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Neither one is.

No, I don’t believe he is.

That's it in a nutshell; "Fair Trade", an interventionists excuse to eliminate/interfere with free trade and bilateral agreements in order for a third party to profit. You thief you.

Never expected nor meant to have an honest chance. Never. https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1843496521633018345 1843496521633018345

Kinda feel like we need a Lysander Spooner or Larry Flint-type character to openly flout the "price gouging" laws and appeal it all the way to the SCOTUS. These laws are clearly unconstitutional.

Microchips is just one of many things we no longer produce in any meaningful way domestically, that is both critical to our national security, and economic future, in terms of keeping technological advancement and innovation here in America, rather than letting other countries lead the way: https://nstxl.org/how-computer-chips-became-essential/#:~:text=The%20biggest%20designers%20of%20FPGAs,chips%20for%20its%20military%20applications While it's not practical for every "family" or a "neighborhood" to have its own microchip factory, its nothing short of irresponsible for a country the size of America to not have factories that are on the leading edge of this technology.

Ya I think it may have been a goose. Looks a little small to be a goat. Could be a dog or cat, but not sure they would do that out in the open.. never know.

How many? And yes I'm aware of the evidence you presented.. I'm not convinced it was LIHOP, but I do agree there is circumstantial evidence. I've heard claims from your side that there were hundreds of casualties as a result of IDF actions, but there was only evidence of one or two, which were reported by Israel media. I still think my analogy is fitting, in fact it swerves in your favor, because as far as I can tell, the only reason the security system went down was a power outage. But in the case of LIHOP, the analogy is the literal definition. You're now trying to push it further into a MIHOP where Israel significantly increased increased the amount of deaths, while simultaneously significantly reducing the number of hostages. Do you realize there are still US hostages in Gaza?? It's been over a year. Do you understand what happens if they don't deploy the Hannibal option? Don't they have to assume every vehicle they want to bomb is carrying a hostage? If they raid some guys with guns in a building with a hostage, does that mean they go in and start shooting rather than get a bullhorn out and start negotiating? This is war, they need to kill the terrorists and get on to the next group of terrorists so they can save lives.

Psalm 107:20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.

Why would they buy AKs when they get M4's for free

To put it differently, I think people tend to put a lot of misplaced blame onto central planning. I don't think the problem is central planning per se, but rather central planning of enslaved populations. Clearly the problem there is the "enslavement", and not the "planning". There isn't anything wrong with "planning", whether it's "central" or otherwise. If part of that planning, is hey, maybe we shouldn't buy cheap disposable shit from China and instead invest into our own infrastructure so we can build better products at a similar price, then maybe that's a good thing.

To go off on somewhat of a tangent - One thing I would note is that "central planning" is not necessarily bad. The free market is almost entirely reliant on central planning - the central planning done by CEO's, executives, and even the central planning done by your local family owned restaurant. (It's owned by the "family" but the patriarch is usually making the decisions) There in fact cannot be much "planning" at all, without it being "central". To oppose "central planning" as an universal evil, is to oppose "planning" in general. Because nearly all "planning" is "centralized" to some degree or another. So when people oppose "central planning", what they are really opposing, (or should be), is either 1) too much central planning, and/or 2) bad forms of central planning. What we have in this country right now is certainly both "too much" and "bad form". And by "bad form", I mean a statist government that is enslaving your participation by rejecting your right to secede and thus has no right to be planning anything.

You posed the following: You couldn’t get more vague than that, which was nonsense from the get go. Based on what data/source? Based on what crime? J-walking? Speeding? Murder? Chewing bubble-gum at a private event which posted a sign no chewing bubble-gum? It has been said that the average American commits 3 felonies per day, so I really don’t know what you’re getting at unless you provide more parameters and or data/source of which you are eluding.

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Reich is a little douche. OK, I lied. He's a big douche. His Stupid reminds me of Chomsky.

The ridiculousness goes both ways. It's not reasonable to expect a neighborhood or a family to have its own microchip factories. But at the same time it's not exactly reasonable to have huge couches and other shit built & shipped from 6,000 miles away. It's not a sustainable practice.

In other words, bring up real reasons to not want 20,000 Haitian bio-weapons dropped in your town, so I can call you a racist and have those reasons dismissed and disregarded. These visceral reasons, like the idea that the bio-weapons will skin and eat your pet cat in the front yard, are too hard to counter because we can't prove them.

I'm not confused at all. I have simply pointed out that even if a trade is "equitable" with "both sides benefiting", it does not mean that the trade is "good" for both parties. When I originally said that its too early to tell if free trade is "good" for the economy, you responded by saying trades are fair and equitable. I responded by pointing out that just because a trade is "fair" and "equitable", does not make it "good" for both parties. This is a demonstrably true statement, and not at all a "strawman". A trade can be "equitable" and "benefiting" while simultaneous being extremely irresponsible. The terms are not mutually exclusive. Language has historically been one of the main barriers between political integration. When the entire world is speaking the same language, that's one less barrier to one a world government. Language has also historically been one of the key ways that independent cultures have been preserved. Language served as a "barrier to entry" that prevented people from entering into a culture and diluting it with their foreign influences. With that barrier gone, cultures are gonna be a lot harder to preserve.

My post says the opposite of that. Are you intentionally pretending to have zero comprehension of context or is it authentic? Let me lay it out for you as though you've never spoken a human language before. The very first words of my post require context to understand. In the English language, you don't have to, and usually don't, repeat words and phrases when their meaning is obvious from context.

Undocumented Immigrant Offending Rate Lower Than U.S.-Born Citizen Rate Analysis of Texas arrest records indicates a consistent trend across violent, drug, property, and traffic offenses between 2012 and 2018. National Institute of Justice September 12, 2024 An NIJ-funded study examining data from the Texas Department of Public Safety estimated the rate at which undocumented immigrants are arrested for committing crimes. The study found that undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes.

Blowback? They don't want either "party" in? Another psyop to "turn out the vote"? A cry for more police-state and Domestic TSA? WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has arrested an Afghan man who officials say was inspired by the Islamic State militant organization and was plotting an Election Day attack targeting large crowds in the U.S., the Justice Department said Tuesday. Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, of Oklahoma City told investigators after his arrest Monday that he had planned his attack to coincide with Election Day next month and that he and a co-conspirator expected to die as martyrs, according to charging documents. Tawhedi, who arrived in the U.S. in September 2021, had taken steps in recent weeks to advance his attack plans, including by ordering AK-47 rifles, liquidating his family’s assets and buying one-way tickets for his wife and child to travel home to Afghanistan, officials said.

Lips that touch liquor will never touch theirs? I find their terms acceptable. Don’t think I’d care to even be in the same room with any of those sour looking shrews let alone kiss any of them. Ugh

See, this is exactly the kind of dumb government shit that goes on when the people do not take charge of their own well being. This is a legitimate effort being taken on by our own people right here, and going directly to those in need. Chip in whatever you can. https://x.com/M_C_Masters/status/1843657230786408639 1843657230786408639

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