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“The Devil Went Down to Georgia” by Charlie Daniels

I bet they are happy. It means ICE won't harass you.

Go to /r/PublicFreakout or /r/EyesOnIce and take a scroll. Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/s/TdTwBp13za Edit 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/s/cLGFI5GXlv

> They menace and threaten "people just out and about in the neighborhood"? It is hard to engage in good faith when you are baldly making statements that are completely unsupported…

The vast majority of high school sports teams aren't coming anywhere close to a profit. Your experience is unusual, which answers your question: > why do people constantly ignore t…

I’m not sure why you won’t acknowledge that a tax that affects domestic and foreign companies equally is not protectionist. But here we are. I’m not saying that taxes don’t have an…

My place hasn’t changed at all. Everything I’ve said is internally consistent. You are welcome to view any form of taxation as an impediment to “free trade” but that’s not how comp…

I’m saying the VAT is not protectionist.

How is it protectionist if the European companies also pay it? You are arguing about rules that apply to all companies competing in Europe and then extrapolating that to say that “…

American companies pay VAT in Europe. European companies pay VAT in Europe. American companies do not pay VAT in in the US. European companies do not pay VAT in the US. American co…

1) EU businesses have to deal with complicated sales tax arrangements that vary by state and municipality. 2) EU businesses have to operate in their own environment and also face t…

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>That's another way of saying you don't think there should be reforms. It won't happen. Because the people's representatives will get in the way? The pesky checks and balances of d…

It wasn't private not too long ago

They don’t have confidence. The site has been breaking down. It is indeed disrespectful to the user.

JK isn’t even cancelled, let alone those who enjoy her magnum opus.

There is a difference between thinking that the front-end ecosystems are terrible to work in and thinking that they are unimportant.

Layoffs are fine, but not mass resignations?

Those people also believe that LGBT people aren't "good people." Why shouldn't we return the favor? What special rights? The right to not get thrown in jail for being gay?

Exponential growth. Lets say that there is one delta infection and one omicron infection in the population. Each delta infection causes two more people to be infected, while each o…

HIV does not have anywhere close to a 100% fatality rate anymore, everything about this comment is just completely inflammatory and misinformed. Plus if a vaccine existed for it ga…

The poster above was replying to a comment about mandates to enter restaurants. Those mandates have been entirely state directed. So it does not fall apart at all.

You are not going to contract HIV from someone by standing in the same room as them. That is a very key difference. There is plenty of discrimination among gay men when it comes to…