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All of these things concern me more than control of my personal data. Yes, control of my personal data concerns me - particularly my genome and corporations' attempts to patent something that is inherintly part of me and which they didn't invent. But the above issues are bigger problems.

Well, keep in mind that the original interview was about technology topics, and giving this is Snowden we're talking about here, we're inevitably going to be talking privacy. When he said it's the central issue of the future, he probably meant within that context - as opposed to, for example, the government spying on its citizens. In his mind, there's generally some outrage and opposition to governments trying to enact spying laws - not enough, as the UK's Investigtory Powers bill demonstrates, but generally something. In contrast, most people think nothing of Google or Twitter's collection of knowledge on them, nor has anyone really made much noise about this in politics. Snowden has the ability to put a face on privacy decisions for the news, and in turn to normal people, and so I'm betting that'll be his next target.

The ongoing islamisation of the population

This isn't related to the above paragraph, but please don't say this, it hurts. Fundamentalists groups, such as evangelical, baptist, and mormons, are about as conservative as their islamic counterparts, such as ISIS or Assad's backers. If want an ISIS comparison, look at the KKK - and if you want a public execution match, well, lynching has been around for many hundreds of years before al-quaeda was even a figment in somebody's mind. Furthermore, on social issues, islam Americans are much more relaxed than their Christian counterparts are. Islamists are more likely to accept gay people, far less tolerant of violence, much more accepting of other cultures, and hilariously enough, waaaaaay more likely to see themselves as Americans first and Muslims second (there's a 10 point gap between these two). Note that Christians as a whole are more open then either of these two, but for all the people

Furthermore, there's a lot of free passes we give to hardcore evangelicals that we don't give to muslims - we let people oppose laws because of the bible, which is illegal under the First Amendment by the way, but if a guy says he opposes a law because of the Quran he's labelled a terrorist and gets death threats. If a muslim were to disprove of gay marriage, it's seen as backwards and unacceptable, but if evangelical Christians do, it's seen as acceptable, for no reason other then that they got here first. America isn't accepting of immigrants and never has been, despite the long tirade to the contrary, and if we ever want to live up to the founding father's ideals, then we're going to have to leave these backwards parts of our history behind - and that, my friend, starts with not being xenophobic of immigrants for no reason other then that they're different from you. Of course, Muslims as whole still have a long way to go - but the key point is that they're doing their best, and they're not trying to enshrine their views into law. In contrast, this minority of Christians has become increasingly militant, increasingly violent, and increasingly authoritarian - and given that the darkest eras in our country's history has come from when these wackos had influence, we should be far more scared of the likes of Mike Pence then we should be from the guy down the street who fled from being cooked alive on the street by bombs or from being executed for refusing to kill somebody else.

Here you go:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
- http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

And don't get me started on the subsidies nuclear has received since its inception because... strategic.

Either you don't know your history, or you're too lazy to use google, so the first item that comes up when asking about us interference in other countries elections:

In the 1958 Japanese election, the United States gave the Liberal-Democratic Party damaging political intelligence on its main rival, the Socialists. The CIA acquired it from paid informants within the Socialist Party. In the 1990 Nicaraguan elections, the United States leaked damaging information on alleged Sandinista corruption and Swiss bank accounts, funneling the information to German newspapers. The Nicaraguan opposition then used these German media reports to great effect.

In other words, the CIA was doing the exact same thing that they accuse Wikileaks of doing. US exceptionalism at work - "the rules don't apply to us."

and

“Isn’t it interesting that her (Clinton's) campaign is now experiencing the same thing that she perpetrated on other countries,” Netherton told The Huffington Post, as she awaited Sanders’ speech Monday night.

“She did this in Haiti, she did this in Honduras, and now it’s coming back on her and she’s all verklempt about it,” Netherton added. “It’s a little bit of her own medicine, but unfortunately I don’t think she’s open minded enough to see that for what it is.”

Indeed, meddling in foreign politics is a great American pastime, and one that Clinton has some familiarity with. For more than 100 years, without any significant break, the U.S. has been doing whatever it can to influence the outcome of elections up to and including assassinating politicians it has found unfriendly.

Assassinating politicians is certainly going to keep them from running in an election.

When Iran elected a nationalist politician, Mohammed Mosaddeq, the U.S. intervened to launch a coup in 1953, which CIA agent Kermit Roosevelt led. Mossadegh’s crime was to nationalize a British oil company, a forerunner to BP, and to spark concerns among the paranoid Dulles brothers that he was leaning toward the Soviet Union. The U.S. installed Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Iran’s monarch, as the head of Iran and his repressive rule led to the Iranian revolution. That uprising, in turn, has given us a brutally repressive regime in Iran, client terrorist groups around the Middle East, savage sectarian violence in Iraq and a nuclear standoff.

