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@Intelligence_06
If you are going to be 100 percent consistent with the pro-choice position, you should be in favor of defunding and abolishing CPS.
After All, CPS uses force, sometimes with armed police to protect a child, and that NAP is so important for society after all.
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@n8nrgmi
what non sense and non answers..
And non arguments from the OP. Nice rant though.
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@ILikePie5
The idea that states were culturally different 200 years ago but now they are suddenly not is the most ludicrous sentiment I have seen in a while.
We need the Electoral College more than ever.
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@Dr.Franklin
Not really, the territories just have low resources and not much human capital.
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Also I request that this thread not be deleted even if it might get locked so people can see what is inappropriate behavior on a social forum.
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@n8nrgmi
what are the rules ?
Is this a Callout thread? Let me go consult with the moderators.
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@Lemming
Silent majority.
As long as you don't vote by mail, nobody is going to know who you voted for.
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@3RU7AL
It's fascinating to see how fast you can leap to the BROAD BRUSH fallacy after scavenging for cherry-picked examples.
Saggy pants are a distinctive feature of the glorious African culture.
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@bmdrocks21
I love how the normal people are reacting to obnoxious racism with laughter and ridicule.
The perfect social response to racism should always be ridicule and public humiliation.
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@n8nrgmi
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@3RU7AL
AND don't forget about "mafioso culture" products and "super villain" products and "serial killer" products, which are apparently HARMLESS.
It's fascinating to see how fast that guy ran with saggy thug pants after unloading a clip into a parked police cruiser.
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@dustryder
Sure. Garland is noted to be moderate-conservative in criminal law and has oftened dissented with the more liberal judges of the DC circuit. You may read more and find specific cases here: https://www.scotusblog.com/2010/04/the-potential-nomination-of-merrick-garland/
A "moderate" judge isn't what the people voted for in 2014-2016 and 2018.
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@Death23
I am a big fan of ranked choice voting systems.
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@ILikePie5
The will of arguably the smartest group of people in the world.
In 1763, immigrants to the North American colonies had more secure property rights than a native-born Venezuelan does in the 21st century.
Property rights in the US were “constituted, secure, and out of reach of oppression from the most powerful,” wrote a group of German immigrants even before America’s independence.
Property rights in the US were “constituted, secure, and out of reach of oppression from the most powerful,” wrote a group of German immigrants even before America’s independence.
The concept of property rights runs in the blood of North America, fueling its market system, and helping the country to prosper. While the importance of having well-defined and strongly protected property rights is now widely recognized among policymakers, Latin America lags behind on securing the property of its people.
Property rights are the laws that allow individuals to manage, benefit from, and transfer property. Government enforcement of strong property rights is generally linked with more prosperous and developed countries.
As the 2015 International Property Rights Index shows, the five best performing countries have an average GDP per capita of US $72,000, whereas the five worst performing countries have an extremely low average of $3,900. The Latin America and the Caribbean region ranks just ahead of Africa, and countries with ongoing-armed conflicts like Nigeria or Chad have better protection of land rights than Argentina, Haiti, and Venezuela. Countries that flourish economically understand the difference between prosperity and poverty: property.
In Latin America, Venezuela and Argentina stand out for the consistent and institutional undermining of property rights.
Venezuela, where inflation levels reached 720 percent this year according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), is ranked second to last on the protection of property rights in the region. In fact, more than 1,200 private companies were expropriated during Hugo Chavez’ administration from 1999 to 2013.
Similarly, Argentina has a poor track record of respecting property rights. In 2012 Repsol, a Spanish oil group, underwent the traumatic experience of seeing its subsidiary unit in Argentina nationalized by then President Cristina Kirchner.
The expropriation of private property is the perfect recipe to frighten off investors. With few exceptions like Colombia and Peru, Latin America has seen major capital flows trying to reach other, more investor-friendly regions.
On the other hand, Peru’s success in reforming and improving its property rights has helped to transform the country into one of the best-performing economies in the region.
In the 1980s, the Institute for Liberty and Democracy helped to move Peru’s street vendors, transport drivers, poor farmers in remote areas of the Andes, and millions of other participants in Peru’s huge informal sector into the legalized economy.
Policy reforms like simplifying administrative processes, improving access to public information, unifying business registries, and democratizing rule-making have helped make Peru the second highest ranked country in Latin American and the Caribbean.
Hernando de Soto, ILD’s founder, affirmed that they have received more than 44 requests from reform-minded governments from all over the world seeking to learn from Peru’s positive experience on protecting property rights.
Peru’s policy reform, in fact, put Peru ahead of countries like Canada, the UK, and Japan on the Registering Property Indicator of the 2016 Doing Business report.
Latin America, however, is still torn ideologically between defenders of free markets and those who still favor over-regulation. But some governments are seeking to strengthen property rights.
Brazil, which has generally demonstrated strong growth in the last decade, has room for improvement. The idea that rights serve a social function was first introduced into Brazilian legal culture in the early 20th century. Thus, Brazilian law punishes owners if their property does not serve its “social function,” thereby weakening the importance and value of private property.
