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Like always, never a clue. It is easy to design a system that would float up high in the atmosphere, avoiding the pressures and temps. In fact, USSR already did. with more to come.

I think slashdot ate them as part of the "undo moderation" prompt.

Here:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politi...
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/0...
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16...

Also, what's "ironic" about broken links in this context? Are you sure you understand the word?

As I replied to GP: Bullshit.

Have you tried falsifying your own theory? (Specifically, the theory that media outlets don't call bad Democrats, Democrats?) If you haven't, you aren't really trying to be rational - you're just trying to create a narrative that's intellectually comfortable for you and that won't challenge any of your preferences.

3 counterexamples that show you're wrong, from 10 seconds of googling:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politi... [nbcnews.com]
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/0... [cnbc.com]
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16... [cnn.com]

On the other hand, let's take Roy Moore is always labeled with republican. And that type of lie-by-omission has been going on for quite a while.

Bullshit. This may have happened in a couple cases, but the media goes out of their way to rag on liberals when they get the chance because they work hard to try to achieve balanced reporting. That's tough to do because the GOP of late is so consistently stupid and/or evil that journalists have to really dig to find liberal stories that begin to compare.

Example:
In ALL of these articles from the "MSM", Al Franken is declared prominently as a Democrat.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politi...
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/0...
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16...

Your contention that the media doesn't label bad democrats as democrats is just wrong. The Republican media persecution complex is disgusting. Any evidence that contradicts your worldview is immediately dismissed as a biased product of the "MSM" conspiracy. If you don't want reporting on your politician's misdeeds, don't choose pedophiles, adulterers, and blundering idiots to lead your party.

It depends on how it starts and I think many Americans would be sympathetic to Taiwan considering they are a functional democracy and a large trade partner to the US.

It seems that Trump is being delicate in how he aligns with Taiwan but moving in a good direction in a delicate way.

Personally, I hope he and any US president supports Taiwan and their independence.

Trump is going down in flames faster each second : https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/25...

Trump is not in violation of any of the several "emoluments" clauses. Foreign business interests are fine and do not constitute a violation. Such clauses are designed to prevent foreign nations from installing their own agents to our offices. You'd have to show that he was being directly influenced by a foreign official or head of state. I know that's the popular idea over in CNN land, but in the real world you'd need proof (or even a shred of evidence) to start barking up that tree.

Further, the Senate has the authority to grant exceptions. So even if you imagine digging up some super secret dirt in your little fantasy land, you'd need to flip the senate to do anything about it.

But I do remember when a certain tan-suited "president" decided to go on an apology tour and apologize to every nation he could about America being a land of opportunity.

Yeah, except there were no "apologies". The whole "Obama apology tour" thing was completely made up.

https://www.factcheck.org/2012...

https://www.politifact.com/tru...

https://www.cnn.com/2012/10/23...

The original paper in Science: http://science.sciencemag.org/...
Space.com: https://www.space.com/41272-ma...
Science News: https://www.sciencenews.org/ar...
CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/25...

https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/05...

That is a bit of news from the time it happened, not a few days ago, after they needed to show they did have access to the server.

Washington (CNN)The Democratic National Committee "rebuffed" a request from the FBI to examine its computer services after it was allegedly hacked by Russia during the 2016 election, a senior law enforcement official told CNN Thursday.

SO, which story do you actually believe? The one where they rebuffed attempts to inspect the server, or the one that they're using now, that they had the servers the whole time?

Personally, if you believe ANYTHING coming from the "Intel Community" either way you're an idiot. They lie. They lie straight faced in front of congress about all sorts of things, spying on Americans to there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. This isn't a "Right vs Left" issue, because both sides have been on both sides of hating and defending the "intel community"

And until people grow up, and see that, we're never going to get anywhere. So, please stop with the re-written history, it is embarrassing .

I don't think there's a conspiracy, but I *do* believe that, a few years ago, everyone sort of tacitly agreed that it would be good to have Russia as an enemy.

First (a couple of years ago) we heard about unspecified attacks on "critical infrastructure" by "Russian state-sponsored actors".

Then after the election it was "Russians meddled in the election", followed by "Russians hacked the election"

(It's on Wikipedia, so it must be true!) .

