And of course - flagrant self contradiction: "The fraud is (mostly) not coming from scientists" Anything you've heard about climate change from a political group (any UN body, for example) is automatically a lie.
These two sentences flat out contradict each other - because the primary UN body that says things about climate change is the IPCC which is just about entirely staffed by scientists.
Of course, it all hinges on his attempt at deceptively claiming the IPCC is actually a political body.
>Dude, the difference between the majority and the minority is about 1.4%. Can you please downshift a couple gears with your authoritarian minority bullshit? You make it sound like it's the apartheid or something. That was the difference today. All current data suggests it will be about 6% in the next election and nearly 15% in the one after that. As horrifying as this outcome was - it was an extremely close-run thing, and it's the last time it will ever happen. By the next election it will already be mathematically impossible for any party to win without getting a majority of all non-white votes. We made the mistake this time around to think we were already there. We we're not. We were fucking close, but not quite there. We will be next time. Assuming there is a next time. The sad reality is that this may very well have been the very last election in the USA.
Nah, I fart only into plastic bags which I carefully sequester in a spare room. There are thousands in there now. When the room is full - I'm planning to have them delivered to Trump Towers with a note "Open the bags if you REALLY don't believe in climate change".
No need to guess - that's already happening. The chairman of the congressional science committee (a rabid anti-science denier from the red side of the aisle) has been hounding NOAA for ages trying to force them to stop publishing results that he doesn't like.
The republicans are getting sick and tired of scientists constantly reporting that the their bullshit climate science denial is... well bullshit. They don't want to stop spreading bullshit (there's lots of sweet campaign donations in the spreading of this particular bullshit) so instead... they are trying to silence the scientists.
It's quite ironic to hear them saying it's about ending "politicised science"... considering they are politicians trying to interfere with science and force them to lie about the results with budget threats. It's doubly ironic that the deniers claim the scientists only publish climate change papers to get grant money... considering that the push from congress has been consistently to take money AWAY from scientists who do that. If anything, it would be a LOT easier to get the republican congress to fund your research if you were a denier.
Last I checked earth was a planet, in space, it's also the one that is easiest to study - and this is kind of important because the stuff we learn from studying it helps us understand other planets too.
Organic: may or may not mean anything. -- Means "carbon based". A complete scam. No clear definition exists for stuff marketed using it. You could stick the label on anything.
Shade Grown: does mean lower environmental impact -- Agreed
Free Range: not only better meat and eggs, but lower cruelty for people who care -- I wish. Sadly real free range barely exists anymore. What is sold as free range now is not actually all that distinguishable from battery farmed. Real free range does exist but there is no way to tell it appart in the shops. So much so that the actual "let the animals live in the pastuer" farmers are starting to rebrand as "pastuer-grown" and similar terms. Personally, I do care. Domestication was not an act of one species enslaving others. It was an act of symbiosis as species cooperated for mutual benefit, instead of predator/pray we became partners. The cows got a much better life in much bigger numbers because we protected them - a few got killed for meat and we took a lot of milk from them but they benefitted from the deal equally which is why they agreed to it (seriously - you think humans could FORCE a wild bovine to do anything it didn't want to do ? Those things can kill you with a footstep) Factory farming destroys the symbiosis and turns humans instead into parasites. I refuse to be a parasite. And since it's hard to find reliably non-parasite meat in domesticated brands I have switched almost exclusively to veal. At least with veal it's still predator/pray - which is not something my conscience bothers me about any more than a lion's conscience does. But I am not okay with being a parasite. I do have the advantage that veal is quite cheap here - exactly because it's NOT farmed. The game farmers don't rely on the meat sales to be profitable, they already made their profits selling the right to shoot the animal to dumb, rich (mostly American) tourists. Selling the meat to me afterwards is a just a bit of bonus money. Indeed kudu or springbok is often CHEAPER than beef, and ostrich is almost ALWAYS cheaper than chicken or beef.
Hand Crafted: not made in a gigantic vat of bug parts -- I would still feel better if it said "washed hand crafted":P
>There's no Bill Gates Inc. which holds title to Bill Gate's assets and pays all his expenses Oh yes there is. Only it's usually not called "Bill Gates Inc" it's called "Randomlyassignedcompanyname Inc" and is registered via layer of shell companies so thick it's absolutely impossible to find out who actually owns it. Were you in a coma during the Panama-papers leak ? What the fuck do you think all those anonymous shell companies are FOR ? They exist to own the assets of rich people, and pay their expenses, so that rich people don't have to pay tax.
