No need to imagine, just go to brietbart.com or turn on Fox News.
You didn't really think that one through, did you?
So which part of brietbart and fox news have their own mobile devices that have news feeds directly on the device and curates them to tell you, what they want you to hear? Right. Cut the bullshit, you're advocating corporate censorship. Which shouldn't be a surprise since you also advocate censoring people with hate speech laws. Nothing you're saying supports democracy or an open society, only more control, more curtailed rights, less freedom.
You really didn't think any of this through, did you? It aligned with your beliefs and you god-damn well jumped in with both feet.
or even know how easily they are getting played by well funded enemy states that are plotting our demise.
Complete garbage and bullshit. The USSR can't even float the tonnage to be a threat to the US. Hell the USSR and China don't even come close. The US follows the same doctrine that military powers have for hundreds of years when they've been 'king of the world' have twice as much power as your next two nearest rivals. The only "form of demise" that either country could use to try something is an out-right first-fire nuclear launch. And they'd still lose.
You're advocating censorship because you think it's the right thing to do. It's not.
That's an outright fabrication, by stating "you can't download the dnc emails." CNN never retracted it. The entire point of it was to stop people from looking by making them fear that they'd be prosecuted.
Ok now you're making stuff up. At no point did the average real estate market drop by 60 or 70% in London or Manhattan.
I didn't say average real estate market. I said condo market. The rest of your post is you going around in circles trying to justify your view that things have changed(when they haven't), rather then realizing that you're on the edge of a crash. The money that's coming to fund all of this is mainly coming from EFT's, which are mainly levered against other currencies in order to "pay the cost" of those building. AKA someone borrowed to build, hoping to sell and make the money back. I'll point out that when the crash was going on in the 1980's, there were plenty of places 'were up' it wasn't until the bubble popped that it all came crashing down.
You believe whatever you want to believe. You'll also likely be the person moaning that they lost everything in a years time.
You've never seen the progressive stack in action, in your life have you? Ask that apple employee who was just canned for saying "white people can be diverse."
He's a white male. Of course they hate him, he's very far down on the progressive stack. Now if you got that black transgender that was a man, that identifies as a woman, and loves women? Well now you've got something HOT! They could get behind those arguments without a problem.
Ok sounds like a localised issue. I'm pretty sure apartments in Manhattan or London didn't suffer similar 'corrections'
Yeah they actually did. 70% for Manhattan and 60% for London.
xactly. You can't just blanket 'real estate' as one thing. A shitbox subprime purchase in the rust belt is not equivalent in any way to buying house in say Palo Alto. Economics is just supply and demand. In a lot of places, the demand is real, the supply is finite. Not all high priced things are bubbles.
"Rustbelt" is now apparently florida which has yet to recover, including large parts of texas, az, and so on.
But how do you tell if a high priced thing is a bubble, or actually sustained by real demand? If you had've said ten years ago that the most popular mobile phones would cost $1000USD you'd be laughed out of the room. Yet here we are. Are iPhones a bubble?
When the number of vacancies in those houses sit empty. In otherwords these are houses, condos, and so on bought on the idea of real estate valuation nothing else. Let's compare a consumable vs building, makes perfect sense! Vancouver for instance the number is estimated to be around 30% empty property with no income, and simply being turned over. That's residential housing. Toronto? Some areas are as high as 45%. One of the reasons there have been foreign ownership taxes, no building residency additions to property tax and so on.
I can't speak for Canada, but I've heard the same arguments in Australia (eg average income vs average house price). One thing to think about is the formula used to calculate such things. I think the classic formulas no longer apply for various reasons, one is most households now have double incomes, most homeowners now have accumulated wealth that wasn't the case in the 1960's/70's, and urbanisation and population growth has crossed a tipping point in major cities to create a positive feedback loop in the demand curve.
Except that Australia is having the same problem. People are actually being priced out of housing, they're sprawling outwards to cheaper property, and being sprawled out more. There is a positive feedback loop, but it's the building and mortgage loop. This is exactly what caused previous real estate crashes in both residential and commercial properties.
To give some perspective, wages in Australia are high and unemployment and interest rates are low. One or all of these things has to change drastically to affect housing demand, and there is no change on the horizon.
