I’m not a professor but I would’ve fled 8-9 years ago if any of my preferred destination countries would have me. -The thing is, those countries have to want you. It’s a lot easier to flee or migrate when you have a PhD, youth, a personal business, and/or lots of money.

I think the point is to get names of politicians who have been otherwise trying to avoid publicly taking a position on the public-record.

Outlook not so good.

I think It’s more of a French puppet state than U.S. as a result of their massive centuries-old debt they accrued when they managed to make themselves independent and end their own slavery. I’m pretty sure it’s hard to maintain a functional government when it’s permanently in debt to another country.

“Even the gun control issue, which is the most conflicted on this thread”

I’ve long been convinced a lot more Democrats and Progressives could make it much further on other issues if they simply sat down on the ‘Gun control’ issue. To me it seems like a rallying cry of a wedge-issue that gets used to make sure they don’t have to try and address all those other things listed. It also guarantees a spike in gun sales every time they make a public statement about the issue.

yeah, I had found that gun control rate highly suspect.

When I started to learn about it i thought it was the first account I had heard of documenting precisely why a country should never allow unchecked immigration… -Not that the palestinians were given much of a choice by their british colonizers.

Your disgust has a scale that ranks higher than genocide?

Here’s to hoping we still have the physical ability to engage with those hobbies and interests.

I feel like it somehow relates to Cunningham’s Law but i can’t figure out how to articulate it.

the problem with ascribing ignorance over malice is that for all intents and purposes when it comes to politics, the effects are still the same

Did he actually say that, and if so can you provide a source?

A cursory google search for ‘Ken Martin “Good Billionaires”’ comes up with stories from the following sources:

msn

jacobin

salon.com

The Hill

Common Dreams

" Isn’t there any basic train of thought anymore…"

No, ads, television, and social media destroyed our attention spans.

Now the only tv ads that play are Lawyer ads, Insurance ads, and Pharmaceutical Ads. By comparison, Alcohol ads coming back doesn’t seem half-bad.

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“I love football on tv, shots of Gina Lee, hangin’ with my friends, and twins.” …something-something “and I love you too. It’s the love song!”

-Alcohol ads used to have the best jingles.

I’m now wondering if microsoft still even has the legacy control panel code.

I’m curious. What do you mean by “idealist”?

I’ve never trusted Russia Today to be a fact based news source and more importantly it’s been a long time since I’ve trusted CBS to report on anything that isn’t 100% motivated by their own self-interested drive for profit.

TLDR:

Neither news source involved are known to me to be particularly trustworthy.

Huh, this is spun as a positive, and yet I doubt it is. I’m not sure they have many options. I imagine these assets require a cost to upkeep and maintain and I doubt they have many liquid assets after a decade of civil war.

Because Japan doesn’t do that.

They apparently don’t do procreation, either.