William Buckley would likely be rolling in his grave, if he'd seen where the birchers, tea baggers and Koch operatives have taken the conservative side of politics.
I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who look back with nostalgia, to times where the thinkers on the conservative side of politics could win people over with the power of their ideas and principles, rather than just mouthing cheap slogans and whipping up hysteria.
Maybe I'm naive, but it would be nice to have political opponents, that if didn't necessarily agree with their point of you, but actually respect what they were saying. The Right has not exactly covered itself in glory with its descent into lowest-common-denominator populism in the last 20 years.
A tedious hit-parade of vicious, bigoted, sectarian, hateful, blatantly racist UN resolutions against Israel, the West and white people.
Third World barbarians think because there's so many Muslim countries, that their worthless, garbage ravings have more weight than a single picked-on country of 2 million people (versus 30+ Muslim countries with 1.5 billion+ people).
O brave Muslim warriors! Fucking chickenshits.
Lucky that UN resolutions have no teeth, otherwise we'd be in trouble.
They want to push it far enough, there will be plenty of volunteers to enlist and take the fight to them, up close and personal. Don't think that being brown and Muslim means you're the only person to want to fight to the death to protect their culture.
They aren't morally equivalent. We are democracies. They are a brutal squalid, violent, barbaric Muslim theocracy. They can't hide behind their bullshit sense of grievance forever.
I think it's a weak excuse. They are in a war, and have to expect consequences for picking fights.
No. Muslims consider us enemies and hate us because 1) we are white; 2) we are not Muslim; 3) we are richer, more civilized and better-looking than they are.
I'd say that the Muslims have it coming. After all the Mufti of Jerusalim collaborated with the Nazis in WW2 and tried to have Jews genocided every chance he got. There are 1.5 gazillions Muslims (or whatever bullshit figure the fascistic islamic supremicists are making up this week), but only 2 million Jews.
They will blame us for their shit situation, because it puts us Westerners on the defensive, and gives the fascistic Muslims the right to demand more political concessions and lebensraum.
We should stop kowtowing to demonstrably culturally, morally and genetically inferior people. We should beat them up so hard, that they'll never dare to threaten or manipulate us.
Third world scum who revel in their victimhood and sense of inferiority, stew in their burning hatred and sense of victimhood and want to lash out.
The protests, hack attacks, warmongering and general troublemaking are the death throes of an inferior, dying culture. Hopefully they'll trigger a full blown war, and we'll finally get the chance to sort them out properly.
It looks like a tremendous pain in the butt to use, although some naiive people who don't understand computers might think it'll protect themselves from themselves.
FWIW, I"ve worked in a bank before, and they had some awful McAfee crud running on the client workstations where if you attempted to do a screen grab, it would overwrite the data on the clipboard with black pixels -- a pain in the arse when you're trying to do consulting or tech support. McAfee had some similarly annoying crudware installed on all the bank's machines, which only granted write access to USB keys unless they'd been encrypted and 'blessed' by the company's IT department.
Obnoxious garbage, designed to inconvenience users. I think there's a bit of Catholic hair-shirt thinking going on here: make the tools and processes as painful as possible, to make clients think they're doing something productive and virtuous, and justify the license fees they're paying the security software racket^H^H^H^H^H^Hindustry.
I'd hazard a guess that some sad, fat middle manager deep in the bowels of McAfee dreamt this up, hoping that turning security software from a product (with loads of free alternatives) into a hard-to-clone for-pay service would generate more revenue.
Imperialism is a worthless, stupid, bullshit excuse.
Japan is an excellent example of a country with absolutely no natural resources, and a population that's far too large, but nonetheless fought their way to the top, because their people are decent, strong and hardworking, don't go blaming Whitey for all their problems, and don't suffer from a broken, dysfunctional culture of perpetual victimhood, laziness, lecherousness, filth and ignorance, like much of the Islamic world.
According to the conventional wisdom, Japan should have remained a Third World basketcase. They're still, after a 'lost decade', one of the richest and most powerful countries on Earth.