Overthrowing a democratically elected politician and getting rid of elections is also interfering in Iran's electoral process.

When the French withdrew from Vietnam in the 1950s, they scheduled an election to be held shortly after. It became increasingly clear that the communist revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh would win it in a landslide. So the U.S. intervened and installed Ngo Dinh Diem as leader of a new country it recognized as South Vietnam. The national election was canceled, but the U.S. still needed a way to pretend the puppet regime had political support. So it set up an election between Diem, who was widely disliked, and an exiled member of the royal family who was even more hated. Diem won with an absurd tally of 98.2 percent.

Cancelling an election that would have elected someone the US didn't want to win is most certainly interfering in their electoral process.

The election in 2014 didn’t go as the U.S. intended (like the one in 2009, shot through with fraud that gave it to Hamid Karzai). So the U.S. declared it a tie and created a new position not in the Afghan constitution called Chief Executive Officer.

There are plenty of other examples of US interference in other countries.

Problem #1 with your theory is that there is no evidence.

After the election, the Obama administration said it had no proof of Russian interference in the election tallies and that the results “accurately reflect the will of the American people.”

Problem #2 is that, even if they had, they would only be doing the same the US has done so many times. Pot calling the kettle black ...

Before you state something as a fact, you might want to check to see if it is so.

If you really think that ordering this review is not within the President's authority, you are nine kinds of high.

Further this is 100% contrary to what Obama said here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Funny how something "mythical" became "real" simply because the Democrats lost an election.

Apparently your prejudices have overwhelmed your ability to reason.Your article refers to Trump's unfounded claims of voter fraud in order to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the election, while the President's review of the known hacking activities does no such thing.

Unfounded allegations of fraud != hacks supported by actual evidence. See how one of these things is not like the other? The fact that you draw an equivalence between the two indicates weak-minded thinking on your part.

Obama said voter fraud was mythical when he assumed that Clinton would win. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

So, which is it, mythical or real ?

Besides, the glaring deficiencies that have been found so far, have been in Clinton's favor. Facts are funny that way.

he has ever right to order such a review.

Before you state something as a fact, you might want to check to see if it is so. A "Right" isn't the correct term, even if it was the correct term, it would require some sort of previous example or court case to outline, neither of which has happened here.

Further this is 100% contrary to what Obama said here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Funny how something "mythical" became "real" simply because the Democrats lost an election.

I can not even begin to tell you how dumb this idea is. Are you seriously going to haggle with the emergency staff, as they're about to treat your heart attack? What about when your s.o. finds a lump in their breasts/chest? What are you going to tell your kid, when they get lymphoma? "Sorry sweetie. You deserve the best, but we can only afford to send you to that guy that operates out of a dumpster." And what's the point of scrutinizing your medical bills when the medical insurance companies in your area are monopolies.

Microsoft is synonymous with lack of security. Linked in is synonymous with lack of security.
Windows 10 is spyware. Linkedin is spyware.
Sounds perfect.

You are so full of shit when it comes to Cuban health care.

Cuba trains young physicians worldwide in its Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM). Since its inception in 1998, ELAM has graduated more than 20,000 doctors from over 123 countries. Currently, 11,000 young people from over 120 nations follow a career in medicine at the Cuban institution. According to Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the UN, ELAM is “the world’s most advanced medical school.” He also praised the Cuban doctors working around the world, including those in Haiti: “They are always the first to arrive and the last to leave. They remain in place after the crises. Cuba can be proud of its health care system, a model for many countries

On a bang for the buck basis, the US is the 3rd-world country.

It's getting close to the point that the schadenfreude of seeing morons get their due makes up for the fact that we all will be screwed.

So by all means lets call climate change a hoax. When the inevitable calamities fall, I suspect the deplorables and Breitbart readers will be disproportionately affected and not only will I not shed a tear but I will kick dirt in their faces.

Ok, so which is more important: everyone in the country slipping into poverty and terrorist attacks from immigrants next year, or...

Global warming, only [our] part of which can fixed by us, is driven by political corruption, and won't affect us for a couple of decades?

Of these issues, political corruption is the biggest impediment to rational climate change action. Getting rid of that has to come first, and only then can we expect to make progress on the other issues.

Do you think anything would get done under a Clinton administration?

We knew Trump had shortcomings, and still elected him - warts and all. We did it because he promised to fix certain issues that we felt were more important in the near term. Global warming will kill us, but, mass poverty will kill us sooner.

