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This may be a classic case of the disconnect between "the economy is doing well" and "the people are doing well". Some try to solve the problem by saying that an economy that doesn't help the people is by definition not doing well, but in that case it's probably better to go straight to the...

I am not sure where I stand on the issue myself, but I am sure it's not as cut and dried as you are presenting it as being. Imagine a building with two doors. At one, a fee is collected for people who wish to enter and take stuff. What stuff? Maybe it's an all you can eat buffet; who cares. The...

I don't think that's a recent development. I remember hearing about courts ruling that actual innocence, even undisputed, is not a valid reason to overturn a verdict. I suppose it may make sense from the perspective of legalistic consistency (follow the process at all costs), and theoretically...

There are certainly more innocents in American prisons just because there are so many people in American prisons. But even if the Japanese justice system is better than the American one at identifying the correct suspects, I've heard that by the time they get to prosecuting you they are so...

Not quite. What they want is to squeeze as hard as they possibly can. Even if it leads to diminishing returns. Even if it leads to negative returns for the system, as long as they personally profit one (1) penny from it. There may be some madmen who want a zero sum game for ideological or...

You go too far here. Taking for the sake of argument that all trade is zero sum (which I disagree with), that wouldn't make income zero because individuals would still produce value by their own hands to trade around.

The major powers in 1914 would probably abort if they could be magically convinced of what 1920 would look like, never mind 2020. It's a silly rhetorical point in my opinion.

... OK, you got me in that obviously you could divorce if you could prove a legally sufficient justification in court in the absence of no-fault divorce. But that ignores some obvious issues. Aside from the cost of going through the system and proving the fault, what if your spouse hasn't done...

I believe the opposite was true, on account of that scenario being rarer than "I'm very unhappy with my marriage and the only way to get out of it is for one of us to die."

I knew twitter/tiktok culture was diseased, but thinking that thick Alabama accents can/should only exist in men is a new one for me.

I like how he danced around the part where Machiavelli (as I recall) advised that the way you go about inspiring fear should not also inspire hate.

Communications, for sure; but the late 1800s (in other words, the peak of noncitizens being allowed to vote) coincided with mass migration levels similar to what we see today as a proportion of the population, just from different parts of the globe...

Your worry that they would be able to influence federal decisionmaking via influencing state legislatures does not carry legal weight. Alien suffrage (as it was known) is neither required nor forbidden by the US constitution, which is why the practice was able to wax and wane. From the...

Noncitizen state level voting was fairly common a hundred years ago, but the state constitution says what it says. If New Yorkers don't like it they can try to change the constitution rather than trying to argue it doesn't say what it says. It's been done before. (But good fuckin' luck.)

"You're doing a morally bad job" isn't any better than "You're doing a bad job" as far as rising to the normal impeachment threshold, as far as I know.

One of the news reports I read said they're complaining that the alleged offense is "did his job wrong" which does seem weak to be honest. On skimming the actual articles the claim seems to be that he did his job so wrong that it amounts to high crimes and/or misdemeanors but I'm not aware that...

Billions must fly

Oh?

For example: if the number is currently on track to be a lot higher than that, keeping it to that number would be an improvement. But I can't speak to the specific reasoning of unknown people. Also, it's probably worth clarifying that the plan as I understand it wouldn't "allow" people in who...

"Called for a decrease to 1.8 million a year", but yes