Mueller didn't "find" crimes about Manafort. Those were already investigated, hanging in the air for quite a while. He just withdrew that deposit.
I'm not a Trump supporter. That doesn't mean I suspend all reason and sense like I see many of my fellow Americans doing. When someone is tasked to look for Russian interference in our election but only looks at the Republican side that points to limitations in the scope of the investigation. When that person then prosecutes people for things that are not at all related to Russian interference in our election that points toward no limitations in the scope of the investigation.
Mueller and his cohorts are obviously dredging up charges against anyone they can find who is connected to Trump in an effort to extort these people into testifying against Trump. He is wagering their freedom against their cooperation. This is a situation ripe for all sorts of abuse by someone who is willing to abuse. If you know Mueller's history of prosecution you know that he is more than willing to overstep boundaries.
It is very interesting that when Hillary Clinton was being investigated for security related issues her lawyer was never raided, even though he had a copy of "missing" information that was under subpoena.
Questioning was not done under oath in some cases, and in the most important one. Possible accessories were granted immunity instead of charged with crimes. They were also allowed to destroy evidence, and plead the fifth even though they were provided with immunity. Other irregularities were there as well. If you glossed over them when they happened I won't be able to convince you now. You're too far gone.
Taken as a whole, it points to a vast difference in the methods used to investigate. If you have a problem with blind justice then this situation will suit you just fine. If you are a thinker and a student of theater you might get a different impression. I leave this as an exercise for the reader. Do try to keep up.
Here's one last thing to consider, though I doubt many of you will get the point even when I mention it. If any other candidate for the Republicans won the presidency there would be an enormous vacuum in the news cycle. There would be only one thing to fill it, and its exactly what we aren't seeing right now. Hillary is very lucky her opponent has such an objectionable public persona. If you want to call it luck...
It is impossible for a person under the influence of societal, cultural, and self-created inaccurate belief systems to sense what's real. They block the input that disagrees with their expectation of reality, so they wind up only seeing what they expect to see. Some people mistake this myopic filtered viewpoint for reality.
We, as a species, exist in a world in which exist a myriad of data points.1 Upon these matrices of points we superimpose a structure2 and the world makes sense to us. The pattern of the structure originates within our biological and sociological properties.3 — Persinger and Lafreniere, Space-Time Transients and Unusual Events
1 In our terminology, these data points are events or actions, i.e. verbs, not nouns. 2 In our terminology, models or maps, static things; nouns not verbs. 3 In our terminology, brain hardware and software.
Case in point: I was meditating one day, slipped into sleep, and dreamed I was in the car with my at-the-time-girlfriend, her two exchange students and our friend, Melea. Melea and I were in the front passenger seat together, girlfriend was driving, and the exchange ladies were in the back seat. A car swerved toward us from the left, we dodged to the right, hit a concrete abutment, ricochet sideways to the left, spinning back to front, went over some railroad tracks, and the car flipped into the air.
As we were airborne I said goodbye lovingly to the girlfriend and was no longer in the car. Then I was no place that I can recall, quiet, calm, and disconnected. Nothing to see, nothing to do. Then I thought I heard something. Faint, distant, indecipherable, but slowly resolving itself, getting louder. Then I got it, a phone ringing in the distance, quietly. I got up from the bed where I was laying in the guest room and went into my room. No phone ringing now, but I picked up anyways. On the line was my girlfriend. She was out of her head, crying, freaking out, losing her shit.
You know the story, and so did I. She was in an accident. She was driving, Melea was in the passenger seat, the two exchange students were in the back seat. A car swerved toward her and she dodged it, hitting a concrete abutment and spinning the car. Fortunately in this version there were some differences: no railroad tracks, the car didn't flip. Thank God. Everyone was ok.
Then she said "It was weird. I felt like you were right there beside me. Did you feel it to? Were you about to call me? Is that why you answered the phone before it even rang?"
" while we have a severe shortage of highly skilled laborers (doctors, airline pilots, engineers)"
This makes sense. If you're creating a business and you need to invest tons of cash into the company to make it work...and it doesn't...you can use bankruptcy to clear the debt and try again.
If you are trying to become a doctor and need to invest tons of cash into your schooling to make it work...and it doesn't...you are on the hook for that money no matter what. If you used financial aid, chances are the Government owns that debt and you're well and truly fucked.