I'm completely happy taking steps to curb global warming, but a) I want to be safe doing it, and b) I want to eat first.

Get some perspective. Not everything Trump is going to do will be bad, and you always have 2024 to look forward to.

In addition, the student loan sharks put Americans in the hole upon graduation.

You mean the government?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
It's amazing what was slid into healthcare reform

People should be able to seek a diagnosis for mental illness without stigma, and get treatment if they need it.

They already do, depending on the "diagnosis". It seems like having aspergers, ADHD, or being on some part of the spectrum is almost a badge of honor in some circles, especially in tech:
http://nymag.com/news/features...

And just think about the amount of people getting prescribed Xanax, Prozac, or Adderall nowadays.....seems like people are getting what they want (whether or not this is "treatment", or course, is debatable).

Look at Adam Lanza (the Newtown guy) -- according to all accounts, his mother basically hid his developing mental illness for years and refused to accept there was a problem. But, the sad thing is that even if she had sought help for him, she wouldn't have been able to get itc

Hogwash. She was fairly well-off financially, and it's been said that what set him off was that his mother had finally decided to have him committed.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Although the details behind that were somewhat speculative, he was at the very least seeing a psychiatrist, one that was in the news recently with his own set of problems:
http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

I'm not saying we should go back to the bad old days of locking people up for depression, giving them lobotomies or abusing them...but I do think deinstitutionalization went way too far.

Maybe. But you need to be careful of what you're asking for:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

"If anything government control over speech is what did immense damage in WW2. That and low educational standards at the time (actually standards in a sense were high but there was still a lot of discovery not widely spread, old beliefs lingering and so on). Common knowledge by the standards of the day was often corrupt simply because of the period in time."

You're dreaming. Most college graduates today could not pass the 1912 Eight grade graduation "Common Exam".
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Nor could they pass a similar test today.

The real question is: How many loaded firearms DIDN'T they find? We already know from past studies that the TSA fails to catch banned items 95% of the time.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

keep hearing this, but no real evidence to support it.

Then you haven't been paying attention.
https://slashdot.org/comments....

A short and very incomplete list of completely racist things Trump has said or done:
-"theres one of my blacks"
-"mexico is sending us rapists"
-"laziness is a trait in blacks"
-"the judge is a Mexican"
-"they don’t look like Indians to me... They don’t look like Indians to Indians.”
-supports stop-and-frisk, as practiced by the NYPD (ie, unconstitutional and racially discriminatory), and wants it expanded nationwide, claiming it worked, contrary to all evidence
-Obama's birth certificate
-condoned the abuse and even beatings of multiple Black Lives Matter protesters and other minorities at his campaign rallies
-regularly engages in anti-Semitism
-treats his minority supporters as literal tokens
-treats minorities and racial groups as monolithic stereotypes
-thinks all African americans live in the inner city, are poor, without work, receiving welfare, and uneducated, and that the inner city is a hell hole
-saying 88% of white murders are committed by black folks
-repeating statements from white supremacists multiple occasions
-making blatant dog whistles to the alt-right, white supremacist crowd
-not condemning or distancing from white supremacists campaigning for him, including David Duke
-encouraged mob justice against the Central Park 5, and continues to insist they are guilty years after its proven otherwise, including spending 85k$ on full page ads in the paper advocating for their execution
-being sued by the federal government on multiple occasions for not renting to minorities

Hell, even when he claims to be trying to reach out, he's doing so in white communities and actually only repeating racist myths and stereotypes that are meant to appeal to white voters and make them feel better about voting for such overt racist.

His sons kept appearing on white supremacist radio programs..."accidentally".
Once may be an accident. Twice, you need to fire your booking agent. four times and counting? its no longer accidental or someone else's fault.
Donald Trump IS racist, regardless of the efforts of the ignorant to ignore it or explain it away.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... [huffingtonpost.com]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... [huffingtonpost.com]
http://fortune.com/2016/06/07/... [fortune.com]

keep hearing this, but no real evidence to support it.

Then you haven't been paying attention.
https://slashdot.org/comments....

