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You obviously aren't paying attentions if you think there aren't ever any new gun laws.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/w...

Basically Mediterranean diet was bunk all along.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/m...

There are over a billion Muslims. Mostly in India and Indonesia. If you don't think that the ones committing all the violence are a fringe group, then you are vastly underestimating the damage a billion people could do, if they really wanted to.

Based on polls, it isn't fringe group of muslims who support violence. By definition, fringe group would constitute a fraction of a percentage of the people. Here's just a sampling of the opinion polls:

Pew Global: 68% of Palestinian Muslims say suicide attacks against civilians in defense of Islam are justified.
43% of Nigerian Muslims say suicide attacks against civilians in defense of Islam are justified.
38% of Lebanese Muslims say suicide attacks against civilians in defense of Islam are justified.
15% of Egyptian Muslims say suicide attacks against civilians in defense of Islam are justified.
13% of Indonesian Muslims say suicide attacks against civilians in defense of Islam are justified.
12% of Jordanian Muslims say suicide attacks against civilians in defense of Islam are justified.
7% of Muslim Israelis say suicide attacks against civilians in defense of Islam are justified.
http://cnsnews.com/node/53865 (Pew Global Attitudes Project September, 2009)

Center for Social Cohesion: One Third of British Muslim students support killing for Islam (Wikileaks cable)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Policy Exchange: One third of British Muslims believe anyone who leaves Islam should be killed
http://www.civitas.org.uk/pdf/...

NOP Research: 78% of British Muslims support punishing the publishers of Muhammad cartoons;
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories...
http://www.webcitation.org/5xk...

NOP Research: Hardcore Islamists comprise 9% of Britain's Muslim population;
Another 29% would "aggressively defend" Islam;
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories...
http://www.webcitation.org/5xk...

Pew Research (2010): 84% of Egyptian Muslims support the death penalty for leaving Islam
86% of Jordanian Muslims support the death penalty for leaving Islam
30% of Indonesian Muslims support the death penalty for leaving Islam
76% of Pakistanis support death the penalty for leaving Islam
51% of Nigerian Muslims support the death penalty for leaving Islam
http://pewglobal.org/2010/12/0...

There are over a billion Muslims. Mostly in India and Indonesia. If you don't think that the ones committing all the violence are a fringe group, then you are vastly underestimating the damage a billion people could do, if they really wanted to.

Based on polls, it isn't fringe group of muslims who support violence. By definition, fringe group would constitute a fraction of a percentage of the people. Here's just a sampling of the opinion polls:

Pew Global: 68% of Palestinian Muslims say suicide attacks against civilians in defense of Islam are justified.
43% of Nigerian Muslims say suicide attacks against civilians in defense of Islam are justified.
38% of Lebanese Muslims say suicide attacks against civilians in defense of Islam are justified.
15% of Egyptian Muslims say suicide attacks against civilians in defense of Islam are justified.
13% of Indonesian Muslims say suicide attacks against civilians in defense of Islam are justified.
12% of Jordanian Muslims say suicide attacks against civilians in defense of Islam are justified.
7% of Muslim Israelis say suicide attacks against civilians in defense of Islam are justified.
http://cnsnews.com/node/53865 (Pew Global Attitudes Project September, 2009)

Center for Social Cohesion: One Third of British Muslim students support killing for Islam (Wikileaks cable)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Policy Exchange: One third of British Muslims believe anyone who leaves Islam should be killed
http://www.civitas.org.uk/pdf/...

NOP Research: 78% of British Muslims support punishing the publishers of Muhammad cartoons;
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories...
http://www.webcitation.org/5xk...

NOP Research: Hardcore Islamists comprise 9% of Britain's Muslim population;
Another 29% would "aggressively defend" Islam;
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories...
http://www.webcitation.org/5xk...

Pew Research (2010): 84% of Egyptian Muslims support the death penalty for leaving Islam
86% of Jordanian Muslims support the death penalty for leaving Islam
30% of Indonesian Muslims support the death penalty for leaving Islam
76% of Pakistanis support death the penalty for leaving Islam
51% of Nigerian Muslims support the death penalty for leaving Islam
http://pewglobal.org/2010/12/0...

