No, Bannon calling for an end to "asian" Tech CEO's proves this is all about WHITE nationalism. Or don't you read what your leaders write?
You mean just like how the ADL said he was a anti-semite, then backtracked? Or did you mean the part where he said that companies need to stop *importing* asians to do the jobs of Americans, said jobs they could be trained for or where people have the skillset here. Yeah I know, when all you do is listen to shit in your echo chamber it's hard isn't it.
Funny that, because many times Breitbart has more objectivity and ethics then oh Huffpo. Or CBS, NBC or ABC. Far more then buzzfeed for sure. Remember those DNC leaked emails? You know the ones, where reporters were sending stuff directly to the DNC for approval. Or where the DNC and reporters were so chummy that they could get things removed from articles if it would look bad. Or the media and the DNC hosting fundraisers? You don't? Well that's okay. This is only a small sample. After all, with CNN telling you that looking at wikileaks is illegal, you should listen to them right? After all, dig through those leaked emails and you find that USAToday, WAPO, NBC, CBS, NPR, ABC, NYTimes, Politico and several others have all had reporters so chummy that they could get things removed. Or they were openly publishing direct DNC talking points.
If you don't see this whole "fake news" thing as an attempt by those who lost the election, to turn around and create media echo-chambers where only those who toe the line is allowed. You haven't paid any attention at all to what just happened.
Gas was slowly getting more expensive till the saudi's dumped dumped all the oil on the market a few years ago. This collapsed the alberta economy as well as Venezuelas.
It didn't collapse Alberta's economy, but it sure put the breaks on it. But as it stands, that oil there is still in the ground. Hell they haven't even used 10% of the oil sands yet. That isn't even counting on the other sites just in Alberta. Take the areas around Grande Cache and Grande Prairie. There's 400 years worth of coal sitting in the ground at current usage. 80 years of natural gas at current usage for just the US and between 90-150 years at current usage for just plain oil. That isn't even touching places like Manitoba, Saskatchewan, the maritimes or Quebec all which have extensive oil, ng and oil reserves.
That depends. Is the hunger problem related to a lack of food due to non-arable land, or due to war? Right. It's due to the latter, the food is still out there, so is the land.
All of them? - Most EU nations, the UK, Canada, Australia, and NZ all have hate speech laws. There is no nation on earth that has absolute free speech, even the US bans certain types of speech such as the classic "yelling fire in a theatre" and the eternally popular prohibition on child porn.
Except that hate speech laws are used to censor and coerce people. That's what's happening here in Canada. One of the previous heads of the CHRC fabricated evidence to use against his political enemies(people speaking out about islam and it's abuse of women). That went on for years until the people had enough money to actually file a lawsuit. We're seeing that with the "gender pronoun" bullshit today. The current government is pushing through a law if you don't call someone by their pronoun it's hate speech and it will be codified into law. We've seen this attack against comedians for crass humor and them being fined hundreds of thousands of dollars. Then we get into the cases where only some types of hate speech are gone after...until there's a huge public outcry over it. See the recent case where a "immigrant newspaper" was calling for the death of Jews. Oh it'd been going on for a couple of years, it wasn't until it hit the media that the police did anything. Or the crown didn't lay charges, despite FOI requests showing that there had been a steady stream of complaints against it.
Or kill ourselves in our own waste products, like frenzied yeast. But we don't need to worry about that, because AGW is just a hoax. After all, we're smarter than yeast, right?
Depends, can you get the insane environmentalists to fuck off and stop blocking every type of disposal/reclamation/breeder reactor?
He seem to be rather optimistic. I gave it no more than a few hundred years.
300 years ago, people said that half the world would starve to death. And people would be fighting for the rats in the big cities in Europe. ~40 years ago, they said that people would be starving to death and fighting for the rats in cities to survive. Didn't happen in either case. It's not any different then the "we're going to run out of oil/gas/etc in 10 years." That has been repeated since the 1970's. Or "the water will be so toxic, that only the rich will afford clean water." Or "in the future students will only see trees in a museum" types of stuff. Remember ~6 years ago it was "we're now at peak oil!11111eleventy one" and everything is doomed? Except that isn't the case. It didn't happen, and the "better get used to $200/bbl because that's the new normal" didn't happen either.