Then 17 intelligence agencies confirmed that the Russians hacked the election. Including, and I'm not making this up, Coast Guard Intelligence.

Thenn there is the infamous pee pee document

Of course the Mueller investigation is onto something, because... if there's nothing there why is Mueller still investigating?

Trump meeting with Putin is treason and...

Trump's treason was confirmed.

The thing is, the timing of the Steele dossier is inconsistent with the Russian narrative. If Hillary had known about the dossier during the campaign, she would have moved heaven and Earth to get it in the public eye before the election. The fact that she *didn't* implies that she was certain of winning the election, and the dossier was prepared for a different purpose.

There's no really good evidence that the Russian government is involved with any of the hacking, except to say "That's something they would do". It's the fallacy of the reversed conditional,

I think what we're seeing is a long-term narrative to (eventually) justify a conflict with Russia.

...and Trump stuck a pin in that by meeting with Putin and starting a normal political relationship.

(Probably every response to this post will call me out as a Russian puppet, use foul insults, or predict Trump going to federal prison. Ignore those posts - the ones to read are ones that have a reasoned argument, citing facts, hopefully with links backing up facts, and painting a believable picture of an alternate explanation.)

AC "US prepares charges to seek arrest of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange" (April 21, 2017)

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/0...

In 2017. Assuming that this issue is as important to them as they state, they could have prepared charges a whole lot earlier. It's sort of obvious that they were banking on disappearing Assange during his extradition to Sweden, not needing any charges before they had the chance to let their torturers flesh them out somewhat more and start giving him a bout of justice anyway in case they could not stick anything lasting legally on him.

AC "US prepares charges to seek arrest of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange" (April 21, 2017)
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/0...

Five convictions so far. And counting. Not so incompetent.

Convictions that have nothing to do with Russia or Trump - but you knew this already. And you also dodged the fact that Mueller has never had the FBI examine the DNC servers. That the moment it became bloody obvious that the emperor had no clothes.

If you really thought Mueller was incompetent, you wouldn't be so keen on seeing him fired and the investigation closed. Tick tock.

There's as much justification for this investigation as if the FBI suspected Trump of plotting the attack on Pearl Harbor. This whole operation is nothing but a giant case of Swiftboating from butthurt Hillbots - Hillary's own campaign workers worried that Uranium One would be her biggest vulnerability - and deflection from who actually rigged an election in 2016.

Blind partisan tribalists reaaaaaaally need to get over this habit of finding deranged reasons to try and deny presidents of the opposing party any legitimacy. In the 90's, Republicans lost their freaking minds accusing Hillary of being a lesbian communist who had scores of people murdered as a part of the Clinton drug cartel in Arkansas. And then lost their damn minds again at the thought of a Kenyan-Muslim being president of the USA. They were complete whackjobs - but they had just as much evidence that you Russiagaters do of any collusion between Russia and Trump. Particularly when Trump has been WAY more confrontational with Russia than Obama ever was.

And you are now a monument to my post.

Sesta is not only about children, or are you dumb enough to think adults cannot be trafficked?
I also brought up DMCA, and even mentioned "other laws" like them. I also brought up people "being consider guilty until proven innocent" which you just participated in.

You appear to be part and parcel of what is wrong with people these days. More than willing to commit libel without any thought to what could happen to you if someone tried to do anything about it.

https://www.unilad.co.uk/crime...

https://www.cnn.com/2013/07/02...

there are stupid people... and then there is you.

Just imagine what kind of trouble you might be in if I were a member of law enforcement after making that claim? Just imagine that the next time you say something like that someone is law enforcement and YOU get put on the "guilty until proven innocent" chopping blocked just because they can. Karma is real, I would recommend that you pay heed.

Yeah because it's going to be the right colluding with communists instead of the left colluding with communists.

Yeah, about that.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/19...

Be careful of the company you keep.
Russian bots are using #WalkAway to try to wound Dems in midterms

Russia is still supporting great patriot Trump and the GOP in elections. It must be because they want world peace and the prosperity of the USA.

Believe me, once Elon sees a way to make a shit load of money through AI-based weaponry, he'll take action.

He already has an autonomous killing machine that has already murdered 3 people.

