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by hga 10y ago
Or, you know, maybe our founders knew a good idea when they adopted this federalism thing. As someone born, raised in and retired to the great state of Missouri, which is also the sole state that doesn't play big brother with narcotic
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by hga 10y ago
Well, the calculus a lot of us Trump voters made starting in the primaries was that we were certainly going to lose with any other candidate, Trump at least offered a chance of "winning" (or not losing so hard, whatever; my loca
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by hga 10y ago
Stranger murders are particularly difficult cases to clear; here I'm talking about "real felonies" in general, and I'm also speaking very generally. E.g. Chicago's murder clearance rate for 2016 murders has plumm
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by hga 10y ago
No, they generally do the latter, and generally well. One problem is there just aren't enough killers etc. anymore, crime rates are way down from their peaks not so many decades ago. But, somehow, where this has happened, it hasn&#x
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by hga 10y ago
Not those of us who've been buying guns, but primarily rifles, of military utility in ever greater numbers, starting in the George W. Bush administration.... And let me quote Alexander Solzhenitsyn in The GULAG Archipelago on the gen
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by hga 10y ago
Look at all the stories of his good will and/or charity towards "little guys". There's zillions from before the campaign, and plenty of the good will in it. My favorite is of some guy with essentially no money in his po
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by hga 10y ago
Perhaps you didn't notice, but the GOPe(stablishment) that sides with businesses on this issue loathed and loathe Trump with a burning passion, and he got elected in spite of them in terms of active help (passively, their total awfulne
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by hga 10y ago
While your general complaint is fine, " Does anyone here even know why we are bombing Yemen? " has some very good answers: If you fire a missile at a US warship, you shouldn't be surprised if any assets used to do that get za
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by hga 10y ago
You don't care about the people being shot dead by the police Yes, I don't care about them one tiny bit if their actions warranted a reply of lethal force. As the Alt Right puts it, "We Don't Care." But getting
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by hga 10y ago
Do you feel Trump himself, or his upcoming Administration are an existential threat (which I have to seriously wonder about, but I don't know your particulars), or has his election revealed to you that you face hitherto unperceived or
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by hga 10y ago
About the BlackNurse attack method.
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by hga 10y ago
Case in point, his stated policy is the "Intel yes, Infosys no" one. However, how much do Silicon Valley startups eventually hire from the Infosys etc. pool of H1-Bs? Old line Silicon Valley companies like HP are notorious for doi
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by hga 10y ago
I've been hearing very good things about The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374533229/ ) by Fukuyama (yes, I know, I know, but I guess he
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by hga 10y ago
Evidently this is a strange idea, but using lethal force as a first resort is not a part of America's gun culture. And therefore whatever we're doing about those other issues is effectively anonymized, aside from things like suppo
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by hga 10y ago
How about starting with something like "The Constitution is not a suicide pact"? It's certainly a serious argument for a strong, in this domain, serious central government. I don't think anything in federalism besides t
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by hga 10y ago
This goes beyond Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds' " Just think of the media as Democrat operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense " and beyond Ben Rhodes' (who sold Obama's Iran policy), " The aver
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by hga 10y ago
Or she didn't realize that what had worked for Obama, who's often cross that he even had to deal with the Congress, even when it was Democratic, and very famously went for a narrow but very deep Get Out The Vote (GOTV) strategy, w
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by hga 10y ago
maybe this country just needs Republican Administrations just so the press will do their damn job Many people have been making the point that for this reason, for the foreseeable future the Presidency must be limited to white male Repub
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by hga 10y ago
Ah ha ha, the people panicking pretty much by definition haven't taken advantage of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (RKBA), in fact loathe the very concept and have been campaigning for decades to take them away from the people who do
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by hga 10y ago
But note that this majority is being told in triumphant terms that they will be a minority within their children's lives, and that's already true of live births. So why not join the game of identity politics now?
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There are scope issues, e.g. one thing almost all hold to not be acknowledged as an inalienable right in the 2nd Amendment is possession of weapons of mass destruction. Compare to the implicit scopes of the 4th Amendment, which I'll qu
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by hga 10y ago
We're already getting a serious taste of this through social media outrage culture....
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One reason is that for a substantial subset of these people, they imagine they'll be one of the commissars, instead of one of the anonymous bodies in a ditch.
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I certainly expect them to try this in the US, but I don't expect them to succeed. As it is, following Sutton's Law, I expect they're going to go after retirement accounts first " because that's where the money is &
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by hga 10y ago
You don't have to go so far as "supremacy" to have one good explanation along these lines, unless it's axiomatic that it's racist and supremacist for whites, but no other group , to join the game of identity politi
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by hga 10y ago
The only horrifying thing about it is if it's viewed as a punishment for losing the election, that sort of thing quite reliably kills Republics. But so does the end of the Rule of Law in them....
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by hga 10y ago
but was repudiated by the Right So he was elected by Leftists? I think it's more he was repudiated by the GOPe(stablishment) and most of the Established Authorities (i.e. press) that claims to be of the "Right". We on the
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by hga 10y ago
In my lifetime, the integrated circuit and its development ecosystem, Moore's Law, and for a long while, Dennard Scaling ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling ), I think. Some others cite things like the w
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by hga 10y ago
I haven't seriously studied the Punic Wars, and all this is from memory, but the one with Hannibal pretty early on started with one of the worst defeats in Roman military history, I think you'd have to go to Augustus for the next
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by hga 10y ago
What affect this has on him remains to be seen. Perhaps very little, since it's been known for some time they've been doctored to, shall I say, achieve certain domestic political goals. If he wants to start dealing with this stu

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