They're not doing it to gain dominance, at least not immediately, their immediate concern is to remove any threats to the electability of Putin's good ol' boys' club. It's like infecting your neighbor with an alien chestburster because you're worried he could tell your roommates that you might be scamming them on the rent. Makes perfect sense, right?
There are lots, we just call them "unfunny nutjobs." Like Ann Coulter, those things she says that cause people to groan and lose faith in humanity? Top-shelf conservative knee-slappers.
Centrist my ass! His past positions have no bearing on his current positions. He attacks the press along with any laws or institutions that limit his power or aim to hold him accountable, he glorifies violence, and spews racist and xenophobic rhetoric on a regular basis. He massively transfers wealth from the poor to the rich with his fiscal policies, and his social policies are almost goose-stepping far-right, including mass deportation efforts, support for Jim Queer laws, immigration bans by dominant national religion, and bans on transgender people in the military.
If you think this wannabe tinpot dictator who calls swastika-bearing nazis "very fine people" is anything close to a centrist, you've proven both my point and your own indoctrination.
Perhaps if our intellectual class had not spent the last 50 years deliberately harming our middle and working classes, and instead cared for them and made sure they had good lives, we wouldn't have Trump today. It's pretty rich to complain about anti-intellectualism when it is intellectuals who backed the people into a corner in the first place. Their globalist policies basically sum up to: "Fuck you middle America, we're going to spend your money on an overseas empire, and you will spend your lives providing fuel for a fire that will never heat you."
Those aren't intellectuals you're talking about, those are called capitalists, or perhaps more specifically, globalists. You'll find at least as many intellectuals that oppose their exploits as those who support them. Trump is sure as hell not an intellectual and yet he also has seemingly all of his goods made overseas (and is infamous for screwing the middle class at home, most notably in Atlantic City).
The politicization of journalism is something that journalism did to itself. They kept going farther and farther left, until in the 2016 election they pulled the mask off and revealed themselves to be agents of the Democratic Party. Everyone saw it. I don't see it getting any better anytime soon, they have changed from neutral observers into an active political faction, and apparently they love it like this.
The press didn't move, your perceptions did. The press just freaked out when the most powerful country in the world came close to electing a protofascist and then finally did so. You see this as "taking the mask off," but what actually happened is that you normalized and acclimated to a far-right political environment.
Those are all solidly tropical islands relatively close to the equator. The equator only actually passes through a small handful of islands: Sao Tome and Principe, Kiribati, Indonesia and the Maldives. I recommend that all climate conspiracy theorists relocate to the Maldives, directly on the equator for maximum safety.
If someone wants to live in an unchanging climate, go to a tropical island along the equator.
The people of Dominica, Barbuda and Puerto Rico would like to have some words with you. Angry, 4-letter words about what you can do to yourself, and if you'd like to trade places with them, I'd bet.
Now, as the Local reports, the latest word to get the official boot in France is smartphone. It's time to say bonjour to the "le mobile multifonction."
Oh phew, that'll keep those pesky English words out...HEY WAIT A MINUTE
This. Who gives a crap about the tiny niche genre that is pop music? Yes it's on every radio and TV screen and the default front page of Youtube, but overall it is a tiny niche genre.
Did it ever occur to you that the people who claim it can't be done and planted the seeds of humiliation and shame in public consciousness that you are so eager to help flourish; did id ever occur to you that they might have ulterior motives? As in soft-killing for profit?
Thank you for your intellectual honesty, most anti-abortionists aren't honest enough to admit that abortion and contraception are a hair's width apart.
I'm also worried about how many eggs are going into one basket here. It's gonna really, really suck if this thing blows up, or has a little programming glitch that causes it to enter the wrong orbit.
Even if salinity were simply decreasing, such a geographically concentrated correction would still be devastating. If you were able to cool a small area of the earth to near absolute zero, it would also be locally devastating.
All you can really argue is that Thiel allowed Bollea to have good representation and make a good case and see things to the end.
I would argue that Thiel's patronage altered the proceedings of the case, turning down settlements and dragging out the trial as long as possible to bleed Gawker dry.
Gawker was the site with a writer who ruined a woman for posting an insensitive but harmless joke on Twitter [nytimes.com].
Gawker is a trash rag but none of their writers made that woman write a racist joke through an account tied to her real name. She deserved any consequences she happened to attract.
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They're not doing it to gain dominance, at least not immediately, their immediate concern is to remove any threats to the electability of Putin's good ol' boys' club. It's like infecting your neighbor with an alien chestburster because you're worried he could tell your roommates that you might be scamming them on the rent. Makes perfect sense, right?
There are lots, we just call them "unfunny nutjobs." Like Ann Coulter, those things she says that cause people to groan and lose faith in humanity? Top-shelf conservative knee-slappers.
