Sorry, but that is a highly anti-scientific approach. You must point out specific facts that Loudon has wrong. Otherwise you are engaging in mere ad-hominem, which should be beneath all Slashdotters. Slashdotters should be using the Scientific Method to discover truth. Loudon disagreeing with what I can guess would be Leftist political views is insufficient to discredit the facts he has presented. I hope you reconsider your approach and instead adopt the Scientific Method.
The Labor unions used to be for the workers, right? did you ever wonder what happened so that now they work AGAINST their members - eg. supporting illegal immigration that hurts union members. In the 1990s the Democratic Party and Labor Unions underwent fundamental transformation, and the old guard who looked after their members retired or were swept aside. The new guard is more interested in preparing the USA (and the West) for the conditions necessary for their socialist Revolution.
Now, the Scientific Method requires me to look at Loudon's evidence, and also look for counter-evidence that is objectively true (not mere pooh-poohing of Loudon based on 'gut instinct' or emotion). I'd be very interested if you know of flaws in Loudon's massive works. At the moment it seems that those that worked towards making the US more Marxist not only still there, they have more power than ever before: eg. see Hillary Clinton's relationship to Marxist Saul Alinsky, for example. Surprisingly, Harry Reid is not a Marxist. Corrupt for sure, but no Marxist according to Loudon.
Anyway, I hoped this piqued your interest and you look at it with an open mind. The Matrix is lying in plain sight:) And I welcome any objective facts you have to disprove Loudon's conclusions. Thanks.
How come Soulskill always posts Identity Politics on Slashdot. He/she/it is kinda like those fake journalists that Gamergate exposed as pushing their political agenda on the wrong crowd.
Soulskill, please push your articles at Huffpost, they'll be appreciated there. We want News for Nerds, not the Neo-Marxist Narrative for Nerds.
ps. as someone who has submitted scientific papers they can be rejected for many reasons. Two women writing pseudo-science being rejected by a reviewer is not sexism - it shows the submitted article needed more work. Only a true sexist thinks otherwise (and only a sexist cares that the editor was a man). Think about it this way: if two men submitted a paper about the increasing misandry but their paper was rejected by a woman editor would that be evidence of sexism? or perhaps just they needed to do more work on their paper? or the current issue was full? etc.
Pushing articles that match the Leftist Narrative is a form of confirmation bias, intended to indoctrinate Slashdotters. It is very subtle. if enough articles push the Narrative from enough sources then people start to believe that the meme has some merit, despite the objective facts stating otherwise (which very few people bother to research or push back on, unlike the heroes of Gamergate).
This is a brilliant book how how this modern, subtle form of indoctrination is done. It's very cheap through Kindle:
"Disinformation" by Lt Gen Ion Mihai Pacepa (he is the highest-ranking Marxist defector to the West that explained how it was done): http://www.amazon.com/Disinfor...
pps: I'm gonna be burnt with bad karma from the zombies that have swallowed the disinformation and now wage their Cultural Marxist Political Correctness war on others. But all I can do is say the truth as I understand it, and warn my fellow Slashdotters. Slashdot has become a sad place where Free Speech is pounded away by mod trolls.
How can they be worse when they have vastly less power than the Federal Government? Surely the most powerful Government has the ability to do most harm (and, in fact, is currently doing the most harm)?
How come this is not an issue? do you believe Government cannot be bad? do you believe more Government brings more Liberty for citizens?
What is at issue is that the government -- whether that is state or federal -- is controlled by an oligarchy.
Nonsense. Governments are corrupt, but not every Govenrment is influenced by the same entities. Do you believe your down hall is controlled by corporations? LOL. Why not just come out and say you are a Marxist and want HUGE Government and advocate destroying the Free Market.
Now, if you can take a step back from your preconceptions and firmly held beliefs and realize that there is a possibility of a point of view different than your own that could be valid, hopefully you can realize that he is describing a *situation* and ascribing the problem to the *situation*.
Ah, the usual sanctimony of a neo-Marxist. It never occurs to you to examine your own pro-Government indoctrination. I understand the other point of view. Really. However, the problem is not the corporations, it is the Government. Shrink the Government and the corporations won't bribe politicians because the politicians won't have the monopoly-granting power they have now.
He is not promoting anarchy, nor is he promoting fascism under the label of libertarian.
