gotchange

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by gotchange 10y ago
> Small Government is a nice, and good, idea, but history shows us that neither surveillance apparatus (pl.) nor secret police (pl.) relinquish power, ever, within existing in the same continuum of legitimation (ie. state). There has bee
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by gotchange 10y ago
I think that you're making a good point here. This should serve as a disincentive to those people from collaborating with a foreign enemy invading their country, and also could provide a disincentive to US governments from starting unn
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by gotchange 10y ago
I must say that I was stunned to read about these reports as I was thinking that the worst part of this despicable EO was singling out Syrian refugees for an indefinite ban from entering the US followed by the fake concern for the welfare o
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by gotchange 10y ago
> I'm just not sure how to open up their worldview to see it like that, and the policies being put into place might make that a little more difficult. Let Trump do this part for you. I'm sure that he will step on a landmine or
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by gotchange 10y ago
I totally agree with you on this and your previous comment to me that right wingers are giving libertarianism a bad name by appropriating it to advance their agenda of screwing poor and other disfranchised groups while enriching their donor
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by gotchange 10y ago
I'm a left libertarian, the real deal, and that's why I prefaced the libertarians designation with the RW label to avoid upsetting my leftist friends here :)
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by gotchange 10y ago
I'm a left libertarian and therefore I have a natural allergy to statist solutions for problems but I acknowledge that government is a necessary evil that in many instances do good things but the fact remains that large bureaucracies,
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by gotchange 10y ago
I think that the two of us share the same opinion as we both see that any Trump supporter or voter should be held accountable for all his policies irrespective of their intentions but I think where we disagree is who should be the target of
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by gotchange 10y ago
They definitely should bear the blame for his policies whether they're willingly support them or not but that is not my point here. What I'm saying is that people need to differentiate between the faction in Trump camp which is dr
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by gotchange 10y ago
That's why I'm in favor of the RW libertarians view of big government and how it's in the best interest of society to have as much small a government as possible to avoid situations like these as large bureaucracies tend to c
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by gotchange 10y ago
I don't think that it's fair to ascribe all the ideals and values in the policies championed by Trump to all of his supporters. Some of his supporters are pure evil and they don't hide it and they're not even satisfied b
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by gotchange 10y ago
This is an opinion piece featured on NYT not their official position where they usually publish under the label "Editorial" and authored by "THE EDITORIAL BOARD".
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by gotchange 10y ago
This is your DHS acting or overreacting in reaction to this EO. I didn't say that it's normal or non-normal, I just said that the list of those designated countries is compiled by the Secretary of State prior to Trump taking offic
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by gotchange 10y ago
Yeah issuing/renewing a GC constitutes an "Immigration Benefit" but denying the entry of a GC holder should not be covered by this EO. DISCLAIMER: Not a lawyer or even paralegal. Take this opinion of mine with a grain of salt
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by gotchange 10y ago
I am not a Trump fan. On the contrary, I'm more one of his biggest opponents of him and ALL what he stands for but the list of countries banned from entering the US and referenced in the text in his EO -- 8 U.S.C. 1187(a)(12)--[0] is c
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by gotchange 10y ago
I have read the full text of the EO and I couldn't find any reference to this applied to GC holders. Can you please point me to the paragraph or item in the EO where it mentions this?
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by gotchange 10y ago
Yeah true but I was arguing while in the shoes of Google not people affected by this decision.
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by gotchange 10y ago
Would this actually be legal? I think that there are international agreements and treaties that ban such draconian and vindictive measures.
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by gotchange 10y ago
I don't think that this EO is applied to holders of valid green cards in the US but definitely people on visas like H1B are definitely to be affected but I think that a company of the size of Google could make some arrangements as a qu
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by gotchange 10y ago
This suspension could be renewed very easily and even extended to other countries. There's a report on NYT [0] which fielded questions to Iranian officials and politicians looking for their reaction to this EO and they made it very cle
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by gotchange 10y ago
This EO was issued yesterday US time and other countries are still studying their moves in relation to this EO but I wouldn't be surprised if some decide to court some of those talents esp Iranians, Iraqis and Syrians.
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by gotchange 10y ago
There's the court ruling and now Parliament too would have a say in the matter and could probably derail the decision and put an end to the mess that the Leavers made and that's why FX markets are reacting possibly to this news.
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by gotchange 10y ago
Wow, this is coming from the woman herself, the icon of modern conservatism in the 20th century. Capitalism proves to be not self-sustainable and now it's self-cannibalizing which is a good thing as we move gradually to the next stage
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by gotchange 10y ago
> you don't have a German-controlled ECB to impose you rules and monetary policy. The UK had its own currency and central bank from the get go. What are you're referring to exactly here?
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by gotchange 10y ago
What makes you think that he doesn't pay into the system already as part of all people who chipped in whether Austrians or not? Systems like these can be susceptible to abuse and this should be researched and prevented as much as possi
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by gotchange 10y ago
Ann Coulter is the defacto Trump advisor on immigration and she can't hide her preference for either only or predominantly white immigration and if that untenable for some reason, just limit it to absolute minimum. So, it is not just a
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by gotchange 10y ago
I don't think that winning by a margin of 100-200K votes constitute a popular rejection or repudiation or a mandate for Trump to destroy the "Political Correctness" boogeyman. Don't pat yourself on the back too, as this
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by gotchange 10y ago
That's the first sentence of the Wiki article: "The cross-race effect (sometimes called cross-race bias, other-race bias or own-race bias) refers to the tendency to more easily recognize members of one's own race." This
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by gotchange 10y ago
Yeah, Humans perceive and classify race (accurately or inaccurately) and that's why it can't be a reliable indicator or cornerstone for any reliable scientific system esp. when taking into account the "fluid" or "co
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by gotchange 10y ago
> different races have different sets of facial features which are used for facial recognition I thought that «race» is a social construct not a scientific one and thus can't be relied on as a deciding factor in a scientific experim

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