Better to sue the shipping company into oblivion

The shipping company only has 2 ships. source

Seize the ship and sell it to cover the cost of repair.

Seizing a ship in international waters is a bad move. A better idea; block the docking of all Chinese ships at NATO country ports across the world until the cost of repairs are paid. Payment would arrive in about 5 minutes because the cost of of all Chinese flagged cargo ships idling outside ports for any length of time would be far far FAR more expensive.

we’re going to have a tariff war just like the Hoover administration.

We all learned about the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act in the wildly popular 1986 documentary Ferris Bueller's Day Off. source

Guess I assumed wrong

I guessed wrong too, which was a surprise to me when I looked this up:

"New filming took place for the framing story for "The Cage". Since actor Jeffrey Hunter was unavailable to reprise his role as Captain Pike, a look-alike actor, Sean Kenney, played the injured captain in the new scenes, although Hunter was represented in flashback footage and credited accordingly (along with the other original "Cage" cast)." source

“Something has happened post-pandemic where movie theater behavior has really changed,” said one top film executive, speaking on the condition of anonymity. The executive is referring to the younger audiences who have become more emboldened to share this lengthy material from the sanctity of the cineplex, where phones are supposed to be banned.

I don't think this "top film executive" has been in a public movie theater for at least 10 years.

The ACA was signed over a year after Obama had been in office. You should look at signed legislation from before the ACA. The hard GOP opposition was already there well before the ACA.

I don’t need to.

I didnt say you needed to. I was asking if you could think of any. that was the point.

You're asking me about what passed legislation I believe meets your vague generalizations of approval? What kind of game is that? You still haven't answered the question and we're on the third time I would be asking it with me still only guessing the New Deal meets your measure.

I don't actually care about trying to tease your answer out of you anymore. The best I can tell is that you haven't liked anything in the last 85 years. Its too much effort to try to figure out more from you on that. Its enough to tell me everything I needed to know about your position. You're welcome to your opinion and position. I'm not interested in learning any more about about it though. You're welcome to continue to reply to this, but I'm I won't be engaging anymore. Have a great day!

Do you have something more recent that 1939?

smile do you? do you see the problem with the fact you need to go back that far to find anything that helps American’s that you think I’ll accept.

I don't need to. I see lots of things, including the ACA, that helped working Americans. However, you say that doesn't by your measure. So I'm asking you to give an example of your measure to better understand your point of view. Thats how we learn about each other's views when they aren't apparent.

The list I mentioned above isn’t some unattainable goal.

So it sounds like you're saying nothing has been passed in the USA in the last 85 years since FDR's New Deal that qualifies for your measure of "helping working Americans".

many countries already have accomplished these things for their people.

Okay, thank you. That informs me of your position. I appreciate the time you've taken to share your views.

There wasn’t any, because of the move to block Republicans from the ACA.

Wait, are you saying the the GOP only after the ACA passing on Democrat party line vote decided they would vote party line for every substantive legislative action?

But I guess you think people should just work just so they can pay medical bills. :shrug:

Really? I haven't been rude to you yet in this conversation. Are you interested continuing in conversing together on the topic or your the strawman a requirement?

I did the math, even if I hadn’t lost however much unpaid time off to depression this last year, the most I would have made between my salary and my disability was $58k.

I keep throwing that number out there because I don't have your specific info, and from the general info it looks like under $61k you should get subsidized, but you'd communicated you weren't. I'm also not asking you to disclose your private information on the public internet. I respect your privacy.

The cheapest plan had a deductible over $10k, and cost around $260ish a month.

$10k deductible is usually considered "catastrophic" coverage. Its not supposed to be use to cover day to day health needs. It is designed for the young and generally healthy that don't consume lots of health care, but want to be covered if they have a catastrophic event that would otherwise cost them hundreds of thousands or millions in medical bills.

But I’m not, hence why I think the ACA being held aloft like some grand triumph is a joke

I'm sorry you are not benefiting from directly, but do you understand for many it has been a game changer for the better? Not every change is going to benefit each person equally. I'll be the first one to say the ACA is FAR from perfect, but compared to what we had before it was better and a step in the right direction.

Best health insurance I ever had was Tricare, which is literally what America should have, and is arguably one of the largest socialist programs in the US.

I have only a little bit of knowledge of Tricare, but everyone I know that has it loves it. I'd be on board for that for everyone too. Does this mean you were in the military? I'm really beyond my knowledge now, but does that mean you would have VA health coverage (which I know has its own flaws)?

I’m not opposed to many of these bills but NONE of them improve the general well being of the american worker or their families.

You have a very specific definition of any legislative success. You have a very defined view (regardless if I agree with it or not).

Can you tell me when the last time any level of legislation was passed by any party that would meet your version of success? The only thing I can think of that would meet your very high bar is FDR with the New Deal and other efforts FDR did with the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority). Do you have something more recent that 1939?

Did you miss the "if so" in my post?

You're communicating you're making over $61k/year and saying you can't afford an ACA approved healthcare policy, correct?

There’s always rhetoric, but completely shutting out the opposition for major legislation was just not done.

History doesn't support your statement.

Feel free to show me legislation that was later signed during the first quarter of the Obama administration that wasn't passed on nearly party lines. I took a look and couldn't find any.

and focus on what they’re doing today?

You mean like the recovery of the country from COVID with the American Rescue Plan Act, or Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPs act, Student loan forgiveness? How about repeal of the homophobic "Defense of Marriage Act"? Maybe the Honoring our PACT Act which finally recognized the conditions we put our troops in and covering their health needs resulting from that exposure? Those kind of things?

No, this happens in states like MA/Cali too.

"Who is eligible for health insurance subsidies?" source

Household size

• 1 person max income $60,240

If thats the case then @BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world is saying they make more than $61k/year and can't afford $264/month with a $6300 annual deductible?

This year. Having near omniscience about recent events would have so many useful applications.

Depending on the timing of when this ability takes affect, I might be able to also place wagers on events, like awards shows, that have already been decided but not yet announced.

OP's rules were "You can skip around in time and space within your chosen year, but not affect anything." So you couldn't go back in time to place wagers to collect today. Your changes in the past would not affect the present.

Yes the Dems should have got some gop votes. It may have made the bill slightly worse, but not by much.

...and...

Getting 95% of the ACA and a Congress that wasn’t deadlocked for the next 6 years would have been much better overall.

The GOP were looking to deny any Obama passage of positive legislation. Are you not remembering "make him a one term President" message from the GOP?

There was ZERO amount of cooperate the GOP were willing to have on any bill that would give Obama a healthcare win.

A split government that functioned more like under Clinton or Bush would have been much better than what ended up happening. The decision to stonewall when they had power unsurprisingly backfired.

"make him a one term President"

There are more equal number of actors that have played Captain Pike than Captain Kirk:

EDIT: I forgot there is a 4th Kirk actor. In the first Kelvin film Star Trek (2009), there is a young kirk actor. So 4 for Kirk and 4 for Pike.