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Nice pigeon-holing.

*Some* Republicans are conservatives. Some are Progressives. Some are Republican in name only (RINO) and vote with the Democrats often.

Some Democrats are conservatives. Some are Progressives. Some are Communists, some Socialists. Some are Fascists and wear masks, carry weapons, and dress in black while rioting and violently attacking others that do not share their opinions.

What, only black? Not red? Camo? You know, like Cliven Bundy.

Up until just a few short years ago, the Democrats kept a former KKK leader in office, Robert Byrd, as a long-time Senator until he died in 2010. That's right, the Democrats had a Senator who served for decades who was a former KKK leader. Not 'member'. Leader.

You know, it's funny how people who rail about Byrd never mention two things. First, they never mention that Byrd expressly and explicitly repudiated the racist KKK (some go so far as to claim he never did), and Second, they never mention how the beloved Strom Thurmond was belovingly embraced into the GOP, and served pretty much the same time as Byrd.

Can you explain it?

Coincidently, speaking of civil rights and minorities, Democrats (and the KKK) fully support Planned Parenthood is and always has been, to slow the birthrates of 'undesirables' like blacks, the poor, the mentally challenged, and other minorities.

Oh no, because Margaret Sanger didn't want women to be burdened with no choice except to give birth time after time, she's not only anti-black, she's anti-Semitic. A self-hating Jew. You tell others to google her? You should look beyond the nonsense you've found on the pages of right-wing propagandists. She was actually brought into Harlem by the NAACP and the leaders of that community, after they saw the effects of her work in Jewish areas. In reality, it's the KKK that opposed Planned Parenthood, and their adherents in the White Power Quiverfull movement that want to breed themselves into dominance like some sort of infectious virus.

But sure buddy, it's conservatives and Republicans who are racist, etc etc, blah blah blah. Yep. Uh-huh. o_0

Yup. Let's see, there's the wonderful Steve King. There's that state Senator in Florida. There's Reagan's history of Dogwhistling, and there's Trump's rampant birtherism. Not to mention his Mexican Wall, Muslim ban, and inability to remember who David Duke is.

Sorry dude, but it's a telling sign when it's a Republican opposing the removal of monuments to white supremacy.

Here are the examples you asked for: http://www.ebony.com/black-his... [ebony.com]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... [huffingtonpost.com]
Heck, you should even count the US Civil War.

Those are excellent examples. Notice how American progressives and Democrats were on the morally wrong side of each of these?

or you propose doing away with corporate welfare, rural subsidies, mortgage deductions, etc...

Those are good conservative values, yes. I'm not ashamed of supporting "doing away with corporate welfare, rural subsidies, mortgage deductions, etc.".

Like, for example, when people propose cutting public funding for education, healthcare, welfare, abortion, and all that

or you propose doing away with corporate welfare, rural subsidies, mortgage deductions, etc...

Here are the examples you asked for: http://www.ebony.com/black-his...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Heck, you should even count the US Civil War.

Note the lack of official punishment for any of these acts. They were tacitly condoned. Even the Civil War instigators were pardoned and allowed to reintegrate.

Pull up Google earth and look at all of the Oilfield canals in the coastal marsh. The 1st offshore oil well in the world was drilled south of Morgan City and offshore drilling was born there. http://www.rigmuseum.com/charl... The problem is the US Government has stolen all of the money from offshore drilling in Louisiana's waters from the 1950's to today. States that do not allow drilling in their own waters get a cut of what is rightly Louisianans money. It will not cost the Fed anything. Just give LA the royalties from the existing infrastructure.

http://www.nola.com/politics/i...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
http://www.thetowntalk.com/sto...

They refused to participate in the gay wedding by baking a cake for it.

That argument was used by the lawyers, and it didn't work.

And why would it work? Think about it. If baking a wedding cake means "participating" in the ceremony and celebrating its values, then many Christian bakers can't ever serve non-Christian heterosexual couples, as that would mean worshiping other gods and false idols. Heaven forbid if those couples had pre-martial sex, had a previous divorce not approved of by the Bible, or *gasp* were atheists.

Doesn't this kill culture, though?

No, it doesn't, because...

"Sure, you can keep your religion, but you can't actually live according to its teachings, and you can't segregate into a place where you can?"

