Some one from rural U.S. can correct me if I'm wrong, but I've had family members need care in weird places on the road and didn't have any issues like getting belted to a chair and have weird shit jabbed into them.
For sure, the car companies also create technologies to make it prohibitive to get your car diagnosed and repaired elsewhere, in addition to providing the dealers (i.e. "requiring dealers to buy") the diagnostic tools to help them fix their brand's vehicles. Software has taken this even further, and will surely continue in that direction (I used to be able to fix pretty much anythi
A guy I used to work with from Russia showed me some pretty traumatic videos of some Russian "medical" procedures. I would assume it gets worse the more rural areas you go, like where he grew up.
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On a monthly basis, do you pay more in taxes, or for health insurance?
I pay much (much) more in taxes than for medical insurance.
If you are implying that going to a single-payer system would cost less, or benefit me and my family more, this is absolutely false. I would likely be paying 3-4 times the amount for my health insurance than I am now (assuming a 15% increase in taxe
I know many Christians who do not get "mad butthurt" over folks from other religions moving here.
If you want to have an argument over where in Christian doctrine it says to kill those who aren't Christians or something like that then have at it (hint: you won't be very successful).
As for the rest of your examples, again, you're correlating fucked up behavior with
Maybe even swayed me to agree with you.
I'm wondering though, if it's legal to go around in public wearing kkk robes or a hitler outfit or something else similarly disruptive to the public in general. I believe it's technically legal, right? Has anyone made laws against this, at any level?
Hijabs, sure. I live in California, for what it's worth.
Edit: As a funny side-note, I work for a software company that has had to remove things like this, for games/content intended for Arabic-based companies: crosses on top of bishops in chess games, mention of "wine" in level-titles of games, any mention of "Israel" at all, in the most innocuous of places, the list
And it's not a free market. And its not free trade. It's the 1% of the 1%'ers getting everything and using the rest of the world's poorest as slave-wage labor to produce the goods as cheaply as possible. Governments of nations enable laws which benefit trade for these 1%'ers, yet the benefit does not go back to the people of said nations, it goes back to the 1% of the 1%&
Globalism is not true capitalism, it is a mix of capitalism and corporatism. What I mean is that the top 1% are not only rich because they are getting 10% interest on a lot of money, they are getting exponentially more rich and powerful because lobbyists and politicians and corporations collude to give them advantages that you or I as an individual do not have.
The line is really drawn when go
Different for sure, but I can see the logic in each side.
A couple things I wanted to clarify/add.
Re: 1.
Spot on. I agree that no meaningful discussions between nations can occur while the goals of globalism hold sway over US politics, because a major goal of globalism itself is to remove the lines of national boundaries and national interests. So the only discussions to be had (under gl
The article paints a pretty similar picture to other anti-globalist arguments I've heard lately, and its very interesting to see it from the Russian perspective. Though the ending paragraph is pretty ominous, and it makes me think if this article is really anti-globalism or pro-globalism (or globalism-agnostic?).
As a side note what are your thoughts on Russia's latest (alleged) pi
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I'm not a big fan of nationalism and patriotism.
We'd be a much better country if people didn't think like this. I mean, I'm not telling anyone how to think, but you are free to leave you know.
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Personally, I think its kind of telling that you trust wikileaks (run by a foreign national with heavy links to Russia) over US intelligence agencies. Now, I won't claim the US intelligence agencies are perfect or anything, they have been completely, utterly wrong before, but there's exactly zero oversight for wikileaks, period. We have no idea what they publish and wha
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It is also possible there were multiple unrelated parties (Russian and non-Russian) hacking into the DNC computers at the same time.
Probably this.
How many times have any of our accounts been hacked or broken into, and we're just regular people--one of billions. These are very high-profile email accounts (and they were just email accounts we're talking about, not some
That is neat info.
In your opinion, why on earth would the DHS provide an example to malicious software in their report, when it is (seemingly) so easily identified as generic non-Russian-government source, particularly without disclosing the significance of why this source would be included in the report when it is not of Russian origin?
As a side note, in the original JAR report, I found
Cool. This place is a great forum to discuss world politics, because we have smart folks from around the world, who have been here for years.
Some policies I'll be happy if Trump will keep his word on, in no particular order, and not limited to:
1) Repeal of ACA (aka Obamacare), and encourage competition across state lines. Obama's (and Hillary's) goal of a single-payer syst
Another good thing that came from it: the mainstream media basically torpedoed all of the credibility they had left. I don't suspect news 10 years from now will look anything like it does today, for better or for worse.
4) Nothing in the emails has been disputed as untrue. Some of the things I read in there shake my already skeptical faith in politics to their core. Collusion with media, confirmed. Intentionally escalating wedge issues and identity politics to sway the public, confirmed. Obama choosing his cabinet members based on a color chart of race rather than quality, confirmed. Not one iota of discussion a
Trump called a reporter a bimbo (when everyone watching was probably thinking the same thing), Rosie O'Donnell fat (when everyone is probably thinking the same thing), some illegal immigrants drug-dealers (some actually are, and those who aren't know they aren't, so they can assume he wasn't referring to them)... see the pattern?
Even the protesters, he never said they were
He'll always attack a figurehead-- union leader, politician, head of corporation, etc.
He leaves it open just enough so that even Mexican-American immigrants can come back later and rationalize that he wasn't talking about them when he refers to criminals and drug dealers. If you parse his words, he never really said anyone was bad except for the bad people.
Hillary on the other h
What effect did it have?
Specifically:
1) What exactly was hacked by Putin (emails? which hacked emails? Podestas? DNC?) ?
2) What specific effect did this have on getting Trump elected?
These corporations are severely intertwined with Chinese economy at this point. This is a big reason why there has been so much resistance to Trump's economic platform thus far- both from corporation, and from the media (who let's face it are owned by corporations themselves). You have all of this kicking and screaming not wanting Trump to disrupt the racket these guys have going on-- t
Quotevortexmagus
All you do is try and refute CIA reports with your word.
Care to cite these CIA reports? It's because there are no CIA reports that have been provided to us telling us how the Russians hacked anything.