One more every-day feature designed to heighten people's fear of something statistically very unlike to happen to them
Oh get over yourself. This doesn't make anyone scared, and it's not just for terrorist attacks.
Uh huh. Go without your phone for a week. I've watched especially young people blanch and panic when that last bar of their phone disappears while travelling. Even had one try to get me to change routes, because "What if someone in my family is hurt or dies while I am out of cell service?"
The problem with safety culture and it's effects is that the safer we are, the less safe we feel. After one of my sisters moved to Florida, my other sister would fly into a panic any time there was a weather alert for Florida. It was like Florida was only one small town.
Just wait until those home monitoring video systems fully kick in. There will be people who hardly work any more because of monitoring all the security cams in their house. After all, "if I look away, something might happen!"
That is the other half of the equation. and one that needs addressed and soon. But it is ignored, in the manner of "We'll drive off that cilff when we come to it".
That this automation of almost all jobs is coming - the only way it won't happen is if we bomb ourselves back to the stone age, and will need actual human labor to survive.
But there will be a metric shitload of excess population that will have to be dealt with. And not all options are helpful to the top tier of players. We are looking at a choice of:
Massive total war to kill off the people who are no longer employable as other than cannon fodder, and who we won't support via the government. This is very plausible, as there will be no way for 1 percent or less of the population to support everyone else.
Massive internal population reduction. Chemically induced depopulation. Plausible, but it's a lot easier to get the unemployable to kill each other. This method is also a lot less "entertaining".
Now here is where that other half of the equation that is widely ignored comes into play. The "Get rid of human workers" effort is of course pretty self limiting. Assuming you or I are one of the people on the supply side of the equation, every reduction in workforce is another brick in a wall of self destruction. If I'm selling anything other than food, I'm reducing the number of customers for what I'm selling. That is suicidal, even if most of the supply side doesn't understand it - think about how stupid the top tier thinks the rest of us are. But they are just as stupid.
So the massive depopulation efforts will drag down the elite as well.
Other more palatable futures will be if humanity can somehow subdue our appetite for killing other humans, and consider freeing ourselves completely from labor as a good thing. People will be able to pursue what they want to pursue in life, and not spend most of their time working if they don't have to. This is sort of plausible, but will require suppression of human tribalism and a big shift in outlook
I've shortened that part, because I think that within 25 years, there might be maybe a hundred million of us humans left in the world, or perhaps none at all.
My breadth of specific technical knowledge is what makes me valuable to my company. I'm not saying I can't be replaced, I'm saying my unique set of knowledge that covers several different needed areas would make it difficult. That makes my "specialty" the broad range of things I can do. That specific breadth makes me valuable to my company... but unfortunately, only to my company.
Exactly. As a kid, I was the guy who read the encyclopedias and dictionary for fun. I still hit Wikipedia a lot.
The collective knowledge across many disciplines has allowed me to come up with some pretty novel solutions and sometimes avert disaster for the people I've worked with. It has made for a strange curriculum vitae for an Art Major. But never boring.
Being master of something doesn't mean you are the very best in the world of that field, there is only one best.
The concept that the only person who dares manke any pronouncement is the PhD, who has become so specialized that the know everything about almost nothing is a bad concept. I made a pretty good career out of being voraciously interested in everything. The best expert in the left wing structure of drosophila melanogaster has so refined their study that they tend to be almost infantile in all other aspects of life. It isn't good or bad - its that there is an immense value to people who can understand or be made to understand, who can then creatively move the research forward. I'vegainfully stopped projects in their tracks when the renowned experts have proposed something that I know will not work by virtue of knowing a goodly amount about multiple things.
Yes, locked. Can you take the movies you buy on iOS and legally transfer them to your Linux or W10 laptop?
I don't care.
Can you buy any laptop you like and put MacOS on it?
I most certainly do not under any circumstances have any desire to do such a thing. Dunno how old you are, but my Windows uber allies frinds used to com to me all ablush about how thy had such a myriad of choices for their computers, making it so superior to my Mac, with it's limited choice of boards and all. Now, they use the excues that they have so many choices, and that's one of the reasons they fail on updates. That the Mac's limited number of choices makes it easier to update.
Short version - I want the computer to work, not to brag about shit.
When your iPhone stops receiving security updates from Apple, do you have any choice other than "trash it" and "run without security fixes"?