This is false. You aren't disallowed from living according to its teachings. Serving your fellow man is not the same as affirming their beliefs

And you aren't disallowed from segregating yourself. You need to understand that those bakeries weren't trying to segregate themselves. They were open to the public, not just Christians. If they wanted to segregate themselves, they probably wouldn't be able to obtain the same permits or take advantage of the same tax laws as any other business open to the public. And they would get a lot less business of course.

Here's the thing you have to understand: wealth isn't the same as culture. If you segregated yourself and don't get a lot of business, you're killing your own (material) wealth. You're not killing your culture though. You can be poor but still preserve your culture. "Poor" again by materialistic standards. The Amish are "poor", but they're preserving their culture.

If you want to preserve your culture, you may have to take a cut in your pay. You can't have your proverbial cake and eat it too ;p

Obama Fails on Government Transparency

“The American people were promised a new era of transparency with the Obama administration. Unfortunately, this promise has not been kept. To be clear: the Obama administration is less transparent than the Bush administration.”

US gov't sets record for failures to find files when asked

The Obama administration set a record for the number of times its federal employees told disappointed citizens, journalists and others that despite searching they couldn't find a single page requested under the Freedom of Information Act, according to a new Associated Press analysis of government data.

In more than one in six cases, or 129,825 times, government searchers said they came up empty-handed last year. Such cases contributed to an alarming measurement: People who asked for records under the law received censored files or nothing in 77 percent of requests, also a record. In the first full year after President Barack Obama's election, that figure was only 65 percent of cases.

The White House Guess List: How Obama Pulled a Fast One on the American People -- in the Name of "Transparency"

The White House is still holding back "tens of thousands" of visitor logs, according to congressional testimony last week by Tom Fitton, President of Judicial Watch, who also added that "the Obama administration is less transparent than the Bush administration."

We also know that some of the most important presidential visitors don't even walk into the White House. The administration meets K Street lobbyists at Caribou Coffee, and holds secret meetings in Jackson Place townhouses where there are no visitor logs.

The visitor logs that have been released are problematic, because they are simply lists of names, with no way to verify whether a specific name belongs to a particular person.

It already is a humanitarian nightmare. It's just that by doing nothing, you can blame the North Korean government for it. If you manage to overthrow the NK government, suddenly you become responsible for the nightmare and critics blame you for things that would've happened anyway even if you had done nothing.

and people come to realize that they wasted time perfecting a skill that doesn't work.

Actually, prayer does work. It's basically a form of meditation.

23andMe was banned from producing health analysis reports by the FDA in 2013, and recently was finally approved to release certain health reports after a lengthy, expensive process.

Yes, a device such as a medical tricorder would certainly have to be certified by the FDA in the US.

Seriously. Who the fuck was calling for lowered standards in forensic science?

Private prisons. They lobby for anything that results in higher and longer incarceration rates.

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

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

I'm sick and fucking tired of hearing about business models that can only "grow" only by crossing the ethical line. Fuck private prisons and their reasons to destroy the advances we've made in forensic science. You want profits? Then create business that benefits members of society instead of finding more creative ways to imprison them. If this kind of bullshit lobbying continues, you'll be behind bars for jaywalking, because it helps feed someone's bottom line.

"You should realize that your congress critters work for rich people ...blah, blah, blah"

Standard tin-foil, knee-jerk response above.

Have you ever actually written to, or called your congressional reps? There are ways to be heard...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
http://theslot.jezebel.com/how...
https://www.wired.com/2017/01/...

Seriously. Who the fuck was calling for lowered standards in forensic science?

Private prisons. They lobby for anything that results in higher and longer incarceration rates.

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

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

They would, we're just used to hearing Big Pharma's side of the argument.
citation: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Norway has an overabundance of hydroelectric power. Hydro is by far the cheapest renewable (cheaper than coal). And, provided you have enough of it to meet or exceed your consumption, it's available on-demand, unlike wind or solar. That is, it can cover both base load and peaking load.

Unfortunately, most countries don't have such an abundance of the almost perfect renewable energy source. So they'd end up burning coal or natural gas to provide base load electricity at 40%-50% efficiency, transmitted to the ports at 98% efficiency, to charge batteries at the port at 85% efficiency, to charge batteries on the ship at 85% efficiency, for an overall cycle efficiency of 32%. At that efficiency, you might as well just keep burning diesel. Or they'd use wind at 2-3x the cost, or solar at 4-5x the cost, and it wouldn't be financially viable for ferry companies to switch from diesel to electric. (Electric trains work because they don't have to carry the electricity source with them. Ships and planes don't have that luxury.)

