> so in your mind, treating people the way you would want to be treated is fascism?
That is such a stupid way to put things. You have no idea how people want to be treated. You very likely couldn't handle being treated the way that that many of us would happily tolerate or even prefer.
That's not even getting into the interesting stuff.
You would melt into a puddle of goo if I applied the Golden Rule you.
Oddly enough, one of the best teams I was ever on was a group where people didn't collectively have steel rods up their asses. It ran well and efficiently. Teamwork was excellent. The boss was demanding but did a very good job at cultivating talent being much more effective at genuine "social justice" than most people that like to whine about it loudly.
It actually worked better than a climate of terror inspired by threats of litigation.
Despite the apparent "evil locker room atmosphere", people didn't push individual tolerances too much. Any real nonsense would have been dealt with most severely. If there was a problem you dealt with it then and there.
This Uber situation is basic leadership fail rather than a lack of political correctness or decorum.
> *right out of the gate, Team Trump said (in effect) "We're going to lie." (#alternativefacts)
That's not lying, that's disputing the facts.
The innaugration photos were "liberal narrative" at it's best. Bowling green was one of those "foiled by the FBI" things that the liberal media is happily engaging in itself this very moment.
The whole "Russia" thing is simply delusional. No one that has ever stepped out the liberal bubble takes it seriously. A good portion of the country has hated Hillary since she was first lady. They didn't need any encouragement from the Russians.
> I had to wait hours in line to go to the only licensing facility in my county,
OMG a wait in line at the DMV. That never happens to "privileged people". Save your sob story. We've all been there. It's just that it's not an option for most of us because we have to DRIVE to WORK. The sh*t isn't optional so we put up with it. We don't whine and make excuses about it.
What you're describing is pandering to the "can't be bothered" crowd. They simply don't value voting. That's their problem, not society's problem.
> Also mass deportation. Which, incidentally, will require the construction of concentration camps or something functionally identical to them.
Obama deported plenty without them. This is the problem with people on both sides. They only see what they want to see. Their preferred source of propaganda will feed into this.
Nearly all sources of "journalism" are now shameless party rags that have a predefined narrative. Anything outside the narrative gets dropped. They also may tell blatant falsehoods. Their version of the facts may bear no resemblance to reality. Unless you have a first hand source of your own, it's difficult to catch onto this but very glaring once it happens.
So called "news" has become entertainment and media has cranked up the nonsense in order to keep eyeballs.
Both sides are equally rubbish. You need to see the same story from different bias points just to get something remotely reasonable.
After the last election, this should be obvious to anyone with any sort of capacity for independent thought.
So, some Ivory tower weenies are whining that something isn't perfect therefore it must be rubbished as a menace. Where have we heard this before? This should be ancient news to all of the peanut gallery here. Anyone here buying into this nonsense should just hand in your geek card now.
I'm the kind of person they claim to be championing and I say they need to STFU and try something else. They might suck at it less.
We still have this stupid idea (encouraged by mass media) that the ER is "the place to go" if you suffer the tiniest little mishap. The fact that patients may now be required to pay a trifling co-pay doesn't really alter the equation all that much.
That moron Wolowitz also needs to carry an Epipen and Sheldon should have one in his First Aid kit.
Plus you can choose to follow any number of news outlets from different countries each with their different spin on things. Your Facebook feed doesn't have to be a monoculture bubble.
You can see the same stories from different angles.
Total rubes are helpless and always will be helpless. It doesn't matter what OS they are running. Also anti-engineered designs like iTunes and other Apple applications really help no one.
No. Esoteric is something that the vast majority of users don't use and have never heard of and it would never occur to them to do.
This is why Macs can be so useful. The vast majority of consumer users don't need obscure vertical apps or an overwrought word processor. Using a spreadsheet doesn't even occur to them.
Even among actual business users, more esoteric spreadsheet functions are not relevant and would probably be considered backwards and cludgey. This is 2016. We have moved past the single user desktop mentality of the 80s.
