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It took me way longer than I'd like to admit to get that one.

You have cited Wikipedia, which is citing the southern poverty law center.

In other words, you're a hypocrite.

I have warned about this with respect to these numbers before, and I'm going to warn about them again: you really can't trust the employment numbers right now. The amount of downward revisions in the past 2 years is absurd, including one 800,000 job downward revision prior to the election. It's entirely possible and even probable that these numbers will be revised further downwards.

What I actually expect is for a lot of numbers to keep looking better than they really are until about January 20th. And then suddenly a whole bunch of stuff is going to end up looking the way it really is...

I feel like 12 hours is well past "Several hours" and enough that you just say "12 hours".

That's pretty much an entire day, and that's messed up.

I was having a conversation with a "Virtual Acquinas" last night, which led me to the following thought:

"Doctor Angelicus, it seems to me that because God is good, his commandments to help us achieve the kingdom of heaven are not things that ultimately hurt us in this material world, but help us. I believe this is in accordance with what you call natural law, that God's law is not in disharmony with nature. We follow His commandments, and not only are we saved spiritually by the grace of God, but the material world we live in gets better for it. Of course, we live in a world after the fall, so in this imperfect world good things will still happen to bad people and bad things will happen to good people and it may not immediately be apparent that the commandments will help us, but that's what patience and humility are for. Because the material world becomes so much better, we become arrogant, thinking we achieved all this on our own without God, and so cast aside His commandments. Like Adam, we leave the garden of Eden as we are doomed to do whenever we choose to allow our Hubris to grow too strong. This would be a tragedy like Sisyphus but for two things: First, God's grace to give us entry to the kingdom of heaven. Second, we do fall, but because we have been saved through Christ, we are not like Adam -- we grow and are a little stronger, so when we once again find His commandments and follow them again, we aren't starting just outside Adam's Eden, but near the gates of our own metaphorical Eden, a new high point for humanity on Earth. To be clear, we need not fall to grow, and we do not need to choose pride and can instead choose humility so we do not fall. However, when we do fall, when we do allow ourselves to be taken over by pride we do not fall all the way, reflecting God's grace reflected in our natural state."

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In some ways, the DOJ would be doing google a favor. I mean, Google search is the thing that makes them money.

Honestly, schemes like this tend to have big bad consequences.

Force credit cards to charge only 10% interest and immediately many people will lose access to credit cards altogether, or alternatively will have to pay high annual fees regardless of their responsible use of credit, or will have tiny credit limits, or will have to provide their credit card company with the full dollar amount of their credit card prior to being given one. A final effect could be the poor who are affected going to super high interest lenders like payday loans or in the event that even those loans are regulated, even organized crime.

The problem is that unsecured credit lines like credit cards are the most likely forms of debt to be defaulted on, and if banks can't recoup those losses, then they won't provide the product. People can blame capitalism for this, but ultimately a similar kind of government program would need to be similarly limited lest the program just become a free money pit as many poor people assume credit cards are.

Now maybe that's the point, and we want fewer people in less debt, and to force them to live within their means. I'm not necessarily opposed to the idea, but you can't just do it. You'd have to change the banking and monetary system (for the better). You literally can't have the current monetary system without debt.

I guess the whole starvation thing won't get any better.

Jesus Fucking Christ!

You know, sometimes you read a story and it's like "There is no punishment too cruel or unusual for this monster". Killing the kid? Yeah, that's bad enough. But forcing their siblings to live in the room with their brother's decaying corpse for months until it's just a skeleton?

There's an old English execution method where while the person to be executed is alive the executioner slowly runs their intestines inch by inch over a candle. Maybe we should bring that back.

The whole "while upending the economy" thing is really obnoxious.

I'm so sorry that your illegal wage slaves are going away and you'll have to offer legal residents living wages. My heart bleeds purple piss for you.

The other thing I find insufferable is the whining about billions of dollars in cost. The federal debt in the US is 32 Trillion dollars, or 32,000 billion dollars. Every presidential administration for 24 years has increased the federal debt every single year, and for the most part the media doesn't care one lick. But suddenly it's something they don't want and they're hyperfocused on the cost. It's like "Hey Ace! A trillion dollars of the federal budget went to the banks to pay for interest on all that debt! Why do you only care about the cost of things once?"

Although it's sad, it is correct that he be charged, and he probably shouldn't be pardoned by either party. He didn't release such documents for the good of the world, he did it to feel special in a discord community. Doing stuff like that needs to have severe consequences or all kinds of hell breaks loose.