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Assuming the politburo is stable enough to survive a purge. If CoViD is in the DPRK, who knows what it looks like in central Pyongyang?

I work with a lot of younger people, most with college on their minds. Most don't care about any stigma. They want money and opportunity. For a kid with hustle, a good college degree offers money and opportunity around the world. A trade, while reliable, has a ceiling in earnings and opportunity.

Playing MLB The Show 2020. I love some baseball, and the card collecting part of the game is second to none.

Yes. A far better version of the same solution would be to incentivize people to go down these paths. The government could use tax breaks, grants, or whatever, but a labor corps isn't a solution. I have friends who knew that they wanted to be Rabbis before they were ten. They buried themselves...

I'm one of the many people worldwide who feel no urge whatsoever to have children. That's not porn, that's the fact that it's my body, my life, my choice, and I have other things I'd rather do.

I agree. Communism promoted paranoia and fear. Everyone was scared of everyone else, and the USSR was scared of the world.

It's easier than accepting responsibility.

Thanks. It's one of my more treasured memories. That and two of my brothers trying to move the television into the bedroom from the den to make the moment possible. I'm sorry to hear that. The massive shame of such (otherwise joyous) events is that the people who need to see them the most...

My parents fled Soviet communism in the forties. My father saw the wall come down as he lay dying.

Big pharma could make a McDonalds-like chain, and others could have Mom and Pop style operations which already exist for drugs like weed. It would make for an interesting "buy American" campaign.

Our society is built on a marketplace of ideas. If something like pornography causes trouble for a religion, that should be addressed at the religion's end.

I honestly can't think of a better one than the one in the OP.

They're the same with movie violence. Society used to have public executions as family occasions, but watching Clint Eastwood shoot bad guys is going to corrupt us all.

I didn't mind Bloomberg as mayor when I lived there. Maybe DeBlasio could be Bloomberg's running mate, to hide the indignity of DeBlasio's campaign having stalled completely.

And they'll be the ones to ruin capitalism for the rest of us. It's easy propaganda, and just plain annoying.