Don't you see what kind of slippery slope this is? What's next? Affordable housing? Free healthcare??
mcv
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That is very well put, and as far as I can tell it applies to all forms of conservatism, from monarchism where the king is above the law and peasants have no rights, to oligarchy where the rich are above the law while the poor have no rights, to fascism where the inner circle and the stormtroopers who serve them are above the law while minorities have no rights, or class-based societies where your laws and rights depend on your class or caste, and theocracy where the clergy decides your rights and obligations depending on your position.
I've always taken it to mean: put your effort into making it work first, before worrying about optimization. Once it works, you can decide whether it's worth putting effort into optimization. But if you do that first, you might optimize for the wrong thing. Or get distracted by optimization so you never get it to work.
The fact that they have improved air quality is not sufficient reason? Do they think air quality is like painting a house, that it only has to be done every couple of years?
the administration is “not going to ignore the rule of law.”
So why is Trump not in prison, then?
This administration has constantly ignored the rule of law.
Medvedev's credibility is low indeed. He's always the one to do the nuclear sabre rattling.
Even so, I wonder if this might not work as a devious plan for them. Give Iran a nuke, and if they use it offensively, they'll be the ones testing the rest of the world about what they're going to do about it without any risk of Russia getting turned into a steppe of glass.
Israel might get destroyed, Iran might get destroyed, but Russia will survive. And if Iran survives, that gives Russia more confidence that they will too if they use a nuclear bomb.
what I went through wasn’t an abortion
You're ending a pregnancy, right? That's all an abortion is: you abort the pregnancy.
Gold medal for mental gymnastics there.
The reason Kennedy left the Democratic Party and joined Trump, is because Kennedy is a dangerous idiot and Trump os a gullible fool, and Democratic voters don't tolerate his idiocy.
Trump switched for the same reason. He said so explicitly: Republicans are easier to con.
What a bizarre, nonsensical waste of money. Can they at least postpone the auction until they have a superior replacement available? That should postpone it for a couple of decades.
I don't think undermining the right to a fair trial is the prosecutor's job. And public opinion shouldn't matter in a court of law.
The only thing he's accomplishing is that people fondly remember Obama and want him back.
Yeah, progressives need to take over the party. That, or start a new one without the baggage in order to really change the system, but that's a lot harder. Not doing either of these is just giving up.