Uh huh...

From Holder we heard plenty of tough talk also. And from Sessions? Little man would never attack anything his own size...

27 days paid? You're clearly not the norm in the US.

https://www.thebalancecareers....
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/0...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/w...

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2...

once we stop making people drive cars

I wonder if an autonomous bus would have just stopped and waited patiently for that guy standing in the middle of the road in Seattle yesterday.

Democrats concerned about secure and honest voting? That's rich!

Dems are against voter ID laws
Dems racism exposed in their anti-Voter-ID crusade
Dem caught commiting voter fraud
DeBlasio cans whistleblower on Dem voter fraud
Illegal aliens voting
Pelosi wants voter age lowered to capture recently indoctrinated youth

It goes on and on with these traitors.

Less than a week ago, a couple of guys were busted for planting 30 cameras in hotel rooms in Korea. They then sold the livestreams to subscribers.

I don't see this as a problem created by AirBNB disrupting the hotel industry; it's a result of small, cheap, network accessible cameras.

Sorry that's not something I want to worry about on my vacation, still sticking with a fairly known hotel chain.

That's right, hotel rooms are special anti-camera zones; there's no problems with hidden cameras there.

And without official timezones, every business can decide for itself, which will cause a lot more confusion and chaos.

If you were right, it would cause the end of all rush hour traffic congestion, which would be wonderful.

But back in the real world, most businesses are going to set their hours to be daylight hours since that's when their customers and employees will want to be awake. And back in the real world every business already decides for themselves what their hours are. Many people start work at 7, 8, 9am with no real dominant standard starting time. People talk as "9 to 5" were a standard, but the mean work start time is actually 8:18 (in USA+Europe, source). Which is why it's really more like rush 3 hours instead of rush hour. Clock time really has zilch current influence on when employers set their working hours right now, it would not change if we went to UTC.

Russian parliament passed new laws to punish people for 'spreading fake news' and for insulting government officials, national symbols, history, etc.

Basically it is now illegal to do any investigative journalism based on this law because the moment you say anything about anything you can be immediately, based on a complaint from anybody actually, without any court order (no court order will be required even though in Russia courts are completely useless, bought and paid for, under complete 100% control of the government and of putin) be blocked, fined, thrown to prison.

No court order is required and the information can (and must be) immediately blocked (by all local Russian ISPs), no court order is required and a person can be fined (there is a progressive scale of fines, repeat offenders also get higher and higher fines), no court order is required but a person can be thrown into prison.

The only way to fight this in Russia is to completely disregard this law, however I believe many people will self censor instead.

That's right, never question ANY of them EVER or you deserve a tin-foil hat!
https://infogalactic.com/info/...

Remember, never, anywhere is a polio vaccine dangerous because all of them quit being dangerous 40 years ago!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/p...

You know, you can believe (good) vaccines work, get them, and still question them.

They record every keystroke. Even what you type and delete is kept for eternity.

I dislike facebook as much as the next nerd (and no I don't use it), but this sounds a bit like tinfoil hattery.

Appears to be true. According to CBS, if you delete your Facebook account then your data is deleted but not the logs or any data connected with you generated by others. According to Daily Mail, Facebook once did a study on who self censors using what people went to post but then didn't.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fired-officer-who-refused-to-shoot-suspect-settles-lawsuit/

TL/DNR:
- Officer is called to investigate attempted self injury.
- Suspect ties to provoke 'suicide by cop' (with what is later found to be an unloaded handgun)
- Officer does NOT shoot suspect, tries to "Talk him down" (rather that "Take him down")
- Other cops come on site; see threat display from suspect and immediately kill suspect.
- One month later Officer is terminated from employment.

Was the situation more complex than "TL/DNR" ? Probably, but:
- Officer sues for wrongful termination
- Officer wins settlement

From the linked article:
[Officer's] lead attorney, Timothy O'Brien of Pittsburgh, said in the statement that Mader's attempt to de-escalate the situation "should have been praised, not punished. Simply put, no police officer should ever feel forced to take a life unnecessarily to save his career."

