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  1. 2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Can the US or Canada give Australia 15-20 acres of land on the Atlantic coast, so they can join NATO?  They went into Afghanistan with us, they are our closest Allie’s in the Pacific….

    Maybe we just pick an Outback Steakhouse location at random along the coast and designate it sovereign territory.

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  2. 2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Many on the right have embraced the concept of landing on an idea or belief and refusing to ever question it again. Remember how flip flopping was a sin against John Kerry because his position shifted his as he learned more. If you refuse to question yourself or let others question you, then your only option is to reinforce your locked-in belief.

    This has been attributed to multiple people in different forms over the years but I always recall the quote:

    When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?

    With the benefit of made up alternative facts one never has to go through the painful process of changing one's mind.  Advantage MAGA?

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  3. 3 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

    So they buried them instead of dismantling them for parts or just blowing them up? Seems stupid. Oh yeah.... Russia. 

    Well, not quite that stupid.  My understanding is that the Soviets were not on the hook for equipment lost in actual fighting.  So by claiming the goods were lost in battle (disappeared) they were free and clear.

    So are they stupid?  Yes.  But we must never forget their second most predominant quality, lying.

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  4. 3 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    I give him a lot of credit for getting people to think about demographics.

    Of course, I'm not really that sure that Putin is thinking about demographics in the long run, rather than greed and keeping his cronies happy and on a leash.  Xi for that matter as well - yeah, China is headed for some serious problems (and arguably has started them - the one-child policy combined with children expected to take care of their parents is causing problems as we speak).

    With that said, China's men + Russian widows could solve both countries' problems.

    If this is the outcome of the coupling, it won't solve much.

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  5. 26 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    The logical view is that if corporations pay less taxes, then they can use that capital to innovate, create more products, thus creating more jobs, which helps everyone. This ignores the reality. That owners of the corporations will pocket that money, do stock buybacks increasing their wealth. No new innovations or job creation. A corporate tax cut is just a transfer of wealth from the middle class to the upper class. But it’s an easy sell because most people are idiots and buy the initial line. Not to mention everyone has already been convinced all taxes are bad. 

    I've never understood their argument at all, even if taken at face value.  They say let's cut their taxes.  Thus their last marginal dollars go untaxed and they will be able to invest that in capital improvements or pay additional people to come on board.  But... they've always been able to do that.  Need to buy a new widget for your factory?  Expense it.  Now the whatever $ you spent on it becomes "untaxed".  There has never been a tax burden to investment in business expansion.

    What can't a businessman do in the current tax system that the tax cuts allow?  Pocketing the money.  Who could have guessed that this is what would have happened?

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  6. 52 minutes ago, KYHorn said:

    Hungary is preparing a provocative press conference with Ukrainian prisoners of war, who were handed over to Hungary by the Russian Orthodox Church.

    It is reported that the prisoners should tell about forced mobilization, bad conditions at the front, and express gratitude to Hungary and the Russian Orthodox Church.

    This press conference was a mandatory condition for the removal of prisoners from the Russian Federation.

    Isn't forced "parading" of prisoners of war a crime?  Or is Hungarian dickhead here off the hook because it's "voluntary"?

    Fuck this guy nevertheless.

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