Except your perspective is wrong. While "wages are high" the price of housing outstrips that earning. To compare a house in 1980 could be bought for $30k, the average income was around $18k/year. When a combined income family of $100k-300k struggles with mortgage payments on current property and a 0.25% rate hike is enough to put them under water, it's a bubble. Wages have been stagnant since the early 2000's in all of the west, people had better economic growth from the 1980's through to the mid 1990's around 160%. From the early 2000's to this year? It's around 35%. What you're seeing is the classic "cheap credit hog" that creates a bust cycle, after a boom cycle which the housing market is currently in.
Now if you don't understand anything I've written then read this here then read this here. For Australia the crash is already starting, the pace? Well that depends on what the government tries to pull out. The same for Canada, but since Canada borders the US and there's an absolute need to depress the CDN vs the USD by 20-30%, interest rate hikes are on the way. Canada's entire economic system is based on lowering to the USD.
Right. So your wisdom is based purely on you guessing wildly? You'll excuse me if I don't base my investment strategy on such flimsy logic.
My "guess" is based on previous housing bubbles and their massive sharp corrections that happen, along with what the market is doing and what those learned economists think. The condo bubble, especially the Toronto condo bubble saw 80% of their value disappear. The 2008 crash in the US? Depends on where you were, but there were instances of negative devaluation of the property over 120%. Take your pick, but the larger the bubble the bigger the correction. The housing bubble in Canada is massive. The median wage in Ontario is $81k/year. The average wage in most of the province(outside of Toronto) is $43k-51k/year. The average price for a suburban house in Toronto is $1.3m. The average price in the rest of Ontario is creeping over $600k. The house I live in now is around 1900sqft(average 1950's 1.5floor house), in Toronto proper itself I could sell it for over $3m. You tell me, what that says about the market. On top of that, toss in that more PT jobs are created then FT jobs. That the number of people working 2 or more jobs has jumped in the last 4 years as the bubble has taken off.
Out of all G20 countries Canada is set off as the worst and has the highest indicators of a massive correction coming, with the highest number of people that would be insolvent with the smallest amount of movement to prime interest rates. Australia ranks second.
In the 1980 coal crash in Alberta, entire communities were wiped-out. The houses, townhouses and so on lost 99% of their value in the span of months. Places that were selling for $60k in 1980($175k today), couldn't be sold for $10 on the market. They were worthless, this happens a lot more then you'd think too. You can see it with the steel crash in the US, or in Hamilton, Ontario. In Alberta's case, the provincial government had to step in and assume liabilities, re-assess entire areas and assume the debt for failed towns.
Tell that to people in the 1988 condo crash, or the upcoming housing crash here in Canada. That $1.5m house in the burbs that's a hot ticket item right now is only going to be worth $250k in a couple of years at best guess. Especially since they're talking about multiple interest rate jumps. To explain just how *bad* of a crash they're talking? At 0.25% 10% of mortgages could be under water. At 0.5% it's around 25%. If the prime goes up by 1.5% in the next year(a very strong possibility), you could see 50-60% of all mortgages across Canada go under in 60 days and it would be like the hyperinflation crash back in the early 1980's. Speaking of which, my parents mortgage rate in 1981 was 13.5%. And people are worried going from 2-3% to 4-5%.
Renewables didn't get cheap really fast in North America. The price per kWh is still double to quadruple(market cost to break even is $0.20-0.83kWh) the rate that a nuclear reactor here has for the "refueling and refitting" cost in it's last 10 years of production life(around $0.08kWh). The only 3 power production methods that are cheaper are hydro-electric(0.04kWh), natural gas(0.05kWh) and coal(0.03kWh). In North America, it's cheaper to build a dam, flood huge tracts of land, and be profitable in less than a decade, then it to build windmills in the mountain passes.
