America has a simple leader in the White House. He tries to keep his promises, he is incapable of serious duplicity as his tendency toward braggadocio precludes sophisticated subterfuge, and is earnest in his efforts to "Make america great again" in a way that is quite unlike what his words are colored to mean.
Instead of the constant barrage of negative press, accusations that have very little basis in fact, and direct insults, all one would need to do is run a couple of news stories about how copyright law changes are stifling American innovation and dis-empowering the electorate. You would have Trump trumping up and down about how this needs to change right away so Americans can take their rightful place amongst the stars and planets in the firmament.
What? You mean to tell me Disney owns one of our major news outlets? We are well and truly fucked, then. Never mind.
This current regime is incapable of doing anything beyond addressing specific low hanging fruit. The American people's greatest chance of defeating measures like this is the current administration. The overhead of constant litigation has accomplished what our entrenched power structures want, which is limiting the damage that an outsider can do to the carefully orchestrated fleecing system these rent-seeking bloodsucking parasites have installed on the body politic.
Distaste is a tool used to control ignorant people by motivating them to act against their own self interest. If you find yourself feeling distaste toward a public figure it only means you are a victim of your own inability to think clearly. The best revenge against someone you dislike is to control them and make them work for you, not against you. Mindless raging opposition is childlike and stupid. It forces your opponent into an arms race with their overt efforts and turns some of their energy to covert efforts. An easier way to put this is "When you act like a loser you lose."
The extension of copyright law is merely the codification of our current government and economic system's goals, namely maintaining the current order through stagnation and direct control of "progress."
The public domain is intentionally impoverished, the creative space is blocked at every turn, regulations designed to make things work are turned into a defense system of how things *currently* work. Change, advancement, and competition are the enemies of the status quo and must be destroyed.
Oppression shows up in many forms. This is just another form of it that the 99% will complain about while the 1% takes the ball and heads back to their mansion. It's not their ball to take, but you spineless weaklings are so busy fighting each other over the rules of the game and who did what to whom last game that you don't even realize the ball is gone, the game is over, and none of it even maters.
In short, I advocate for a level of meta-cognition which places this attack on the electorate in the proper context. It is a barrier to entry erected by those who already have what is ours. It is paying someone else rent for something you own outright. It is taxation by a corporate entity without representation. It is just another power structure playing the "how far can we push their heads into this giant pile of rancid shit?" game and still being surprised at how pliant and cooperative you fools are.
I used to imagine how awesome it would be when my fellow Americans realized how they are being intentionally controlled with employment uncertainty, artificial economic restriction, de facto taxation, and frozen into ossified classes by our government puppets and the corporations and money changers who own them. Reality has set in and I am terrified to learn I am surrounded by planarians. You feel pain and can only see your fellow planarians to vent your anger and aggression on, never even comprehending there are powers and forces above you which are responsible for your pain. The only people you will hurt when you rise up are the people just like you, the ones under the thumb of the oppressors just like you are. You'll sing the praises of your oppressors, savaging your brothers and sisters mercilessly in the name of your tormentors, and returning to the abuses of your masters begging for more pain and subjugation.
And I have to watch it all play out, predictable, excruciating, and unavoidable. Thanks y'all, you have turned the great experiment into a sitcom.
Reminds me of the odd cases where neural networks break down and reveal surprising problems with their ability to accurately discern what they are shown. You know, where the machine is shown a bunch of pixels and responds with 85% accuracy "This is a cat."
The only reason corporations don't do those things is because it's cheaper to outsource them.
You thought we invaded Iraq because why? Plenty of people got their doors kicked in by men with guns in that corporate boondoggle, guaranteed.
The only difference between fascism and our current system is the tenuous smokescreen between corporate and government establishments and the ignorance of the little people.
It's not a slope and it's not slippery. That implies a fallacy, like it's not going to happen. News flash: It's inevitable, like gravity. It IS happening, both here and abroad.
Pretending like it's not going to happen if you throw down your access card and walk out is juvenile and counterproductive, unless your aim is to have the Chinese, Russians, and their third world cat's-paws get this destabilizing technology first.
The question is, do you want a seat at the table? How about a hand on the rudder? Even better, root access and foreknowledge of how the systems are constructed from the ground up?
Further thought reveals, I am begging the question that they left due to not wanting to develop the tech at all. Maybe they are more worried about Google having the source code and schematics for such a system, and much more so than they are about the government having it. Ponder that for while and try not to piss yourself.
Not nitpicking, but if you look up policy the first synonym is strategy.
The "blatant falsehoods" of yours I referred to are not concerned with the contents of presidential communication. They are referring specifically to the context you added, namely that this kind of lying and deception is unique to this president. Now the goal of the policy or strategy may be different than previous administrations, if what you surmise about Trump waging an assault on the truth is actually correct, but I posit that the communication we get from the executive branch is, has been, and will be infused with falsehood.