See linked article for more details...

Regarding the homicide rate of big cities, Chicago is number 4, with Baltimore, Detroit, and Memphis ahead of it. This is for the rate, not the number of homicides. And when you consider that Chicago has about 1.5 times the number of residents as those other 3 cities combined, there is no question why Chicago is considered the murder capitol of the US. High rate, high population, high number of murders.

If you squirt it out on weeds on your lawn?
Get a little on your hands and wash it off?
Or like the guy who was basically BATHING in it with no protective equipment?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/m...

There's a HUGE range of possibilities in there.

Think of all the spam bots and election tampering bots being down for a day or so. All those muh Russia types should be cheering.

You've got that backwards. This is about protecting russian civilian infrastructure from retaliation. Their military operations will still be online. They aren't cutting themselves off from the internet to do anyone else any favors. The time-frame overlaps with Felonious DJT's threat to shutdown american cyber-defenses again. It should also be viewed in context of Russia's liquidating their holdings of American debt instruments, further insulating them from another form of possible retaliation.

The average "working stiff" is in the red, or living paycheck-to-paycheck. Why do you think those furloughed and unpaid federal workers couldn't survive for 2 pay periods without suffering? They don't have any money.

Here's another fresh example:
Fed reports $1 trillion increase in Americans' debt

Republican "prosperity" means tax cuts for the rich who then proceed to fleece the public in greater amounts, and "easy credit" for the working poor. Since this trickle-down experiment began, the only "booms" in the economy have been due to credit binging.

Unlike all those U.S. citizens supporting the con artist who, the moment the last government shutdown happened, went into Joshua Tree National Park and started cutting down the Joshua Trees, or who drove their ATVs and pickup trucks where they would normally not be allowed and dug large paths, or even created new roads by destroying the environment.

I thought that a large fraction of "conservatives" strongly favor post-birth abortion.

They call it capital "punishment".

Which probably does not "work" (deter crime) https://math.dartmouth.edu/~lamperti/my%20DP%20paper,%20current%20edit.htm

is often applied in error https://www.cbsnews.com/news/death-penalty-mistakes-the-rule/

and is probably a tool of racism https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/09/opinion/09dow.html

FWIW I enjoy shooting and have little time for SJW types; OTOH, taxes are merely the cost of renting time on the massive piece of capital equipment known as "society" ; it is possible that even a 90% marginal rate can be justified; maybe: something like this https://web.archive.org/web/20130411183250/http://www.sff.net/people/jack.haldeman/people.htm might male it more palatable

Because if they'd leaned "conservative", the article would have been gleefully shouting it from the rooftops.

Don't think the media is biased? Why'd CNN label Democrate Ralph "Was he the one dressing as a Klansman or the one in blackface" Northam as a Republican?

Funny how the Washington Post there conveniently forgets to mention Governer "post-birth-abortion-is-OK" Northam's party...

People aren't even reading this.

ahem...

Yes this is an announcement that they aren't going to fill manufacturing jobs. Now they are talking about R&D jobs. $230k/employee means it makes more sense to bring in employees that let them take advantage of the $230k/employee.

This is one of the strangest differential analysis apologetics I've ever seen. I haven't seen anything that would suggest what you do.

Is this going to help the blue collar workers of Wisconsin? Indirectly since there will be support and infrastructure jobs around this. But if they actually follow through it will help create (or drastically expand) a new class of educated worker and industry in Wisconsin.

Oh geesh, maybe it can even get the Wisconsonites to stop interbreeding and eating their own feces? (maximum sarcasm) Your concept of the good people of Wisconsin is insultingly far off the mark.

Here's a differential analysis for ya:

A political party is pressed to create some jobs. A lot of its ideology hasn't worked so far - things like Trickle down economics and tax breaks for the job creators.