It was upgraded, several times. There were also upgrades in the pipes for other things relating to safety. The earthquake hit *before* that happened. Don't forget that anything nuclear related is a hot-topic in Japan which has a very active and aggressive anti-nuke circle of environmentalism. NIMBYism and lawsuits hampered a lot of what was going on, that doesn't absolve TEPCO of liability, but sometimes people are their own worst enemy. Let's look at a different situation, in a different country like Canada. Where an in-land research and medical reactor that supplies 75% of the cobalt-60 and 50% of the technetium-99m used in nuclear medicine(worldwide) is nearing 70 years old, there's been a replacement reactor in the line for 25 years based on a new generation of CANDU series reactors instead of the old MAPLE reactors, and it was supposed to be done over a decade ago. Much safer, with redundant no-operator shutdown systems. Multiple lawsuits, multiple environmental impact studies, multiple anti-nuke NIMBY protests and on and on, and on.
That replacement reactor still isn't online FYI. Chalk River has been in operation for 68 years. Next year it's supposed to be shutdown, but will likely be granted a waiver because the new reactor still hasn't been completed and the demand for medical isotopes is increasing. And there is zero capacity for production anywhere else.
And before someone says "but you don't live near a reactor" or some other bullshit. Let me say that I live a stones throw from Bruce Nuclear, on the east-wind side. Topping out at nearly 6400MW? It's not small, rather it's the 2nd largest in the world.
Obviously, since that wasn't the only case now was it. In fact it's a repeated history of a busybody telling people that they can't do something because it might offend those 'minorities'.
I believe that too. I've told you that fore, but you still keep on telling me I don't.
I seem to remember you being in support of hate speech laws. That means you don't.
Where we differ is that you want Twitter to broadcast that speech, where as I support their right to not publish on your behalf.
Remember that part where a medium becomes so large that it influences public discourse?
Citation needed on that one. If I were being unkind I'd suggest you are only trying to pretend they are communists because communism gives you a whataboutism for how bad the Nazis were.
You want the original? Where they were backed by the KPD? And they'll claim that they're carrying on the tradition, or do you want to go look up their various manifestos, and tie-in's with groups like BAMN. Or you can go look at indymedia and their devout proclamation that they're acting as communist agitators. Or perhaps you'd just prefer the current german classification. Hate to break it to you, but they're right there. The standard useful idiot communists. The ones that try to crash society, and the first ones killed by the new regime when their usefulness is spent. The only difference between antifa and a nazi is the "ism."
Too bad that you don't understand the difference between the two, you also missed the fundamental part of that court case. Remember that the fairness doctrine dealt with "airwaves" not physical locations.
BTW, the reason Menendez isn't in the news is that he's on trial and not running for office, and that the accusations are nowhere near as solid as you suggest.
Right, he's a sitting senator.
There is a double standard with Roy Moore though. There were similar accusations against Donald Trump and the media didn't care much back then, and doesn't care now. Time to just accept that US politics is cool with alleged pedophiles, I say.
What do you mean the media didn't care? There was literal wall-to-wall coverage, for days. The only double standard though is that democrats regularly get a pass by the media, while they're all over republicans the instant something happens. Need a comparison? Weiner, and Yee. The latter one, was running guns to narcos while pushing to restrict guns.
Will liberal articles have to be allowed on Breitbart? Leftist comments in/r/TheDonald?
Breitbart already does that and has for years. Guess you learn something new every day right? Go ask the mods for/r/thedonald, likely yes as long as it relates to Trump. Remember that sub is a circle-jerk. As a flip/r/conservative does allow leftist comments, however/r/latestagecapitalism and/r/communism and so on do not allow right-wing comments, or anything that deviates from the party line.
Can you give us an example of a private space that has become forced into a public "speakers corner", with the company owning it unable to control the content any longer?
Did you try your own backyard? What do you think speakers corner came from. You can also read this here. There's also a couple of cases from the 1960's relating directly to this, but I can't remember the case name at the moment. You can also look up "ag gag" for similar cases. This may or maynot apply as well to some places, i.e. the "mall of america" is an example because the protests were in a building, thus the 1st didn't apply. You can also read People v. DiGuida(around 50 pages) for more insight, note the annotations as well. There's a few hundred of those and are required reading.
Well, the GOP is working to make education levels in other countries equal to that in the USA. The problem is that their approach to this is to lower education levels in the USA.
The GOP was behind Common Core? Really. The things you learn every day.
I guess pushing garbage like title ix and wanting to allow parents to pick public or private schools via vouchers is like hitler coming back from the grave for you.
