mercy_dude

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by mercy_dude 4y ago
Umm it should concern everyone if FBI, a law enforcement agency with sweeping power, invades a journalist or a private individual’s house. This sort of normalization of FBI raids to individual citizens is bad for individual and civil libert
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
Define criminals. It’s not just an opinionated matter, any allegations have to be proven beyond reasonable doubt with presumption of innocence till proven guilty. Law works like that in this country. But also if a person is subject to crimi
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
As we have seen with Assange or Steele dossier, search warrants don’t matter. FBI abused and misled FISA judges on multiple occasions and rubber stamped warrant by the administration which largely uses FBI as its street cover.
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
> Who is being gone after? Donald Trump, Ronald DeSantis, Greg Abott all have been under aggressive FBI investigation. Nikki Haley had her tax records leaked to media. > what is so ruthless There are multiple cases where even the judg
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
I am curious how we are going about studying these in Macaques. Are we trying to deliberately get them the virus and see how their brain respond? If so, haven’t we learned enough on how virus jumps species and can wreck havoc?
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
> The CDC did fine with what they had to work with to be honest. If that’s the standard we have to live by after the most devastating pandemic in a century for the most developed country in the world, then there is not going to be any le
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
It’s not surprising at all. Current administration has setup a revolving door with quite a few Google execs working in the administration. Eric Schmidt is known to have done fundraising in 2020.
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
> If it's obvious to me that this is exactly what will happen, it should be obvious to Fed board members You also have to discount the possibility that Fed might be incompetent, given how their recent track record has been in predic
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
Given the size of Californias population and and it’s spending power, the grand effect on the entire country would be higher. I wonder if the rest of the states would have to pay the prices (through rising rates).
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
> Mail-in/absentee ballot request forms typically require applicants to sign the form and affirm their eligibility to cast a mail-in/absentee ballot under penalty of law. Upon receipt of a mail-in/absentee ballot request f
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
And wouldn’t be surprised if China used or continue to use these covet tactics to alter election results.
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
> In this case, the alleged conduct had no impact on the tabulation of votes and did not alter election results Would be curious how they asserted that. A contractor in the last election dumped ballots in garbage in Pennsylvania. Justice
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
Yikes Toronto. I grew up there (immigrant parents first destination before moving down south) but despise it now for what it has become. An over expensive cesspool of the house owning NIMBY class with terrible traffic and disregard for driv
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
When the goal of media is to act as the propaganda arm for ruling elites who are hell bent on establishing anything outside their pushed narrative is misinformation, there is no going back. Virtually the same thing happened with Covid, vacc
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
Who is the monster and why?
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
Current liberal government is running a very wild experiment here with regards to immigration. For context, when I graduated from a Canadian university back in 2014, there was a very straightforward immigration system. The students graduati
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
I don’t understand the attack on detached family home. We have a lot of land. And enough natural resources to fund enough renewable ventures such as EV adoption and renewable energy production. This seems to be a wider effort by a group of
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
Does anyone read books anymore? I recently went to the university Library I went to 15yrs back and I was shocked to see how few students were reading books. Most were on their laptops presumably reading from e books.
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
Well China owns the lions share of real estate in Toronto and Vancouver. And given how Canadian economy is dependent on real estate it’s not surprising. [1] [2] [1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-why-ar
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1490792461979078662
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
Not sure what part of insider trading is legal [1] [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-stock-act-violation...
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
I would have more faith in SEC trying to protect the “integrity of the market” when they pursue all the Congressman and their family cronies actively using insider information to trade.
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
There is a sign through some of the lagging indicators that economy is “cooling off” and the anticipation of recession being spearheaded by the Fed is actually working. The container stat shows also a record slowdown along with a drop in sp
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
“The scholar Tamara Nopper told me she felt some Asian Americans were using hate-crime discourse as a way to avoid “dealing with anti-Blackness.” She admitted she had hesitated to tweet #StopAsianHate because she was concerned that joining
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
If NYTimes had any shred of journalistic integrity left, they would be looking into themselves first before pointing out other “broken bro cultures”
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
But that is what happens when you watch MSNBC and CNN, and the vice versa when you watch Fox. An entire generation now exists incapable of having intellectual arguments thinking beyond party line just because the people they follow in the m
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
Agree Europe is a different story altogether- their currency free fall against Dollar is more to do with the mixed signal ECB is sending by still having to buy Italian and Greek bonds that find no other buyers AND at the same time trying to
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
That was exactly my point though. The way you “fight inflation” is you raise the rates and that means all currencies pegged to yours must raise their rates at the same pace no matter what their economic conditions are like or they get destr
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
Assuming US can print any value of USD out of thin existence as they have done multiple times in last 20yrs, it doesn’t matter for them whether they later buy in the oil to fill the reserve back at 40$ or 400$. Key issue here is that we are
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
That includes our own government in US. If you have not noticed, there has been a constant pestering from Congress to censor big tech and “severe consequences” otherwise. And not to say the clear as daylight funding they provide to people i

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