It is actually. What happens if people start refusing to buy things made in slave-labour like conditions ? You force the third world companies to change their labour practises in order to keep making money.
So no, you don't "take work away" - you make their work conditions better - unless you're seriously claiming that the owners of Chinese factories don't want to make money !
People here in South Africa often declare that we should scrap all our labour laws and protections (which are basically non-existent compared to Europe) in order to compete with China. I think that's a completely stupid idea. We can NEVER compete with China. They have over a billion people who are willing to work for peanuts. We have 50 million - no matter how low we go, they can always undercut us.
There's no POINT in trying to compete on price, we'll never win - so we may as well treat our workers well and try to compete on quality instead. Germany got that right.
Korea is getting pretty good. The Hyunday Diesels are among the best cars you can buy in terms of feature and reliability and not overpriced either. For my recent purchase it was between a Hyundai or a BMW diesel. I chose the BMW but it was a very close-run thing.
Just like every other time a republican has made the promise of creating jobs by deregulation: - Lots of good regulations that citizens actually BENEFIT from, the ones that make it harder for companies to kill their workers, cheat their customers, steal from you, poison you, defraud you, kill their customers or simply lie about what you are paying for will be removed - No jobs will appear - None of the annoying, bad, ridiculous, silly regulations will go away (big corporations love those too much because they keep competition expensive) - As companies take advantage of the lack of good regulations - this will cause a whole slew of new crisises just like it always does, which will then be used to justify removing even MORE useful regulations.
Notice how Trump has been targetting the consumer financial protection bureau ? It's one of the few things he and Ryan agrees on - because you can't have law enforcement actually PUNISHING bankers who defraud people. Next time some bank wants to open an account for you without your consent and knowledge and then wait a year or two to send you a massive bill for overdue banking fees on an account that you never opened it really shouldn't end up with the CEO fired without a golden handshake and facing jailtime like the last one. The CFPB must be scrapped - we can't have a government agency actually being efficient and doing it's job - especially when that job benefits Americans and makes it harder for wall street to steal from them.
>Hitler didn't 'join' the National Socialist Party in Germany, he essentially created it. As for labor/trade unions: Bullshit. Hitler fought in world war 1 - and became quite the war hero. After the war he worked as an intelligence agent for the German government. While working there he was assigned to undercover and infiltrate the party known as the German Workers Party (DAP) - by this point in time the DAP was already a misnomer, having cut ties with the labour unions a year earlier and become a primarily anti-semitic party instead. Hitler infiltrated them - but was so impressed with their rhetoric that he abandoned his mission as a spy and instead became a full-fledged and active member. He rose through the ranks rapidly but while still just an officer in the party the party changed it's name to the NSDAP (the NS for Nasional Socialism - the part that became known as 'Nazi'), this was a key aspect of the party's shift from being a labour party to an soicalist ethno-nationalist party (it's rhethoric at the time is about identical to the most charitable readings of Trump's speeches - welfare, but only for us). Hitler continued to advance and became leader of the party in 1920 when the founder retired. At this point Hitler strips all mention of socialism from the party's platform - effectively completing the reinvention that had begun with the cutting of ties to the labour unions, turning it into a purely ethno-nationalist and anti-semitic party. In 1921 he tries to launch a coup in Munich, hoping to take power much as Musolini had - the coup fails and Hitler is sent to prison for 5 years for treason. In prison he meets Rudolph Hess, who helps him write Mein Kampf, while under his leadership the party outside begins a clandestine recruitment drive in the form of the Hitler Youth. By running an organisation that, for the most part, looked a lot like German Boy Scouts - he was able to have massive influence and propaganda impact on people the other parties ignored because they couldn't vote - and lock them into his ideology for when they could. That was his single biggest strategic success.
