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Savage was a bad word choice, because it can have both meanings. I meant unprovoked, unnecessary, or maybe unjustified. If animals acted like us, they wouldn't maintain a proper ecosystem. Their violence seems to be mostly survival driven. Attacking something else for no possible benefit would be a waste of valuable resources to them. Beast is another word that would fill both meanings.

He could have released the investigation, that WE THE PEOPLE paid for, or even gave us his own DOJ's investigation. Instead, what we got is "It's a hoax",then throw it in the incinerator, and blame the fake news. Crock of poop right there.

Kirsti to Pete: Have you seen my purse? NO. Pete to Kirsti: Did you notice any names in the top-secret chat that don't belong? NO. Pete to Kirsti AGAIN weeks later: Did you notice any names in our top-secret chat that don't belong, just like last time: NO. Was this one set to illegally auto-delete too??? Sure, will be fun to find out. How would you feel about that legally? That wouldn't be a mistake the second time, that would be blatant disregard for the law. I just displayed to you what was so "one-sided" about it. Also, there's varying degrees of EVERYTHING. That's why you can be charged with different, but similar crimes, also of varying degrees, and with varying punishments. It's not one size fits all.

Not meant to be logical. Just my opinion based on my observation. The comparison to the animal world holds some weight though. Why aren't they "evil" to one another. You'd think a savage, unthinking beast would be 100x worse than us, not the other way around. 'Humanity' seems to be a bit of a misnomer.

So you're mad about the transparency? I'm mad about the lack of transparency and downright concealment of Mr. trumps, which I(we) had already paid for in full. That report, that cost us a lot of money, ended up in the incinerator. That's criminal, imo. It's my government, I paid for it, and I have a RIGHT to know. It's crazy that I had to know Hillary was being investigated, but don't need to know what the established facts of trump were. Ridiculous! The last statement you made cannot be made properly if you're not properly informed. If you never saw the trump report, you're not properly informed. As for the senile old man thing, it's plausible, but likely just another get out of jail free card for the Washington elite.

Yeah that's great and all, but the right's 'winning' lasted less than 90 days, and is now in the ditch. Sure, some hardcore trolls are still fired up, but the smart ones are not.

It's real simple for Mr. Alito. War, as per in the Constitution, is NOT an arbitrary term. It has a distinct meaning(so does invasion, but we won't do that today) Only Congress can declare war. Has Congress declared war? No? Case closed!!! All he did was provide yet more proof that he's a partisan hack, that has no regarding for the Constitution. I thank him for that.

Change "and then he went to the pool", to "and then he went golfing". Same difference. I'm not amazed that both him and trump are overconfident narcissists.

Did you read any of the previous discussion by me on this? I'm not going to rehash every point for you, that I've already covered. Do you know why 'the right' deemed him MS-13? I'd like to know what you have heard as evidence. I've already stated what I have heard was the evidence against him, and it seemed weak at best. Maybe you know something I don't. I love being informed, so please do share. His wife made a statement about the restraining order. He never broke it, and was never convicted of that, nor any other crimes. There's an estimated 2-3 million RO granted every year(DOJ). As for your example LOL, I'll try to respond, by using his instance in place of the fictitious one you used: You never got "caught" with an American Mafia ring: one 'confidential' source claimed you were mafia. Your lawyer points out that the source claimed you were in a NYC gang, but you never even lived there. You beat your wife to the point of needing a restraining order: That's not what your wife claims happed AT ALL, and made a statement to the contrary actually(look back to find) You were returned to America and imprisoned: You never committed a crime in America, and haven't lived there since 2011, and were 16 years old when you left. You fled America, because a gang was harassing your family business, and threatening to rape your sister, and kill family members. The Japan determined you shouldn't be deported to America, but did anyways, paying the American dictator millions of dollars to put you into the worst prison on the planet(again for no crimes). Why should Japan care about their mistake; Because it was illegal, and them shrugging their shoulders in defiance pisses you right the F off. You're in a prison, that you weren't supposed to be sent to, paid for by the country that wasn't supposed to, for committing precisely zero crimes in it. So in reality, all you did was come into a country 13 years ago, get married, have 3 kids, and work. One that gave you work papers, and an ok from DHS to be here, caused no other harm other than that original line crossing(which is actually a civil matter). Then the country puts you through all worlds of hell, including their lying press pushing a narrative against you. So, now do you think anyone should care for your plight? Oh, one more thing I overlooked. The country that sent you to the prison in the country they weren't supposed to send you to, sent you there on a wartime act. That country is not at war. They went even further by claiming you are in a "terrorist organization" street gang, and that's why. That designation was created with the stroke of a pen, by a known racist dictator. You most certainly have never committed a terrorist act, and even their loony right-wing media hasn't even accused you of it, but because they affiliated you with people that supposedly have. It's the nazi equivalent of your crime being you're a Jew. Other Jewish people have supposedly done things, and now YOU are gonna pay for them. You want to deport someone, because they're a terrorist, PROVE their a terrorist, because people with bad intentions just might label YOUR group as terrorists, simply because they don't like you.

