ajuuiomml
15d ago
Private parties wouldn’t give out loans for worthless degrees and bad students when the degree is the collateral.
ajuuiomml
15d ago
SFB took a swing at the king, Dollars, and missed. Trump just threatened 100% tariffs against BRICS for the same potential transgression. Don’t create a competitor to the dollar built on fraud is my take.
ajuuiomml
18d ago
Protectionism in Argentina is off the charts. Maybe it doesn’t register as such by their standards.
ajuuiomml
19d ago
Does the crown have the authority to pardon, or perhaps parliament itself?
ajuuiomml
1mo ago
Winning the popular vote provides enormous legitimacy. This won’t happen.
Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons including long range missiles and probably ICMBs and nuclear armed subs. They will without a doubt use them in the event that they are overrun on their own soil. Pardon the consensus building, but does anyone reasonably doubt they wouldn’t put them to use both preemptively and offensively to glass Iran, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria in that case? Israel isn’t fighting wars of choice in which it can pack up and go home. There is no winning condition for their enemies, only death for everyone.
ajuuiomml
3mo ago
For now on the concrete side. We have new processes in the works. At the end of the day, new technology is the only feasible solution.
ajuuiomml
3mo ago
I agree this is directionally true, at least in feeling. How true is it if we do the math? One counter example was women falling out of the workforce during Covid. Although that was decentralized decision making.
The question you posed is much more interesting than the actual topic.
ajuuiomml
3mo ago
He isnt bad because republicans don’t like him sufficiently. He is bad because he is uniquely reviled by his opposition. The Democrats coalition is one of not-Trump.
ajuuiomml
3mo ago
I’d need a more careful analysis to ascertain whose delusions are more delusional. In terms of harmful narratives, the notion that we could round up over ten million people, deport them, and we’d like the result is on top of the list. I’d consider that equally harmful to forgiving all student debt or further expanded entitlements when the current ones are insolvent.
In terms of party cohesion, the left is very strongly aligned against Trump but is split hard on Gaza (not in numbers but in terms of unwillingness to compromise). Once again, we could use some charts I think.
ajuuiomml
4mo ago
This is the wrong standard for combat sports. A contestant being both 40% stronger and objectively bad doesn’t make the event safe!
ajuuiomml
4mo ago
Giving Hamas a nuclear weapon would be a disaster. If Israel got word, it would preemptively nuke Gaza and then launch against Iran. If Hamas lobbed first, Israel may choose to launch all nukes against all targets on the theory that more are coming anyway. Surely Iran is not that insane? I suppose someone will be eventually.
ajuuiomml
5mo ago
Even if you don’t like Trump, his assassination would be the quick path to civil war. At the very least, we’d see a whole bunch of reprisal attempts and ensuing escalation. The response to the attempt is having me consider voting for Trump.
ajuuiomml
5mo ago
Biden controls the war chest, and second, forcing him out is not the same as him stepping down for the good of the country. One is Brutus, the other heroic. Superdelegate2.0 won’t go over better. Besides, you can’t defect until you can coordinate universal defection or you get punished.
ajuuiomml
5mo ago
Yeah, I provisionally voted this way although I am a citizen. It’s not just a problem for citizenship, but also identity in general. You can show up and claim to be anyone with no proof beyond a signature. I believe they only count those ballots for runoffs, but still it’s absurd.
Ca has implemented a system that is structurally incapable of catching voter fraud. It does not catch voter fraud. Ca claims the lack of convictions for fraud means none exists!
It is willfully bad epistemology.
ajuuiomml
5mo ago
An institutional setting isn’t required, exactly. Ordinary and frequent contact and authority are the actual requirements. We could get those out of public housing with daily/weekly welfare checks. Then, we just need to identify some privileges - could be better accommodations (without a room mate or with a private bathroom) or perhaps, less frequent and intrusive checks.
I’d expect some terrible abuse (like with the old institutions).
ajuuiomml
5mo ago
Smaller incentives with escalation would work better. Punishment should be relatively immediate and certain with increasingly severity - as in, start with losing privileges or perhaps, gaining them.
ajuuiomml
5mo ago
Rape charges would move the needle. The FBI/CIA are still in play and, I don’t think there is any way to push out Biden if he doesn’t want to go. Biden has stated he doesn’t care what pundits think, he doesn’t believe in polls, and doesn’t really care what other leaders in his own party think either - it would literally take the direct intervention of God to get him to step down. I’d buy Biden at those odds.
This would bankrupt pretty much every non-ivy inside of a few years. Higher ed operates on razor thin margins. I want to burn down the system, but this is too much fire.
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