Now all this would have had little impact- the youth just aren't enough to swing a vote far enough to achieve what he did later. The NAZIs influence on the rest of the population was extremely limited - their rhetoric sounded too extreme, and people were doing well - the Weimar republic at this stage was recovering well from the aftermath of the war. Employment was high, prices were low. The country had a lot of debt and had been printing quite a lot of money - but this wasn't actually a problem because they had been in a severe recession caused by the war and Versaile - which meant there was no inflation problem. Amerca caused the next level of the issue, specifically republicans did (frankly the GOP has at least as much blame for the holocaust as the NAZIs do). In 1928 the GOP wins both houses of congress and the whitehouse. Does their usual deregulate everything bullshit and causes the great depression in 1929.
Suddenly Germany cannot borrow money from the US - their biggest export market isn't buying so their trade deficit goes through the roof and the German economy (still slowly recovering until now) all but collapses. Unemployment shoots up, especially among younger people, and the middle class is squeezed very hard - people are very upset, they blame their government - and they are eager for anybody to upset the status quo. In the next election - the NAZIs take 32% of the vote. Not enough to become a government - but enough for quite a few seats in parliament. Now the Weimar government is in a panic. Up to this point it had been basically a 2-party state. The socialist party got about 40% of the vote, the conservative party got about 40% and the other 10% had been shared among all the other little parties (including the NAZIs who up to this point had never had more than one seat). Now the Nazi's had taken a huge chunk from both. The conservative (as in right wing) mainstream party (basically Germ
The odds of an asteroid being 5 years from impact is exactly the same as one being 500000 years from impact - so on what basis can you possibly say we shouldn't consider 5 years possible ?
My intended meaning was somewhere in between. I think COBOL was fantastic at what it was designed for - I just think it was the wrong thing to design something for. But I don't hold that against Hopper in the least, she was breaking entirely new ground - it's impossible to do that and know the best direction to take - by definition if you go into an entirely new field you're going to make missteps which other can ONLY avoid BECAUSE you made them.
So I counted 14 out of 14 - but even if we accept your views and say 6/14... then that's still WAY too much. You shouldn't vote for anybody who has more than maybe 2 - and even that is risky.
The first feature of Ur-Fascism is the cult of tradition: you are looking in the wrong place. The cult is right there in the slogan: make america great AGAIN. I.E. Return it to a past age, preserve traditions that feel threatened.
rejection of modernism: A perfect fit if you read the whole chapter. In Musolini the rejection was disguised as a rejection of the capitalist lifestyle. For Trump it's in a rejection of modernism, metroplitanism and multiculturalism - all things that are fundamentally modern ideas.
No syncretistic faith can withstand analytical criticism: Had you read the entire article it would be obvious how perfect a fit this is. Firstly he constantly contradicts himself - that's a core feature of all syncretic ideas. And as for how he deals with disagreement: he threatened to imprison his political opponent !
Ur-Fascism grows up and seeks for consensus by exploiting and exacerbating the natural fear of difference: Firstly the author does nothing of the kind you're accusing him off. The article was written in 1995 and wasn't about Trump in particular, that the description fits so well is all the more valid because it wasn't intended for him specifically. And there is no doubt that Trump's campaign was fueled to a large degree by fear of difference. Gays, Muslims, Hispanics - it's not about race and it never was (not even for Musolini) that was just the TYPE of difference they chose - ANY difference (including the difference in 'where you were born') qualifies.
Ur-Fascism derives from individual or social frustration: Nice little dodge you pulled there - by responding to half the description. Sure everybody tries to appeal to the middle class -but fascism does so in a very specific way, which Trump excelled at: fascism blames the struggles of the middle class on the poor class, and especially those members of the poor who are from other races, countries or in some other way different and presents these differences as an existential threat to the middle class.
Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot: You forgot his obsession with conspiracy theories, claims that the election were rigged etc. etc. etc. all classic fascist claims. It's not in the 14 elements but the rest also makes it clear that a disdain for democratic governments/parliaments is a key feature (the author calls it the first and most important warning) that somebody is a fascist: what was Trump saying about the US government ? The exact same words Musolini used to say about the Italian parliament which he would soon come to disband.
The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies: Trump echoed Sanders in this one, but that by itself is not enough to qualify. You must also present the elites as being in cahoots with the others as an unstopple force of destruction. Only Trump suggested that elites and muslim terrorists were allies !
