slickgoat @ slickgoat @lemmy.world

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Taking your point seriously, are you suggesting that Blacks would do better under Trump and the GOP? I mean, they just spent the last 3.5 years blocking each and every Dem initiative?

The Republicans shove a stick in the spokes and when the bike crashes they blame the Dems?

I'm not even American, so have no skin in the game, but the American Kabuki theatre is open for anyone to watch. Plus, it's way better than Netflix.

No, it's more that it is another obvious failed attempt at exploiting an image. Remember all those white folk holding placards saying "Blacks for Trump" at rallies? Or, holding a bible (upsidedown) after he stormed a protest to a church (putting his secret service detail in a sweat).

You need to take a peek at what's going on beyond the projection. It's pretty obvious.

I have to inform you that that US has some of the best spy satellite networks on the planet.

People shocked that other countries play the spook game too is amazing.

The country that makes ALL your shit has nothing to fear in a trade war. Unless you want to forgo ALL your shit?

Who would have thought that sending all those jobs overseas to increase company profits and depress wages would have a downside?

Welcome to Marx 101.

"Property is theft"

Only in the US. The rest of the world buys them. It still is a major market lose, but China still makes Huawei phones.

*Land of the free!

• (TM)

That's the thing. If political parties are involved it leads to corruption. It has to. The idea is to remove political interference. Let the law stand for itself without parties pushing it their preferred direction.

I know that this is probably impossible now in the US. It is probably even too big of a change to get your head around, However, such a system is common place around democracies.

Well, the only difference between the two systems are extremely significant.

Whoever controls congress makes the pick. Congress comprises political parties. So, political parties make a choice as to how it benefits them. That's the point.

In our system an independent process is in play, and it works and has done so since 1901. In our system, the government of the day rubber stamps the selected candidate. Even if it would rather not. That explains the public faith in the system. We also have an independent electoral system that draws up the electorate boundaries. No political power can gerrymander electorate boundaries to preserve power. The electorate system is independent of party interference. All a party can do is make a submission. But anybody can make a submission. Even an individual.

I think that the US got itself into these problems by letting the inmates run the prison. You distrust your institutions because party politics control them. In your answer above about if anyone besides Congress were to select judges they would become just as corrupt. In the free world this isn't a particular problem. It is in the US tho.

Peace out....

Edit: Soz, where I say Congress, I mean Senate.

Most of this kind of problem can be fixed with term limits - say 7 years. That way there would be a few changes of justices every presidential term.

That, and stop making the Supremes political appointees. The Australian parliament takes a shortlist of suitable candidates from a judicial review board. Our High Court is law-qualified and peer reviewed. The Government usually takes the first name off the recommended list. No particular political party has an advantage.

That's not to say that our governments love the high court. No government loves a hand brake. However, the people respect the bench, and the system works well.

Have an upvote for correcting yourself. It is a skill that is pretty rare in the forums.

The man who openly mocked a disabled woman in front of thousands of MAGA doesn't actually have normal boundaries. That's his entire character.

They never found a direction from Hitler setting up the death camps for the final solution. By your reckoning he wasn't responsible.

In courts of law, a first person testimony is considered evidence. Quite a few people have heard Trump say these things.

That is an interesting suggestion, and has been made many times before. Australia (for instance) is pretty much handcuffed to the US. Ever since WW2 we have been in lockstep with you guys. Every damn war and conflict. It would be nice to have a small say in who drags is into war that we never ask for.

But still, we do it to ourselves. Other countries don't.

Nevermind.

It seemed to go pearshape right from the very beginning.

I just get tired from angry posts all the fricken time. People have opinions you don't agree with. People get stuff wrong sometimes. I posted something wrong by mistake yesterday and someone corrected me and I withdrew it. No biggie.

Block, don't block, I don't care. People should just relax a bit. Hulking out over the most ridiculous points is insane and not good for one's mental health.

Yet another example of unnecessary hostility? Just disagree, for God's sake. I'm not really sure what the actual argument is about, just chill.

I've been an internet user since 1994, and I can tell you this. Unnecessary hostility like this has always a thing from the very beginning. Even if the OP made a mistake, not saying that he did, why be a dick about it? Just add to the information pile.

That's my PSA.

Fair enough, I'm an Australian vet, and the US guys we worked with used kilometres. I must have generalised.i withdraw my comment. 🙂

That's an artefact of the "now".

In Australia we once had the imperial system and about a year after the big switch (14 Feb 1966) we became all metric like a mofo. Now 35c feels hot and 15c feels cold. Plus units of ten is so much easier than factions.

Ask the US military about the metric system, they've been using it since at least Vietnam, if not earlier.