A short and very incomplete list of completely racist things Trump has said or done:
-"theres one of my blacks"
-"mexico is sending us rapists"
-"laziness is a trait in blacks"
-"the judge is a Mexican"
-"they don’t look like Indians to me... They don’t look like Indians to Indians.”
-supports stop-and-frisk, as practiced by the NYPD (ie, unconstitutional and racially discriminatory), and wants it expanded nationwide, claiming it worked, contrary to all evidence
-Obama's birth certificate
-condoned the abuse and even beatings of multiple Black Lives Matter protesters and other minorities at his campaign rallies
-regularly engages in anti-Semitism
-treats his minority supporters as literal tokens
-treats minorities and racial groups as monolithic stereotypes
-thinks all African americans live in the inner city, are poor, without work, receiving welfare, and uneducated, and that the inner city is a hell hole
-saying 88% of white murders are committed by black folks
-repeating statements from white supremacists multiple occasions
-making blatant dog whistles to the alt-right, white supremacist crowd
-not condemning or distancing from white supremacists campaigning for him, including David Duke
-encouraged mob justice against the Central Park 5, and continues to insist they are guilty years after its proven otherwise, including spending 85k$ on full page ads in the paper advocating for their execution
-being sued by the federal government on multiple occasions for not renting to minorities

Hell, even when he claims to be trying to reach out, he's doing so in white communities and actually only repeating racist myths and stereotypes that are meant to appeal to white voters and make them feel better about voting for such overt racist.

His sons kept appearing on white supremacist radio programs..."accidentally".
Once may be an accident. Twice, you need to fire your booking agent. four times and counting? its no longer accidental or someone else's fault.
Donald Trump IS racist, regardless of the efforts of the ignorant to ignore it or explain it away.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... [huffingtonpost.com]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... [huffingtonpost.com]
http://fortune.com/2016/06/07/... [fortune.com]

Given how Billary was successful in distancing herself from all that dirty Russian money, and how easily the entire mainstream media presence crammed itself into her pocket, you can bet there's a propaganda machine hard at work here in the USA. And it ain't no commies neither.

What pisses me off is how she's convinced nearly half of American voters that the red on her hands is neither communist coin dust nor the blood of tens of thousands of innocents.

And shame on you if you disregarded that link because it looks non mainstream. There's a media war afoot and we the people are no longer buying the lies of Wall Street's chosen one.

"I suspect that IBM was involved in creating a national database of citizens. How said database was later cherrypicked and sorted was not up to IBM"

The author of a book about their role says otherwise, unsurprisingly
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

"Newly-released documents expose more explicitly the details of IBM’s pivotal role in the Holocaust — all six phases: identification, expulsion from society, confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, and even extermination. Moreover, the documents portray with crystal clarity the personal involvement and micro-management of IBM president Thomas J. Watson in the company’s co-planning and co-organizing of Hitler’s campaign to destroy the Jews"

IBM’s twelve-year alliance with the Third Reich was first revealed in my book IBM and the Holocaust, published simultaneously in 40 countries in February 2001. It was based on some 20,000 documents drawn from archives in seven countries. IBM never denied any of the information in the book; and despite thousands of media and communal requests, as well as published articles, the company has remained silent"

"The punch cards, machinery, training, servicing, and special project work, such as population census and identification, was managed directly by IBM headquarters in New York, and later through its subsidiaries in Germany, known as Deutsche Hollerith-Maschinen Gesellschaft (DEHOMAG), Poland, Holland, France, Switzerland, and other European countries.
Among the punch cards published are two for the SS, including one for the SS Rassenamt, or Race Office, which specialized in racial selections and coordinated with many other Reich offices. A third card was custom-crafted by IBM for Richard Korherr, a top Nazi statistician and expert in Jewish demographics who reported directly to Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler and who also worked with Adolf Eichmann. Himmler and Eichmann were architects of the extermination phase of the Holocaust. All three punch cards bear the proud indicia of IBM’s German subsidiary, DEHOMAG. They illustrate the nature of the end users who relied upon IBM’s information technology"

Actually... yes the do.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

So the time locked up may be short, but the legal impact on your life can be great.

actually a lot of people die in county jails but it's hard to get the data, which should demonstrate the lack of oversight.
http://data.huffingtonpost.com...

Or maybe they had nothing too lose and voting for trump was more of a f u to the rest of the nation http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...?

Nothing to lose? How about their Medicare? If Obamacare is repealed, the Medicare expansion dies and all those red states populated with lots of new Medicare patients are fucked. See Kentucky, for example.

I could maybe accept that argument if Trump were saying things that were truly racist, sexist, etc

If you don't understand that Trump has said and done HUGELY racist and sexist things then you don't understand what the words mean.

I'm pretty sure you don't appreciate people on the right labeling all Clinton supporters as "baby murderers" because Hillary Clinton said she supports abortion, do you?

If you'll notice I mentioned that you have to own ALL of the positions of the person you vote for. That applies to anyone.