Speaking of koolaid... That's demonstrable bullshit. The fucking Queen flies it, the government flies it, numerous people fly it. It's our national flag, why the hell would the police visit you for displaying it?
The same reason that your police have threatened people if they say "we don't want migrants in our town." Did you miss the case where police were told not to have the union jack on their uniform because "it might upset some communities" as well? That was a few years ago.
Even the Republicans are trying to steer him away from starting a new war. Where are you getting this nonsense? Specifically who is calling for war?
You mean all those democrats who were cheering him on when he bombed Syria? You really have no idea what's going on with north korea though do you?
And you can't see why people are slightly alarmed that he didn't specifically, unconditionally condemn the literal Nazis with their swastikas and their "blood and soil" chants, and literal murder? Especially when he instead tried to draw some kind of equivalence between the counter-protesters and the literal Nazis?
No. Because unlike you, I don't believe speech should be censored. I believe that no matter how abhorrent their views are, they should speak them and people should be allowed to see exactly how bad those views are. I believe that the line for free speech stops when there's an actionable threat, not before.
These are people who explicitly support an ideology that murdered 6 million people, genocide on an industrial scale. An ideology build on a foundation of white supremacy and racial purity, that started one of the worst wars in human history to force it on everyone.
And the people who were counter protesting them? You know antifa(that's actual communists FYI), local communist groups and so on? That's the ideology that murdered 100m people on an industrial scale, and built their foundation based on an ideology of the state. Was for the destruction of anything that the state deemed as forbidden. Whether it be knowledge, or a person having the wrong opinion.
And all Trump can say is that there were bad people on both sides. Even "I disagree with their policy of genocide" was too much for him.
You must have been pretty upset when he called for a national day for the victims of communism then.
You've got it backwards there. The left and far left have pushed on regular people to the point where left-wing politicians and academia have told, implied, and shamed people in general not to take pride in their country, culture, and so on. Then went on blaming them that all the ills in the world are their fault and so on. The backlash is growing because the left created their own enemy. That ranges in everything from those 'minorities' getting preferential treatment in the judicial system, to those minorities given a free pass to rape young girls for decades(see rotherham in the UK and other cities there). And the police being 'afraid of being labeled racist' as the reason that they did nothing. Or turning around and charging the rape victim with a hate crime, while letting her attacker go free.
If you don't think this is the way that it happened, you only need to look at media. With the various "cultural appropriation" garbage, or buildings being scrubbed of historical names because 'reasons' of whatever they might be. Political correctness was the start of this, people put up with it for a long time. But even people who are browbeaten, because they can't do something for "fear of being labeled a racist" will eventually have enough.
This is the point where you have a cultural divide and you don't understand how things differ from the UK to North America. See over here, we've already been down this route. That when a "private place" is used by the public, and promoted by that private ownership, it still retains that private ownership but charter and fundamental freedoms also apply. Meaning that a company can't censor/remove another person because it has become a "speakers corner."
. Also helps explain why they didn't make a peep when Trump called for bringing back the fairness doctrine in all but name.
You weren't paying attention then, because if you were then you'd already know that people were automatically arguing against that as soon as he said it. That was right in the "trump heavy" subs, forums and so on. They're easy to find, you shouldn't have any problems. But if you're sucking your news from a couple of sources, I can see how you'd miss that. Just like how the media is all over Judge Moore, and not saying anything about the Menendez trial. I mean that literally. You know that he actually *did* pay for underage prostitutes, it's right there in the docket.
Oh fuck this, gamers in general will not be lumped into the basket of deplorables over one incident involving a bunch of fedora-wearing MRA neckbeards who happen to play videogames. This shit will not stand, the sheer percentage of female gamers these days ensures it.
Funny. Because that's exactly what kotaku has been pushing for the last week, or haven't you been paying attention?
"So on" being the Daily Stormer and other hate sites. These aren't a new phenomenon. Mainstream sites should not attempt to cater to these userbases. Let them remain in the deepest darkest corners of the Internet, I say.
Well the Daily Stormer predates both of those. But then again you've been plenty vocal in the past to attack people for wrongthink, so I guess we can just wait until it's your turn right?
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No need to imagine, just go to brietbart.com or turn on Fox News.
You didn't really think that one through, did you?