For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle: Wrong. Trump behaved exactly according to this recipe. Sure he also paid lipservice to isolationism but that is just classic fascist self-contradiction. What he said about ISIS fits this perfectly - that their a terrible enemy, created by Obama, and only HE can defeat them - and he strongly implied he would do so by military action, i.e. launching another war (how did you miss this ?)
The author describes this further, but I don't see it in Trump at all. Trump is anti-elite: there is nothing anti-elite about Trump or his followers despite his and their claims to the contrary. Trump's appeals to white supremacists contradict the idea that it's anti-elite. What is white supremacy if not an elitist appeal ? What is nationalism if not a form of elitism ? You're conflating two meanings of 'elite' and dismissing the claim based on the wrong one - while ignoring that Trump as an individual actually meets both.
In such a perspective everybody is educated to become a hero: Just because you don't see it doesn
And all those things are statistically reasonably predictable because they are not chaotic systems. The very definition of a chaotic system is that you cannot predict it !
No - you can't. Your statistics are not VALID. They don't apply to this subject. They never can. Nothing can.
So sometimes doctors screw up - what's that got to do with the analogy ?
I could just as easily use: "My water-heater just burst and is flooding my house - I better call somebody who has never seen plumbing before" or "My transmission just broke, my car won't run and I need it fixed, better take it anybody who isn't a mechanic - can't trust those car-repair insiders" or "Mmm, our company is getting bigger, the books is starting to take up too much of our time and it's getting justified to have a dedicated person doing the job - but I better make sure whoever I hire knows nothing about accountancy"
Well it didn't take that long afterwards before we had lisp. Upsides: functional programming can be really beautiful (look at good Ruby code sometime - it's poetry man)... downside - LISP was terrible at it, so many parentheses
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And of course - flagrant self contradiction:
"The fraud is (mostly) not coming from scientists"
Anything you've heard about climate change from a political group (any UN body, for example) is automatically a lie.
These two sentences flat out contradict each other - because the primary UN body that says things about climate change is the IPCC which is just about entirely staffed by scientists.
Of course, it all hinges on his attempt at deceptively claiming the IPCC is actually a political body.
>Dude, the difference between the majority and the minority is about 1.4%. Can you please downshift a couple gears with your authoritarian minority bullshit? You make it sound like it's the apartheid or something.
That was the difference today. All current data suggests it will be about 6% in the next election and nearly 15% in the one after that. As horrifying as this outcome was - it was an extremely close-run thing, and it's the last time it will ever happen. By the next election it will already be mathematically impossible for any party to win without getting a majority of all non-white votes. We made the mistake this time around to think we were already there. We we're not. We were fucking close, but not quite there. We will be next time. Assuming there is a next time. The sad reality is that this may very well have been the very last election in the USA.
Nah, I fart only into plastic bags which I carefully sequester in a spare room. There are thousands in there now. When the room is full - I'm planning to have them delivered to Trump Towers with a note "Open the bags if you REALLY don't believe in climate change".
No need to guess - that's already happening. The chairman of the congressional science committee (a rabid anti-science denier from the red side of the aisle) has been hounding NOAA for ages trying to force them to stop publishing results that he doesn't like.
The republicans are getting sick and tired of scientists constantly reporting that the their bullshit climate science denial is... well bullshit. They don't want to stop spreading bullshit (there's lots of sweet campaign donations in the spreading of this particular bullshit) so instead... they are trying to silence the scientists.
It's quite ironic to hear them saying it's about ending "politicised science" ... considering they are politicians trying to interfere with science and force them to lie about the results with budget threats.
It's doubly ironic that the deniers claim the scientists only publish climate change papers to get grant money... considering that the push from congress has been consistently to take money AWAY from scientists who do that. If anything, it would be a LOT easier to get the republican congress to fund your research if you were a denier.
Last I checked earth was a planet, in space, it's also the one that is easiest to study - and this is kind of important because the stuff we learn from studying it helps us understand other planets too.
Wait... you have a way to travel through space WITHOUT travelling through air first ?
He never said there was another person involved. He's just complaining about never managing to make it to the end of the pornhub clip.
Organic: may or may not mean anything.
-- Means "carbon based". A complete scam. No clear definition exists for stuff marketed using it. You could stick the label on anything.
