Normally you wouldn’t want a universally set minimum wage, but instead you would have a strong union culture that sets minimum wages and standards across industries. Sweden, for example, has no minimum wage, but has incredibly high union participation amongst its population. Because the US—specifically the GOP—has…

Honestly asking, what has the implementation of these protections done to the job markets in France? What has the impact been to overall happiness of workers? Would you say that these protections have been worth any “cost”?

Fun fact:

I’ve traveled to many socialist countries (Canada, The Netherlands, France, Singapore, and Japan to name a few) and have made friends in many of those places along the way… They all seem much happier in their socialist hellscapes than we are in our capitalist wonderland.

Who do they blame then?

That image is truly grotesque… and I can’t stop staring.

Obviously though, the whole taxation is theft line of the libertarians, while technically in the broadest sense is correct…

Slurping ramen is neither encouraged nor discouraged. Some people say it aerates the noodles/broth. If you go to ramen spots around Tokyo it’s not as if you are confronted with a cacophany of people loudly slurping noodles though.

Cold, inhospitable, full of oil, and in the US? The Dakotas.

It’s been a while, but I don’t believe that to be the case. The league really had no standard, enforced procedure to test whether or not the balls were properly inflated before/during/after the game.

I’d say it’s a requirement for being self-reliant, and for being useful for others.

Could be. Though given the complexity of his taxes due to his being very wealthy (maybe not as wealthy as he claims, but still having hundreds of millions at least) and having many business ventures, it would not surprise me if he were both under audit and also using that audit as a bullshit excuse to not show his…

Honest question, Donald Trump is currently under audit by the IRS. If he is found to have evaded taxes, or just owes a ton of back taxes, can President Trump decide to pardon citizen Trump’s tax debts/prior malfeasances? How does that work?

Oh I’m pretty sure Ivanka already has her father’s love…

Yes. Your pie chart is addressed directly by this politifact article (a sources that is, to my knowledge, relatively unbiased). Your pie chart comes from a meme on Facebook.

Though I agree with your overall point, the majority of our government’s spending goes to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. To your point though, I don’t believe Trump has said nothing about cutting spending on those things either.

… saying that he imagined himself as the Aaron Rodgers to Tom Brady’s Brett Favre…

Fair point, and not something I disagree with. I think sometimes, though, people are racially insensitive (The example of Tina Fey was mentioned in this thread) and not maliciously racist. It’s a nuance, but by treating those who are making gafs like they have klan hoods hanging in their closets, it’s allowed people…

The term “racist” is thrown around so frequently, that it allowed people to laugh off claims of Trump’s actual racism during the campaign.