Fascism is a Statist Collectivist ideology. Libertarianism is an Individualist ideology, and is thus anti-fascist. I bet you think that National ***Socialism** is somehow "Right Wing", amirite? When it is Statist Collectivist and thus Far Left. The Libertarians are Far Right and promote extreme individualism and the massive shrinking of State Power. Most Marxists don't understand this, which is why they think they are fighting for freedom when, in fact, they assist the fascist tyranny of the State Collectivism. Perhaps you could consider your own advice and "ake a step back from your preconceptions and firmly held beliefs and realize that there is a possibility of a point of view different than your own that could be valid,". You could, if you weren't an anonymous neo-Marxist troll.
Yeah. It'll be great to get Hillary Clinton's crooked billions out of politics - like her selling US Uranium rights to the Russians in return for donations to her foundation (which she donates only 6% to charitable causes and keeps the 94% for herself. It'd also be nice to get all that Marxist union money out of politics too, and all the sanctimonious billionaires.
Don't torture jihadis (although they practice widespread barbaric torture and slavery, and have been doing so for 14 centuries) - shoot them!
Then when we are done shooting jihadis. we should shoot all those that are enabling the jihadis. Because if we don't, then 21st Century Enlightenment Civilization will be replaced by global 7th Century Sharia barbarism (which Koran 9:29 mandates). I wish it were not a "us or them" situation, but unfortunately it is - and the fact that even smart Slashdotters don't grok this shows how badly we are losing the all important war of ideas: Enlightenment vs Totalitarian Theocracy.
Cool. So you agree that Federal government is terrible, and State governments aren't much better? is that a correct reading of your post?
if so, then what is the solution? I propose less and less government with more and more self-organization of citizens. Uber is just the start of what is possible by citizens working together. In Uber's case for profit (although that is required for any sustainable business), but citizens can and do also self-organize for charitable reasons and solving local problems. Don't we need more of that, and less of the self-selecting sociopathic politicians (at all levels)?
Bravo for Representative Lieu, but he misses the whole point. The encryption doesn't matter if a Government is so big will harm you even when it is trying to do good. The problem is not the backdoors, it is the elephant in the room - a Government that is just to big and increasingly centralized. More Government power **necessarily** means citizens lose liberty. And the Democrats and Establishment Republicans are both bad at growing Government (and the associated debt).
Power needs to be devolved back to States, municipalities and citizens. The Internet makes this possible. We don't need a centralized government that is appropriate for 20th Century industrialism when a 21st Century de-centralized system acts more responsively and less wastefully to local needs (and local Government is small enough it cannot harm you to the same degree the Feds can).
... this madness is coming to the West - brought in politicians in the political Left who see the demographic decline of the West and need fresh bodies to prop up the Ponzi scheme of the socialist welfare state, as well as reliably voting for more benefits from the native-born citizens.
It is a sad day on Slashdot when there is wailing and gnashing of teeth by (alleged) Slashdotters when funding for Computer Science is INCREASED and funding for pseudo-science is decreased to cover the boost for Computer Science.
Islamic jihad has been waged against non-Muslims *continuously* for 1400 years. Many Slashdotters don't seem to know this. Sometimes the jihad is violent, but sometime it is not and is just about slowly changing the culture in which Muslims are embedded so it gradually adopts Sharia (Islamic Law) tenets, such as never criticizing Islam nor Mohammed (the most evil man that ever lived), giving special treatment to Muslims, making non-Muslims adopt segregation of women. banning alcohol around mosques, and Sharia courts in Western countries (the UK has 87 operating Sharia courts - and these all discriminate against women, because Islamic Law does).
Since 9/11 (2001) there have been 25555 lethal jihad attacks. Most of the victims are fellow Muslims of a different sect, but plenty of Buddhist Thais, Chinese, Burmese, Iraqi Assyrians, Egyptian Copts, Jews of all nationalities, Nigerian Christians, etc are being persecuted and slaughtered on a daily basis. Here are the data http://www.thereligionofpeace.... http://www.thereligionofpeace....
This is all part of the global jihad to fulfil Quran verse 9:5 and 9:29 (the last non-abrogated verses of the Quran, which mean they replace everything else in the Quran). These are commandments to take over the World. Here's a YouTube clip with some of the 1400 years of jihad laid out on a map of Europe:
"Why We Are Afraid, A 1400 Year Secret, by Dr Bill Warner" [45 mins] https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Muslims (people) can be peaceful (but the more pious they are, the more violent they are to non-Muslims, gays, women etc) but Islam (the political ideology) never is peaceful. A recent analysis shows that the Islamic scriptures (Quran, hadith and Sira) have a higher proportion of hate-speech than Hitler's Mein Kampf does!
