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Trump's administration should really just come up with some sort of, 'last answer'. Something cheaper than deportation, doesn't let those undesirables the opportunity to come back in, and sends a message to any other undesirables. I just can't think of what that could be. /S

To Quote Mr. Rogers:

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” To this day, especially in times of “disaster,” I remember my mother’s words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.

You're not wrong but I think you're missing the point. The point is that a lot of people believe that everything that makes Earth has an intrinsic value in and of itself. That doesn't mean that us as humans as part of the earth can't capture some of that value and put it to our own efforts. It does mean that we should have respect for the living and non-living things that make up our planet and can't take everything. Just because Dolphin's didn't invent the light bulb doesn't mean they don't have their own value to themselves. It just means that we don't understand it.

I think you might have misunderstood the lesson that we're taught about the Holocaust. It wasn't important who Nazi Germany gurt, it's what the Nazi's did. Regardless of who they did it to. The Nazis threw away their own humanity to achieve their goals, that is always wrong. Everything else after that is just details. That's what people are afraid of with Trump's deportation mandate, that to actually achieve it migrants will need to be treated subhuman. To deport them as quickly as Trump wants America and American's will have to throw away some more of their humanity. It's not the same as Nazi Germany in that there aren't death camps, but Trump and his allies want America to walk down that path a bit. It's wrong.

In America all bread is so full of sugar that it's all cake bread. Brioche in America is a cake bun.

Yeah, it's kind of lost all meaning. I've seen Marxists call Liberals tankies, and I've seen Liberals calls Marxists tankies. I've seen right wingers call Leftists tankies, and I've seen Leftists call Centerists tankies. I know where the word came from, and who the first tankies were but I rarely know what a person's intent is with that word anymore. Maybe it's just young people slang now and I'm just too old to get it.

Because I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it anymore and what's it seems weird and scary. And it'll happen to you!

Depends on the size. A 65 year old who's been working hard their whole life might get a small golden parachute and those ones are less unethical. CEOs and world leaders get the enormous golden chutes and there is no way to make one of those without child labour, slave labour, and other forms of exploitation.

Lookup Folding @ Home or boinc. It's basically the same thing.

Yeah that movie would have been very different without Robbin Williams as Adult Alan. Imagine if the movie we're a drama and not a comedy. It'd be a harder gut punch than Requiem for a Dream.

"Fire at the disco; fire at the, Gates of Hell!"

Kay this is just semantics at this point, so ultimately it's unimportant because delving this deep into it distracts from the overall conversation.

With that said, wouldn't the existence of a post office and other socialized services make the US (and basically every nation state in existence) by strict definitions, a mixed economy? Like if we had to keep to first year undergrad levels.

To be clear for the back row, being this pedantic about semantics not only distracts from the overall conversation but when made as a serious point is at best a sign of ignorance, and at worst it's an argument made in bad faith in order to move the goal post. This comment is meant as an aside. Ultimately like everything else an economy is a spectrum, and strict categories are more often than not caused by our desire to make things simple.

Only if you accept a single payer health care system and like it!

4'33" composed by John Cage, with the accompanying orchestra of course.

I read it as comparing the three exposures to each other.

The first evolution, Charmander was exposed to lead and the toxic effects of lead are pretty fast acting. Meaning they were weakened the quickest and couldn't evolve.

Charmeleon was exposed to asbestos which has latent toxic effects, they show up decades after exposure. So the Charmeleon lived quite a while before they showed any noticeable effects.

The final evolution was exposed to micro plastics and because, so far, micro plastics seem to be so unreactive they just chill doing nothing the Charazard had an opportunity to evolve.

It's the old adage "the laws that free me, bind thee". Although I'd argue that I should include the extreme left wing as well with the way I worded it. It's just that the extreme left is so few in number they're statistically insignificant. Perhaps I'm just being pedantic.

It's a free ride when you've already paid

That's a good point, okay it may not be antisemitic but I think we can both agree it's a form of bigotry.