You know what happens in every case? It's either full out propaganda bullshit, or individuals failing to understand that human ingenuity can solve actual problems. People like Norman Borlaug solved that food problem. Improvements in basic finding and extraction methods solved oil/gas problems. More trees are planted every year then are cut down, but that doesn't stop environmentalists from claiming that it's the end of the world. There's problems sure, there's problems with luddites and environmentalists screaming that "insert thing will destroy the world" or going absolutely insane and making claims like "*insert GMO* crop is poison" and people starving to death because of lies. Or the continued "nuclear energy will kill us all" bullshit.
We'll survive another 1000 years as long as we don't nuke ourselves, or have massive wars where even the most basic things like no chemical/biological warfare are thrown out the window. Ingenuity will see that we make those 1000 years.
I don't know about you, but I did ~15 years ago. Doesn't seem to be stopping them from getting their hands on helping to write stuff like TPP though does it? It also doesn't help that the media likes to denigrate other forms of entertainment like gaming as "it'll turn you into a mass shooter" or "it makes children into murders" for example. Even though the video game industry is bigger than hollywood.
The problem is the double standard because the media is in the tank for particular ideologies. If the media was doing their job with basic research, no one would care. People would be calling out the instigators. But that's not the case. The media is right there if some pro-nationalist group(not white nationalist), person snaps and punches anyone and it degenerates into a brawl. But if some left wing group like antifa jumps the same group, or attacks a group of KKK members(like in california). The media is right there blaming those KKK members, or nationalists for those people "losing control" and attacking.
The media is corrupt, the people who follow the same ideology are in charge of the largest social media platforms in the world. They go after only one type of ideology instead of applying it equally. It's not hard to be unbiased, apply things evenly. But it requires that the people can and know how to put their ideologies on a hanger. It's a learned skill. But that's not happening, it's the same reason why there was such a backlash against democrats in the US. And against Merkel in Germany, the rise of actual fascists in Greece. And why Brexit happened.
When people talk about BLM engaging in violence, every time I look into it, it's just someone getting violent at a peaceful protest. Arrest that violent dumbass and move on. BLM is a slogan, it's a hashtag, it's a loose organization with no hierarchy
Just gonna reply to this because I'm running short on time. Fucking 3 day job is now going to be around 10 days thanks to the fucking weather. You know what's funny about that? People in GG said the same thing, you know what happened? The media applied ALL the trolls to GG, and the people who were harassed...did the same, and so the cycle goes on. That double standard is one of the reasons why the media trust is so low. It's the same reason why the media says "GG is nothing but 300 white males in their parents basements" despite it being so diverse it would make your average social justice supporter smile with glee with all those minorities. But why do you ask are they against it? Because those minorities walked off the plantation and didn't adhere to their bullshit. It's the same shit that you see with blacks in the US who vote republican, or call themselves conservative. They're house ni**rs(screw you lameness filter) or uncle toms, or some other pile of bullshit.
Try finding some unbiased sources, instead of relying on random blogs written by butthurt gamers who are afraid of women.
So, the links with actual quotes. Actual actions by the people are biased. *Pats on head* Good boy. You've learned to only accept what's put in front of you as acceptable. Things you now get to learn: The first link, is from a person who was actually in those leaked chats. And has stated on numerous occasions that they engaged in harassment. That's Ian, after he realized that "social justice" acted exactly like a cult and had an internal bullying culture based around self-victimization. The second link is a synopsis of several key points. The 3rd is an analysis of their wider impact, and digging material. Including the actual linked logs themselves.
You know what I find funny in all this? Your "butthurt gamers" garbage. Maybe it's because you don't like that gamers said "fuck you" to the entire social justice/identity politics being jammed into media and them trying to influence games. Or maybe you actually think that it's people that hate women(never mind that 25% of the people who identify as GGers are women and around 15% are some minority of a flavor). That's not getting into the identity stuff.
Just a FYI though? Gamers won. The people who started this stuff aren't writing anymore. All of the sites that pushed it have either folded or changed the way they write. Or have done the very basic thing that GGers asked and institute a fucking ethics policy with open disclosure. It's also the reason why there are now clear and concise rules regarding "native advertising" and undisclosed affiliate links. You're welcome.
Talk versus the left rioting. You can't see the difference?
Of course they probably can't. It's the same reason why you'll see media(especially leftist media) in europe fall over itself supporting things like Antifa or not reporting on it at all, while their members beat the shit out of people or firebomb places while stating they're "anti-fascist." Or calling for the rape and murder of ethnic germans, sometimes just whites though.
