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Comment · 5 years ago
> We have an economy that can't provide enough jobs.

Bullshit. There is plenty of work that needs to be done.

People are just paid to not do it. In urban areas, they become political slaves, and in rural areas, it destroys any chance they might have of building a local economy.

Comment · 5 years ago
This, this, this.

And we need to make it easier to build and run something other than single-family dwellings. Boarding houses used to be a common fixture in the US: think a cross between a dorm and a military barracks.

Give the residents decently secured lockers and some private security with actual teeth[1], not to mention some counseling, and the folks that land here might actually stand a chance at rebuilding their lives.

[1] As in "Sell meth here, and we will literally chuck you out the door like yesterday's garbage. Lawsuits don't mean shit to us."

Comment · 5 years ago
Fox is garbage. What's your point?

Every media organization sacrificed their credibility wholesale over the past five years.

The federal government accomplished the same for themselves over 2020.

Americans now live in a world where the institutions underpinning public life have lost all of their credibility with the public itself, outside of Blue enclaves.

We don't know where this goes. We really don't. Historically, nowhere good.

Comment · 5 years ago
> These media companies also employ a large number of people with diverse opinions.

Oh no they don't. If you work in media, you either bow to leftist orthodoxy, or you get fired. See Bari Weiss, etc.

Comment · 5 years ago
"Rated to 1.21 Gigawatts? We're gonna test that."
Comment · 5 years ago
There are several reasons for this being in the Nuremberg Code.

- Nazis conducted horrific medical experiments on Jewish prisoners (who were mostly German citizens as well!). In fact, pretty much everything we know about hypothermia came from the Nazis freezing and attempting to revive prisoners.

- Nazis often used promises of medical treatment to ensure compliance. The famous "showers" were one such example. Prisoners were then sent into a room -- complete with showerheads, soap, and even puddles! -- to be gassed.

- Nazi propagandists created documentaries showing Jewish, Romani, and other "undesirable" communities as "disease-ridden". It is easier to convince normal people to betray "undesirables" when "normal people" believe they are protecting both their own health, as well as the health of their communities.

Comment · 5 years ago
It's one of those cases where it's required by law, but the law is never enforced.

I have applied for visa in multiple countries, attended public schools as well as university, and even had employment contracts specifying current vaccination.

I have never had to actually present any of that information. I'm not even sure how I could find it.

Comment · 5 years ago
No, the world watched in horror as American cities burned for an entire year while politicians and media whores, thoroughly protected by police and private security, did nothing.

Police were ordered to take a knee to the mob.

We were told that this was justice.

But the second those powerful people were even slightly threatened, the gloves came off.

Only one person was murdered on the 6th. A veteran and Trump voter named Ashli Babbitt, killed by the police. And Democrats celebrated her death.

Comment · 5 years ago
The term “fake news“ itself came from the left.
Comment · 5 years ago
It is a very safe assumption to make that anything you see or hear in media means the exact opposite.

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