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How many deaths constitute a genocide because hundreds of thousands of middle eastern civilians have been killed during our 14 year war on Islam.

EDIT: down votes? Can't argue the truth so better to bury it.

Are you aware of the extensive US driven sanctions against Russia? We pressured the French to reneg on a hardware contracts with Russia, why would they not return the favor?

doesn't sound different from the US.

People believe the unashamed media propaganda, few speak anything besides English, many can't afford to leave, people believe the evil east is out to get them. In the 80s the NSA kept out of politics for most part... But now the state is taken over by a miz of NSA and criminal corporate-military-financial entities.

Nationalism and borderline Fascism is the order of the day. We've been at continuous war for over 14 years.

That or it will be widely flaunted like jay walking or the tena of thousands other laws and regulations that are on the books and hardly ever enforced.

SG sometimes become supreme court justices. But more generally the lawyer a justice will hear from the most during any given period is most likely the current t SG.

Spoiler: no it's not.

Teenagers have a minimum wage, it is just different (lower).

I actually don't understand your second point, but markets can't exist without the rule of law; markets require a notion of property rights, how can anyone think otherwise?

In a well governed society laws exist to facilitate the exchange of goods and services, how can exchange occur if people cannot trust the contract they engage in will be upheld? As difficult as it might be for you to imagine, laws and arbitration can exist without a government which centrally plans the minutiae of everyday life.

Again, your argument seems to be that by the snap of fingers and the degree of those with power, walmart can just magically raise wages. That's a childish belief.

This is a false narrative. The poor pay plenty in taxes and fees.

Between sales tax, worker payroll, SS, medicare, and various mandated fees from health insurance to car insurance to additional transportation taxes and tolls, and a million other fees and restrictions, the poor stay poor in part because of perverse government requirements.

You fundamentally misunderstand what a market is and why they are good.

The labor market is filled with many different types of people with many different goals. Who are you to tell a teenager they can't work part-time after school because the company can't afford to pay them whatever amount you believe is the amount to be paid?

Regulations are what cause the gross mis-allocation of labor and resources, when you distort the free interaction of individuals to buy and sell their goods and services you end up with perverse structures where an adult willing takes a minimum wage job at walmart if they can also qualify for food stamps and other government assistance.

Writing a law to tell walmart to pay their employees more doesn't magically fix reality. Laws don't magically make the impossible possible, believing otherwise is adolescent fantasy.

One law and process for the biggest banks and another law and process for everyone else. That poor sucker currently rotting in a London jail for allegedly being the cause of a flash crash probably wishes he had worked for a big bank.

It is a farce to call this a criminal act when waivers remove all punishment beyond a fine.

That's how banks do it, laws and regulations are just another business expense.

The commenter lives in DC, of course people there revile snowden, his exposure briefly threatened their daily lunch at the government trough.

I'm sure all the statists in this thread would be singing snowdens praises if he had only been a senator or maybe worked at a large international bank, cause those people break all sorts of laws all the time and these apologists don't seem to mind.

"Haha no elaboration, what a zinger! That'll show those swarmy conservatives", said the well off Marin county progressive as he sipped his morning smoothie and read another New York times article.

I wonder if the Chinese will begin arresting American citizens who visit for conferences.

Odd since it was America which instigated the Ukrainian coup, inflamed ethnic tensions, and continue to push towards military conflict.

All of human history contradicts you. Music has been and will be made irrespective of 20th century notions of copyright.

The richest man in town with all the guns, do you mean uncle Sam? The guy who tortures and murders innocent people without consequence, he's the guy you want to empower and trust with property rights, the guy who allows his cops to steal property without cause, that's the guy you want enforcing property rights?

Lobbying is an inheritly tricky problem because you want to allow everyone to exercise free speech, if suddenly only government funded researchers are allowed to make comments on policy you no longer can participate in democratic governance.

The problem is governents have way too much control over nearly every facet of the economy and it is much cheaper and easier to buy a senator and get some new regulations passed than it is to build a successful product or service that everyday people want to opt in for.

When you mandate decisions, you tend to get bad and corrupt decisions that benefit the few over the many.

Even at the higher rate of 5000 per year China would need 100 years of executions to bridge the gap with us prison population http://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-popula...

This does not include the hundreds of thousands of Muslim civilians the US has killed in the 21st century.

Any citations for number of people China executes per year?

You simply state China and Russia are far worse but present no evidence.

America has killed hundreds of thousands of Muslim civilians over the last 12 years.

America holds people in indefinite prison without trial and even admits that they are innocent but continues to lock them away.

We torture people. We have secret kill lists. Our police rob citizens without punishment. Our politicians openly flaunt the law and go unpunished, as do bankers and large corporations.

Anything to support your view beyond mere assertion and blind allegiance?

More people rot in American jails than any other country.

America admits to torture and does nothing.

America has a kill list that only the executive presides over and keeps secret.

We've killed hundreds of thousands of civilians over the last decade and displaced millions.

And yet here is a presumptuous America ready to claim moral superiority over Russians and Chinese. A horrific display of Orwellian doublethink.

I use Chromium, I wish companies were more honest and gave explicit alerts to consumers when they choose to use DRM.

I put torture and the murder of innocents beyond merely morally dubious, but perhaps you have a more liberal view.

Look beyond your self serving and hypocritical narrative, would you equally defend the bureaucratics under Stalin, what of an IT worker for ISIS?

I'm all for improving a system and government which has faults. However it is maddening to watch people continue to lend legitimacy to a government that tortures and murders innocent people -- what is your red line, genocide? The US is quickly approaching in the 21st century that marker as well when applied to Muslims.

I recommend you reflect on your moral views since they currently support the aiding of torturers and murders.

Amazing you believe Americans benefit from the torture and murder of innocents.

If you willingly work for those who torture and murder innocent people you are not a good person, sorry for all those out there who dont like to hear the truth.

Ridiculous, he isn't a 'good' guy, he works for someone who tortures and murders innocents without qualms or cares.

Down vote the truth.

I fully agree, if anything it impinges on the reputation of anyone who willing works with the lying murders in the White House.

Oh, better not let the poor or even middle class use the same tools and get the same advantages of us rich elite.

Only professionals can act with responsibility, we must task our politicians and police to put down any attempts by the poor to improve their lot in life.

What can people do about secret backroom deals?

Honestly very little or just about nothing unless you have more money and influence than the mega corps who want this deal passed.

No, what people can do is just ignore the law and defy the government, not like the government wields legitimate power anyway.

Perhaps we should all look forward instead of back, you know the way did with fucking torture.