Taharrush Gamea: A mangled spelling of the Arabic phrase for "group harassment," referring to a fictional Arabic practice of organized sexual harassment and robbery, made up by the far-right. That was indeed informative.

...I actually enjoy these managers.

Hacking management behavior is loads of fun. Give me 6 months with any manager and I can provoke damn near any reaction I want, all the while they think it's their idea.

...why yes, I do enjoy my coffee black, why do you ask?

Would it have been better to simply let the banks fail, so that the depression was worse but much shorter?

The banks failed due to writing mortgages which they knew were bad. But the banks also knew that they would repo those properties when the mortgages failed. Then they got bailed out, and then "repaid" the bailout with money which we gave them to spend on other things, and meanwhile, they got to keep those properties. The banks won't sell the homes for what they are worth (what the market will bear) so they're just sitting on them hoping for a recovery that isn't going to come while people are throwing their money down a rent hole. Or in some cases, they are renting them, and profiting from the situation directly. But this situation is unsustainable.

If we were going to bail out the banks, which may have been the most reasonable thing to do, then we should have got something for our bailout. And that something should have been those houses. The banks should have been forced to either give away or give back any property on which they foreclosed when they knew damned well that it was a bad mortgage.

(or Millenials like Milo, Coulter, Shapiro, etc...)

Ann Coulter was born in 1961, that makes her a Baby Boomer, or a Gen-Xer, depending on your lines. It can be a bit fuzzy, but she's in no way close to being a Millenial.

You should probably check your own "facts" better. Seriously, Coulter has been around since the nineties with her act. Which should probably tell you that your premises are false, of course, you could find the same pattern with recognition of McCartney, Birch, Hearst, Calhoun, or Davis, to name a few. There's nothing new about them(even individuals like Milo Yiannopolous and Ben Shapiro are just recent additions to the crowd), and no, they don't care about facts, that's why they can make things up, instead preferring their flippant hysteria and emotion laden rhetoric.

Even Fred Thompson knew about it.

PS, the Italian American community has long expressed distress about being characterized as being gang and criminal oriented, as have the Russians and Irish. And Hispanics. And Blacks. And...well, the list goes on.

(or Millenials like Milo, Coulter, Shapiro, etc...)

Ann Coulter was born in 1961, that makes her a Baby Boomer, or a Gen-Xer, depending on your lines. It can be a bit fuzzy, but she's in no way close to being a Millenial.

You should probably check your own "facts" better. Seriously, Coulter has been around since the nineties with her act. Which should probably tell you that your premises are false, of course, you could find the same pattern with recognition of McCartney, Birch, Hearst, Calhoun, or Davis, to name a few. There's nothing new about them(even individuals like Milo Yiannopolous and Ben Shapiro are just recent additions to the crowd), and no, they don't care about facts, that's why they can make things up, instead preferring their flippant hysteria and emotion laden rhetoric.

Even Fred Thompson knew about it.

PS, the Italian American community has long expressed distress about being characterized as being gang and criminal oriented, as have the Russians and Irish. And Hispanics. And Blacks. And...well, the list goes on.

Somebody's doing the raping.

And cops are more likely to shoot whites than blacks.

Maybe you're the one with the confirmation bias? Just maybe? Could be? Kinda? Food for thought? Naw, naw you're just gonna keep spouting the same crap because it suits your goal, not because it's true.

has to relearn that politics is not a matter of black and white

We have an election system that not only promotes tribalism, it promotes a duality: you are either the majority party, the minority party, or a rounding error. Which party is the majority just rotates every 6-8 years. The last time a major party fell out or was replaced was over a century ago, and it's only been the makeup of each that has changed since.

This has been a problem for almost as long as this country has held elections. Parties formed shortly after the country did, States, with few exceptions, all moved to first-past-the-post, winner-take-all based on the popular vote for the Electoral College. Only now is ranked/preferential voting being applied on a wide level: Maine voted it in with this last election. I'd like to say that other states will follow their lead, but Maine (and Nebraska, odd bed-fellows) has had Congressional District Method for the EC for a few decades now but no other states have picked up on it.

In short, American politics is black and white because Americans in general don't care enough to make gray options viable (and the elite for both major parties are all too happy to stay mum on the ability to do so.) I feel the Founding Fathers could have done more to stunt or blunt this, our election system being one of their few major failures (and one of the even fewer that has gone uncorrected.)

