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by throwaway_law 7y ago
Certainly they still will. Though in the past it may not be as private as you might think...the United States Senate has spittoons spread across the Senate Chamber as they are considered a Senate tradition. That tradition consisted of t
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
Well...maybe they shouldn't, its definitely not the first group of people we have armed/trained/funded and let down when push comes to shove. Perhaps we should stop funding/arming/training people militarily to begin
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
People hardly remember the Bay of Pig...CIA armed/trained/funded Cuban dissidents to overthrow the Castro regime and promised air support, the US let the go in and reneged in the support and the CIA backed Cuban's got slaught
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>Why is this relevant on HN? Aside from this being politically and potentially ethnically/religiously divisive...it is historical. You have Turkey invading Syria to use force against a militia funded/armed/trained by the
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>As crazy as it may seem to us, they're overwhelmingly supportive of their government. And North Korean's overwhelmingly praise the "Supreme Leader" with tears in their eyes. Ever see old video of Hitler addressing t
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>One wonders if there is an entire revolutionary class within China sharing South Park videos for freedom. There certainly is an entire generation who is ready for reforms if not an outright democratic revolution, but no I don't bel
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
If you could make money by renting a space and selling food everyone would do it. Kinda like if everyone could buy a shovel and dig for gold they would do it. If you could buy a FB or Google ad and make money everyone would be rich. The
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
Yeah I used to do legal work in dependency court (abuse, abandonment and neglect of children), and so I have read countless psychological report...traumas are bad enough (so bad I had to leave that area of the law behind) but instability es
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
And as a young person in your early 20's this is all bad enough, but I am going to read into it a little more and infer you were single. Now imagine if you had children to feed, the additional stress and additional expense probably wo
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
I think that is a fair point (although certainly we wouldn't find even distribution of these people across the States, but I can't provide the statistical breakdown). However, 8 Million is the potential voting block of people who
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
I don't agree with you being downvoted here...take another issue that is disproportionately effecting the young: Student Loans. Every year more than 1M people default on their student loans, ruining their credit and essentially their l
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
How about Waco? Or the Bundy Stand off (2014 armed civilians illegally using federal lands for commercial purposes took up arms and the Federal government backed down)? Although not armed movements, how about they Occupy Movements?
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>It shows people pick interesting sounding options from a range with little care to whether it has meat in or not. Thats probably true, but I think more importantly it shows people pick the more inexpensive options from a range with litt
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
Well throw out the entire meat/non-meat idea. And instead replace meat with expensive dish and non-meat with inexpensive dish. They went from offering 1 inexpensive dish to 4 inexpensive dishes. Its really not surprising when you qu
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>Many laws specifically protect "national origin" What laws? The US Constitution provides significantly greater protections to US Citizens than foreign nationals, as many of rights are not extended to non-citizens.
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>Issues are often just ignored until they go away. In someways thats part of the reason our Medicare program is so expensive. In the US we essentially go an entire lifetime without regular/preventative care, then when patients becom
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>One reason some are opposed to going to a government paid system is the fact that we spend so much on that where if the costs were simply doubled it'd be a rediculous expense. Or maybe people would realize a County like Germany is
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>are you able to elaborate? He must be taking pride in the fact that managers grind employees into dust in the US...US managers have overseen the removal of employee benefits like health insurance and pensions, managers have kept worker
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. What's scary is my mind continues to change the word "career" to
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
No, that is wrong, the Justices are very clear about the historical context of these programs. Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003) (link: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/539/306/ )
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>This quote is perfect example of my frustration actually. This about sums it up...you, the human, spend your limited life frustrated by quotes in books you don't even enjoy. Whereas the dolphin doesn't seem to spend any part
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>Do you think the kids in poor immigrant neighborhoods are in worse positions than poor kids in eastern Kentucky? You have to distinguish affirmative action (in hiring/employment) and race based factors in college admissions. Most c
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>Jews were also historically discriminated against And Jewish people are a protected class, even defined by SCOTUS as a race for purposes of Civil Rights/Anti-discrimination laws
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
I suppose its not far from the SCOTUS 1st Amendment cases of porn/obscenity, they can't quite define it, but they'll know it when they see it. Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003) (link: https://supreme.justia
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
> It is very clear that race-conscious admissions are systematically racist and discriminatory. Every time the SCOTUS hears one of these cases they acknowledge that, but the justification is that these classes are/have been historic
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>What about other religions? Why include religion at all? The Supreme Court has ruled that in fact Jewish people are a race...at least for purposes of Civil Rights/anti-discrimination laws.
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
Entirely different war and entirely different enemy. It would be like equating WWI Germany with WWII Nazi Germany...but who knows, maybe people do that.
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
Well the Taliban is no longer in power, removing them from power was the purpose of our use of force and military operations in Afghanistan starting in 2001...again when it comes to war "winning" is kind of in the eye of the behol
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
The democratically elected leader was over thrown by the Communist party and the Soviets invaded to support the illegitimate communist government. The US supported the anti-communist opposition, and the Soviets withdrew and Afghanistan retu
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>Did we win Afghanistan? The Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan and the illegitimate communist government was ousted right?

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