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    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    The critical caveat is that several contentious states rather blatantly violated the laws they did have on the books with changes to procedure via executive fiat, improperly printed ballots, incorrect materials for ballots, and many a chain of custody broken. Entirely aside all the statistical...
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    United States Anti-Semitism in the United States (and elsewhere)

    I'd say that it's the opposite, the way being a middle-man in economics works is that you're exposed to less overall risk because you aren't tied up nearly as specifically as direct supply-demand relationships. It's not nearly as bad for Levi if the farmer screws up because he can go to another...
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    peter Zeihan 2020

    Not really, it's more a clusterfuck of patrol timings and the terribly large overhead of defense saturation. They're not getting shit past a carrier group, but it takes a lot to draw one of those off-course.
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    Five minutes of hate news

    The point is the slowly-increasing mass of voters being payed out more than they're taxed, thus they're being given goods payed for by taking money from people richer than them.
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    United States 'Prepping' for Disaster Diversifies as More Americans Lose Trust

    Wrong way around, the individualized prepping is downstream from the end of cohesive communities. In the sense that they have blurry and frayed edges of social connections and aren't particularly geographically constrained, so there's no clear line of "the community" to prepare. And the groups...
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    Trump Investigations Thread

    You were making good points about Vyor's offered definition being inaccurate, but then fucked up even harder with this. The system's purpose is defined by its creators, not its present operators. The present operators working otherwise is them subverting the system, rather than representative of...
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    American Middle Class Disappearing?

    I still hold that it would not be nearly as much of an issue without corporations taking full control over the capital involved. If residuals for the automation were a thing, instead of habitually stripping all IP rights by contract, then there'd be a decently-sized...
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    Leftist Child Grooming

    And was ditched because it could not be made a clearly-defined and limited-scope exception, let alone have the public interest demonstrated in court at the time. Even now, there's far less controversial and even more unreasonable to block things that do more damage than what has been uncovered...
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    Immigration and multiculturalism news

    State and Federal suffrage have an extremely long history of being independent factors, with it taking quite a long time for the majority of citizens to receive it at the Federal level. We have a number of terms that arise from the shenanigans that ensued, like "Grandfather Clause".
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    United States Forget the National Debt - Most of America's Big Cities Are Broke

    Cherico and Vetrom, who we are in a reply-chain with, shifted to discussing a much more general case: Apparently not because I have no clue what terms to search for "using tax breaks to bait in businesses in general" without hitting a brick wall of unrelated reporting on budget shortfalls...
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    United States Forget the National Debt - Most of America's Big Cities Are Broke

    The problem is that a lot of these municipalities are making the cuts but then get nowhere near enough business moving in to replace the old tax base at the lower rate, so the municipality that handles things like maintaining roads ends up even deeper in the whole because they gutted their...
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    "TradWives" Triggering Unhappy Feminists

    Well, a good chunk of it is that automation-based productivity increases inherently reduce the people involved. However, this "should" have resulted in a much more impactful group of technical staff from that productivity going to the people contributing the capital responsible, whereas the...
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    Immigration and multiculturalism news

    And for many companies, that's all buying pre-existing shares is good for. For stock markets to be primarily investments, you need them to be made up mostly of dividend-paying and vote-granting shares, which has become increasingly rare.
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    Immigration and multiculturalism news

    Emphasis on the important bit. Again, most of the intervention is mean to be specifically to "unjam" a crisis, then when the economy is going well the government is supposed to step back and recover its spending power. If I recall the right economist, Kaynes himself specifically said not to do...
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    Immigration and multiculturalism news

    That pushing is, by the works of Keynes himself, supposed to be temporary to get out of a crisis, not permanent to keep the line going up as fast as possible. The point I was making is that of course the theory isn't going to work when you flatly refuse to apply the part where government...
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