The best explanation of a planet I've heard included stuff like:
* an object that is in a more circular orbit than eliptical around a star (the sun in this case)
* of sufficient mass to clear its orbit of other objects and/or capture them in an orbit around itself
* with a center of mass that lies within the body

Any orbit that is not strictly circular is elliptical, e.g., the orbit of every single planet in the solar system. I of course know what you mean; you want to pick an arbitrary threshold for eccentricity. Mercury at 0.21 is in, but Pluto at 0.25 is out. Because there's a magic "more circular than elliptical" threshold in there.

Any orbit that crosses another in a two dimensional projection is not "cleared," beause we're simply going to ignore not only stable resonances but the fact that the closest approach of the orbits themselves in three dimensional space is 18AU. By that measure, Earth has not cleared its orbit due to the other occupants of the entire inner solar system.

Finally, we will arbitrarily declare that the barycenter of a planet must lie within its principal body. Binary stars, binary black holes, binary galaxies, but hell no binary planets.

Those parameters allow the asteroid belt to exist as its own sort of thing, and the 8 things we call planets today are still planets, and comets are still their own thing.

"Today" conveniently representing a fait accompli, since the 9 things we called planets when "today" was the early '00s are ancient history.

It also explains why pluto isn't a planet:
* its orbit is a bit erratic

But not Mercury's.

* it may not have cleared its orbit, or may not be able to (it crosses over neptunes orbit, and neptune is far bigger)

Sun: Did you see that crazy Earth? It keeps swinging within 1AU of me! It needs to stay more than 18 AU away! Damn dwarf planet!

* though it has a moon, that causes its center of mass to be outside of pluto itself

And? When the earth-moon barycenter migrates above the surface of the Earth, will the Earth cease to be a planet?

We weren't given a list of hundreds of celestial bodies and then asked to identify which were planets. We were given a list of planets and told that those are the planets.

Conversely, we were taght rules of classification such as family, genus, species, where a subcategory remained a member of the parent category. A red house and a blue house are both houses. Only in IAU land could you declare that "planets and dwarf planets are two distinct classes of objects" where the defintion of a planet allegedly excldes dwarf planets.

How many of them are about Russian collusion?

Name one.

Really? You only want one? Well, George Papadopoulos is a real good example of one. Indictment states he worked for the campaign and colluded with the Russian government.

And of course in case you missed it, he pleaded guilty to the charges.

Compared to any other investigation relating to a sitting POTUS, this investigation is moving at the speed of light.

https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/02...

Sorry dude, worst comments Trump ever made, but they support this idea.

Some of these people are imprisoned purely for the purpose of becoming organ donors for the new elite.

https://edition.cnn.com/2016/0...

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

"Close to 30 states have what's known as "filial responsibility" statutes. Those require adult children to pay for a deceased parent's unpaid medical debts, such as those to hospitals or nursing homes, when the estate cannot." - https://money.cnn.com/2014/06/...

Perhaps petro companies should try cleaning up their act and they might have better luck. https://money.cnn.com/2017/06/...

This is pathetic. The legs of your position were blown off and you're just crawling around. Just stop.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/12...

"""I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy's office" -- an apparent reference to Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe -- "that there's no way he gets elected -- but I'm afraid we can't take that risk. It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40 . . . . " Page does not appear to have responded, according to records reviewed by CNN.""

And if there were some Trump damaging FBI leak immediately after that message, or some official investigative action that didn't really make sense, then you'd have a point.

But you're still missing any evidence of an actual action containing bias, even assuming that text message means what you want it to mean and not what McCabe says, ie:

“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office [that we protect our source in the Russia investigation by proceeding more slowly since we know] that there’s no way he gets elected [and the result won't matter] - but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40 [so we need to be prepared to get to the bottom of any Russian connection before he win's the election and takes office]”

This is pathetic. The legs of your position were blown off and you're just crawling around. Just stop.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/12...

"""I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy's office" -- an apparent reference to Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe -- "that there's no way he gets elected -- but I'm afraid we can't take that risk. It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40 . . . . " Page does not appear to have responded, according to records reviewed by CNN.""

it elected the more pro-business, pro-oligarch candidate.

