The order of rarity is also the hierarchy, whether you realize it or not. I suspect most centipedes don't know they're being led around by a bunch of neo-nazis, they see them as an unfortunate group of hangers-on.
For certain values of "smart." I for one don't believe "smart" is determined mostly by biological traits.
And something like 75% of people with STEM degrees chose Trump.
Do you have a source for this? I can't find one. It's making my BS detector go nuts. If this is true it will obliterate my remaining faith in humanity.
I'd say it's people who are angrier than they are smart. The anger powers the confirmation bias, and the lack of smarts leaves their anger poorly directed and controlled.
Social media isn't the problem and fake news is just a symptom of the problem, these people are the problem because they just don't care about facts. It seems the people who think fake news is a major problem imagine a Trump supporter saying "WHAT!? The Pope didn't really endorse Trump? Oh noes, what have I done, if only I had known!!!" But they suspected deep down that the story was fake among many of the others, even the ones about Hillary being the slickest supercriminal in human history. Sharing them was just a way to vent their anger and show their support for a vessel for their anger. They don't care whether it was fake.
Trump's election is a symptom of a failing education system and skyrocketing inequality. When big chunks of the population are dumb as rocks and incredibly pissed off, bad things can happen. Feudal lords knew this (and knew to keep the peasants happy since they were too scared to make them smart) but today's leaders have forgotten.
The FBI isn't the DHS. Even if they were, Trump's promised a hiring ban in the federal government so they'd need a robot army to carry out Operation Wetback Part 2. There wouldn't be enough people to pilot all the robots, so they'd have to be artificially intelligent. So maybe the FBI pulled this off to bring about SkyNet.
It makes no sense for the FBI to have wanted to get Trump elected. Hillary would given the intelligence apparatus every blank check and free pass they could ever want. Trump might have given them that too, but also a heaping helping of uncertainty, idiotic desicion-making, and a President with: A man-crush on every nasty dictator out there; loose lips; and a lower brain that easily overpowers the upper one, all with access to highly classified information.
A much simpler and more sensible possibility is that James Comey is an idiot.
Please don't call Bannon an anti-Semite. He might be a bit anti-Semitic, but that's debatable and a complicated issue which will only distract from his more concrete negative attributes. What's not debatable is that he supports white nationalism. Call him a white nationalist.
Now that Twitter is selling access through Dataminr rather than directly, now they can let all kinds of unsavory parties get access and if anyone complains, they can say "We can't cut off an entire company over a few rotten eggs! What about all of their customers who did nothing wrong? Maybe you should complain to them. It's not really our business anyway!"
Meanwhile if anyone complains to Dataminr they can just say "Fuck off, we'll sell to whoever we want TYVM," and not only is Twitter safe from any PR consequences, but so is Dataminr since the least terrible set of customers they cater to is a bunch of abominable ad-monsters.
No, especially this past election. This year reality was so rife with liberal bias that no news source was trustworthy other than Donald Trump himself, far-right news sites, and conspiracy blogs. Clearly reality cannot be trusted.
I'm glad we can agree that a racist doesn't "turn it on and off." You admit Trump has been a racist in the past, does that not mean he's still a racist? Or does a "real racist" have to be racist 100% of the time, incapable of interacting with anyone without using racial slurs? I bet David Duke has refrained from such behavior at times. Hitler had a Jewish doctor, so we know he wasn't racist 100% of the time.
Trump didn't complain about a judge who happened to be Hispanic. He said the judge would not be able to do his job *because of his ethnicity.* How can that not be racist?
He has a black campaign spokesperson because he likes loyalty more than he dislikes black.
He was also certainly racist when he made those comments about Gonzalo Curiel and the central park five. I guess he can turn it on and off like a switch and I'm just supposed to look at the times when his racism is "switched off."
They are more *logical* (I don't think rational is the right word) but their ideology is vastly more disgusting. Breitbart's alt-right is a neoreactionary white nationalist movement. I'd gladly take less-logical republican blockheads over "rational" quasi-nazis any day.