There is no argument. No one disagrees on the fundamental principle of the matter, and no one will do anything about it.
This entire conversation is just so much nebulous jerking off into the aether. Our forefathers knew what to do about this kind of thing. We, in comparison, are content to watch our own ship go down, as long as we can stream it on our smartphones.
When the tags "/joke" and "/sarcasm" are interchangeable with "/America," one might begin to wonder what the hell is going on.
I am continually offended by the lack of regard for the misuse of government power at the hands of wealth concentrating entities. The only thing more disheartening is how many of my fellow Americans are willing to participate in it with their eyes open and how many of them are complacent to it even when it works against their interests and the interests of their progeny.
Demonstrating self evident truths is masturbation. I don't do that on the internet.
Calling others racist without any justification is the worst kind of idiocy. Makes sense though, since you're a pedophile nothing is beneath you. (See how that works? Now, I doubt you're a pedophile but I am certain beyond all things that you're certainly a piece of shit.)
During periods of high immigration there are problems that arise. These problems are the same in every country I have seen:
1) Immigrants get paid less 2) Immigrants are ostracized 3) Immigrants are incarcerated at higher rates 4) Immigrants do work that gets them killed and hurt at much higher rates 5) Immigrants are disenfranchised 6) Immigrants have less access to medical care
Just like everyone I see calling other people racist for wanting controlled immigration, you fail to take into consideration the life and happiness of immigrants themselves. You want immigration*. You don't care how it feels to the immigrants. To prove the statement "...high immigration is only a problem if you're racist" all of those immigrants must be racist, because the problems of high immigration are borne by the immigrants.
*I actually think most people who support high immigration, illegal immigration, and call others racist when they oppose it are just in the game to call other people racists and make themselves look good. I know this because they do nothing to change the laws about immigration in this country and they do very little to actually help immigrants. (Posting on the internet is not helping immigrants. Calling people racist is not helping immigrants.)
Only a self-absorbed rancid piece of shit would encourage high immigration, much less illegal immigration, without a robust social and law system designed to represent the immigrants universally and fairly, and a society that is prepared and accepting of the idea. The US does not have this and you can see how it works out:
1) Invite immigrants 2) Call anyone a racist that objects 3) Make no preparation for immigrants socially, legally, and/or economically 4) Intentionally make sure the immigrants are not protected from harm, suffering, fear, and even terror. 5) Hold up examples of the inevitable harm which happens to immigrants as proof of racism.
So yeah, I call anyone who encourages illegal immigration and high immigration without first preparing the society for it a racist and a traitor. These people intentionally create suffering of people from another country, use that suffering to attack their own country, and give less than zero actual fucks about the immigrants lives and families that are destroyed.
Look at it simply. Your country is your home. How do you treat visitors, much less someone you are inviting into your home to live, to become family? Some of you are upset that the new family are having a bad time. That's understandable. However, you're blaming everyone else except yourself.
I'm upset that you fucking idiots didn't clean up the house, make room for them, and prepare dinner before you invited them. Now they're tripping over your shit, stepping on your kids, and going hungry, and according to you it's still someone else's fault. In fact, it's so important to you that it's someone else's fault that you are going to make sure the conditions are complete shit for as long as possible so you can keep blaming someone else. Every time a child slips on a skateboard you left out and falls down the stairs you left it by, you cackle with glee inside because you get to blame someone else even more.
WRONG! Regulations are to keep only the people who are currently in business from having to share the pie with new, up and coming businesses. Kill the competition by raising the cost of entering the competition. If you're not already in the ring, you can't play. Period.
Look at the prison industry period. Who do you think those private entities got the idea from? Most importantly, if you are under the impression that there aren't people getting fabulously wealthy through the non-private prison industry you need to do some additional research.
All good my frostbitten friend! I learned it much younger in a series of science fiction books. Pretty sure it was Frederick Pohl's Gateway/Heechee series.
As penance for pointing it out I'll give you a good one on me:
Until very recently, say 2 years ago, I thought the indigenous fire ants that have plagued me since I was a child used their mandibles to inject venom. The term "ant bites" seemed to explain all I needed to know and I never thought twice about it. Then someone told me the little beasts have a stinger, the term "ant bites" was a misnomer, and the truth of how these millimeter scale tyrants turned my life to shit on so many occasions had been deliberately hidden from me.