So one of the true believers decides to take a new tack - direct payment of taxpayer dollars to a company to locate in the heartland. This will be the shining star - the touchstone as it were - that validates their ideology. Even if it more resembles ideology of government run business.

Unfortunately for them, it was found out that each employee was going to cost the taxpayers 230 thousand dollars. Unfortunately for them, the main promoter of this effort was defeated at the polls. Unfortunately for them the company, who is kinda a predator to begin with, started threatening to pull out of the deal because 230 thousand per employee isn't enough money for them https://venturebeat.com/2019/0... .

I mean, those suicide nets around FoxConn factories don't come cheap you know. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/w...

The most bizarre thing about this is that all of this technical funding (well, at least a lot of it) is already in the request that the Trump Administration is making. Border walls do work (ask any resident of San Diego), and technology can be used in places where the border fencing is not necessary. (As an example, the border wall ends about 20 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean here as the urbanized portion of Tijuana ends and the mountain terrain on both sides provides a good deterrent.)

Here's more detail on the request from a few days ago. Really not sure what Pelosi is yelling about at this point, since a comprehensive mixed-focus border strengthening is ostensibly what both sides want:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-asks-for-billions-of-dollars-to-fund-border-operations/

Washington — As negotiations between lawmakers to reopen the government continue to be locked in a stalemate, the White House is standing firm on its $5.7 billion demand to construct a "steel barrier" along the U.S.-Mexico frontier. It is also asking for billions of dollars in additional funding for immigration judges and border security.

The administration's negotiating team, led by Vice President Mike Pence, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, have provided Democrats with an outline of their demands for a deal to end the partial shutdown.

In addition to President Trump's unwavering $5.7 billion request for border barrier funds, the White House is demanding $563 million for 75 additional immigration judges and support staff, $211 million to hire 750 additional Border Patrol officers, $571 million to deploy 2,000 law enforcement personnel, $4.2 billion for 52,000 detention beds, $675 million for inspection technology at ports of entry and $800 million for "humanitarian needs," which include funds for medical support, transportation, supplies and temporary facilities along the southwestern border.

At the request of President elect Obama. Somehow you neglected to say that...

I believe the real obstacles are the fact that big oil and coal own our "elected representatives". The result: Trumps EPA allowing increased mercury levels because cleaning the air is "too expensive and unnecessary"..
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/t...
https://www.bna.com/26-environ...

Uninsured numbers weren't cut in half, and premiums increased at the same rate as prior to Obamacare.

You also conveniently ignore that President Obama had complete control for a good chunk of the first two years of his Presidency (Chuck Schumer was Senate Leader, and Nancy Pelosi was Speaker).

Despite being given $350 billion by President Bush (as then-President Elect Obama requested) to stimulate the economy, the economy was starting to slink back to recession when President Trump was elected, with GDP plunging back down. Thankfully that's been arrested, and interest rates (which were at 0% for most of the Obama Administration) have started to come back up (which will strengthen the economy long-term). All while racking up more debt than pretty much all previous Presidents combined. He even got Congress to amend President Bush's 2009 budget by adding another $900 billion to it - and his supporters love to pin that $900 billion back on President Bush (which is completely disingenuous).

Now, you forgot things like his own self-described "worst mistake" of Libya, failures in Syria, drove world opinion of the USA down (thankfully it's rebounding back up), assassinated US citizens without due process, knowingly illegally selling guns to Mexican drug gangs (one of which was used to kill a US border patrol officer), and many, many more things which could be considered abject, Administration-destroying failures.

When I watched it I thought something looked wrong, but I couldn't say exactly what.

All the major news outlets and FOX covered it:

FOX:
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/f...

CNN:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/18...

ABC:
https://www.abcactionnews.com/...

NBC:

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/new...
https://www.nbcchicago.com/new...
https://www.nbc-2.com/clip/147...

CBS:

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/...

Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

New York Post:
https://nypost.com/2018/12/19/...

Huffington Post:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...

BBC:
https://www.bbc.com/news/techn...

I think the New York Times is the only major news organization that didn't cover it from what I can google, but I don't have a subscription so I may have missed their coverage.

