Questions: Society & Politics

Many on the right, such as JD Vance, are saying Ukraine should give land to Russia to end the war.

hmmm i think so

Seriously, why are some conversations "privileged"?

Isn't the greater good prosecution of criminal acts?

Why does this privilege not extend to law breaking for civil matters?

Wouldn't it be easier to have a neutral panel or ombudsman familiar with the law to have the ability to waive privilege after hearing the testimony that they are not allowed to divulge but only their decision to waive it or not? Wouldn't that get us closer to Justice?

In 2004 a senior advisor to President George W. Bush famously told journalist Ron Suskind that people like Suskind lived in “the reality-based community.” They believed people could find solutions to problems through careful study of discernible reality. But, the aide continued, Suskind’s worldview was obsolete. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” the aide said. “We are an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality— judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

We are in a moment when the reality-based community is challenging the ability of the MAGA Republicans to create their own reality.

Central to the worldview of MAGA Republicans is that Democrats are socialists who have destroyed the American economy. Trump calls Harris a “radical-left. Marxist, communist, fascist” and insists the economy is failing.

In Pittsburgh Harris laid out her plan for an “opportunity economy.” She explained that she would lower costs by cutting taxes for the middle class, cutting the red tape that stops housing construction, take on corporate landlords who are hiking rental prices, work with builders and developers to construct 3 million new homes and rentals, help first-time homebuyers with $25,000 down payment assistance, enact a federal ban on corporate price gouging on groceries, invest in innovation by raising the deduction for startup businesses to $50,000, and provide low- or no-interest loans to small businesses that want to expand. "Kamala Harris, Reagan Democrat!” conservative pundit Bill Kristol said after her speech

For his part, Trump has promised an across-the-board tariff of 10% to 20% that billionaire Mark Cuban on the Fox News Channel called “insane” and Quin Hillyer of the Washington Examiner warned would "wreck the economy"

Pregnancy is around 40 weeks.

1 trimester 13 weeks, 2nd 14 to 27 weeks midpoint 20 weeks during 2nd trimester. What about after half developed in week 22?

Note: after 31st week most agreed change laws to ban, it should be a crime.

now i ask: earlier in development?