Owners, for instance, are obligated to make their property productive, according to the state’s criteria, that is. In Brazil, state intervention clearly has a negative impact on the economy, and the lack of legal security frequently scares investors away.
As Venezuela’s economic crisis worsens, the newly elected National Assembly (dominated by the opposition) introduced a bill in February that grants property deeds to more than 593,000 holding owners — and now full owners — who benefited from one of the most popular policies of Hugo Chavez’s government: Misión Vivienda, a government program that gave houses (but not deeds) to poor Venezuelans.
The new objective is to democratize existing property, and provide house owners with access to the market by giving them, for example, the legal instruments to use their property as collateral for a bank credit and start a business.
Since 2012, Latin America has experienced low growth averages: about 2-2.5 percent of GDP compared to a robust 5 percent during the previous decade. This slowdown has been caused by decreasing commodity prices, a lingering Chinese economy, and fewer investments.
Policymakers must now consider sustainable approaches for sustainable and inclusive economic growth. All countries in the region have an opportunity to learn from successful examples of property rights reform, as seen in Peru, to jumpstart development progress and drive investment back to the continent.
The recognition of the inherent and inalienable right to own property is stated in the Article 17 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The foundation of freedom, justice, and peace in the world relies on important institutions such as that of private property.
Prosperity and property rights are inextricably linked, and development actors worldwide increasingly accept this fact.
If governments across Latin America want to see their people lifting themselves out of poverty, respect for and formal recognition of private property is a crucial step in the right direction.
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@ILikePie5
Many countries tried to Fight Marxism and failed.
The bones of economically devastated countries litter South America with their unquenchable vitriol for private property rights.
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@Death23
California doesn't get to alone choose the presidency for the other 49 states.
Maybe if 3 million Californians moved into swing states instead of snubbing them as deplorable states, you wouldn't have to look at Trump's ugly face on TV.
Clearly circle-jerking 3 million more votes than needed to win Califonia's electorate vote isn't a winning strategy. Getting the supermajority popular vote in circle-jerk states is still fun to watch though.
They probs in Canada now though hur Durr.
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@ILikePie5
Maybe you want to check out academia that’s literally a circle jerk and a groupthink cesspool.
It's the very definition of today's cancel culture academia.
I literally was forced to pretend to be a mouth breathing leftist to score Dean's Honor Roll every year while earning my degree. And that was back when cancel culture was just in its infancy.
Just look at what that ACLU guy did to Sandman, cancelling him before he even started his first class.
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No, by justifying his actions by claiming the American people should have a say,
They spoke in 2014 and 2016 and 2018.
You just don't like what they said. Get over it.
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@ILikePie5
It's pointless to argue with the left.
If the people want judges, then they vote for a president and a senate that will work with the president.
Like they did in 2014 and 2016,
Nothing more to discuss. It's the will of the people of America in action. The world doesn't revolve around the left. It revolves around elections
Which have
Consequences.
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@ILikePie5
did you read the article? moderating the law causes uncertainty and civil unrest.
People need to know for sure that the government is going to protect them.
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@ILikePie5
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@dustryder
Merrick Garland being a moderate is a view expressed by many
Heritage foundation disagrees.
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@ILikePie5
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@ILikePie5
Amy is fine.
Pretty much anyone the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society says is qualified.
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@ILikePie5
“There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the president stops being president in his last year.”
-Ruth Bader Ginsberg July 10 , 2016. New York Times
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@ILikePie5
People ask me sometimes, when — when do you think it will it be enough? When will there be enough women on the court?
"And my answer is when there are nine."
RBG
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@ILikePie5
Even CNN is reporting that the seat will be filled before January.
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In the end there are no "moral justifications" for political actions.
The Democrat party took a gamble with Obamacare and lost the Senate.
Obamacare was a political gamble, not a moral one.
losing 9 Senate seats has consequences.
"For too long, this administration has tried to tell the American people what is good for them and then blame somebody else when their policies didn't work out," Mitch McConnell, who is expected to become the next Senate majority leader, said in a victory speech.
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@ILikePie5
As if serving the will of your constituents was supposed to be a bad thing.
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@ILikePie5
You can probably credit the extreme failure of Obamacare for the party flip in the Senate, leading to all these conservative judge appointments.
The public was downright pissed over that mess.
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@ILikePie5
Honestly if the public gets upset about a conservative court, it will be the first time in over 70 years that the people actually cared about what the SCOTUS does.
That's a good thing no matter who wins the election.
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@ILikePie5
2016 election has consequences. When the people elect a senate and a president that have the same goals, they expect them to put those goals in action.
Or they can do like Biden and not get anything done for 40 years and see how that works out.
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@ILikePie5
well Trump has 3 1/2 months to appoint a replacement. Get cracking.
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@lady3keys
Well if you have a problem condemning Illegal Marxists, then I severely misjudged you as well.