Fortunately Islam can be defeated without violence. How? because all it takes is for enough non-Muslims to understand that Islam is completely man-made and fictional, and (most importantly) we have archeological evidence and scholarship to prove it. There will be no more Islamic violence once enough non-Muslims understand that Islam is completely fake - and the Islamic narrative about Mohammed is not true. Islam is a political ideology invented by Caliph Abd al-Malik for political reasons (to cement his claim to the Arab Empire, and to counter the Christianity of the Byzantines, Zoroastrianism of the Persians, and Judaism of the Jews). Here is a discussion about the satellite evidence that shows the claims of Islam's origins cannot be true:
"An Historical Critique of Islam's Beginnings - Jay Smith" [72 mins] https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This would all be theoretical but unfortunately there are political forces in the West that are importing Muslims in massive numbers as they form a fast-breeding and reliable voting bloc for propping up socialist states that are in demographic decline. Since the doctrine of 'multiculturalism' (rather than the sane 'multiethnicism') means Muslims never have to assimilate into 21st Century Enlightenment Culture there are many Muslims who feel that it is their duty to fundamentally transform the society in which they live - and they doing so. The alliance between the political Far Left and Islam is causing devastation across the globe - and everyone can see it, no matter how hard the Left-leaning media now try to hide it.
We truly are in for a real World War, a fight to the death between 21st Century Enlightenment Civilization and Islamic totalitarianism. Fortunately we have the truth on our side, Islam is man-made. Unfortunately we have many corrupt and ideological Collectivist politicians and their media lapdogs against us. We're going to have to struggle to remain Free Societies in the coming century.
LOL. You are saying that the founder of Nationalist Socialism did not know what he was talking about, and you know better than he does. I've heard some silly things on the Internet, but this really takes the cake. So are so indoctrinated by socialism that you simply must deny the reality: National Socialism IS a form of socialism.
You think that 1920 Nazi propaganda had something to do with what they actually did? (In fairness, their wholesale adoption of capitalism and courting of industrialists came somewhat later.)
Ah, you see to think that the only kind of socialism is Communism (eg. Soviet Socialism). This is completely untrue. While a Communist economic system is defined as "The Means of Production are controlled by the State, while the Fruits of Production are also controlled by the State", a Fascist/National Socialist economic system is defined as "The Means of Production are in Private Hands while the Fruits of Production are controlled by the State". This is the same system that the Democrats which to impose on America - where companies create wealth but the political class controls what is done with the wealth (eg. how it is distributed).
Read up on some of the things the Nazis did when they came to power. I can only hope that will shake your faith that all totalitarianism was socialist.
I never said that. Please stop inventing false strawmen. While it is true there are other forms of totalitarianism that are not socialist (eg. Islam is totalitarian, but not socialist in the Western sense), it is true that all socialist systems tend toward totalitarianism over time (even Sweden is trending that way - dissent and diversity of opinion is crushed by their political class and media).
Now, Communism is a variation on Socialism. Marx liked to call other forms Utopian Socialism (an ideal that would not work in a world populated with humans) and his form Scientific Socialism (an ideal that would not work in a world populated with humans). Given the various Communist regimes, I'd think you'd find plenty of crimes there.
Communism is merely the political Extreme Left - the State has all the power and the Individual has none. National Socialism and fill-blown Socialism are Far Left - the Collectivist State has nearly all the power and individuals have little. In contrast, the political Right is defined as the State having decreasing power and the individual gaining more and more - you pass through the Mid Right Conservatism/Classic Liberalism (a great deal of Individual Liberty and Limit Government), to far Right Libertarianism (more Individual Liberty and very minimal Government), and then to the Extreme Right of Anarchy (Individuals have all the power and the Government has none).
The following political spectrum shows the continuum between State Power and Individual Liberty (one grows at the expense of the other; the political Left favors the State and the Collective, while the political Right eschews the State in favor of the Individual): http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TI8b...
From: http://chowanriver.blogspot.co...
The various flavors of Socialism (eg. National Socialism, Soviet Socialism, Chinese Socialism, East German Socialism, Cuban Socialism, Vietnamese Socialism, etc etc) collectively slaughtered 100 million of their own citizens last century, and started nearly all the major conflicts.
The fundamental problems with socialism are two-fold:
1. It is involuntary in almost all cases. Involuntary wealth-confiscation is immoral Contrast with "charity" (which the political Right champions) which is
The iMac 5k has an underpowered GPU for it 5k display.