Hilary one 48% to 46%. Almost 3 million more people vote for her. The fact that we still end up with Trump shows how unfair things are in America. A voter in, say, Montana has around 46 times more voting power than one in California.

Again, this is by design. When the constitution was drawn up the wealthy's interests were aligned with rural voters. So our government was specifically built to give them more power. As time went on it became easier to mange those rural voters and control their voting. Easier to keep the wrong ones from voting (e.g. voter suppression). Easier to gerrymander their districts (fewer people to fight back and with less money to do it) and easier to blitz their media (mostly talk radio and TV).

If we had a functioning democracy Hilary would have won. Hell, if we had a functioning democracy _Bernie_ would have won (thanks, Democrat Super Delegates).

The left wing of the Democratic party is trying to kill super delegates. If it works then Trump won't have a second term. If it fails they'll bury Bernie in the next primary and say hello to Trump term 2. You do not want this. Look into his fiscal policy and compare it to the run up to the 2008 crash. We are all screwed if he gets a second term.

And by "hacking" we mean - sent a phishing email asking to verify passwords that somebody at the DNC responded to.

If only there were a document with actual details:

Page 4 paragraphs 14-17 has several defendants changed with the development and deployment of their malware called "X-Agent" on the DNC servers.

Page 8, 23-24, they researched for vulnerabilities in the DCCC and DNC networks, which they seemingly used to install more malware and safely navigate the servers.

Sure, initial access seems to have been phishing, but stuff like screwing with server logs and installing keyloggers is definitely hacking.

Note also the same "Russian Hackerz" tried this with the RNC too but nobody bit.

Correction, the RNC was also hacked, they just didn't release any info.

Now, the RNC hack was of older email accounts so it wouldn't have been as damaging. It's also quite possible they didn't try as hard to hack the RNC because Clinton was their primary target.

The Declaration of Independence is "hate speech", and "fake news" won't be removed.

Those guys need to cut back on the Brawndo.

Racism can be subtle, and not even obvious to the individual. Let me give such an example. When Trump addressed the Jewish Coalition he said:

"I'm a negotiator like you folks, we are negotiators," Trump said, drawing laughter before pivoting to how he would renegotiate the Iran deal. "Is there anybody that doesn't renegotiate deals in this room? This room negotiates them -- perhaps more than any other room I've ever spoken in."

Trump was playing on a Jewish stereotype, one that is often used in a derogatory way. Trump likes to present himself as a dealmaker, so maybe in context it was funny and appropriate. In isolation, we could laugh this off. But we see a lot of statements like this from Trump, and together they create the impression that his view of races and cultures is based on stereotypes and hearsay. He sounds like one of those racists who doesn't even realize they are a racist.

We could stop there, but there are lots of clearer examples than that one. During his campaign, Trump tweeted a phony racist infographic blaming blacks for a large number of homicides. These phony facts are designed to fool people who already have racist stereotypes, and Trump fell for it. Maybe he is not a racist, and he is just dumb? Trump constantly suggested that Barack Obama was a Muslim, intending that to be deragatory. He suggested that Obama's birth certificate stated he is a "muslim" which is of course not something that would be on a birth cerfiticate... so that just feels weird, like how he sees race and religion as something immutable about a person, and something they would want to hide. There's just a lot of stuff like that he does that creates the impression of a racist. You don't have to put on a while hood and march in the streets to be a racist.

What have the FBI, the NSA, and the rest of our wonderful "intelligence" apparatus been doing, while this was going on?

Oh, yeah, they were busy trying to sabotage Trump

Strzok sat on evidence incriminating Trump campaign members in connection with Russian election interference -- and didn't publish it. And Comey basically threw the election to Trump by reopening the Clinton investigation in late October. That's some strange behaviour for people supposedly trying to "sabotage Trump".

Another Archangel account? Michael, Michael, you're diluting your brand.

The Russians' lawyers (not the defendants themselves who were "Putin's chef" Prigozhin's Concord Management and Consulting) only showed up in court to try to fish for details of how the evidence against then was obtained. Fortunately the judge was having none of it.

