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https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-04-07/hospitals-... "... the federal government is quietly seizing orders, leaving medical providers across the country in the dark about where the material is going and how they can get what they need to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. Hospital and clinic officials in seven states described the seizures in interviews over the past week." [Emphasis added] Is that enough…
Sorry, I was unclear. I meant that aside from the conflict over PPE - which has happened more than once - I am not aware of instances of the state and federal government working against one another.
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> Bernie, maybe, had the chance to. Bernie didn't even inspire people to vote for him in the primary; how was he going to inspire people if he got nominated?
Bernie had the main-stream media + the entire DNC apparatus against him. That's a ton of power and influence. I'm not saying he would've 'won'; it's quite possible he positioned himself as too much 'non-establishment', or perhaps too little. but saying he didn't inspire people to vote for him in the primary is not evident, IMO.
> saying he didn't inspire people to vote for him in the primary is not evident, IMO.
The fact he didn't win is evidence of that, surely?
Re: US unprepared for an electrical grid collapse, but it costs only $300M
#263Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bernie had the main-stream media + the entire DNC apparatus against him. That's a ton of power and influence. I'm not saying he would've 'won'; it's quite possible he positioned himself as too much 'non-establishment', or perhaps too little. but saying he didn't inspire people to vote for him in the primary is not evident, IMO.
> saying he didn't inspire people to vote for him in the primary is not evident, IMO. The fact he didn't win is evidence of that, surely?
It's evidence, but it's not evident. Those are not the same thing.
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https://capx.co/swedens-great-tax-hoax-a-story-of-fiscal-ill...
While the discussion of direct vs indirect taxes is interesting, the article just flatly asserts that Swedes are unaware of their tax burden without a shred of proof. That’s not convincing.
> the article just flatly asserts that Swedes are unaware of their tax burden without a shred of proof
The article actually quotes and links surveys proving the point.
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I have a hard time seeing what these pacts accomplish. What's gained by coordinating Covid response in Spokane and Fresno?
Having any intelligently coordinated response at all?
So, concretely, what would Spokane and Fresno officials need to coordinate?
Re: US unprepared for an electrical grid collapse, but it costs only $300M
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Don't you have the missile silos in rural Midwest. A truly global conflict with existential fear in major powers, will get hot . But currently the US could absolutely devastate China atomically, but China would only be able to take swings at major US cities. Everyone will be losers but as things currently stand, China would loose the most.
Do we really know that? Maybe they have developed some form of working SDI. Furthermore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Great_Wall_of_Chin...
Oh yeah, someone will technically "win" a full exchange, I'm sure. The brass may see high survival rates. But the infrastructure will be bombed away. It will take decades to rebuild. One can't even compare to anything before and extrapolate. There have been local disasters and rebuilding, but we have never seen a complete national system bombed away and what will come after.
(A variant of a worst case I haven't even considered before is a full nuclear Armageddon, and then Command and Control survives to take nuclear potshots for years afterwards. For instance if one party has still substantial conventional forces but the other manages to from time to time scrounge up another nuke and launch it.)
I could see them have more ICBMs than apparent, but successful SDI I don't think is possible, not against nuclear strike submarines in any case.
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A clusterfuck of 300 million individuals, getting the leaders they deserve. You can't organize. You can't think outside the system that abuses you. A tiny cabal of openly corrupt individuals can push you all around. You got the leader you deserve.
> You got the leader you deserve. Repeating it over and over in every post you make doesn't make it true. It just shows your callous disregard for humanity, which isn't likely to win you much agreement.
You guys are showing a callous disregard for reality. Read about all the societies that have succumb to tyranny, it has happened many times. America is no special exception, and it's making all the same mistakes. Keep singing Kumbayah and see where it gets you.