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7 votes
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Airbnb raises violent crime rates in cities as long-term residents are pushed out, says US study
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Why do women earn less than men? Evidence from bus and train operators
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The Tennessee Department of Health will halt all adolescent vaccine outreach – not just for coronavirus, but all diseases – amid pressure from Republican state lawmakers
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Big Tech is trying to disarm the US FTC by going after its biggest weapon: Lina Khan
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Sega sued for ‘rigged’ arcade machine
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US Consumer Product Safety Commission sues Amazon, citing over 400,000 hazardous products sold through its "Fulfilled by Amazon" program
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UCSF researchers achieve the ability to interpret neurological signals into speech
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of July 12
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
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We infiltrated a counterfeit check ring! Now what?
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Culper Precision has stopped selling a kit that encases Glock handguns in Lego blocks, amid uproar and after the Danish toymaker demanded it cease and desist
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Billionaire Phil Anschutz and his wife are suing Colorado for a tax refund. How much they want is a secret.
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Nashville Predators goalie Pekka Rinne announced his retirement from the NHL on Tuesday after fifteen seasons
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San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus faces death threats after releasing satirical music video
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The promise and peril of turning the Salton Sea into California's "Lithium Valley"
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Nearly 700 people believed to have died in Pacific Northwest heat wave
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He's Barack Obama, he's come to save the day! (2009)
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After the Florida building collapse, condos struggle to fund big repairs
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In 'Stockholm Syndrome', the new documentary on rapper A$AP Rocky's 2019 assault trial in Sweden, the rapper recalls the moment things went from weird to surreal
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What do you think are some good things about the US?
Admittedly independence day was a week ago so this is kind of late. Most people in the left consider the US to be one of, if not the worst country in the (developed, unless you're a right wing...
Admittedly independence day was a week ago so this is kind of late.
Most people in the left consider the US to be one of, if not the worst country in the (developed, unless you're a right wing strawman) world and, we have listed the bad things about the US many, many times, so I think a thread about the good things about the US would be neat.
The 3 main things I think are good are:
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Honestly, I think party primaries where most people vote for president are good. While I do think they would be much more beneficial in a multiparty system as opposed to the US's 2 party system, I think it's better than having your presidential candidates be chosen by usually politicking with the party. I don't mean this to say the way party primaries are conducted in the US is the way because it isn't, but I think it's better than not having a primary.
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I also think midterm elections are good, because it means that if people dislike the course of the current government, they can vote for that in a midterm. In the US, this means they only had 2 years of a Republican trifecta led by Trump as opposed to 4 like here in Brazil and I suspect a lot of other places. I don't mean this to say elections every 2 years is unequivocally good, and for such elections you would definitely need shorter primaries so elected politicians don't need to spend most of their time campaigning which I've heard is often what they do.
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Lastly, I think the US is by far the country most concerned with things like electoral systems and methods, campaign finance, whether there should be an upper house or not (not that senate abolition is popular even among leftists, but it is much more popular than a place like, say, Brazil, where I live), and this is the third good thing about the US.
Of course, all of these originate from the worst parts of the US political system, but I think the fact that there's any public conscience of them existing is still a good thing.
One can argue the fact that the largest amount of influential companies being under US regulations means that if any positive changes to said regulation are implemented the entire world benefits (most obviously concerning the Internet), but the opposite is equally true and far more common.
There's also probably many good things about US culture, by virtue of that being true for most most cultures, but I don't know what US culture specifically is enough to list them.
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The story behind the iconic Vietnam episode of 'Hey Arnold!'
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of July 5
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
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Common Ground, Part I: How organic and regenerative agriculture are revitalizing rural Montana economies
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Google's 'hypocritical' remote work policies anger employees, after a senior executive announced he's moving to New Zealand in what some workers consider special treatment
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Cape Cod businesses struggle to find T-shirts, hats amid shortage
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Black snow: To harvest America’s cane sugar, billion-dollar companies set fire to fields, a money-saving practice that’s being banned by other countries
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Faith No More - Kindergarten (1992)
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Bill Cosby freed as court overturns his sex assault conviction
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Trump files lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter and Google
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US quietly slips out of Afghanistan in dead of night
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In Disaster City, Texas, rescues are a way of life
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The ‘Men’s Liberation’ movement time forgot: Nowadays, the Men’s Rights movement runs the gamut from incels to red pillers, but in the 1970s, men's libbers looked something like… feminists?
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Less than a week after US IPO, Didi Chuxing shares plunge in response to the Chinese government removing the ride-hailing app from stores to perform a security review
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Iron Eyes Cody - The Distance (2016)
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How David Fincher’s ‘Dragon Tattoo’ marked the end of the big-budget adult drama
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How do you solve a problem like Woody Allen's ‘Manhattan’?
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Having doubled the amount of zones under their control in the last two months, even the Taliban are surprised at how fast they're advancing
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Swedish Coop supermarkets shut due to US ransomware cyber-attack – the hack targeted Florida-based IT company Kaseya before spreading through corporate networks
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Britney Spears' conservatorship nightmare: How the pop star's father and a team of lawyers seized control of her life - and have held on to it for thirteen years
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Eldren - More of the Same (2020)
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New vote totals show tighter Democratic race for New York City mayor
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What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
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Kevin Can F**k Himself S01E01-02 - 'Living the Dream' & 'New Tricks'
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An oral history of Terminator 2: Judgment Day
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Sha’Carri Richardson, a track sensation, tests positive for marijuana
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Abhimanyu Mishra, 12, becomes youngest Grandmaster in chess history
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A US Marine inhaled burning garbage while deployed. This is what happened to her organs.
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Majority of Florida condo board quit in 2019 as squabbling residents dragged out plans for repairs
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Donald Rumsfeld, influential but controversial George W Bush defense secretary, dies at 88
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Judge tears Florida’s social media law to shreds for violating First Amendment
16 votes