Such a thing has not ever happened, so I have no idea how to answer that question.
When Apple decides to change some core feature you don't like, can you fork the code - or pay someone else to fork the code, or take advantage of a fork someone else made - to go back to the old behavior? Can you port the applications you like to other hardware? Operating systems?
This is cute. I run Windows on my Mac flawlessly - in fact windows runs pretty good on it - better and more reliable than on my Windows only machines. I can run Linux on it as well - I've booted several live Distros. Don't really feel the need to install any of them because MacOS is already Unix.
Everyone does that on their Windows machines, eh?
And if you are talking soley about the phone - well, if you are using a phone as a computing device, I'll quit picking on you and hand out a little sympathy instead. I need my phone to work, and occasionally tether a real device to it. Otherwise meh.
I absolutely grant that iOS is better than Android in this respect. But even if it's a royal pain in the neck to get LineageOS or some other Android Open Source Project fork onto smart phones, at least it can be done. There's some interaction with open source. The iOS may provide longer product life, but you are locked solidly to Apple.
I'm also "locked" to Apple since my iPhone integrates so well with my iMac and provides many features within that integration.
But this "locked" word. I do not think it means what you think it means. My using an iPhone doesn't stop me from using and enjoying other Operating systems. I have Linux on a number of computers, a W10 laptop, and a couple Android tablets. Even a Chromebook. Full disclosure, I recently converted the Chromebook from ChromeOS to Gallium.
I missed out on the Ford versus Chevy groupthink that smarter people are blessed with.
"First they came for the Nazis...". If a couple of entities get to decide what speech is acceptable and what isn't, and can effectively keep "undesirable" speech from reaching the public, then who is to say who's next? If the nazis don't have freedom of speech, we don't have it either, even if it feels good to be rid of them and we ourselves don't yet have to feel limited in what we say. Just wait.
The USA kept on winning thanks to importing the best and brightest scientists from around the world with our beautiful country and absolutely highest standard of living. Now that America is dirty AF in every way, they're not coming here as much. If you haven't noticed the ongoing decline of the USA, you haven't been paying attention. Willful ignorance is no basis for decision-making.
The Brain Drain comes next. There is a latest generation SSC and a bigger Arecibo-like antenna going up in China, while we de-fund Arecibo, and slip even further behind in particle physics. Meanwhile we're busy making deals selling our hats to each other in the closet.
During the importation of scientists, at least the politicians understood that science was very important. Today, science is belittled, and accused of faking science for those huge grants, and a whole field of study can somehow be refuted by bringing a snowball to a meeting.
Wow, you really have no idea what you're talking about. The USA has a lot of larger tech companies for several reasons, but the biggest ones are the huge internal markets.
Remember though, you are arguing with someone who's argument is how good it used to be. How the American education was uber alles back in the day. Well, I recall reading in the history books how in 1957, a little metal sphere called Sputnik shocked American's and their education system.
Except the first linked article mentions cash payouts. Why use the words, "cash payouts" if that's not what is going on? It even separates out cash payouts and tax incentives.
Because if we use the verboten words, it doesn't sound like we are winning.
We have to call this freedom incentives or some such.
Wow, I had no idea that a directory of actual criminals was the equivalent of the holocaust. We need to eliminate the Sex offender registry, and all criminal records because, well, you know where the hate crime database would come from, and since this is a terribly slippery slope, we have to eliminate the source of this totalitarianist power grab.
You say this, but the political opinion of the left in our country is that certain crimes can only be committed by certain people, with a sizeable portion saying that all of these certain people are inherently born with the original sin of racism due to their skin color.
How strange. You do know that these databased have existed in one form or another for a long, long time, don't you? You need to read about J.E. Hoover and the FBI, and his record keeping. When criminals like John Lennon, the famous right wing musician was under surveillance. Ummm right. And this was back in the good old days when you think that America was just like you.
No, you just hate this because it has been turned toward those of your ilk. Everything on the internet is collectable with surprisingly little effort. And criminal databases have been around since databases existed. You are going to have to deal with it
Trolling? What the hell are you talking about? I'm all for freedom of speech but as a society committed to freedom and openness we do need to keep an eye on our least desirable elements.
Some people seem to have an issue with people collecting their opinions. It's the internet folks, its a criminal records and other easily collectable data sources.
