RUSSIAGATE- ANOTHER KNIFE TO THE STOMACH

Politics and Social Issues
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We disagree on the meaning of both of those words. That’s the impasse.

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Just like the theist, you havent made the case

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Why do you think you have made the case?

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The theist says to the atheist. Same same

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Non answer. Posting just to post and be disagreeable. Bye bye.

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Russia being a bad actors? He just can’t see it, the evidence isn’t enough, it’s gotta be fake news MAGA tells me.

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/115204.htm

Oh course, USA isn’t faultless, instead of acting like pushy bullies in a china shop, we could have, (considering we were always the strongest player), displayed a little more humanity and fairness, but then we allowed the corporate giants to get ever so huge that they could bully and push around the government into making bad decisions.

Why did we gut our own manufacturing? Oh yeah, because safeguards for employees and citizens and our life sustaining biosphere threatened to cut into profits. Why did the Secret Service go into idle mode for President Kennedy? Why did the Cheney/Bush administration ignore the frantic warnings of their own National Security advisors, and then ignore the evidence, in favor of enacting their War of Choice & Profit? One thing leads to another . . .

It is a mess and USA has been nasty, and stupid, and self-destructive, but painting our enemies as innocent babes in the woods is just as ludicrous as ignoring American failures in judgement. Or for that matter, our own, that is, We The People’s failure in upholding our end of the Democracy bargain.

CEO pay slightly declined in 2022: But it has soared 1,209.2% since 1978 compared with a 15.3% rise in typical workers’ pay | Economic Policy Institute.

Key findings

  • CEO pay is linked strongly to the stock market—and market declines in 2022 led to an uncharacteristic dip in CEO pay.
  • Cumulatively, however, from 1978–2022, top CEO compensation shot up 1,209.2% compared with a 15.3% increase in a typical worker’s compensation.
  • In 2022, CEOs were paid 344 times as much as a typical worker in contrast to 1965 when they were paid 21 times as much as a typical worker.
  • To illustrate just how distorted CEO pay increases have gotten: In 2021, CEOs made nearly eight times as much as the top 0.1% of wage earners in the U.S.