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You unhinged fucking idiot. Being anti-porn is its own political stance and can be included with any other political views.

Tell me, which of these references is 'alt right' (whatever the fuck that is):
https://www.psychologytoday.co...
https://www.verywellmind.com/h...
https://mentherapytoronto.com/...
https://www.gq.com/story/10-re...
https://www.feministcurrent.co...
https://www.bustle.com/article...
https://www.netmums.com/coffee...

This is what the Democrats need to do, go down the list of popular bills congress should pass, send them to the senate so the electorate can watch them go down in flames thanks to Mitch McConnell.

*sigh* such a waste. First, the democrats don't want to upset their big money donors either. They know how to kill a popular bill as well as anybody. Let's not fall for the *good cop - bad cop* routine. If there was opposition we would see it. Second, the voters will always believe campaign promises made by their team, not voting records.

Just like last year, another opportunity to clean the House will be squandered next year. Until we are ready to do our duty and get rid of the trash, there is little point in arguing amongst ourselves about policy.

Actually objectively it was a very bad commercial. Sales went down after it aired due to massive boycotts.

Citation needed.

The only report I could find was from P&G who said "sales haven't budged". (of course they're not a disinterested party; but I couldn't find anything else). https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/23...

In other related sales reports https://www.gq.com/story/gille...

Nike’s revenues leapt after unveiling its campaign starring Colin Kaepernick, Patagonia posted massive sales after directly attacking President Trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com...
https://www.gq.com/story/all-o...
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
https://www.theguardian.com/co...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=kavanaugh...

Louis CK had a bit about how he hates the N-word. No, not the word, the actual phrase "the N-word".

Republicans think porn is pretty dangerous.

https://www.gq.com/story/flori...

Then again I heard someone claim Theresa May is a communist the other day so who knows what left and right mean any more.

There is the old trope about projection, and it is quite true. It's how family values and conservative people are often found to have some sexual orientations that differ from what they rail about, and often are into some nasty pron habits as well.

BTW, on the topic of Idaho and porn, they come in at number 49 in the Pages viewed per capita (88) in a PornHub breakdown of their data. http://www.westword.com/news/p...

Arkansas was last at 77 Page Views per capita, and Kansas was number one at 194 page views per capita.

Not sure if Google wants to take on PornHub et al, and their army of one arm stronger than the other fans.

Republicans think porn is pretty dangerous.

https://www.gq.com/story/flori...

Then again I heard someone claim Theresa May is a communist the other day so who knows what left and right mean any more.

Oh dear, you sad semi-literate Trumpie, you missed all the references (not one of them is Reddit). Here they are so you can improve your reading skills.

1) The Guardian - Trump Tower meeting with Russians treasonous, Bannon says in explosive book

2) NBC - A Panama tower carries Trump’s name and ties to organized crime

3) Global Witness - Narco-A-Lago: Money Laundering At The Trump Ocean Club Panama

4) The Guardian - Trumps Panama tower used for money laundering by condo owners, reports say

5) Sketchy Donald Trump Deal Eyed For Ties To Iran | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

6) The New Yorker - Donald Trump’s Worst Deal:
The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard

7) NPR - The New Yorker Uncovers Trump Hotels Ties To Corrupt Oligarch Family

8) Business Insider - Dossier author Christopher Steele: Trumps hotel and land deals with Russians need to be examined

9) New York Times - Trump Associate Boasted That Moscow Business Deal ‘Will Get Donald Elected’

10) The Washington Post - Trump’s company had more contact with Russia during campaign, according to documents turned over to investigators

11) Slate - An Intriguing Link Between the Mueller Investigation, Trump, and Alleged Money Laundering

12) GQ - Inside Donald Trumps Election Night War Room

13) Politico - Trump’s mob-linked ex-associate gives $5,400 to campaign

14) Raw Story - Longtime Trump business partner ‘told family he knows he and POTUS are going to prison’: report

15) The Spectator - Forget Charlottesville - Russia Is Still The True Trumps True Scandal

16) McClatchy - Donald Trump and the mansion that no one wanted. Then came a Russian fertilizer king

17) New York Times - Tracking the Yachts and Jets of the Mega-Rich

18) McClatchy - Trump, Russian billionaire say they’ve never met,

Wrong! Authorities exonerate.

No. If you ware investigated by the FBI and they don't have evidence to bring charges, they do not write you a note saying, "He's exonerated, signed, the FBI".

