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Just now, new2here said:

Oh I bet they do.. Regardless of who may be in their “camp” so to speak, outside of a few counties with the — clout - to be largely insulted from outside opinion (IMHO, that might be people like the PRC or even Russia) I’ll bet that they do in fact care how their chosen narrative is seen overseas…  

they may not choose to act on that, but I’ll bet they do watch and care how their narrative is seen outside its borders.

Indeed. If Israel did not care about negative PR, the war would be over by now. 

2 hours ago, jerrymahoney said:

Why Does Trump Face Felony Charges? Prosecutors Say He Was Hiding Other Crimes.

Donald J. Trump faces 34 felony counts in his Manhattan trial, but none involve the other misconduct that prosecutors say he engaged in.

 

By The New York Times

    May 6, 2024, 1:41 p.m. ET

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/nyregion/trump-charges-felonies.html

 

What crimes do prosecutors believe Trump was trying to conceal?

Prosecutors have suggested three possible crimes since filing the charges against Mr. Trump last year: a federal campaign finance violation, tax fraud and a state election-law crime. But since the start of the trial, they have largely focused on the state election-law crime: conspiracy to promote or prevent election. 

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REDUX

 

* § 17–152. Conspiracy to promote or prevent election
Any two or more persons who conspire to promote or
prevent the election of any person to a public office by unlaw-
ful means and which conspiracy is acted upon by one or more
of the parties thereto, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(L.1976, c. 233 , § 1.) *

 

As posted above the statute refers to "unlawful means" but it does not say what constitutes 'unlawful means'.

 

I decided to try to find out in all the other previous prosecutions of the statute, since that statute dates from 1976, what constituted "unlawful" means. But I could not. As best as can be determined, even by lawyers with years' experience prosecuting election violations in NY State, that statute has NEVER been prosecuted so there is no trail of what constitutes "unlawful means".

 

So even though Judge Merchan in a ruling has said that the statute is applicable as a possible (an)other crime, they first have to justify without precedent what constitutes "unlawful means".

 

In other words they would be using a 2 part if-then statute to justify a two part if-then statute. Or as one NY State election lawyer put it:

 

Crimes, within crimes, within crimes.

 

* https://elections.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2024/04/508_ny-election-law-2024-edition_0.pdf

 

STATE OF NEW YORK
2024 ELECTION LAW

So they are making it up as they go along. 

10 hours ago, candide said:

Trolling...

Defecting....

Why is Ukraine not targeting Russia's energy production? It seems that would be the best way to break them. 

2 minutes ago, candide said:

Trolling...

Deflecting....

5 minutes ago, 0ffshore360 said:

No. You mentioned Marxist. Typical incapacity to not conflate indoctrinated concepts with opinion.

 

Classism in exploitation of people and nature
wrapped in professional propaganda
slathered with dog whistle labels to hoodwink “some” folks into believing “IT” the best think since sliced bread……
fascinating but freaky, imho
ps -
is it possible that being pro love pro peace pro life anti war anti colonialist anti imperialist
er uh hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
pps - anti ism schism systems
seen

3 minutes ago, stoner said:

 

a few billionaires that support trump might tend to disagree with this. 

But the other 750 billionaires in the US support Biden. 

2 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

Whilst wearing blinkers!

Yes!

1 minute ago, 0ffshore360 said:

I would claim humanist as a category that such as yourself  need to identify. Difficult ?

 

Is that not what I said?

Just now, scottiejohn said:

Have you ever been to India?

No, but he's seen videos 

53 minutes ago, candide said:

I have proven you wrong with links. You go on with your evidence free claims, and the Tara Reade story deflection (which wasn't in the post I replied to). 😀

Another poster replied already with a link about this added claim.

You proving me wrong with links you haven't read that don't support your argument, that's hilarious. 

Like Danderman saying I was wrong, then posting a link to show I was wrong, but when you read it, it actually showed I was right.

20 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

    Pardon .

What does that mean ?

Long live the profits ?

It means he's at least a leftist, probably a Marxist. 

