My libertarian friends and I used to joke about buying the country of Tonga. It's a nation consisting of a chain of S. Pacific islands about 2k miles off of Australia. It's small, But a good place for a big chunk of a politically disenfranchised group wanting to set up a new home.

Quadrillion of a bajillion dollars. But it's a Class action lawsuit, so just send the claimants a post card that looks like a coupon for $5 of an oil change. That's just as good, and lawyers can pocket the cash.

I'm happy you think that way, but speaking as a family member of someone who is highly susceptible to Wuhan Flu, I'd personally prefer to advocate for my mom, rather than leave it up to nurses.

Nothing against nurses, I'm sure you're trying your best, but she's just another patient to so many people.

Hey don't forget the Christmas classic that is Gremlins.

I have some problems with the points you raised.

1. Too bad almost all the slightly above average 105 IQ folks are working in sweatshops, rural farms, and slave labor camps. Seems a waste of those slightly above intelligent people.
2. See the part about about slave labor camps. To quote the Dead Kennedys, "You'll work harder with a gun at your back for a bowl of rice a day."
3. Yeah, all the individualists being hosed out of tank treads or having their families charged for the bullets used for executions might have killed the individualist spirit in China.
4. Chines ethnic homogony is doing so great, that's why arms dealers are selling so much equipment to Taiwan. Because of ethnic harmony. and shared cultural value.
5. The CCP couldn't even handle a 5 year plan under Mao without killing millions of people, and they put pics of him up everywhere. Doubt their hundred year plan is going to go any better.
6. Oh wow, they have cunning on their side. The CCP has fooled such intellectual heavyweights as Obama, Trudeau and Merkel. I can beat a 7 year old at checkers too, but that doesn't make me cunning.

They're not even as rich as they pretend to be. https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/03/federal-reserve-says-chinas-economic-numbers-are-just-as-garbage-as-their-covid-data/

China tends to pull economic numbers out of their ass and nobody ever challenges them on it.

It's like some rich kid who inherited a million dollar house from their dad, mortgaged it a half dozen times, Invested in their buddies' nightclubs, and bought a bunch of Ferraris and BMWs. And now the banks are afraid to call in the loans only to end up with 1/6 of a house.

They look rich, they act rich, but if the banks ever call in their debt, they are super fucked. And a lot of the shady stuff China engages in is the same stuff that caused the Asian banking crisis back in the 90's.

What we need is less politicians getting putang, and more politicians getting Kuomintang.

Could respect them whoring themselves out if they at least charged more.

RDJ is also friendly with Mel Gibson, and has been fairly outspoken in defense of Mel.

Back at a time when RDJ was in and out of rehab and was seen as too big of a risk to hire, Gibson took a chance and cast RDJ, fresh out of rehab, in "Air America."

The story is that Gibson took a special interest in keeping RDJ sober. Not just because he employed RDJ, but because Mel Gibson as a Christian believes in second chances, and would pray for RDJ's recovery. Mel would also just hang out with RDJ, playing cards, watching movies, whatever, to keep RDJ from getting bored and getting high.

So after being helped out by a conservative Christian when he was at a low point at his life, the whole, "Hey let's hate on white male Christians!", might not be to his liking.

There's a 1:1 correlation between the people saying that this election can't be stolen, and the ones that spent the past 4 years screaming that Trump and Putin stole the last election.

I wish I had more hands so I could make more obscene gestures at those people.

Embrace the power of 'and'.

I plan on watching MSDNC in hopes of watching the anchors break down again, because let's face it, that never stops being funny.

They're trying to bring Lysenkoism to the USA aren't they?

The thing is, most of the people who say "I believe in Science," aren't scientists. Hell, even eggheads PH.Ds on the Science channel talking about things they are experts on, tend to qualify a lot of things with "If that's true."

Unfortunately, most of the 1st world's immigration policies are slanted that way. "Oh hey, you have a college degree, speak the language fluently, and have a job lined up? We're going to need you to fill out a metric shit ton of paperwork before we even consider letting you in."

OTOH, if you're from a 3rd world shithole, can't speak the language of the country you're moving to, are illiterate in your own language, then you can just claim refugee status, and the 1st world is your oyster.

It's Russian disinformation, you can tell by the pixels.

That's what tipped me off to the whole "Anonymous sources close to the president say" BS. Like c'mon man, come up with something plausible.

The amusing part is that Cocaine Mitch told Reid at the time that was a really stupid plan that would screw over the Dems in an election or two. But the Dems were so sure of their 1000 year rule that Reid ignored him. And now here we are, with the Dems getting screwed over by Reid's over reach.

I'm still waiting for my Gorilla Channel.

Seriously, who the fuck is out there claiming that Giuliani is Jewish?

They just figured that she would be a Dem based on the color of her skin, rather than the content of her, ya know, the thing.

I don't do it professionally, was just saying that if you're looking for stuff to backup, you don't need to copy the entire HD, just some data that couldn't easily be re-installed. So for example, Excel wouldn't be backed up, but Excel spreadsheets would be backed up on a thumb drive.

That said, talk to anybody in IT and they can tell you stories about people messing up their computers from looking for things on the internet their wives would rather not know about.

You don't. If you're backing up data, you're looking for things people actually want backed up like family pics, videos, e-mails, PDFs, spreadsheets, etc. That usually doesn't take up that much space and can usually fit on a thumbdrive.

It can be summarized as "Crack, not even once."

Trump knows he is walking into the lyins den on NBC. You really think Trump is dumb enough to expect a fair shake from them? He's going to walk out with some pelts.