Where is the right trying to "deplatform" left-wing speakers?

On News Corp platforms, Breitbart, twitter, 4chan, all sorts of places?

Just look for all the hand-wringing over "BLM" and "Anti-Trump" riots, against "Planned Parenthood", all the "Birther" claims, and you''ll find it.

Let's see, who is committing the violence [rollingstone.com] and trying to prevent the speech of others? That would be the left.

Also, case in point, here, by a user named Raenex. Who will never look at the right's actions.

But you, you want us to be upset over Milo's hiring a bunch of guys in masks to disrupt his own rallies and get attention. But Milo is out so you didn't even get your memo about that.

Which political party responds to critiques of Islam with cries of "Islamophobia" and "racist"? Which political party is against restrictions on Muslim immigration? Which political party has apologists for Sharia law leading [breitbart.com] women marches?

The left went from fighting political Christians to embracing Islam.

Which political party denounces Islam and creates lies about Sharia law? Which political party tries to convince us that Islam is a material threat? Which political party wants to ignore the terrorists among us?

Which political party lies about Planned Parenthood? Which political party has been found in court to engage in unlawful gerrymandering? Which political party is threatening judges who dared to reject Trump's unlawful ban? Which political party attacks how women dressed? Which political party claims to be pro-life, but resents paying for maternity care?

The right is the party that loves everything about radical Islamists, except the name they operate under.

Where is the right trying to "deplatform" left-wing speakers?

On News Corp platforms, Breitbart, twitter, 4chan, all sorts of places?

Just look for all the hand-wringing over "BLM" and "Anti-Trump" riots, against "Planned Parenthood", all the "Birther" claims, and you''ll find it.

Let's see, who is committing the violence [rollingstone.com] and trying to prevent the speech of others? That would be the left.

Also, case in point, here, by a user named Raenex. Who will never look at the right's actions.

But you, you want us to be upset over Milo's hiring a bunch of guys in masks to disrupt his own rallies and get attention. But Milo is out so you didn't even get your memo about that.

Which political party responds to critiques of Islam with cries of "Islamophobia" and "racist"? Which political party is against restrictions on Muslim immigration? Which political party has apologists for Sharia law leading [breitbart.com] women marches?

The left went from fighting political Christians to embracing Islam.

Which political party denounces Islam and creates lies about Sharia law? Which political party tries to convince us that Islam is a material threat? Which political party wants to ignore the terrorists among us?

Which political party lies about Planned Parenthood? Which political party has been found in court to engage in unlawful gerrymandering? Which political party is threatening judges who dared to reject Trump's unlawful ban? Which political party attacks how women dressed? Which political party claims to be pro-life, but resents paying for maternity care?

The right is the party that loves everything about radical Islamists, except the name they operate under.

They're only doing what the losers did when Obama won... threw temper tantrums. Oh, sorry, the tea baggers are entitled to throw tantrums because they're conservatives and playing the victim, which they accuse everyone else of doing, comes naturally to them. Sorry, forgot about that point.

where breast feeding is a public offense

Here is a complete exhaustive list of all the American states where public breastfeeding is illegal:

1. Idaho

It is legal everywhere else.

That is 1 state above the threshold for making the criticism legitimate.

I mean breastfeeding... FFS... it is a normal part of life, completely non sexual, and in no way affects anyone other than mother and child.

A large reason people don't care for breast feeding in public is that it involves the emission of body fluids.
You get far fewer objections when a female just pulls her shirt up for a boob-viewing session.
Other instances of emission of body fluids (spitting, urinating. nose-picking, changing diapers, etc) is considered inappropriate public behavior.
Farting is on the list as well. Well, sweating not so looked down on as the others, but nonetheless no one wants to be in contact with a person who is visibly sweating in public.

where breast feeding is a public offense

Here is a complete exhaustive list of all the American states where public breastfeeding is illegal:

1. Idaho

It is legal everywhere else.

That is 1 state above the threshold for making the criticism legitimate.

I mean breastfeeding... FFS... it is a normal part of life, completely non sexual, and in no way affects anyone other than mother and child.

...said the main living in the glorious country where the simple apparition of a nipple is considered a major mediatic catastrophe

Nipples are only banned from broadcast TV. On cable, and on the internet, Americans are nipple tolerant.

where breast feeding is a public offense

Here is a complete exhaustive list of all the American states where public breastfeeding is illegal:

1. Idaho

It is legal everywhere else.

right here.