And in this case, not only didn't they exonerate Carter Page, but they presented further evidence to continue the FISA warrant, which the federal judges (all appointed by a Republican, by the way) looked at and said, "Yep, you keep watching this guy. There's sufficient probably cause."

By the way, here is an unretouched, actual photo of Carter Page so everybody knows who we're talking about.

https://media.gq.com/photos/5a...

And here is a photo of Carter Page "giving a speech" in Moscow, in 2016.

https://static01.nyt.com/image...

Did it? I mean, I've heard about the video, but I haven't bothered watching it, because it's a Burger King commercial and I don't care.

You're on Slashdot so I'm pretty sure you're aware about the importance of Net Neutrality. So it doesn't matter if "you" saw the video or not

As for the video, it was released 2 days ago and it already have +2.5 M views so I think we can agree it reached a "lot" of ordinary people that doesn't have a clue about what Net Neutrality mean : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Plus, even if it did, so what? Had they released this before the FCC vote, it might have mattered. Granted it still wouldn't have, but it might have. But the FCC vote is over. Net neutrality is dead. It's never coming back.

Is it? I live in Canada and, as far as I know, it's pretty much alive here. USA Rest of the World

And I wouldn't be so sure that democrat won't cancel this. I got the feeling that the next democrat president will take a linking to destroy everything that Trump made.

So what's the point to doing the video now?

Well, to sell shitty hamburgers, of course, under the guise of "informing the public." Who aren't informed and largely don't care about the boring details of net neutrality.

Unless you want the Net Neutrality to stay dead, why would you bother that Burger King spend its own money to teach people about it? Of course it's a publicity stunt, but they could have instead created 4 different flavor of Whopper : https://www.gq.com/story/new-d...

Eventually, of the tax cuts stimulate the economy, they might pay for themselves or even turn a profit.

No, they don't. https://www.washingtonpost.com... and while each big tax cut has made those rosy predictions/promises, they've NEVER happened.

https://www.gq.com/story/repub...

The University of Chicago polled 38 economists, and 37 said it would blow up the country's debt. The one guy who responded that it wouldn't later said he misread the question, and, yeah, those other 37 are right.

Except that's what he does

Readers here may recall that Trump's budget director Mick Mulvaney published a budget that had a $2 Trillion dollar math error.

Republicans (think Paul Ryan) often (always?) produce budgets that contain all sorts of tax cuts for upper brackets and then a "magic asterisk" that gives no detail but says the shortfall will be made up by a) economic growth stimulated by the tax cuts and b) cost savings from cutting government waste.

So my take is the bad optics of all this finally bubbled up to Trump (I guess Fox News couldn't filter it out totally) and he gave the command to his minions to find trillions of dollars of "government waste and inefficiency" to save the budget. So they came up with this.

It doesn't have to make sense. All he wants to do is get headlines out there that proclaim Trump Saves Us Trillions and for most of his base and way too much of the swing voters that is all they will see. It is ideal for this media purpose. If the topic gets the slightest bit technical he can count on the talking airheads to gloss it over and he'd up with "opposing views on this story" in the worst case.

What that means: enough voters will think have this view: Trump and Republicans produced a budget that will save our economy and Democrats are Fighting It. . They don't have to be right. They just have to throw up enough chaff to confuse the voter and Republicans win the mid-terms again.

I've likely returned to this too late to do much good, but some points need to be made... First, both you and David below aren't quite reading the missingkids.com quote correctly. It's not saying that 74% of kids in social service care are running away, it's saying that out of the 1 in 5 runaways who are victims of sex trafficking, 74% were in the care of social services when they went missing. That's a very troubling statistic to consider...

As to #pizzagate, consider this report... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... followed up by this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... We have an apparent anomaly, followed by a possible explanation, mebbe... but the explanation may raise even bigger questions.
  We can be sure that there's some fishy stuff going on with the D.C. elite considering Hastert, Weiner, Clinton/Epstein, Wade Sanders, the list is extensive... Consider some of this resource... https://www.corbettreport.com/... and especially go through the exhaustive collection of links throughout the comments section there. Exploitation of the weak by the rich and powerful is a very real problem and with Mr. Alefantis is one of 'em... http://www.gq.com/gallery/50-m... By the way, the basement is under Buck's Hunting and Fishing, not Comet Ping Pong... https://www.youtube.com/result...
"It is easier to deceive a person than to convince them they've been deceived..."

The Pizzagate conspiracy names Comet Ping Pong as the secret headquarters of a non-existent child sex-trafficking ring run by Clinton and members of her inner circle. James Alefantis, the restaurant's owner, said he has received hundreds of death threats.