I remember when the get tough on crime crowd used to be all for this stuff. It was really easy to support a registry of sex offenders,- if you oppose this, you must be a child molester. It was real easy to agitate for taking sentencing decisions out of the hands of judges - damn activist judges! It was really easy to support a similar setup against Mooslims - damn liberals, sometimes we have to bend the rules a little!
So now you have information that you or I can gather and create a database of "hate crime", or even Jello wrestling crime, and those who support it. Its there, its free for the taking. It is the internet and criminal records. It is also an excellent example of the law of unintended consequences.
If you don't want your group tracked, don't leave tracks to track.
Google has spoken and answer to your question is yes. We are going down this path. As before there were voices for reason and moderation and they were either ignored or people daring have contrary opinions were charged with the same thought crime as the others. I
Wow, I had no idea that a directory of actual criminals was the equivalent of the holocaust. We need to eliminate the Sex offender registry, and all criminal records because, well, you know where the hate crime database would come from, and since this is a terribly slippery slope, we have to eliminate the source of this totalitarianist power grab.
Oh, I forgot to add the base of all this is the High School permanent record. I've been haunted by my putting a Turkey foot in Linda Smith's desk in 5th grade my entire life. Is there no end to this punishment?
More to the serious level, this is something that you or I could prepare. I find it impossible to believe that such a database does not already exist, and could easily be prepared from criminal records. This is Slashdot trolling for outrage clicks. Looks like it is working, getting clicks for outrage, and clicks for me knowing there will be plenty of people to ridicule.
If you really think Trump is not mainstream, you need to get out of your urban liberal bubble. Go to a trailer park in Kentucky and talk to the people there. You will meet two kinds of people: Those who agree with Trump, and those that think he is too liberal.
Except all of the US is a not a Trailer park in Kentucky.
Given Trump's successes thus far, can his behavior truly be said to be a problem?
What are his successes?
Hell, he wasn't even wrong in his comments about who was contributing to the violence.
If I might give a little example of how this might have been handled better.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the friends and family of this woman family and friends, and to all americans who are shocked by this terrible crime. We condemn all violence against people exercising their right to protest."
See how easy that is? A large part of the problem with this administration is that one of their main go-to lines for any questioning or event is deflecting, an example is how say, Kellyanne Conway can turn a question on the economy to a condemnation of Hillary Clintin's email server, or some other such non-answer.
So yes, there are some left wing protesters who have not remained completely lawful. But there is a time and place for everything, and that isn't the time and place to go there.
And it had the effect of pleasing the Racist and NeoNazi's given their response to the speech. They used Trumps first and third speech as a validation of their organizations.
And its that damn deflection thing again. Which is a logical fallacy anyhow, because if you use it, you are making two wrongs a right.
And in the end, it was the start of something that is counterproductive to the alt-right. A lot of people have become quite energized, cities are removing the statues very quietly, and the Nazis and White supremacists are getting very very close attention from normal citizens. A giant has been awakened.
He's not even wrong about the statues and their relationship to history.
To be certain, that might be a accurate relationship if they were put up by a grieving south shortly after the war. But they were not. They were erected during the Jim Crow days, long after the Civil war, to show Blacks, Jews, and Northerners just who their alliegance was to.
If anyone were to ask my opinion of his tactics, instead of calling his behavior crazy, I would suggest that it seems he's specifically trolling the left to provoke a disproportionate response.
Seems to be trolling a number of Republicans as well.
And it's working.
I'm wondering a little what is working. You are going to have to explain how the Trump presidency is an unqualified success.
Only to those who already hate him, perhaps, but they aren't doing "their side" any favors by allowing him to further provoke them.
So you have no issue with the obvious collaboration with an adversarial Government? Should the investigations be shut down? Should all Americans just submit passively? That usually doesn't work out all that well.
Right, because if there's one thing that defines a secretary of state's job, it's micromanaging security.
Your assignment:
Do some research on the People killed in US embassy attacks in the glory years of G.W. Bush. Then come back and report.. Extra credit if you show exactly why her "crimes" are worse. And remember, Liberals are responsible for peanut allergies.
I'm not familiar with the term. Guessing, I'd assume someone who feels they need to hide their conservative leanings, similar to crypto-fascists. I don't see many people these days who sneak around like that, they are proud to don swastikas, endorse the KKK, etc.