That said your example is utter nonsense and it certainly isn't an equivalent argument. If the fetuses and embryos were actually babies they might have a point. They aren't. They are a fetus or an embryo and they don't become a baby until they are actually born. Until the fetus is sufficiently developed to survive outside the mother there is no credible argument that they are a baby. Until then they are nothing more than a mass of growing cells little different from a cancer biologically speaking. Arguing against abortion and/or contraception is to argue that women have no right to control their reproductive system which is to argue that they are not allowed to control what happens to their body. It's an absurd infringement on a person's rights that we do not condone in almost any other circumstance. We can't even harvest organs from a dead person without their prior consent and yet we don't consider that murder despite the fact that there is a shortage of donor organs and the fact that people WILL die because of it. You can't have it both ways.

Citation for you (though to be honest probably not what you were looking for)

Wikipedia - Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration:

The IRS used inappropriate criteria that identified for review Tea Party and other organizations applying for tax-exempt status based upon their names or policy positions instead of indications of potential political campaign intervention. Ineffective management: 1) allowed inappropriate criteria to be developed and stay in place for more than 18 months, 2) resulted in substantial delays in processing certain applications, and 3) allowed unnecessary information requests to be issued. Although the processing of some applications with potential significant political campaign intervention was started soon after receipt, no work was completed on the majority of these applications for 13 months.... For the 296 total political campaign intervention applications [reviewed in the audit] as of December 17, 2012, 108 had been approved, 28 were withdrawn by the applicant, none had been denied, and 160 were open from 206 to 1,138 calendar days (some for more than three years and crossing two election cycles).... Many organizations received requests for additional information from the IRS that included unnecessary, burdensome questions (e.g., lists of past and future donors).

The Huffington Post:

“In total, 30 percent of the organizations we identified with the words ‘progress’ or ‘progressive’ in their names were processed as potential political cases. In comparison, our audit found that 100 percent of the tax-exempt applications with Tea Party, Patriots, or 9/12 in their names were processed as potential political cases during the timeframe of our audit.”

Yes they may have looked at 6 progressive organizations, they looked at every one of the conservative groups - 292 to be exact.

If you actually do think Castro was good for Cuba, you are sadly ignorant.

Don't put words in his mouth, he actually said the exact opposite: "Castro and communism are not my choices for leaders or economic systems..."

Batista's Cuba was famous for literacy and doctors per capita...

Cuba has a literacy rate of 99,7% and it would appear that despite the best efforts of the US, the Cuban govt, has managed to maintain a pretty good healthcare system: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... Much like the AC you are maligning I don't think much of communism but if you want to dump on the Castro regime at least pick something to complain about that they managed to mess up and not two things they actually seem to have managed to get right.

Maybe you are one of the who thinks Che Guevara was heroic and cannot see the irony of selling t-shirts with his picture.

First you put words in his mouth, now you are projecting thoughts into his mind.

One thing that Republicans/Conservatives (speaking as one myself) need to do better is recognized that racism still actually exists, but may not be typically seen by most white people. I heard the lone black Republican senator was pulled over seven times in a year. He admitted a couple of those were for speeding, but others seemed to be for trivial matters, or nothing at all.

From the senator:

Scott went on to describe a time an officer pulled him over and began questioning if the car he was driving was stolen. "An officer pulls me into the median and starts telling me that he thinks perhaps the car is stolen. Well, I started to ask myself because I was smart enough not to ask him, asking myself, is the license plate coming in as stolen? Does the license plate match the car? I was looking for some rational reason that may have prompted him to stopping me on the side of the road."

It's unfortunate that the movement got started on a very questionable incident, in which it became apparent that the police did nothing wrong, because it gave the political opposition a reason to disbelieve the rest of the story. That shows the damage that "fake news" can do.

I could literally give you over a hundred citations of Democrats and left-wing media citing and circulating this story as an indictment of Trump, bit I'll just give you a couple of typical examples from The Huffington Post and Esquire:

http://www.esquire.com/news-po...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

The point is that both sides (and their media allies) have become guilty of smearing the other with the most despicable charges, often based on the flimsiest of evidence. It has almost become a defacto standard to call your political opponent a pedophile and/or rapist. And the left has also made it a routine to call Republicans racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, etc. And the right has also made it a routine to call its opponents criminal, treasonous, un-American, etc.

Discourse on both sides has devolved into a giant, very ugly screaming match. And that ain't good.

...about these kind of shenanigans!

It means shutting down coal plants and building solar/wind/nuclear plants. Surely this counts as "economic activity".

Economic activity does not necessarily leave society better off. Paying people to dig holes, and paying still more people to fill the holes back in, is "economic activity."

When the unsubsidized cost-per-kilowatt hour of energy source X becomes competitive, you'll find no greater supporter of X than me. But facts on the ground don't yet look good for solar. (And as a big Elon Musk fan, it pains me to post that link.)

