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Bernie said "$30 trillion just for medicare for all" in that video you didn't bother watching. Which is it? I suppose you know more about his platform than he does?
$30-$40 trillion over 10 years, not just for 1 year. From the 60 Minutes interview: There's profound skepticism in Congress about Sanders' ability to get his agenda passed. Two-thirds of Democrats in the Senate have not signed on to "Medicare for All," which would cost an estimated $30 trillion to $40 trillion over ten years. And that's just one of Bernie Sanders' many proposals. There's also free public college, cancellation of all student debt, a federal job guarantee, and a Green New Deal to rapidly reduce carbon emissions. The reason why Obama's ACA didn't really work is because he let the Public Option go out of a "compromise." However, the Public Option was the one part that really would have kept a degree of competitiveness in the healthcare industry, forcing health insurers to stop charging ridiculous rates knowing they would lose customers to those enrolling in the Public Option. Having said that, $30 to $40 trillion over 10 years still seems unreasonably high. Healthcare shouldn't cost $10k a year. The whole system is still a disgusting racket. At the tail end of all that, at the good extreme, you have a system perhaps like Australia, and pay 60-70% taxes each year. Plus a VAT. It's not so terribly wonderful and it's certainly not superior. At the bad extreme, you have a system like South Africa. Free health care, but.... you never go to it, you go to private clinics and pay your own way. Reality in the US, what comes down the pike for the "free health care tab" is what the lobbyists for the insurance companies dictate. They aren't on your side.  I'm largely pessimistic on any reduction of the height of either of the two parts of that USA line. I think that there will be huge attempts to stall Trump's executive order requiring open posting of pricing by hospitals and doctors. https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20190625.974595/full/ |
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Its more a media hocks-pocus than anything else. All kinds of cancellations, quarantines but basic precautions are overlooked. Viruses spread easy with something lots of people touch, like touch-screens. They are everywhere like ticket-machines, self-service checkouts, cash deposit machines and restaurants like Mc. Its a bad joke, in-competed people in charge. https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/28/poo-found-on-every-mcdonalds-touchscreen-tested-8178486/They should rather change the lights to UV and turn off AC because we know bacteria love AC filters and pipes. This is turning into a mass hysteria like most Chinese people wear face masks, even though they don't help if you're healthy. Only the sick should wear masks. Also, hand sanitizers won't help if you keep touching things like steering wheels and door knobs. You'd have to keep washing your hands every time you touch a pen in the office or a computer keyboard. UV is a fairly new idea, the uses are not all thought out yet. As an example, if everyone carried one around and on, no matter how thick the crowd was, the disinfecting properties would scale. Virus does not survive that long, something like 24 hours in cold winter and < 1 hr in summer. |
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At this rate Bernie will be dropping out before next Tuesday.
I'll take that as a joke. Elizabeth Warren HAS NOW DROPPED OUT OF THE PRIMARY. Though she has not signaled for who she will endorse at this time. Both Biden and Sanders have spoken to her.
Her best return on investment is going to be endorsing Biden, she’ll probably get a VP or high cabinet position for that.
Endorsing Bernie though would make the most sense based on her views. Biden is just more of the same, and I’m pretty sure she has said that. Bernie is calling for change, like her.
I’ll update this for whoever she endorses
Just the fact that she's out is good enough for me. A bigger pool of potential progressive voters is a good thing for Bernie. I'll make a little disclosure here. I've donated in total around $580 for Bernie so far around this primary season in 2020 and 2019. And I'm working class, I'm not well off by any stretch of the imagination. In my day to day life, I've never seen anyone with a Joe Biden T-Shirt or with a Biden car sticker. I've met people supporting Trump or people supporting Bernie. I never met anyone openly supporting Biden. I won't stop fighting now, even if there's only a small chance of getting Bernie the presidency. Super Tuesday sucked. But we're still in the race. Bernie kind of shoots himself in the foot by using the term "Democratic Socialist". Take all the policies he backs and remove that pointless label, and we'd probably be winning right now. Have to agree with you about the Biden nothingness. Saw a car with a Beto sticker today. None with Biden... Yeah, even the college kids see through that one. |
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Exactly, and this was the whole game from the beginning. They issued carefully worded requests for information/testimony and simply CLAIMED they sent a subpoena, then told the media they actually did, and like the lapdogs they are they repeated it, and people like Nutilduuuuuh, TwittySeal, and Suchgoon sucked it down like the thirsty bias confirming TDS sufferers they are. Now that this is all over with, they can't produce any of the documents and are reduced to trying to distract with stories about "Mike Pompeo says" and FOIA requests rather than just admitting they are chumps that parrot whatever the idiot box tells them without ever checking for themselves.