James Alefantis isn't just a restaurant owner, he's the former gay lover of David Brock, and listed as one of the 50 most powerful people in Washington. Podesta and Clinton have used Alefantis' pizza parlor for political events. I think the rumors of a pedophilia ring come from a combination of the Podestas' bizarre taste in art (in particular, an artist called Biljana Djurdjevic, Alefantis' Instagram, and the odd set of bands performing at Coment Ping Pong. There were also odd references to pizza, dungeons, and children in Podesta's leaked E-mails.

Of course, none of that justifies showing up with a gun at Alefantis' restaurant. Furthermore, there seems to be no evidence of a pedophile ring. On the other hand, these seem to be some pretty weird people with some pretty weird tastes and pretty weird social relations.

He was labeled anti-black for reasons I have yet to be able to find.

Donald Trump violated the civil rights act by refusing to rent homes to black people.

* http://www.nytimes.com/times-i...
* http://new.www.huffingtonpost....
* http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...
* http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...

Trump continued to refuse to rent homes to black people three years after Justice Department ruling on the matter sides against Trump.

* http://www.nytimes.com/1978/03...
* http://www.nytimes.com/1983/10...

Trump ordered blacks to leave casino floor whenever him or wife arrives on property.

* http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...

1991 book written by Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino President quotes Trump as saying:

"I've got black accountants at Trump Castle and Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day⦠. I think the guy is lazy. And it's probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It's not anything they can control."

* http://articles.philly.com/199...

Trump built a casino in black majority city and breaks promise to mayor about hiring locals, refrains to hire the minorities and opting to staff the casino with almost exclusively all Caucasian employees.

* http://www.nydailynews.com/arc...

Trump was asked about replacing TSA's 'heebeejabis' with veterans, responded with:

"We're looking at it"

* http://www.npr.org/2016/06/30/...
* http://www.businessinsider.com...
* http://time.com/4039658/trump-...

Trump responded to accusations of racism by hiring a former aid for Joseph McCarthy to sue the government for half a billion dollars.

* http://www.salon.com/2011/04/2...

Trump kept books of Hitler Speeches by his bed.

* http://www.businessinsider.com...
* http://forward.com/the-assimil...
* http://www.gq.com/story/donald...

Trump's campaign photoshopped a white model black.

* http://www.huffington

Why the fuck is this modded insightful. Trump has incited his followers to violence, appeals to neonazis and white supremacists, and has caused holocaust survivors to say "he seems familiar".

Trump and his supporters are a poison in this country, and suggesting Hillary Clinton even comes close to being as evil is delusional.

Perhaps what happens is that people in the Chair Force eventually realize that nobody has any idea if they are killing bad guys.

He was told that they were carrying rifles on their shoulders, but for all he knew, they were shepherd"s staffs. Still, the directive from somewhere above, a mysterious chain of command that led straight to his headset, was clear: confirmed weapons. ... As he watched the men walk, the one who had fallen behind seemed to hear something and broke into a run to catch up with the other two. Then, bright and silent as a camera flash, the screen lit up with white flame.

http://www.gq.com/news-politic...

In one episode that will fuel controversy about allegations of civilian casualties, he described monitoring a drone strike on a mud compound in Afghanistan and seeing the figure of what he was certain was a child just before it was struck by a Hellfire missile.

When he expressed those concerns to an intelligence observer overseeing the operation, the response came back: "Per the review, it's a dog." Bryant replayed the shot repeatedly on tape and said that he was certain it was a child, not a dog.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

Note -- it seems PTSD can arise from being a drone pilot, but also note, I have absolutely zero sympathy for the drone pilots. It's an incredibly small bit of karma for the horrific acts they've performed and is the least they deserve, and worse, probably most will never even get that.

http://www.gq.com/news-politic...

the latest twist is using mini tunnels created by a ditch witch to send small packages long distances across the border.
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Aaron Sorkin, The Newsroom, and the greatest country in the world

For all the later melodramatic histrionics that did not work, Aaron Srokin hit this subject in the opening of The Newsroom, where just ignoring the evidence for ratings doesn't do anybody any kind of justice.

Transcript and comments from Sorkin:
  http://www.gq.com/entertainmen...

