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Mitt Romney, Robotics, and the Uncanny Valley
Hugh Pickens writes "Brian Fung writes in the Atlantic that one of Romney's electoral problems is that he occupies a kind of uncanny valley for politicians, inexplicably turning voters off despite looking like the textbook image of an American president. Just as people who interact with lifelike robots often develop a strange feeling due to something they can't quite name, something about Romney leaves voters unsettled. As with the robotic version of the uncanny valley, the closer Romney gets to becoming real to a voter, the more his likeability declines. 'The effect is almost involuntary, considering the substantial advantages Romney enjoys from appearance alone,' writes Fung. 'But in person, his polished persona gives way to what appears a surprisingly forced and inauthentic character.' Political commentator Dana Milbanks adds that although Romney is confident and competent, in casual moments his weirdness comes through — equal parts 'Leave It to Beaver' corniness and social awkwardness. 'Romney's task now is to work his way out of the uncanny valley toward a more compelling style of humanity,' concludes Fung. 'But every day he lingers in it, the hill grows steeper.'"
The companies that Romney was said to "strip and sell" were companies that were on the verge of collapse.
Bullshit. They bought up companies to strip assets from, nothing more. Most of the companies bought by Bain were doing well enough on their own.
So they buy the companies, make them profitable and then sell them.
No, what Bain did was buy up the companies, strip the assets for sale and the IP portfolio for sale, and then shut down anything that didn't sell. This is what Bain actually did, and you're a fucking liar.
The republican party is not racists however they are #1 with racists (to paraphrase The Simpsons).
You don't get to be #1 with racists without dog-whistling racism all day long. Republican policies are, and have been since they welcomed the Dixiecrats with open arms, racist. You honestly think they'd be screaming about shutting down "the border" if the majority of "illegals", as the racist repubs like to call them, were white-skinned canadians?
You have a problem with facts, you want to vilify the republicans you are just as bad as the republicans are to the democrats.
Oh bullshit and go fuck yourself. The Republicans are fucking lunatics who think that shutting down free breast cancer exams for low income women is "justified" if they can "get" Planned Parenthood - just the latest example of the GOP, modern home of racism, misogyny, and inhumanity.