Well, then this endless tirade makes sense sort of. Regardless, there is a huge difference between "I received a request from (Someone/something very powerful who you wouldn't want to not obey)" and "I received a legal subpoena." Some people received requests that weren't subpoenas. I believe there were 5 of them in the state department. But Pompeo received a Subpoena. So did Rudy. If they simply received a request, why would they say they received a subpoena? Pompeo : "The department also acknowledges receipt of the subpoena" Rudy : "I have received a subpoena" What i'm suggesting is that there are at lest in some peoples' minds, various meanings to the word. And some use it in the general sense of a demand or request from (Congress, whomever...) Be advised though I'm not seeing this in the dictionary definitions. |
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Bernie said "$30 trillion just for medicare for all" in that video you didn't bother watching. Which is it? I suppose you know more about his platform than he does?
$30-$40 trillion over 10 years, not just for 1 year. From the 60 Minutes interview: There's profound skepticism in Congress about Sanders' ability to get his agenda passed. Two-thirds of Democrats in the Senate have not signed on to "Medicare for All," which would cost an estimated $30 trillion to $40 trillion over ten years. And that's just one of Bernie Sanders' many proposals. There's also free public college, cancellation of all student debt, a federal job guarantee, and a Green New Deal to rapidly reduce carbon emissions. The reason why Obama's ACA didn't really work is because he let the Public Option go out of a "compromise." However, the Public Option was the one part that really would have kept a degree of competitiveness in the healthcare industry, forcing health insurers to stop charging ridiculous rates knowing they would lose customers to those enrolling in the Public Option. Having said that, $30 to $40 trillion over 10 years still seems unreasonably high. Healthcare shouldn't cost $10k a year. The whole system is still a disgusting racket. At the tail end of all that, at the good extreme, you have a system perhaps like Australia, and pay 60-70% taxes each year. Plus a VAT. It's not so terribly wonderful and it's certainly not superior. At the bad extreme, you have a system like South Africa. Free health care, but.... you never go to it, you go to private clinics and pay your own way. Reality in the US, what comes down the pike for the "free health care tab" is what the lobbyists for the insurance companies dictate. They aren't on your side. |
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Elizabeth Warren HAS NOW DROPPED OUT OF THE PRIMARY. Though she has not signaled for who she will endorse at this time. Both Biden and Sanders have spoken to her.
Well darn it. I was so looking forward to what quips she might belt out at the next debate. Now all we are going to get is too old men yelling at each other. I doubt that they will even invite Tulsi, though she is still in it, right? Anyone who gets disgusted at old white haired men up on silly clown stage... Can vote orange hair. |
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Exactly, and this was the whole game from the beginning. They issued carefully worded requests for information/testimony and simply CLAIMED they sent a subpoena, then told the media they actually did, and like the lapdogs they are they repeated it, and people like Nutilduuuuuh, TwittySeal, and Suchgoon sucked it down like the thirsty bias confirming TDS sufferers they are. Now that this is all over with, they can't produce any of the documents and are reduced to trying to distract with stories about "Mike Pompeo says" and FOIA requests rather than just admitting they are chumps that parrot whatever the idiot box tells them without ever checking for themselves.
Well, then this endless tirade makes sense sort of. Regardless, there is a huge difference between "I received a request from (Someone/something very powerful who you wouldn't want to not obey)" and "I received a legal subpoena." |
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Another country does in Pearl Harbor, kills thousands of US Citizens, declares war n the US, and is universally understood to be the enemy, but citizens of that country are not the enemy. Since a country is comprised of citizens, I think a lot of people might have a problem with that.