You have to look at the path of the Republican party since the early 1980's. They went from a party of conservative principles that could work with Democrats - also known as compromise - to a party that has ousted all th emoderates they could, and are trying to push strange concepts like a healthcare bill that removes healthcare form many people, and redistributes it as tax breaks for a few folks. And they try to do this without any compromise, while requiring 100 percent of Republicans to walk in lockstep with the punitive measures.
Furthermore, they are accepting of purposefully stopping the Government for that plan, which some of us real conservitives consider a mortal sin, not any action performed by a politician who is loyal to the country, but at best, a person wedded to some concept of "winning", or in some of our opinions, a traitor to the USA.
Hey, I was in several traffic jams that were the result of either Obama or Hillary (as they were visiting town, and freeways were closed for hours etc) - as good a reason as any to hate a politician, if you ask me.
Oh Gawd, I hear ya. When candidates or elected officials come through my city, its a first class PITA
And peanuts too. In Israel, peanut butter and milk mixed is often the first solid food that babies get, and peanut allergies are almost unknown.
Could it be that all of the people with a sever allergic reaction to them are killed off so it doesn't get passed down to their children? Are you advocating murdering babies due to genetics?
I think you are talking about "survivor bias". I really don't think this is the case, because we'd certainly hear about infants dying in large numbers right after getting their first solid food.
The problem with a super clean, avoid all possible allergen/bacteria lifestyle is that it's easy to fall into. People want to protect their children. But we can go overboard, and not give their immune systems enough proper exercise. Its a hypothesis to be certain, called the "Hygiene hypothesis" but there is a certain logic to it. If a person does not exercise their immune system while young, it might over-react later on in life.
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One more every-day feature designed to heighten people's fear of something statistically very unlike to happen to them
Oh get over yourself. This doesn't make anyone scared, and it's not just for terrorist attacks.
Uh huh. Go without your phone for a week. I've watched especially young people blanch and panic when that last bar of their phone disappears while travelling. Even had one try to get me to change routes, because "What if someone in my family is hurt or dies while I am out of cell service?"
The problem with safety culture and it's effects is that the safer we are, the less safe we feel. After one of my sisters moved to Florida, my other sister would fly into a panic any time there was a weather alert for Florida. It was like Florida was only one small town.
Just wait until those home monitoring video systems fully kick in. There will be people who hardly work any more because of monitoring all the security cams in their house. After all, "if I look away, something might happen!"
Brick layers should worry.
Question is: What will present brick layers do?
That is the other half of the equation. and one that needs addressed and soon. But it is ignored, in the manner of "We'll drive off that cilff when we come to it".
That this automation of almost all jobs is coming - the only way it won't happen is if we bomb ourselves back to the stone age, and will need actual human labor to survive.
But there will be a metric shitload of excess population that will have to be dealt with. And not all options are helpful to the top tier of players. We are looking at a choice of:
Massive total war to kill off the people who are no longer employable as other than cannon fodder, and who we won't support via the government. This is very plausible, as there will be no way for 1 percent or less of the population to support everyone else.
Massive internal population reduction. Chemically induced depopulation. Plausible, but it's a lot easier to get the unemployable to kill each other. This method is also a lot less "entertaining".
Now here is where that other half of the equation that is widely ignored comes into play. The "Get rid of human workers" effort is of course pretty self limiting. Assuming you or I are one of the people on the supply side of the equation, every reduction in workforce is another brick in a wall of self destruction. If I'm selling anything other than food, I'm reducing the number of customers for what I'm selling. That is suicidal, even if most of the supply side doesn't understand it - think about how stupid the top tier thinks the rest of us are. But they are just as stupid.
So the massive depopulation efforts will drag down the elite as well.
Other more palatable futures will be if humanity can somehow subdue our appetite for killing other humans, and consider freeing ourselves completely from labor as a good thing. People will be able to pursue what they want to pursue in life, and not spend most of their time working if they don't have to. This is sort of plausible, but will require suppression of human tribalism and a big shift in outlook
I've shortened that part, because I think that within 25 years, there might be maybe a hundred million of us humans left in the world, or perhaps none at all.
Actually, there is a surplus of workers who believe their labour is worth more than it really is. That's the real problem and it is being rectified.