I was at a complete loss. Pretty damn funny watching me fumbling through my phone looking for evidence while my friends just laughed and laughed at me and my incredulity.
No. I'm talking about basic human communication, empathy, compassion, and love.
If you cannot even provide a listening space and instead give derision and spitefulness you have only accomplished one thing: restricting and reducing your own capacity to experience and create love, compassion, and empathy. It's like drinking the pain away. Sure, it numbs your agony, but at the same time it takes away your ability to experience joy and be satisfied with life and yourself.
To the extent that you turn an opportunity to express compassion into an expression of contempt, to that same extent you limit your capacity to experience and give compassion. For instance I mentioned death rates and males. The minorities you mention have males in them. In fact, a disproportionately large number of men who die at work are minorities. In your reply you just intimated that housing discrimination is a more pressing issue than companies working minority employees to death. I truly have no reference point from which to compare the two things, but I would, without a single doubt in my head, come out in the corner of reducing workplace deaths of people who are traditionally marginalized. It encompasses a part of employment discrimination, which you pointed to already, and quite frankly I have never seen a dead person purchase a house.
I can tell you this though, anyone who dismisses the issue of men's death rate at work is not firing on all cylinders where it matters. Not the head, the heart.
Forgive my digression, I just wanted to point toward something that seems a little questionable in your logic. Questionable logic in otherwise rational individuals always points toward an emotional and personal issue.
I only mention this because if you want to truly be able to give yourself to the causes that matter the most to you, those things inside you that you feel so strongly about that you want them to be manifest in this world through you, you could do yourself far worse than getting connected to compassion and love. To the degree that you deny it to any other human, you deny it to others and even to yourself.
The derision you are using to cover up what you really feel points toward pain, anger, doubt, and loss. To someone like me it looks like there is something you are holding onto. Something that hurt you deeply and ever since then you have never forgiven yourself.
Once you realize that freedom, life, compassion, empathy, and love are not zero sum games you can start to have them all of the time, and foment them in every relationship. So rather than jealously guarding and hoarding them they become the water you swim in.
Best of luck with your pain. I was able to leave mine behind. I sincerely hope the same for you.
Wait a minute...Don't these guys have teleportation? And you want me to believe that there's an automated fire suppression system that brings up force fields and they can't engineer the system to beam out the sentient beasties from the fire area?
Ohhhh....wait a sec, I bet that was just Worf fucking with him! The Klingon sense of humor would have someone burning to death inside a force field for no reason.
Everyone experiences discrimination. Even you discriminate against men, by not listening to their claims and spreading hurtful gossip about the disposition of every person who is a men's rights activist. If you haven't met them all then your estimation of their character is something you invented in your mind and then tried to get other people to believe and support by falsely stating it as a fact.. That's just like saying a minority is lazy, shiftless, criminal, and bad for property values. Think on that.
Here's an example of what MRA's talk about: The difference in workplace deaths between men and women is drastic. Men experience over 90% of workplace deaths.
If you think that dying at a 12 to 1 ratio is something men should just keep quiet about you are a very sick person. If women or minorities were dying at work at a 12 to 1 ratio would you call them the "whiniest bunch of losers"? What kind of "whataboutism" drives your internal operation such that you can have a heart for people in need of being heard and supported, but at the same time can say "You've got a penis, you're good. I don't want to hear you."
I am hoping that you are just ignorant of the facts. I don't know what kind of person disparages people who are dying in disproportionately large numbers while in the act of supporting their families, providing valuable services to the community, and driving the economy. I wouldn't know what to call someone who knew the facts and was ok with this. I can't imagine someone knowing this and then insulting people who said "We're tired of dying, can we talk about this?"
If you do indeed care about other humans, and you care about discrimination, I ask you to take a close look at what you have said and compare it to what you say you stand for. If you really do have an ear for others pain and you care for others your words do not back that up.
Drop it on a subduction zone and watch it get pulled into the crust over the course of a few thousand years. It's a geologic time scale shredder, with all natural, organic, pesticide free, gluten free recycling!
"...no way you can be conservative with extrovert and openness score in the 95 percentile range)"
That you would provide such a gut wrenching and honest reveal of your complete lack of understanding is admirable. Most people cover up their flaws, inconsistencies, and ignorance with savage defensiveness. I applaud you for unashamedly showing everyone your personal prejudice and self-reinforcing ignorance without trying to defend it.