I would say, through your bad manners, lack of anger management, and perpetual sense of bullshit victimhood, that you are a Muslim.
Fact is, Muslims dish it out just as much as they take it, and they have only themselves to blame when everyone hates them and their worthless, shitty culture and politics.
My grandfather's family left England during the Great Depression, because they were so poor, they could barely afford bread and dripping, if that (dripping, I was told, was a bit of a treat). They ended up swapping a life of borderline starvation for what amounted to indentured servitude on a farm in the middle of outback Australia, but at least they got to eat. My old man nonetheless spoke of killing feral rabbits because that was the only meat they could afford.
My other grandfather was quite literally enslaved by the Allies for two years after WW2, labouring on a wheat farm, because there were massive food shortages after the Russians had done burning, looting and raping Germany.
My grandmother was billeted to a family in Switzerland during the war because her family wouldn't afford to feed her (war apparently isn't good for kids either).
So yeah, hunger is certainly within living memory for most of our families. Thank God that Western civilization has the basics right, and that we're all obese two short generations later.
Actually, I think I *AM* better, because I have a better culture. Because I have the substantial advantage of living in a country with a culture more conducive to doing away with extreme poverty and preventable illness, rewarding hard work, and letting me keep most of what I earn.
Call me a racist (or some other snarl word you'll undoubtedly think of). but it's the truth: all people are born equal. However, all cultures are not.
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William Buckley would likely be rolling in his grave, if he'd seen where the birchers, tea baggers and Koch operatives have taken the conservative side of politics.
I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who look back with nostalgia, to times where the thinkers on the conservative side of politics could win people over with the power of their ideas and principles, rather than just mouthing cheap slogans and whipping up hysteria.
Maybe I'm naive, but it would be nice to have political opponents, that if didn't necessarily agree with their point of you, but actually respect what they were saying. The Right has not exactly covered itself in glory with its descent into lowest-common-denominator populism in the last 20 years.
The Iranians I've met buck the trend with Islam in general -- they seem to be cultured and enlightened people who have a lot of respect for education.
This would present obvious problems for the odious theocratric tyranny they suffer under at home.
Attacking education and the free exchange of idea is the old standby of reactionaries everywhere.
Maybe the Americans will just bomb their parking lots with malware-infested USB keys instead, in case somebody gets dumb...
I wonder how hard the Iranian people need to be shit on before they do something about their awful government?
Sounds like the typical paki Muslim reaction.
A tedious hit-parade of vicious, bigoted, sectarian, hateful, blatantly racist UN resolutions against Israel, the West and white people.
Third World barbarians think because there's so many Muslim countries, that their worthless, garbage ravings have more weight than a single picked-on country of 2 million people (versus 30+ Muslim countries with 1.5 billion+ people).
O brave Muslim warriors! Fucking chickenshits.
Lucky that UN resolutions have no teeth, otherwise we'd be in trouble.
Easy to say, smartarse.
They want to push it far enough, there will be plenty of volunteers to enlist and take the fight to them, up close and personal. Don't think that being brown and Muslim means you're the only person to want to fight to the death to protect their culture.
People can behave like animals.
People can (and do) suffer the consequences for their actions, and those of their leaders.
You are a disgusting pro-theocracy shill.
Moral equivalency.
They aren't morally equivalent. We are democracies. They are a brutal squalid, violent, barbaric Muslim theocracy. They can't hide behind their bullshit sense of grievance forever.
I think it's a weak excuse. They are in a war, and have to expect consequences for picking fights.
Savages and barbarians will never 'let bygones by bygones'
No. Muslims consider us enemies and hate us because 1) we are white; 2) we are not Muslim; 3) we are richer, more civilized and better-looking than they are.
This is war. We are not playing by Marquis of Queensbury rules here, especially against those fascistic muslim savages.
I'd say that the Muslims have it coming. After all the Mufti of Jerusalim collaborated with the Nazis in WW2 and tried to have Jews genocided every chance he got. There are 1.5 gazillions Muslims (or whatever bullshit figure the fascistic islamic supremicists are making up this week), but only 2 million Jews.