"Fine. [to the liberal panelist] Sharon, the NEA is a loser. Yeah, it accounts for a penny out of our paychecks, but he [gesturing to the conservative panelist] gets to hit you with it anytime he wants. It doesn't cost money, it costs votes. It costs airtime and column inches. You know why people don't like liberals? Because they lose. If liberals are so fuckin' smart, how come they lose so GODDAM ALWAYS!
And [to the conservative panelist] with a straight face, you're going to tell students that America's so star spangled awesome that we're the only ones in the world who have freedom? Canada has freedom, Japan has freedom, the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, Belgium has freedom. Two hundred seven sovereign states in the world, like 180 of them have freedom.

And you, sorority girl, yeah, just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day, there are some things you should know, and one of them is that there is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we're the greatest country in the world. We're seventh in literacy, twenty seventh in math, twenty second in science, forty ninth in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, third in median household income, number four in labor force, and number four in exports. We lead the world in only three categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next twenty six countries combined, twenty five of whom are allies. None of this is the fault of a 20 year old college student, but you, nonetheless, are without a doubt, a member of the WORST period GENERATION period EVER period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about?! Yosemite?!!!

We sure used to be. We stood up for what was right! We fought for moral reasons, we passed and struck down laws for moral reasons. We waged wars on poverty, not poor people. We sacrificed, we cared about our neighbors, we put our money where our mouths were, and we never beat our chest. We built great big things, made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases, and cultivated the world's greatest artists and the world's greatest economy. We reached for the stars, and we acted like men. We aspired to intelligence; we didn't belittle it; it didn't make us feel inferior. We didn't identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election, and we didn't scare so easy. And we were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed. By great men, men who were revered. The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one, America is not the greatest country in the world anymore."

Maybe watches work for desk jockeys?

I always found the strap was annoying when letting my wrists rest near a keyboard.

Watches also interfere with your sleeves when wearing a dress shirt.

Watches were fun for a while when I was young, but I never missed them after I started using my phone as a watch and it would take quite a bit of compelling reasons beyond what I see now to get me to wear a watch again.

Well, if you learned to keyboard properly and wore shirts that fit properly you may still be wearing a watch. You're not supposed to rest your wrists on something while typing. It's like playing the piano. Your wrists are supposed to be elevated with you hands flat, parallel to the floor and fingers naturally angling down to the keys. Dress shirt sleeve cuffs should terminate just behind the opposing joint of the thumb and not constrict around your wrist so jewelry (watches, bracelets) doesn't get caught easily. Might want to try French cuff shirts. Sounds like the boat may have already sailed for you though. I don't wear watches often these days either, unless I am getting dressed up, but the right clothing does help the getting caught problem. As for they keyboarding, you may want to work on your technique to prevent any long term injuries, or to mitigate any existing ones. I learned piano before typing so I had a bit of a head start on proper wrist-hand posture when I did finally start typing.

Here is the problem you seem to not grasp:

Holder fucked up
Obama appointed Holder.
Holder fucks up, then Obama is responsible.

It has worked that way every time I fucked up as a manager, I got grilled by the higher ups why my people fucked up. I was responsible for them, and "gee I didn't know" was not fucking good enough.

Sure as fuck is not good enough for "The smartest man in the room".

Especially when he hires fucking Holder, who has admitted he fucking participated in the take-over of the Columbia University ROTC lounge in an effort to rename it after Malcolm X, and expect him to have any Fucking respect for the fucking rule of law.

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/politics/201012/eric-holder-attorney-general-rahm-emanuel-white-house-elections?printable=true

P.S. I hope all the extra "fuckings" made it easier for you to follow the argument.

Why? I'm beginning to be interested in Rand. Why the objection?

Here's a pretty good argument:

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/books/200911/ayn-rand-dick-books-fountainhead

I see what you did there :)

A study did find a correlation between the funder of the study and the result of the study

The studies combined show about a 50% inconclusive result of the study.

The data was separated between the Industry funded studies and non industry funded studies and a strong correlation was found.

Industry funded studies find cell phones safe in 3/4's of the studies and only 1/4 show them not safe.
Non industry funded studies show the phones unsafe in 3/4's of the studies and safe in only 1/4 of the studies.

http://www.gq.com/cars-gear/gear-and-gadgets/201002/warning-cell-phone-radiation

oh and some reading for those less in the know.

I read an article that expressed similar feelings. This is how he described your anguish. http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201102/the-day-the-movies-died-mark-harris?currentPage=all I agree with you both.

As insane as the copyright limits are, given the capitalist drive for the cheapest possible solution, reducing copyright terms would mean that instead of funding new creative works because they can't use old ones, big movie studios and publishers would just endlessly republish and remix existing works. Cheaper to redo than create from new and why go with something risky when you can redo something that succeeded again and again and again ...

