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Michael Cohen PLED guilty; he didn't wait for proof. And he did so in FEDERAL court because campaign financing crimes are FEDERAL crimes. The State of New York cannot charge campaign financing crimes directly: they are not state crimes. Of course Trump is GUILTY. Nobody here is arguing...

Of course we know WHY it's happening. But is it a GOOD thing? AI will exacerbate the unfortunate trend; that's thread topic. Remedy is beyond thread's scope; try a Marxism thread. Don't forget LAND. Billionaires have been buying up land all over the planet. Are we heading toward medieval...

I'm watching Official Secrets (2019), the true story of a whistle-blower (played by Keira Knightley) who risked prison to expose (BEFORE the invasion) Tony Blair's complicity in the Bush-Cheney lies that led to the 2003 misadventure in Iraq. The movie showed up when I Googled for "movies about...

Yes, that's how I feel. The Creator might be "Mathematics", a Grand Simulator, an Omnimax entity like Leibniz envisioned, or even just an abstraction to serve as grammatical convenience. Such a Creator might have created a single multiverse, or an infinite number of multiverses but is unlikely...

Three years ago I reported on a baboon society which maintained a unique (pacificist) culture for decades, even after its founders were dead. I hope we get more examples of human societies maintaining culture for a century or more. The U.S.A. with traits like self-reliance, love of guns...

We are using these terms in slightly different ways. Do you have any sort of citation for this? Holland and Britain were able to acquire industrial capital NOT because they had wealth but because they DIDN'T? (I'm not saying you're necessarily wrong; just would like to read more on this...

AI Chat acquires its "information" by reading text available on the Internet. Increasingly that text and its "information" is generated by other AI bots. See a problem?

Your graph shows Real Median Personal Income increasing by 53% over almost 50 years. But the total economy has increased hugely, and ordinary workers think they should keep their "share of the pie." In fact, however, Real GDP per Capita has increased over the same period, not by 53% but by...

I see that lpetrich beat me to this 4 days ago, but it turns out the "billionaire" couldn't even raise the tiny bond he was granted on appeal. The surety company -- run by Trump cronies -- (a) has never done this sort of surety business before, (b) is not authorized in New York or any other...

Careful, Don2. This is primarily an AMERIKAN board and we speak AMERIKAN English here. Take your cutesy spellings like "colour" and your nuanced definitions of anti-Zionist somewhere else!! You probably think "anti-Zionism" means opposition to Zionism, or at least to Zionism's most extreme...

Very interesting observation, DrZoidberg! The U.S.A. "frontier" is said to have closed in 1890: 134 years ago most of the farmable land was ready to be farmed. Yet some American cultural traits still reflect the pioneering spirit: emphasis on self-reliance, and "need for guns." U.S. tends to...

In countries where voting is "compulsory" isn't the penalty for not casting a ballot usually VERY small? (Just declaring it to be "compulsory" encourages voting even if there is no penalty at all.) I view the voting mandate as similar to anti-littering laws in that it enforces a "Categorical...

"Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury. As you've seen, our client is the most despicable human being you've ever laid eyes on. not fit to be a cum-stain in Ms. Daniels' worst nightmare. We know you've passed a note to the judge asking for a DNA test to confirm whether or not he is even human...

How many peremptory challenges was the Defendant allowed? Apparently they were all used up. I'm betting on Hung Jury. Even if no closet MAGAts were seated, and even if no jurors are fearful enough of MAGAt murderers to vote for acquittal, aren't the charges confusing? Paying the hush money...

In Trump's Amerika the line between satire and reality is very thin; by the time a claim is scrutinized for plausibility it is too late for a chuckle. Anyway, is the claim outside the realm of possible? Some of Trump's legal eagles contend that a President can commit any crime or murder with...

:confused2: Shouldn't ALL righteous people work together? Why not choose a Speaker from the Party closest to a Majority? That would be Hakeem Jeffries. The House currently has 213 Democrats 198-208 Republicans 10-20 Traitors and Haters whose agenda is to sabotage the country.

Yes. If voting were mandatory -- as it SHOULD be, and IS in Australia, Brazil, Belgium and several other countries -- the Blues would win every election in a landslide*. Of course that's why voting will never be made mandatory in the present political clime. Instead the Reds take the opposite...

Probably. Reasons: (1) The Cleansing of the Temple shows a Jesus very different from that in most of the Gospels' fictional events. (2) It's one of very few Jesus actions in the Gospels which is NOT accompanied by a miracle. (3) The violence of the Cleansing might justify capital punishment...

When Kevin McCarthy was voted out, some complained that the Dems should have avoided chaos by supporting that cretinous hypocrite. Remember that this is the same Kevin McCarthy who flew to Mar-a-Lago right after the attempted coup of January 6 to advise the psychopath that he was still the...

Miscellaneous and useless trivia: I Googled a bit. This is THREE women, not four but Hegesippus et al think "sister" should be sister-in-law, with Clopas the brother of Joseph, and the named Mary possibly Clopas' daughter rather than wife. My own Bible searches automatically show both KJV...