I used to fear global warming a lot. But that was before the climate models were shown to be wrong.

If climate models, as a whole, were unbiased, you'd expect about half of them to underpredict the observed amount of warming, and the other half to overpredict the observed amount of warming.

But that's not the kind of wrong they've been shown to be. They all overpredict, as this plot of 73 different climate models, run over a 45-year timespan, shows: http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp...

If this isn't long enough to convince you that the models are wrong, how long of a run would it take? 55 years? 70 years?

This is really the only scientific way to evaluate the validity of climate models. The models have performed with such bias, that it's fair to call anyone who still has faith in them a science denier.

[Contrast the bias of the climate models with hurricane track models which, collectively, do a good job. About half the models predict a track that's leftward of the observed track, while the other half predict a track that's rightward of the observed track: http://images.huffingtonpost.c... ]

I don't disagree with climate models because of faith. I disagree with them because they've been shown to be wrong.

If climate models, as a whole, were unbiased, you'd expect about half of them to underpredict the observed amount of warming, and the other half to overpredict the observed amount of warming.

But that's not the kind of wrong they've been shown to be. They all overpredict, as this plot of 73 different climate models, run over a 45-year timespan, shows: http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp...

If this isn't long enough to convince you that the models are wrong, how long of a run would it take? 55 years? 70 years?

This is really the only scientific way to evaluate the validity of climate models. The models have performed with such bias, that it's fair to call anyone who still has faith in them a science denier.

[Contrast the bias of the climate models with hurricane track models which, collectively, do a good job. About half the models predict a track that's leftward of the observed track, while the other half predict a track that's rightward of the observed track: http://images.huffingtonpost.c... ]

But we know that you don't have one.

I'm pretty sure you won't acknowledge this citation about the DNC, but I'll give it anyhow...

Facebook is the opiate of the masses.

More like Krokodil.

Speaking of steak. Trump is truly a monster because he likes his steak well done.

I'd say the statement isn't so much "continually pointing out racism is bad for you" as much as it is "continually pointing out perceived racism, over-generalizing and exaggerating it, and focusing on that to the exclusion of other, more legitimate criticisms is bad for you". Trump has said bigoted things about Muslims, no doubt, but he hasn't said anything against Hispanics. What he said was about illegal immigrants from Mexico; still a bigoted and untrue statement, but not racist. And he has praised legal immigrants numerous times. The attack should have been against what he actually said, not at an exaggerated or false version of it.

What Trump actually said? Why? He'd just deny it. Even if you had it directly on video. The man is actually accusing Mexico of directly sending the bad ones to the US. That's wilder than I had imagined, to be honest.

Oh but he ended his remarks, with "And some, I assume, are good people" so let's pretend that's what matters.

But no, you have to realize, racists and other bigots have always been good at denial, deflection, and recrimination. They were doing it when desegregation was happening. They were doing it when the abuses of segregation were being studiously ignored. They were doing it during the Civil War. Before the Civil War.

So now, it's a case of exaggeration, and even taking him seriously. Don't we realize when he's just joking?

Whatever.

The truth is, Trump was called out for his brash, bombastic, presentation as much as anything else. Just like with Reagan, nobody cared.

We pay Mexico several hundred million per year to patrol their side of the border.

Nope. You must have gotten that statistic from fake news. The 200 million figure seems to match the figure for all security/military (non-economic) aid, only a small portion of which is earmarked for their northern border, and which was probably a lot less this year..

Total foreign aid, some of which boosts our own economy in indirect ways, is in the $400-$500 million range.

Even if we take Trump's own underestimation of $8 billion and canceled all foreign aid to Mexico, which would cost us dearly in the economy, it would take 20 years to make up that much money.

the actual number of CEO in silicon valley isn't two thirds or 3/4. The actual percent is less than 20%, so either Bannon failed at math or he is tries to provoke his followers. If you fall for it, then you're clearly talking out of your ass. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

While reading your post, I found several items to make no sense to me at all. I mean no offense, but it seems you are not well-informed about several aspects of modern politics, especially regarding violence and protests. Let me give my take on your comment.

I have been very disappointed in the response of the losing side over this election.

I find it hard to be disappointed when people act exactly like I would expect them to act in a given situation. Staged rioting, funded by outsiders, is commonplace among the American left today. From Black Lives Matter, back to Occupy Wall Street, to violent protests on any number of college campuses, it is now the norm, not the exception.

This is the kind of behavior I feared that would flare up on the other side when Trump lost the "rigged" election and the faithful rose up in revolt.