Looking from a portion of your context, specifically that the aim is the destruction of truth, this could explain the sheer volume and relative ease with which his statements are shot down. Somehow, as distasteful as it is, I prefer this petty and superficial kind of shit talking to the practiced and deeply manipulative lies that previous presidents have delivered without the merest flicker of guilt or fear. Better to know the enemy as he is than to believe him a friend : better to know the president is full of shit than to believe he or she is telling the truth when they are not.
Furthermore, if his aim truly is the destruction of truth, I would say that even if he is successful he is merely destroying the illusion of truth in the minds of brainwashed partisan sycophants who still believe that their party has their best interests at heart. Those of us who observe our entrenched and incestuous leaders interminably haunting federal government offices, exercising power without recourse, living high on the hog that is the tolerance of the American electorate, all the while shamelessly lining their own pockets with pilfered grift and prearranged graft know the truth: they are the new American aristocracy in all but name.
As such their motives, aims, and desires inevitably run contrary to those of the American people. The people are to be controlled, corralled, manipulated, and used toward aims that, if they had the slightest inkling what they were, would be repulsive to them. Thus, the truth is seldom spoken, and never without the intent to mislead.
So, yeah, it's refreshing to have a president that is so obviously full of shit that the rest of you take note. I have been here for decades, with president after president, screaming my head off about it. Glad to see you are woke. Welcome to my world. Just promise me one thing. When the next anointed ascends to the short term throne you will be as interested in their falsehoods as you are in this one, no matter which "party" wins the toss backstage and puts their pupped up for 4 years. Bullshitting about how many people attend a meaningless inauguration is one thing. Lies that send American children to die overseas, lies that shackle our grandchildren with unsustainable debt, lies that create a subclass of easily manipulated non-citizens, lies that increase corporate profits and lower the standard of living for everyone except the already rich...these are the lies that really matter. You have been hearing them for years, but because the ones telling them weren't loquacious orange gorillas you didn't seem to notice.
Finally, if you wish to remain partisan please do yourself and the rest of us a favor and hold your "party's" leaders accountable to the very highest standards. Sweeping their transgressions under the rug and covering for them because you gave your soul to some elephant or a donkey idol is fucking everything up.
Consider that the extra-constitutional agreements and executive orders Obama put in place were merely tripwires for future administrations. Intentionally creating weak agreements, both in constitutional standing and with regard to serving the interests of the US, creates a situation where an incoming president is forced to spend precious time, energy, and political capital revising, renegotiating, and possibly eliminating these boondoggles.
Just like the collusion investigation, it is a method of attacking your opposition, tying them up in red tape, holding them up for scrutiny, and providing ample opportunity to take potshots at them, even if they have the best interests of our country in mind.
If you think this administration is the first one to practice intentional disinformation and lying to the American public as a policy you haven't been paying attention.
The examples you cite are minuscule compared to the betrayal of the American people that was conducted through multiple administrations and culminated with the Vietnam war. Read the Pentagon Papers if you haven't yet. Our "leaders" consciously plotted and planned to create a war that ended the lives of millions of people, intentionally manufactured events that made it look like we had no choice but to engage in military action when that was just part of the plan that had been in the works for decades, and then lied to the American people and the world the whole time about it. The lessons our government learned from the exposure run deep. Cover your tracks, construct justifications that obscure the true motives, refuse FOIA requests, redact, and deny, deny, deny.
Interesting that while the American government learned to be more and more devious in the wake of that earth shattering revelation, a good portion of the American people, yourself included, learned to trust government more and more and with absolutely no regard for their past performance.
To think that you are willing to give a pass to every administration before this one because of your personal feelings toward the current administration is proof of my personal theory that extreme partisanship corrupts the minds of those that practice it. Your viewpoint, while possibly valid concerning the current administration, is undermined by your obliviousness to past duplicity practiced as a policy by our government. You are obviously compromised and this prevents your ostensible goal of poisoning the minds of others from being effective.
Might I suggest a narrative building style, ala Rachel Maddow, where you build a connection to current events through scripted misrepresentation of historical facts? It would serve you better than the current methodology you are employing, namely misrepresenting historical facts to eliminate any correlation between the behavior of this administration and past ones. If you paint this as an evolution, more of the same but amplified so to speak, rather than a divergence, people will be much more likely to believe your blatant falsehoods.
It's like asking, "Can Paper Wasps live without making paper?"
The real question is, "Is a Paper Wasp that doesn't make paper still a Paper Wasp?"
