Haha, apparently I hit a nerve. Apparently someone's not familiar with the Mann Act.

The legitimacy of Maduro's election is irrelevant. The issue is that Trump arbitrarily had U.S. troops go into a sovereign country, levy war on them, kidnap their leader, and bring him back to the U.S. for trial without so much as consulting Congress.

This is in direct violation of numerous domestic laws and treaties to which we are party, not to mention the U.S. Constitution.

If you want to argue that Trump did this to uphold the rule of law, you should be holding him to it, too. If it doesn't apply to him or his actions, then yes, he is essentially a king.

The issue is less that prostitutes are getting visas than that folks who actually contribute positively to the economy and society such as scientists, engineers, scholars, legitimate artists, and yes, even the people who grow and prepare our food are being denied them because "ferriners bad."

Even if you do want to make the argument that prostitution and "adult entertainment" are integral parts of our economy, it's not like we have a shortage of citizens willing to "fill openings" (pun intendeed), without resorting to sex trafficking.

Yes, it's culturally-specific, but it has nothing to do with communism. China has essentially always had high levels of corruption and cheating in the civil service, including essentially the entire Nationalist and Imperial periods.

It's a product of their tradition of exam-based advancement in the civil service.

The tradition of cheating on competitive Chinese civil service exams literally goes back millennia.

And when I say "literally," I actually mean "literally." It's been going on since the Qin dynasty in the 3rd century B.C. Massive cheating is an expected and in many cases tacitly accepted part of the process.

Is it any wonder that it continues in its most modern iteration?

Wrong. Even i the U.S., "actual malice" means only reckless disregard for truth or falsity. The laws are MUCH more plaintiff-friendly in Canada.

Considering you don't even know how to spell the name of the company you claim to have worked for (Nielsen), I find your claim to have done this highly dubious. Of course, even if you did, coming on a public forum and admitting you did it shows that you aren't the sharpest tool in the shed.

"Death knell " is a real phrase. So is "nail in the coffin."

"Death nail" is not, yet I've seen it used twice in this site in as many days. Annoying.

Watching two schizophrenics having a conversation is a fascinating experience.

This is so beyond wrong. Even in the 40's-60's period you mention, the consensus was that the "live" look seemed cheap and hokey in comparison to the lower frame rate (and shallower depth of field) "film" look.
This is the main reason that the Twilight Zone's experiment with high frame rate video lasted all of six episodes before switching back to all film. People didn't like what was then one of the most visually sophisticated shows on TV suddenly looking cheap and tacky.

The birds are perfectly capable of finding water on their own. So what you are doing is essentially baiting them into coming to a place where you know there are predators likely to kill them out of your own selfish desire to "see the birdies."

The cat can't help but follow its its instincts. YOU are the bird murderer/pest.

Hate to break it to you, but if you are in the U.S., the rock pigeons and starlings that are the most likely birds to be coming to visit your balcony are invasives, too.

And the starlings in particular alone have caused a LOT more ecological damage to native birds (and agriculture) than housecats ever have.

Warrants are issued based on unauthenticated video/other evidence all the time. You might not end up with a conviction, but you can still easily be subjected to all the pain of going through the criminal justice system, including jail time while awaiting trial, before tou get those charges thrown out.

Poor white people are just as likely to commit as many crimes as poor black people, per capita. A big part of skewed crime statistics stem from the fact that a) black people are more likely to be poor, and b) inner cities, where police presence is higher, are likely to produce more arrests, prosecutions, and convictions.

When looking at methed-out poor white rural areas, the the rates of commission of crimes per capita tend to actually be substantially higher than what you see in the inner cities.

And if you RTFA, you'd see to guessed wrong. Apparently, it was an "MAP" flag, which is apparently its own whole thing.