So which part of brietbart and fox news have their own mobile devices that have news feeds directly on the device and curates them to tell you, what they want you to hear? Right. Cut the bullshit, you're advocating corporate censorship. Which shouldn't be a surprise since you also advocate censoring people with hate speech laws. Nothing you're saying supports democracy or an open society, only more control, more curtailed rights, less freedom.
You really didn't think any of this through, did you? It aligned with your beliefs and you god-damn well jumped in with both feet.
or even know how easily they are getting played by well funded enemy states that are plotting our demise.
Complete garbage and bullshit. The USSR can't even float the tonnage to be a threat to the US. Hell the USSR and China don't even come close. The US follows the same doctrine that military powers have for hundreds of years when they've been 'king of the world' have twice as much power as your next two nearest rivals. The only "form of demise" that either country could use to try something is an out-right first-fire nuclear launch. And they'd still lose.
You're advocating censorship because you think it's the right thing to do. It's not.
Show me one single story on CNN
That's not hard.
That's an outright fabrication, by stating "you can't download the dnc emails." CNN never retracted it. The entire point of it was to stop people from looking by making them fear that they'd be prosecuted.
Ok now you're making stuff up. At no point did the average real estate market drop by 60 or 70% in London or Manhattan.
I didn't say average real estate market. I said condo market. The rest of your post is you going around in circles trying to justify your view that things have changed(when they haven't), rather then realizing that you're on the edge of a crash. The money that's coming to fund all of this is mainly coming from EFT's, which are mainly levered against other currencies in order to "pay the cost" of those building. AKA someone borrowed to build, hoping to sell and make the money back. I'll point out that when the crash was going on in the 1980's, there were plenty of places 'were up' it wasn't until the bubble popped that it all came crashing down.
You believe whatever you want to believe. You'll also likely be the person moaning that they lost everything in a years time.
Progressive stack in action little coward. Ask yourself why such a thing exists in the first place, and you'll get your answer.
You've never seen the progressive stack in action, in your life have you? Ask that apple employee who was just canned for saying "white people can be diverse."
He's a white male. Of course they hate him, he's very far down on the progressive stack. Now if you got that black transgender that was a man, that identifies as a woman, and loves women? Well now you've got something HOT! They could get behind those arguments without a problem.
Ok sounds like a localised issue. I'm pretty sure apartments in Manhattan or London didn't suffer similar 'corrections'
Yeah they actually did. 70% for Manhattan and 60% for London.
xactly. You can't just blanket 'real estate' as one thing. A shitbox subprime purchase in the rust belt is not equivalent in any way to buying house in say Palo Alto.
Economics is just supply and demand. In a lot of places, the demand is real, the supply is finite. Not all high priced things are bubbles.
"Rustbelt" is now apparently florida which has yet to recover, including large parts of texas, az, and so on.
But how do you tell if a high priced thing is a bubble, or actually sustained by real demand? If you had've said ten years ago that the most popular mobile phones would cost $1000USD you'd be laughed out of the room. Yet here we are. Are iPhones a bubble?
When the number of vacancies in those houses sit empty. In otherwords these are houses, condos, and so on bought on the idea of real estate valuation nothing else. Let's compare a consumable vs building, makes perfect sense! Vancouver for instance the number is estimated to be around 30% empty property with no income, and simply being turned over. That's residential housing. Toronto? Some areas are as high as 45%. One of the reasons there have been foreign ownership taxes, no building residency additions to property tax and so on.
I can't speak for Canada, but I've heard the same arguments in Australia (eg average income vs average house price). One thing to think about is the formula used to calculate such things. I think the classic formulas no longer apply for various reasons, one is most households now have double incomes, most homeowners now have accumulated wealth that wasn't the case in the 1960's/70's, and urbanisation and population growth has crossed a tipping point in major cities to create a positive feedback loop in the demand curve.
Except that Australia is having the same problem. People are actually being priced out of housing, they're sprawling outwards to cheaper property, and being sprawled out more. There is a positive feedback loop, but it's the building and mortgage loop. This is exactly what caused previous real estate crashes in both residential and commercial properties.
To give some perspective, wages in Australia are high and unemployment and interest rates are low. One or all of these things has to change drastically to affect housing demand, and there is no change on the horizon.
