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Re:Am I in a goddamn cyberpunk novel? by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-15 09:36 · Score: 0 · on Twitter Cut Out of Trump Tech Meeting Over Failed Emoji Deal, Says Report (politico.com)

LBJ owned lots of businesses, including radio and TV stations. He put those in a trust run by his wife - and that was sufficient.

Since I moved to Texas 20+ years ago, I've become convinced it was not. When I complain how much his businesses benefited from his presidency and the sweetheart deals he got from the FCC, people act like I'm condemning The Lord himself. I know less about the Kennedy's, but I was born after he became president.

But I get it. Trump.

I'm not hypocritical on this. But I get it. Fuck you too.

Re:An example by dywolf · 2016-12-13 05:41 · Score: 1 · on Twitter Reinstates White Nationalist Leader's Account (buzzfeed.com)

Gotta disagree here pope.

the neoconservatives were democrats who held more conservative leaning foreign policy views, beginning around the mid 60s, ie, the vietnam war and stopping communism. the term is still used some now and then, but it largely was a phenomenon that had died out by the mid 80s, especially with the increasing homogenization of each party (nowadays we more indicate someone is "hawkish" and its still somewhat different from the views neocons held). (the mid 80s also saw another group, the Reagan Democrats, but those are again a different and shouldn't be confused with the neocons, even though there may be some overlap.)

technically Reagan wasn't a neocon.
he was once a democrat, but his conversion to conservatism came about from associating with Earl Dunckel, who was the GE public relations man Reagan worked with while traveling around the country as a GE spokesman speaking to various workers and bosses around the country. Though in time Regan's conservatism became even too extreme for the corporate culture of GE.

more info here: http://www.slate.com/articles/...

Re:Russia Hacked the GOP too by mbone · 2016-12-11 03:26 · Score: 1 · on Inside Peter Thiel's Genius Factory (backchannel.com)

She lost the election. Accept that as a fact and get on with your life.

Did she? DJT is not President yet. Normally, that would seem like a technicality, but this year...

Re:Yes, Obamacare helped ruin health insurance... by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-08 16:36 · Score: 0 · on US Life Expectancy Declines For the First Time Since 1993 (washingtonpost.com)

In reality, however, we see that abortions are dropping.

The Little Sisters of the Poor were just picking a legal fight rather than admit they used the coverage let doing more to actually help the poor who they are supposed to serve. Apparently filling out paperwork is so onerous, they'd rather pay a bunch of lawyers. To waste time. Even the Supreme Court punted.

The GOP was given everything they had wanted in healthcare reform, yet refused to get behind their own plan. Now they're stuck with years of repeal calls, but they can't afford to deliver. And they have nothing to counter offer.

Cult of personality by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-06 23:28 · Score: 0 · on Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Makes Game For Third Annual Hour of Code (gamasutra.com)

Justin Trudeau is a master of public-image manipulation. He knows the tricks about appealing to young, inexperienced hyper-liberals, but can do little to divert people's attention from his abysmal track record on matters such as appeasing to the oppressive and aggressive Chinese regime, appeasing to the criminal family of Ibn-Saud, and oppression of First Nations. He self-consciously cultivate his own hero-worship, but he's just politician.

By now, anyone still falling for such cheap PR stunts and gimmicks?

Re:Michael Flynn Jr believes it by PopeRatzo · 2016-12-05 14:19 · Score: 5, Informative · on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com)

We need a government official to fact check this unsubstantiated allegation, right now, before these rumors get out of hand!

No need to investigate. Michael G. Flynn's OWN WORDS:

https://twitter.com/mflynnJR/s...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the...

Re: Bad Headline by silentcoder · 2016-12-05 00:22 · Score: 1 · on Of 8 Tech Companies, Only Twitter Says It Would Refuse To Help Build Muslim Registry For Trump (theintercept.com)

> It fits into a broader narrative in which Trump represents the second coming of Hitler, and everyone who does not unconditionally reject him is a neo-nazi.

A narative that is absolutely and objectively true on every single metric. Though, just like with the first coming of Hitler, most of the NAZIs don't yet know they are NAZIs.

Here is the list of things Trump and Hitler do NOT have in common:
1) Trump has no mustashe
2) The Drumpf family is German, The Hitler family was from Austria (it no longer exists, all the Hitlers in Germany and Austria changed their names after the war).
3) Hitler could paint.

