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Chump change. You want to know the REAL big spenders on lobbying? The NRA isnt even on the list. Top is the Chamber of Commerce(nearly $60 million per year), National Association of Realtors, then several Big Pharma/Big Medical groups. https://www.statista.com/statistics/257344/top-lobbying-spenders-in-the-us/

I understand the difference between automatic and semi-automatic. When I was in the military, we used a semi-automatic as an infantry weapon (the FNCI-A1) and an automatic as a section support weapon (the FNC2).

How much does the NRA spend on lobbying per year?

True. So called reporters who do not understand even the basic mechanics of firearms should not report on the issue.

As a card carrying member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, I agree. Not a fan of his politics, but let the voters decide. Being crude should not be an automatic DQ. As for Fetterman, it is obvious that his team hid the truth about his health from the voters. They should be ashamed. All with the willing help of the mainstream media, whose lack of curiosity added to the deception.

I have been staying in Chonburi for a while now. Each time I go to the beach it is overrun with incredibly unhealthy and rude Russians- grossly obese men wearing banana hammocks (budgie smugglers to my Aussie friends), aged babushkas with their leathery skin flowing out of too-tight bikinis, nasty. Plus not even bothering to throw on a t-shirt if they go to a restaurant or shopping center. Grunting away in their primitive tongue, barging the cues and frightening the children. And littering the place up with cigarette butts. From what I hear, Bali is rescinding the visa free entry for them- Thailand should do the same.

Similarly, money not budgeted by the government for this plan will be spent elsewhere. Either in lower taxes or on more worthy programmes. This seems so simplistic. To the students: you took out a loan. Pay it back. What is so hard about that?

Not sure I agree with shooting, but yeah the police should have been more 'aggressive' in defending the building and ground. Would have been nice to see a few heads cracked with truncheons.

Strange then, that they WON the popular vote in the 2022 mid terms.

Liked the Trump years. Don't want him to run again. Pompeo is my guy! Perhaps with Noem as a running mate.

None were murdered.

...or have prospective students approach financial institutions and make the case as to why they deserve student loans. Show a plan to pay it back, proof of future income, etc. Decide based on merit and not on whim. Costs are increasing at universities for sure. A bit part is that university bureaucracies are exploding. The problem is not teaching staff, it is "support" staff driving the cost.

I am not actually sure what the LGB and T communities have in common. The LGB all need reference to 2 genders in order to make sense. T and the rest of the alphabet soup of identities are the opposite. Just ask a lesbian if she were cool with dating a trans-woman who still had the man-bits attached and a lovely beard. As for Knowles, he wasnt being hateful. He WAS being provocative in the sense of "tired of the hypersexualization of society". In particular the normalizing of unhealthy and what he sees as deviant behaviors that should be treated as mental illness rather than accepted without comment.

Where were these people when there are more than 20 entire countries in the world where abortion is considered a crime under ANY circumstances? Or the dozens that allow it only if the mother's life is in danger? Nah, easier to whine about the US. Even when many, if not most states have laws that are comparable to supposedly "liberal" western Europe.

Yet another cornerstone of the so-called "fake news" falls by the wayside. Remember how the MSM ridiculed and ostracized anyone who dared put this theory forward? Even noted member of the Left Jon Steward was pilloried for daring to contradict the Approved Narrative when he was on the Colbert show. https://news.yahoo.com/dare-jon-stewart-reflects-lab-202138738.html

In other words, they are doing very well. Median income of 90% of overall US average. Also, comparatively few are illegal immigrants. I am not sure your point. Except perhaps to show that racism is not a barrier to success in America.

...or the money actually repaid to the lending institution by the debtor will be available for that institution to lend to OTHER people. Who will then use it for their purposes. Go figure.

Seriously? Someone from Somalia or Nigeria or Ethiopia had it better than African Americans who grew up in the US?

Kind of simple really. To the whining students: "it's a loan. Pay it back". Not too hard. Nobody was forced to take out student loans, nobody but the borrower should be forced to pay them back.

You are referring to the ADOS community of black Americans I take it? Funny how nobody has been able to answer how recent immigrants from Africa are somehow able to outstrip so-called 'native born' African American ADOS people. Perhaps race isn't the issue. As for Adams, I am sure he is getting ready to jump to Substack if he hasn't already.

To quote the great Neil Young, "shoulda been done long ago"...

He was no kind of shooter at all before they attacked him. Other witnesses on the scene described their behavior as aggressive and violent, NOT Rittenhouse. He tried to disengage and de-escalate but was not allowed to by the rioters.

There is no military or police force in the world that trains members to "shoot to injure". That is a fallacy from bad Hollywood movies. Firearms are only to be used if your life is in danger, and then they are to be used to neutralize the threat. Aim for the "centre of visible mass". As for being from outside the community, Grosskreutz drove from farther away than Rittenhouse. So logically he shouldn't have been their either, eh? Ditto Rosenbaum, who was from Texas and had just been released from a mental hospital in far away Milwaukee. Shoulda stayed home too.

Not these two... a net benefit I would say. Again, THEY chose to chase a guy armed with a firearm, THEY were angry that he was spoiling their fun. If THEY had stayed home, they wouldnt have been shot. Or at least if they had protested peacefully.

Same situation in Japan. But to be fair, women in Japan generally control the money anyway. When I see regular (J and J) couples, 95% of the time the woman pays for the shopping, restaurant bill, Etc.