The indictment lodged in Washington, D.C., accuses the Russian spies of hacking into the Democratic National Committee and the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton [...] The accused also hacked into state boards of elections, secretaries of state, and into companies that provided software used to administer elections

What have the FBI, the NSA, and the rest of our wonderful "intelligence" apparatus been doing, while this was going on?

Oh, yeah, they were busy trying to sabotage Trump...

At least, there is some silver lining to all this in that there is no longer any doubt, Russia is an adversary — if not an outright enemy. A big and welcome change of both long- and short-term trends.

But don't let that distract you from the soccer championship...

Firefox and it's more usable cousin, PaleMoon, both support RSS as live bookmarks. I use that for all my news. BBC World, CBC World, CBC Canadian, CNN Latest, and CNN World. You don't need a dedicated RSS reader to enjoy RSS. It also lets me laugh at people who (still today) get caught by fake stories on social media sites. People who get their news through social media deserve what they get, I think.

Firefox and it's more usable cousin, PaleMoon, both support RSS as live bookmarks. I use that for all my news. BBC World, CBC World, CBC Canadian, CNN Latest, and CNN World. You don't need a dedicated RSS reader to enjoy RSS. It also lets me laugh at people who (still today) get caught by fake stories on social media sites. People who get their news through social media deserve what they get, I think.

That distinction is why Clinton's history with the Starr investigation and the Jones case is important on top of the background with Nixon. Starr subpoenaed Clinton over testimony, and the big pitfalls that Clinton ran into that led to his impeachment were over his testimony. The Jones case was civil as opposed to criminal, sure, and Clinton made a deal for voluntary testimony, but you add those pieces together and it paints a pretty unconvincing picture that Trump could refuse a subpoena for testimony. Of course he still has the Fifth Amendment, despite how politically perilous invoking that might be.

This is also what I was getting at a bit with why Kavanaugh being on SCOTUS and him being a supporter of presidential immunity is important in areas of the law that aren't completely settled. If the previous cases didn't specifically cover subpoenas for testimony in federal criminal cases, but ruled against the president in slightly different contexts, then he could craft a ruling justifying Trump's position that he doesn't have to testify without explicitly overruling the precedent in those cases. He could refuse the spirit of rulings like United States v. Nixon and Clinton v. Jones without overturning them outright, which is a lower bar to clear.

>supports TPP

Trump renews attack on TPP: 'I don't like the deal'

Trump pulled the United States out of TPP in one of his first acts after becoming president in January last year. The 11 remaining countries in the trade agreement have since forged ahead with a new deal without the United States.

You lie in the very first sentence about Trump's positions. Why should anyone believe anything you say?

The reason this is bad because currently the "authoritative" sources are actually incredibly biased, manufacture stories, and often hide information to further an agenda. They understand that if you control the narrative, you can manufacture a reality, or at least keep compliant people invested in such a narrative.

For example, you might yell tinfoil hate but here are a few off the top of my head:
Dan Rather, anchor long time CBS anchor, forced to resign in disgrace for manufacturing anti-conservative news http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBI...
Funny if you read the NY times and other articles attempting to pretend this was a normal stepping down

Brian Williams, NBC making false claims https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

NPR admitting press is biased and making up stories https://nypost.com/2017/10/21/...

If i need, I can go on. The point being it is easy to paint others with pejoratives like "tin foil hat" while failing to even consider much that you believe is likely from tainted perspective. Many people rightly fear that google (aka youtube) are censoring opinions that poke holes in their world view. Fake-news is more about people who disagree, not with people posting things that are untrue.

I'm guessing that battle took place long before you were born.

Or maybe their police do exactly what police do in any other country.

Are you saying the police in ANY other country would sit idly by while masses of "protesters" armed with AK-47's, sent kites loaded with firebombs into the sky with the sole purpose off burning property and hopefully killing a few people?

I doubt that is true, at all, so I'd say my question stands stronger than ever before. They aren't upholding even the most basic of laws (i.e. randomly setting fire to properties) so what DO they do?

Maybe try to get Israel to stop continually annexing land

There are plenty of property disputes in civilized countries not settled by burning the innocent are targeting hospitals with rockets. Which again, these "police" are apparently cool with. Makes me wonder what OTHER "fun" things you could do in Palestine that police in other countries would arrest you for.

