Maybe the Marxists are right, and you're wrong. Doesn't have anything to do with Marxism really, because there are three separate and unrelated questions at work here: 1) Is the global climate warming? 2) Is this due to human activity? 3) What steps should we take in response?
Clearly you don't like the answers to #3, but questions #1 and #2 are not dependent on #3.
Did anyone ever buy that? You could almost hear the true motives ("over a BILLION customers... over a BILLION customers...") percolate as they regurgitated some carefully lawyered corporate claptrap. They don't even pretend to care anymore, of course.
Companies that try to make lots of money will try to use any half-baked rationale to convince people (or themselves) that what they're doing is not only profitable, but right. Having the image of a "good company" gets them extra customers, or at least staves off protests. "No trust us, this is actually really good for the people... as we rake in the dough" is a line you should not swallow from ANY company, because they always have a conflict of interest. I think some of these explanations came about when Google's company motto was "don't be evil," (clearly they don't give a shit about keeping up that image anymore) and needed to convince people that their moneymaking in China and being morally just were compatible.
PBS's reputation is far better than RT's. NBC is 'ok,' but has taken a number of self-inflicted hits, and they shoot themselves in the foot year after year. CNN is circling the drain, and no one can figure out why it's still around, just like Radio Shack.
Osama SHOULD have gotten it for 2001 -- no one else had such an affect on world affairs, certainly not Bush, and absolutely not the winner that year, Rudy Giuliani.
I mean, can anyone seriously picture anyone other than Nathan Fillion as Mal?
Ugh. It was the role he was born for. Every time I stumble across Castle I think "Ughh.. this series is so badly written. I wish I was watching Firefly instead."
Though I could imagine, had Firefly been made 10-15 years later than it was, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau could have been good in that role.
If that was true, wouldn't there be arrests? Are you sure they were really caught red-handed? Are you sure that isn't hyperbole, and the truth is more like, "some have suspected that the DNC is doing things that are blatantly illegal"? Or perhaps "The DNC was caught doing things that some might consider a conflict-of-interest, but not technically illegal"?
Well there is a DNC fraud lawsuit in progress, but naturally it's not going to be resolved soon.
That is where the votes are coming from. High school educated rural blue collar workers who once had nice jobs eliminated by Mexican workers (I am not racist but citing facts ) and NAFTA
Ugh. Their jobs were not eliminated by Mexican workers. They were eliminated by automation. This is the horrible shame of it all -- despite all of Trump's promises, their jobs are not coming back. They are just gone, and no one has much of an answer for it.
Hillary pandered to everyone but the midwest, and in fact actively demonized white guys. Trump, terrible as he is, didn't.
Hillary has said her share of stupid things, but I'm scratching my head and struggling to pull up quotes that would match "actively demonize white guys."
Yeah, the same "educated" people who think misogyny, xenophobia, racism, and tax fraud are tolerable traits for a President, and that making a person with those traits, and who espouses those ideals, with no political experience, and obvious sociopathic tendencies the most powerful man in the world seems like a good idea and will somehow improve the country or the planet.
I don't need my President to be a good person or someone I'd be proud of. I only need him to be a good administrator, not that Donald Trump fits that mold either. But I will take an asshole who does a good job as President over a good man who does a sub-par job, which is what we've had for the last eight years.
You do realize that attitude is what allowed Trump to win, right?
If you're not with us, your agin' us! Everyone not voting for my candidate is a bigot!
He didn't say the Bernie supporter had to vote for Clinton. But in not voting, at all (didn't his state have representatives? ballot propositions?), he basically gave up on his primary civic responsibility, and also gave up complaining rights. "Well did you vote for him? No? Who did you vote for? Oh, you didn't? Then you don't matter."
Well keep in mind that most borders are pretty artificial constructs often only decades or a few hundrerd years old where modern day humanity has been around for millenia
Humanity has also organized itself socially in tribes for millennia. You always take care of those within before those without.