Except your perspective is wrong. While "wages are high" the price of housing outstrips that earning. To compare a house in 1980 could be bought for $30k, the average income was around $18k/year. When a combined income family of $100k-300k struggles with mortgage payments on current property and a 0.25% rate hike is enough to put them under water, it's a bubble. Wages have been stagnant since the early 2000's in all of the west, people had better economic growth from the 1980's through to the mid 1990's around 160%. From the early 2000's to this year? It's around 35%. What you're seeing is the classic "cheap credit hog" that creates a bust cycle, after a boom cycle which the housing market is currently in.
Now if you don't understand anything I've written then read this here then read this here. For Australia the crash is already starting, the pace? Well that depends on what the government tries to pull out. The same for Canada, but since Canada borders the US and there's an absolute need to depress the CDN vs the USD by 20-30%, interest rate hikes are on the way. Canada's entire economic system is based on lowering to the USD.
Right. So your wisdom is based purely on you guessing wildly? You'll excuse me if I don't base my investment strategy on such flimsy logic.
My "guess" is based on previous housing bubbles and their massive sharp corrections that happen, along with what the market is doing and what those learned economists think. The condo bubble, especially the Toronto condo bubble saw 80% of their value disappear. The 2008 crash in the US? Depends on where you were, but there were instances of negative devaluation of the property over 120%. Take your pick, but the larger the bubble the bigger the correction. The housing bubble in Canada is massive. The median wage in Ontario is $81k/year. The average wage in most of the province(outside of Toronto) is $43k-51k/year. The average price for a suburban house in Toronto is $1.3m. The average price in the rest of Ontario is creeping over $600k. The house I live in now is around 1900sqft(average 1950's 1.5floor house), in Toronto proper itself I could sell it for over $3m. You tell me, what that says about the market. On top of that, toss in that more PT jobs are created then FT jobs. That the number of people working 2 or more jobs has jumped in the last 4 years as the bubble has taken off.
Out of all G20 countries Canada is set off as the worst and has the highest indicators of a massive correction coming, with the highest number of people that would be insolvent with the smallest amount of movement to prime interest rates. Australia ranks second.
In the 1980 coal crash in Alberta, entire communities were wiped-out. The houses, townhouses and so on lost 99% of their value in the span of months. Places that were selling for $60k in 1980($175k today), couldn't be sold for $10 on the market. They were worthless, this happens a lot more then you'd think too. You can see it with the steel crash in the US, or in Hamilton, Ontario. In Alberta's case, the provincial government had to step in and assume liabilities, re-assess entire areas and assume the debt for failed towns.
Both stocks and houses have intrinsic value
Tell that to people in the 1988 condo crash, or the upcoming housing crash here in Canada. That $1.5m house in the burbs that's a hot ticket item right now is only going to be worth $250k in a couple of years at best guess. Especially since they're talking about multiple interest rate jumps. To explain just how *bad* of a crash they're talking? At 0.25% 10% of mortgages could be under water. At 0.5% it's around 25%. If the prime goes up by 1.5% in the next year(a very strong possibility), you could see 50-60% of all mortgages across Canada go under in 60 days and it would be like the hyperinflation crash back in the early 1980's. Speaking of which, my parents mortgage rate in 1981 was 13.5%. And people are worried going from 2-3% to 4-5%.
Renewables didn't get cheap really fast in North America. The price per kWh is still double to quadruple(market cost to break even is $0.20-0.83kWh) the rate that a nuclear reactor here has for the "refueling and refitting" cost in it's last 10 years of production life(around $0.08kWh). The only 3 power production methods that are cheaper are hydro-electric(0.04kWh), natural gas(0.05kWh) and coal(0.03kWh). In North America, it's cheaper to build a dam, flood huge tracts of land, and be profitable in less than a decade, then it to build windmills in the mountain passes.