Flynn: no lawyers in his multiple FBI interviews
Hillary!: nine lawyers in her one FBI interview, no notes by FBI allowed

Flynn: failed to register as a foreign agent while he was a private citizen
Hillary!: made millions via Clinton Foundation from Russia while she was Secretary of State approving Uranium One deal.

Flynn: going to jail
Hillary!: Free despite setting up a private email server, almost certainly hacked by multiple foreign intelligence services, and putting classified data on it. Free despite having her uncleared maid handle top secret information. Free despite directing subordinate to remove classification markings and send classified data via her insecure email.

So? Clinton was found innocent. Flynn and the entire Trump administration are criminals. Your point?

Found innocent?

By who?

Comey weasel-worded Hillary!'s "innocence" by claiming she didn't knowingly violate laws regarding the handling of classified data, which is actually irrelevant per the law. Not only that, that's factually false anyway, because Hillary! is known to have directed a subordinate to actually remove classification markings and send a secure fax via nonsecure email.

And why weren't Cohen or Flynn offered immunity prior to their FBI interviews, like Cheryl Mills was?

The list of double standards is endless - Hillary! got away with felonies and her aides got immunity, Trump aides go to jail after being forced to plead guilty to non-crimes. (And no, Trump's payoffs to women are NOT "illegal campaign contributions" - Trump's done those for years, which means by law they're not campaign contributions. Period. Full stop. The more you argue they are, the more you reinforce the fact that Trump's being held to a standard no one else has ever been.)

And unlike you, I have actual factual reporting linked in to back up my claims.

Hmm, 2018 mass shootings at concerts....

Nope, there weren't any. Closest was a series of shootings at Mardi Gras.

Let's not count Thousand Oaks, because that music was pre-recorded...

Let's not count San Diego's attempted shooting, because the concert hadn't started and only the gunman died...

Let's not count threats against concerts, because that concert was cancelled...

Yep. No problems in 2018.

Nice service you have there. Be a shame if something happened to it. We think everyone should have it.

I work in Healthcare, and they still love pagers here. I've been trying to get our security team to push to eliminate them, as they sent out in the clear.

From this article, following the release of pager records for 9/11.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/e...
Each digital pager is assigned a unique Channel Access Protocol code, or capcode, that tells it to pay attention to what immediately follows. In what amounts to a gentlemen's agreement, no encryption is used, and properly-designed pagers politely ignore what's not addressed to them.

But an electronic snoop lacking that same sense of etiquette might hook up a sufficiently sophisticated scanner to a Windows computer with lots of disk space -- and record, without much effort, gobs and gobs of over-the-air conversations.

I am aware of my cholesterol levels and other health issues.

Exercise and weight control is going to help you a lot more than cutting meat out of your diet. Blaming meat (even red meat) is so 1990's. Get with the times. Oh and yes, I AM a doctor.

A doctor of what?

Cholesterol comes from animal cells. Other than taking medication, there is no better way to control cholesterol levels than changing your diet to exclude animal cells.

Exercise does have health benefits, but weight control is not one of them. As the article says, you cannot outrun a bad diet. If you want to lose weight, you have to manage the number AND type of calories that you put into your body.

Excellent post. Close to the simplest explanation of this complex idea that I have seen. Here is an article that has some interesting suggestions. It gets a bit in the weeds. But, any fix will need to get a bit convoluted to explain to your average voter. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/h...

Someone please tell me how this is different from China's social credit policies.

I dont think youre actually interested, but here you go:

- China uses a "social system" to judges citizens on their "moral character" (e.g., not buying enough Chinese-made goods, spreading "false" info online) and a low "social score" brings a wide range of restrictions, including travel (e.g, plane, bus), dating website access, real estate purchases, and high speed internet access. You know, life stuff. Linky

- DHS uses a credit score to judge immigrant applicants on their "self-sufficiency" aka "you gonna be a mooch or not". This is one factor in the admission process. You know, legally-becoming-an-American stuff.

