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M3rr1lin t1_jedis36 wrote

Reply to comment by thelanoyo in eli5 What does “indicted” mean? by jcw10489

I wouldn’t necessarily call it a scape goat. It’s intended to bring a level of impartiality which I think is a good thing. I’m general I think they should be used more often , but especially in cases where it can be high profile.

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Scuka1 t1_jedip7z wrote

Reply to comment by buildyourown in Eli5: On a production line, how do they make a car, plane or anything else be identical from one another without differences? by SideburnG

Which is why I said "nearly identical", not "identical".

Tools wear, but to the naked eye that's not visible. There's also quality control and preventitive maintenance systems in place to make sure that tools don't wear out to the point where they start producing non-functional parts.

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trymypi t1_jedihlj wrote

Reply to comment by skaliton in eli5 What does “indicted” mean? by jcw10489

Cut this down to 3 sentences and not 3 paragraphs and you've got a good ELI5.

A person has been charged with a crime ad should be put on trial. The indictment is different from other situations where someone is charged because a grand jury, not the police or local government attorneys, have decided the evidence warrant the charge.

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O_oh t1_jedi3qr wrote

Reply to Eli5 Saw a post on TwoSentenceSadness “The little girl giggled as she hugged the stranger, particularly interested in that strange armband he wore: red, with a white circle and a strange black cross in the middle. He hugged her back, until he saw the yellow star on her chest” what’s it mean? by [deleted]

Nazi officers and politicians wore the red armband with white circle and a backwards swastika cross. Jews were required to identify themselves with the Star of David on their clothing.

I think the sentences would have been more sad if they werent strangers.

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explainlikeimfive-ModTeam t1_jedi2so wrote

Reply to Eli5 Saw a post on TwoSentenceSadness “The little girl giggled as she hugged the stranger, particularly interested in that strange armband he wore: red, with a white circle and a strange black cross in the middle. He hugged her back, until he saw the yellow star on her chest” what’s it mean? by [deleted]

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phiwong t1_jedhsvv wrote

Reply to eli5: Who does the US owe almost 32 trillion dollars of debt too? If it’s the most powerful nation in the world, can’t it just get rid of it? by brybry0812

The idea of "powerful" is complex and sophisticated. In today's global situation - power is both soft (influence, economic power, building alliances and dependencies) and hard (military, threat of force).

It is also crucial to know what government debt means on a macroeconomic level rather than trying to gain an intuition of it through personal debt. Although it sounds the same "borrow and pay back", the nature and how debt works at a national level versus personal level is not even vaguely comparable.

None of this is really even approachable as an entire topic in a reddit post. Suffice to say that if there is a default on national debt, a nation loses soft power very quickly. A large part of the notion that the US is powerful is the fact that other countries/people want to hold US debt because it is safe and the US is seen as a reliable economic power. The US has used this power to build a global economic order consisting of trade. Threatening the functioning of this order diminishes the US significantly and defaulting on US debt is a very sure way of destabilizing the global order.

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Kaspur78 t1_jedhrjr wrote

Reply to eli5: Who does the US owe almost 32 trillion dollars of debt too? If it’s the most powerful nation in the world, can’t it just get rid of it? by brybry0812

About your last question, people look at the risk, when lending someone money. If you always pay your debts, you can get away with paying less interest. In the last 10 years there have even been countries that had a negative interest rate. If you decide to stop paying interest or stop paying your debt altogether, others will try and get that money back and will never really trust you again. So financing in the future will become very difficult

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