Centrist my ass! His past positions have no bearing on his current positions. He attacks the press along with any laws or institutions that limit his power or aim to hold him accountable, he glorifies violence, and spews racist and xenophobic rhetoric on a regular basis. He massively transfers wealth from the poor to the rich with his fiscal policies, and his social policies are almost goose-stepping far-right, including mass deportation efforts, support for Jim Queer laws, immigration bans by dominant national religion, and bans on transgender people in the military.
If you think this wannabe tinpot dictator who calls swastika-bearing nazis "very fine people" is anything close to a centrist, you've proven both my point and your own indoctrination.
He's very good at acting just like a dumb person.
Perhaps if our intellectual class had not spent the last 50 years deliberately harming our middle and working classes, and instead cared for them and made sure they had good lives, we wouldn't have Trump today. It's pretty rich to complain about anti-intellectualism when it is intellectuals who backed the people into a corner in the first place. Their globalist policies basically sum up to: "Fuck you middle America, we're going to spend your money on an overseas empire, and you will spend your lives providing fuel for a fire that will never heat you."
Those aren't intellectuals you're talking about, those are called capitalists, or perhaps more specifically, globalists. You'll find at least as many intellectuals that oppose their exploits as those who support them. Trump is sure as hell not an intellectual and yet he also has seemingly all of his goods made overseas (and is infamous for screwing the middle class at home, most notably in Atlantic City).
The politicization of journalism is something that journalism did to itself. They kept going farther and farther left, until in the 2016 election they pulled the mask off and revealed themselves to be agents of the Democratic Party. Everyone saw it. I don't see it getting any better anytime soon, they have changed from neutral observers into an active political faction, and apparently they love it like this.
The press didn't move, your perceptions did. The press just freaked out when the most powerful country in the world came close to electing a protofascist and then finally did so. You see this as "taking the mask off," but what actually happened is that you normalized and acclimated to a far-right political environment.
3.5mm and Bluetooth are all you need. Just don't buy stuff that doesn't have one or both of those. Works for me.
You could argue that BMW drivers don't deserve this, but Apple users certainly do.
Those are all solidly tropical islands relatively close to the equator. The equator only actually passes through a small handful of islands: Sao Tome and Principe, Kiribati, Indonesia and the Maldives. I recommend that all climate conspiracy theorists relocate to the Maldives, directly on the equator for maximum safety.
If someone wants to live in an unchanging climate, go to a tropical island along the equator.
The people of Dominica, Barbuda and Puerto Rico would like to have some words with you. Angry, 4-letter words about what you can do to yourself, and if you'd like to trade places with them, I'd bet.
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That's what rushing to post before the food arrives gets you.
Cellular providers will sometimes throttle video, not to be jerks and violate net neutrality, but to save your data plan.
It's still a net neutrality violation thought. Or perhaps I should say it was.
Now, as the Local reports, the latest word to get the official boot in France is smartphone. It's time to say bonjour to the "le mobile multifonction."
Oh phew, that'll keep those pesky English words out...HEY WAIT A MINUTE
This. Who gives a crap about the tiny niche genre that is pop music? Yes it's on every radio and TV screen and the default front page of Youtube, but overall it is a tiny niche genre.
Did it ever occur to you that the people who claim it can't be done and planted the seeds of humiliation and shame in public consciousness that you are so eager to help flourish; did id ever occur to you that they might have ulterior motives? As in soft-killing for profit?
Thank you for your intellectual honesty, most anti-abortionists aren't honest enough to admit that abortion and contraception are a hair's width apart.
I'm also worried about how many eggs are going into one basket here. It's gonna really, really suck if this thing blows up, or has a little programming glitch that causes it to enter the wrong orbit.
If you believe this, you've unknowingly been at least a moderate Republican the entire time.
This. His clever resourcefulness is exceeded only by his mendacity.
People do get addicted to gambling.
Wasn't sure if you'd link to that one or this one.
I'm really arguing that Bollea might've preferred to settle if not for Thiel's meddling.
The situation is much more complicated than that:
https://www.llnl.gov/news/atmo...
Even if salinity were simply decreasing, such a geographically concentrated correction would still be devastating. If you were able to cool a small area of the earth to near absolute zero, it would also be locally devastating.
All you can really argue is that Thiel allowed Bollea to have good representation and make a good case and see things to the end.
I would argue that Thiel's patronage altered the proceedings of the case, turning down settlements and dragging out the trial as long as possible to bleed Gawker dry.
If you were paying the ACLU and EFF most of the costs of pursuing specific lawsuits at your request, I'd say they're kind of your lawsuits.
Gawker was the site with a writer who ruined a woman for posting an insensitive but harmless joke on Twitter [nytimes.com].
Gawker is a trash rag but none of their writers made that woman write a racist joke through an account tied to her real name. She deserved any consequences she happened to attract.
To be fair, Thiel was paying for it, so it was kind of his.