Don't try to justify islamic genocide.
Bullshit Islam persecution complex.
They will blame us for their shit situation, because it puts us Westerners on the defensive, and gives the fascistic Muslims the right to demand more political concessions and lebensraum.
We should stop kowtowing to demonstrably culturally, morally and genetically inferior people. We should beat them up so hard, that they'll never dare to threaten or manipulate us.
Need I say more?
Third world scum who revel in their victimhood and sense of inferiority, stew in their burning hatred and sense of victimhood and want to lash out.
The protests, hack attacks, warmongering and general troublemaking are the death throes of an inferior, dying culture. Hopefully they'll trigger a full blown war, and we'll finally get the chance to sort them out properly.
Node.js is for hipsters and overgrown web monkeys who think they can code.
Not entirely dependent on NASA. Check their launch manifest.
It looks like a tremendous pain in the butt to use, although some naiive people who don't understand computers might think it'll protect themselves from themselves.
FWIW, I"ve worked in a bank before, and they had some awful McAfee crud running on the client workstations where if you attempted to do a screen grab, it would overwrite the data on the clipboard with black pixels -- a pain in the arse when you're trying to do consulting or tech support. McAfee had some similarly annoying crudware installed on all the bank's machines, which only granted write access to USB keys unless they'd been encrypted and 'blessed' by the company's IT department.
Obnoxious garbage, designed to inconvenience users. I think there's a bit of Catholic hair-shirt thinking going on here: make the tools and processes as painful as possible, to make clients think they're doing something productive and virtuous, and justify the license fees they're paying the security software racket^H^H^H^H^H^Hindustry.
I'd hazard a guess that some sad, fat middle manager deep in the bowels of McAfee dreamt this up, hoping that turning security software from a product (with loads of free alternatives) into a hard-to-clone for-pay service would generate more revenue.
The truth hurts, doesn't it?
Imperialism is a worthless, stupid, bullshit excuse.
Japan is an excellent example of a country with absolutely no natural resources, and a population that's far too large, but nonetheless fought their way to the top, because their people are decent, strong and hardworking, don't go blaming Whitey for all their problems, and don't suffer from a broken, dysfunctional culture of perpetual victimhood, laziness, lecherousness, filth and ignorance, like much of the Islamic world.
According to the conventional wisdom, Japan should have remained a Third World basketcase. They're still, after a 'lost decade', one of the richest and most powerful countries on Earth.
Culture matters. Strong cultures dominate. Weak cultures decay, wither and die.
I would say, through your bad manners, lack of anger management, and perpetual sense of bullshit victimhood, that you are a Muslim.
Fact is, Muslims dish it out just as much as they take it, and they have only themselves to blame when everyone hates them and their worthless, shitty culture and politics.
But you can only go blaming Whitey for so long, before the argument gets a bit shopworn, and it just becomes an enabler of learned helplessness.
"Alarmist" is a snarl word used almost exclusively by conservatives.
My grandfather's family left England during the Great Depression, because they were so poor, they could barely afford bread and dripping, if that (dripping, I was told, was a bit of a treat). They ended up swapping a life of borderline starvation for what amounted to indentured servitude on a farm in the middle of outback Australia, but at least they got to eat. My old man nonetheless spoke of killing feral rabbits because that was the only meat they could afford.
My other grandfather was quite literally enslaved by the Allies for two years after WW2, labouring on a wheat farm, because there were massive food shortages after the Russians had done burning, looting and raping Germany.
My grandmother was billeted to a family in Switzerland during the war because her family wouldn't afford to feed her (war apparently isn't good for kids either).
So yeah, hunger is certainly within living memory for most of our families. Thank God that Western civilization has the basics right, and that we're all obese two short generations later.
Actually, I think I *AM* better, because I have a better culture. Because I have the substantial advantage of living in a country with a culture more conducive to doing away with extreme poverty and preventable illness, rewarding hard work, and letting me keep most of what I earn.
Call me a racist (or some other snarl word you'll undoubtedly think of). but it's the truth: all people are born equal. However, all cultures are not.