I really hope you're right, and Trump drops every crazy bigoted position he held throughout his campaign. It will be especially hilarious to watch his supporters curse the sky with frustration as he abandons plans for a Muslim ban (may have already happened), mass deportation, and the Great Wall of America. It would mean that Trump played them all like a cheap fiddle and then discarded the issues they cared about as soon as he got what he wanted out of it.
How much racism does Trump have to spew from his own mouth (see: Gonzalo Curiel, central park five) before you accept that he has racist beliefs? How many times does he have to go to court for racist actions (discriminating against black tenants) before you accept that his actions are racist? How many racist messages from racist sources does he get to retweet before he has to face some responsibility for doing so?
Also the openly racist element among his supporters aren't merely unfortunate hangers-on as many Trump supporters would like to believe. They were pulling the strings in the upper echelons of his supporters throughout the campaign. His campaign seemed to react quickly to the whims of his supporters on 8chan. It could be a coincidence, but that's hardly reassuring.
My favorite trick for getting torrented content on hostile networks is to simply let my seedbox, on a very good network, handle the torrent download and then transfer the file to my local computer via SSH. It requires more lead time but it works great and is completely undetectable. I don't even need to use a VPN this way!
That may be a bit too radical but I had a similar though. As soon as Trump was elected I started thinking that the leaders of other countries should form a secret "Trump containment coalition" where they can plan on how to work together to limit the influence of this jackass on international politics until he's voted out. It's something every country not ruled by a strongman or far-right party could agree on.
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The order of rarity is also the hierarchy, whether you realize it or not. I suspect most centipedes don't know they're being led around by a bunch of neo-nazis, they see them as an unfortunate group of hangers-on.
But they've given it a snazzy new paint scheme with pepes and such! The swastikas are almost completely covered.
Snowden really should get used to the fact that he's not going anywhere until his case gets resolved.
Which will happen only when he dies or when the US elects some kind of civil libertarian who will grant him a pardon.
And what does Russia care about Paul Krugman? He's the idiot that predicted the stock market would tank and never recover after Trump was elected.
Give him a chance to be inaugurated and state his plans, the magic 8-ball in Trump's head is still settling.
It's floating in the sky somewhere...don't know where exactly.
1. Education doesn't make people smarter.
For certain values of "smart." I for one don't believe "smart" is determined mostly by biological traits.
And something like 75% of people with STEM degrees chose Trump.
Do you have a source for this? I can't find one. It's making my BS detector go nuts. If this is true it will obliterate my remaining faith in humanity.
I'd say it's people who are angrier than they are smart. The anger powers the confirmation bias, and the lack of smarts leaves their anger poorly directed and controlled.
Social media isn't the problem and fake news is just a symptom of the problem, these people are the problem because they just don't care about facts. It seems the people who think fake news is a major problem imagine a Trump supporter saying "WHAT!? The Pope didn't really endorse Trump? Oh noes, what have I done, if only I had known!!!" But they suspected deep down that the story was fake among many of the others, even the ones about Hillary being the slickest supercriminal in human history. Sharing them was just a way to vent their anger and show their support for a vessel for their anger. They don't care whether it was fake.
Trump's election is a symptom of a failing education system and skyrocketing inequality. When big chunks of the population are dumb as rocks and incredibly pissed off, bad things can happen. Feudal lords knew this (and knew to keep the peasants happy since they were too scared to make them smart) but today's leaders have forgotten.
Facebook accounts may indeed require a photo ID, especially if you've been flagged as using a pseudonym.
LOLWUT? When the hell did Hillary threaten war with Russia?
Also the idea of this crazy motherfucker being safer than Clinton is hilarious.
The FBI isn't the DHS. Even if they were, Trump's promised a hiring ban in the federal government so they'd need a robot army to carry out Operation Wetback Part 2. There wouldn't be enough people to pilot all the robots, so they'd have to be artificially intelligent. So maybe the FBI pulled this off to bring about SkyNet.
That, or James Comey is an idiot.
It makes no sense for the FBI to have wanted to get Trump elected. Hillary would given the intelligence apparatus every blank check and free pass they could ever want. Trump might have given them that too, but also a heaping helping of uncertainty, idiotic desicion-making, and a President with: A man-crush on every nasty dictator out there; loose lips; and a lower brain that easily overpowers the upper one, all with access to highly classified information.
