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    Thatcher had two expressions I liked a lot

    one was tina... which stood for there is no alternative

    the other was the lady is not for the turning

    both express essentially the same idea...what Americans would call sticking to your guns

    Macron would do well to keep these expressions in mind...they are not ideological in nature...but rather reminders that leadership requires steadfastness, determination and yes stubbornness

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    in fact I would go so far as to say that steadiness of purpose is the most important quality a leader has to have...whether it be in politics, business or other fields

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    California's Public Utilities Commission could charge fee for text messaging
    Plan would levy flat surcharge on mobile users who send text messages
    Money would be raised to help poor people have access to cell phones
    Telecom companies have come out against the plan



    I hope Californians come out against this

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    Judge Chutkin has a sense of humor. She notes that by pleading guilty Butina may be forfeiting her right to bear a firearm.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Krgrecw View Post
    California's Public Utilities Commission could charge fee for text messaging
    Plan would levy flat surcharge on mobile users who send text messages
    Money would be raised to help poor people have access to cell phones
    Telecom companies have come out against the plan



    I hope Californians come out against this

    Which is ironic because the tax will hurt the poor the most.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Julio3000 View Post
    In my experience with France and the French (I worked for a French company and travelled there a bit, though quite a while ago) this is not too far off. When I went there as a student there were transit strikes and farmers dumping potatoes on train tracks. Later, when I was there in a professional capacity, some people were pissed at Sarkozy and the movement towards liberalization of the economy and dismantling of the welfare state, and some were pissed because they wanted more of it. But everyone was pissed, more or less all the time, and unlike here, willing to hit the streets.

    I know very little of what’s going on there now, but superficially it looks like kinda familiar from my previous experiences, which is that everyone wants socialism for me, but not necessarily for thee...which contains a sort of a contradiction, but so be it.
    Yes, this is what I have read. Its weird to hear both the far left and far right of protesting together. Their demands are a mix of right and left issues but its mostly left on the financial demands. They love taxes, just not on them. Theres a big tax break for rich people investing their money to encourage buisnesses. This seems to be the tax break they want repealed. Macron knows this will have the opposite effect they think it will. And at the end of the day capitulating to protesters just encourages more protesting.
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    Yellow vests spreading to Israel. I love how yellow vests are mandated by law to be carried in all vehicles becomes the symbol for protesting the state.
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    I'm very happy to be consistently reassured that progressives have no interest in oppressing speech.

    In light of that, I found the UK police threatening citizens for offensive speech and non crimes a little surprising


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    Yes, the [checks notes] cops in the UK, who are of course the arbiters of [checks notes again] free speech in the US.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Julio3000 View Post
    Yes, the [checks notes] cops in the UK, who are of course the arbiters of [checks notes again] free speech in the US.
    I was intentional posting in this thread.

    Make no mistake - the "offensive speech" police are coming, in my opinion.

    There's a federal lawsuit that's been charged against University of Texas about their restrictions of student speech.

    https://speechfirst.org/2018/12/13/s...student-speech

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    Now the feminists are protesting. France is like the protesting Olympics at this point.

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    "Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.

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    "Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.

    It’s over."


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    https://www.newsweek.com/france-prot...ertime-1264961



    French police threaten to join the protesters. Personally thry shouldnt give them a damn thing until the gang of co0s that attacked people filming are identified. I cant ppst the video atm but its just people filming on their phones and cops running up behind them and attacking them for no apparent reason.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cajunrevenge View Post
    https://www.newsweek.com/france-prot...ertime-1264961



    French police threaten to join the protesters. Personally thry shouldnt give them a damn thing until the gang of co0s that attacked people filming are identified. I cant ppst the video atm but its just people filming on their phones and cops running up behind them and attacking them for no apparent reason.
    Starting to sound like July of 1789 except it was soldiers joining the crowd instead of cops, though in this day and age it would be one and the same.

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    American involvement in this is a moral sinkhole. It needs to end yesterday. We should be leading the charge to negotiate an end to the humanitarian crisis, the starvation and disease outbreaks. Instead we’re looking the other way and making excuses for MBS and selling them munitions and refueling their planes.

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    French boxer donates some hands to French police.
    "Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.

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