Why? How often to conservatives or Republicans riot? Did any Tea Party protests incite violence? Hmmm, let's see. "one of the Tea Partiers can be seen having an argument with one of the ANSWER counter-protesters when that counter-protester pummels him with his sign."

It's not what I would expect from the allegedly rational side of the fence.

Rational? How long were you in that cryogenic tank you just came out of last week? ;^) Large sectors of politically active liberals in the US haven't been rational for years. Or non-violent, for that matter. Do you remember the university professor calling for "muscle" last year?

They don't even have the excuse that Hillary egged them on.

In fact, the only excuse they could possibly make is that "this is how Trump would do it". So tell us again how you're better than he is?

Again, I am just left wondering why you are surprised at all by this. No one who voted for Trump is surprised. In fact, that is why there were millions of them who claimed to support Hillary, or even Johnson, before last week. They didn't want to get attacked, or have their cars and property destroyed.

if that were it, youd have a point.
but its not, and you dont: https://slashdot.org/comments....

Is Trump racist? YES!

FTFY.

A short and very incomplete list of completely racist things Trump has said or done:
-"theres one of my blacks"
-"mexico is sending us rapists"
-"laziness is a trait in blacks"
-"the judge is a Mexican"
-"they don’t look like Indians to me... They don’t look like Indians to Indians.”
-supports stop-and-frisk, as practiced by the NYPD (ie, unconstitutional and racially discriminatory), and wants it expanded nationwide, claiming it worked, contrary to all evidence
-Obama's birth certificate
-condoned the abuse and even beatings of multiple Black Lives Matter protesters and other minorities at his campaign rallies
-regularly engages in anti-Semitism
-treats his minority supporters as literal tokens
-treats minorities and racial groups as monolithic stereotypes
-thinks all African americans live in the inner city, are poor, without work, receiving welfare, and uneducated
-saying 88% of white murders are committed by black folks
-repeating statements from white supremacists multiple occasions
-making blatant dog whistles to the alt-right, white supremacist crowd
-not condemning or distancing from white supremacists campaigning for him, including David Duke
-encouraged mob justice against the Central Park 5, and continues to insist they are guilty years after its proven otherwise, including spending 85k$ on full page ads in the paper advocating for their execution
-being sued by the federal government on multiple occasions for not renting to minorities

Hell, even when he claims to be trying to reach out, he's doing so in white communities and actually only repeating racist myths and stereotypes that are meant to appeal to white voters and make them feel better about voting for such overt racist.

His father was a racist who went to KKK rallies. His sons are racist, and kep appearing on white supremacist radio programs..."accidentally". Once may be an accident. Twice, you need to fire your booking agent. four times and counting? its no longer accidental or someone else's fault.
Donald Trump IS racist, regardless of the efforts of the ignorant to ignore it or explain it away.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... [huffingtonpost.com]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... [huffingtonpost.com]
http://fortune.com/2016/06/07/... [fortune.com]

if that were it, youd have a point.
but its not, and you dont: https://slashdot.org/comments....

Is Trump racist? YES!

FTFY.

A short and very incomplete list of completely racist things Trump has said or done:
-"theres one of my blacks"
-"mexico is sending us rapists"
-"laziness is a trait in blacks"
-"the judge is a Mexican"
-"they don’t look like Indians to me... They don’t look like Indians to Indians.”
-supports stop-and-frisk, as practiced by the NYPD (ie, unconstitutional and racially discriminatory), and wants it expanded nationwide, claiming it worked, contrary to all evidence
-Obama's birth certificate
-condoned the abuse and even beatings of multiple Black Lives Matter protesters and other minorities at his campaign rallies
-regularly engages in anti-Semitism
-treats his minority supporters as literal tokens
-treats minorities and racial groups as monolithic stereotypes
-thinks all African americans live in the inner city, are poor, without work, receiving welfare, and uneducated
-saying 88% of white murders are committed by black folks
-repeating statements from white supremacists multiple occasions
-making blatant dog whistles to the alt-right, white supremacist crowd
-not condemning or distancing from white supremacists campaigning for him, including David Duke
-encouraged mob justice against the Central Park 5, and continues to insist they are guilty years after its proven otherwise, including spending 85k$ on full page ads in the paper advocating for their execution
-being sued by the federal government on multiple occasions for not renting to minorities

Hell, even when he claims to be trying to reach out, he's doing so in white communities and actually only repeating racist myths and stereotypes that are meant to appeal to white voters and make them feel better about voting for such overt racist.