Humans make their hives out of concrete. We have gotten much better at it over the millennia, but it is essentially what we are. We are Concrete Monkeys. If we stop using concrete we will be a different species.
Unfortunately, the economic system in each and every developed/"western" country is a Ponzi scheme predicated on growing populations. Until Musk can guarantee Martian resorts for the ultra rich, the top 1% will be making sure there is an influx of low wage earning, high reproduction rate groups imported to the countries they need to prop up.
As soon as there is an assured way for the rich to survive indefinitely on another planet, the lives of the leftover 99% will be worth less than the proverbial truckload of dead rats in a tampon factory.
You have no idea why they are not accepting white straight males. Sure they state one thing, but what are their real motivations? As contrast, I bet you know exactly why any straight white male hiring manager rejects an application from a transsexual from Cameroon. Don't you? Yeah, you're a world class psychic when that happens.
In both cases you really don't know a damn thing about the motivations involved. You have merely decided which one is always virtuous and which one is always evil.
Instead of choosing a universal principle as virtuous, like equality, you have chosen to enshrine a political agenda as virtuous. You have replaced virtue with politics.
This is why you react with verbal violence against someone advocating for true equality and egalitarianism. You have usurped true virtue with political thought. Your mind is tainted, and when you are forced to confront your own despicable falseness, you lash out at the principles and people that remind you of what you really are. A sellout and a hypocrite.
I'm advocating for white people by making sure they have separate accommodations everywhere. A special place on the bus, a special water fountain right over there...
Don't you get it? When you start to classify people by their innate characteristics and use those criteria to provide or deny access, you strut proudly into the ring of discrimination. That you feel justified in doing it, and defend it against any criticism, makes you a bigot.
I don't think that anyone has taken into consideration the most basic reason not to hire someone named Mohammed. There's already 10 guys here with the same first name, and any more will break the payroll system. They learned this from "The great "Chris" hiring freeze of 1992."
Seriously though, I have met a ton of people (literally, the number is close to 2000) with the name Mohammed that have jobs. I do business with them. Most of them are physicians, petroleum engineers, IT gurus, business owners, and mathematicians. Most of them make well over 100k/year. Are you saying we need to help these people get better jobs than they already have because their name is Mohammed? Discrimination against their name means they are in the top 5%, rather than the top 4%?
Or are you saying the name Mohammed gets you better jobs that pay more? That seems much more likely from what I have seen.
Exactly different in every respect, unless you are trying to say that the reason why women, non binary genders, and minorities are underrepresented in tech is because of their genetic, biological, and physical differences.
Your analogy choice perfectly illustrated the opposite of what you are trying to say.
It's scary as fuck when you realize alt-right, white separatist rhetoric sounds more reasonable than the "diversity" efforts of today's most "progressive" programs.
"by K. S. Kyosuke ( 729550 ) Alter Relationship on Saturday April 28, 2018 @04:20AM (#56518309) As multiple women told me, "women don't know what they want and they won't stop pestering you until they get it". Maybe that was it?"
What's my Nickname? Who wrote the post with the joke in it?
The only joke here is you, and everyone in my office is laughing their ass off at how incredibly vapid you are! Thank you for being so obtuse. It's beautiful! I thought you were trolling, but no. You can't fake your kind of stupid.
LOL! Thank you, i'm dying!
PS: read to the end of my previous post, you missed the best part. Also, as much as we enjoy laughing at you, please seek medical attention, your brain is not working right.
According to the current handbook of proper procedure, it is racist to stop Chinese spies from stealing technology, information, and military secrets from the US. You can't have some white guys telling anyone of color what to do, especially if they are from a country that is an enemy of the US. That would prove the racism which means that avenue of legitimate self protection is now completely off limits and anyone who supports it, or even dog whistles something that sounds remotely like it while hiding in their bathroom cupboard, is a fascist, racist, xenophobe.
Just like it is racist to have a border system that takes note of all people and goods crossing into and out of the country. We should have a new amendment: The right and ability of non-whites from other countries to enter the US without observation or restriction and to live within its borders indefinitely without supervision shall not be infringed, otherwise you will be called a racist. Illegal goods, including but not limited to: illicit drugs, child sex slaves, explosives (conventional or not), and weapons sold at a discount to drug cartels, should also pass without interruption, attempts at detection, or interdiction.
Just like it is also racist to temporarily stop immigration from countries without functioning central governments and where the identities of the immigrants cannot be verified. Vetting of any kind for someone without reliable, or even any, credentials, is just more racist bullshit.
Just like it is racist to deport children and their parents from other countries who com here specifically to gain citizenship by birthing babies within our borders.