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@lady3keys
Greyparrot should call me a "Marxist".
I never called you a Marxist. I might have insinuated you don't know what their policy goals are though.
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@lady3keys
be overrun with black and Latino criminals
I dont care what color their skin is.
Illegal criminal Marxists from largely Marxist nations South of the border isn't making America great.
Anything but.
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@zedvictor4
Find me any place where the ruling class has equal wealth. Inequality is always going to happen unless you are an anarchist. Then Might makes right on an individual level.
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@zedvictor4
Venezuela.
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@Intelligence_06
socialist nations have the most inequality if you compare the ruling class with the idiots that voted in socialism.
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@bmdrocks21
The housing crisis led by Democrats and Barney Frank who wanted to roll the dice created the whole financial mess, forcing bank loans to those who couldn’t afford them. In August 95,000 homes foreclosed. Fannie and Freddie announced a new policy, no more loans to those that can’t afford them.
Brilliant.
The national official unemployment rate dove to 9.6 percent. In California 12 percent and as high as 22 percent in some areas in the country. The unofficial national unemployment rate around 17 percent.
No cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security retirees in 2010 and 2011 but our Pepsi generation representatives got theirs.
Democrat Hank Johnson of Georgia is concerned that the island of Guam is going to tip over. Johnson is a member of the House Democratic leadership.
Our schools are being dumbed down. Our kids are losing ground in world competition. Our nation is future stupid.
One in seven households is now in poverty. Forty million Americans are on food stamps —
Democrat Hank Johnson of Georgia is concerned that the island of Guam is going to tip over. Johnson is a member of the House Democratic leadership.
Our schools are being dumbed down. Our kids are losing ground in world competition. Our nation is future stupid.
One in seven households is now in poverty. Forty million Americans are on food stamps —
The one field Democrats have succeeded in, trickle up poverty.
Democrats took control of the House and Senate in 2006 during Bush’s last two years of office. Take accountability of what you have created over the past four years and be proud.
The federal government now owns 96 percent of all home loans, health care, insurance, banks and essentially 401(k) planning, GM’s auto industry and Democrat Maxine Waters wants to socialize, nationalize, take over the oil and gas industry. In essence Uncle Sam is not our uncle anymore, he’s the plantation master and we are the government mules.
Don’t let the door hit you on Nov. 2. It’s the economy and liberty, stupid.
The federal government now owns 96 percent of all home loans, health care, insurance, banks and essentially 401(k) planning, GM’s auto industry and Democrat Maxine Waters wants to socialize, nationalize, take over the oil and gas industry. In essence Uncle Sam is not our uncle anymore, he’s the plantation master and we are the government mules.
Don’t let the door hit you on Nov. 2. It’s the economy and liberty, stupid.
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@HistoryBuff
Trickle down economics obviously don't work.
Trickle up economics caused the housing bubble.
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@n8nrgmi
Rich people create a lot of jobs and are motivated to invest alot. It's the only reason America is such a rich country, because the USA is the one of the few sanctuaries on the planet for rich people. Countries that punish people for producing too much wealth end up with a sharply declining GDP for everyone rich and poor.
See France when they tried 70% taxes on the rich.
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@zedvictor4
How freedom influences taxation, or how taxation influences freedom....And how illegal immigration, either does or doesn't influence taxation or freedom or both.
let me confiscate your private property here while you are rambling about nonsense.
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@Castin
I demand more fake outrage from you. It seems too genuine.
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@ILikePie5
Because if parents were allowed to pick the schools their kids go to, the shitty schools would go bankrupt. Liberals don’t want individuals to have an opportunity to succeed; they want the system to control the outcome.
Not only that, but they want the curriculum to be standardized to their beliefs, as well. They want to teach kids that you can be whatever gender you want, that white people, western culture, and America are evil, and that minorities are incapable of protecting themselves and should be looked after like children. It’s impossible to push that curriculum when parents have the opportunity to make choices about how and where to educate their own children. This isn't just about choosing alternative schools for academic reasons. It's also about having the opportunity to choose a different ideology for your children that isn't straight from a Marxist manifesto.
The teachers’ unions have something to do with that as well. They’re permanent DNC contributors and I don’t see that stranglehold being broken any time soon. The union leadership is in bed with the DNC and even if the Republicans adopted a more favorable policy towards teachers, the unions would not adapt. Thanks to liberal anti-competition union laws, in many states union membership is compulsory, meaning you have to pay dues even if you aren’t part of the union. Which that union in turn uses to pay off their Democrat friends.
It’s a very tidy relationship; using taxpayer dollars to pay off politicians through lobbying.
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@ILikePie5
Well honestly, HB hates Joe because of what Biden did to Sander's camp.
Again, it's insanely difficult to do the required mental gymnastics to sell 4 more years of 40 years of failed policies.
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@ILikePie5
We have a lot of leftists on the site, but they usually pop in to comment on low-hanging fruit topics.
Tackling Biden's agenda is way too beefy for most of them to engage in.
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