I have no faith in the justice of the USA anymore. His whole base could turn against him and he'd wiggle his way out of any punishment the same way he has before as acting president. Immunity.
Just RUNNING for second term had courts dropping cases from him.
There are too many people in power that want him in power for anything to happen. Even if all those people are on the list, which duh of course they are, those people have enough influence that they could feasibly keep power.
One, they aren't fantasy units— this is real life, son.
Two, the country was built on imperial, so the trades use imperial to maintain the country. Everyone in the US grows up learning in imperial, and then learns metric when they get into physics and chemistry.
Three, I addressed the fact that WE CAN NOT AFFORD TO SWITCH. It does not matter if it is going to be more expensive in the future. We can't afford it NOW.
I understand the spirit of your reply. This is just the reality of what having 50 different states, who can't agree on anything and are loosely tied together by an over-arching government, is like.
There are 27 counties in the European Union, and they are filled with reasonable people in government(for the most part).
We have 50 states that are filled with greedy little assholes who will do everything in their power to gain more power to leverage in a bid to destroy what they deem "the enemy", so they can make even more money and gain more power.
We are never going to convert wholesale to metric. We can't even agree, as a country, that poor people are people, at a government scale. That is entirely motivated by profit and nothing more.
Everytime I see one of these posts I have to make the same comment.
The US is metric, everywhere that it matters. In the military, in the medical field, and in the scientific field.
The ONLY reason we haven't converted every other part of our lives to metric is that our country is 50 times the size of the average European country. Do you know how expensive it would be to replace the infrastructure we've built and maintained over the past 200 years? The tax payers could not handle that burden, and it would require every state to agree to the terms of the change for a total conversion.
At this point, it is just part of our identity. It would be like asking the French to eat day old bread. They could, but why?
Right? The two words used in the bible that are translated, by tradition, into "carpenter" actually translate as "craftsman" and "builder".
Jesus helped build houses, which at the time and in that region were made of stone. So there is some strong evidence that Jesus was a stone mason. To back that up, a lot of his parables used house-building as an aid.
We can't know for sure, but yeah! Kinda neat, huh?
Hmm, that's interesting. I can't find that definition for fascism anywhere, but I'm not going to dismiss it just because a few dictionaries don't align perfectly. I'll do some digging and see if I can find the historical context and first-use cases.
I am curious what parts of China are your friends from? I mostly hang out with people from Sichuan, with one friend from a village called Urumqi(I have no idea where that is though). China is a big place, and I wouldn't be surprised if there was a different regard for the government region-to-region.
That is such a shoddy argument. Communism leads to fascism, we have examples. Socialism leads to fascism, we have examples. Monarchy leads to fascism, we have examples. ALL political schemes can lead to fascism, and it has everything to do with the pursuit of power by a few and very little to do with the system of governance itself. Of course Capitalism can lead to fascism; where ever there is fair compromise to be exploited there will be an opportunity for fascism.
Also, I didn't see any other replies to my comment. Unless you think I'm going to stalk the person I replied to and nag them to reply to me directly, I don't think that counts :/
So liberals are nazis now? I'll pen that in under alt-right nationalists, republicans, conservatives in general, democrats...
Like seriously, we are seriously watering down the word Nazi by just labeling everyone we don't like as a racist supporter of fascism.
Besides, how can every blue state and blue city be riddled with Nazis if they are the one's constantly complaining that our government is devolving into an authoritarian state? RIDDLE ME!!
Hahaha, I doubt anyone would want to buy my old childhood books. They're covered in dragon ball stickers, drawn on, stained with various foods and drinks... over all I was not very respectful of my books when I was 7 xD
The internet fame would be nice though! Maybe, I hear that backfires for a lot of people lol
Well, I'm setting a calendar reminder for every day I'll be in Washington this December to hit the storage unit on the way back. Gotta grab my old laptop and external hard drive anyway so why not!
I'll see if I can track her down. She moved to the UK for university about 6 years ago, but I doubt she brought all her childhood stuff with her(her whole family is still in southern California).
My stuff is in storage near Washington at the moment, but I should be going up there before December to nab some stuff.
I bet the photos we took are in those boxes too xD
I legit still have my books from when I was a kid. Berenstien.
My friend also has their books from when they were a kid. Berenstain.
We argued about it off and on for like a decade before we finally settled it.
We only have one book in common, a halloween one, but other than that we have no idea what happened.
They were printed in different years, but why would that matter??? IDK, it is a mystery.
I feel like I covered my bases with the rest of my comment there.
If you have thousands of photos that you want to share, host them on your server and whitelist the people you want to see them :/
IRL I've never sent nor received more than a handful of pics at a time, and always through email. It would have never occurred to me that people are out there sending the whole family collection to each other digitally.
Grandma hordes those pics for a reason; as leverage for people to visit her!
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