It is universal in France. Sometimes you can stand in the street and see four or five flashing away in your view. I kinda like them, don’t have them in my country.

The constitution is decided by the Supreme Court in the end. The American system of government makes the selection of justices political appointees for life. That is why you have Republican and Democrat justices. Political. So the constitution gets bent into any political shape according to power possession.

Don’t for a second believe that the United States can’t sleepwalk into a dictatorship. People are already describing Jan 6 as an ordinary tourist visit. What will it take for the public to see the danger with their own eyes.

It’s exactly as it sounds. Like she is trying to strangle a rooster.

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!

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I guess that we shall have to agree to disagree.

Kids should have nothing to do with the corporate world until they are old enough to deal with it rationally. Whatever the rationale is for doing so, fast food joints want to materially exploit people and having kids as young as 5 play as burger slingers is beyond creepy. Feel free to have alternative views about it.

Perhaps just let kids play and forget all about training to be “future workers”.

Is this what we’ve become? Jesus!

With respect, and I mean it. There is a world of difference between a kid brushing a horse and a training camp for a fast food joint. I mean, really?

Want to bond with your kid, take them to the park, not some corporate hellscape.

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.

Oh Nos! Anyway…

Only if you are insanely literal. You are most definitely the product.

I’ve been watching the big powers veto sensible UN measures for decades. The US does it, Russia and China does it, it’s a game to them. Waste of time finger-pointing, veto power is bullshit. It sez the rules don’t apply to anyone in the nuke club.

To me, making political appointments for the judiciary always made this a possibility. It happened in the old days, and it might happen again. And it did.

The Tea Party was the prototype of what the GOP would become. The party believed that they could control the radicals for their own purposes. They should have stomped them down. Instead they ended up in a hostile takeover situation. Now the GOP politicians are terrified of being deselected in their own electorates so they must engage in theatrical MAGA performances.

The Tea Party never went away, they evolved like a successful virus.