> Are US citizens richer than they were before? Some of them certainly are richer, specifically people with the last name Trump. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/trump-presid...
I personally believe the well-sourced journalism explaining how the President ignored the opinions of Government experts to do what he wanted. > https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/iran-war-warn...
If quitting a job is "performative" what would you consider a "non-performative" act? Ironically, you are doing your own preaching in your comments. It could even be described as "performative."
Buy an umbrella?
> the possible events that could lead to World War 3. Iran is directly connected to all of that. If any event has pushed us closer to WW3 it is the US's decision to preemptively attack Iran. > Seems like money well…
One would think, but the flip-side is that this supports more women in the workforce. Traditional roles of men working and women caring for kids seems like a bigger priority of this admin. I do think it is a policy…
> When I read we spent $1B, I think about how I'm responsible for $3 of that. I like to think about how providing 4-week paid parental leave would cost $2 billion annually and actually help US families. Meanwhile we…
> Also ~95% of countries don't have unconditional birthright citizenship. It creates perverse incentives. I typically find that the people using this logic don't seem to apply it to laws like universal healthcare,…
The language couldn't be any clearer. The fact that it was questioned by people with a stated motive doesn't prove otherwise. "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction…
> Of the 50 people who end up reading my comment above, every one of you will read it a different way, and it's unlikely very many of you will read it as intended. Isn't this admission a sign that you should be more…
> The idea that human beings are the end-all to reality, the highest form of consciousness and most powerful being, just seems hopelessly self-centered to me. I don't understand how this needs to be connected to the…
> Google had lost some (4%) employees in 2023, but has grown back to 2022 size last year. Meta shrunk by 22% in 2023, but has been growing in size since then and is probably back to 2022 size right now. Google's revenue…
> As someone who has lived in both countries its such a hilarious anxiety. What's hilarious about it? It seems pretty well-rooted given the actual history of the two areas. - 1939: Germany invaded in 1939, officially…
I don't think there is any problem to solve, that was my point. It is already illegal to vote as a non-citizen.
> the best attack that someone could make on the Trump administration. It doesn't need to be, nor should we measure things against eachother by their ability to be used as an attack. We should measure this on it's own,…
Neither of these involved legal allegations later proving to be false, they were simple news story retractions (just like Fox News did Sunday with Trump's dignified transfer performance [0]). The topic at hand was a…
I didn't treat it as anything. It really doesn't even need to be proven as fact. The actual thing people were warning about was untrained and unqualified people having access to this data in the first place. I can't…
The portion after the semi-colon wasn't relevant to your initial claim. Which was this: > There is a reason American families move away when Asian immigrants move into school districts The study shows that "American"…
> It could be that there simply weren’t enough hispanic and black families in the sample to draw an inference. The study looked only at affluent school districts in California. There’s not a lot of black and hispanic…
> There is a reason American families move away when Asian immigrants move into school districts Here, you equate "American families" to "white families." Your source (below) says that Hispanic and black student…
Imagine using this logic in the 1930s when scientists from Germany, Hungary, and Italy were flocking to the US. Did the advances they helped spur actually maximize opportunities for native born people in the long run?…
> we are importing foreigners to paper over the fact that we have ruined our own education system. Are you familiar with any of these scientists we "imported" during the 1930s? Was that also a sign of a failed education…
> California can't restrict the importation and sale of items manufactured legally in other states if the item itself (after manufacture) is safe. I'm not sure about that, maybe it is based on the definition of "safe".…
> The bus is stopped for twice as long. I'd like to see your math, as it isn't just the loading of passengers that takes time. It would seem that slowing down, completely stopping, lowering the bus, opening the doors,…
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solyndra Your own example undermines your point. Solyndra, a company, was part of a much larger Energy Department program that was profitable for the US government. Tesla itself was kept…
> Are US citizens richer than they were before? Some of them certainly are richer, specifically people with the last name Trump. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/trump-presid...
I personally believe the well-sourced journalism explaining how the President ignored the opinions of Government experts to do what he wanted. > https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/iran-war-warn...
If quitting a job is "performative" what would you consider a "non-performative" act? Ironically, you are doing your own preaching in your comments. It could even be described as "performative."
Buy an umbrella?
> the possible events that could lead to World War 3. Iran is directly connected to all of that. If any event has pushed us closer to WW3 it is the US's decision to preemptively attack Iran. > Seems like money well…
One would think, but the flip-side is that this supports more women in the workforce. Traditional roles of men working and women caring for kids seems like a bigger priority of this admin. I do think it is a policy…
> When I read we spent $1B, I think about how I'm responsible for $3 of that. I like to think about how providing 4-week paid parental leave would cost $2 billion annually and actually help US families. Meanwhile we…
> Also ~95% of countries don't have unconditional birthright citizenship. It creates perverse incentives. I typically find that the people using this logic don't seem to apply it to laws like universal healthcare,…
The language couldn't be any clearer. The fact that it was questioned by people with a stated motive doesn't prove otherwise. "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction…
> Of the 50 people who end up reading my comment above, every one of you will read it a different way, and it's unlikely very many of you will read it as intended. Isn't this admission a sign that you should be more…
> The idea that human beings are the end-all to reality, the highest form of consciousness and most powerful being, just seems hopelessly self-centered to me. I don't understand how this needs to be connected to the…
> Google had lost some (4%) employees in 2023, but has grown back to 2022 size last year. Meta shrunk by 22% in 2023, but has been growing in size since then and is probably back to 2022 size right now. Google's revenue…
> As someone who has lived in both countries its such a hilarious anxiety. What's hilarious about it? It seems pretty well-rooted given the actual history of the two areas. - 1939: Germany invaded in 1939, officially…
I don't think there is any problem to solve, that was my point. It is already illegal to vote as a non-citizen.
> the best attack that someone could make on the Trump administration. It doesn't need to be, nor should we measure things against eachother by their ability to be used as an attack. We should measure this on it's own,…
Neither of these involved legal allegations later proving to be false, they were simple news story retractions (just like Fox News did Sunday with Trump's dignified transfer performance [0]). The topic at hand was a…
I didn't treat it as anything. It really doesn't even need to be proven as fact. The actual thing people were warning about was untrained and unqualified people having access to this data in the first place. I can't…
The portion after the semi-colon wasn't relevant to your initial claim. Which was this: > There is a reason American families move away when Asian immigrants move into school districts The study shows that "American"…
> It could be that there simply weren’t enough hispanic and black families in the sample to draw an inference. The study looked only at affluent school districts in California. There’s not a lot of black and hispanic…
> There is a reason American families move away when Asian immigrants move into school districts Here, you equate "American families" to "white families." Your source (below) says that Hispanic and black student…
Imagine using this logic in the 1930s when scientists from Germany, Hungary, and Italy were flocking to the US. Did the advances they helped spur actually maximize opportunities for native born people in the long run?…
> we are importing foreigners to paper over the fact that we have ruined our own education system. Are you familiar with any of these scientists we "imported" during the 1930s? Was that also a sign of a failed education…
> California can't restrict the importation and sale of items manufactured legally in other states if the item itself (after manufacture) is safe. I'm not sure about that, maybe it is based on the definition of "safe".…
> The bus is stopped for twice as long. I'd like to see your math, as it isn't just the loading of passengers that takes time. It would seem that slowing down, completely stopping, lowering the bus, opening the doors,…
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solyndra Your own example undermines your point. Solyndra, a company, was part of a much larger Energy Department program that was profitable for the US government. Tesla itself was kept…