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This is completely a figment of your imagination.

It benefits a few corporations in the short term but not America in general. And if the oil prices rise and stay high, there will be demand destruction. US sits on top of the capit…

Hawaii is rife with ethnic tensions, not some exception.

No, we don't.

Also the officer should believe this threat is imminent.

When an officer has reasonable suspicion that a civilian poses a threat to his life, he can shoot them. Once police start shooting they are trained to continue shooting until the t…

Younger generations are probably more racist than their parents but not their grandparents. There are a lot of reasons this probably happened, and it wasn't something done to infan…

It wants Hyundai's investment and it wants to create American jobs and also have Hyundai follow the laws. The extremity of the right is fueled by an apparently prevalent reluctance…

I didn't say it would've been legal, just nicer.

drive the fishing boat back to the submarine. harold holt swam to one it can be done

It would have been nicer to kidnap the fishermen.

Just means they declined to put their name on it directly.

Humbly, I think this thinking is part of the problem. The incumbents were crushed because they mostly all copied each other and are seen as part of the same system. There are Weste…

Many actually do not seem to know this, especially in the political/think tank class. There are highly placed Democratic officials who blame inflation and point to this research.

I think whatever the surveys said, the egg prices/inflation actually had little to do with Trump victory and the left shouldn't be misled by this. People vote now for emotional rea…

The jobs probably aren't disappearing because of AI but because of previous over-hiring and a slowing economy. It seems like a cover story to push people into accepting underemploy…

A politician disliked by the state facing criticism doesn't mean anything. What matters is when people say something the state doesn't approve of.

I commented about this on another thread, and probably most around here disagree with my general point there, but this fact amazes me. We have gotten all this tech creating a surve…

What fundamental freedoms are people in DC going to lose? See my other comment---I think this is much less intrusive on civil liberties than adding more surveillance. National Guar…

I think it looks like a normal venn diagram. Some things are similar and some different and it depends on what deployments or forces each has worked on. That's why NG troops are ge…

You can see my comment below for some facts about the Netherlands. They do, literally, have a militarized police (the gendarmerie) which has civilian duties while operating under t…

I will add that in addition to my longer comment, I doubt that "wealth gap" has much at all to do with these differences in criminality. Yes, the US has a high gini coefficient. Bu…

Bureau of Justice statistics says that the US has about 1,200,000 police across agencies. Given a US population of 340 million this is about 283 people per employee (it says this i…

"Strict laws and licensing requirements mean nothing if it is still trivial to gain access." So have more police to enforce the laws? Why is there this belief that increasing polic…

Why should I live in a more dangerous society than the Netherlands (which isn't "nordic")? Or Australia? I fit in those places fine. Why can't we have that at home? Why is this lev…