This story happens to be about alt-right groups, but Twitter has begun taking all threats of violence seriously.
I guess that's why organizations like CON(which is supported by Feminist Frequency) are still on Twitter's "trust and safety council" right? Despite that they've actively harassedanddoxed people. Which of course is why groups like BLM are still on there, after engaging in violence. Or why they don't really go after terrorist group accounts until it reaches a point that they can no longer ignore it. And then we can get into the various verified accounts which openly call for violence, doxing, and harassment...but don't get a slap on the wrist at all. Not even a temporary ban...unless it hits the news.
Nope sorry. There's two sets of rules on Twitter, one for them and their ideological buddies. One for everyone else. Now if they actually are going after those on the left, it's only taken them 5 years.
Does that mean a baker doesn't have to bake a cake for a gay couple? They are both private companies, yet one gets to decide who uses their service based on political ideology.
No no. Twitter is supporting the "right kind of ideology" so they're allowed to discriminate.
That Christian baker on the otherhand, is the wrong kind of ideology. So the leftist groups are going to be all over that, maybe some antifa tossed in. Threats of a firebombing or physical intimidation. Wait was I talking about leftist groups, or right wing groups there? Right right..that was leftist groups who are still extremists but get a pass from the media to government. Those filthy right wingers though? The DOJ is going to file hatecrime charges. What do you mean those Christian bakers didn't bake a cake, and their business was burned down. Oh they were white, and the attackers caught on video were hispanic and black? And the DOJ won't file hate crime charges? Well that's par for the course then.
I see you've reverted to your usual tactic of providing links that don't remotely back up what you claim they say.
I see that you can't read. Let me help you. Now when you get to the big words, you can read this sentence again. Or go read the draft bill yourself, I know it's difficult but the name is even in the article.
It would also update the Criminal Code to extend hate speech laws to include gender identity and expression.
Hey, all of this is fine because it comes from right-thinking people, but referring to someone with the wrong gender pronoun is a crime against humanity.
Then they wonder why/how Trump got elected.
Expecting next cultural backlash in ~2.5 years here in Canada. The current government is trying to make using the wrong gender pronoun a crime.
I'm gonna add to this, if these people really wanted to work and get good money doing it they could. I'd suggest trucking, despite the doomsayers that it'll be automated with robot drivers in 5 years I highly doubt it. And right now you can easily find a job clearing $0.94/mile including health, drug, dental benefits all starting the day you're hired, $7k signing bonuses, and even find companies that'll give you weekends off or things like 10h on 14hr off between shifts. Hell walmart is hiring truck drivers in the US and they're giving all benefits on day one, new trucks, in-truck satellite TV, $5k signing bonus and 0.80-0.84/mile plus weekly fast delivery time bonuses of up to $3200/week. So that's milage plus weekly delivery, with weekends off or 2 or more days off a week.
Hell a buddy of mine in the US signed on with JCT, and is getting $0.95/mi plus time delivery bonus, plus free satellite, plus $5k signing bonus, plus drug, health, vision plans. And he didn't even have a license for driving trucks. They're paying to train him and giving him a truck and team driver to show him the ropes.
I suspect a large percentage of anti-trump protesters (not the majority, but a large percentage) are un/under-employed college graduates that, seven years into Obama's America still find themselves saddled with massive student debt and the person they thought would free them of that debt lost, at the hands of countless republican taxpayers that didn't want to pay for someone else's college education.
It's hard for them to get a job when they have a double major in women's studies(or gender studies) and a minor in the contemporary works of JK Rowling. After all, paying $60k/year for that and expecting to get a job at anything other than the very bottom of the job pool was their own fault for not thinking. The fault of universities for helping to foster an education bubble, and schools/educational leaders/etc for saying "trades are worthless, you should go get a college/university education in anything." Which is where those people would actually be working and likely making good money doing it. Instead of clearing $0.83/hr above minimum wage.
Like the Tea Party was/is reasonable, clear, concise. The reason they didn't physically riot was only due to physical restrictions due to their average advanced age.