If only more people would do this, just admit they are an unreliable narrator, full of flaws, inconsistencies, cognitive dissonance, emotionally motivated intentional misapprehensions, and straight out wrongheadedness the world would be a much better place.
Wait, what? You think the size of the markers and collisions are the issues I am referring to? Why oh why do I even try?
Also, I'm the farthest thing from a Marxist. I'm a realist. I'm concerned with facts and what works, not with ideologies. Marxism doesn't work because some of it's basic assumptions contradict human nature and behavior.
Also, the sky is not falling. Externalizing of costs and over use of resources is creating a debt that we can't pay back. The Earth, it's climate, and it's energy systems, like all complex systems, are prone to cascades. You move the dials on the local parameters in one area and suddenly the foundation you assumed was bedrock is revealed to be not only unstable, but liquid, flowing into new forms at a lower energy level. It disintegrates and takes whatever was built on it with it. The cascade doesn't have to be climate related. It may show up in economics, or in political systems, or in a vital resource. It could be a crossing a threshold with a certain pollutant, or a combination of chemical factors. Possibly population, or even stability of borders could be the driving factor, but rest assured, one cascade will set off others, and when the dust settles the systems that have worked for so long will be irrevocably changed.
Tipping points aren't just for climate models. They work for all sorts of other complex systems. They're the opposite of emergence, and they're unpredictable in occurrence and outcome.
Really all I'm saying is: "Don't poke the sleeping bears!" But you know how well that admonishment works.
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Mueller didn't "find" crimes about Manafort. Those were already investigated, hanging in the air for quite a while. He just withdrew that deposit.
I'm not a Trump supporter. That doesn't mean I suspend all reason and sense like I see many of my fellow Americans doing. When someone is tasked to look for Russian interference in our election but only looks at the Republican side that points to limitations in the scope of the investigation. When that person then prosecutes people for things that are not at all related to Russian interference in our election that points toward no limitations in the scope of the investigation.
Mueller and his cohorts are obviously dredging up charges against anyone they can find who is connected to Trump in an effort to extort these people into testifying against Trump. He is wagering their freedom against their cooperation. This is a situation ripe for all sorts of abuse by someone who is willing to abuse. If you know Mueller's history of prosecution you know that he is more than willing to overstep boundaries.
It is very interesting that when Hillary Clinton was being investigated for security related issues her lawyer was never raided, even though he had a copy of "missing" information that was under subpoena.
Questioning was not done under oath in some cases, and in the most important one. Possible accessories were granted immunity instead of charged with crimes. They were also allowed to destroy evidence, and plead the fifth even though they were provided with immunity. Other irregularities were there as well. If you glossed over them when they happened I won't be able to convince you now. You're too far gone.
Taken as a whole, it points to a vast difference in the methods used to investigate. If you have a problem with blind justice then this situation will suit you just fine. If you are a thinker and a student of theater you might get a different impression. I leave this as an exercise for the reader. Do try to keep up.
Here's one last thing to consider, though I doubt many of you will get the point even when I mention it. If any other candidate for the Republicans won the presidency there would be an enormous vacuum in the news cycle. There would be only one thing to fill it, and its exactly what we aren't seeing right now. Hillary is very lucky her opponent has such an objectionable public persona. If you want to call it luck...
So, "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer" is just a throw away statement now.
Nothing bad ever happened because of prohibition and/or enforced secrecy, right? Yeah, nothing. Ever.
Why are you saying the press is an enemy of the people?
It is impossible for a person under the influence of societal, cultural, and self-created inaccurate belief systems to sense what's real. They block the input that disagrees with their expectation of reality, so they wind up only seeing what they expect to see. Some people mistake this myopic filtered viewpoint for reality.
We, as a species, exist in a world in which exist a myriad of
data points.1 Upon these matrices of points we
superimpose a structure2 and the world makes sense to us.
The pattern of the structure originates within our biological
and sociological properties.3
— Persinger and Lafreniere, Space-Time Transients and
Unusual Events
1 In our terminology, these data points are events or actions,
i.e. verbs, not nouns.
2 In our terminology, models or maps, static things; nouns not
verbs.
3 In our terminology, brain hardware and software.
Coincidence is a motherfucker.