Most citizens are civilians, i.e. non-combatants. We are edging into Geneva Convention territory here. A kamikaze pilot in a Japanese war plane howling down on a US ship is certainly the enemy. But what about an 80 year old fisherman from Okinawa who just wants to catch fish to sell in the local market, and live quietly with his family? What about a teenage pacifist from Kyoto who protests about his government attacking Pearl Harbor? What about a nurse from Tokyo who twenty years previously emigrated to the US and married a Texan rancher, but never became an official US citizen? You can't assign guilt to these people, or declare them a threat, just because the pilot was Japanese. That's racism. In my country there have been attacks on Muslims because people think: Terrorist attack. Terrorists were Muslims. Therefore all Muslims are terrorists. It's the same thing. To take it to the point of absurdity: imagine a situation where a man named Mike robs a bank. The answer isn't to imprison everyone in the country whose name is Mike. Those are I think pretty decent arguments and examples. The duties and responsibilities of a Japanese citizen coud be determined by looking at the directives of Emperor Hirohito to his people, both in Japan and abroad, including the USA. The simple reality is that he directed them to be enemies of the US. That includes: ...an 80 year old fisherman from Okinawa
... a teenage pacifist from Kyoto
...a nurse from Tokyo
You said... You can't assign guilt to these people, or declare them a threat, just because the pilot was Japanese. That's racism.Yes, you certainly can declare them a threat, if Hirohito instructed them to be a threat. So it's not racism, not at all. Please don't misunderstand, I'm not saying this is nice or fair. Not at all. And we're a lot closer on the issue of the Japanese children who were American citizens than we are on the Japanese citizens abroad. At the same time, the net effect of the actions taken by the US and it's allies in WW2 can be summarized easily. We're not forced to speak Japanese and German today. Or serve in their armies. You see, we knew what kind of people we were dealing with under Hirahito. We'd been helping the Chinese fight them for several years. We had the facts on what's now called the Nanjing Massacre or Rape of Nanjing, which was 1937. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre#Rape...an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Imperial Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing (Nanking), then the capital of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The massacre occurred over a period of six weeks starting on December 13, 1937, the day that the Japanese captured Nanjing. During this period, soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army murdered Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants who numbered an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000,[7][8] and perpetrated widespread rape and looting.[9][10]
Since most Japanese military records on the killings were kept secret or destroyed shortly after the surrender of Japan in 1945, historians have been unable to accurately estimate the death toll of the massacre. The International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo estimated in 1946 that over 200,000 Chinese were killed in the incident.[11] China's official estimate is more than 300,000 dead based on the evaluation of the Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal in 1947.
...Case 5 of John Magee's film: on December 13, 1937, about 30 Japanese soldiers murdered all but two of 11 Chinese in the house at No. 5 Xinlukou. A woman and her two teenaged daughters were raped, and Japanese soldiers rammed a bottle and a cane into her vagina. An eight-year-old girl was stabbed, but she and her younger sister survived. They were found alive two weeks after the killings by the elderly woman shown in the photo. Bodies of the victims can also be seen in the photo.[53][54]
...The International Military Tribunal for the Far East estimated that 20,000 women, including some children and the elderly, were raped during the occupation.[55] A large number of rapes were done systematically by the Japanese soldiers as they went from door to door, searching for girls, with many women being captured and gang raped.[56] The women were often killed immediately after being raped, often through explicit mutilation[57] or by penetrating vaginas with bayonets, long sticks of bamboo, or other objects. Young children were not exempt from these atrocities and were cut open to allow Japanese soldiers to rape them.[58]
Our pilots flew to support China against the Japanese atrocities. Before World War 2. |
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History shows they were target because a racist administration was unable to control the narrative after the hostile atmosphere created in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbour attack. It has been stated instead of trying to act in a positive manner leading to protect all its citizens, the administration of the day decided to give in to bigotry and hatred and without any legal proof of wrong-doing against them sent its own citizens to concentration camps because they had Japanese ancestry. This is behaviour as shown by the then US administration was just wrong and cannot be condoned by anybody.
^Jollygood summarises the situation very well and succinctly here. May I give you an example? Japanese parents, age 45 and 51, four children, grandmother age 72. All children are American citizen by birth, the others are Japanese citizen only by law. Instead of just virtue signaling, explain what you would have done with this family unit that's morally and ethically superior to what we did. Assume wartime conditions, of course.
