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You keep bringing up this point all the time. Not sure if you are aware of this, but you also aren't talking about Trump's accusers, and ARE talking about Reade. You are contributing to this nonstop conversation, and you are having no conversation about the many women Trump allegedly sexually assaulted, while you criticize others for not talking about them. In fact, by weirdly doing this over and over you continue to make everyone talk about one and not the other even more.

How does that tell me anything about population density?

I would like to see this data weighted for population density. I'm not sure how that would work exactly, but a big element in this has to be how huge the US is compared to many of these countries and how many places have very few people.

what you actually think he's going to die?

The thing is, this isn't unique to COVID, this is how cause of death certificates always work. If a person has colon cancer or Alzheimer's and then becomes positive for COVID-19 and dies, they have 100% died of Sepsis due to COVID-19. They had other co-morbidities, but the actual cause of death is still sepsis due to COVID-19. Their lives were shortened and ended due to this disease. This is how "cause of death" is determined by physicians who complete a death certificate. This would only be a point if they didn't always do it like this.

It's not difficult to legislate; it's impossible to legislate. Hunter Biden's name and father are part of him and his sell/draw as an individual, and there's nothing inherently wrong with that (laws only work towards inherent properties; laws do not work in the realm of subjectivity/context/motivation), nor is there a practical way to forbid it that isn't completely unconstitutional.

People in free countries are allowed to benefit and even profit off of their name and their association, and companies are allowed to view a powerful name/reputation as a bonus in hiring someone. First of all, any law that would prevent an unprovable assertion of excess benefit because of your notoriety, and not because of any wrongdoing on any person's part, would frankly be a terrible law and very infringing on freedom. There's no clear way to draw a distinction between "bad" behavior and harmless behavior; I got an internship at my mom's work in college. Was I entirely and the most qualified? idk probably not. Did my mom lobby on my behalf? No. Did her being a long time employee at the company factor into the hiring decision and choosing me? Yeah, of course it did. Second of all, in regards to, "...Hunter Biden wasn't at all qualified for the position he got.," .....are you sure? Have you ever actually looked that up? - He graduated law school, took a position at MBNA after school and rose to executive vice president in two years. - He worked in the USDOC for three years. - He was appointed by Bush to a spot on the board of directors for Amtrak, and was the board's vice chairman. Gave up the position when Biden was VP. - Founded an investment firm in 2009 with partners. - Applied to the Navy Reserves at 43. - Founded another business investing Chinese capital out of the country, and in response to a ton of false Trump allegations way before Burisma, he stepped down from the board of directors of his own company. - Was working as an attorney for a very high-profile law firm in NYC, and THEN joined the board of Burisma holdiings. So someone with experience as a lawyer, with being an executive and a board member of companies, with starting business, and with capital investment, wasn't AT ALL qualified for a board position at a big company?

This is such a bad take. Especially since you said, "he doesn't get that job if his dad isn't Joe Biden", and you specifically didn't say, "Joe Biden got his son that job." There's a huge distinction between the two. You can't regulate someone not being allowed to succeed because they have a successful parent. What???

Yep, and that's as stupid of him as it is stupid of the people who criticized him for not knowing about something nobody cares about.

He didn't have to. You never have to apologize, that's weak behavior.

A not insignifcant amount of those would be due to stress, depression, and sedentary due to shelter in place orders/loss of work.

Honestly, I don't think it's a good strategy, but I think the right is better at playing the left's game than the left is. The Tea Party was successful because A) they adopted identity politics in response to the leftist adoptation of identity politics, and B) they are the cultural underdog, or so they seem, so they're more willing to compromise to keep their ranks strong. Whereas the left can't stop eating itself, the right will welcome the utilitarian help of people far outside their actual ideological purity if those people can help them. On the contrary re: the bold, the far-right ideologues are very, very willing to compromise and they do it often. That's why they're powerful right now. This still scares me a great deal. Leftist post-modern ideology has already won the culture war, and I'm not too convinced to a good end. I've trusted Bernie to be a good stewart and our checks and balances to be a good arbiter of slow and measured change, but sometime down the line I'd be very nervous of that version of America.

It's an ugly self-defeating reality of identity politics that eventually, if you play the game long enough, everyone ends up in the gulag. That's why progressives don't win much.

decide which one to sleep with duh

Even if you only had conference championships and the playoff, that'd still need to be a month imo

Both of those things are "lean", though.

How is everyone feeling about the timing of some states ending their shelter in place orders or slowly starting to open up some businesses at the end of this week or the month?

I'm not sure and I'm not trying to make a point of what he should do, but those and climate change are the three biggest policy anchors of Bernie's campaign, I think. If Biden adopted two of them that are proven to be popular with Americans, and also talked an aggressive game when it came to a concerted effort of reforming campaign finance laws (lol yea right) i don't see how that would hurt him.

Over 60% of America supports medicare for all and right around 60% (72% of democrats) support making public higher education free and eliminating student loan debt.

A shortened season of 9-10 games would take the regular season probably until around May. Then you'd have a month of postseason, and either a summer practice window or extend fall camp longer for the next season and then hopefully back to normal or another shortened season in the fall to protect the players from the grind of two football seasons in one year. It'd be a logistical mess but is definitely doable.

Doing what you need to do in order to get the most money you possibly can as a professional athlete is selfish. And it's fine. Everyone puts their own interests above the success of the team. "I'm a professional athlete trying to get as much for myself as I possibly can and I take issue with this other professional athlete tryiiing to get as much for himself as he possibly can" is just a silly argument. It's nothing egregious or serious it just made me chuckle.

Pippen certainly had responsibility for his own deal. And he was being selfish. As someone should be in that scenario. It's humorous to see someone criticize someone else for being selfish while being/doing the same. Is talking about specific parts of a piece of entertainment cherrypicking?

very entertaining so far, and pretty interesting that they've chosen to go with a wholesome MJ narrative "I thought Scottie was being selfish" was the most entertaining part

ellen is awful

don't feed the troll