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I suspect that by removing federal regulation, communities can develop and exercise control over policies responsive to unique local needs.
July 29, 2020 at 20:46
Trump rescinds AFHH rule. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1288509572223651840?s=21
July 29, 2020 at 17:20
Big military moves announced by the administration. https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Speeches/Speech/Article/2292081/us-european-command-force-posture...
July 29, 2020 at 16:38
In: Privilege  — view comment
How can the weather (or in another example, stairs) grant privilege? These sorts of objects cannot grant anything, let alone special rights and privil...
July 29, 2020 at 16:12
MLK was committed to non-violence and believed riots intensified the fears of the white community while relieving their guilt. The temper-tantrum excu...
July 29, 2020 at 15:35
In: Privilege  — view comment
It is relevant because if someone does not privilege you, you are not privileged. So it is not only unjust to call people who are not privileged “priv...
July 29, 2020 at 03:37
In: Privilege  — view comment
In order to have privilege one must first be privileged, or in other words, someone must grant him a special right or immunity. If someone doesn’t gra...
July 29, 2020 at 01:25
The war zone metaphor refers mostly to the tactics of those involved—teargas, projectiles, makeshift explosives, riot shields—and the resultant destru...
July 29, 2020 at 00:05
People are laying siege to a federal courthouse in Portland. Looks like a war zone. Here is a livestream from Sunday. https://youtu.be/FkzBCoB-WJY
July 28, 2020 at 19:54
Attorney General Barr is testifying in front of the house judiciary committee on the federal response to riots and violent protests. A lot of roaming ...
July 28, 2020 at 17:02
Igor Danchenko has been identified as the primary source for Christopher Steele. He is a Russian-born analyst living in the US. https://www.nytimes.co...
July 26, 2020 at 19:16
Why do you disapprove when devil Trump does it?
July 26, 2020 at 15:55
Donald Trump acts to cut prescription drug prices in US https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53534950 https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1...
July 25, 2020 at 14:29
Reading minds again, right ssu? You know what Trump desperately wants, even if he has exclaimed the exact opposite. It’s a shame that such loose progn...
July 24, 2020 at 15:35
Deploying federal agents and detaining rioters, looters and terrorists in Portland is perfectly legal. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/40/1315...
July 24, 2020 at 12:36
I don’t see how any of that is the case. The rising tide is raising all boats, for instance with the decline in global extreme poverty and the rise in...
July 23, 2020 at 17:02
I don’t think wealth can necessarily concentrate in the hands of a few because wealth is not a zero sum game. For instance when I make a dollar you do...
July 23, 2020 at 16:41
It seems to me that the threat of “Russian interference” is largely overblown. If we can avoid this threat by not watching RT or not going on twitter,...
July 22, 2020 at 17:15
It’s more along the lines of De Tocqueville’s “soft despotism”. You can look to the state to demand of others what you yourself refuse to do, but in s...
July 22, 2020 at 15:55
I’m not opposed to wearing a mask. It’s just that I prefer when it’s a matter of choice rather than mandatory, and for the same reason I oppose any ma...
July 21, 2020 at 20:21
The problem is there are downsides to wearing masks, for instance a false sense of security, more face touching. So public health officials need to we...
July 21, 2020 at 18:48
You can get the same effect by wearing a bag over your head. Or maybe one can simply refrain from spitting on others.
July 21, 2020 at 18:34
We should note that “Capitalism” was initially a snarl word used by socialists to disparage a sort of bogeyman. So I think a name change would be appr...
July 21, 2020 at 18:16
It was a direct quote from the WHO. What it says is “ there is no direct evidence (from studies on COVID- 19 and in healthy people in the community) o...
July 21, 2020 at 17:17
Corporations do not possess the monopoly on violence because they are comprised of private individuals like ourselves. Because the state has the monop...
July 20, 2020 at 17:07
According to Hanauer, successful economies are like gardens: to be tended by some gardener. He says this before reminding us that “the economy is peop...
July 20, 2020 at 15:15
At present, there is no direct evidence (from studies on COVID- 19 and in healthy people in the community) on the effectiveness of universal masking o...
July 20, 2020 at 13:45
It’s a shame the issue has become so political because the science isn’t exactly there at the moment. According to the WHO’s most recent mask guidelin...
July 18, 2020 at 22:13
To be fair, the term “political correctness” is awful, perhaps ironic in the sense that it is itself a euphemism for routine bigotry. In that case I t...
July 18, 2020 at 21:40
It’s largely euphemistic language.
July 18, 2020 at 18:28
It’s not so much what I want to say as it is my aversion to a prefabricated and emaciated terminology which makes differences on matters of principle ...
July 18, 2020 at 18:00
People who like political correctness routinely say it is about being respectful. But it comes in the form of intolerance and censorship rather than p...
July 18, 2020 at 16:59
I wouldn’t refer to the warrior as such. A “Redskin” to me is someone who plays for the Redskins.
July 18, 2020 at 16:02
An aboriginal.
July 18, 2020 at 14:12
I don’t think it should be changed because I like the name and the logo. To me it evokes a brave warrior.
July 17, 2020 at 14:32
An opinion that I can defend. Your opinion, however, lacks any such argument.
July 15, 2020 at 20:08
Lies. This is just how the PC police see themselves.
July 15, 2020 at 15:50
It’s just untrue that political correctness has anything to do with hate speech, and it appears that the only one who needs a definition is yourself.
July 15, 2020 at 15:47
Hate speech is a problem. But political correctness was never about hate speech.
July 15, 2020 at 01:26
I would argue it’s one of the worst tactic against hate and violence, for a few reasons. One, we need to know who the haters are, and hate speech is o...
July 15, 2020 at 01:23
People have been speaking about, writing about, and have been warning us about political correctness for decades. Quibble all you need, but I wager mo...
July 15, 2020 at 00:26
Right, bad optics. I don’t care what people think when justice is on the line. That sort of politics is for the birds. According to Stone they tried t...
July 14, 2020 at 19:09
9 out of 10 Native Americans are not offended by the Washington Redskins name, and in fact many express admiration for it, 88% of Native Americans opp...
July 14, 2020 at 19:04
It’s the right judgement. As we now know, government investigators failed to include key sections of the Papadopoulos transcripts in the Page FISA war...
July 13, 2020 at 18:33
I said his treatment was unjust because he was treated unfairly. As for crossfire and Mueller, both were opened with bad reason. Both were expensive f...
July 13, 2020 at 18:04
They did their job poorly, as we now know. Not only that but the animus of the lead investigators are well documented. “ not ever going to become pres...
July 13, 2020 at 17:59
It’s a shame they let reach and influence the highest echelons of American security, intelligence and media.
July 13, 2020 at 17:34
The steele dossier was certainly a part of the investigation, directly leading to spying on American citizens, and Steele gave info to the FBI well in...
July 13, 2020 at 17:32
What evidence do you have that he intentionally misled Congress? Perhaps I missed it and wouldn’t mind hearing it.
July 13, 2020 at 17:20
I stated, “The Steele dossier was payed for by the Clinton campaign and sourced from Russian intelligence, leading to unwarranted spying, investigatio...
July 13, 2020 at 17:00