Quit picking on the CEO's.
My breadth of specific technical knowledge is what makes me valuable to my company. I'm not saying I can't be replaced, I'm saying my unique set of knowledge that covers several different needed areas would make it difficult. That makes my "specialty" the broad range of things I can do. That specific breadth makes me valuable to my company... but unfortunately, only to my company.
Exactly. As a kid, I was the guy who read the encyclopedias and dictionary for fun. I still hit Wikipedia a lot.
The collective knowledge across many disciplines has allowed me to come up with some pretty novel solutions and sometimes avert disaster for the people I've worked with. It has made for a strange curriculum vitae for an Art Major. But never boring.
Being master of something doesn't mean you are the very best in the world of that field, there is only one best.
The concept that the only person who dares manke any pronouncement is the PhD, who has become so specialized that the know everything about almost nothing is a bad concept. I made a pretty good career out of being voraciously interested in everything. The best expert in the left wing structure of drosophila melanogaster has so refined their study that they tend to be almost infantile in all other aspects of life. It isn't good or bad - its that there is an immense value to people who can understand or be made to understand, who can then creatively move the research forward. I'vegainfully stopped projects in their tracks when the renowned experts have proposed something that I know will not work by virtue of knowing a goodly amount about multiple things.
Yes, locked. Can you take the movies you buy on iOS and legally transfer them to your Linux or W10 laptop?
I don't care.
Can you buy any laptop you like and put MacOS on it?
I most certainly do not under any circumstances have any desire to do such a thing. Dunno how old you are, but my Windows uber allies frinds used to com to me all ablush about how thy had such a myriad of choices for their computers, making it so superior to my Mac, with it's limited choice of boards and all. Now, they use the excues that they have so many choices, and that's one of the reasons they fail on updates. That the Mac's limited number of choices makes it easier to update.
Short version - I want the computer to work, not to brag about shit.
When your iPhone stops receiving security updates from Apple, do you have any choice other than "trash it" and "run without security fixes"?
Such a thing has not ever happened, so I have no idea how to answer that question.
When Apple decides to change some core feature you don't like, can you fork the code - or pay someone else to fork the code, or take advantage of a fork someone else made - to go back to the old behavior? Can you port the applications you like to other hardware? Operating systems?
This is cute. I run Windows on my Mac flawlessly - in fact windows runs pretty good on it - better and more reliable than on my Windows only machines. I can run Linux on it as well - I've booted several live Distros. Don't really feel the need to install any of them because MacOS is already Unix.
Everyone does that on their Windows machines, eh?
And if you are talking soley about the phone - well, if you are using a phone as a computing device, I'll quit picking on you and hand out a little sympathy instead. I need my phone to work, and occasionally tether a real device to it. Otherwise meh.
I absolutely grant that iOS is better than Android in this respect. But even if it's a royal pain in the neck to get LineageOS or some other Android Open Source Project fork onto smart phones, at least it can be done. There's some interaction with open source. The iOS may provide longer product life, but you are locked solidly to Apple.
I'm also "locked" to Apple since my iPhone integrates so well with my iMac and provides many features within that integration.
But this "locked" word. I do not think it means what you think it means. My using an iPhone doesn't stop me from using and enjoying other Operating systems. I have Linux on a number of computers, a W10 laptop, and a couple Android tablets. Even a Chromebook. Full disclosure, I recently converted the Chromebook from ChromeOS to Gallium.
I missed out on the Ford versus Chevy groupthink that smarter people are blessed with.
"First they came for the Nazis...". If a couple of entities get to decide what speech is acceptable and what isn't, and can effectively keep "undesirable" speech from reaching the public, then who is to say who's next? If the nazis don't have freedom of speech, we don't have it either, even if it feels good to be rid of them and we ourselves don't yet have to feel limited in what we say. Just wait.
Define freedom of speech.
The Slashdot comments section is all the proof we need.
Burrrrn. You win the internet for today, good sir!
The USA kept on winning thanks to importing the best and brightest scientists from around the world with our beautiful country and absolutely highest standard of living. Now that America is dirty AF in every way, they're not coming here as much. If you haven't noticed the ongoing decline of the USA, you haven't been paying attention. Willful ignorance is no basis for decision-making.