It was upgraded, several times. There were also upgrades in the pipes for other things relating to safety. The earthquake hit *before* that happened. Don't forget that anything nuclear related is a hot-topic in Japan which has a very active and aggressive anti-nuke circle of environmentalism. NIMBYism and lawsuits hampered a lot of what was going on, that doesn't absolve TEPCO of liability, but sometimes people are their own worst enemy. Let's look at a different situation, in a different country like Canada. Where an in-land research and medical reactor that supplies 75% of the cobalt-60 and 50% of the technetium-99m used in nuclear medicine(worldwide) is nearing 70 years old, there's been a replacement reactor in the line for 25 years based on a new generation of CANDU series reactors instead of the old MAPLE reactors, and it was supposed to be done over a decade ago. Much safer, with redundant no-operator shutdown systems. Multiple lawsuits, multiple environmental impact studies, multiple anti-nuke NIMBY protests and on and on, and on.
That replacement reactor still isn't online FYI. Chalk River has been in operation for 68 years. Next year it's supposed to be shutdown, but will likely be granted a waiver because the new reactor still hasn't been completed and the demand for medical isotopes is increasing. And there is zero capacity for production anywhere else.
And before someone says "but you don't live near a reactor" or some other bullshit. Let me say that I live a stones throw from Bruce Nuclear, on the east-wind side. Topping out at nearly 6400MW? It's not small, rather it's the 2nd largest in the world.
No, but maybe you did
Obviously, since that wasn't the only case now was it. In fact it's a repeated history of a busybody telling people that they can't do something because it might offend those 'minorities'.
I believe that too. I've told you that fore, but you still keep on telling me I don't.
I seem to remember you being in support of hate speech laws. That means you don't.
Where we differ is that you want Twitter to broadcast that speech, where as I support their right to not publish on your behalf.
Remember that part where a medium becomes so large that it influences public discourse?
Citation needed on that one. If I were being unkind I'd suggest you are only trying to pretend they are communists because communism gives you a whataboutism for how bad the Nazis were.
You want the original? Where they were backed by the KPD? And they'll claim that they're carrying on the tradition, or do you want to go look up their various manifestos, and tie-in's with groups like BAMN. Or you can go look at indymedia and their devout proclamation that they're acting as communist agitators. Or perhaps you'd just prefer the current german classification. Hate to break it to you, but they're right there. The standard useful idiot communists. The ones that try to crash society, and the first ones killed by the new regime when their usefulness is spent. The only difference between antifa and a nazi is the "ism."
Do you know the difference between airwaves and a street corner?
Too bad that you don't understand the difference between the two, you also missed the fundamental part of that court case. Remember that the fairness doctrine dealt with "airwaves" not physical locations.
BTW, the reason Menendez isn't in the news is that he's on trial and not running for office, and that the accusations are nowhere near as solid as you suggest.
Right, he's a sitting senator.
There is a double standard with Roy Moore though. There were similar accusations against Donald Trump and the media didn't care much back then, and doesn't care now. Time to just accept that US politics is cool with alleged pedophiles, I say.
What do you mean the media didn't care? There was literal wall-to-wall coverage, for days. The only double standard though is that democrats regularly get a pass by the media, while they're all over republicans the instant something happens. Need a comparison? Weiner, and Yee. The latter one, was running guns to narcos while pushing to restrict guns.
Will liberal articles have to be allowed on Breitbart? Leftist comments in /r/TheDonald?
Breitbart already does that and has for years. Guess you learn something new every day right? Go ask the mods for /r/thedonald, likely yes as long as it relates to Trump. Remember that sub is a circle-jerk. As a flip /r/conservative does allow leftist comments, however /r/latestagecapitalism and /r/communism and so on do not allow right-wing comments, or anything that deviates from the party line.
Can you give us an example of a private space that has become forced into a public "speakers corner", with the company owning it unable to control the content any longer?
Did you try your own backyard? What do you think speakers corner came from. You can also read this here. There's also a couple of cases from the 1960's relating directly to this, but I can't remember the case name at the moment. You can also look up "ag gag" for similar cases. This may or maynot apply as well to some places, i.e. the "mall of america" is an example because the protests were in a building, thus the 1st didn't apply. You can also read People v. DiGuida(around 50 pages) for more insight, note the annotations as well. There's a few hundred of those and are required reading.
Well, the GOP is working to make education levels in other countries equal to that in the USA. The problem is that their approach to this is to lower education levels in the USA.
The GOP was behind Common Core? Really. The things you learn every day.
I guess pushing garbage like title ix and wanting to allow parents to pick public or private schools via vouchers is like hitler coming back from the grave for you.
