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    Elections Problem Solver Politics vs. Secular Talk or Yang vs. Bernie

    Economically, the democrats largely abandoned the working-class people and labor movements which they used to represent for the management class types (the professional, upper middle class types: lawyers, doctors, etc..). That makes their economic policies fairly similar to republicans (though...
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    Elections Problem Solver Politics vs. Secular Talk or Yang vs. Bernie

    You don't own healthcare insurance, you rent it, year by year. It can and will change overtime, and it will never get cheaper or more comprehensive. If you have employer-based healthcare, they can and most likely will change plans to save money. They always have the option to deny your claim...
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    Economy Ocasio-Cortez takes victory lap after Amazon goes to NYC — even after she helped block $3 billion in

    If what you are saying about corporate success building the middle class were true, then the middle class would not be shrinking in most of the richest countries around the world. Face it, the metrics by which we judge what is economic success are badly flawed...
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    Economy Ocasio-Cortez takes victory lap after Amazon goes to NYC — even after she helped block $3 billion in

    NY real estate is different than most of the rest of the country. AOC's district is Queens, it only has a 44.3% of home ownership rate compared with 63% nationally. The total of all of home ownership in NYC is 32.4%. NYC real estate is largely controlled by commercial interests.
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    Economy Ocasio-Cortez takes victory lap after Amazon goes to NYC — even after she helped block $3 billion in

    There's two main points to this story: 1) Amazon was going to expand into New York whether or not they got all those massive tax breaks. It's New York and it was going to happen. I doubt any of the politicians who were pushing for HQ2 were worried about the supposed 27.5$ billion in "tax...
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    Elections Trump Cincannati Rally Sells Out-- Over 17000

    Yup, the two first thoughts that entered my mind when I watched that video were "What a shitty stance" and "what a pillow-fisted coward". I think I might watch too much MMA.
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    Social Natalie Portman to play the first female Thor

    It's Marvel, I don' think the fact that Natalie Portman looks like a tiny stick figure really matters much in the grand scheme of things. What matters more is the fact that her character and all the other humans were the worst part of Thor 1 and Thor 2, which weren't all that great to begin...
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    Social Police officers asked to leave Tempe Starbucks because another customer felt uncomfortable

    While that might be technically true, a business that doesn't have a consistent code of conduct can easily open themselves up to civil litigation, especially when they have as much to lose as Starbucks does. That said, any alleged damage would be so minor that retraining the employee in...
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    Social Police officers asked to leave Tempe Starbucks because another customer felt uncomfortable

    There's no need to turn every store into a war between pro-police and anti-police. One can admit that the barista in question handled the situation very stupidly. Paying customers who are not violating the code of conduct required by the business should have the right to stay there at least...
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    Elections New CNN poll: Biden's lead slips to 5 points, Kamala and Liz make gains, BERNIE DROPS TO 4TH PLACE

    Harris- She did well in a debate and got a bump from it. She's also more of a centrist candidate that the media doesn't mind giving coverage too. Even if she pulled ahead of Bernie or Warren in a few polls, that doesn't mean her lead will last. The debates will be trimmed down significantly...
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    Opinion AOCs concentration camp statement seems to be gaining traction

    All you are trying to do is smear her with the least charitable reading of her statement, what else is new. If someone doesn't know there are more concentration camps than the German death camps, they need to read some books and learn some history. No one thinks the US are putting the...
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    Opinion AOCs concentration camp statement seems to be gaining traction

    Because there are more concentration camps than just Auschwitz and the German camps. Here's a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concentration_and_internment_camps When people are interred into a camp, they are often interred into what is called a concentration camp. "Internment is...
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    Opinion AOCs concentration camp statement seems to be gaining traction

    The term concentration camp doesn't automatically refer to Nazi death camps. The US had concentration camps for the Japanese during WWII FFS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans "The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the...
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    Elections Bernie: "I'll just move conservative judges off the SCOTUS and replace them with mine"

    The threat of such violence didn't prevent the incident at Waco. Some of the ATF agents died, but a lot more of the Branch Davidans did, and don't think the government wouldn't use more deadly force, like drone strikes, in the name of keeping their agents safe.
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    Elections Bernie: "I'll just move conservative judges off the SCOTUS and replace them with mine"

    Right that's my point. That's why I think proclaiming to be an originalist is a political ploy rather than a concrete legal interpretation. IMO an interpretation you could make if you agree with Nunn v. Georgia, than you are agreeing that a citizen has the right to bear arms to defend...
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    Elections Bernie: "I'll just move conservative judges off the SCOTUS and replace them with mine"

    No one is actually an originalist though. No one has a time machine which allows them to go back in time to talk to the founding fathers and ask them what each phrase originally meant. Besides, if you asked them about slavery, they'd would likely tell you it should still be legal, given that...
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    Elections Bernie: "I'll just move conservative judges off the SCOTUS and replace them with mine"

    Even if immigration was stopped today, the numbers that are already here are here to stay. Those demographics still won't improve for republicans. I'll ask you again, once those shifts occur and republicans only represent around 33% of the population, do you expect everyone else to sit idly by...
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    Elections Bernie: "I'll just move conservative judges off the SCOTUS and replace them with mine"

    A system where the party which consistently loses the popular vote is allowed to hold power for multiple decades as they represent less and less of the population is a failing system, and eventually it breaks, just ask Russia or China. By the time the boomers all die, the republicans will...
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    Elections Bernie: "I'll just move conservative judges off the SCOTUS and replace them with mine"

    https://www.history.com/news/7-things-you-might-not-know-about-the-u-s-supreme-court "The U.S. Constitution established the Supreme Court but left it to Congress to decide how many justices should make up the court. The Judiciary Act of 1789 set the number at six: a chief justice and five...
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    Economy Thoughts on inheritance.

    It's an interesting thought exercise, I'll give you that. The very idea of inheritance has undoubtedly been part and parcel to human civilization since the beginning of time, including civilizations across the globe, and civilizations from every time period. For instance, many Native American...
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