The Tea Party was and is. That's why they got their candidates elected, fun reminder that when conservatives say that the "media has a democrat bias" they weren't lying(95% of the reporters in the beltway are registered democrats, and vote democrat). The media went out of their way to paint them as extremists, just the same way that the media and left wing groups went out of their way to say that Trump is a sexist/racist/homophobe/xenophobe/etc. Because consensual stuff is rape, enforcing laws is racist, and wanting to actually vet immigrants is xenophobic. But hey, just remember what happened to Dan Rather? Where he invented news, was outed as a fraud. Then tried to play the "but it was true, I was trying to start a conversation" bullshit too. Considering that the media instead of learning from any of this, continues to double down. Has a 6% trust rating(lower than congress or even lawyers), I'll give it...2-3 years before we see the "big" media crying that they need government funding.
If after this last election you can't see that, then either you just woke up from a coma or you just got internet access. In which case, I'm sorry you lost a decade or more of your life and welcome to 2016, at least you don't have to worry about dial-up.
No no. That goes against the current orthodoxy being promoted by groups like moveon.org and answer. You're supposed to riot, trash shit and so on to show your resolve. Not be reasonable, clear, concise, and lay out something that seems reasonable and get people to agree with it.
And what is wrong with this? Swiss do the same thing and even Canada has been trying unsuccessfully.
It depends. There can be something wrong with it if you're depressing your currency in order to do something that has farther reaching effects. Such as using it to buy sovereign debt of a country in order to crash it, that's one of the fears with China. On the other hand, if you're doing it to make yourself more competitive...that's okay, most of the time. Canada has been doing it successfully for ~40 years, it's monetary policy is to peg at ~20-30% below the US to make it's market more attractive to US investment, mainly in unfinished products, raw resources and so on.
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No, Bannon calling for an end to "asian" Tech CEO's proves this is all about WHITE nationalism.
Or don't you read what your leaders write?
You mean just like how the ADL said he was a anti-semite, then backtracked? Or did you mean the part where he said that companies need to stop *importing* asians to do the jobs of Americans, said jobs they could be trained for or where people have the skillset here. Yeah I know, when all you do is listen to shit in your echo chamber it's hard isn't it.
You just pick the lies you want to believe.
You mean like Twitter is targeting everyone for "hate speech." When there are examples that it isn't the case.
No? The mainstream media is not as bad as fake news?
You should take a bit more of a look. Start plugging those names into wikileaks clinton email and DNC databases. You're in for a wild ride son.
Funny that, because many times Breitbart has more objectivity and ethics then oh Huffpo. Or CBS, NBC or ABC. Far more then buzzfeed for sure. Remember those DNC leaked emails? You know the ones, where reporters were sending stuff directly to the DNC for approval. Or where the DNC and reporters were so chummy that they could get things removed from articles if it would look bad. Or the media and the DNC hosting fundraisers? You don't? Well that's okay. This is only a small sample. After all, with CNN telling you that looking at wikileaks is illegal, you should listen to them right? After all, dig through those leaked emails and you find that USAToday, WAPO, NBC, CBS, NPR, ABC, NYTimes, Politico and several others have all had reporters so chummy that they could get things removed. Or they were openly publishing direct DNC talking points.
If you don't see this whole "fake news" thing as an attempt by those who lost the election, to turn around and create media echo-chambers where only those who toe the line is allowed. You haven't paid any attention at all to what just happened.
Gas was slowly getting more expensive till the saudi's dumped dumped all the oil on the market a few years ago. This collapsed the alberta economy as well as Venezuelas.
It didn't collapse Alberta's economy, but it sure put the breaks on it. But as it stands, that oil there is still in the ground. Hell they haven't even used 10% of the oil sands yet. That isn't even counting on the other sites just in Alberta. Take the areas around Grande Cache and Grande Prairie. There's 400 years worth of coal sitting in the ground at current usage. 80 years of natural gas at current usage for just the US and between 90-150 years at current usage for just plain oil. That isn't even touching places like Manitoba, Saskatchewan, the maritimes or Quebec all which have extensive oil, ng and oil reserves.
Like in Syria?
That depends. Is the hunger problem related to a lack of food due to non-arable land, or due to war? Right. It's due to the latter, the food is still out there, so is the land.
All of them? - Most EU nations, the UK, Canada, Australia, and NZ all have hate speech laws. There is no nation on earth that has absolute free speech, even the US bans certain types of speech such as the classic "yelling fire in a theatre" and the eternally popular prohibition on child porn.