Shade Grown: does mean lower environmental impact
-- Agreed
Free Range: not only better meat and eggs, but lower cruelty for people who care
-- I wish. Sadly real free range barely exists anymore. What is sold as free range now is not actually all that distinguishable from battery farmed. Real free range does exist but there is no way to tell it appart in the shops. So much so that the actual "let the animals live in the pastuer" farmers are starting to rebrand as "pastuer-grown" and similar terms. Personally, I do care. Domestication was not an act of one species enslaving others. It was an act of symbiosis as species cooperated for mutual benefit, instead of predator/pray we became partners. The cows got a much better life in much bigger numbers because we protected them - a few got killed for meat and we took a lot of milk from them but they benefitted from the deal equally which is why they agreed to it (seriously - you think humans could FORCE a wild bovine to do anything it didn't want to do ? Those things can kill you with a footstep) Factory farming destroys the symbiosis and turns humans instead into parasites. I refuse to be a parasite. And since it's hard to find reliably non-parasite meat in domesticated brands I have switched almost exclusively to veal. At least with veal it's still predator/pray - which is not something my conscience bothers me about any more than a lion's conscience does. But I am not okay with being a parasite. I do have the advantage that veal is quite cheap here - exactly because it's NOT farmed. The game farmers don't rely on the meat sales to be profitable, they already made their profits selling the right to shoot the animal to dumb, rich (mostly American) tourists. Selling the meat to me afterwards is a just a bit of bonus money. Indeed kudu or springbok is often CHEAPER than beef, and ostrich is almost ALWAYS cheaper than chicken or beef.
Hand Crafted: not made in a gigantic vat of bug parts :P
-- I would still feel better if it said "washed hand crafted"
>There's no Bill Gates Inc. which holds title to Bill Gate's assets and pays all his expenses
Oh yes there is. Only it's usually not called "Bill Gates Inc" it's called "Randomlyassignedcompanyname Inc" and is registered via layer of shell companies so thick it's absolutely impossible to find out who actually owns it.
Were you in a coma during the Panama-papers leak ? What the fuck do you think all those anonymous shell companies are FOR ? They exist to own the assets of rich people, and pay their expenses, so that rich people don't have to pay tax.
It is actually. What happens if people start refusing to buy things made in slave-labour like conditions ? You force the third world companies to change their labour practises in order to keep making money.
So no, you don't "take work away" - you make their work conditions better - unless you're seriously claiming that the owners of Chinese factories don't want to make money !
People here in South Africa often declare that we should scrap all our labour laws and protections (which are basically non-existent compared to Europe) in order to compete with China. I think that's a completely stupid idea. We can NEVER compete with China. They have over a billion people who are willing to work for peanuts. We have 50 million - no matter how low we go, they can always undercut us.
There's no POINT in trying to compete on price, we'll never win - so we may as well treat our workers well and try to compete on quality instead. Germany got that right.
Korea is getting pretty good. The Hyunday Diesels are among the best cars you can buy in terms of feature and reliability and not overpriced either. For my recent purchase it was between a Hyundai or a BMW diesel. I chose the BMW but it was a very close-run thing.
Just like every other time a republican has made the promise of creating jobs by deregulation:
- Lots of good regulations that citizens actually BENEFIT from, the ones that make it harder for companies to kill their workers, cheat their customers, steal from you, poison you, defraud you, kill their customers or simply lie about what you are paying for will be removed
- No jobs will appear
- None of the annoying, bad, ridiculous, silly regulations will go away (big corporations love those too much because they keep competition expensive)
- As companies take advantage of the lack of good regulations - this will cause a whole slew of new crisises just like it always does, which will then be used to justify removing even MORE useful regulations.
Notice how Trump has been targetting the consumer financial protection bureau ? It's one of the few things he and Ryan agrees on - because you can't have law enforcement actually PUNISHING bankers who defraud people. Next time some bank wants to open an account for you without your consent and knowledge and then wait a year or two to send you a massive bill for overdue banking fees on an account that you never opened it really shouldn't end up with the CEO fired without a golden handshake and facing jailtime like the last one. The CFPB must be scrapped - we can't have a government agency actually being efficient and doing it's job - especially when that job benefits Americans and makes it harder for wall street to steal from them.