Let's face it, according to the current handbook, the continued existence of the US as a sovereign state is an international declaration of racism. The state must be forced to act against the well being, safety, best interests, and self determination not only of the people, but of the state itself. Otherwise it will suffer the most atrocious, debased, and despicable punishment any nation has ever endured: being called racist by hypocrites.
This is how I definitively know, without any doubt, that you are the idiot in this interaction:
I didn't post a joke. I wasn't down modded. You still haven't figured this out. You are going to have to go back and look at the post history to figure out how much of an idiot you are. I will do my best to help you realize this in my post, but I fear there is little hope for you. You are so bankrupt of real intelligence, adaptability to facts, and the flow of interactions between humans that the best outcome for you and the rest of the world involves a headstone with your name and today's date on it. Would that fate were so capricious that she, for once, could bless us all so infinitely in that way.
My motivations for commenting on the down mod were not related in any way to me being mad because IT WASN'T ME THAT WAS DOWN MODDED, YOU COMPLETE AND TOTAL IDIOT! You were so eager to jump on someone, so self righteous and self justified in your attack, that you couldn't even stop to read the nick of the person that you were replying to. You could say that no one is that stupid, and you would be right, for once, in your whole life. It takes a special kind of stupid, combined with a powerful and rancorous degenerate character, to plow mindlessly ahead, being at once completely unfounded in your accusations, wrong on every possible metric, completely self absorbed, and unnecessarily rude. You are, truly, in a class by yourself.
Further proof that you have overflowed a stack internally and your imagined internal world is executing code where reality is supposed to be: My user ID should give you an indication of how long I have been on this site. It obviously hasn't. I'm not new. Are you sure you are ok?
After considering all of the incomprehensible fuckups in your communication with me, I think you may have had a stroke. I am having a hard time conceiving of a circumstance where I could make such series of colossal mistakes, blunders, and oversights which reveal such deep internal flaws, shortcomings, absences, and voids in my character, intelligence, emotional stability, perception, and processing ability, without referring to brain pathology.
What I am trying to say, and I am sorry, I should use words you can understand, is this: There is a very real possibility that there is something seriously wrong with your brain. Get yourself checked. Please contact a responsible adult and ask them nicely to take you to the doctor. If the MRI of your cranium doesn't reveal a seeping artery, a blood clot, a tumor, an abscess, or cyst on your prefrontal cortex, or widespread atrophy and degeneration I will be surprised.
Fortunately, if it turns out that you are just such a worthless piece of shit that your behavior pattern matches exactly with someone who has a serious head injury or dementia, you won't even care. If you aren't pathologically broken in some way on a physical level, the only other answer to your behavior is as result of solipsistic narcissism, possibly complicated by borderline personality disorder. Plainly, you do not have the capacity to give a fuck about anyone other than yourself, and even that is questionable. You proved it here undoubtedly. All you wanted to do was lash out at someone, to demean them, for some unknown internal payoff. The motivation, desire, and impetus to do this is so deeply rooted within your own psyche, such a product of your internal world, and so divorced and unrelated to the other person and the outside world, that it was entirely unnecessary that you got the right person. In your rush to get the rush that you get from attacking people when you feel justified in doing so, you couldn't even be bothered to get their name.
Think about that. You didn't even get the name of the person you intended to insult and demean, and as a result, you attacked someone else for no reason at all. That right there is proof of what kind of person you are. Now, go sit with that for a while and decide if your c
Not mad. You brought that from your own internal frame of reference. Also, down modding someone incorrectly is way different than people not laughing.
Equivocation and false attribution aside, I can't seem to find anything to what you wrote except an exhortation about sleeping well at night. I do, and will continue to do so. Thank you for your concern. I wish you health, happiness, and good rest as well, sir.
Whoever modded that as flamebait is a shitstick. It's a joke, not an attempt to start a flame war. Some of you are so thin skinned you might as well wear you organs on the outside. Faux rage at everything. You miss the forest because foliage might be a racist insult to green people who haven't been discovered yet. It's disingenuous.
It is incredibly funny, specifically for the fact that this trait is common to children, women, men, humans of all genders, and those of anti-gender, dogs, cats, pretty much every mammal. And for the fact that to some of us, women are particularly effective at getting what they want. That makes it easier to observe in the case of male-female relationships, but its a truism for all nonetheless.
A less funny quote this reminded me of: "This world is designed to provide you with everything you want. The only problem, you have to know what it is." Points to the same issue. People are generally uninformed about themselves, what is most important, what defines them and their lives.
Silly AC from somewhere else. America has no left or right. There are only the the lying subversive Corporatists, the Corporatists, and the blatantly in your face Corporatists.
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America has a simple leader in the White House. He tries to keep his promises, he is incapable of serious duplicity as his tendency toward braggadocio precludes sophisticated subterfuge, and is earnest in his efforts to "Make america great again" in a way that is quite unlike what his words are colored to mean.