Except that hate speech laws are used to censor and coerce people. That's what's happening here in Canada. One of the previous heads of the CHRC fabricated evidence to use against his political enemies(people speaking out about islam and it's abuse of women). That went on for years until the people had enough money to actually file a lawsuit. We're seeing that with the "gender pronoun" bullshit today. The current government is pushing through a law if you don't call someone by their pronoun it's hate speech and it will be codified into law. We've seen this attack against comedians for crass humor and them being fined hundreds of thousands of dollars. Then we get into the cases where only some types of hate speech are gone after...until there's a huge public outcry over it. See the recent case where a "immigrant newspaper" was calling for the death of Jews. Oh it'd been going on for a couple of years, it wasn't until it hit the media that the police did anything. Or the crown didn't lay charges, despite FOI requests showing that there had been a steady stream of complaints against it.
Or kill ourselves in our own waste products, like frenzied yeast. But we don't need to worry about that, because AGW is just a hoax. After all, we're smarter than yeast, right?
Depends, can you get the insane environmentalists to fuck off and stop blocking every type of disposal/reclamation/breeder reactor?
He seem to be rather optimistic. I gave it no more than a few hundred years.
300 years ago, people said that half the world would starve to death. And people would be fighting for the rats in the big cities in Europe. ~40 years ago, they said that people would be starving to death and fighting for the rats in cities to survive. Didn't happen in either case. It's not any different then the "we're going to run out of oil/gas/etc in 10 years." That has been repeated since the 1970's. Or "the water will be so toxic, that only the rich will afford clean water." Or "in the future students will only see trees in a museum" types of stuff. Remember ~6 years ago it was "we're now at peak oil!11111eleventy one" and everything is doomed? Except that isn't the case. It didn't happen, and the "better get used to $200/bbl because that's the new normal" didn't happen either.
You know what happens in every case? It's either full out propaganda bullshit, or individuals failing to understand that human ingenuity can solve actual problems. People like Norman Borlaug solved that food problem. Improvements in basic finding and extraction methods solved oil/gas problems. More trees are planted every year then are cut down, but that doesn't stop environmentalists from claiming that it's the end of the world. There's problems sure, there's problems with luddites and environmentalists screaming that "insert thing will destroy the world" or going absolutely insane and making claims like "*insert GMO* crop is poison" and people starving to death because of lies. Or the continued "nuclear energy will kill us all" bullshit.
We'll survive another 1000 years as long as we don't nuke ourselves, or have massive wars where even the most basic things like no chemical/biological warfare are thrown out the window. Ingenuity will see that we make those 1000 years.
And then nothing else happened, and everyone was ok.
No? Just remember it only happens if you say "I hate black people." If you say "I hate white people." That's okay though. Hating particular groups of people are fine with Twitter.
Perhaps you should boycott all of their content.
I don't know about you, but I did ~15 years ago. Doesn't seem to be stopping them from getting their hands on helping to write stuff like TPP though does it? It also doesn't help that the media likes to denigrate other forms of entertainment like gaming as "it'll turn you into a mass shooter" or "it makes children into murders" for example. Even though the video game industry is bigger than hollywood.
The problem is the double standard because the media is in the tank for particular ideologies. If the media was doing their job with basic research, no one would care. People would be calling out the instigators. But that's not the case. The media is right there if some pro-nationalist group(not white nationalist), person snaps and punches anyone and it degenerates into a brawl. But if some left wing group like antifa jumps the same group, or attacks a group of KKK members(like in california). The media is right there blaming those KKK members, or nationalists for those people "losing control" and attacking.
The media is corrupt, the people who follow the same ideology are in charge of the largest social media platforms in the world. They go after only one type of ideology instead of applying it equally. It's not hard to be unbiased, apply things evenly. But it requires that the people can and know how to put their ideologies on a hanger. It's a learned skill. But that's not happening, it's the same reason why there was such a backlash against democrats in the US. And against Merkel in Germany, the rise of actual fascists in Greece. And why Brexit happened.
When people talk about BLM engaging in violence, every time I look into it, it's just someone getting violent at a peaceful protest. Arrest that violent dumbass and move on. BLM is a slogan, it's a hashtag, it's a loose organization with no hierarchy
Just gonna reply to this because I'm running short on time. Fucking 3 day job is now going to be around 10 days thanks to the fucking weather. You know what's funny about that? People in GG said the same thing, you know what happened? The media applied ALL the trolls to GG, and the people who were harassed...did the same, and so the cycle goes on. That double standard is one of the reasons why the media trust is so low. It's the same reason why the media says "GG is nothing but 300 white males in their parents basements" despite it being so diverse it would make your average social justice supporter smile with glee with all those minorities. But why do you ask are they against it? Because those minorities walked off the plantation and didn't adhere to their bullshit. It's the same shit that you see with blacks in the US who vote republican, or call themselves conservative. They're house ni**rs(screw you lameness filter) or uncle toms, or some other pile of bullshit.
