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The short answer is wealth inequality within and without the United States. It gives him incredible power that he can either abuse or waste. He could ...
January 27, 2020 at 02:50
I say good riddance to bad rubbish regarding the elite exodus. Where you see future collapse, I see change and opportunity (an industry shakeout) and ...
January 27, 2020 at 02:08
At the obvious risk of sounding like Karl Marx, I think that the crucial value of a wealth tax is that it addresses concentrated ownership of the mean...
January 27, 2020 at 00:38
I get what you're saying, but I'm not interested in over-taxation. You're making a slippery-slope argument that cannot aptly be applied to Bernie's pl...
January 26, 2020 at 23:18
Wealth taxes are a great idea; not at all populism. I'm not sure from which lands you hail, but it sounds like a tax on wealth above 200k is obviously...
January 26, 2020 at 21:19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYIzQAQcpGc Anyone else watching this historic shit show? Mitch McConnell has got to be just about the most contemptib...
January 21, 2020 at 23:47
What do you mean by "a specific social relation and power"? If you mean something like "the power of whites", then you're not being specific at all. T...
January 21, 2020 at 01:11
I don't like Zionism because it presupposes that land currently belonging to native inhabitants is the rightful property of a religious authoritarian ...
January 18, 2020 at 23:45
I feel like I could write a novel-length post on this subject, so I'll be intentionally brief. Intersectional feminist theory draws from the post-mode...
January 18, 2020 at 23:37
Clearly there was, and regardless of how much desire there has been for a Trump impeachment, the impeachment trial is in fact about justice. Trying to...
January 16, 2020 at 01:05
:up: The historic... What is this? Government by Torah? Palestine belongs to the Jewish religion I guess. The homes and lives of the illegal aliens wh...
January 14, 2020 at 22:16
I once asked my (Jehova's witness) grandmother why she thought all the other churches were wrong... She said "because they think Jesus died on a cross...
January 08, 2020 at 01:51
What's he going to say? How, because Israel and Saudi Arabia are such great friends, we should destroy Iran for them? Is doing to Iran what was done t...
January 08, 2020 at 01:16
Sometimes a Trump fuck-up is just a Trump fuck-up... But for all the ways the anti-Trumpers contort their principles in order to condemn him in every ...
January 06, 2020 at 01:20
"Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective. So the only way he figure...
January 03, 2020 at 21:51
So more irrelevant nonsense then?
January 03, 2020 at 06:13
Right. Ignoring the point I made and substituting irrelevant nonsense. We agree. Well if according to the white house the bad terrorists are dead and ...
January 03, 2020 at 06:08
Right. You're just ignoring the point in favor of an irrelevant red-herring appeal to the fact that armies exist. Because of who they killed. Apparent...
January 03, 2020 at 05:42
But war literally involves sending soldiers to fight and risk dying. Are you saying that soldiers join the army knowing they risk being sent to fight ...
January 03, 2020 at 05:25
Your point doesn't need to pertain to specific wars. You were suggesting that sending soldiers to die in wars isn't a negative thing because the soldi...
January 03, 2020 at 05:12
Oh shoot... You got me there. How can we blame politicians for starting wars? Since the soldiers voluntarily joined the army, it's not the politicians...
January 03, 2020 at 05:10
Some wise-ass once remarked that war consists of old men sending young men away to die.. (some old Roman dude IIRC)... Some other dude once said that ...
January 03, 2020 at 04:08
Looks like the U.S and/or Israel just assassinated one of the top Iranian military officials, along with a handful of other Hezbollah commanders (and ...
January 03, 2020 at 02:41
True, but only because automation has largely rendered their human assets more expendable. Without their automation tech, Amazon would need millions u...
December 24, 2019 at 02:17
I'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying that it's corrupt for lawyers to seek the maximums? In much the same way, criminal prosecutors and criminal...
December 24, 2019 at 02:03
After a read of your original post and a few responses. I just skimmed the Humbug article, which does make some interesting points: humbug as a violat...
December 24, 2019 at 01:52
Corporations only care about the bottom line, which is why extracting justice from them in the form of damages (cash), is an effective deterrent again...
December 24, 2019 at 01:01
I think lying and bullshitting are on two separate spectra entirely (except maybe on the spectrum of self-deception vs intentional deception of others...
December 24, 2019 at 00:54
I remember reading a quote that I believe was used as evidence to show intent. it went something like "Whether by the window or the door, I'll get the...
December 24, 2019 at 00:42
But when the sand-man intentionally tries to over-sand and damage some oysters into retreat to save on dismissal costs or other obstacles, then we hav...
December 24, 2019 at 00:17
I did read that they essentially terrorized the employees by moving them around into new roles they were unsuited for, and setting unrealistic product...
December 23, 2019 at 23:55
They're called occupational safety and health administration laws (OSHA standards) https://employment.findlaw.com/workplace-safety/workplace-safety-os...
December 23, 2019 at 23:21
"Duty of care" certainly applies in the employer-employee relationship. However, in tort law, duty of care pertains to "negligence" suits, but the act...
December 23, 2019 at 23:17
It's a betrayal of the employer-employee relationship/contract. When someone agrees to work for a company, there is an unspoken assumption that the em...
December 23, 2019 at 22:36
Are you suggesting that the market should sort this out? What if some disgruntled employees harassed the execs to the point that one of them commits s...
December 23, 2019 at 22:29
I only glanced at an article about this so i might be wrong, but didn't orange execs intentionally try to make people's lives and working conditions m...
December 23, 2019 at 22:10
So let me get this straight: The founders gave the senate the power of "impeachment", the most critical and sensitive type of judicial proceedings in ...
December 23, 2019 at 02:55
So when the trial begins, the senators are going to swear an oath to uphold their subjective whims? They could always be impeached for it (which would...
December 23, 2019 at 02:39
:up: But I much prefer a goold old fashioned pants-yank :) Let the whole world see their resplendent new robes...
December 23, 2019 at 02:16
What Mitch said is definitely "unconsitutitional" (in that it controverts the constitution in rhetoric), but whether or not that speech could be crimi...
December 23, 2019 at 02:07
I'm thankful for the honesty that people are showing (as well as for their civility). I can just hardly restrain my grin when, at this stage, Republic...
December 23, 2019 at 02:02
But it's the Senator's role to interpret and apply the constitution during an impeachment trial. If what @"Hanover" suggests is true, then the Senate ...
December 23, 2019 at 01:49
Technically there is no actual formal "jurors oath" as far as I know (or at least no defined penalties). I think in a typical civil, state or federal ...
December 23, 2019 at 01:31
The founders gave impeachment trial power exclusively to the senate because they assumed the upper house would be filled with the most intelligent, de...
December 23, 2019 at 01:26
Article 1, section 3, clause 6: When sitting for an impeachment trial, the senators shall be on oath or affirmation... The senators are essentially ju...
December 23, 2019 at 01:18
Abuse of power is what got us here in the first place. You can call it a "political process" like Mitch McConnell et al., but in reality when he turns...
December 23, 2019 at 00:29
I see why it means: democracy is not perfect, but I'm not sure why you're saying it doesn't work...
December 22, 2019 at 05:21
Even though Trump will probably not be impeached by the senate (there is yet a chance depending on what else comes out in the trial), the fact that co...
December 22, 2019 at 00:13
Actually, yes we did... Primitive number systems are very basic. They go something like "One, Two, Three, more than three, more than all my fingers an...
December 19, 2019 at 23:09
Round the office, implodes again; that's the Satyr's play! Faster faster; tremendous: best!~ There's no longer any knowing, Which direction we are goi...
December 19, 2019 at 22:31