Instead of the constant barrage of negative press, accusations that have very little basis in fact, and direct insults, all one would need to do is run a couple of news stories about how copyright law changes are stifling American innovation and dis-empowering the electorate. You would have Trump trumping up and down about how this needs to change right away so Americans can take their rightful place amongst the stars and planets in the firmament.
What? You mean to tell me Disney owns one of our major news outlets? We are well and truly fucked, then. Never mind.
This current regime is incapable of doing anything beyond addressing specific low hanging fruit. The American people's greatest chance of defeating measures like this is the current administration. The overhead of constant litigation has accomplished what our entrenched power structures want, which is limiting the damage that an outsider can do to the carefully orchestrated fleecing system these rent-seeking bloodsucking parasites have installed on the body politic.
Distaste is a tool used to control ignorant people by motivating them to act against their own self interest. If you find yourself feeling distaste toward a public figure it only means you are a victim of your own inability to think clearly. The best revenge against someone you dislike is to control them and make them work for you, not against you. Mindless raging opposition is childlike and stupid. It forces your opponent into an arms race with their overt efforts and turns some of their energy to covert efforts. An easier way to put this is "When you act like a loser you lose."
The extension of copyright law is merely the codification of our current government and economic system's goals, namely maintaining the current order through stagnation and direct control of "progress."
The public domain is intentionally impoverished, the creative space is blocked at every turn, regulations designed to make things work are turned into a defense system of how things *currently* work. Change, advancement, and competition are the enemies of the status quo and must be destroyed.
Oppression shows up in many forms. This is just another form of it that the 99% will complain about while the 1% takes the ball and heads back to their mansion. It's not their ball to take, but you spineless weaklings are so busy fighting each other over the rules of the game and who did what to whom last game that you don't even realize the ball is gone, the game is over, and none of it even maters.
In short, I advocate for a level of meta-cognition which places this attack on the electorate in the proper context. It is a barrier to entry erected by those who already have what is ours. It is paying someone else rent for something you own outright. It is taxation by a corporate entity without representation. It is just another power structure playing the "how far can we push their heads into this giant pile of rancid shit?" game and still being surprised at how pliant and cooperative you fools are.
I used to imagine how awesome it would be when my fellow Americans realized how they are being intentionally controlled with employment uncertainty, artificial economic restriction, de facto taxation, and frozen into ossified classes by our government puppets and the corporations and money changers who own them. Reality has set in and I am terrified to learn I am surrounded by planarians. You feel pain and can only see your fellow planarians to vent your anger and aggression on, never even comprehending there are powers and forces above you which are responsible for your pain. The only people you will hurt when you rise up are the people just like you, the ones under the thumb of the oppressors just like you are. You'll sing the praises of your oppressors, savaging your brothers and sisters mercilessly in the name of your tormentors, and returning to the abuses of your masters begging for more pain and subjugation.
And I have to watch it all play out, predictable, excruciating, and unavoidable. Thanks y'all, you have turned the great experiment into a sitcom.
Reminds me of the odd cases where neural networks break down and reveal surprising problems with their ability to accurately discern what they are shown. You know, where the machine is shown a bunch of pixels and responds with 85% accuracy "This is a cat."
https://www.wired.com/2015/01/...
The only reason corporations don't do those things is because it's cheaper to outsource them.
You thought we invaded Iraq because why? Plenty of people got their doors kicked in by men with guns in that corporate boondoggle, guaranteed.
The only difference between fascism and our current system is the tenuous smokescreen between corporate and government establishments and the ignorance of the little people.
It's not a slope and it's not slippery. That implies a fallacy, like it's not going to happen. News flash: It's inevitable, like gravity. It IS happening, both here and abroad.
Pretending like it's not going to happen if you throw down your access card and walk out is juvenile and counterproductive, unless your aim is to have the Chinese, Russians, and their third world cat's-paws get this destabilizing technology first.
The question is, do you want a seat at the table? How about a hand on the rudder? Even better, root access and foreknowledge of how the systems are constructed from the ground up?
Further thought reveals, I am begging the question that they left due to not wanting to develop the tech at all. Maybe they are more worried about Google having the source code and schematics for such a system, and much more so than they are about the government having it. Ponder that for while and try not to piss yourself.
Not nitpicking, but if you look up policy the first synonym is strategy.
The "blatant falsehoods" of yours I referred to are not concerned with the contents of presidential communication. They are referring specifically to the context you added, namely that this kind of lying and deception is unique to this president. Now the goal of the policy or strategy may be different than previous administrations, if what you surmise about Trump waging an assault on the truth is actually correct, but I posit that the communication we get from the executive branch is, has been, and will be infused with falsehood.