I brought a Mac Pro upgraded with two D700 GPUs and the performance is surprisingly lousy on Mac OS X. I read a test where someone put on Windows on the Mac Pro and found drivers that would work, and not only was the per-GPU OpenGL performance twice that under Mac OS X, but the Windows drivers supported automated SLI whereas the Apple drivers do not (each application has to program it specially under Mac OS X).
I was very disappointed that my shiny Mac Pro could not beat my Windows box with its GTX 780.
Apple working on 8k while still having crappy GPU drivers is not going to be a good experience for those working with OpenGL/3D (as I am). It'll be fine for photo and video work, just not very good for 3D rendering. I really wish Apple would get their shizzle together in this department, the Mac Pro is supposed to be their flagship product and its not cheap. Mac OS X is a pleasure to use for 3D development (compared to Windows), but the performance blows.
The Nazi policies were all SOCIALIST policies. You are a denier, because you don't want to admit the truth.
The Communist policies were also another variant of socialism.
The various flavors of socialism killed 100 Million of THEIR OWN citizens in the 20th Century. This is the second-most dangerous ideology on the planet behind Islam. However Islam has slaughtered its 270 million innocent victims in 1400 years of continuous jihad against the hated kaffir (non-Muslims). Socialism did their killing in less than a century, which gives socialists the crown for mass-murder per-unit-time.
Every self-styled socialist has to deny what socialism is and the terrible crimes it INEVITABLY commits once the State increases its power so that the Individual has no way to resist the socialist sociopaths.
As a denier of socialism's crimes, you are part of the problem, David. Individuals matter, not the Collective.
I find that to be a fascinating accusation coming from someone who posts a diagram presenting a political spread with terminology supported by only a tiny fraction of people, existing primarily only in the United States, who are regarded by almost all other groups of people to be insane.
Actually, this idea is acknowledged by all NON-LEFTIST political scientists across the globe. Just because you do not understand this, does not make you Leftist interpretation so.
But let is get this straight. You disagree with a diagram that asserts that as Government Power grows bigger that Inidividual Liberty must necessarily be reduced, right? you think the diagram is counter-factual merely because people you have been indoctrinated to hate happen to consider this view of the world to be significant? is this an accurate assessment? you think that as Government Power becomes more and more absolute that Individual Liberty can somehow be preserved? ROFL !!!
I suggest you get yourself a clue and read "Disinformation" by Lt Gen Ion Mihai Pacepa.
You know when you watch The Matrix and you can never understand how people are so blind they cannot see the tricks that the control freak sociopaths are pulling over the eyes of the people? and cannot understand how some people actually defend the very system of control that enslaves them? well, that's you ya big muppet, You are just not smart enough to understand it yet. Some poeple are so dumb they never do. It is absolutely hilarious you think the Government gives a flying fsck about you, and you work to make the Government Bigger and Bigger.
While I think most people wouldn't disagree that Democrats are certainly Statists, they're in no way unaligned with the Republicans on this point.
Thank you for re-iterating my earlier point. Both the Democrats and **Establishment** Republicans are Statists (although of differing degrees, with the Democrats being worse). The only people who want to increase Individual Liberty, which necessitates reducing State Power, are the Tea Party branch of the Republicans - and this follows the designed intent of the Founding Fathers of the USA (which is why the Tea Party look like such dorks in their Tricorn hats and ancient duds - because they are the only ones who grok what the USA was meant to be).
Again, Nazi Germany was far-right. Nazism is far-right. Fascism in general evolved to be far-right everywhere it was instituted. No matter how much you seem to want far-right to be limited to your definition of "free market", it's not.
"Nazi" is a shortened version of the German Nationalist SOCIALIST Workers Party. If you ever care to read the policies of the Nazis you will see things like the minimum wage etc.
Here are their SOCIALIST policies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
Do you think fasicsts win elections by saying "We're gonna wage war on the entire World, and put all of ou political opponents in death camps?". NO! They start with a socialist agenda. And when socialism starts failing (as it must, because it cannot succeed as it fails to understand the greatest principle of economics: Wealth is Created).
The Nazis were socialists. The Italian fascists were socialists. Their policies are all socialist and are echoed today around the West.
