Hey! It's their bodies, their choices

A true "When will Jesus Bring the Bacon" moment.... which kinda shows the truth of the matter. Mod down, me hearties!

Wait, you didn't make a pun about all the exploding Samsung phones? Or did you just bamboozle me, good sir?

Maybe Samsung will make their own version of that abomination - the iSock?

I believe the problem is over-reach, or at least one of them. Any time one or the other groups is in "power", the over reach starts.

If we look at the Republican side When in power, the reach is to become more conservative. This will continue until the populous has had enough. When you start talking about cutting out SS or Medicare, and doing silly stuff to your voter base like that, you end up losing support. In my state, there was an attempt to recall judges for not thinking right, so to speak. It failed. Attempts to remodel the judicial system with a bunch of Karl Roland Freislers was classic overreach. We've seen this in the past with attempts to eliminate teaching Evolution in schools, and replace it with young earth creationism taught as science. Just two examples of conservatism gone bad. Compounded by Republicans going batshit crazy after O'Blama was elected, then insane when he was re-elected.

On the other hand Democrats are not immune from overreach idiocy either. After Trump was elected, many had the same reaction as Republicans had with O'Blama. They did some strange things, like take up anti-science and anti-biology positions, they abandoned core demographics like Unions and the resulting workforce union adjacent demographic, they supported schools superseding family authority, moved to getting marching orders from a small group of far left wing academics, then were surprised when the demographic they had spent years dehumanizing - males in general, and young males in particular didn't vote for them. A worrying thing, since males tend to become more conservative as they age.

I'm certain I pissed everyone off, which is another core overreach of the present system. Whatever you believe, the other side hates you and wants you to fuck off and die. I get most of my vitriol from the left wingers lately, but I can piss off the far right just as easily.

It was their bikini clad shots at the beach bar with 10 men that got them in trouble.

I see what you did there.

The critical thing is how can people drive and text with these things? If people can't text and drive the phone market will collapse as those critical group chats have to happen! Validation is no joke, my friend.

Hah - I'm holding out for the 16-fold Samsung, a Smartphone that I can open to an 80 inch Television. This 2 and 3-fold crap is for posers, and poor people. Wake up people - the cool kids are waiting until Samsung smartens up.

Which is why it is a priority for Republicans to lock in long term bans on regulation of AI. Damaging society has become their highest priority, almost as if they are controlled by our primary adversary.

You can't seriously , actually believe this....can you????

If so, you might wanna quit talking to the bot(s)....go outside and get some fresh air....log off awhile, get away from the TV and your echo chamber....

"Companies have one job in a capitalism - make money. Thatâ(TM)s their *only* societal responsibility..." This is false, it is merely a claim made by sociopaths. A companies "job" is to perform in the way its owners desire, in the past there were differing goals that companies would have (and that's still true of smaller companies). The "make money at any cost" approach comes from Wall Street, not capitalism, it is human nature.

With most any company of any decent size, the "owners" are the stockholders.

And with stockholders....pretty much the sole obligation the people working the company for the stockholders is to make money for the stockholders.

I mean, that's pretty much the ONLY reason anyone buys stock in a company.....why else would they do so if not to make a profit?

This is a continuation of standard Russian military tactics under Papa Jo Stalin Throw bodies at the enemy. Try to overwhelm them. It mostly worked during WW2, but it is why the largest loss of life was in Russia.

There is a difference - no US involvement on Russia's side. The lend/lease program supplied a lot of materiel, weapons, planes, food. Russia was second on the list after Great Britain.

So now, what is left is mostly throwing cannon fodder at Ukraine.

They might want to save a few men in order to replenish the population after whatever the outcome of this latest military action.

>The ruling elite has decided they do not want you to be educated

No, the ridiculous price of tuition is actually the result of the government encouraging people to go to college. They will pay whatever 'need' is, and 'need' is whatever the price of college is... so colleges keep raising the price, year after year, much higher than inflation.

It's not going to the professors, either. At my local state college, only 13% of the budget goes to professors (including benefits).

At community colleges here in California, 50% goes to direct instruction. Why? Because state law mandates the 50 percent rule. So community colleges are reasonably priced and often do a better job actually teaching with smaller classes than state colleges, but I guess we have a good 9-3 football team at state, so...

The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans are indeed our buffer zones. NATO was formed to keep Russia from further implementation of Buffer states that are populated and subservient to Russia. There is a certain advantage to have thousands of miles of water around your country There is no real practical way for a buffer state scenario here. And the US doesn't rule the Atlantic and Pacific.

You might want to claim that the US was protecting itself. Yes, in some form it was. It was also protecting allies. Not many western countries wanted to be living under Stalinist/Russian rule. Stalin and his replacements have rather different methods of handling disagreement. Command Economies are not popular among people who prefer to set their own goals. Seeing the difference between East and West Germany, and the Stalinist attempts to starve West Berlin - a Kind of mini holodomor if you will, and the resulting Berlin Airlift, told us what we needed to know about Stalin's plans.

Don't mistake trolling for anger. and your little hands comment is kinda weird. I thoroughly enjoy pissing you and your ilk off, it feeds me.

Now to weakness - probably not our time to fall yet. Countries do not stay at or near the top forever, and that's a fact. Too much competition, and the so called "Grand Experiment" here in the US will eventually fail. There is no Roman Empire today. There is no British Empire today. No Soviet Union. The question is what will replace the US when that eventually happens?

Of today's players - who do you want to replace the US, and hold the power against the other countries that want the position. Name it. A question of utmost simplicity, no trolling, no humor, no little hands, no patheticness. No name calling. Name the country.

Why wouldn't you? I mean, you'll do better without us.