A much simpler and more sensible possibility is that James Comey is an idiot.
The planet's not fragile, but us humans collectively take that as a challenge.
So now Hawking's advocating the "interstellar plague of locusts" future for humanity, just like Newt Gingrich. Who woulda thought?
Please don't call Bannon an anti-Semite. He might be a bit anti-Semitic, but that's debatable and a complicated issue which will only distract from his more concrete negative attributes. What's not debatable is that he supports white nationalism. Call him a white nationalist.
Now that Twitter is selling access through Dataminr rather than directly, now they can let all kinds of unsavory parties get access and if anyone complains, they can say "We can't cut off an entire company over a few rotten eggs! What about all of their customers who did nothing wrong? Maybe you should complain to them. It's not really our business anyway!"
Meanwhile if anyone complains to Dataminr they can just say "Fuck off, we'll sell to whoever we want TYVM," and not only is Twitter safe from any PR consequences, but so is Dataminr since the least terrible set of customers they cater to is a bunch of abominable ad-monsters.
No, especially this past election. This year reality was so rife with liberal bias that no news source was trustworthy other than Donald Trump himself, far-right news sites, and conspiracy blogs. Clearly reality cannot be trusted.
I'm glad we can agree that a racist doesn't "turn it on and off." You admit Trump has been a racist in the past, does that not mean he's still a racist? Or does a "real racist" have to be racist 100% of the time, incapable of interacting with anyone without using racial slurs? I bet David Duke has refrained from such behavior at times. Hitler had a Jewish doctor, so we know he wasn't racist 100% of the time.
Trump didn't complain about a judge who happened to be Hispanic. He said the judge would not be able to do his job *because of his ethnicity.* How can that not be racist?
He has a black campaign spokesperson because he likes loyalty more than he dislikes black.
He was also certainly racist when he made those comments about Gonzalo Curiel and the central park five. I guess he can turn it on and off like a switch and I'm just supposed to look at the times when his racism is "switched off."
They are more *logical* (I don't think rational is the right word) but their ideology is vastly more disgusting. Breitbart's alt-right is a neoreactionary white nationalist movement. I'd gladly take less-logical republican blockheads over "rational" quasi-nazis any day.
I really hope you're right, and Trump drops every crazy bigoted position he held throughout his campaign. It will be especially hilarious to watch his supporters curse the sky with frustration as he abandons plans for a Muslim ban (may have already happened), mass deportation, and the Great Wall of America. It would mean that Trump played them all like a cheap fiddle and then discarded the issues they cared about as soon as he got what he wanted out of it.
They aren't wrong. Those things are true. People haven't been underestimating Donald Trump so much as overestimating American voters.
How much racism does Trump have to spew from his own mouth (see: Gonzalo Curiel, central park five) before you accept that he has racist beliefs? How many times does he have to go to court for racist actions (discriminating against black tenants) before you accept that his actions are racist? How many racist messages from racist sources does he get to retweet before he has to face some responsibility for doing so?
Also the openly racist element among his supporters aren't merely unfortunate hangers-on as many Trump supporters would like to believe. They were pulling the strings in the upper echelons of his supporters throughout the campaign. His campaign seemed to react quickly to the whims of his supporters on 8chan. It could be a coincidence, but that's hardly reassuring.
He's not much of a homophobe, but he is certainly racist and bigoted, that's well-documented and indisputable at this point.
The 2nd biggest after China, to be precise.
My favorite trick for getting torrented content on hostile networks is to simply let my seedbox, on a very good network, handle the torrent download and then transfer the file to my local computer via SSH. It requires more lead time but it works great and is completely undetectable. I don't even need to use a VPN this way!
That may be a bit too radical but I had a similar though. As soon as Trump was elected I started thinking that the leaders of other countries should form a secret "Trump containment coalition" where they can plan on how to work together to limit the influence of this jackass on international politics until he's voted out. It's something every country not ruled by a strongman or far-right party could agree on.