GOP establishment get money from donors who want cheap labor. That doesn't do shit for GOP voters. Yes, the GOP establishment did nothing about illegal immigration. The GOP base was really, really pissed about it, and elected Trump, the first Republican presidential candidate in a long time to actually promise to do the thing that's (depending on the poll and how you ask the question) got the approval of 55-65% of Americans: build wall; deport illegals.

There are lots of reasons for wanting to do this:

1. Protecting borders is the most basic function of government (law and order).

2. Some illegals commit crimes, and they shouldn't even be here. The government refusing to deal with the problem is betraying the citizens. When Jamiel Shaw Jr was gunned down by an illegal mexican who'd been deported 3 times telling his dad "well they're not all criminals" is cold comfort.

3. Illegals are exploited by greedy businessmen for profit, and drive down wages for everyone else. Especially bad for our poor blacks and legal hispanics.

4. Illegals consume public resources paid for by citizen taxpayers.

5. 80% of central and south american women and girls who cross the border illegal are raped during the process, and that sort of thing is frowned upon.

6. Open border allows for easier drug, gun, and sex trafficking. The profits from this fund monsters like the Zetas, turning Mexico into a blood drenched hell hole. Not a good thing to have next door, and the violence spills over the border.

7. They fucking vote Democrat.

These are all really good reasons to oppose illegal immigration, but Dems (both establishment and voters) will ignore or make excuses for 1 through 6 because 7 while the GOP establishment ignores 1 - 2; 4-7 because 3. Trump (and Trump voters) make no excuses and dropkick the illegals back over the border.

And I'm saying this is why the Dems are so recalcitrant about stopping any flow of 3rd worlders into the US.

Other way around. This is why the REPUBLICANS are so adamant in stopping them. It isn't about protecting borders or protecting us bad hombres or terrorists or anything like that.

Because they vote Democrat.

No, because they won't vote Republican.

Imagine if there were a magic portal from Fundieland, where productive safe white fundamentalist Christians were being persecuted and killed by evil atheists.

Don't have to imagine it.

So if we started taking Fundieland refugees and shoveling them by the millions into California, changing the voting demographics there to Republican, I guarantee all of this "refugees welcome" crap would turn around really fucking fast.

Nah, it would be the "refugees get out" rhetoric from Republicans that will be changing really fast.

Trumps flavor ability right now is higher than the DNC

Classic tea party response. Most people are going to find Trump very sour-tasting in the near future. Trump's favorability is still sinking and lower than the DNC.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/03/20/trump-approval-rating-low/99409570/
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/democratic-party-favorable-rating

The Dems are caving left and right on Trump's appointees, and there is no reason to believe this will stop any time soon.

Last I read that Trump was still trying to find 500+ people out of 320M people who haven't said a negative thing about him to fill all those vacant government positions.

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-filling-staff-positions-2017-2

Gone are the days of:

sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

The Illiberal Left's War on Speech continues and we've almost lost it... Major positions have been surrendered without or with little fight:

• "Safe spaces" on campuses have been weaponized and are used to suppress opinions, that make others "uncomfortable";
• The nonsense of "gender-neutral pronouns" and "transgenderism" in general came out of nowhere — a pregnant woman coming to a hospital to give birth claims to be a man, and is offended, when referred to as "mommy" by the nurses.
• Though one can not (yet!) be arrested for making others "uncomfortable" with one's opinion, one may already be fired for same.
• "Hate speech" is already illegal in many Western countries — with movement afoot to bring the same oppression into the US.
• Though the Bill of Rights is still, supposedly, the law of the land, its treatment has changed:

  “This isn’t really the ’60s anymore [...] people can’t really protest like that anymore.”

• The "right to be forgotten", having never existed before, is suddenly "a thing". Can't wait to discuss the court-ordered memory-erasures on SlashDot...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... - The SV progressive should probably switch to tea as their go-to psychoactive drug, it will save the earth.

In the same idea, mentioning beef water use to make a point about chicken probably falls in the logical fallacy realm... Not to mention their 2,500 gallon is about 30% higher than HuffPo's number (1.800), so that's probably also probably an overly inflated number.

I was a big fan of naming that waste dump in Austin - The Fred Durst Society for the Humanities and The Arts
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Why do you say SJWs aren't a thing?

