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Posts by Gaius Cassius Longinus

And they made the correct choice.

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He can't pretend to be too independent of his boss…

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> you can't hack an ICE agent and have him shoot his supervisor

*Valid only for certain definitions of "hack" and "ICE agent"

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I mean, isn't that—plus a heavy dose of racism, sexism & homophobia—generally the Republican platform nowadays?

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Israel's actions over the past 25+ years have taken me from believing wholeheartedly in the two-state solution to my current belief that a Bosnia-like single state is the only solution.

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And lower-paid positions will be moved to being contacted out, so that those workers aren't on the books when determining leadership pay.

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Well, Americans fortunately don't need to worry about global leadership anymore, as their second election of Trump ensures that no other nation or people will trust them, likely for at least a generation or two.

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And Trump's both too dumb and too convinced of his singular greatness to avoid waddling into Beijing's obvious traps.

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To be fair, his mouth was moving.

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Oh, come the next Dem admin, the U.S. is going to stop running interference for Israel internationally and its leadership is quickly going to find their international travel options limited to two hands.

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Because being a non-failson former GS, there's no cushy think tank job waiting for you when your team loses, which then also means that it's going to be exceedingly difficult to get a PA job again when your team next wins in the future.

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The problem with making the jump from GS to PA—until recently—is that you were reading a decent, lifelong job for being unemployed more than half the time.

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Wholly incorrect, Senator.

However, never fear; the correct adjective for you is "Traitorous".

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And during the penalty phase, you're going to press for Live Nation & Ticketmaster to be forced to surrender all of their business licenses & licenses to operate in all of the victorious states, yes…?

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Why?

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And still anyone can make them tomorrow.

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*We use…

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Who cares?

We used the packed Court—and the rest of the packed courts—to go Conan the Barbarian on them in the interim and make it as difficult as possible for the current generation of Republicans ever to taste power again!

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One Knoxville denied by the Washington post in first-half stoppage time.

Appealing to the referee, he's just looking at them like, "If you don't get it, you don't get it…"

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And for those drugs which just modify a non-active molecule or functional group just to get a new patent term—unless they safely & meaningfully increase gross DALYs over their predecessor, no bounty!

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Create a new drug that safely & meaningfully increases gross DALYs over current treatments?

Here's your bounty of tens of billions of dollars immediately!

But in exchange, anyone can make that drug tomorrow.

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Or we remove pharmaceuticals from the current IP system entirely and instead reward meaningful innovation through a bounty system.

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Why?

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They're attracted to the idea of hierarchy but hate when it's made clear that they're not atop of it.

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Eliminate the current system of immigration courts and create a new system of Article I immigration tribunals under the federal district courts—like how the bankruptcy courts are set up.

Their decisions should then be appealable to the federal district courts.

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It'd be a gamble, though, because there are likely 6 Republican votes on the Supreme Court to redefine the First Amendment to protect Republican speech only.

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I don't disagree that such a goal is possible; I simply believe that the road from here to there is longer than the lifetimes of anyone working today.

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Unfortunately, the more likely scenario is that it's just low pay, and those former knowledge workers come to understand that they've just permanently fallen into the working poor.

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Or alternatively to turn many of them into gold stars.

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