None of anything you said is terribly relevant for a large enterprise. Windows is far from trouble free. That's why you need experts to deal with it so that the rank and file employees don't have to waste their time.
> When you fear independent corroboration of things, it means you're sold on bullshit. Yeeeah I'm sure Snopes is all woolly liberals - unless it agrees with you of course.
It disagrees with my first hand knowledge of events. That's a problem you can't wriggle out of. It dissembles and dismisses key relevant details to support liberal narratives.
> one could easily argue that the Trump photo was taken at a different time
> Yes, you could "easily" argue that, but you would be factually > wrong. The photos I saw were taken within 5 minutes of the > exact same time on their respective inauguration day.
Actually no. The "media narrative" photo was taken later. There is even a clock tower in that photo that you can zoom into. That picture has a physical world time stamp.
This is is why there is a mismatch between "narrative photos" form behind and other photos take from the front.
When it comes to things I have personal knowledge of those sites are total bullshit. They distort just as much as any primary propaganda site. They just try to wrap themselves up in this pompous air of self importance.
They are inferior to something like NPR that will give you enough information to make your own conclusion even if the journalist has his own obvious bias.
That includes that notion that there is even a "majority" that actually thinks the same thing. That proposition has always been a bit bullshit in the US. Both factions are entirely too full of themselves and think they have much wider support than they really do.
Alternate Facts are already dominating the narrative. People get held up by customs all the time. Liberals only start to care when they can blame Trump. They don't care about Ukranian grannies getting deported. They're oblivious.
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> so in your mind, treating people the way you would want to be treated is fascism?
That is such a stupid way to put things. You have no idea how people want to be treated. You very likely couldn't handle being treated the way that that many of us would happily tolerate or even prefer.
That's not even getting into the interesting stuff.
You would melt into a puddle of goo if I applied the Golden Rule you.
Oddly enough, one of the best teams I was ever on was a group where people didn't collectively have steel rods up their asses. It ran well and efficiently. Teamwork was excellent. The boss was demanding but did a very good job at cultivating talent being much more effective at genuine "social justice" than most people that like to whine about it loudly.
It actually worked better than a climate of terror inspired by threats of litigation.
Despite the apparent "evil locker room atmosphere", people didn't push individual tolerances too much. Any real nonsense would have been dealt with most severely. If there was a problem you dealt with it then and there.
This Uber situation is basic leadership fail rather than a lack of political correctness or decorum.
> *right out of the gate, Team Trump said (in effect) "We're going to lie." (#alternativefacts)
That's not lying, that's disputing the facts.
The innaugration photos were "liberal narrative" at it's best. Bowling green was one of those "foiled by the FBI" things that the liberal media is happily engaging in itself this very moment.
The whole "Russia" thing is simply delusional. No one that has ever stepped out the liberal bubble takes it seriously. A good portion of the country has hated Hillary since she was first lady. They didn't need any encouragement from the Russians.
> I had to wait hours in line to go to the only licensing facility in my county,
OMG a wait in line at the DMV. That never happens to "privileged people". Save your sob story. We've all been there. It's just that it's not an option for most of us because we have to DRIVE to WORK. The sh*t isn't optional so we put up with it. We don't whine and make excuses about it.
What you're describing is pandering to the "can't be bothered" crowd. They simply don't value voting. That's their problem, not society's problem.
> Also mass deportation. Which, incidentally, will require the construction of concentration camps or something functionally identical to them.
Obama deported plenty without them. This is the problem with people on both sides. They only see what they want to see. Their preferred source of propaganda will feed into this.
Nearly all sources of "journalism" are now shameless party rags that have a predefined narrative. Anything outside the narrative gets dropped. They also may tell blatant falsehoods. Their version of the facts may bear no resemblance to reality. Unless you have a first hand source of your own, it's difficult to catch onto this but very glaring once it happens.
So called "news" has become entertainment and media has cranked up the nonsense in order to keep eyeballs.
Both sides are equally rubbish. You need to see the same story from different bias points just to get something remotely reasonable.
After the last election, this should be obvious to anyone with any sort of capacity for independent thought.