Because they're not.

That's as much bullshit as claiming that racist Trump supporters don't exist. Off the top of my head:

Game of Thrones was "glamorizing" rape in a scene that was supposed to be creepy as fuck: her brother forcing himself on her over the corpse of their dead son. The SWJ's on Salon got half a dozen articles out of that, but DGAF about cannibals murdering an entire village in the same episode, and Theon's far worse fate in a previous season.

All the ratfucking aimed at Bernie Sander's way when he said "excuse me, I'm talking" during a debate - ermagerd he's so sexist to shout down the wooman in the race! When in reality she had constantly been interrupting him, and Sanders was just speaking up for himself.

The craters made in fainting couches over Marvel's variant cover of Spider-Women, even though Spider-Man often drawn in the same pose. In the same vein, the pearls clutched over Apocalypse holding Mystique by the throat, ignoring the fact that is also a common display of dominance from both antagonists and protagonists.

Of course SJW's exist. They are the left wing equivalent of right wingers who rail against trans people using bathrooms or Muslims - assholes who use demagoguery to control conversation and shut people up.

The article is talking about the gap that exists because of reduced hours, child birth, different professions, etc. That's what it aims to remove/reduce. It's also not entirely accurate to say that those factors fully explain the gap. Granted they account for most of it, but about 5-6% remains unexplained. Links here and here.

Puhhhleaaze. Stop being a tool for Apple. Apple has their money abroad because they don't want to pay the paltry effective tax rate of less than 18% - but yet they still want to have access to the American consumer market. Apple is a tax cheat that gets away with paying 0 taxes in Ireland, though that is not where they are headquartered. The European Union is starting to chase them now like the tax cockroaches they are.

It's not that the tax laws are idiotic. It's that Apple wants to pay ZERO taxes. It's too bad that another president fell for this old story before.

They have teams of lawyers that know the tax laws. The only struggle they have with them is that they exist, not that they are somehow "idiotic."

That's their plan to win back power, as well as sabotage anything that could possibly be a net benefit to the public, because then they can blame the failure on the current administration. The more false accusations are levied, the more colorful and childish pejoratives or ad hominems they come up with, the more it becomes apparent that the enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend at all.

At least some people on the left 'get it' but the voices of reason will be lost among the cacophony of selective outrage, or be outright shouted down themselves. The time is ripe for the political parties led by the baby boomers to be swept aside for something new, something that can break us out of this downward spiral of self defeating deadlock and stagnation.

Except that media organizations make up stuff out of whole cloth, like the report about trannie suicides going thru the roof since Trump became president.

Ok, find one major media organization that covered that one, and show it.

But yes, Trump has manufactured stories, and misled. Those things are real. Yours? As valid as that picture claiming marines are volunteering for guard duty now when they aren't under Obama who is not leading an army of anti-Trump activists. Random noise in the stream.

You might as well be one of the Infowarriors condemning the media for not covering it.

Yep, 99%

But won't shill trolls be replaced by AI even sooner?

They already have. The most prolific one on slashdot goes by the nym "Anonymous Coward." There are ongoing bot wars on twitter, facebook, and even wikipedia.

I'm with ya.

Yahoo! started out as a search engine and instead of cultivating their core competency, decided to be a "portal," where a user could get the buffet for free (advertiser-supported).

Meanwhile, Google stepped in and said, "fuck the portal," and nailed the search engine market.

Here's the take according to guess who?

Google executive Marissa Mayer, the web giant's twentieth employee and first female engineer, pulled back the curtain Tuesday [Mar 27, 2012] evening to reveal why Google's stark white homepage looks the way it does.

Businesses run by Donald Trump have long faced accusations of racist behavior.

John O’Donnell, former president of the Trump Plaza Casino, wrote in a tell-all book that the GOP nominee once told him, “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.”

Trump responded by telling Playboy magazine that his former employee was a “f**king loser.” However, he also said, “The stuff O’Donnell wrote about me is probably true.”

Another former Trump employee has claimed that black staff were hidden from Trump when he visited the casino with his wife. “When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,” said Kip Brown, a former livery driver. “It was the eighties, I was a teen-ager, but I remember it: they put us all in the back.”

Racism in Trump corporations was not confined to its owner’s remarks and personal behavior. While fighting against a proposed Native American casino in New York that would have competed against his Atlantic City properties, Trump took out anonymous ads featuring photos of “drug paraphernalia” whose copy read, “Are these the new neighbors we want?” It continued: “The St. Regis Mohawk Indian record of criminal activity is well documented.”