Looking from a portion of your context, specifically that the aim is the destruction of truth, this could explain the sheer volume and relative ease with which his statements are shot down. Somehow, as distasteful as it is, I prefer this petty and superficial kind of shit talking to the practiced and deeply manipulative lies that previous presidents have delivered without the merest flicker of guilt or fear. Better to know the enemy as he is than to believe him a friend : better to know the president is full of shit than to believe he or she is telling the truth when they are not.
Furthermore, if his aim truly is the destruction of truth, I would say that even if he is successful he is merely destroying the illusion of truth in the minds of brainwashed partisan sycophants who still believe that their party has their best interests at heart. Those of us who observe our entrenched and incestuous leaders interminably haunting federal government offices, exercising power without recourse, living high on the hog that is the tolerance of the American electorate, all the while shamelessly lining their own pockets with pilfered grift and prearranged graft know the truth: they are the new American aristocracy in all but name.
As such their motives, aims, and desires inevitably run contrary to those of the American people. The people are to be controlled, corralled, manipulated, and used toward aims that, if they had the slightest inkling what they were, would be repulsive to them. Thus, the truth is seldom spoken, and never without the intent to mislead.
So, yeah, it's refreshing to have a president that is so obviously full of shit that the rest of you take note. I have been here for decades, with president after president, screaming my head off about it. Glad to see you are woke. Welcome to my world. Just promise me one thing. When the next anointed ascends to the short term throne you will be as interested in their falsehoods as you are in this one, no matter which "party" wins the toss backstage and puts their pupped up for 4 years. Bullshitting about how many people attend a meaningless inauguration is one thing. Lies that send American children to die overseas, lies that shackle our grandchildren with unsustainable debt, lies that create a subclass of easily manipulated non-citizens, lies that increase corporate profits and lower the standard of living for everyone except the already rich...these are the lies that really matter. You have been hearing them for years, but because the ones telling them weren't loquacious orange gorillas you didn't seem to notice.
Finally, if you wish to remain partisan please do yourself and the rest of us a favor and hold your "party's" leaders accountable to the very highest standards. Sweeping their transgressions under the rug and covering for them because you gave your soul to some elephant or a donkey idol is fucking everything up.
Consider that the extra-constitutional agreements and executive orders Obama put in place were merely tripwires for future administrations. Intentionally creating weak agreements, both in constitutional standing and with regard to serving the interests of the US, creates a situation where an incoming president is forced to spend precious time, energy, and political capital revising, renegotiating, and possibly eliminating these boondoggles.
Just like the collusion investigation, it is a method of attacking your opposition, tying them up in red tape, holding them up for scrutiny, and providing ample opportunity to take potshots at them, even if they have the best interests of our country in mind.
If you think this administration is the first one to practice intentional disinformation and lying to the American public as a policy you haven't been paying attention.
The examples you cite are minuscule compared to the betrayal of the American people that was conducted through multiple administrations and culminated with the Vietnam war. Read the Pentagon Papers if you haven't yet. Our "leaders" consciously plotted and planned to create a war that ended the lives of millions of people, intentionally manufactured events that made it look like we had no choice but to engage in military action when that was just part of the plan that had been in the works for decades, and then lied to the American people and the world the whole time about it. The lessons our government learned from the exposure run deep. Cover your tracks, construct justifications that obscure the true motives, refuse FOIA requests, redact, and deny, deny, deny.
Interesting that while the American government learned to be more and more devious in the wake of that earth shattering revelation, a good portion of the American people, yourself included, learned to trust government more and more and with absolutely no regard for their past performance.
To think that you are willing to give a pass to every administration before this one because of your personal feelings toward the current administration is proof of my personal theory that extreme partisanship corrupts the minds of those that practice it. Your viewpoint, while possibly valid concerning the current administration, is undermined by your obliviousness to past duplicity practiced as a policy by our government. You are obviously compromised and this prevents your ostensible goal of poisoning the minds of others from being effective.
Might I suggest a narrative building style, ala Rachel Maddow, where you build a connection to current events through scripted misrepresentation of historical facts? It would serve you better than the current methodology you are employing, namely misrepresenting historical facts to eliminate any correlation between the behavior of this administration and past ones. If you paint this as an evolution, more of the same but amplified so to speak, rather than a divergence, people will be much more likely to believe your blatant falsehoods.
I am, for once, impressed with the maturity and restraint of the /. crew. All this talk of intent, and not one mention of Hillary Clinton.
Well done!
I leave out the self evident. I'm sure if you think hard enough you can get there.
Think of it like a chess puzzle. Mate in two. White to play.
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It's like asking, "Can Paper Wasps live without making paper?"