The extracts you cited are interesting and do give an insight into both a wartime mindset and a 1940s mindset. The problem I have with them, and with your example above, is the word 'Japanese'. Whether or not these thousands of people are legally US citizens is an irrelevant technicality. Morally they are US citizens if they have settled and made a life in the country. What we do with your example family is to let them live their lives as normal, without fear of bigotry or prejudice or persecution, in a free country. Once you start labelling this group is American, this group is Japanese, then it becomes an abstraction and you lose sight of the actual people involved. And huge numbers of people at that. I've been to Germany and I've been to Japan. The people there are people, just that. We may have different cultures and traditions, but fundamentally we are the same everywhere. In wartime there is forced conscription, and normal people are made to fight to the death against one another. Doesn't mean they want to do that. Doesn't mean that suddenly all these normal people across the world who happen to have Japanese ancestry become a threat. And it doesn't mean that we should label them as 'Japanese', when that is being used as a synonym for 'enemy'. That's a quite interesting point of view. Another country does in Pearl Harbor, kills thousands of US Citizens, declares war n the US, and is universally understood to be the enemy, but citizens of that country are not the enemy. Since a country is comprised of citizens, I think a lot of people might have a problem with that. Regardless of that, the link I provided provides the actual thinking and reasoning for these historical realities. So there is no need to shroud the desire to generate virtual signaling based on false pseudo-history. None whatsoever. |
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I disagree with the premises of this argument. Isn't it possible that reporters, and/or many people, consider virtually any kind of document that demands or requests, from an official entity a "subpoena?" EG, they may have a broader definition of the word than you/Techshare/I have. |
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... then you said wuhan had no departures. but then showed a list of departures and arrivals and there being some 15-30minute intervals..
thats exactly what i said there were arrivals and departures still happening with 15-30minute intervals
Look more closely:  The flights that are scheduled are not happening because the airport is closed. There are 3 or 4 flights a day using the Wuhan Airport. The Chinese Post, and evacuations for people that live in other countries if their government sends a plane. As someone that's been around airports a lot, I'll comment. Chinese airports can be expected to have military traffic. And as mentioned, postal. Freight. Stopping passenger traffic does not close an airport down. Planes stop to gas up, maintenance, etc. |
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Can the Democratic party survive given it's current trajectory towards socialism and federalist expansion?
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Where does it go from here?
A new internal power structure has to arise, from the ashes of Clinton, the Center for American Progress, and the twisted sick fuck of the Clinton Foundation. Will that be heavily influenced by international, anti-American interests? |
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Hi, I'm a candidate for the 5th Congressional District of Ohio. I support Bitcoin. Immutability has its uses. A public ledger makes taxation and reporting easy. I don't see why not?  --- If you could change one thing about America, what would you change? Do away with Daylight Savings Time. |
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Always...always sniff very carefully at the FREE CHEESE! I'm glad you found a simple text that you can fully understand. with some efforts you'll be able to reach the green ... Wait, did the American People reject your Bolshevik Bernie? But you got your free brown shirt, right?  |
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Whether the number of Japanese Americans imprisoned during that period was larger or small than 80,000 does not and cannot negate the fact that they were forced in to concentration camps in which many were mistreated and many died either because of medical negligence and worse. History shows they were target because a racist administration was unable to control the narrative after the hostile atmosphere created in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbour attack. It has been stated instead of trying to act in a positive manner leading to protect all its citizens, the administration of the day decided to give in to bigotry and hatred and without any legal proof of wrong-doing against them sent its own citizens to concentration camps because they had Japanese ancestry. This is behaviour as shown by the then US administration was just wrong and cannot be condoned by anybody. I have not read the documents in their entirety. There may be some evidence that supports your claims, but the overall tone is logical and focused on military necessity. In the context of fighting a war, there is no such thing as seeking "legal proof of wrongdoing." Here is an example of the way people were thinking and making decisions at that time. Note the military logic in the third paragraph. Notwithstanding the fact that the county maps showing the location of Japanese
lands have omitted most coastal defenses and war industries, still it is plain from
them that in our coastal counties, from Point Reyes south, virtually every feasible
landing beach, air field, railroad, highway, powerhouse, power line, gas storage
tank, gas pipe line, oil field, water reservoir or pumping plant, water conduit,
telephone transmission line, radio station, and other points of strategic importance
have several — and usually a considerable number — of Japanese in their immediate
vicinity. The same situation prevails in all of the interior counties that have any
considerable Japanese population.
I do not mean to suggest that it should be thought that all of these Japanese
who are adjacent to strategic points are knowing parties to some vast conspiracy
to destroy our State by sudden and mass sabotage. Undoubtedly, the presence
of many of these persons in their present locations is mere coincidence, but it
would seem equally beyond doubt that the presence of others is not coincidence.
It would seem difficult, for example, to explain the situation in Santa Barbara
County by coincidence alone.
In the northern end of that county is Camp Cook where, I am informed, the
only armored division on the Pacific coast will be located. The only practical
entrance to Camp Cook is on the secondary road through the town of Lompoc.
