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Sorry, I was doing my math with Swedish money, so I'd be a Swedish millionaire. Which is kinda crappy I guess. I'd have roughly 150k USD in the bank after 5 years. I'd be a USD millionaire within my lifetime, though.

The housing market is insane around here.

That just means there's something comically wrong with the US. I live in Sweden, a rich and expensive country, by European standards, where I make a good wage by local standards. My wife is currently unemployed, and we're a family of four. We save money every year. We bought a house. If we made 160k per year before tax, we'd be millionaires in 5 years without even trying.

Your (wrong 😄 ) views I'm already familiar with, but thanks. Where are you getting that 200k number from, though? As far as I know Warren's wealth tax proposal is to tax people's wealth above 50 million at 2%. Anyway if you stand to be affected by this tax, congrats.

What policy proposals of hers are you uncomfortable with? Basically, what does "she is a bit left o' where we feel comfortable voting" mean exactly? I mean by European standards you strike me as moderate right all the way, but in the current American politics spectrum you might as well be the pinkoest of all the pinkos, by my personal estimation.

Hey Guard Dog, I don't recall seeing anything by you on the subject, so I'll ask here. How do you see the internal skitstorm that is affecting the NRA of late? They seem to be steadfastly digging their own graves.

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/2019-07-2019. Immigrant Child Separations- Staff Report.pdf http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/the-inhumane-conditions-at-migrant-detention-camps.html https://www.vox.com/2018/6/11/17443198/children-immigrant-families-separated-parents http://srcd.org/sites/default/files/documents/the_science_is_clear.pdf https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/children-immigration-court/567490/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/what-separation-from-parents-does-to-children-the-effect-is-catastrophic/2018/06/18/c00c30ec-732c-11e8-805c-4b67019fcfe4_story.html

Are you serious or trolling.

"Slight discomfort"? Holy hell.

It will finally fall after an astounding victory by Maxwell the Insane in the Vaulted Metal Structure of Lightning, during the great dust bowl wars of 2061.

I believe "current state of US politics" refers to the limited period between 1776 and 2061.

lolzorz

Shouldn't people be in a panic over that? That sort of behaviour seems really, really dangerous for democracy.

Are you talking about Shapiro, dog whistler extraordinaire?

The controversy seems to be that that lady from google said she doesn't think google's platforms should be used to spread racist content? Or to finance creators of said content.

Numbersman!

The GOP has been doubling down on its uneducated, religious, rural base for 40 years, it isn't going to stop now. The reasons that strategy hasn't destroyed them already are gerrymandering, and that the Senate and the Presidency both favor votes from low population density areas. As far as the popular vote is concerned I don't see how Trump isn't defeated in an unprecedented fashion. Of course, the electoral college will make everything a lot tighter in practice. Still, I wouldn't be terribly surprised if the 2020 election didn't deliver Mondale level results for the GOP.

That's the joke. There aren't that many people entering the US illegally. Most illegal immigrants are people that overstayed on their guest visas, and the number of people crossing the border illegally has been decreasing for years and years.

This is pretty much perfect. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/thin-ice

First the Beatles now this!

Software may change but bureaucracy is forever!

The point is thst they didn't beat the old tech, they got trounced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002 This is relevant to the possibility of war between the US and Iran.