She can't be that unpopular. Even Trump says that she's a good woman
Wait, I thought Trump said she was a horrible woman. The truth is you can't trust that Trump is telling you the truth, because he takes the classic bully route: he issues beatdown after beatdown of all types if you oppose him, and then the moment you do something good for him.. then you're an ok person. Until the next time you tell him something he doesn't want to hear, then he swings back to the other extreme.
I suppose many of the people I dislike aren't necessarily capital-c Cabinet positions, but we're lumping them all in with Trump's team anyway.
Jeff Sessions, an ol' boy Alabaman as Attorney General. Claims to be reformed from his old racist days, but I think folks like him just better at not being overt in their prejudicial ways. At least, until this last election.
Mike Pompeo is the C.I.A. director. He's called for the death penalty for Edward Snowden, opposes all surveillance reforms, and says that the NSA's abhorrent domestic spying program did not go far enough, and that it should be brought back and GREATLY expanded. He opposes anti-torture laws. Someone like that should not be let anywhere close to a leadership position in the C.I.A., much less be the chairman.
Michael T. Flynn, national security adviser, on a Russian payroll until the recent election. An idiot who doesn't seem to realize that saying things like "Islam is a cancer" threatens relations with some of our more important allies against radical Islamists. Other than that, though, he actually seems like one of the more sane men picked.
Steve Bannon, white nationalist. For as much as Donald Trump claimed to be sticking it to the elites, it seems strange that he would choose a former investment banker as his chief strategist, and his transition team leader on Economic Issues is David Malpass, who guided Bear Stearns, and with it much of the economy, into the toilet eight years ago.
He claims to hate lobbyists, but his transition team is packed with them. Oh, but that's ok because they'll sign a pledge not to -register- as a lobbyist for five years after leaving government. Yeah, that'll sure stop them.
Most of the cabinet positions haven't been selected yet, so I can't comment on them yet. Though the top pick for the EPA being a climate change "skeptic" seems as appropriate to the rest of the picks, the Kruger-Dunning effect coming full circle.
Snopes provides their own custom narrative on judgement re: http://www.snopes.com/hillary-... [snopes.com] - she did laugh, she did plea bargain him out, etc
She did laugh, but not about what the original circulated story had her laughing about, nor the context that the story implied. The original story was "she gave an interview where she admitted she knew he was guilty. And she laughed about it."
Specifically from the article: "The audio on these tapes is difficult to understand, but Clinton can be heard describing the case as "terrible." She did audibly laugh or chuckle at points, not about "knowing that the defendant was guilty" or "getting a guilty guy off" (which makes little sense, given that the defendant pled guilty) but rather while musing about how elements of the case that might ordinarily have supported the prosecution worked in the defendant's favor (i.e., observing that the defendant's passing a polygraph test had "forever destroyed her faith" in that technology)." Note that he pled guilty. This is not disputed by either side. It's also not questioned that ALL people under trial are entitled to a vigorous defense. Hillary Clinton had him take a polygraph which he pass, and she was chuckling that he passed it, somehow.
Also note that it was the prosecution who pushed for the plea deal to avoid the daughter having to testify. That's in the legal record and it directly contradict's the story's assertion. Do you have a problem with Snopes's explanation of events? I'm still looking for the false or misleading conclusion or argument here from the Snopes article.
Breitbart is run mostly by Jews and is the most pro-Israel news organization outside of Israel.
Breitbart is sometimes antisemitic in its pro-Israelism. That is, you're a bad Jew or just not a Jew at all if you oppose policies of the government of Israel.
Was Obama "your president," good or bad? Would Hillary have been? Trump doesn't stand for me, and I won't stand for him. That said, I had no interest in Hillary either. Worst election of my lifetime.
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Maybe the Marxists are right, and you're wrong. Doesn't have anything to do with Marxism really, because there are three separate and unrelated questions at work here:
1) Is the global climate warming?
2) Is this due to human activity?
3) What steps should we take in response?
Clearly you don't like the answers to #3, but questions #1 and #2 are not dependent on #3.
Did anyone ever buy that? You could almost hear the true motives ("over a BILLION customers... over a BILLION customers...") percolate as they regurgitated some carefully lawyered corporate claptrap. They don't even pretend to care anymore, of course.