The real question is, "Is a Paper Wasp that doesn't make paper still a Paper Wasp?"
Humans make their hives out of concrete. We have gotten much better at it over the millennia, but it is essentially what we are. We are Concrete Monkeys. If we stop using concrete we will be a different species.
Unfortunately, the economic system in each and every developed/"western" country is a Ponzi scheme predicated on growing populations. Until Musk can guarantee Martian resorts for the ultra rich, the top 1% will be making sure there is an influx of low wage earning, high reproduction rate groups imported to the countries they need to prop up.
As soon as there is an assured way for the rich to survive indefinitely on another planet, the lives of the leftover 99% will be worth less than the proverbial truckload of dead rats in a tampon factory.
You have no idea why they are not accepting white straight males. Sure they state one thing, but what are their real motivations? As contrast, I bet you know exactly why any straight white male hiring manager rejects an application from a transsexual from Cameroon. Don't you? Yeah, you're a world class psychic when that happens.
In both cases you really don't know a damn thing about the motivations involved. You have merely decided which one is always virtuous and which one is always evil.
Instead of choosing a universal principle as virtuous, like equality, you have chosen to enshrine a political agenda as virtuous. You have replaced virtue with politics.
This is why you react with verbal violence against someone advocating for true equality and egalitarianism. You have usurped true virtue with political thought. Your mind is tainted, and when you are forced to confront your own despicable falseness, you lash out at the principles and people that remind you of what you really are. A sellout and a hypocrite.
I'm advocating for white people by making sure they have separate accommodations everywhere. A special place on the bus, a special water fountain right over there...
Don't you get it? When you start to classify people by their innate characteristics and use those criteria to provide or deny access, you strut proudly into the ring of discrimination. That you feel justified in doing it, and defend it against any criticism, makes you a bigot.
I don't think that anyone has taken into consideration the most basic reason not to hire someone named Mohammed. There's already 10 guys here with the same first name, and any more will break the payroll system. They learned this from "The great "Chris" hiring freeze of 1992."
Seriously though, I have met a ton of people (literally, the number is close to 2000) with the name Mohammed that have jobs. I do business with them. Most of them are physicians, petroleum engineers, IT gurus, business owners, and mathematicians. Most of them make well over 100k/year. Are you saying we need to help these people get better jobs than they already have because their name is Mohammed? Discrimination against their name means they are in the top 5%, rather than the top 4%?
Or are you saying the name Mohammed gets you better jobs that pay more? That seems much more likely from what I have seen.
Exactly different in every respect, unless you are trying to say that the reason why women, non binary genders, and minorities are underrepresented in tech is because of their genetic, biological, and physical differences.
Your analogy choice perfectly illustrated the opposite of what you are trying to say.
It's scary as fuck when you realize alt-right, white separatist rhetoric sounds more reasonable than the "diversity" efforts of today's most "progressive" programs.
"by K. S. Kyosuke ( 729550 ) Alter Relationship on Saturday April 28, 2018 @04:20AM (#56518309)
As multiple women told me, "women don't know what they want and they won't stop pestering you until they get it". Maybe that was it?"
What's my Nickname? Who wrote the post with the joke in it?
The only joke here is you, and everyone in my office is laughing their ass off at how incredibly vapid you are! Thank you for being so obtuse. It's beautiful! I thought you were trolling, but no. You can't fake your kind of stupid.
LOL! Thank you, i'm dying!
PS: read to the end of my previous post, you missed the best part. Also, as much as we enjoy laughing at you, please seek medical attention, your brain is not working right.
According to the current handbook of proper procedure, it is racist to stop Chinese spies from stealing technology, information, and military secrets from the US. You can't have some white guys telling anyone of color what to do, especially if they are from a country that is an enemy of the US. That would prove the racism which means that avenue of legitimate self protection is now completely off limits and anyone who supports it, or even dog whistles something that sounds remotely like it while hiding in their bathroom cupboard, is a fascist, racist, xenophobe.
Just like it is racist to have a border system that takes note of all people and goods crossing into and out of the country. We should have a new amendment: The right and ability of non-whites from other countries to enter the US without observation or restriction and to live within its borders indefinitely without supervision shall not be infringed, otherwise you will be called a racist. Illegal goods, including but not limited to: illicit drugs, child sex slaves, explosives (conventional or not), and weapons sold at a discount to drug cartels, should also pass without interruption, attempts at detection, or interdiction.
Just like it is also racist to temporarily stop immigration from countries without functioning central governments and where the identities of the immigrants cannot be verified. Vetting of any kind for someone without reliable, or even any, credentials, is just more racist bullshit.
Just like it is racist to deport children and their parents from other countries who com here specifically to gain citizenship by birthing babies within our borders.