Try finding some unbiased sources, instead of relying on random blogs written by butthurt gamers who are afraid of women.
So, the links with actual quotes. Actual actions by the people are biased. *Pats on head* Good boy. You've learned to only accept what's put in front of you as acceptable. Things you now get to learn: The first link, is from a person who was actually in those leaked chats. And has stated on numerous occasions that they engaged in harassment. That's Ian, after he realized that "social justice" acted exactly like a cult and had an internal bullying culture based around self-victimization. The second link is a synopsis of several key points. The 3rd is an analysis of their wider impact, and digging material. Including the actual linked logs themselves.
You know what I find funny in all this? Your "butthurt gamers" garbage. Maybe it's because you don't like that gamers said "fuck you" to the entire social justice/identity politics being jammed into media and them trying to influence games. Or maybe you actually think that it's people that hate women(never mind that 25% of the people who identify as GGers are women and around 15% are some minority of a flavor). That's not getting into the identity stuff.
Just a FYI though? Gamers won. The people who started this stuff aren't writing anymore. All of the sites that pushed it have either folded or changed the way they write. Or have done the very basic thing that GGers asked and institute a fucking ethics policy with open disclosure. It's also the reason why there are now clear and concise rules regarding "native advertising" and undisclosed affiliate links. You're welcome.
Talk versus the left rioting. You can't see the difference?
Of course they probably can't. It's the same reason why you'll see media(especially leftist media) in europe fall over itself supporting things like Antifa or not reporting on it at all, while their members beat the shit out of people or firebomb places while stating they're "anti-fascist." Or calling for the rape and murder of ethnic germans, sometimes just whites though.
This story happens to be about alt-right groups, but Twitter has begun taking all threats of violence seriously.
I guess that's why organizations like CON(which is supported by Feminist Frequency) are still on Twitter's "trust and safety council" right? Despite that they've actively harassed and doxed people. Which of course is why groups like BLM are still on there, after engaging in violence. Or why they don't really go after terrorist group accounts until it reaches a point that they can no longer ignore it. And then we can get into the various verified accounts which openly call for violence, doxing, and harassment...but don't get a slap on the wrist at all. Not even a temporary ban...unless it hits the news.
Nope sorry. There's two sets of rules on Twitter, one for them and their ideological buddies. One for everyone else. Now if they actually are going after those on the left, it's only taken them 5 years.
Does that mean a baker doesn't have to bake a cake for a gay couple? They are both private companies, yet one gets to decide who uses their service based on political ideology.
No no. Twitter is supporting the "right kind of ideology" so they're allowed to discriminate.
That Christian baker on the otherhand, is the wrong kind of ideology. So the leftist groups are going to be all over that, maybe some antifa tossed in. Threats of a firebombing or physical intimidation. Wait was I talking about leftist groups, or right wing groups there? Right right..that was leftist groups who are still extremists but get a pass from the media to government. Those filthy right wingers though? The DOJ is going to file hatecrime charges. What do you mean those Christian bakers didn't bake a cake, and their business was burned down. Oh they were white, and the attackers caught on video were hispanic and black? And the DOJ won't file hate crime charges? Well that's par for the course then.
I see you've reverted to your usual tactic of providing links that don't remotely back up what you claim they say.
I see that you can't read. Let me help you. Now when you get to the big words, you can read this sentence again. Or go read the draft bill yourself, I know it's difficult but the name is even in the article.
It would also update the Criminal Code to extend hate speech laws to include gender identity and expression.
Hey, all of this is fine because it comes from right-thinking people, but referring to someone with the wrong gender pronoun is a crime against humanity.
Then they wonder why/how Trump got elected.
Expecting next cultural backlash in ~2.5 years here in Canada. The current government is trying to make using the wrong gender pronoun a crime.
But you're spot on.
