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@Tim said in US Politics:
Only a deeply stupid country would expose themselves to this risk:
China targets rare earth export curbs to hobble US defence industry
This has been a well known problem for at least a decade.
Truth
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@Siam said in US Politics:
The untold story of the election is the thousands of people of both parties who accomplished the triumph of American democracy at its very foundation,” says Norm Eisen, a prominent lawyer and former Obama Administration official who recruited Republicans and Democrats to the board of the Voter Protection Program.
Thank heavens a cabal of rich businessmen & elites stepped in to protect US democracy from a President they decided was "autocratically inclined" and took it upon themselves to decide on whether the election was fair or not.
It's great they fought the good fight against Trump-supporting conspiracy theorists.....
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@Tim said in US Politics:
Only a deeply stupid country would expose themselves to this risk:
Or a country run by vested interests more intent on short-term gain than US security.
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Because of a past history working in the power industry, I've been reading up on the issues that Texas is having currently, and came across this.
This sounded insane. Who would voluntarily forego critical infrastructure redundancy? However it seems to be verified by this:
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@Stockcar86 i read about that yesterday, it's pretty funny (well, not for the people suddenly freezing i guess)
The US really is a hilarious shitshow to watch.
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that particular example has obviously been around for a long time, I assume there are other similar examples, its fascinating learning this kind of stuff having grown up with this idea of the US juggernaut and the "united" meaning something and people chanting "USA...USA" and how untrue that seems to be once you scratch the surface
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@stockcar86 Check out News of the World for how it was 150 years ago.
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Virginia is about to abolish the death penalty. That doesn't sound like much, but that would make it the first southern state to do so. Virginia has the most executions of all the states and was the location of the first US execution, and also has the second most executions in the modern era after Texas, so it's a watershed moment in the abolitionist struggle.
The modern era is usually defined in the USA as post-Furman, which was a legal moratorium imposed by SCOTUS between 1972 and 1976 due to racial bias in death sentencing, with the first execution after that being Gary Gilmour by firing squad in 1977 in Utah (for sports fans, his last words were "Let's do it", which was the inspiration for Nike's catch phrase of "Just do it!").
Virginia used to be solidly Republican at state level, but has recently switched to Democratic, so it's interesting to see the various agenda items being progressed after the change and whether that will be replicated in other purple states.
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@catogrande Virginia elections are in the odd-numbered years, so although the governor, lieutenant (deputy) governor and Attorney-General have been Democrats since 2017 (earlier for some of them), the state legislatures flipped in Nov 2019, with the first session in Jan 2020.
I can't find anything to suggest it was specifically Democratic Party policy, but abolitionist groups normally work across parties because it's not a strictly partisan issue, although Democrats are usually in favour of abolition in larger numbers than Republicans. The abolition campaigns usually run for decades and never stop trying, so even if it wasn't party policy, it will always bubble up from time to time as a political issue.
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@godder said in US Politics:
Virginia is about to abolish the death penalty. That doesn't sound like much, but that would make it the first southern state to do so. Virginia has the most executions of all the states and was the location of the first US execution, and also has the second most executions in the modern era after Texas, so it's a watershed moment in the abolitionist struggle.
The modern era is usually defined in the USA as post-Furman, which was a legal moratorium imposed by SCOTUS between 1972 and 1976 due to racial bias in death sentencing, with the first execution after that being Gary Gilmour by firing squad in 1977 in Utah (for sports fans, his last words were "Let's do it", which was the inspiration for Nike's catch phrase of "Just do it!").
Virginia used to be solidly Republican at state level, but has recently switched to Democratic, so it's interesting to see the various agenda items being progressed after the change and whether that will be replicated in other purple states.
that's awesome
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@frank said in US Politics:
Covid nursing home supposed cover-up, multiple sexual harassment allegations emerging.
The once lauded Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo ain't having an easy time of it recently."The higher the profession of virtue, the lower the morals": Noel Coward
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@victor-meldrew said in US Politics:
@frank said in US Politics:
Covid nursing home supposed cover-up, multiple sexual harassment allegations emerging.
The once lauded Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo ain't having an easy time of it recently."The higher the profession of virtue, the lower the morals": Noel Coward
That Coward quote should be on a wall in every national institution
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@kiwiwomble said in US Politics:
@frank can you elaborate? He covered up? He sexually harassed or he just in charge?
Basically nobody died after being put into nursing homes. Nobody covered up and lied about covid death numbers. Nobody came forward with direct sexual assault accusations against the governor himself. Nobody has fled from New York and the city and state is in the best condition it's ever been in and nobody has cause for concern about the best selling, Emmy awarded Governor facing discipline from the Democrat Party and an FBI investigation.
America marches on triumphantly to prosperity and social unity now that despot former president is no longer involved.
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