Nearly 8M Americans have fallen into poverty since summer

Post by xyzzyz » Fri, Dec 18, 2020, 7:14 PM UTC

jahaja wrote: post #269

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> And that requires information about a groups composition ahead of time doesn't it? No, because when you know nothing about composition of the group, you use the gender neutral form (masculine) instead of feminine one. > English speaking folks that are trying to be more inclusive and finding "Latinos" to refer primarily to a group of males. When American use the word “people”, it primarily refers to groups of Americ…

> When American use the word “people”, it primarily refers to groups of Americans. Should they be more inclusive and invent a term, say, maybe peoplxs, that includes also non-Americans? That’s absurd, of course. Sorry, but this makes no sense to me at all.

Post by uoaei » Sat, Dec 19, 2020, 10:49 PM UTC

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> why should Floridians pay federal income taxes to subsidize closed businesses in California? Because Florida benefits immensely from supporting a state which has, if it were a country, the 6th highest GDP in the world. The economy in Florida would be heavily affected if California left the union. Your question is basically like asking "why do federations exist?"

No one has seriously suggested seceding from the union. The survival or bankruptcy of some small businesses in California has very little impact on Florida.