I'm gonna add to this, if these people really wanted to work and get good money doing it they could. I'd suggest trucking, despite the doomsayers that it'll be automated with robot drivers in 5 years I highly doubt it. And right now you can easily find a job clearing $0.94/mile including health, drug, dental benefits all starting the day you're hired, $7k signing bonuses, and even find companies that'll give you weekends off or things like 10h on 14hr off between shifts. Hell walmart is hiring truck drivers in the US and they're giving all benefits on day one, new trucks, in-truck satellite TV, $5k signing bonus and 0.80-0.84/mile plus weekly fast delivery time bonuses of up to $3200/week. So that's milage plus weekly delivery, with weekends off or 2 or more days off a week.
Hell a buddy of mine in the US signed on with JCT, and is getting $0.95/mi plus time delivery bonus, plus free satellite, plus $5k signing bonus, plus drug, health, vision plans. And he didn't even have a license for driving trucks. They're paying to train him and giving him a truck and team driver to show him the ropes.
Is it saying things they disagree with?
That's exactly what it is. You'll find quite a few of the 3rd wave feminists and TERFs using this as a means to shutdown discussion, or launch harassment against people, even going as far as trying to get them criminally charged. Also facts are hate speech, and if they happen to be threatening you? That's not hate speech. Also if you quote their statements or rhetoric, that's hate speech too. This shouldn't be a surprise though, Twitter decided to create the Orwell sounding "Trust and Safety Council" which is chalk full of left-wing groups, some of them are so radical that they'd be right at home in european antifa movements. Some of the groups have also been directly engaged in harassment, doxing and so on too.
So just remember, if you're of the right political ideology. It's fine, but if you're not..they're coming for you.
I suspect a large percentage of anti-trump protesters (not the majority, but a large percentage) are un/under-employed college graduates that, seven years into Obama's America still find themselves saddled with massive student debt and the person they thought would free them of that debt lost, at the hands of countless republican taxpayers that didn't want to pay for someone else's college education.
It's hard for them to get a job when they have a double major in women's studies(or gender studies) and a minor in the contemporary works of JK Rowling. After all, paying $60k/year for that and expecting to get a job at anything other than the very bottom of the job pool was their own fault for not thinking. The fault of universities for helping to foster an education bubble, and schools/educational leaders/etc for saying "trades are worthless, you should go get a college/university education in anything." Which is where those people would actually be working and likely making good money doing it. Instead of clearing $0.83/hr above minimum wage.
Like the Tea Party was/is reasonable, clear, concise. The reason they didn't physically riot was only due to physical restrictions due to their average advanced age.
The Tea Party was and is. That's why they got their candidates elected, fun reminder that when conservatives say that the "media has a democrat bias" they weren't lying(95% of the reporters in the beltway are registered democrats, and vote democrat). The media went out of their way to paint them as extremists, just the same way that the media and left wing groups went out of their way to say that Trump is a sexist/racist/homophobe/xenophobe/etc. Because consensual stuff is rape, enforcing laws is racist, and wanting to actually vet immigrants is xenophobic. But hey, just remember what happened to Dan Rather? Where he invented news, was outed as a fraud. Then tried to play the "but it was true, I was trying to start a conversation" bullshit too. Considering that the media instead of learning from any of this, continues to double down. Has a 6% trust rating(lower than congress or even lawyers), I'll give it...2-3 years before we see the "big" media crying that they need government funding.
If after this last election you can't see that, then either you just woke up from a coma or you just got internet access. In which case, I'm sorry you lost a decade or more of your life and welcome to 2016, at least you don't have to worry about dial-up.
No no. That goes against the current orthodoxy being promoted by groups like moveon.org and answer. You're supposed to riot, trash shit and so on to show your resolve. Not be reasonable, clear, concise, and lay out something that seems reasonable and get people to agree with it.
Just look at the last week right? People aren't going to get pissed off or anything and ignore them anymore. Just like I'm sure these electors will bend over backwards and do what the people threatening them want.
And what is wrong with this? Swiss do the same thing and even Canada has been trying unsuccessfully.
It depends. There can be something wrong with it if you're depressing your currency in order to do something that has farther reaching effects. Such as using it to buy sovereign debt of a country in order to crash it, that's one of the fears with China. On the other hand, if you're doing it to make yourself more competitive...that's okay, most of the time. Canada has been doing it successfully for ~40 years, it's monetary policy is to peg at ~20-30% below the US to make it's market more attractive to US investment, mainly in unfinished products, raw resources and so on.