Yes, one of the central arguments in favor of copyright is that it encourages the creation and publication of original creative works. This comes at the expense of the creation and publication of derivative works (and n.b. there's no inherent difference in quality -- Shakespeare was an almost entirely derivative playwright, for example), but only temporarily.

However, we seem to be suffering through a drought of originality regardless.

Really? I just read an article about a sloppy Mossad operation:

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201101/the-dubai-job-mossad-assassination-hamas

Once upon a time, there was a unit known as the Green Berets. They were special. Every woman wanted one, every man wanted to be one.

Then one of the more envious types grew up to be in charge of designing uniforms, and decided that if the Green Berets were so cool, the Army should spread that cool around to the rest of the enlistees.

So now everyone has a beret, and looks like a french schoolgirl. Except this dude, who looks totally badass, and would've made a fine Green Beret.

http://www.gq.com/blogs/the-q/2010/02/something-to-brighten-your-week-bacon-beer.html

http://gothamist.com/2009/08/12/bacon_beer_will_rule_them_all.php

Smoking the malt like you would for an isle malt, except with bacon smoke, seems to be the method.

The October 2009 issue of GQ had a major article about this. Click to read it here.

I found the article actually pretty fascinating, but it is a bit of a narrative about this particular doctor's quest to bring his research into the public eye.

Also, who knew GQ had such a fantastic catalog of their back-issues? I think I might have to read their stuff more often. I know it's very un-slashdot of me, but whatever.

And then there have been rather recent studies which indicate plenty of ill effects. http://www.gq.com/cars-gear/gear-and-gadgets/201002/warning-cell-phone-radiation?currentPage=1

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Total value of the derivatives time-bomb: $1.144 quadrillion and counting.

The problem is that Slashdot has a whole lot of Ayn Rand Assholes floating around. These are people who need to think that they are superior to other people because they worship the magical market, and that it is their job to be exploited because the people above them are better people. To admit that they are being taken advantage of would be to act like "leeches."

Folks, people who do very little and who, despite what they claim, have no particular risk suck up most of your money. Organizations are team efforts, and while I think it's clear that those at the top should make more than those at the bottom, the vast armies of mid- and lower-level workers deserve a much bigger cut of the pie. There is no organization without them--just a bunch of sociopaths having a circle-jerk in a boardroom. "Men of talent" like to believe they don't need "mediocrites," but they most certainly do. An economy only exists when everyone is playing.

I have been contemplating joining a union myself. The Japanese education industry is starting to do some pretty crazy things--things that have become commonplace in the US, to the detriment of our system. They are attempting to keep us all on one-year contracts. This is a great deal for them, because they can fire people as enrollment rises and falls, but it means that one never knows if he can finish a research project--research being a type of marketing for a university, so it's not just for the researcher--and makes it very hard to get started. Furthermore, it hurts loyalty and productivity. When my school asks me to do things, the zeal with which I do it has a lot to do with my contract length. Getting involved in a project and then coming to the end of your contract and being let go hurts the project and makes one feel like they have been cheated (it's happened to me). Furthermore, to make sure that they are being fair, schools hold tight to the number of contract renewals they say you can have. It doesn't matter how beneficial your presence, they open themselves to legal liability if they let you stay, because someone else who isn't may sue. There was actually a panic and scramble at the end of my contract at my last place, because there was no one who could replace me. My boss tried to work out a deal to keep me, but administration made the (absolutely correct) liability point and off I went, and the project died after lots of time and money spent.

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING FIXES PROBLEMS LIKE THIS.

There is nothing wrong with asserting yourself and demanding a bigger cut of the pie--executives do it all the time! That's business!

btw, can anyone can tell me what makes GW so much worse than other past presidents? Just as some examples, I think his dad was MUCH worse by pulling out of Iraq, and John F Kennedy nearly annihilated the entire planet because he wouldn't just make a deal with the russians (sure it would be a small sign of weakness, but jesus christ, the alternative is crazy).

I have no idea if you are asking a rhetorical question or not. I was going to flame the shit out of you but now that I have calmed down I will try to be helpful. Others might find this useful as well. Consider getting your information about current events from sources other than CNN and FOX News. Does anybody fucking read anymore (not necessarily directed at you)?

A short reading list:

• Against All Enemies
• The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill
• Casualty of War
• The Roots of Torture