Here. Watch this, esp. the end where they Chinese spy gets incriminating evidence on an America so that he can FORCE him to spy for him.
China and Russia do this heavily. And if you think that a foreign backdoor is preferable to a domestic one, then you have NO clue of what is going on in the world. At times, I wish that ppl like you could see/hear some of what goes on. You would understand that in general there is a real reason why the western nations, along with Japan/S. Korea, are banded together and deals with the same groups the same way.

FYI, "60 Minutes" just did a report on that system. The century-old technology shown is awesome; I'd love to be involved in that engineering/repair in another life. And frankly, I don't know what the harm is in using it. As an old firmware guy, I know that computerizing everything will leave it just as prone to faults.

I have to add to this: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/emails-show-nsa-rejected-hillary-clinton-request-for-secure-smartphone/

"...According to a summary of the meeting, the request was driven by Clinton's reliance on her BlackBerry for email and keeping track of her calendar. Clinton chose not to use a laptop or desktop computer that could have provided her access to email in her office..."

"...Mills also asked about waivers provided during the Bush administration to then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for her staff to use BlackBerrys in their secure offices. But the NSA had phased out such waivers due to security concerns..."

Alzheimer's costs a LOT to deal with.

Just in America, dementia costs $277B per year. It is insane how little we spend researching treatments or cures, considering what an enormous return we would get on the investment.

Without new treatments, the number of people in America with dementia is projected to double by 2050 as the population ages.

So the Pentagon is calling the 1st amendment "insurrection"
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

And Lord Trumkin believes he can invalidate the 14th Amendment with a waive of a pen.
Amendment XIV, Section 1. "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside."

Yet, he's the most popular Republican president with his base in the modern era.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Meanwhile the Right continues to deny any and all correlation between the talking head hate site FauxNoise, Trumpkin's rhetoric, and an increase in hate crimes.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/p...

vote people, get out and vote.

OH FUCK YOU!!

Where the fuck were you when Rand Paul got assaulted?

I forgot, but which Democratic president condoned that?

Where the fuck were you when Steve Scalise got shot?

My memory really sucks, but which Democratic president condoned that?

Hell, where the fuck were you when Joe Biden said Mitt Romney would put black Americans "back in chains"?

What does that have to do with the original post about Trump promoting violence?

Where the fuck were you when Democrats dehumanized Republicans - over the past fucking decades?

The same place where you were when Republicans were dehumanizing Democrats

YOU KEPT YOUR FUCKING PIE HOLE SHUT WHEN ALL THAT HAPPENED?

YOU ACCEPTED THAT COMPLETE BULLSHIT FROM "YOUR SIDE"?

Right back at you.

THAT'S HOW YOU FUCKING GOT TRUMP

Nope, we got Trump because the Dems ran a shitty candidate. We had a better one who could have easily won but got thrown under the bus

NOW YOU GET TO SEE HOW IT FUCKING FEELS.

You mean how it feels to witness the display of stupidity from you and the slow moving coup to erode the first amendment from your president. Yes, it feels like shit.

FUCK YOU AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON

Hopefully that horse "schlongs" you in the next election cycle

There is absolutely no apology or consideration from Facebook of the false positives. They just don't care that they get it wrong. They're saying that they have to destroy photo-sharing of children to save it.

How much content did they remove that did not violate their guidelines, or was not illegal?

Of course they focus on sex only. No mention of filtering of depiction of violence or violent content - they wouldn't want to upset the sort of President who thinks it's fine to violently assault people he dislikes or disagrees with.

OH FUCK YOU!!

Where the fuck were you when Rand Paul got assaulted?

Where the fuck were you when Steve Scalise got shot?

Hell, where the fuck were you when Joe Biden said Mitt Romney would put black Americans "back in chains"?

Where the fuck were you when Democrats dehumanized Republicans - over the past fucking decades?

YOU KEPT YOUR FUCKING PIE HOLE SHUT WHEN ALL THAT HAPPENED?

YOU ACCEPTED THAT COMPLETE BULLSHIT FROM "YOUR SIDE"?

