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Comment Re:The US strategy (Score 2) 89

10 million people within spitting distance of America who now have a *renewed* reason for revenge. This administration is filled with geniuses.

You mean, the people who are willing to ride a piece of driftwood across the freakin' ocean because they'd rather live here than in their communist hellhole? Okay.

Comment Yeah, *that's* the big problem right now (Score 1) 82

Time for some C.S. Lewis.

The game is to have them running about with fire extinguishers whenever there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under. {...} Cruel ages are put on their guard against Sentimentality, feckless and idle ones against Respectability, lecherous ones against Puritanism.

The big problem of our civilization and age right now isn't that we are going to get too harsh or guard too much against people who rip off stores.

Comment Re:Functional unemployment is 20% (Score 1) 181

President Harry S. Truman proposed universal health insurance in 1945, where workers would pay a fee or tax and the government would then pay the doctor or hospital of the patient's choice

The AMA claimed this was "socialism" because the federal government controlled the money.

Um ... that kind of program literally is socialism.

Now, you may like socialism ... or this particular kind of socialist program ... but that doesn't magically make it not be socialism.

Comment Re:The Great Equalization has begun. (Score 1) 84

This... is going to be interesting.

Especially interesting for these who don't understand and appreciate what they still (somewhat) have.

Y'all may think that you like communism, or (other peoples' exotic) eastern theocracy, but if they get the upper hand, you will find out much too late that you do not really like them at all ...

Comment Looking for silver lining here (Score 3, Funny) 94

Charles Poon, Ford's vice president of vehicle hardware engineering, added, "Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product."

(Looks for silver lining) ... er, well, refreshingly honest, I guess?

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