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Why not hold Ukraine hostage? It the Democrats war, they can support Republican interests to fund it, or they don't and we don't support it, and Biden has another lost war under his belt. I don't trust the Republicans to use it well, but its an ideal thing to use hostage.

Your asking why people in the bitching on the internet thread are bitching on the internet? Were we organizing a super pack I'm unware of? All I'm doing is spending time after work discussing stuff that's interesting. If you were actually doing something, your the one wasting time posting...

Well, no. This is a very different purposal than a 100% bracket. 100% bracket means you should earn $12 million in wealth, or whatever, and stop. This still lets you accumulate wealth and give it to who you want, it just forces you to break up a fortune, but in a controlled way that makes sense...

If the goal was simple "equality", much more reasonable than an estate tax is an estate cap. And one much higher than $12 million. Say, up to $100 million inherited by any one individual, or 1/3 may go to a designated heir, and up to $100 million to particular individual. So, if you had someone...

Eh, sorta. I do agree that, like a strike, the stick of an embargo is probably more effective in the threat than the practice. Threatening a $125 billion loss now, in exchange for some relatively minor concession now, which may increase the leverage in the future, has a higher degree of...

This is somewhat the question in all this of where US and Taiwanese moral is on all this. The most recent numbers I've heard is about 5% want outright merger with China right now. If that's true, that's probably the "hard core communist/nationalists" who likes what mainland China is and will...

So, when Nixon helped to give Communist China the UN seat for China rather than the Taiwanese, was that to uphold promises to Taiwan, or to Communist China? I understand what your saying, but if were being up an argument about honor and promises, basically all of those honor and promises the US...

"the powerful do what they will, the weak suffer what they must". While I don't support putting nukes on Taiwan, I also don't really support going to war with China over Taiwan either. Taiwan, by itself, looses. As to the Taiwanese themselves, well, collectively they are the weak vs the strong...

This has not been the official American stance for 50 years. Which comes to the original question, are we going to throw away 50 years of promises and honor to China? Mainland China is the one we've been making promises to since the 70s, not Taiwan. Its my sense the Mainland plans to take back...

You believe Biden has honor? And, well, at this point our promise is more to return Taiwan to China. That is the honor of nearly every president since Nixon that Taiwan is China. So, if we want to follow honor of promises since 1970 and not get in the way of China acquiring its territory fully...

Who would you say won the Cuban missile Crisis? America threatened invasion, the USSR showed they were serious about defending Cuba, and America backed down. Barcles point is, if were serious about defending Taiwanese independence, we would put nukes there, which is a 100x cheaper than...

Eh, doing nothing is always an option. So is failure.

Eh, considering how many of those people have no realistic mechanism to be removed unless they step down or Biden removes them, these people have absolutely no shame, I have my doubts. There's no one capable of forcing Biden or Kamala out who would benefit from forcing Biden or Kamala out. And...

Because the government banned them as a threat to the King?

Why not 2? Seems pretty reasonable reading of the situation.

Considering the kinds of things banks and Master Card have gotten away with, banks can more or less do whatever they want as well as long as its against the politically unpopular.

Wait, the ADLs gotten in trouble for its blackists?

I mean, what can we really do about it?

Yeah, I would agree with some of the others that this is making sure they're on a leash, rather than cracking down on them. If some anarchists push things a little bit further than their corporate overlords have told them to go, they have a tool to rap their knuckles with, and either get their...

yeah, but their interests is a fascist state they control with a boot on all their inferiors. And, well, they lie and project. Accuse your enemies of what you do. What is this all supposed to prove then? edit: apologies, I didn't see who you were responding to and took this argument incorrectly.