21 minutes ago, JimTripper said:

To my understanding india guys are major dicks if you goto india. I have seen video's where they won't serve foreigners if you order food. The guys will just joke and laugh and make fun of you, especially in streetside situations. So it's interesting that they approach here.

I was involved in five or six plants in India and had to visit one or two every month or so for five years, and thought it was great. 

55 minutes ago, Bandersnatch said:

 

I wasted an afternoon in BKK looking for the Tesla Store, which is even to this day still recorded on the official website as at Siam Paragon

 

 

 

 

instead of  7/1 Ramkhamhaeng Rd, Khwaeng Saphan Sung, Khet Saphan Sung, Bangkok 10240. 

 

 

 

Good job Tesla  - have only one physical store in whole country of Thailand and make sure your official website sends people to a random shopping center instead. 

 

 

 

 

They have cars on display at Siam Paragon 

16 minutes ago, candide said:

Complete B.S!

Do you think illustrated books instructing boys on how to blow each other should be in schools? 

1 hour ago, JCauto said:

I'm with you about the male dominance (discussed above) and the focus on college admissions. 

"In fall 2021, female students made up 58 percent of total undergraduate enrollment (8.9 million students), and male students made up 42 percent (6.5 million students)."

So much for male dominance. Women generally do not want to work in engineering, and other STEM disciplines. When only 15% of US engineers are women, and only 20% of US engineering graduates are women, mandating 50% of a company's engineers be women is a recipe for disaster. 

1 hour ago, JCauto said:

However, I don't think your claim that you can get into engineering at a decent school with a low or no SAT requirement passes muster at least to my knowledge. Engineering schools have only gotten more insanely competitive since I graduated (long ago). The DEI measures at schools are no doubt providing some dispensations for the various POC and women I would think, but I doubt it comprises very much of the overall percentage of the class.

Women and non-Asian minorities can generally get into elite schools with lower grades and SAT scores than white men. 

Many schools (including MIT) dropped the SAT requirement during covid, and while MIT recently reinstated the requirement, many have not. 

Look at the coursework and the university you attended, and you will likely see that it has been watered down.

1 hour ago, JCauto said:

Are they worse engineers because they didn't do as well on their SATs or in high school? I know I was not great in high school but was still able to get in (lower requirements then) and scrape by just because I wasn't inspired by classroom learning (especially early in the morning). So I didn't attend, but I learned the material and became quite a competent and successful engineer because I loved the work. One reason I was successful is that I was more social than my engineering peers so was able to get better jobs and gain more responsibility quicker. The bookish nerdy guys have to take the long route. All this to say that not all good engineers are the same, you need different and diverse ones especially when you work in teams.++

As indicated earlier, many were in the top of their high school class, get into an elite university wanting to go into STEM, and once admitted, can't keep up and either drop out, or change majors. Those that do finish, often do in the bottom of their class. Had they gone to a second or third tier school, they likely would have been fine. 

1 hour ago, JCauto said:

 

The failure to inspire kids in maths and science and point them to why they should be interested in it via the possible careers it opens is to me a major failure of the educational system. I had an uncle who was an engineer working in the aerospace industry who took me around and showed me what he did and that literally changed my life. 

Many high school teachers in the US can barely do arithmetic. I think teachers should have to be tested every year to be recertified. 

Innercity school performance is pathetic. 

My father was an engineer with North American Aviation (now Boeing) and took me to a few plants. Did not really inspire me, I ended up a drug addict. 

5 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   But it seems that only the weapons which Israel buys actually kill anyone 

No, but all the others deserve killing. 

18 minutes ago, Roo Island said:

Typical. No link.

Speaking of typical, you bragged about your educated as an economist, but you do not seem to understand anything, much less have the ability to explain anything in that involves economics. 

1. Please explain how bringing in ten million illegals that are often illiterate in their native language, much less English, benefits the economy? I know how it benefits the rich, please explain how it benefits the poor and middle class. 

