You can use semicolons when listing things instead of commas, but that's usually only for clarity when listing things with commas in them (e.g. "Last summer I visited Las Vegas, Nevada; Tucson, Arizona; Seattle, Washington; and Sacramento, California.")
Semicolons can be used to list items that are more than just a word or two long, and may/may not contain commas. So if you're listing phrases contain commas, putting a comma between list entries would be confusing as fuck.
For example... I will list a few US capital cities, and their corresponding states: Albany, New York, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Sacramento, California, Houston, Texas...
Compare that to: Albany, New York; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Sacramento, California; Houston, Texas.
See? Much clearer.
I don't know if this person did it exactly correctly, and I'm not going to go back and read it again to check, but the idea itself is just fine.
Unless a lot has changed about semi-colons in the past 20 years.
Edit: I reluctantly went up to read it again, and it seems like the only thing missing would be a colon after "The combo of" and a comma before "really says it all"
I think the semicolons are correct too (though the colon you mentioned would add a lot of clarity). This grammar rule comes up infrequently enough that it can be jarring to encounter a semicolon before reaching the end of a properly formed independent clause.
That would be the Republican presidential and vice presidential candidates' false claims that the Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio are 1) illegal, 2) causing mass crime, and 3) eating the townsfolk's pets. All of these have been debunked. That has not stopped bomb threats, school and business closings, and rantings by other right-wing nutjob clingers-on to the same effect, denigrating a full 20% of this Midwestern town.
Several area Republicans have come out pleading for the rhetoric to stop, but because the hate is a feature, not a bug, the VP candidate came out and said: "if I have to make stories up to get the media's attention I will and won't feel bad", and has doubled down on these lies.
Bro, I don't get why you're being down voted when asking for clarification on content and therefore contributing to the conversation. I've slightly tipped those scales as this is a critically important scandal leading up to the election
No it doesn't. It doesn't say it all. All it says is that the author is addicted to the infotainment algorithms and fancies himself to understand EVERYTHING... and it's all bleak, all cynicism.
Nothing they said is false though... I don't know the exact cop shooting and school shooting being referred to, but those are pretty interchangeable, aren't they? Plenty of options there.
So should we just ignore societal issues because they're bleak? How has that worked out for us?
If the dude was threatening the cops with a knife there's no way they would have let the knife out of their sight. I doubt there ever was a knife, and if there ever was it sounds like they abandoned the weapon to go kill the guy.
It's a few hundred dollars to get to Asia, less to Europe, and usually less than $100 to fly from country to country after that for 3 to 6 months at a time, visa free or filling out a ten minute e-visa application.
stack that up against $1,600 a month for an apartment in the states, plus insurance and car payments and all that bullshit, traveling is the vastly cheaper option.
do not evade taxes, get educated.
If you live outside of the US for 330 or more days out of the year, you qualify for the FEIE, Foreign earned income exclusion.
you fill out one more IRS tax form at the same time as all your other tax forms, and you don't pay up to $120,000 in US income tax.
That's the US tax code and is in no way tax evasion.
Remember that you owe the US IRS forever, as a citizen abroad; even if you were already or become a citizen of another country. While the payments of your new-locale's taxes can be deducted from your American taxes, you're gonna be paying the greater number eventually (usually the American one, despite the reduced services).
Source: dual citizens in the family, and each has their own Tax Guy to keep the US stuff straight.
If you live outside of the US for 330 or more days out of the year, you qualify for FEIE, Foreign earned income exclusion.
you fill out one more IRS tax form, the FEIE form, at the same time as all your other tax forms, and you don't pay up to $120,000 in US income tax according to IRS regulations.
You're accusing beautiful countries with unique, fascinating cultures like Japan, France, Laos, Australia, England and 100 other countries of not being worth traveling to.
It's easy to get to these countries, with or without a Visa.
every place in Western Europe is one visa-free plane ticket away.
other great countries are a connecting flight or train ride.