Companies that try to make lots of money will try to use any half-baked rationale to convince people (or themselves) that what they're doing is not only profitable, but right. Having the image of a "good company" gets them extra customers, or at least staves off protests. "No trust us, this is actually really good for the people... as we rake in the dough" is a line you should not swallow from ANY company, because they always have a conflict of interest. I think some of these explanations came about when Google's company motto was "don't be evil," (clearly they don't give a shit about keeping up that image anymore) and needed to convince people that their moneymaking in China and being morally just were compatible.
I really wanted both Clinton AND Trump to fade into obscurity. Eight months ago, I knew we were doomed.
PBS's reputation is far better than RT's.
NBC is 'ok,' but has taken a number of self-inflicted hits, and they shoot themselves in the foot year after year.
CNN is circling the drain, and no one can figure out why it's still around, just like Radio Shack.
Osama SHOULD have gotten it for 2001 -- no one else had such an affect on world affairs, certainly not Bush, and absolutely not the winner that year, Rudy Giuliani.
Do you have any nerd friends? Do you realize how much they worship at the alter of Firefly??
I mean, can anyone seriously picture anyone other than Nathan Fillion as Mal?
Ugh. It was the role he was born for. Every time I stumble across Castle I think "Ughh.. this series is so badly written. I wish I was watching Firefly instead."
Though I could imagine, had Firefly been made 10-15 years later than it was, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau could have been good in that role.
OH MY GOD, she didn't give a speech at 2 am! What a HORRIBLE WOMAN and a sore loser for giving the speech during the day instead.
If that was true, wouldn't there be arrests? Are you sure they were really caught red-handed? Are you sure that isn't hyperbole, and the truth is more like, "some have suspected that the DNC is doing things that are blatantly illegal"? Or perhaps "The DNC was caught doing things that some might consider a conflict-of-interest, but not technically illegal"?
Well there is a DNC fraud lawsuit in progress, but naturally it's not going to be resolved soon.
That is where the votes are coming from. High school educated rural blue collar workers who once had nice jobs eliminated by Mexican workers (I am not racist but citing facts ) and NAFTA
Ugh. Their jobs were not eliminated by Mexican workers. They were eliminated by automation.
This is the horrible shame of it all -- despite all of Trump's promises, their jobs are not coming back. They are just gone, and no one has much of an answer for it.
Hillary pandered to everyone but the midwest, and in fact actively demonized white guys. Trump, terrible as he is, didn't.
Hillary has said her share of stupid things, but I'm scratching my head and struggling to pull up quotes that would match "actively demonize white guys."
An AC is very active today trying to link Nazis with Democrats! Keep up the good work, AC!
Breitbart is actually very pro Jewish.
They are pro-Israel, not pro-Jewish, those are two very different things, as much as the ADL has tried to conflate the two.
Yeah, the same "educated" people who think misogyny, xenophobia, racism, and tax fraud are tolerable traits for a President, and that making a person with those traits, and who espouses those ideals, with no political experience, and obvious sociopathic tendencies the most powerful man in the world seems like a good idea and will somehow improve the country or the planet.
I don't need my President to be a good person or someone I'd be proud of. I only need him to be a good administrator, not that Donald Trump fits that mold either. But I will take an asshole who does a good job as President over a good man who does a sub-par job, which is what we've had for the last eight years.
Have you ever arrested a criminal and brought them to justice? No? Then you don't deserve to complain about crime when you are being robbed.
You're implying that voting and choosing representatives isn't the responsibility of every voting-eligible adult, but it is.
You do realize that attitude is what allowed Trump to win, right?
If you're not with us, your agin' us!
Everyone not voting for my candidate is a bigot!
He didn't say the Bernie supporter had to vote for Clinton. But in not voting, at all (didn't his state have representatives? ballot propositions?), he basically gave up on his primary civic responsibility, and also gave up complaining rights.
"Well did you vote for him? No? Who did you vote for? Oh, you didn't? Then you don't matter."
