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People falling over each other to be the one who falates Trump the most. 

"only when you no-life you can exist forever, because what does not live cannot die."

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Naming things after himself is the closest Donald will get to Alexander the Great. Just wait until Blair suggests the new name for Gaza city...

(Honestly kind of surprised Ukraine or Russia hasn't offered to name a town after him to curry favour. After all, Israel named one of their illegal settlements after him)

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9 hours ago, uuuhhii said:

eu are still fighting over import food from america or not

didn't uk solve this problem century ago

Considering that they followed EU rules still 5 years ago in this matter, I would say no.

Issue with importing food from America is in USA's poor documentation of origin of many of their foods. Like for example there is no need for cattle famers to document where their cows have been born. So they have lots of cows imported from Mexico and Canada and there is currently no way to trace origin of most of the beef they sell. In order to allow American foods in EU, EU would need to remove many restrictions from its own members, because otherwise they would give US companies exorbitant advantage on the market. And if politician give market advantage for US food companies, they need to be prepared on fact that EU farmers will bury their homes in literal **** even more than they currently do

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DSNrgY-gCTP/

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14 hours ago, Elerond said:

Considering that they followed EU rules still 5 years ago in this matter, I would say no.

Issue with importing food from America is in USA's poor documentation of origin of many of their foods. Like for example there is no need for cattle famers to document where their cows have been born. So they have lots of cows imported from Mexico and Canada and there is currently no way to trace origin of most of the beef they sell. In order to allow American foods in EU, EU would need to remove many restrictions from its own members, because otherwise they would give US companies exorbitant advantage on the market. And if politician give market advantage for US food companies, they need to be prepared on fact that EU farmers will bury their homes in literal **** even more than they currently do

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DSNrgY-gCTP/

 

the continent america not usa

uk did decide import food from usa and canada make more sense than growing it on their miserable damp rock at one point

the eu farmer welfare are almost as ridiculous as usa corporate welfare

they lost the perspective long time ago

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17 hours ago, uuuhhii said:

the continent america not usa

uk did decide import food from usa and canada make more sense than growing it on their miserable damp rock at one point

the eu farmer welfare are almost as ridiculous as usa corporate welfare

they lost the perspective long time ago

Actually no, it makes a ton of sense for nations to protect their agricultural capabilities. You never know when a foreign embargo is going to lead to mass starvation. E.g. blockade of Germany during World War I.

"It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."

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9 hours ago, rjshae said:

Actually no, it makes a ton of sense for nations to protect their agricultural capabilities. You never know when a foreign embargo is going to lead to mass starvation. E.g. blockade of Germany during World War I.

 

german still didn't have much industrialized farming during ww2

if food production is important it would be more idiotic to protect small idealized family farm

if farm landlord and farming megacorp are going to receive endless welfare might as well nationalize them

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Trump signs executive order reclassifying cannabis, opening door to broader weed access

An actual, sensible executive order? Wait, I need to mark this on my calendar.

Previously, I thought Biden should have taken care of that before he left office, but having this POTUS do it instead probably makes it longer lasting as a Dem President is unlikely to revert the order. Not that I'm actually in favor of marijuana use, but having it classed as Schedule I drug made no sense. Now law enforcement can focus on more dangerous drugs. Hopefully this act makes it okay for insurance companies to cover pot shops.

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"It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."

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"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)

"Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)

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1 hour ago, Gromnir said:

Posted before, but I just had a major case of Déjà vu.

 

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“Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.”
 
-Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>>
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"The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete."

-Rod Serling

 

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1 hour ago, Agiel said:

Posted before, but I just had a major case of Déjà vu.

the leaked email which were the impetus for the current 60 minutes bruhaha specifically references your déjà vu.

"CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that “low point.” By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones."

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just as an aside, 'cause the point keeps being ignored/overlooked, but the people sent to cecot by the US were not deported. w/o due process we transported residents o' the US to a dystopian hell hole where they were to serve sentences for an indeterminate duration. we paid a central american dictator millions o' dollars to incarcerate and torture people-- not deportations. trump correct recognized that americans wouldn't care if he made theatre outta cruelty as long as those suffering were part o' a disreputable them.  a few hundred venezuelans? so what? they were possibly gang members and they weren't american citizens regardless. virtual nobody were gonna rush to the defense of them

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bob dole literal fought nazis in europe. this generation is increasingly nazi curious? 

HA! Good Fun!

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"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)

"Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)

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43 minutes ago, Gromnir said:

just as an aside, 'cause the point keeps being ignored/overlooked, but the people sent to cecot by the US were not deported. w/o due process we transported residents o' the US to a dystopian hell hole where they were to serve sentences for an indeterminate duration. we paid a central american dictator millions o' dollars to incarcerate and torture people-- not deportations. trump correct recognized that americans wouldn't care if he made theatre outta cruelty as long as those suffering were part o' a disreputable them.  a few hundred venezuelans? so what? they were possibly gang members and they weren't american citizens regardless. virtual nobody were gonna rush to the defense of them

Given the current Epstein news perhaps the weird parallels to the Pinochet regime and Colonia Dignidad are a sign from up high:

 

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“Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.”
 
-Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>>
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"The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete."

-Rod Serling

 

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Trump back on Greenland again, guess we need distraction from Epstein.

Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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After what I've read today, those distractions won't really help. Or rather.. they really shouldn't. 

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