His father was a racist who went to KKK rallies. His sons are racist, and kep appearing on white supremacist radio programs..."accidentally". Once may be an accident. Twice, you need to fire your booking agent. four times and counting? its no longer accidental or someone else's fault.
Donald Trump IS racist, regardless of the efforts of the ignorant to ignore it or explain it away.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... [huffingtonpost.com]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... [huffingtonpost.com]
http://fortune.com/2016/06/07/... [fortune.com]

So, not all Mexicans, then? Just some of the illegal Mexicans crossing the border? Which makes sense because 80% of central American women and girls are raped during their illegal border crossing. So, somebody's doing the raping. I'm so glad we elected Trump! Once he builds that border wall and we cut down on people crossing illegally, so many women and girls won't be raped! It's wonderful! Can you believe those despicable, evil people who voted for Hillary, the pro-rape candidate? Why do they love rape so much? Clearly that's the only reason they voted for her: to keep rape alive.

As HuffPo said, Nate Silver was obviously putting his thumb on the scales when he forecast a 35% chance of a Trump win. "It’s not easy to sit here and tell you that Clinton has a 98 percent chance of winning", Ryan Grim wrote. (He still hasn't owned up to how badly he bungled the statistics.)

I've seen nothing from him that he is racist.

Really?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

At most, he is a bit misogynistic but not in any ways that actually matter as his campaign manager was a woman and he has women in leadership roles within his companies.

Just because there are women on his staff doesn't mean he is not misogynistic.

Trump is rude and crude at times, and has said a lot of things most people think about but never actually say publicly

Well maybe you think about it saying it, but the rest of us never do, because we are not rude and crude.

You could say that I didn't vote for Trump as much as I voted against Hillary and actually wanted that vote to defeat Hillary. Trump is controllable, Congress can go around him.

That is exactly what people in power thought about Hitler at the time. They tought he could be controlled and would never rise to so much power. All the crazy people start somewhere rising up. Remember Hitler was voted democratically.

As I said, if you can't be bothered to use google I'm not going to help you. I would recommend you read this:

https://www.greenrushdaily.com...

The quote from Obama (which people like you don't understand):

"What I specifically said was that we were not going to prioritize prosecutions of persons who are using medical marijuana. I never made a commitment that somehow we were going to give carte blanche to large-scale producers and operators of marijuana—and the reason is because it’s against federal law."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Here's more information on the raid that is 404'd in the huffpo:

http://articles.latimes.com/20...

97% + of scientists agree on it being a scientific fact that global warming is happening. 84% apparently agree it's caused by humans, who are you to call it junk science?

"Exxon knew of climate change in 1981, email says – but it funded deniers for 27 more years" https://www.theguardian.com/en... are you on the pay roll or just someone suckered in by their corrupt plan?

27 YEARS, holy crap, imagine where we'd be if they invested that money into clean energy research instead of spreading lies while they choke the planet.

And more importantly, if we work as hard as possible to try and counter it, we're making our air cleaner and our planet an all round better place to live, oh no, what a travesty. I'm sure those breathing toxic air in China and India will be devastated they can still breath http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... , https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

To be fair Obama's slightly worse than a Nazi...

For fuck sakes, Slashdot is lock step in line with Huffington Posts front page articles http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.... BeauHD is liberal hack that cannot get over the butt hurt.
His twitter feed, "Trump is a saggy sack of shit. If any one of you is even remotely considering voting for him this November, please unfollow me. "
"That sack of shit next to Hillary is attracting flies! #debate"
"Clinton wiped the floor with Trump tonight. Say hello to your next president, America!"
" It's only a story because it has the 'Trump' buzzword. Stupid media is stupid."
"I bet Trump hired the climber for publicity."

she and the Democrats abandoned the Rust Belt. Michael Moore described election night back in July: Donald Trump was going to take Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, plus the Romney states, and win. That's pretty much what happened, except Trump also got Florida. Hillary conceded Ohio, paid only a little attention to Pennsylvania, took Michigan and Wisconsin completely for granted, and lost.

Mexican isn't a race.

It is not? When then-candidate Donald Trump criticized the tiny minority of Mexicans, which chooses to cross into the US illegally, he was denounced as racist ...

Were you raising the same objection then? Could you post a link to it, if you did?

It's gonna be Not Very Fun At All to be a illegal alien in the US for the next couple of years.

As if it's been nothing but roses and daisies up until now...

What actual evidence do you have that Trump will attack minorities?

His comments about latinos. His history of discrimination against blacks. His comments about muslims. His support of white supremacists.

It's gonna be Not Very Fun At All to be a illegal alien in the US for the next couple of years.

As if it's been nothing but roses and daisies up until now...

What actual evidence do you have that Trump will attack minorities?

His comments about latinos. His history of discrimination against blacks. His comments about muslims. His support of white supremacists.