2. Please explain how millions of low and no skilled workers do not put downward pressure on wages. 

3. Please explain how the need millions of new households do not put upward pressure on housing costs.

4. Please explain how millions of new people using the same public services such as health-care, education, food stamps, welfare and all other government assistance programs does not in increase the cost of those programs and or reduce the availability. 

5. Please explain how adding two million new jobs is really great when you've imported ten million new workers. 

Please, you're an economist, why not explain what's really going on with illegal immigration? Again, you likely can't, but you will post a link to some idiocy you don't understand and pretend you've proven something. 

No doubt you don't have time to support your climes, but you demand others do. Typical leftist. 

5 minutes ago, Crossy said:

Van Gogh? 

I see a cat

19 minutes ago, impulse said:

promote your employees based on demographics, and not based on merit, isn't that treating them as a fungible commodity?   One engineer is as good as the next, so let's pick the black guy, because we're short on blacks according to our DEI goals...

 

My mechanical engineering class had about 250 graduates with half a dozen blacks and the same number of women.  There is no mathematical way for a company to get to "equity" without hiring the bo

When my sister took the EIT (engineer in training) test, she said it was the only time she ever saw a line at the men's room and open stalls in the women's. 

The problem is the focus on college admissions, rather than K-12 where it should be. Kid goes to sh*t schools, then goes to uni wanting to be an engineer or whatnot, no or low SAT requirement, they can't cut it and end up either dropping ou.t or with an ethnic studies or education or some other POC degree and $200K of debt. 

Now the coursework has to be watered down to accommodate substandard students, and society suffers. 

37 minutes ago, JCauto said:

 

I am still searching for "fungible talent and DEI" but can't seem to find a single article that supports this as being a feature of the DEI initiatives. It would instead seem that the idea was to diversify the talent within the organizations and keep that diversification afterwards, otherwise why would they bother with it? So I'm sure you're going to provide us with that reference, after all, you wouldn't be disingenuous and pretending to be debating but actually be acting in bad faith?

 

I mean, if you were doing that, you'd do things like put a reference into your post but not enable it to be linked to so people wouldn't read it. However, of course, you could just say "I forgot", and then "why didn't you just copy it and paste it into a new Browser Tab?" So I did.

 

Guess which words do not appear within that article? If you guessed "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, DEI" then you're a winner! None of those words or the acronym made it in. The reason? They weren't relevant, it was an article discussing data analytics and platforms at Boeing so that they could improve their efficiency and avoid duplication and disconnects. So you put a fake link into your response because it was by the same company pretending that it was McKinsey saying something about Boeing that presumably pointed to their issues with DEI, but in fact it had nothing whatsoever to do with DEI. Then you added an anecdote from your work and implied that this "fungible talent" idea is somehow both connected to DEI and McKinsey.

 

It's basically a fake response with no meaning that avoids actually addressing the crux of the matter (that one of the world's leading business consultants has studied this specific issue of DEI and that it equates to far better financial performance by the companies that practice it) and instead constructs a fake response that purports to show the same people saying something different when in fact they did no such thing.

It's not a feature, it's a result. 

It's like lowering the educational requirement for graduation is not feature of lowering admissions standards, it's a result. 

57 minutes ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

Politics should not be allowed at any Uni or  college, take it elsewhere,  chuck the lot of them out and dont allow  them back.

Political Science

32 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

Are you sure he can read, as he certainly cannot write coherently!

Indeed!

4 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

Once one of Trump’s closest confidants, Hicks provided a window into the chaotic fallout over the tape’s release just days before a crucial debate with Democrat Hillary Clinton. It was recorded in 2005 but was not seen by the public until Oct. 7, 2016, about a month before Election Day. Hicks described being stunned and huddling with other Trump advisers after learning about the tape’s existence from the Washington Post reporter who broke the story. Hicks forwarded the reporter’s request to campaign leadership with the recommendation to “deny, deny, deny,” she said.

 

In other words, her first instinct was to recommend lying as a defense.

Wait, I thought you said it did not come out until after the election....