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What is a province but a state by another name

Human infants are born significantly earlier in their gestational period than all these other animals. That's why these other animals can usually walk around at birth, where human babies are sacks of potatoes for months

You're focused on the wrong thing here

It may be nice to imagine, but as long as the US continues to pay interest on Treasury bonds, US Treasuries will not be viewed as a "sinking ship." Divestment in this case would be purely a political decision

Poor Netflix, stuck at only 60% of all households in the entire fucking United States subscribing to their service

Speak truth to power, always.

When you hear reported [Japan] owns [$x.xx] in US Treasuries, that figure isn't a monolith. The Japanese government owns some, and Japanese corporations own some, and the Japanese people individually own some, and more. It would have to be a collective effort, and there would realistically need to be a financially sound alternative place for them to safely park their money

These are corporate bonds, rather than stocks. They will pay out a fixed amount over a given period of time. One might assume this is a down payment for silence

While there's plenty to criticize about the founding of the US, eg the northern colonies having to compromise with the southern colonies on slavery, the reality is that expanding voting power to all white land-owning men was a pretty revolutionary concept at the time, where prior to that, power in European culture almost universally derived from birthright. The US Constitution also set us on a course where voting power has continually been expanded and now encompasses all US citizens.

Unfortunately, forces are trying to consolidate power for a small group again, and our system of voting has been continually undermined for about 40 years through the rolling back of voting rights and severe gerrymandering, to where the general public is losing power over our government.

My grandmother was born in 1922, and there were people who had been slaves and people who had been slaveholders still around for her entire childhood in the US south

Is this real? I keep having to ask this...

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