Let's face it, according to the current handbook, the continued existence of the US as a sovereign state is an international declaration of racism. The state must be forced to act against the well being, safety, best interests, and self determination not only of the people, but of the state itself. Otherwise it will suffer the most atrocious, debased, and despicable punishment any nation has ever endured: being called racist by hypocrites.
Wow, ok...We will do this your way.
This is how I definitively know, without any doubt, that you are the idiot in this interaction:
I didn't post a joke. I wasn't down modded. You still haven't figured this out. You are going to have to go back and look at the post history to figure out how much of an idiot you are. I will do my best to help you realize this in my post, but I fear there is little hope for you. You are so bankrupt of real intelligence, adaptability to facts, and the flow of interactions between humans that the best outcome for you and the rest of the world involves a headstone with your name and today's date on it. Would that fate were so capricious that she, for once, could bless us all so infinitely in that way.
My motivations for commenting on the down mod were not related in any way to me being mad because IT WASN'T ME THAT WAS DOWN MODDED, YOU COMPLETE AND TOTAL IDIOT! You were so eager to jump on someone, so self righteous and self justified in your attack, that you couldn't even stop to read the nick of the person that you were replying to. You could say that no one is that stupid, and you would be right, for once, in your whole life. It takes a special kind of stupid, combined with a powerful and rancorous degenerate character, to plow mindlessly ahead, being at once completely unfounded in your accusations, wrong on every possible metric, completely self absorbed, and unnecessarily rude. You are, truly, in a class by yourself.
Further proof that you have overflowed a stack internally and your imagined internal world is executing code where reality is supposed to be: My user ID should give you an indication of how long I have been on this site. It obviously hasn't. I'm not new. Are you sure you are ok?
After considering all of the incomprehensible fuckups in your communication with me, I think you may have had a stroke. I am having a hard time conceiving of a circumstance where I could make such series of colossal mistakes, blunders, and oversights which reveal such deep internal flaws, shortcomings, absences, and voids in my character, intelligence, emotional stability, perception, and processing ability, without referring to brain pathology.
What I am trying to say, and I am sorry, I should use words you can understand, is this: There is a very real possibility that there is something seriously wrong with your brain. Get yourself checked. Please contact a responsible adult and ask them nicely to take you to the doctor. If the MRI of your cranium doesn't reveal a seeping artery, a blood clot, a tumor, an abscess, or cyst on your prefrontal cortex, or widespread atrophy and degeneration I will be surprised.
Fortunately, if it turns out that you are just such a worthless piece of shit that your behavior pattern matches exactly with someone who has a serious head injury or dementia, you won't even care. If you aren't pathologically broken in some way on a physical level, the only other answer to your behavior is as result of solipsistic narcissism, possibly complicated by borderline personality disorder. Plainly, you do not have the capacity to give a fuck about anyone other than yourself, and even that is questionable. You proved it here undoubtedly. All you wanted to do was lash out at someone, to demean them, for some unknown internal payoff. The motivation, desire, and impetus to do this is so deeply rooted within your own psyche, such a product of your internal world, and so divorced and unrelated to the other person and the outside world, that it was entirely unnecessary that you got the right person. In your rush to get the rush that you get from attacking people when you feel justified in doing so, you couldn't even be bothered to get their name.
Think about that. You didn't even get the name of the person you intended to insult and demean, and as a result, you attacked someone else for no reason at all. That right there is proof of what kind of person you are. Now, go sit with that for a while and decide if your c
Not mad. You brought that from your own internal frame of reference. Also, down modding someone incorrectly is way different than people not laughing.
Equivocation and false attribution aside, I can't seem to find anything to what you wrote except an exhortation about sleeping well at night. I do, and will continue to do so. Thank you for your concern. I wish you health, happiness, and good rest as well, sir.
Cheers!
Whoever modded that as flamebait is a shitstick. It's a joke, not an attempt to start a flame war. Some of you are so thin skinned you might as well wear you organs on the outside. Faux rage at everything. You miss the forest because foliage might be a racist insult to green people who haven't been discovered yet. It's disingenuous.
It is incredibly funny, specifically for the fact that this trait is common to children, women, men, humans of all genders, and those of anti-gender, dogs, cats, pretty much every mammal. And for the fact that to some of us, women are particularly effective at getting what they want. That makes it easier to observe in the case of male-female relationships, but its a truism for all nonetheless.
A less funny quote this reminded me of: "This world is designed to provide you with everything you want. The only problem, you have to know what it is." Points to the same issue. People are generally uninformed about themselves, what is most important, what defines them and their lives.
Silly AC from somewhere else. America has no left or right. There are only the the lying subversive Corporatists, the Corporatists, and the blatantly in your face Corporatists.