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Sooo, was this deliberate sabotage or an outcome from China's authoritarian corruption? I think it is "just" corruption but doesn't really excuse or explain why this happened. I have a strong bias against Chinese manufacturing. Not just because their system is so corrupt that a businessman...

I don't see where in my reply to you that I was advocating what you say? In any case, if "contract/covenant marriage" as defined by the Christian Nationalists became the only choice allowable under a state's law, then it wouldn't be called covenant marriage, it would just be called marriage...

The logic goes like this: Because some people are harmed by the choice they make, we will remove that choice from everybody. This is the argument the religious right make regarding abortion, marijuana, IVF, literature, porn and so forth. So, no. The idea of banning covenant marriage because...

This issue will come before them again, quite possibly at a time when a Republican administration can decide not to fight for our rights. They could and should have ruled that the antiabortionist's case had no merit but did not do that. Takeaways from Supreme Court ruling: Abortion pill...

Use a drinking fountain, go to jail.

EU Customers pay the tax/tariff. The real answer is to work on your own costs, not make the products of others less affordable to customers. That said, China is supposedly subsidizing the production of EV vehicles in order to stimulate investment in said production. Hence tariffs. Perhaps the...

I feel the need to find that movie and make an evening of it.

Thank you Brandon https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-consumer-prices-flat-may-defying-expectations-slight-rise-2024-06-12/ US consumer prices unchanged in May; rate-cut expectations rise Summary Consumer price index unchanged in May CPI increases 3.3% on year-on-year basis Core CPI rises...

Oregon voted this measure into law November, 2022 by a vote of 970,000 for and 942,000 against. Almost immediately, the law was put on hold to allow the murder by gun lobby to file a suit against it in a rural county with 10,000 residents -- fewer people than even the slim margin the measure...

"every campaign does this."

Translation by Google translate: "Because I don't have anything to say. And because Democrats." Would somebody please translate the translation?

If only their stooges had a sense of humor like the three did.

Convicted of a law that is often broken and rarely enforced. :roll: But, yeah, he's guilty. I don't think that was ever in doubt. He could face up to 25 years in prison, but first-time offenders who did not use their weapons to commit a violent crime typically receive no jail time. This...

I think their ultimate objective is to gain power. IMO, being hateful in order to rile up their base is a tactic, not an objective.

Point made. Censorship gets serious when it affects a person's livelihood. What you experienced echoes the blacklisting that went on during the red scare of the 1950's. It seems that the Chinese government has already adopted this tool as a way to punish people for speaking out...

It depends on the objective. If their objective were to win over as many people as possible then this tactic sucks.

a perspective. Finland managed to survive by both inflicting serious damage on invaders and conceding territory. https://audioboom.com/posts/8469469-how-finland-escaped-stalin-s-grasp

OK, so this guy isn't necessarily a Trump judge. He was first appointed by a panel of circuit court judges to the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas in 2015, where he's become a popular judge with corporations whose bankruptcies are a major cause of the increasing wealth...

I personally agree with all of the arguments Greenberg listed and could add a few more. Lock him up and vote Republicans out.

This is not good news but also not the shocker it could have been for those who follow this forum, thanks to your informative posts on the subject.