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by skedaddle 6y ago
Congress can't impeach the president to hold the indictment over him for the rest of his term. Otherwise they would do that on day 1 -- and the timeframe makes it make less sense here, not more. If dems impeach again then just convict
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by skedaddle 6y ago
That would be blackmail and an abuse of power. Like a judge or juror saying they'll throw the case if you do what they say.
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by skedaddle 6y ago
The privilege is based on it being in the public interest for information to be withheld -- that its disclosure would threaten the nation's security, not that it would threaten the executive branch's authority or ability to do its
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by skedaddle 6y ago
You're equivocating now between the executive's power to conduct warfare, and an evidentiary rule that allows them to escape discovery. The nonjudiciable issues in this case were already dismissed. No other developed country has a
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by skedaddle 6y ago
The military is responsible for killing the people in the list, but from what we know they do not control who the targets are. That is a process that goes on in DC and ultimately just a few (perhaps one) civilians control the database, who
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by skedaddle 6y ago
Obama's pattern does not "clearly" look more dictatorial. Hitler was given absolute power via legislative processes. The prototypical dictator for life, Caesar, was granted that title by the Roman Senate. I could say well Bus
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by skedaddle 6y ago
You can rationalize the sex trade too by saying without being able to sell sex the 14/15 year old would have to sell an organ, or starve. What do you think a 9 year old working as a human mule for $0.75/day at a cobalt mine in the
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by skedaddle 6y ago
This is a dumb argument because Apple doesn't even defend the child labor used by their suppliers, let alone on the grounds that they're actually saving children from exploitation.
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by skedaddle 6y ago
They should at the very minimum be forced to let consumers know. "This MacBook was made in a factory that uses child labor."
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by skedaddle 6y ago
"Nearly lands" means crash anyway so any implication of the latter is still there.
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by skedaddle 6y ago
No, it's not click bait if it's what happened. And what happened is that it crashed. :P
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by skedaddle 6y ago
The "specific details" are a plethora of court rulings, election certifications, and statements from Trump's own lawyers that they are not bringing fraud cases.
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by skedaddle 6y ago
Why did you choose a famously persecuted gay man as the example of a man who might wed another man purely for tax avoidance?
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by skedaddle 6y ago
But that's not how any of it works to begin with. Inequality isn't caused because people produce proportionally more or less. The very wealthy generally own property that has appreciated in value, or have inherited it. Among worki
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by skedaddle 6y ago
How so?
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by skedaddle 6y ago
Your first claim is that the entire event is community self-defense, and your last claim is that police agents are responsible for the unrest.
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by skedaddle 7y ago
Python is nothing like its guiding principles. That's why it's Zen -- the principles are a collection of contradictory statements, given what you will encounter in real world Python. You're meant to be confused and meditate o
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by skedaddle 8y ago
It's because they already get unlimited music streaming for free, from multiple sources. The value added by Spotify's premium plan is ad-free unshuffled playback and the offline option, so you have to see whether you have $10 in y
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by skedaddle 8y ago
These are sweeping claims to dismiss the suffering of a group of people who kill themselves at a rate ~50x higher than normal. I have no idea what the rate is for those around them, but it's hard to imagine it's any higher. It&#x2
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by skedaddle 8y ago
DNC misconduct etc. would have been reported by traditional organizations. I think people wonder why it was good that Wikileaks released Podesta's iCloud password, his risotto recipe, doctors appointments of random staffers, and so for
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by skedaddle 8y ago
Equity and equality are different. Equitable means fair, just, unprejudiced, considerate of all involved, etc. Equality means evenly balanced, identical on both sides, measurably indistinguishable. I think we want an equitable outcome and t
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by skedaddle 8y ago
You see, wearing running shoes outside of an athletic context is just a mechanism for the upper class to assert that the poor don't deserve higher wages. /adjusts glasses It's a contrived packaging of their politics. There
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by skedaddle 8y ago
It doesn’t sound any more complicated given that. “I had no idea they would have a problem hosting my anti-Semitic writings or calls for violence, because the rules aren’t well defined, and they’re constantly changing, it’s so arbitrary!” i
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by skedaddle 8y ago
I'm sorry to say that it was in the memo, in the personality differences section. In any case my point isn't to get into the debate about whether sexist outcomes may actually be valid. I was pointing out that GPs examples of white
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by skedaddle 8y ago
No they didn't. In the two situations he is clearly alluding to 1) the person admitted it was hurtful and unacceptable and that they should not have said it, and the mainstream publisher said they would not have hired her without this
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by skedaddle 8y ago
Why do you think the alternative is a conjunction of randomness at every level? Why not * the people are HR * trained in sexual harassment prevention and response * following a transparent policy approved by the board and a union vote (or s
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by skedaddle 8y ago
The obligations and interdependence of pair bonding partners, and the complications that result, are usually more consequential than those of bowling mates (or any other relationship short of parenthood).
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by skedaddle 8y ago
The full question and its response, for context: > KW: If the systematization of the possible is somehow reconfigured by self-learning algorithms, are the capacities of indefinite potential then also reconfigured when it comes to evading
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by skedaddle 8y ago
It's narcissism just the same. In fact, that "project a grandiose image that leads to popularity and success" thing is pretty much the crux of it.
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by skedaddle 8y ago
The difference is that narcissism is grandiose and fragile, based on a need for admiration rather than actual confidence, and fills in for a lack of self-worth. Confidence doesn't prevent you from acknowledging mistakes or flaws. Narci

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