Which all leads me to wonder why on earth you support a group of people as inherently despicable as modern day Palestinians.

The US is the world's top steel importer. The value of steel shipped into the US was just over $29 billion in 2017.

It's clearly not because you don't need steel anymore either.

Remember what I said about circumstances changing quickly in monsoon season?
Here's an update from 1 hour ago

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/07...
"By Steve George, CNN

Updated 12:33 PM ET, Sat July 7, 2018"

"Earlier in the week, efforts to lower the water levels had generated an air of optimism. During a press conference Thursday, one Thai official suggested that the kids may even be able to "walk out."

Such hopes have now vanished, replaced instead with a mounting sense of urgency. People at the large makeshift camp that now surrounds the caves liken the mood to that of a hostage situation.
Dark clouds drift ominously overhead. Weather forecasters predict heavy rains Saturday evening and throughout the week.
The chamber in which the boys are located is no longer thought safe. Even if they are given enough food to wait out the rainy season, there is no guarantee that the ledge they are sitting on will not be submerged.
There are no easy decisions. But with the flood waters expected to rise in the coming days, a decision will have to be made soon.
"The teams there will have a tipping point where they have to make that call to bring them out. To leave them there would almost certainly result in them drowning," said one British mining engineer and experienced cave diver, who did not wish to be named due to the sensitivity of the subject."

Most likely people call you names because they think your "simple facts" are just partisan lies.

Oh yes, and **their** partisan uninformed opinions totally justify their immature, nasty behavior. The ends justifies the means, does it?

I think it's telling that you didn't list any names when you claimed "many democrats(sic)" where calling for open borders. When I looked for Democrats who were calling for open borders, do you know what I found? Republicans who say Democrats are calling for open borders. Maybe it's just the skeptic in me talking, but I'm not inclined to take the word of Republican politicians and pundits on what the other party actually wants.

Just like democrats didn't back socialism before, but only now they do? Sure, not all the democrats are calling for open borders, and it's been exaggerated; but there is a disturbingly growing contingent that is doing just that. https://cis.org/Feere/Report-O...
I'm pretty sure these people don't vote R.

You know, that's not actually a left wing position, there are right wing parties in other countries that realized that treating other people as their equals works better than constantly trying to limit who qualifies as fully human. Also, treating other humans as less than human is pretty much the definition of evil.

The point is, the left changed on that position, far more than the right. We're talking about what changed.
But besides that, denying traditional marriage, but not domestic partnerships or civil unions isn't particularly "less than human" treatment.
Leave the hyperbole at home, kids.

So given your statement, I understand that you weren't old enough to vote 10 years ago.

Not only is your statement non-nonsensical, you illustrate your fundamental lack or unwillingness to understand.
Democrats have often been accused of socialist tendencies, I've seen that firsthand over the past decades. It was also emphatically denied with no small amount of offense; today it's declared the new face of the party.

No, just no. Your opinions are just too ridiculous. In fact, both the Democrats and the Republicans have moved to the right over the last 20 years. You could figure that out if you wanted to by looking at what policy positions they supported, but you'd rather cherry pick a few things that you think support your desired answer like a clueless child would. When you've conducted (or at least read) some longitudinal studies that show whether and if so what shift in the policies supported by each political party has taken place, then you can come back and try to pretend that you're an adult again.

Hysterical. Democrats have moved to the right? You're not even fucking credible. When you cannot accept the obvious but reject it as "opinions" because it doesn't fit with your contorted confirmation bias, you may have a psychosis. And oh, there's the first insult, insinuating I'm a "clueless child". Well, there's a shock. It's always the Leftists that throws the first stone, isn't it? That's fucking hilarious, because in reality I'm very likely closer to twice your age and have long shed the blind ignorance and smugness that endears youth to idealistic liberalism.
Nothing has moved to the right over the years. Nothing. Not one fucking thing. I "cherry picked" nothing, but cited the most prominent, significant changes in society.
So go ahead, name some things that are now more conservative than liberal in the last 20 years.
Can you do it like an adult this time, or are you going to try to condescend to me again?

His name is Seth Rich.

He died to expose the depth of the DNC and Obama Administration's corruption.

That is complete fucking bullshit.

Just because Fox made up some bullshit, doesn't make it true.

