It’s just an issue if labeling and definitions. Everything is different every moment, its just how specific and detailed you want to get with you meaning.

Muslims don’t have a problem with Jesus, they believe he was a good guy, just that he wasn’t god.

It’s exactly what trump did. You use purchases of property like this to show how much wealth you have in order to convince other people or banks you are rich, so they will invest or lend you even more billions, then you turn around and use the exact same property/purchases to cry poor when you have to pay taxes or the investors back. This mall purchase can be used to say look it’s actually worth 400 million or to say look I’ve actually lost 400 million and all they did was use 200 million they borrowed from some bank or investor. And then off of that “investment” they borrow 600 million next time and just repeat forever. Eventually some of the purchases will pay off and you can claim genuine success on those. If they don’t you just pass the burden off to others.

Could be some kinda tax scam, basically say they would have to normally pay 100 million in taxes, so instead they buy a crappy mall/investment say they lost 100million. Now they pay $0 in taxes and own a crappy mall they can do something with down the line, or next year say they somehow lost another $100 millions on it and not pay taxes that year also. Basically whatever they should pay in taxes they can just spend on any crazy/crappy investment and always end up ahead.

Basically they figure to have any chance of wining the democrats need to be way ahead in the 15% of the state that is more democratic to have any chance. If they aren’t even ahead in the small part of the state they had a chance in then they can safely assume the margin will just increase. It’s like a triathlon where democrats need to pull far ahead in the swim portion because republicans are way better at the bike and run. So if you are behind at the end of the swim you have no chance to make up ground even though the race isn’t even close to over.

Because that’s exactly what good science does, its constantly trying to disprove/improve our current understanding. We are refining our understanding of the cosmos at an exponential rate, but we will never have all the answers, but that is not a reason to stop asking questions and looking for answers.