevermind the indoctrination they would have went through in said service, which starts out by deliberately breaking them down as individuals and rebuilding them into literal tools. So what if a handful of them become peacenicks after their service - not only will they be in a minority, they'll have a reflexive desire to "support the troops" since they were one.
That's not racism. And the United States was perfectly happy to draft minorities to fight and die in Korea and Vietnam, only for them to return home to a viciously racist society.
Which is pretty damned fascist. And even peaceniks who reluctantly joined up would participate in napalming bugs Mai Lai if it means helping "their buddies".
Who couldn't vote unless they did. So either people sign up to be imperialist occupiers (and be indoctrinated in the process) or they have no political power.
No, but I'm gonna go ahead and say you're a doosh canoe.
You came so close yet remain so far.
So? The U.S. military was happy to send native americans, latinos and blacks off to kill an eventual 6 million people between the Korean and Vietnam wars, yet the there was more than enough racism for those people to come back home to after "serving their country".
Distinction without a difference. Limited monopolies are a deal to get ISP's to accept government regulation. End said regulation and you'll still end up with a single (or dual) provider anyway due to market consolidation. And then they'll really gouge you. The only alternatives are:
a) Even more government regulation to mandate levels of service, equipment upgrades, and price caps
b) Make the ISP a government run utility
But the people who tend to complain about government trading limited monopolies for regulation tend to oppose more regulation or ermagerd socialism even more strongly.
One thing has nothing to do with the other, you Redmond fart-sniffer, you.
Doesn't change the fact you went on about companies not hiring 'because there are burdens on employers' which is straight up corporatist whackjobbery.
And you love Puerto Ricans as long as they don't move next door....
Crimea voted to join Russia after your literal neo-Nazi pals overthrew the elected government of Ukraine, and started passing legislation that was extremely hostile and discriminatory to minorities. Like the ethnic Russians and Tatars living in Crimea.
Were Pussy Riot waterboarded or beaten to death you god. damned. dumb. fuck? The United States killed at least one hundred people through torture that we know of.
Try.
Zero and zero are equal numbers. Unless you care to explain why the US-backed coup in Ukraine against the elected government has legitimacy, but the super-duper majority vote in Crimea to be annexed does not. Be careful not to break your spine in six places with the contortions necessary to justify such a position.
So how many thousands of people has Russia murdered with robot planes in Central America - about as far away from Russia as Asia is from the U.S.?
And you'll be providing more evidence than there is to support the idea that Seth Rich was assassinated, any minute now?
The entire Russian defense budget is smaller than the size of the last increase to Pentagon spending, which itself is over a trillion dollars a year. So, no, they don't want to.
Voting machines and power plant systems aren't online. So, not online hacking.
You fell off the neocon turnip truck if you think they did. Russia had an existing base in Sevastopol and an agreement lasting decades into the future. If moving forces through that base constitutes an "invasion", here's a fraction of the list of countries the United States is constantly invading with troop movements:
Cuba
England
Italy
Saudi Arabia
Japan
South Korea
Brazil
Hell, Germany alone has over 30 US military installations.
That you're mindlessly repeating talking points without having anything to back them up (aka propaganda).
Not even remotely close. You look at any of these claims and they fall apart like tissue paper after a bad case of Montezuma's Revenge. Like the ZOMFG Russia paid for Facebook ads story. Except when you looked at the details, it was for a few thousand dollars, many of the ads were placed after the election, some were pitching Obama merchandise, and some were pitching a documentary criticizing Trump's golf course in Scotland.
Y'all are insisting the Emperor is wearing clothes here, when it's been obvious to anyone who isn't a moron, born with a hole in their head, or learned a damned thing from the lies told about Iraq that he's been bare-assed naked from day one.
They didn't have anything to do with the United States overthrowing the elected government of Ukraine with the help of literal neo-Nazis. Which prompted the population of Crimea to vote to succeed and join Russia. This was already covered in advance....so you're fucking stupid.
Insurance rates don't skyrocket after a single incident, dumberass.
That would people the people bitching about taxpayers paying for police brutality, slick. Look in the mirror.
Attempt at sarcasm is noted. So how is Apple evil for not publishing their OS for use on other people's hardware? You do know that was the subject at hand, yes?
You should cut back on the hatorade...it makes you stupid. You sound like the political partisans who call you an Obamabot if you say he actually was born in Hawaii, or that you're a MAGA hat wearing Trump voter if you're skeptical of Russiagate.
See above.
Uh, bullshit. Hostess union accepted cut after cut after cut jackass, to keep the union afloat. Because unlike corporate executives, the long term welfare of the union is dependent on the company's well being. As opposed to the corporate executives who DGAF if they run the company into the ground, if they make millions in bonuses in the process, secure millions in golden parachutes, and make millions more selling off the companies assets when it goes belly up.
It's no contest whatsoever. If you are concerned about the long-term health of a company, trust the union over the executives and board of directors.
Sounds like the "up from your bootstraps" mantra. Except you look at statistics and the #1 correlation to how far you get in life is "how much money my daddy had". When people can't make a living wage, they have no choice but to spend what they make.
Bourgeoisiesplaining to the poor is incredibly obnoxious. "Hey poor person, eat Ramen for two meals a day for four decades straight and you can afford a house you can enjoy in retirement - for two years before you die!"
Do you sprinkle some sugar on the corporatist boots before licking them, or do you take them black?