There's two federal actions against him for discriminating against black tenants, there's his racial remarks about the judge hearing the case against Trump University (can't get much more recent than that, so can't say "it was in the past"). The guy's an asshole. There's plenty more ...

And how the hell can you say this crap and not be racist:

“And isn’t it funny. I’ve got black accountants at Trump Castle and Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it,” O’Donnell recalled Trump saying. “The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.”

“I think the guy is lazy,” Trump said of a black employee, according to O’Donnell. “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.”

Trump is an ignorant white cracker with a dead cat on his head (Dr. Phil on Jimmy Kimmel),

After all, he encouraged it, right? With his "bring a gun" rhetoric.

There are a lot more of black-on-white crimes committed - every day. But no, THOSE can't be "hate crimes". Because "hating whitey" is soooo "progressive".

You want to call for violence because Trump won?

Well, what goes around, comes around.

You progtards have managed to really piss off the people who actually exercise their 2nd Amendment rights. You want to "punch a Nazi" because you need to "resist" losing an election? Go ahead - then you deserve to be shot by that "Nazi".

Although intriguing and saddening that they've unlocked the iPhone 6 (but not 6s?).

What's more intriguing is that, why are Android phones so easy to break?!
And why is it we never hear from Google/Microsoft wanting to protect its users against government surveillance, unlike Apple.
... I guess everyone is aware that Google is a corporate spying empire, and yet there are people here who still argue against Apple and advocate for Android spyware?

Would you advocate GMail/Hangouts over Signal/Telegram/WhatsApp ?

So...is she an ex-manager because you moved on, or someone did something about that behavior?

I got the fuck out. I took a demotion and a pay raise and moved to another team....which was difficult because of the "You're my best project manager so I'm going to give you a shitty performance review so that you have to stay on my team and make me look good" problem.

That said, I'd have taken the easy way out, if HR told me what you claim they told you, and sue. Especially, if she had been abusive to you. Jackpot!

One doesn't really sue GE. Especially an individual...or at least me - with a fairly long military career behind me, where I've been called worse and hurt worse. I'm just pointing out that it goes both ways. Stories like mine don't make national media...unless I'm a woman. Then I can blog about it, sue my employer for sexual discrimination, and even when a court rules against me - still make national headlines.

That said, your tone really stands out as misogynistic. Not saying you are, but it just comes across that way. Perhaps, it was the rant about affirmative action and focused on women and minorities,

No - not a misogynist....this story is about men mistreating women in a corporate culture. Stories like this make national headlines. The reverse stories do not. Just like domestic violence - news only reports one side of it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

What's her name accuses men at Uber of sexually harassing and holding her down and it makes national news. I report women at GE assaulting and physically abusing me, and I'm a misogynist. See my point?

my brother is an author.

  When someone steals an e-book of his work, how does he put bread on the table?

  Should he "do" book-reading concerts?

Most pirates purchase more than non-pirates. What your brother should do is provide enough value in his work to make the people who pirate one book want to seek out the rest.

I think that ability on their part is fading fast. The polls showing Trump's precipitous fall in popularity.. .

The polls are not showing a "precipitous fall in popularity". So far, three weeks after inauguration, the people who liked Trump before still like him and think he's doing good; the people who didn't like Trump before still don't like him and think he's doing badly.

Really. Look at the actual poll numbers, not the misleading headlines: no real change.
http://elections.huffingtonpos...

His approval ratings almost certainly will change as people start to judge him on what he does, not what his campaign said-- but this has not happened yet.

If you are simply refuting numbers, then sure... you're probably right.

Yes, thank you. The topic of this subthread is whether or not the amount of complaining has noticeably increased or not compared to the Obama era. I argue, that it has.

I suspect that your intention is to generally cast the protesters in a bad light

We are drifting even further from topic, but yes, I do think, that all of the anti-Trump protesters are irreparably tarnished by the riots — and not just by the violence of some of them, but by the approval (both tacit and explicit alike) of that violence by the rest.

Why aren't the TV talking-heads pestering Democrats to "renounce" the protesters the way they were demanding Trump denounce some White supremacist? Even when some pitiful Liberal voice objects to it, he is put into place by the Illiberal thugs projecting their own violent tendencies on the "evil" Trump-supporters.