The maps show this entrance is flanked with Japanese property, and it is impossible
to move a single man or a piece of equipment in or out of Camp Cook without
having it pass under the scrutiny of numerous Japanese. I have been informed
that the destruction of the bridges along the road to Camp Cook would effectually
bottle up that establishment for an indefinite time, exit to the south being im-
possible because of extremely high mountains and to the north because of a num-
ber of washes with vertical banks 50 to 60 feet deep. There are numerous
Japanese close to these bridges. Given the time line of the Japanese emigration to the US (closed in I believe 1924, those in the country remained Japanese not US citizens) it is likely that much of the land in question actually was owned by Japanese citizens. Regarding your concern about those Japanese who were second generation or third and thus US citizens, would you have separated parents from children? And if so or if no, who would be judged a security risk? May I give you an example? Japanese parents, age 45 and 51, four children, grandmother age 72. All children are American citizen by birth, the others are Japanese citizen only by law. Instead of just virtue signaling, explain what you would have done with this family unit that's morally and ethically superior to what we did. Assume wartime conditions, of course. |
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I understand your point but the thread was started with a view to ask about Japanese Americans and not Japanese. If I wanted to ask about other nationals being imprisoned without trial I would have started a thread about it or mentioned it in the OP but I want to stay on track.
Makes sense to me, then. We had 80,000 "Japanese citizens by being born here" to Japenese citizen parents. Of those some were dual citizenship and some were only US. This may be of interest. https://archive.org/stream/nationaldefensem29unit/nationaldefensem29unit_djvu.txt |
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@Spendulus: We may disagree here, but I think that if I hadn't invoked the spectre of Trump, then we might more or less have the same conclusion: an apology is not sufficient; the best form of reparation would be to step up the fight against endemic racism and xenophobia. I may believe that Trump is part of the problem, but I will concede that he is at least partly a symptom as well as a cause. it's highly relevant that 1/3 of the count were Japanese citizens. What should have been done with them? Deport them? Let them do whatever they wanted?
You do raise an important point here. A line must be drawn, but where? Let the Japanese citizens do whatever they want. Okay, but what about those Japanese citizens who have no children and no roots in the US? Those who are in the US temporarily, perhaps on holiday, and had zero intention of staying? What about Japanese holidaymakers who are also Japanese army officers? What about those who are Japanese military intelligence officers? Those who are influential figures in Japanese industry and society? My point I suppose is that with each increase in potential threat, we reduce the numbers dramatically: most Japanese citizens who are also US citizens.... As I understand what happened, for the first generation immigrants (about 1/3 of the 120k) none of them were. Of the 2nd generation, those would have citizenship by way of the abused "born in the USA, you an instant citizen" old rule. Of those, procedures vary as to whether they were instantly a citizen of the parents' country. Some countries it is instant, others there is an application procedure. So you've got 40,000 Japanese citizens in the US and Japan started a war with us. Welcome to the nasty, dirty, unfair real world. Whatever you do, you're fucked, and they are fucked. |
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Wh-what?! Evidence? What are you, one of them?!
Just another reason why you lot need to come over to the correct political party. If only everyone were on my side, then the world would be a better place. If you disagree with me, your opinion doesn't matter.
#PartisanForLife
I'm glad we figured all that out. |
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Cnut has articulated himself in an excellent manner throughout and has not deliberately been economical with the truth at all. Even you keep aside non US citizens that were sent to prison camps during that period and look at just the American citizens of Japanese decent and focus on that - then the question remains the same. Why is the California state assembly doing this now? Absolutely it's a "deeper agenda." Part of the new "woke left" is an attempt to create the appearances of their having a moral-ethical voice that dictates when people should do things and when they should say things. That's simply an attempt to gain power over others.
Part of this is dictating when one group should apologize to another. In this context, facts and truth are in the way, and go out the window. For example, take the argument articulated by Cnut in this thread.
He did not tell you that 1/3 of those put in the camps were Japanese citizens, did he? Most of the others were children of the Japanese citizens.
If there was an actual, serious effort to "make things right" what it would consist of would be to give Asians a fair chance in university admissions – There they are still being discriminated against in favor of essentially, racial quotas; eg preference given to blacks with lower test scores, and whites from privileged backgrounds. Oddly it's the same people who try to tell you who needs to apologize to who, and what pronouns you and I should use, that are complicit in the prejudice in college admissions against Asians. Further, it's highly relevant that 1/3 of the count were Japanese citizens. What should have been done with them? Deport them? Let them do whatever they wanted? |
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