That is it. Every other thing is EXACTLY the same. Hell this very topic is about the creation of a registry to track people of a particular faith: one of the very first Nuremberg laws.
If you think that there is any way that Trump is NOT EXACTLY like Hitler and his election is not a prime example of how a formerly free nation succumbs to fascism - then you are quite ignorant about at least one of these three things.

http://www.nybooks.com/article...
http://www.slate.com/articles/...

I can't list all the things Trump and Hitler have in common in a slashdot post- I don't have the several hours it would take to type it all out. But I've provided a complete list of the things they don't have in common, a valuable reference on what fascism actually is (and Trump meets all the requirements) and a nice article that does list the most critical similarities, including in the behaviour of both the right and leftwing right now. The GOP behaviour right now mirrors EXACTLY the behaviour of the German conservative party after Hitler's strong election showing, the behavior of the democrats mirror the behaviour of the German socialist party to the letter. And the journalists and the people - they too are saying and doing exactly what they did.

But don't take MY word for it. The countries that have the most experience of fascism, that know exactly what it looks like when it begins - Spain, Germany and Italy have roundly and universally been warning you - we know this man, we know those speeches, they are the same ones, we know where they lead - do not fall for it.
America didn't listen... America has doomed itself to repeat the same pattern. For 8 years the right have lived in a panicked fear that Obama would declare Martial Law as a precept to becoming a Tyrant... quite a weird little fantasy to have about a politician who has governed on a centrist platform of non-controversial policies - and of whom the worst you can say is that he refused to do any radical things at all, yet you just voted in the first ever American president of whom it must be said that doing so would not only be believable but EXTREMELY likely.
Indeed, only a complete ignoramus at this point doubts that this was his plan all along.

One things that history has taught us is - when the politician says he'll do something terrible, ALWAYS believe him. Even a politician who lies about everything NEVER lies when he promises to be evil. Those are the promises they always keep and exceed. Do not trust your institutions to keep him in check.

There is only one, tiny, sliver of hope. The people marching against him in the street. The people protesting his ideas before he is even sworn in. Nobody did that in Germany when Hitler took office. That's new. That's different. It might change the outcome - but that is a hope, not a guarantee, and the best thing you can do to increase that hope is to get out there and join them. Those people have paid attention.

Isn't it interesting that comparing Trump to Hitler, and his movement to the NAZIs does not even violate Godwin's law ? Andrew Godwin himself has stated that it's an apt comparison. Simply put -the REASON we have Godwin's law - is so that when the tim

Re:Democrats are the enemy by NoImNotNineVolt · 2016-11-30 18:58 · Score: 1 · on Trump Will Get Power To Send Unblockable Mass Text Messages To All Americans (nymag.com)

I was thinking through the recent news (last night) that Trump got Carrier to keep 1000 jobs in the US, and how I couldn't see a way to frame that in a bad light. Lo and behold! Recent comments on Slashdot manage to paint this as a bad thing.

Slashdot is hardly the only place where you'll hear a negative opinion of the Carrier deal. Several news outlets are also taking a more skeptical view.

In the end, viewing any deal as objectively good or bad may be overly simplistic. In the case of this one, it seems like it's good for the people who won't be losing their jobs. It also seems good for other companies who now have a precedent for extracting concessions from our government in exchange for abandoning plans to offshore jobs, as well as those employees who won't be losing their jobs as a result. It seems less good (or even bad) for taxpayers who aren't invested in or employed by these companies, as they'll be effectively subsidizing these jobs to some extent, and it's not clear that the cost of this subsidy is greater than the general economic benefit gained by having a marginally stronger labor market in the manufacturing sector.

Re:Hate speech is pretty well defined by Anonymous Coward · 2016-11-30 15:55 · Score: 0 · on Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules (qz.com)

Racist are on both sides of political spectrum. Pretending otherwise is dishonest.

Fixed that for you.

Re:Duh. by Anonymous Coward · 2016-11-24 22:31 · Score: 0 · on Study: Most Students Can't Spot Fake News (engadget.com)

Given the fact that multiple people apply for any given position (for example Walmart gets hundreds of applications per job offer) it stands to reason that the companies are overpaying their hires

Your reasoning is faulty. Walmart underpays its hires. Many full-time Walmart employees don't get paid enough to buy food and must rely on food stamps. Walmart is effectively being given corporate welfare and is not paying its way.

Re:Sore loser by PopeRatzo · 2016-11-23 03:56 · Score: 1 · on Clinton Urged To Challenge Election Results Due To Possible Hacking [Update] (cnn.com)

Type Democrat - sore loser

http://www.slate.com/blogs/out...

https://www.salon.com/2016/11/...