No, I'm saying it's akin to a physical pain response. Some things just feel bad/wrong, and that effects your mental well-being, as a pain response protects your physical well-being. I wouldn't even say much of it depends on self-reflection either(it would hurt me, so it must hurt them), because animals are much less savage than us, and they don't generally want to do harm on each other. That's not due to self-reflection, so it's got to be inborn.

What shall we do when AI fires the people in the private sector? You think that they're going to use those tax cuts to pay workers more? Nope, if they have an ounce of business sense, they are going to invest in AI and robotics to streamline a business. Are they going to reinvent toilet paper, is that the innovation it's going to spark? The massive wealth gap isn't going to allow for any more discretionary spending for consumers anyways, and people AND the government, in general, are in a debt spiral. What they're going to do is eat their own customers, until they have nothing left. Regulations? Sure, there's lots of bad/dumb ones, but the good ones are going to be tossed out with the bath water. Again, this needs to be done with a scalpel. I'm sure most were done with good intention, and that means revisit them, then possibly modify, not just trash them as a general bad idea. I'd love to hear the top 10 list of things that conservatives would like to "deregulate". I won't, because they don't know hardly any specific ones. It's almost like it's a concept of a concept to them. They were Democrat ideas, so they must be bad. Fox said so. Heck, they STILL don't even know the basics of the XL pipeline, that they'd have given their first 3 born male children to defend.

trump is not good at making deals, not good at enforcing deals, and not good at abiding by deals. If past experience is any indicator of future expectation, why would anyone think they could make a deal with him, that he'd honor? His expertise comes in chaos and destruction. Threatening Iran with bombing, at this point, has to be a HUGE yawnfest to them, no matter how much the orange clowns keeps saying, it will be "really bad". They could probably care less about their populace anyways. Another great example of why dictators suck, and probably why trump admires them so much. He actually has to show concern for his people, and that is a negative when it comes to negotiations. It's much easier to negotiate, when your citizens are cannon fodder. But it's probably worse than it has been, as far as ultra partisanship, in memory anyways. Some degree of civility should return. What it has done is made us pawns, when actually we are the whole damn chess game. At some point we have to remind ourselves of that. The whole damn thing started with: WE THE PEOPLE...

Trust me, everything that we have the 1% basically considers 'charity'. One of the only things in humanity, that's NOT based in morality, is money. Also, I think that the church, which has not only historically supported authoritarian, murderous regimes, but also been one itself. Don't get me wrong, I do understand your point they've done good, just not via the mechanisms you described. Currently in those endeavors, the church is mostly ineffective. Lastly, I'd argue that if morality exists from religion, that it's largely through fear and supposition. Morality is likely inborn, just as the ability to know when you've been wronged is. Mental pain, so to speak.

Are you referring to his personal tattoos, or are you referring to the dictator's draconian tattoo laws? He was 16 when he left. He left because gangs threatened his family. His family ran a business in El Salvador. That is "his past". The only thing that makes sense is that he's their citizen, BUT he was not legally allowed to be deported there anyways. It's great that they're eliminating gangs, but they're not doing it through any system I'd like to live in. You can't sacrifice your freedom for safety. That's not how it works, especially in the USA. We have a long history of defending that, and we need to be vigilant, because the Patriot Act IS EXACTLY what everyone said Covid restrictions were going to end up being.

While Bernie does have a penchant for only naming some billionaires on a partisan basis, and that he's a hypocrite himself, he's been pretty consistent on calling them the bad guys. On that he's right, and it's almost surreal to me, that people are backing a billionaire, through the government no less, to make things better for them. While the billionaires may have "earned" all the chips they took from the table, they unabashedly scooped them right up of that table, and put them to work bribing YOUR politicians to make sure that the tables would always be turned against people that had less power(money) than them. If anyone thinks the system isn't rigged at all, my hope is someday they become a billionaire themselves. They'd probably do the same things, and then learn from personal experience.