THAT'S HOW YOU FUCKING GOT TRUMP

NOW YOU GET TO SEE HOW IT FUCKING FEELS.

FUCK YOU AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON

Mashiki wrote:

So why don't you prove me wrong. Go out, publicly, in front of the media and take ads out in the paper with the two following subjects: "The wage gap is a myth." "No, the US rate of sexual assaults is not higher then the Congo."

I'll wait. Enjoy the public lynch mob by the way.

Don't Buy Into The Gender Pay Gap Myth. The Gender Pay Gap is a Complete Myth Wage Gap Myth Exposed — By Feminists The ‘Wage Gap’ Myth That Won’t Die .These are just the first few hits.

I have not been able to find anyone that supports the idea that sexual assaults in the US is higher than in Congo. When Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State she raised the issue of sexual violence with Congolese President Joseph Kabila; I believe she would support your position.

Too-early start times, especially for high schools, are a well known reason for poor academic performance:
http://time.com/4741147/school...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/s...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/r...
And they get caught again

Did you know that using your definition of "fascism", the Trump presidency is also fascist?

No, it is not. But, even if it were, Mr. Brin and the rest of Silicon Valley's "elite" are still self-inconsistent hypocrites, because Chinese regime is undoubtedly and indisputably Fascist. It the one thing we seem to agree on now.

Citing the "Ron Paul Institute" is good for your credibility.

Ron Paul is a prominent Libertarian and a US Senator. The cited article explains in detail, why the US was sliding towards Fascism — until Trump.

It doesn't show "pessimism over the government's power"

But he is highly pessimistic of government's power — you are conflating his opinions on the assailability of the President with what he thinks the government can tell citizens to (not) do.

it shows absolute unwavering belief in a quasi-dictator

Which may, very well, have been just what some of the Founding Father wanted. Yes, I'm talking about Mr. Hamilton, who not only wanted President with king-like powers, he also wanted him appointed for life.

we had something to discuss

I'm afraid, we hadn't. It was not a discussion — you were lectured: on Google et al. being hypocrite, on why today's China are Fascist, etc.

We're done here.

One would've thought, being an adult and having dabbled in martial arts would teach you to surrender with some grace...

I have not been to Europe since the 70s. So I have to rely upon reporting.

In 2013 this was a thing

And in 2017, so was this

And then this year...

Imagine my surprise that this began in the 90s, around Strasbourg apparently...

Reuters, reasonably reliable, offers some more insight. Many reasons, even insurance fraud. Apparently the term 'youths' isn't very precise.

But they do not refute the reality that car burnings are a New Years' celebration in some areas of France, and even for general frivolity or riots. At least France doesn't seem to suffer from the Friday Night Fights so common in other parts of the world. And there are in fact incidents of car burnings in Sweden, who knew?

n, it's inevitable that the greed of some will outpace that of others

True. Just look at Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Al Gore, Tom Steyer, and all the other crony capitalists and their political lackeys. And those are the people you want to put in charge.

resulting in the system approaching a state where wealth has accumulated in the hands of a few

You're confusing increasing inequality with wealth accumulation: the top 1%/10% and the bottom 10% are not static populations in the US. In fact, Americans have a more than 50% chance of joining the top 10%:

Here's what the researchers found for Americans by age 60:

70 percent will spend at least a year in the top 20 percent of earners
53 percent will spend at least a year in the top 10 percent
36 percent will spend at least a year in the top 5 percent
11 percent will spend at least a year in the top 1 percent

Given that capitalism is fundamentally based on an assumption of greed

Free market capitalism is fundamentally based on the assumption of freedom: the freedom to decide who to do business with and under what conditions; the freedom to own and keep private property; the freedom to associate with who we ant to associate. It is those freedoms you want to destroy. The fact that free market capitalism also produces greater wealth than another other system is a nice byproduct of freedom.

You never hear about mass shootings in Texas

Oh really? Never hear about them?

I guess this list is bogus. No mass shootings you say? Perhaps you're not looking hard enough.