Re:Interesting side effect: No pardon for Hillary by Anonymous Coward · 2016-11-21 08:41 · Score: 0 · on President Obama Says He Can't Pardon Snowden (arstechnica.com)

The first thing he does is to shove ACA down everyone's throats without even letting the Republicans add a single amendment or really even debate it.

Please don't believe that story.

That isn't even going back to its foundations, but the idea that there were no amendments added, or really even debate it? That's fucking dishonest.

That torpedoed any credibility he had to work across the isle and made the Republicans only want to seek revenge.

You have it wrong, Obama's mistake was not forcing them to vote for it, but instead making up all the votes in the Democratic Caucus. That let them spend the next 7 years complaining about it even more, and even though they looked like fools, the American people lapped it up.

That whole thing is a train wreck form the beginning.

You can always hope that's part of the plan. It was all Republican dreams, that now they're what? Stuck having to repudiate? What are they left with, to use, exactly?

The real story will come in with Trump unable to do a thing since it'd just blow up on him, not that he'd admit it. And if he does let it blow up, so much the better.

Though if he does, who will pick up the pieces?

Re:And Obama once again is a blatant liar by ClickOnThis · 2016-11-21 08:31 · Score: 1 · on President Obama Says He Can't Pardon Snowden (arstechnica.com)

You're right.

I think Obama is using that excuse to dodge the question of pardoning Snowden. Just like Trump dodged releasing his taxes by saying he couldn't because he was under audit. Which was also not true: there's no legal impediment to releasing your taxes if you're under audit.

Not actually "just like" that at all. All this relativism in politics is killing it. A democrat and republican can do exactly the same thing and otherwise sane rational people will defend one and crucify the other, depending on which side they like. You're killing this country.

I fail to see your point. I'm not defending either side here.

Re:And Obama once again is a blatant liar by Anonymous Coward · 2016-11-21 07:00 · Score: 2, Insightful · on President Obama Says He Can't Pardon Snowden (arstechnica.com)

You're right.

I think Obama is using that excuse to dodge the question of pardoning Snowden. Just like Trump dodged releasing his taxes by saying he couldn't because he was under audit. Which was also not true: there's no legal impediment to releasing your taxes if you're under audit.

Not actually "just like" that at all. All this relativism in politics is killing it. A democrat and republican can do exactly the same thing and otherwise sane rational people will defend one and crucify the other, depending on which side they like. You're killing this country.

Re:And Obama once again is a blatant liar by ClickOnThis · 2016-11-21 06:49 · Score: 4, Informative · on President Obama Says He Can't Pardon Snowden (arstechnica.com)

You're right.

I think Obama is using that excuse to dodge the question of pardoning Snowden. Just like Trump dodged releasing his taxes by saying he couldn't because he was under audit. Which was also not true: there's no legal impediment to releasing your taxes if you're under audit.

Re:No fear of conservative backlash by haruchai · 2016-11-18 22:38 · Score: 1 · on Facebook's Fight Against Fake News Was Undercut by Fear of Conservative Backlash (gizmodo.com)

"Trump may have done some sleazy things. His tax files may not have been in perfect order. But I don't recall anyone accusing him of lying in court, revealing state secrets, or falsifying evidence. In hindsight it's amazing he didn't win by a larger margin"

It's amazing that so many voted for a man who treats women as he does. And who blatantly violated the privacy of underage pageant contestants

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_...

and boasted about it on Stern's radio program - http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
Or personally inspecting them in their bathing suits

"Don’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it all before" - I bet you have it all on videotape too, Mr President-elect.
The extent of his creepiness wrt to the beauty pageants is appalling. I'm surprised more of it isn't criminal
http://www.rollingstone.com/po...

Swap the lives, histories & actions of Trump & Obama only they still keep their names & faces - which one of them would become the nominee of either party?
I bet that version of Trump could win nomination for either while the revised Obama couldn't get elected as county ratcatcher anywhere in America

Re:Poor Liberal Nazis by KozmoStevnNaut · 2016-11-18 02:09 · Score: 1 · on Twitter Suspends American Far-Right Activists' Accounts (theguardian.com)

http://www.snopes.com/anti-tru...
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nb...
http://www.alternet.org/electi...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the...
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/1...
https://www.rt.com/viral/36431...
http://occupydemocrats.com/201...
http://www.nytimes.com/video/u...
http://mashable.com/2016/03/12...
http://edition.cnn.com/videos/...
https://thinkprogress.org/sher...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fb...