>Hitler didn't 'join' the National Socialist Party in Germany, he essentially created it. As for labor/trade unions:
Bullshit. Hitler fought in world war 1 - and became quite the war hero. After the war he worked as an intelligence agent for the German government. While working there he was assigned to undercover and infiltrate the party known as the German Workers Party (DAP) - by this point in time the DAP was already a misnomer, having cut ties with the labour unions a year earlier and become a primarily anti-semitic party instead. Hitler infiltrated them - but was so impressed with their rhetoric that he abandoned his mission as a spy and instead became a full-fledged and active member. He rose through the ranks rapidly but while still just an officer in the party the party changed it's name to the NSDAP (the NS for Nasional Socialism - the part that became known as 'Nazi'), this was a key aspect of the party's shift from being a labour party to an soicalist ethno-nationalist party (it's rhethoric at the time is about identical to the most charitable readings of Trump's speeches - welfare, but only for us). Hitler continued to advance and became leader of the party in 1920 when the founder retired.
At this point Hitler strips all mention of socialism from the party's platform - effectively completing the reinvention that had begun with the cutting of ties to the labour unions, turning it into a purely ethno-nationalist and anti-semitic party.
In 1921 he tries to launch a coup in Munich, hoping to take power much as Musolini had - the coup fails and Hitler is sent to prison for 5 years for treason. In prison he meets Rudolph Hess, who helps him write Mein Kampf, while under his leadership the party outside begins a clandestine recruitment drive in the form of the Hitler Youth.
By running an organisation that, for the most part, looked a lot like German Boy Scouts - he was able to have massive influence and propaganda impact on people the other parties ignored because they couldn't vote - and lock them into his ideology for when they could. That was his single biggest strategic success.
Now all this would have had little impact- the youth just aren't enough to swing a vote far enough to achieve what he did later. The NAZIs influence on the rest of the population was extremely limited - their rhetoric sounded too extreme, and people were doing well - the Weimar republic at this stage was recovering well from the aftermath of the war. Employment was high, prices were low. The country had a lot of debt and had been printing quite a lot of money - but this wasn't actually a problem because they had been in a severe recession caused by the war and Versaile - which meant there was no inflation problem. Amerca caused the next level of the issue, specifically republicans did (frankly the GOP has at least as much blame for the holocaust as the NAZIs do). In 1928 the GOP wins both houses of congress and the whitehouse. Does their usual deregulate everything bullshit and causes the great depression in 1929.
Suddenly Germany cannot borrow money from the US - their biggest export market isn't buying so their trade deficit goes through the roof and the German economy (still slowly recovering until now) all but collapses. Unemployment shoots up, especially among younger people, and the middle class is squeezed very hard - people are very upset, they blame their government - and they are eager for anybody to upset the status quo. In the next election - the NAZIs take 32% of the vote.
Not enough to become a government - but enough for quite a few seats in parliament. Now the Weimar government is in a panic. Up to this point it had been basically a 2-party state. The socialist party got about 40% of the vote, the conservative party got about 40% and the other 10% had been shared among all the other little parties (including the NAZIs who up to this point had never had more than one seat). Now the Nazi's had taken a huge chunk from both. The conservative (as in right wing) mainstream party (basically Germ
The odds of an asteroid being 5 years from impact is exactly the same as one being 500000 years from impact - so on what basis can you possibly say we shouldn't consider 5 years possible ?
My intended meaning was somewhere in between. I think COBOL was fantastic at what it was designed for - I just think it was the wrong thing to design something for. But I don't hold that against Hopper in the least, she was breaking entirely new ground - it's impossible to do that and know the best direction to take - by definition if you go into an entirely new field you're going to make missteps which other can ONLY avoid BECAUSE you made them.
So I counted 14 out of 14 - but even if we accept your views and say 6/14 ... then that's still WAY too much. You shouldn't vote for anybody who has more than maybe 2 - and even that is risky.
The first feature of Ur-Fascism is the cult of tradition: you are looking in the wrong place. The cult is right there in the slogan: make america great AGAIN. I.E. Return it to a past age, preserve traditions that feel threatened.
rejection of modernism: A perfect fit if you read the whole chapter. In Musolini the rejection was disguised as a rejection of the capitalist lifestyle. For Trump it's in a rejection of modernism, metroplitanism and multiculturalism - all things that are fundamentally modern ideas.