Case in point: I was meditating one day, slipped into sleep, and dreamed I was in the car with my at-the-time-girlfriend, her two exchange students and our friend, Melea. Melea and I were in the front passenger seat together, girlfriend was driving, and the exchange ladies were in the back seat. A car swerved toward us from the left, we dodged to the right, hit a concrete abutment, ricochet sideways to the left, spinning back to front, went over some railroad tracks, and the car flipped into the air.
As we were airborne I said goodbye lovingly to the girlfriend and was no longer in the car. Then I was no place that I can recall, quiet, calm, and disconnected. Nothing to see, nothing to do. Then I thought I heard something. Faint, distant, indecipherable, but slowly resolving itself, getting louder. Then I got it, a phone ringing in the distance, quietly. I got up from the bed where I was laying in the guest room and went into my room. No phone ringing now, but I picked up anyways. On the line was my girlfriend. She was out of her head, crying, freaking out, losing her shit.
You know the story, and so did I. She was in an accident. She was driving, Melea was in the passenger seat, the two exchange students were in the back seat. A car swerved toward her and she dodged it, hitting a concrete abutment and spinning the car. Fortunately in this version there were some differences: no railroad tracks, the car didn't flip. Thank God. Everyone was ok.
Then she said "It was weird. I felt like you were right there beside me. Did you feel it to? Were you about to call me? Is that why you answered the phone before it even rang?"
Coincidence is a motherfucker...
"The Glass Ceiling is in you. The Glass Ceiling is conscience"
— Jakob Holtzbrinck, The Keys to the Planet.
" while we have a severe shortage of highly skilled laborers (doctors, airline pilots, engineers)"
This makes sense. If you're creating a business and you need to invest tons of cash into the company to make it work...and it doesn't...you can use bankruptcy to clear the debt and try again.
If you are trying to become a doctor and need to invest tons of cash into your schooling to make it work...and it doesn't...you are on the hook for that money no matter what. If you used financial aid, chances are the Government owns that debt and you're well and truly fucked.
There is no argument. No one disagrees on the fundamental principle of the matter, and no one will do anything about it.
This entire conversation is just so much nebulous jerking off into the aether. Our forefathers knew what to do about this kind of thing. We, in comparison, are content to watch our own ship go down, as long as we can stream it on our smartphones.
Cowards and slaves, the lot of us.
Hey, he did blame some inanimate object instead of taking responsibility for the error himself.
That's a perfect place to interject tons of invective.
I'm in.
I suggest we start with a simulated out of body, psychedelic, stoned experience.
Let's avoid the drunken simulation. Alcohol will fucking kill you.
When the tags "/joke" and "/sarcasm" are interchangeable with "/America," one might begin to wonder what the hell is going on.
I am continually offended by the lack of regard for the misuse of government power at the hands of wealth concentrating entities. The only thing more disheartening is how many of my fellow Americans are willing to participate in it with their eyes open and how many of them are complacent to it even when it works against their interests and the interests of their progeny.
Demonstrating self evident truths is masturbation. I don't do that on the internet.
Calling others racist without any justification is the worst kind of idiocy. Makes sense though, since you're a pedophile nothing is beneath you. (See how that works? Now, I doubt you're a pedophile but I am certain beyond all things that you're certainly a piece of shit.)
During periods of high immigration there are problems that arise. These problems are the same in every country I have seen:
1) Immigrants get paid less
2) Immigrants are ostracized
3) Immigrants are incarcerated at higher rates
4) Immigrants do work that gets them killed and hurt at much higher rates
5) Immigrants are disenfranchised
6) Immigrants have less access to medical care
Just like everyone I see calling other people racist for wanting controlled immigration, you fail to take into consideration the life and happiness of immigrants themselves. You want immigration*. You don't care how it feels to the immigrants. To prove the statement "...high immigration is only a problem if you're racist" all of those immigrants must be racist, because the problems of high immigration are borne by the immigrants.
*I actually think most people who support high immigration, illegal immigration, and call others racist when they oppose it are just in the game to call other people racists and make themselves look good. I know this because they do nothing to change the laws about immigration in this country and they do very little to actually help immigrants. (Posting on the internet is not helping immigrants. Calling people racist is not helping immigrants.)
