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OT: American Politics

LeafGm said:
I don’t think that’s actually the intent, though. It strikes me as an attempt at trolling by the Democrat that introduced the bill.

Basically pointing out the hypocrisy that every fertilized or unfertilized egg is apparently sacred to Republicans, which puts women’s bodies under the jurisdiction of the government.

But then any similar bill that puts the same onus on men will be voted down, since in the end the point for Republicans and Christofascists isn’t the sanctity of human life at every stage of development, it’s all about controlling women.
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I think that was the intent too. But I’d probably be careful of putting that law forward in a Christian Taliban state because they’ve had laws against nonprocreative sex before and that was who they targeted.
 
This tariff stuff is so dumb. For all its faults and issues free trade and tariff reduction has played an immense role in ensuring global financial stability and relative peace between nations.
 
Artnes said:
We're about to see how organized the cartels really are. They are what the wanna be GI Joe militlas think they are

Border patrol about to FAFO
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I actually think we're going to see the opposite and we're going to see not how organized they are, but how decentralized they are and how that makes them far, far more resilient than organization does. The vast, vast majority of the drugs passes through border checkpoints and are smuggled by American citizens who live in border cities and cross regularly. Just at one border crossing between TJ & San Diego, Ysidro, 40K vehicles and over 100K people per today cross legally. That's the busiest crossing on the border, but that's one of 50 border crossings. Most of the fentanyl smuggled in (like, 90%+) is smuggled in small batches, carried across in day bags and backpacks by people legally allowed to cross the border.

Where this might have impact is in human trafficking (it's difficult for migrants to even reach the border region without being escorted in by the chain of coyotes). The human trafficking occurs in the empty spaces between border check points, is way easier to interdict with drones, sensors, cameras, etc. I could see that slow down signficantly (and other modes pick up some of the slack, like air travel, sea smuggling, etc). But what I think is fairly unlikely is the coyotes getting into fire fights. That's bad for business, they'll find ways to adapt instead.

As usual, it's the poorest people in the equation that will suffer the most. The migrants caught in between the coyote/cartel network and increased "enforcement".
 
mbow30 said:
This tariff stuff is so dumb. For all its faults and issues free trade and tariff reduction has played an immense role in ensuring global financial stability and relative peace between nations.
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Liberalized trade necessitated well aligned domestic policy to take the edges off.

Needless to say, the US failed on that front. So now they need to blame other countries and trans sociology profs.

Also, blaming other countries does nothing to mitigate the robots which are going to supplant routine work everywhere (including Asia.) And then there’s AI…
 
MindzEye said:
I actually think we're going to see the opposite and we're going to see not how organized they are, but how decentralized they are and how that makes them far, far more resilient than organization does. The vast, vast majority of the drugs passes through border checkpoints and are smuggled by American citizens who live in border cities and cross regularly. Just at one border crossing between TJ & San Diego, Ysidro, 40K vehicles and over 100K people per today cross legally. That's the busiest crossing on the border, but that's one of 50 border crossings. Most of the fentanyl smuggled in (like, 90%+) is smuggled in small batches, carried across in day bags and backpacks by people legally allowed to cross the border.

Where this might have impact is in human trafficking (it's difficult for migrants to even reach the border region without being escorted in by the chain of coyotes). The human trafficking occurs in the empty spaces between border check points, is way easier to interdict with drones, sensors, cameras, etc. I could see that slow down signficantly (and other modes pick up some of the slack, like air travel, sea smuggling, etc). But what I think is fairly unlikely is the coyotes getting into fire fights. That's bad for business, they'll find ways to adapt instead.

As usual, it's the poorest people in the equation that will suffer the most. The migrants caught in between the coyote/cartel network and increased "enforcement".
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I wonder if the cartel has ever seen the helicopter scene from Lethal Weapon?
 
mbow30 said:
This tariff stuff is so dumb. For all its faults and issues free trade and tariff reduction has played an immense role in ensuring global financial stability and relative peace between nations.
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Yup. Nations that trade together tend to not want to fumble the bag. If Putin had known that this war was going to take this long and cost this much, he would have been happy with grabbing Crimea for nothing in 2014 and called it a day.
 
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