>is it democratic for most elected governments to keep pushing for legislature again and again, waiting a bit between attempts? Repeat it ad nauseam um 'till people get bored of protesting.
Yes. This is how slavery was ended in the British empire and how the civil rights act passed in the US.
I wonder to what point some of these methods just increase housing prices.
For example, having the developer plant trees along the street means the price of the new build goes up (of course the developer will pass along costs), and existing residents get an improved neighbourhood without increased taxation. But is this not something the council should be paying for? After all the new homeowners will be paying council tax, why must the also pay a fee to join the community?
I had a very bitter argument about whether Kansas was Midwestern or not. An important distinction is that what's now considered the "Midwest" used to be just called the "West", and that the Great Plains formed a natural barrier of relatively lower rainfall that settlers headed out to Oregon or California would be crossing over before they hit the Mountain West. As a result, settlers in Kansas had lots of natural connections to Missouri, which is fairly clearly in the Midwest.
I always thought that the Missouri river was kind of the western border to the midwest. So Kansas City, which straddles the river is still in the Midwest, and a very large chunk of Kansas' population lives there and are midwestern, the western chunk of the state is much different.
It's not only foreign banks refusing American customers. American companies such as Fidelity, Vanguard, Charles Schwab and so on won't open investment accounts for Americans abroad and will freeze accounts if they discover you are abroad.
You should at least present their argument charitably if you're going to call them hypocrites. They have no issues with state IDs which is what would be presented at the polls since you vote in your state's elections.
Uh, no. The ACLU has many merits, but no, their ideas are not implicitly worth discussing. They're also the ones in favor of Illinois Nazis.
They represent both the best (a strong belief in an ideal of humanity, and a fervent desire to make the world a fair and open place) and the worst (ideological purity über alles) of the left.
Given the undemocratic and privileged positions many enjoy in the house of lords, some could say the legality of their methods is nothing more than corruption.
The US used to be known for terrible beer (and there is plenty of that still) but there are now thousands of microbreweries producing great stuff. I hope there could be a similar awakening for bread. And cheese.
The thing is I can go to Prague and drink great beer for cheap (seriously, it's usually around $2) at restaurants, while the cheap beer you drink in America is just god awful.
My point about the US is that at least the option of good beer is available pretty much everywhere, which is a big improvement over the last few decades.
I left the US for the UK and the beer scene here leaves much to be desired. While better on average, the range of beer is limited.
Ireland may be where many corporations are registered but is not necessarily where the employees are located. Similar to how many companies are registered in Delaware.
There are lots of employees over there, at least in IT. I work as a programmer in Eastern Europe and half of the offers I received for working abroad came from companies physically located in Ireland, meaning I would have had to relocate to Ireland had I accepted any of said offers.
Yes. This is how slavery was ended in the British empire and how the civil rights act passed in the US.