Only a self-absorbed rancid piece of shit would encourage high immigration, much less illegal immigration, without a robust social and law system designed to represent the immigrants universally and fairly, and a society that is prepared and accepting of the idea. The US does not have this and you can see how it works out:
1) Invite immigrants
2) Call anyone a racist that objects
3) Make no preparation for immigrants socially, legally, and/or economically
4) Intentionally make sure the immigrants are not protected from harm, suffering, fear, and even terror.
5) Hold up examples of the inevitable harm which happens to immigrants as proof of racism.
So yeah, I call anyone who encourages illegal immigration and high immigration without first preparing the society for it a racist and a traitor. These people intentionally create suffering of people from another country, use that suffering to attack their own country, and give less than zero actual fucks about the immigrants lives and families that are destroyed.
Look at it simply. Your country is your home. How do you treat visitors, much less someone you are inviting into your home to live, to become family? Some of you are upset that the new family are having a bad time. That's understandable. However, you're blaming everyone else except yourself.
I'm upset that you fucking idiots didn't clean up the house, make room for them, and prepare dinner before you invited them. Now they're tripping over your shit, stepping on your kids, and going hungry, and according to you it's still someone else's fault. In fact, it's so important to you that it's someone else's fault that you are going to make sure the conditions are complete shit for as long as possible so you can keep blaming someone else. Every time a child slips on a skateboard you left out and falls down the stairs you left it by, you cackle with glee inside because you get to blame someone else even more.
WRONG! Regulations are to keep only the people who are currently in business from having to share the pie with new, up and coming businesses. Kill the competition by raising the cost of entering the competition. If you're not already in the ring, you can't play. Period.
Look at the prison industry period. Who do you think those private entities got the idea from? Most importantly, if you are under the impression that there aren't people getting fabulously wealthy through the non-private prison industry you need to do some additional research.
"...high immigration is only a problem if you're racist...."
This is a moronic and demonstrably false statement. Anything else you say is beyond suspect.
All good my frostbitten friend! I learned it much younger in a series of science fiction books. Pretty sure it was Frederick Pohl's Gateway/Heechee series.
As penance for pointing it out I'll give you a good one on me:
Until very recently, say 2 years ago, I thought the indigenous fire ants that have plagued me since I was a child used their mandibles to inject venom. The term "ant bites" seemed to explain all I needed to know and I never thought twice about it. Then someone told me the little beasts have a stinger, the term "ant bites" was a misnomer, and the truth of how these millimeter scale tyrants turned my life to shit on so many occasions had been deliberately hidden from me.
I was at a complete loss. Pretty damn funny watching me fumbling through my phone looking for evidence while my friends just laughed and laughed at me and my incredulity.
Cheers!
No. I'm talking about basic human communication, empathy, compassion, and love.
If you cannot even provide a listening space and instead give derision and spitefulness you have only accomplished one thing: restricting and reducing your own capacity to experience and create love, compassion, and empathy. It's like drinking the pain away. Sure, it numbs your agony, but at the same time it takes away your ability to experience joy and be satisfied with life and yourself.
To the extent that you turn an opportunity to express compassion into an expression of contempt, to that same extent you limit your capacity to experience and give compassion. For instance I mentioned death rates and males. The minorities you mention have males in them. In fact, a disproportionately large number of men who die at work are minorities. In your reply you just intimated that housing discrimination is a more pressing issue than companies working minority employees to death. I truly have no reference point from which to compare the two things, but I would, without a single doubt in my head, come out in the corner of reducing workplace deaths of people who are traditionally marginalized. It encompasses a part of employment discrimination, which you pointed to already, and quite frankly I have never seen a dead person purchase a house.
I can tell you this though, anyone who dismisses the issue of men's death rate at work is not firing on all cylinders where it matters. Not the head, the heart.
Forgive my digression, I just wanted to point toward something that seems a little questionable in your logic. Questionable logic in otherwise rational individuals always points toward an emotional and personal issue.
I only mention this because if you want to truly be able to give yourself to the causes that matter the most to you, those things inside you that you feel so strongly about that you want them to be manifest in this world through you, you could do yourself far worse than getting connected to compassion and love. To the degree that you deny it to any other human, you deny it to others and even to yourself.
The derision you are using to cover up what you really feel points toward pain, anger, doubt, and loss. To someone like me it looks like there is something you are holding onto. Something that hurt you deeply and ever since then you have never forgiven yourself.