Well keep in mind that most borders are pretty artificial constructs often only decades or a few hundrerd years old where modern day humanity has been around for millenia
Humanity has also organized itself socially in tribes for millennia. You always take care of those within before those without.
She can't be that unpopular. Even Trump says that she's a good woman
Wait, I thought Trump said she was a horrible woman.
The truth is you can't trust that Trump is telling you the truth, because he takes the classic bully route: he issues beatdown after beatdown of all types if you oppose him, and then the moment you do something good for him.. then you're an ok person. Until the next time you tell him something he doesn't want to hear, then he swings back to the other extreme.
I suppose many of the people I dislike aren't necessarily capital-c Cabinet positions, but we're lumping them all in with Trump's team anyway.
Jeff Sessions, an ol' boy Alabaman as Attorney General. Claims to be reformed from his old racist days, but I think folks like him just better at not being overt in their prejudicial ways. At least, until this last election.
Mike Pompeo is the C.I.A. director. He's called for the death penalty for Edward Snowden, opposes all surveillance reforms, and says that the NSA's abhorrent domestic spying program did not go far enough, and that it should be brought back and GREATLY expanded. He opposes anti-torture laws. Someone like that should not be let anywhere close to a leadership position in the C.I.A., much less be the chairman.
Michael T. Flynn, national security adviser, on a Russian payroll until the recent election. An idiot who doesn't seem to realize that saying things like "Islam is a cancer" threatens relations with some of our more important allies against radical Islamists. Other than that, though, he actually seems like one of the more sane men picked.
Steve Bannon, white nationalist. For as much as Donald Trump claimed to be sticking it to the elites, it seems strange that he would choose a former investment banker as his chief strategist, and his transition team leader on Economic Issues is David Malpass, who guided Bear Stearns, and with it much of the economy, into the toilet eight years ago.
He claims to hate lobbyists, but his transition team is packed with them. Oh, but that's ok because they'll sign a pledge not to -register- as a lobbyist for five years after leaving government. Yeah, that'll sure stop them.
Most of the cabinet positions haven't been selected yet, so I can't comment on them yet. Though the top pick for the EPA being a climate change "skeptic" seems as appropriate to the rest of the picks, the Kruger-Dunning effect coming full circle.
We go where the jobs are. I have plenty of folks who live in rural areas like OK, but the low housing prices don't help them much.
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Snopes provides their own custom narrative on judgement re: http://www.snopes.com/hillary-... [snopes.com] - she did laugh, she did plea bargain him out, etc
She did laugh, but not about what the original circulated story had her laughing about, nor the context that the story implied. The original story was "she gave an interview where she admitted she knew he was guilty. And she laughed about it."
Specifically from the article: "The audio on these tapes is difficult to understand, but Clinton can be heard describing the case as "terrible." She did audibly laugh or chuckle at points, not about "knowing that the defendant was guilty" or "getting a guilty guy off" (which makes little sense, given that the defendant pled guilty) but rather while musing about how elements of the case that might ordinarily have supported the prosecution worked in the defendant's favor (i.e., observing that the defendant's passing a polygraph test had "forever destroyed her faith" in that technology)." Note that he pled guilty. This is not disputed by either side. It's also not questioned that ALL people under trial are entitled to a vigorous defense. Hillary Clinton had him take a polygraph which he pass, and she was chuckling that he passed it, somehow.
Also note that it was the prosecution who pushed for the plea deal to avoid the daughter having to testify. That's in the legal record and it directly contradict's the story's assertion. Do you have a problem with Snopes's explanation of events? I'm still looking for the false or misleading conclusion or argument here from the Snopes article.
Breitbart is run mostly by Jews and is the most pro-Israel news organization outside of Israel.
Breitbart is sometimes antisemitic in its pro-Israelism. That is, you're a bad Jew or just not a Jew at all if you oppose policies of the government of Israel.
He won. Get over it.
Was Obama "your president," good or bad? Would Hillary have been?
Trump doesn't stand for me, and I won't stand for him. That said, I had no interest in Hillary either. Worst election of my lifetime.
How much do you get paid to troll on /. ? What is the going rate?
Oh, about free fiddy.