So, some Ivory tower weenies are whining that something isn't perfect therefore it must be rubbished as a menace. Where have we heard this before? This should be ancient news to all of the peanut gallery here. Anyone here buying into this nonsense should just hand in your geek card now.
I'm the kind of person they claim to be championing and I say they need to STFU and try something else. They might suck at it less.
> Except it is a solution. I have yet to find a fitness tracker that won't let you adjust your goals.
Try harder.
This feature was in the very first one I tried.
Watch Big Bang Theory sometime.
We still have this stupid idea (encouraged by mass media) that the ER is "the place to go" if you suffer the tiniest little mishap. The fact that patients may now be required to pay a trifling co-pay doesn't really alter the equation all that much.
That moron Wolowitz also needs to carry an Epipen and Sheldon should have one in his First Aid kit.
So you're big fan of potted meat product then?
Are you talking about the list that the Obama administration created or the deportation policies that Trump also carried over from Obama?
Plus you can choose to follow any number of news outlets from different countries each with their different spin on things. Your Facebook feed doesn't have to be a monoculture bubble.
You can see the same stories from different angles.
You have that backwards. The Linux projects lead where Microsoft followed. All of them rushing off a cliff at full speed.
Total rubes are helpless and always will be helpless. It doesn't matter what OS they are running. Also anti-engineered designs like iTunes and other Apple applications really help no one.
No. Esoteric is something that the vast majority of users don't use and have never heard of and it would never occur to them to do.
This is why Macs can be so useful. The vast majority of consumer users don't need obscure vertical apps or an overwrought word processor. Using a spreadsheet doesn't even occur to them.
Even among actual business users, more esoteric spreadsheet functions are not relevant and would probably be considered backwards and cludgey. This is 2016. We have moved past the single user desktop mentality of the 80s.
None of anything you said is terribly relevant for a large enterprise. Windows is far from trouble free. That's why you need experts to deal with it so that the rank and file employees don't have to waste their time.
DTV quality has always been crap. For any standard of video, theirs is downgraded in order to cram more channels onto a satellite feed.
Land line cable has MUCH more bandwidth to work with. Then there's getting it straight from the horses mouth (if you can).
If you don't think that CNN isn't politicized, you're kidding yourself.
If we have a "shortage" of doctors, we're certainly not going to fix it by importing them from Sudan.
Also, those are J1's.
Lots of people probably have business dealings with those countries because they aren't shit holes or one of our key enemies.
Turkey is even a long time member of NATO.
The Clintons have business dealings with Saudi as well as other Muslim nations on on Obama's list.
> When you fear independent corroboration of things, it means you're sold on bullshit. Yeeeah I'm sure Snopes is all woolly liberals - unless it agrees with you of course.
It disagrees with my first hand knowledge of events. That's a problem you can't wriggle out of. It dissembles and dismisses key relevant details to support liberal narratives.
> one could easily argue that the Trump photo was taken at a different time
> Yes, you could "easily" argue that, but you would be factually
> wrong. The photos I saw were taken within 5 minutes of the
> exact same time on their respective inauguration day.
Actually no. The "media narrative" photo was taken later. There is even a clock tower in that photo that you can zoom into. That picture has a physical world time stamp.
This is is why there is a mismatch between "narrative photos" form behind and other photos take from the front.
When it comes to things I have personal knowledge of those sites are total bullshit. They distort just as much as any primary propaganda site. They just try to wrap themselves up in this pompous air of self importance.
They are inferior to something like NPR that will give you enough information to make your own conclusion even if the journalist has his own obvious bias.
That includes that notion that there is even a "majority" that actually thinks the same thing. That proposition has always been a bit bullshit in the US. Both factions are entirely too full of themselves and think they have much wider support than they really do.
Some of us view "conspiracy sites" as primarily entertainment, even those of us that didn't vote for Hillary.
Alternate Facts are already dominating the narrative. People get held up by customs all the time. Liberals only start to care when they can blame Trump. They don't care about Ukranian grannies getting deported. They're oblivious.