Once you realize that freedom, life, compassion, empathy, and love are not zero sum games you can start to have them all of the time, and foment them in every relationship. So rather than jealously guarding and hoarding them they become the water you swim in.
Best of luck with your pain. I was able to leave mine behind. I sincerely hope the same for you.
Yo, homie...
-40 is the exact same in f and c.
Yes, i'm serious.
Wait a minute...Don't these guys have teleportation? And you want me to believe that there's an automated fire suppression system that brings up force fields and they can't engineer the system to beam out the sentient beasties from the fire area?
Ohhhh....wait a sec, I bet that was just Worf fucking with him! The Klingon sense of humor would have someone burning to death inside a force field for no reason.
Wow, I'm more Klingon than I thought. LOL!
Everyone experiences discrimination. Even you discriminate against men, by not listening to their claims and spreading hurtful gossip about the disposition of every person who is a men's rights activist. If you haven't met them all then your estimation of their character is something you invented in your mind and then tried to get other people to believe and support by falsely stating it as a fact.. That's just like saying a minority is lazy, shiftless, criminal, and bad for property values. Think on that.
Here's an example of what MRA's talk about: The difference in workplace deaths between men and women is drastic. Men experience over 90% of workplace deaths.
If you think that dying at a 12 to 1 ratio is something men should just keep quiet about you are a very sick person. If women or minorities were dying at work at a 12 to 1 ratio would you call them the "whiniest bunch of losers"? What kind of "whataboutism" drives your internal operation such that you can have a heart for people in need of being heard and supported, but at the same time can say "You've got a penis, you're good. I don't want to hear you."
I am hoping that you are just ignorant of the facts. I don't know what kind of person disparages people who are dying in disproportionately large numbers while in the act of supporting their families, providing valuable services to the community, and driving the economy. I wouldn't know what to call someone who knew the facts and was ok with this. I can't imagine someone knowing this and then insulting people who said "We're tired of dying, can we talk about this?"
If you do indeed care about other humans, and you care about discrimination, I ask you to take a close look at what you have said and compare it to what you say you stand for. If you really do have an ear for others pain and you care for others your words do not back that up.
Drop it on a subduction zone and watch it get pulled into the crust over the course of a few thousand years. It's a geologic time scale shredder, with all natural, organic, pesticide free, gluten free recycling!
I don't think Nintendo is an American company. Nice try though.
Apparently you haven't seen Joe Rogan's bit on Texans.
Have some levity: https://youtu.be/FeYbuFQ9rqQ
Enjoy.
"...no way you can be conservative with extrovert and openness score in the 95 percentile range)"
That you would provide such a gut wrenching and honest reveal of your complete lack of understanding is admirable. Most people cover up their flaws, inconsistencies, and ignorance with savage defensiveness. I applaud you for unashamedly showing everyone your personal prejudice and self-reinforcing ignorance without trying to defend it.
If only more people would do this, just admit they are an unreliable narrator, full of flaws, inconsistencies, cognitive dissonance, emotionally motivated intentional misapprehensions, and straight out wrongheadedness the world would be a much better place.
Wait, what? You think the size of the markers and collisions are the issues I am referring to? Why oh why do I even try?
Also, I'm the farthest thing from a Marxist. I'm a realist. I'm concerned with facts and what works, not with ideologies. Marxism doesn't work because some of it's basic assumptions contradict human nature and behavior.
Also, the sky is not falling. Externalizing of costs and over use of resources is creating a debt that we can't pay back. The Earth, it's climate, and it's energy systems, like all complex systems, are prone to cascades. You move the dials on the local parameters in one area and suddenly the foundation you assumed was bedrock is revealed to be not only unstable, but liquid, flowing into new forms at a lower energy level. It disintegrates and takes whatever was built on it with it. The cascade doesn't have to be climate related. It may show up in economics, or in political systems, or in a vital resource. It could be a crossing a threshold with a certain pollutant, or a combination of chemical factors. Possibly population, or even stability of borders could be the driving factor, but rest assured, one cascade will set off others, and when the dust settles the systems that have worked for so long will be irrevocably changed.
Tipping points aren't just for climate models. They work for all sorts of other complex systems. They're the opposite of emergence, and they're unpredictable in occurrence and outcome.
Really all I'm saying is: "Don't poke the sleeping bears!" But you know how well that admonishment works.