Essentially, Republicans are using the claim of widespread voter fraud to conduct their own systematic voter fraud.
"Defund" is being used accurately. The movement is about reducing the budgets of police forces. Now, you could say that there's more to it that's...
I stopped watching after the Shaq dunk. It's funny, I had a bad feeling when the Blazers were up 15 early in the fourth quarter, missed a shot and...
Most of the universe is receding from us faster than the speed of light, due to the expansion of space. Physicists posit that in billions of years,...
The refocusing may necessarily take some of the public safety focus off of cops and onto other measures that reduce the crime rate. If so, we'd be...
Socialism says nothing about short-term or long-term. It's about policies that cause the society as a whole to take care of those with less means....
Supporting the jobless and homeless by what we might call "socializing" the costs across the general taxpayer base...not sure, actually, why anyone...
That's incredibly misleading. That happened before the season in which he protested. He turned it down then because it represented a paycut and he...
Don't know the psychologist's reasoning. If I were to guess, he/she meant that such a person would be displaying a lack of awareness that would cause...
Thanks for the detailed, thought-out response. A couple things that I'd like to clarify: 1. I'm not making any definitive policy prescriptions. The...
Some police are necessary, but this is part of the "defund" argument: [IMG] Like anything else, we have to ask whether we're putting too much into...
Is that a bad thing? It's not clear that police are the right way to address all crime. Policework has been a miserable failure in the drug war, for...
The stock market generally just tells you how the investment class is doing. Recessions hit much harder in terms of jobs, wages and cost of living....
I do. I remember barfo's old saying, "Why take candy from a baby when you can take his 401(k)?"
Barfo is out there doing it--that's why he's barely been posting here lately. He's busy, there's plunder to be had.
At the time, I remember reading that West and Jackson wanted Pippen, as did Kobe Bryant (I remember him saying he wanted to recreate the "Doberman...
Thanks, Captain Obvious. Who ever said protests are all it takes? You can make that extremely obvious point without constantly belittling protestors....
As a programmer, you should kn0w--when you create things, you own the maintenance forever. Make sure to comment your kids appropriately so your wife...
You mentioned that you'll be working with kids, which is great. I think everyone who can, should. You haven't mentioned what you're going to do to...
You do know that you can call for more action without passively-aggressively casting shade on people who protest, right? That's why you're looking...
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