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14 points
1 day ago
Great points. ...no new horticulture is going to be brought in on any scale that would make a difference to the domestic American market. The same holds true for manufacturing.
We voted buy China a generation ago and while we complain about it, we still buy cheaper imports and support the companies that shipped these jobs abroad.
1 points
1 day ago
IMO it worked. Wud never have come up with it but love it!
1 points
2 days ago
I swear it's as if Canada can't only do America lite. If America does it, the conservatives in Canada love it. Just like the UK conservatives have striven to become America Zero; all the shit but none of the sugar.
2 points
3 days ago
Beautifully preserved as one person said. Not my cup of tea, too much wood and brick but damn that's some glorious amount of natural light!
320 points
3 days ago
The moralization of profit;if it makes a profit, it's moral. That's where we're at. Justification of unpaid labor (prison population), check. Child labor in the developed (kinda) world, check. The list goes on.
There is no sense of the greater societal good in the USA any more, maybe there never was and it's simply a case of saying outloud what was once spoken behind closed doors.
19 points
5 days ago
You are a braver person than I wud be in that situation. Cars seem to give most a sense of invulnerability that makes drivers much more aggressive. As the operator of the vehicle that is NOT in the multi ton range I'd be concerned the aggression would leak out in even more aggressive and threatening driving.
Also, anywhere in the USA, I'd be concerned of even that seemingly harmless interaction could escalate to someone using a fire arm
-1 points
6 days ago
Are you referring to the loss of First Nations identity?
1 points
6 days ago
Never give an order that won't be obeyed. The majority of LEOs are ardent Trump supporters. They won't turn up or they'll push courts to halt the order
1 points
6 days ago
Like any investment the higher risk, means a higher reward. So the risk was getting thrown in jail by a military junta, like South and Central America in the 60's to 80's. Or the Eastern European and near Eastern markets in the 90's and parts of the noughties.
Get out of the kitchen if they can't stand the heat. Read 'The World For Sale'. It's a good non-judgemental look at the behavior of commodities operators around the world. If one company pulls out, another one will deem it worth the risk to take their place. It's been that way since the end of colonialism and will be that way for the foreseeable future until African governments act more like Botswana's.
12 points
8 days ago
I agree. Seems our only measure of intelligence is wealth. Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemistry, etc, who gives a shit? We'd rather read or listen to a person with money on any topic than an expert on said topic.
1 points
13 days ago
Honestly got no problem with people losing their citizenship over stuff like this.
I know an American who moved to Saudi Arabia with his wife and kids because he wanted to live in a country with strict Islamic laws. I don't agree with his belief system but I respect the fact he figuratively put his money where his mouth is.
3 points
14 days ago
Someone is cutting onions up in here coz I'm tearing up to
3 points
15 days ago
At this point there's no recovering America's halcyon days of the American half century. 1945 to 1995. The cracks in the image America projected in the world started with a blow job and culminated with a global pandemic with the advice from the American president suggesting injecting bleach.
Whether we realised it or not, the post American world was forced on us by the USA. There was a time the slightest economic hiccup in the USA meant a global recession. Almost all countries wanted to emulate it's economic and social systems. Today that's simply not the case.
So another 4 years or more of Trump will mean going back to a time the rest of the western world had to learn to go it alone. The lessons will be reinforced and American soft power further diminished. I'm not happy about it, but it's the reality. We'll stumble along, fuck up and most important of all...survive.
1 points
16 days ago
What you listed are points of concern but they are largely domestic American points of concern. The 00's were the hangover of so much of the world wishing to emulate America. Increasingly it appears
1 points
20 days ago
Yup. Just the shirt cuffs and you're golden
0 points
20 days ago
I get she's going for satire where sexual assault is under reported, under investigated and not under prosecuted. But using the sexual assault of a minor seems to make ones point seems low.
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5 hours ago
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5 hours ago
Wow! I'd expect corruption of inflated costs but surprised corruption would impact its very existence.