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OECD healthcare spending Public/Compulsory Expenditure on healthcare https://data.oecd.org/chart/60Tt Every year since 1990 the US Public healthcare spending has been greater than the UK as a proportion of GDP. More US Tax goes to healthcare than the UK |
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8th January 2021, 02:51 PM | #483 |
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Was a Monarchy at the time, would not have mattered.
Similar to how Libyans have no place protesting on American soil without invite. the Capitol is "the people's house", the (mostly peaceful) protestors there could have un-ironically chanted "who's house!?!?-----OUR house!?!?" |
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8th January 2021, 02:55 PM | #489 |
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Huh?
No, but seriously, what? YOU brought up the Tea Party, but turns out it was a non-sequitur. I was trying to compare apples to apples, (American Embassy > US Government property. Capitol > US Government Property. Tea ships > not US property). But you did show a similarity between the Benghazi attack (uninvited mob) and the Capitol attack (again, uninvited mob), so, thanks? I guess? |
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Here is the draft impeachment document:
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1...764557826?s=20
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Frankly, I think that this was a situation where, in the words of Napoleon, "a whiff of grapeshot" would have been justified.
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Absolutely. I'm very much a non-violent person. But sometimes one does not choose to fight, but still must. I love this country. But it isn't a flag waving, rah rah love. It is not unconditional. I love the principles that it stands for.
My father was aboard an LST that landed on Omaha Beach. I know that what our soldiers were doing it was not murdering and executing the enemy but righting a great wrong. Democracy is worth fighting for. And killing for. I hate to see it when it happens. But in my book, this police officer was a hero fighting a wrong. Just like my Dad. |
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At the time Britain was a constitutional monarchy, one of the major beefs the Brits in the colonies had is pithily summed up in the political slogan “No taxation without representation”. The Boston Tea party episode was a protest about taxation.
The “Boston Tea Party” was a protest against a private company over what was considered unfair taxation. How can that be linked to the events on 6th January? |
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Let's get this into perspective:
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This was not a benign protest march. This was a failed coup. The emergency evacuation to another chamber was the risk strategy put into place. The secret services guys had to guard the front doors of the inner chamber - where the congress men and women had to put on gas masks - and the back door. These people had a strategy of getting into that chamber and they knew exactly how. There were quasi-military types abseiling down from the upper balconies. There were sinister guys with their faces very well covered brandishing military style weapons and binding tapes. That guy who stopped the surge in through the window next to the room where the likes of Shumer, Pence and Pelosi et al were hiding, may well have saved a lot of people's lives that moment he shot the demonstrator bursting in through that window. https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/st...708781568?s=20 |
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I know there are special categories of charges for theft of mail. But doesn't that have to be mail in transit? If someone breaks into my house and makes off with my Bed Bath & Beyond coupon, is that a Federal mail theft charge because it was once in the mail? I don't think so. On the other hand, a piece of delivered mail is a document, and stealing documents from a congressperson's office might invite other applicable charges, such as espionage. |
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Yet so many groups believe they have the absolute, inside scoop on it.
To have certainty would require omniscience- which a Forum like this exists (at least originally) in denial of. The hypocrisy on display here since the incidents of Tuesday is so over-the-top extreme that is is downright disheartening. Critical thought truly has been abandoned in favor of knee-jerk tribalism, here as well. Examination of what reality and truth might actually be has been traded in for the pleasure of taking a side. Few posters are displaying a single consistent principle. |
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