Speaking of koolaid... That's demonstrable bullshit. The fucking Queen flies it, the government flies it, numerous people fly it. It's our national flag, why the hell would the police visit you for displaying it?
The same reason that your police have threatened people if they say "we don't want migrants in our town." Did you miss the case where police were told not to have the union jack on their uniform because "it might upset some communities" as well? That was a few years ago.
Even the Republicans are trying to steer him away from starting a new war. Where are you getting this nonsense? Specifically who is calling for war?
You mean all those democrats who were cheering him on when he bombed Syria? You really have no idea what's going on with north korea though do you?
And you can't see why people are slightly alarmed that he didn't specifically, unconditionally condemn the literal Nazis with their swastikas and their "blood and soil" chants, and literal murder? Especially when he instead tried to draw some kind of equivalence between the counter-protesters and the literal Nazis?
No. Because unlike you, I don't believe speech should be censored. I believe that no matter how abhorrent their views are, they should speak them and people should be allowed to see exactly how bad those views are. I believe that the line for free speech stops when there's an actionable threat, not before.
These are people who explicitly support an ideology that murdered 6 million people, genocide on an industrial scale. An ideology build on a foundation of white supremacy and racial purity, that started one of the worst wars in human history to force it on everyone.
And the people who were counter protesting them? You know antifa(that's actual communists FYI), local communist groups and so on? That's the ideology that murdered 100m people on an industrial scale, and built their foundation based on an ideology of the state. Was for the destruction of anything that the state deemed as forbidden. Whether it be knowledge, or a person having the wrong opinion.
And all Trump can say is that there were bad people on both sides. Even "I disagree with their policy of genocide" was too much for him.
You must have been pretty upset when he called for a national day for the victims of communism then.
You've got it backwards there. The left and far left have pushed on regular people to the point where left-wing politicians and academia have told, implied, and shamed people in general not to take pride in their country, culture, and so on. Then went on blaming them that all the ills in the world are their fault and so on. The backlash is growing because the left created their own enemy. That ranges in everything from those 'minorities' getting preferential treatment in the judicial system, to those minorities given a free pass to rape young girls for decades(see rotherham in the UK and other cities there). And the police being 'afraid of being labeled racist' as the reason that they did nothing. Or turning around and charging the rape victim with a hate crime, while letting her attacker go free.
If you don't think this is the way that it happened, you only need to look at media. With the various "cultural appropriation" garbage, or buildings being scrubbed of historical names because 'reasons' of whatever they might be. Political correctness was the start of this, people put up with it for a long time. But even people who are browbeaten, because they can't do something for "fear of being labeled a racist" will eventually have enough.
This is the point where you have a cultural divide and you don't understand how things differ from the UK to North America. See over here, we've already been down this route. That when a "private place" is used by the public, and promoted by that private ownership, it still retains that private ownership but charter and fundamental freedoms also apply. Meaning that a company can't censor/remove another person because it has become a "speakers corner."
. Also helps explain why they didn't make a peep when Trump called for bringing back the fairness doctrine in all but name.
You weren't paying attention then, because if you were then you'd already know that people were automatically arguing against that as soon as he said it. That was right in the "trump heavy" subs, forums and so on. They're easy to find, you shouldn't have any problems. But if you're sucking your news from a couple of sources, I can see how you'd miss that. Just like how the media is all over Judge Moore, and not saying anything about the Menendez trial. I mean that literally. You know that he actually *did* pay for underage prostitutes, it's right there in the docket.
Oh fuck this, gamers in general will not be lumped into the basket of deplorables over one incident involving a bunch of fedora-wearing MRA neckbeards who happen to play videogames. This shit will not stand, the sheer percentage of female gamers these days ensures it.
Funny. Because that's exactly what kotaku has been pushing for the last week, or haven't you been paying attention?
"So on" being the Daily Stormer and other hate sites. These aren't a new phenomenon. Mainstream sites should not attempt to cater to these userbases. Let them remain in the deepest darkest corners of the Internet, I say.
Well the Daily Stormer predates both of those. But then again you've been plenty vocal in the past to attack people for wrongthink, so I guess we can just wait until it's your turn right?