No syncretistic faith can withstand analytical criticism: Had you read the entire article it would be obvious how perfect a fit this is. Firstly he constantly contradicts himself - that's a core feature of all syncretic ideas. And as for how he deals with disagreement: he threatened to imprison his political opponent !
Ur-Fascism grows up and seeks for consensus by exploiting and exacerbating the natural fear of difference: Firstly the author does nothing of the kind you're accusing him off. The article was written in 1995 and wasn't about Trump in particular, that the description fits so well is all the more valid because it wasn't intended for him specifically. And there is no doubt that Trump's campaign was fueled to a large degree by fear of difference. Gays, Muslims, Hispanics - it's not about race and it never was (not even for Musolini) that was just the TYPE of difference they chose - ANY difference (including the difference in 'where you were born') qualifies.
Ur-Fascism derives from individual or social frustration: Nice little dodge you pulled there - by responding to half the description. Sure everybody tries to appeal to the middle class -but fascism does so in a very specific way, which Trump excelled at: fascism blames the struggles of the middle class on the poor class, and especially those members of the poor who are from other races, countries or in some other way different and presents these differences as an existential threat to the middle class.
Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot: You forgot his obsession with conspiracy theories, claims that the election were rigged etc. etc. etc. all classic fascist claims. It's not in the 14 elements but the rest also makes it clear that a disdain for democratic governments/parliaments is a key feature (the author calls it the first and most important warning) that somebody is a fascist: what was Trump saying about the US government ? The exact same words Musolini used to say about the Italian parliament which he would soon come to disband.
The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies: Trump echoed Sanders in this one, but that by itself is not enough to qualify. You must also present the elites as being in cahoots with the others as an unstopple force of destruction. Only Trump suggested that elites and muslim terrorists were allies !
For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle: Wrong. Trump behaved exactly according to this recipe. Sure he also paid lipservice to isolationism but that is just classic fascist self-contradiction. What he said about ISIS fits this perfectly - that their a terrible enemy, created by Obama, and only HE can defeat them - and he strongly implied he would do so by military action, i.e. launching another war (how did you miss this ?)
The author describes this further, but I don't see it in Trump at all. Trump is anti-elite: there is nothing anti-elite about Trump or his followers despite his and their claims to the contrary. Trump's appeals to white supremacists contradict the idea that it's anti-elite. What is white supremacy if not an elitist appeal ? What is nationalism if not a form of elitism ? You're conflating two meanings of 'elite' and dismissing the claim based on the wrong one - while ignoring that Trump as an individual actually meets both.
In such a perspective everybody is educated to become a hero: Just because you don't see it doesn
And my right not to agree with his criticism.
I said COBOL was bad for programmers - I never said it was bad.
Which part of "major breakthrough" and "way ahead of her time" didn't you understand ?
Musolini did to an extent - about as much as Trump has sucked up to the working class actually.
Hitler - no, he never did. The NAZI's cut ties with the labour unions before he ever even joined the party.
And all those things are statistically reasonably predictable because they are not chaotic systems.
The very definition of a chaotic system is that you cannot predict it !
No - you can't. Your statistics are not VALID. They don't apply to this subject. They never can. Nothing can.
So sometimes doctors screw up - what's that got to do with the analogy ?
I could just as easily use:
"My water-heater just burst and is flooding my house - I better call somebody who has never seen plumbing before"
or
"My transmission just broke, my car won't run and I need it fixed, better take it anybody who isn't a mechanic - can't trust those car-repair insiders"
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"Mmm, our company is getting bigger, the books is starting to take up too much of our time and it's getting justified to have a dedicated person doing the job - but I better make sure whoever I hire knows nothing about accountancy"
You need to actually study fascism as written about by people who were actually there. Trump is textbook Musolini.
Here - educate yourself: http://www.nybooks.com/article...
14 elements make fascism - and Trump meets every one of them.
Well it didn't take that long afterwards before we had lisp. Upsides: functional programming can be really beautiful (look at good Ruby code sometime - it's poetry man) ... downside - LISP was terrible at it,
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