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@Victor-Meldrew said in US Politics:
@canefan said in US Politics:
But better. The best ever....
....Polished turd?
How the fuck the US has such an appallingly inefficient health care system is beyond me.
Sure, there's clear historic reasons for it compounded by lobbying, but which other country would you want to be treated in if you had cancer..?
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@antipodean obviously, there will also be all kinds of staff, its more about the symbiology and tradition
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@Kiwiwomble said in US Politics:
@antipodean obviously, there will also be all kinds of staff, its more about the symbiology and tradition
Some of the worst aspects of service life are justified by the word tradition. It also holds back large companies that can't be responsive to market opportunities.
That being said, it does seem to be plain good manners. Which is why the Trumps won't be doing it.
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@antipodean jesus, can anything be said without it being blown up as one of the reasons for the downward spiral of human civilisation?
keeping it related to these situations specifically and with the idea we've talked about ways to start healing the divide, I was wondering what we thought
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@Kiwiwomble said in US Politics:
@antipodean jesus, can anything be said without it being blown up as one of the reasons for the downward spiral of human civilisation?
keeping it related to these situations specifically and with the idea we've talked about ways to start healing the divide, I was wondering what we thought
Calm down for fuck's sake. I was just pointing out that tradition isn't always beneficial.
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@antipodean I didn't say it always was, I was talking about these specific ones which seem pretty harmless and very unlikely to stop companies responding to market opportunities
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@Kiwiwomble said in US Politics:
@antipodean I didn't say it always was, I was talking about these specific ones which seem pretty harmless and very unlikely to stop companies responding to market opportunities
These little traditions are symbols of the orderly transfer of power from one president to another. Considering Trump still barely accepts that he lost, and that he will be the first President in over 100 years to snub the new President's inauguration, I'm not surprised. It would appear Pence is doing much of those things instead
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@Kiwiwomble said in US Politics:
@antipodean I didn't say it always was, I was talking about these specific ones which seem pretty harmless and very unlikely to stop companies responding to market opportunities
Perhaps you should've read the following fucking sentence.
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@antipodean I did...but that's like preceding a sexist joke with "im not sexist but..." or saying "but" after apologising...digressions don't remove the comment from the universe, you said it so you obviously wanted it to be read
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@Kiwiwomble said in US Politics:
you said it so you obviously wanted it to be read
No shit Sherlock.
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@antipodean so how does the second sentence change the first ones relevance to my question?
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@Kiwiwomble said in US Politics:
@antipodean so how does the second sentence change the first ones relevance to my question?
Am I being trolled? Quite clearly my comment was pointing out that just because something has been done a certain way for a period of time does not imbue it with any worth. I then pointed out that inviting the new occupant appeared to me to be good manners.
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@antipodean said in US Politics:
@Kiwiwomble said in US Politics:
@antipodean so how does the second sentence change the first ones relevance to my question?
Am I being trolled?
trust me I asked myself the same question
I asked about a specific example and got indictment on tradition in general and their negative effect on companies taking market opportunities….
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@Tim said in US Politics:
And yet we were assured Biden wouldn't be beholden to the lunatics in his party.
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@antipodean said in US Politics:
@Tim said in US Politics:
And yet we were assured Biden wouldn't be beholden to the lunatics in his party.
Biden may not know what day of the week it is.
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And yet, the San Diego chapter of NAACP accuses Marten of being a nightmare for black students:
Katrina Hasan Hamilton, the local NAACP’s education chair, said: “Educators at all levels must have a track record of dismantling the harmful practices of Anti-Black Racism that occur in schools. Cindy Marten has a historical pattern of allowing the excessive suspension and expulsion of Black students in San Diego.”
This is going to get beyond weird.
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Not regularly following this thread, so apologies if it has already been discussed.
How is it possible, in the USA, for an outgoing President, to pardon people who haven't even been charged of crimes, yet? And is it a blanket pardon that covers every single possible breach of the law?
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