The Brain Drain comes next. There is a latest generation SSC and a bigger Arecibo-like antenna going up in China, while we de-fund Arecibo, and slip even further behind in particle physics. Meanwhile we're busy making deals selling our hats to each other in the closet.
During the importation of scientists, at least the politicians understood that science was very important. Today, science is belittled, and accused of faking science for those huge grants, and a whole field of study can somehow be refuted by bringing a snowball to a meeting.
Wow, you really have no idea what you're talking about. The USA has a lot of larger tech companies for several reasons, but the biggest ones are the huge internal markets.
Remember though, you are arguing with someone who's argument is how good it used to be. How the American education was uber alles back in the day. Well, I recall reading in the history books how in 1957, a little metal sphere called Sputnik shocked American's and their education system.
What are you doing positing when Fox and Friends is on?
Except the first linked article mentions cash payouts. Why use the words, "cash payouts" if that's not what is going on? It even separates out cash payouts and tax incentives.
Because if we use the verboten words, it doesn't sound like we are winning.
We have to call this freedom incentives or some such.
I'm about as left leaning as left leaning one can be, but this continous trolling by the editors really needs to stop. Please stop it now.
Just so our slahdotter bretheren understand who they are supporting - Chris Cantrell, https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Wow, I had no idea that a directory of actual criminals was the equivalent of the holocaust. We need to eliminate the Sex offender registry, and all criminal records because, well, you know where the hate crime database would come from, and since this is a terribly slippery slope, we have to eliminate the source of this totalitarianist power grab.
You say this, but the political opinion of the left in our country is that certain crimes can only be committed by certain people, with a sizeable portion saying that all of these certain people are inherently born with the original sin of racism due to their skin color.
How strange. You do know that these databased have existed in one form or another for a long, long time, don't you? You need to read about J.E. Hoover and the FBI, and his record keeping. When criminals like John Lennon, the famous right wing musician was under surveillance. Ummm right. And this was back in the good old days when you think that America was just like you.
No, you just hate this because it has been turned toward those of your ilk. Everything on the internet is collectable with surprisingly little effort. And criminal databases have been around since databases existed. You are going to have to deal with it
Trolling? What the hell are you talking about? I'm all for freedom of speech but as a society committed to freedom and openness we do need to keep an eye on our least desirable elements.
Some people seem to have an issue with people collecting their opinions. It's the internet folks, its a criminal records and other easily collectable data sources.
I remember when the get tough on crime crowd used to be all for this stuff. It was really easy to support a registry of sex offenders,- if you oppose this, you must be a child molester. It was real easy to agitate for taking sentencing decisions out of the hands of judges - damn activist judges! It was really easy to support a similar setup against Mooslims - damn liberals, sometimes we have to bend the rules a little!
So now you have information that you or I can gather and create a database of "hate crime", or even Jello wrestling crime, and those who support it. Its there, its free for the taking. It is the internet and criminal records. It is also an excellent example of the law of unintended consequences.
If you don't want your group tracked, don't leave tracks to track.
Google has spoken and answer to your question is yes. We are going down this path. As before there were voices for reason and moderation and they were either ignored or people daring have contrary opinions were charged with the same thought crime as the others. I
Wow, I had no idea that a directory of actual criminals was the equivalent of the holocaust. We need to eliminate the Sex offender registry, and all criminal records because, well, you know where the hate crime database would come from, and since this is a terribly slippery slope, we have to eliminate the source of this totalitarianist power grab.
Oh, I forgot to add the base of all this is the High School permanent record. I've been haunted by my putting a Turkey foot in Linda Smith's desk in 5th grade my entire life. Is there no end to this punishment?
More to the serious level, this is something that you or I could prepare. I find it impossible to believe that such a database does not already exist, and could easily be prepared from criminal records. This is Slashdot trolling for outrage clicks. Looks like it is working, getting clicks for outrage, and clicks for me knowing there will be plenty of people to ridicule.
If you really think Trump is not mainstream, you need to get out of your urban liberal bubble. Go to a trailer park in Kentucky and talk to the people there. You will meet two kinds of people: Those who agree with Trump, and those that think he is too liberal.
Except all of the US is a not a Trailer park in Kentucky.
Given Trump's successes thus far, can his behavior truly be said to be a problem?
What are his successes?
Hell, he wasn't even wrong in his comments about who was contributing to the violence.
