Yep, and my takeaway from it is “don’t distort your syntax in order to allow yourself to be more dependent on an IDE.”

If I was Bob, I’d be checking those sofas for stains.

Or keep it open to house those who designed, buit and currently run it.

So it’s not just due to the tariffs, but even more because the Trump administration has so far not provided a working system that can be used to pay those tariffs. So not just malice, but incompetence too.

“Blessed are those who praise peace, for they shall bury the peacemakers.”

Lol we are still under oppressive economic systems

And you know something? Chattel slavery was far, far worse.

Compensation should be the value of 40 acres and a mule, compounded at the going interest rate for 160 years. That bill shoud be paid by the states of the former Confederacy.

Also, black people in those states should be given 5/3 of a vote for 100 years, to compensate for the 3/5 rule.

Most slave owners in the US South weren’t doing all that well. They typically had large debts and widely variable cashflow (not that they deserved sympathy for that). The ones who really made big money on slavery were the slave traders (and their investors) and the banks.

It should be renamed the Shite House to be more reflective of its current occupant.

Failure to observe basic principles of communication security led to them being outed.

it a daily power struggle to suppress slave revolts and uprisings, and keep slaves in a constant state of fear and terror

That’s what the “well-regulated militias” were for in the Second Amendment.

Conservatives were never a “no change” party, anywhere. The thing they were conserving was the unearned privilige and prerogatives of the elite. Conservatism was started as a reaction against Englightment ideas of rule of law, meritocracy and accountability.

Conservativism has always represented the interests of the elite, whether those interests were precedented (like neoptism) or not (like, say, the enclosure of the commons in the UK).

That’s why Trump likes it so much. Well, that and the fact that he’s the racist son of a Klansman slumlord.

The strict definition of socialism is worker ownership (and control) of the means of production. I don’t see any such worker ownership or control.

The government taking ownership shares of private enterprises is a limited form of state capitalism. It’s not new and is pretty widespread in the developed world. That doesn’t make this particular case a good idea, and the potential is high for corruption and conflict of interest in any such arrangements.

There needs to be a distinction between the right to free speech and the right to a massive megaphone and 50 kwatt PA system. You can go out in the street and say whatever the hell you like. You can set up your own website and do the same.

Tate’s running a business. He doesn’t deserve free advertising. If he doesn’t meet the TOS, tough shit.

His writ might run in DC and at the federal level, but states have their own laws about bail conditions, and he has no authority to override those.

Starting with the first Red Scare, the US government spent decades trying (with some success) to force unions to not be even slightly socialist, to the point of letting Mafia-controlled unions like the Teamsters gain members. The corrupt and useless AFL/CIO was set up as a trades-based (and racially segregated) alternative to the IWW.

The Thatcher government waged war on the unions in the UK, but with less success; some are still fairly leftwing. Meanwhile, Labour centrists have had a long policy of trying to reduce the influence of unions on the party, as well as purging its membership of socialists.

There really needs to be a climbdown on this idiocy. Hopefully it will also end the career of the minister who pushed so hard for it.

TP with Trump’s face exists.