In unemployment figures don't show actual unemployment, but deliberately excludes groups for the purpose of keeping the figure low (and the UK was very explicit that this was the purpose when Thatcher's government sliced several million off the official figures, less sure if the US was as honest) then it's hard to call it anything else.

Yup. It's known as a shift of the Overton Window.

Not to mention it was named after a NASA administrator.

The Apollo space program that put Americans on the moon wasn't 100% US-supported either. I daresay nobody will claim it wasn't a "US space project."

Smokers are deprioritised on lung transplant lists. Foreigners have to pay. So we've already got differential service. We just say that sportsfolk who knowingly and deliberately inflict damage on themselves in such contests get lower priority on medical procedure lists as well.

Not removed - they've paid national insurance - but all procedures are on a prioritised queue already, just given them a low priority. (No, not in the UNIX sense.)

They'll get seen to, when service permits. Of course, there'd be more service if the rich paid more taxes, but that's between the sports stars and the rich. They can take care of that dispute between themselves.

Thanks for this! Highly informative.

The horrors of Hitler's fascism were among the primary motivators for George Orwell to write 1984. Those of Stalin's brand of socialism also.

IMHO Orwell's book is still the most-cited allusion for changing the way someone thinks by changing the way they talk.

That's it, I'm done. Enjoy your rabbit-hole. I'm tired of falling into it with you.

"Genuinely believed in?" Hell no. More like "strategically employed."

The Nazis implemented social welfare programs, but only for the "racially pure" and in a way that rewarded loyalty to Hitler.

They preached anti-capitalism early on in their history, but soon switched to supporting industrialists and crushing unions.

They pushed for state control of the economy and mobilized the population, but in service to war-postured nationalism (i.e., fascism), not a dismantling of class structures.

In short, the Nazis were not socialists. Stop trying to insinuate that they were.

You may have meant "exactly" what you said, but what you said was absolute with no qualifiers: you said it was "flat out illegal to outsource or off-shore it."

And now you're backtracking and adding conditions. And they're wrong.

Getting an export license for an entire satellite or components of it may take significant effort, but that doesn't make exporting satellites "flat out illegal."

Aerospace companies subcontract to foreign companies all the time, for components, software, and mission support or monitoring. Some ITAR and EAR restrictions may exist for certain things, but that hardly makes them "flat out illegal."

Finally, an aerospace company can hire foreign nationals, although some roles may not be open to them, because US citizenship or permanent residency may be required. Again, not "flat out illegal."

Speaking in absolutes may feel powerful, but it often doesn't square with the facts.

I read RightWingNutJob's post as saying that a US space project cannot use a non-US launcher because it is "flat out illegal to outsource or off-shore it." "It" being the space-launch and satellite services.

Well, JWST is a US space project. Sure, it had international participation, but the US is the lead. CURIE and GOLD are other examples. Even the military used a non-US launcher, for example the US Air Force STP-S26 being launched by India.

And if you mean it the other way around, that the US can't launch non-US satellites, well, that ship sailed a long time ago. The US launch industry frequently launches foreign satellites.

Or perhaps you and RightWingNutJob claim it's illegal to "outsource or offshore" supplies for such industries? That's another fail: semiconductors, materials, and parts for propulsion systems come from foreign sources, and that's just to name a few.

Now, kindly tell me what you are talking about.

What are you talking about? Many US space projects use non-US launch facilities. The James Webb Telescope is a prominent example. And there are all the rides hitched by US astronauts on Soyuz rockets between the retirement of the STS and the rise of alternatives like SpaceX Dragon.

LOL, yeah.

But TFS does say: "The drugs they use must be legal, and approved by the Federal Drug Administration." Those don't qualify.

That doesn't give me much assurance though. I just hope this abomination of a sports competition withers away after one go.

Well, technically that is the entire point of some of the major sports in the world, and it would be problematic to say that deliberately causing brain damage for competition is ok in one sport but not in another.

On the other hand, I am not altogether convinced it should be openly encouraged in any sport.

This is a tricky one, because I would also argue that I should have no say in what a person does to their own body for their own reasons, that my firm belief that people should have bodily autonomy when it causes no actual harm to others does not permit me to condemn others for doing stuff to their own body for their own reasons when it does no actual harm to others even if it's a context I don't agree with.

Given that (ethically) I cannot condone wilful irreversable damage but (ethically) cannot condemn personal choises that harm nobody else, the obvious conclusion is that I don't believe such sports should be actively promoted or encouraged, but that what individuals do in the privacy of a private sporting event should not concern those outside until or unless actual harm outside of those events occurs.

No, he's wrong. Hitler and the Nazis were no friends to the left. Shortly after they came to power, they banned all left wing parties: socialist, communist, and social democrat. Then they started arresting, imprisoning, and executing the members of those parties.

So what if they enacted legislation that benefitted workers? A fascist state needs workers to fulfill its nationalistic aspirations.

And the Nazis were textbook fascists. Not socialists. Their very core principles ran counter to socialistic principles of egalitarianism and international brotherhood. Hitler considered class conflict to be a "jewish plot" -- yet it's central to the socialist manifesto.

Already built. Maybe not a very large wind farm, but 11 turbines is not too small.

The National Socialists in 1930s-40s Germany called themselves "socialists" for branding purposes. They wanted to appeal to the working class. And it worked. But they were anything but socialists.

North Korea calls itself the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Does that mean it's a democratic country?