If I might give a little example of how this might have been handled better.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the friends and family of this woman family and friends, and to all americans who are shocked by this terrible crime. We condemn all violence against people exercising their right to protest."
See how easy that is? A large part of the problem with this administration is that one of their main go-to lines for any questioning or event is deflecting, an example is how say, Kellyanne Conway can turn a question on the economy to a condemnation of Hillary Clintin's email server, or some other such non-answer.
So yes, there are some left wing protesters who have not remained completely lawful. But there is a time and place for everything, and that isn't the time and place to go there.
And it had the effect of pleasing the Racist and NeoNazi's given their response to the speech. They used Trumps first and third speech as a validation of their organizations.
And its that damn deflection thing again. Which is a logical fallacy anyhow, because if you use it, you are making two wrongs a right.
And in the end, it was the start of something that is counterproductive to the alt-right. A lot of people have become quite energized, cities are removing the statues very quietly, and the Nazis and White supremacists are getting very very close attention from normal citizens. A giant has been awakened.
He's not even wrong about the statues and their relationship to history.
To be certain, that might be a accurate relationship if they were put up by a grieving south shortly after the war. But they were not. They were erected during the Jim Crow days, long after the Civil war, to show Blacks, Jews, and Northerners just who their alliegance was to.
If anyone were to ask my opinion of his tactics, instead of calling his behavior crazy, I would suggest that it seems he's specifically trolling the left to provoke a disproportionate response.
Seems to be trolling a number of Republicans as well.
And it's working.
I'm wondering a little what is working. You are going to have to explain how the Trump presidency is an unqualified success.
Only to those who already hate him, perhaps, but they aren't doing "their side" any favors by allowing him to further provoke them.
So you have no issue with the obvious collaboration with an adversarial Government? Should the investigations be shut down? Should all Americans just submit passively? That usually doesn't work out all that well.
Right, because if there's one thing that defines a secretary of state's job, it's micromanaging security.
Your assignment:
Do some research on the People killed in US embassy attacks in the glory years of G.W. Bush. Then come back and report.. Extra credit if you show exactly why her "crimes" are worse. And remember, Liberals are responsible for peanut allergies.
Every day is pain now.
Damn you! I didn't know this person, yet I searched, I found, and now I am permanently damaged!
That's pretty grim........
My compiler just spat out an error at word 12. I think it was meant to be prescribed. :)
Okay. I wasn't sure - sometimes I get a little thick. 8^) I still like it though.
Yes. By the way, they are crypto-conservatives
I'm not familiar with the term. Guessing, I'd assume someone who feels they need to hide their conservative leanings, similar to crypto-fascists. I don't see many people these days who sneak around like that, they are proud to don swastikas, endorse the KKK, etc.
You have to look at the path of the Republican party since the early 1980's. They went from a party of conservative principles that could work with Democrats - also known as compromise - to a party that has ousted all th emoderates they could, and are trying to push strange concepts like a healthcare bill that removes healthcare form many people, and redistributes it as tax breaks for a few folks. And they try to do this without any compromise, while requiring 100 percent of Republicans to walk in lockstep with the punitive measures.
Furthermore, they are accepting of purposefully stopping the Government for that plan, which some of us real conservitives consider a mortal sin, not any action performed by a politician who is loyal to the country, but at best, a person wedded to some concept of "winning", or in some of our opinions, a traitor to the USA.
Hey, I was in several traffic jams that were the result of either Obama or Hillary (as they were visiting town, and freeways were closed for hours etc) - as good a reason as any to hate a politician, if you ask me.
Oh Gawd, I hear ya. When candidates or elected officials come through my city, its a first class PITA
Could it be that all of the people with a sever allergic reaction to them are killed off so it doesn't get passed down to their children? Are you advocating murdering babies due to genetics?
I think you are talking about "survivor bias". I really don't think this is the case, because we'd certainly hear about infants dying in large numbers right after getting their first solid food.
The problem with a super clean, avoid all possible allergen/bacteria lifestyle is that it's easy to fall into. People want to protect their children. But we can go overboard, and not give their immune systems enough proper exercise. Its a hypothesis to be certain, called the "Hygiene hypothesis" but there is a certain logic to it. If a person does not exercise their immune system while young, it might over-react later on in life.