If you start in 68, then yes minimum wage hasn't kept up. If you start at the beginning in 38 then no, minimum wage is higher now then when it started when adjusted for inflation. http://money.cnn.com/interacti...

Sorry, but your entire post is a bunch of divisive know nothing.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/0...

Both sides share more than enough blame here. No matter which party is in power more and more mergers like this are becoming possible.

Did you go and watch any of the Marvel Movies? Intellectual Properties that Disney purchased? Disney is silently becoming a mega merged movie and entertainment powerhouse. I bet your money is not where your mouth is and you give Disney your money. ATT is a bit different, some people only have ATT for their provider and can't do anything about it or just get no connectivity, but reading that link should tell you that your turds smell too.

Idiot AC. Forty two percent support impeachment; but then 47% say they will not support anyone who votes for impeachment. So more people will punish politicians who support impeachment as compared to people who support impeachment. Not a winning hand - but you go ahead and run on that!

Didn't a Tesla spontaneously combust a couple of weeks ago?

I'm a big fan of Tesla and think they have the potential to disrupt the auto industry in very positive ways (if they already haven't), but I also believe it would be a mistake to characterize traditional car manufacturers as comparatively clueless when it comes to battery technology.

As I said, I'm a big fan of Tesla but their cars cost much more than I'm willing to spend on a vehicle. In fact I bike to work and a lot of places which is a dirt cheap way to get around. Still we do own and drive a couple of cars for those trips where biking or other forms of transportation aren't vey practical. When one of them got to be about 16 years old it started to become less reliable and we decided to replace it. I wanted to try an EV and for us a plug-hybrid made a lot of sense. As someone who considers $15,000 to be a lot of money for a car, a new one was out of the question. But the beauty of used marked for EVs is that resale values are crappy because people don't want to get stuck with having to replace a battery pack.

What we ended up with was a used Chevy Volt. I've never owned a Chevy in my life but the battery packs on those cars have a pretty good reputation. Contrary to what you might think, they put a lot of thought and engineering into designing those packs. They DO have their own independent cooling and heating systems and have since the first ones came out in 2010/2011. They have not suffered the degradation that early Nissan Leaf owners did who lived in hot climates.

So, our 2012 Volt (manufactured in late 2011) is nearly 7 years old, has 73,000 miles and so far has not lost any perceptible amount of electric range. Tesla has not cornered the market on EV battery technology.

"violence"

The violence of U.S. football causes SEVERE physical damage:

CTE found in 99% of studied brains from deceased NFL players - CNN

Ex-Pro Football Players Struggle With Health Problems - ABC News

Health issues in American football - Wikipedia

The real killer is concrete production

Well, there's this at least.

I keep hearing a lot about how terrible Antifa is, but have they actually murdered anyone? Do they drive cars into crowds?

https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/18...

Anita purposely uses anonymity to mask its violence so that it's hard to trace back to them.

You know, kinda like those -chan trolls you love to mock? Antifa is using the same tactics. Strange you claim that they're on a different level.

While that article doesn't specifically say they've killed anyone, antifa has been linked to injuring police (what did you expect when you're starting riots) and destroying property. You should read the article. It even includes interviews with one of them being rather proud they're breaking the law and breaking people's stuff.

Do any of them honestly think that there is a war on and that killing the other side is justified?

Read the cnn article. Yes, yes they honestly do think that. One of them in the article claim it's self defense, which implies the Nazis (dun dun DUN) were attacking them and they're fighting back.

Because that's the level of batshit we have from the far right. It's another level entirely, and order of magnitude away from the worst I've ever seen Antifa do.

They're both bad. Even if we grant one is the lesser evil, it's still evil.

When people are trying so hard to equate clearly very different things like this, you have to ask what they are trying to hide.

"what have you got to hide" is just a cheap attempt at character assassination. It's McCarthyism all over again (note the irony here)

And in this case it's not even a difficult question to answer, because the violence and murders and Nazism are overt and well publicised. It's not distraction, it's gaslighting.

Nah, this is you telling other people what they're thinking. They could have all sorts of other reasons, but you just want to tell them which reason they're thinking. It makes it easier for you to demonize and dehumanize them.