Funny- I haven't seen many "tea party" advocates arguing for freedom from state-imposed Christianity (Ya, you can be a not-Christian, you had just better accept that our State is Christian, and you're living in a Christian State),
Are you really that stupid. The reason the Tea Party doesn't protest against "State-imposed Christianity" is because there is no State-imposed Christianity you muppet. Which US law mandates citizens practice Christianity? name it. You are making bs up. The First Amendment prohibits the establishment of a state religion. Bec
You're the idiot. You have conflated Anarchy (the Extreme Right) with Individualism (which is the continuum of the political Right spectrum). I gave you link, which you clearly did not follow. So you are basing your strawman argument on your ignorant assumptions, rather than the data I supplied. This is an epic fail on your part. No wonder you zombies are so easy for sociopaths to manipulate.
Man, your indoctrination is really complete, isn't it. And your use of slanders of insults betrays the fact you are unable of critical thinking or reasoned debate. So sad that you choose to deny reality, and you help to advance the fascist agenda of the Statist Collectivists who necessarily must crush individual liberty.
In economics terms a Fascist system is one where: The Means of Production remains in private hands, but the Fruits of Production are controlled by the State.
This is exactly the system that the Democratic Party of the USA is trying to implement. They chose Barack Obama to help advance this agenda (which he agrees with, if you listen carefully) because of his skin color. This US is so racist it judges people by their skin color, and Barack Obama is immune from criticisms that a white President would have been impeached for. The Left knows this and used it against the population of the US that it seeks to subjugate and control ("for their own good") as it takes a flamethrower to citizen protections in the Constitution.
Do you not understand that Far Left Fascism and Extreme Left Communism were rivals in World War II? It is only disinformation from the communists against their rivals (starting in the schism of the Left in the Spanish Civil War) that calls the Far Left National Socialists "right wing" (which everyone is from the perspective of the Communists of the Extreme Left).
Do you not understand that by repeating the propaganda you are HELPING the fascists come to power? can you not spot Statist Collectivists (Communists and Fascists) unless they were snazzy Hugo Boss uniforms or call each other "comrade" in front of you?
Smarten up, amigo. Any time the State gets more power it means that citizens MUST necessarily lose some Individual Liberty. This entire article is another perfect demonstration of Barack Obama advancing the fascist anti-citizen agenda of the Far Left, and he has done many such measures.
yes, the "Establishment" Republicans are also Statist Collectivists but are less to the Left. That is why the TEA Party opposes them (because the TEA Party stands for Individual Citizens against the Big State, no matter what they call themselves).
Fascism is a form of socialism. It advances the Big State and decreases Individual Liberty. It is a Leftists ideology. Technically, it is the far Left of the Government-Power verses Individual Liberty Spectrum.
National SOCIALISM is a form of socialiism. It is also Far Left. yes, you've heard it repeated endlessly that the Nazis were somehow "right wing". This is completely false and comes from the Communists of the Extreme Left. From their perspective everyone is to the Right of them.
Since the media and many academics are also Extreme Left or Far Left they repeat the falsehood that National Socialism is somehow not socialism and somehow on the Right. This disinformation has been wildly successful and has allowed fascism to re-emerge around the World with the increase in Statist Collectivism which suppresses individual liberty and empowers the State over its citizens.
If you want to understand the actual political spectrum that shows State Power verses Individual Liberty (an increase on one necessarily detracts from the other) then please study the following diagram: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TI8b...>
From http://chowanriver.blogspot.co...
In order for the Collectivists to "win", it means Individuals must lose. This Slashdot article is a perfect example of this, and you can see it everywhere if you look. But the Left will never tell your their secret, that they are not liberal at all, they just use the word as camouflage for their actual agenda - increasing the power of the State over every aspect of your life ("for your own good"). This is evil and deceptive.
Actually, the well-off already do massive good for others. The concept is called "charity". The great thing about charity is it is VOLUNTARY, in contrast to the INVOLUNTARY forced wealth confiscation called "socialism". And because charity is voluntary it is moral. Because socialism is involuntary it is immoral. It's the same difference between romance and rape, one is voluntary and one is not.
Furthermore, charity is also 250% more effective per dollar than socialism. This is because you don't get 60% of the aid going to inefficient bureaucracy, and thus bloating up the Government that will then regulate your life to death.
Of course you don't know this. The Government and media won't tell you these concepts, or that the Individualist on the political Right give *much* more in charity that the self-styled "socialists" on the Left (who give very little, and want the Government to take stuff through threat of force; which is immoral).
Words change. "Christian", for example, used to refer to people who were tolerant and put the needs of others before their own.
They only change when you listen to the Statist Collectivist propaganda coming from the neo-Marxist Left. "Christian" simply means follower of Christ. They have not changed. What has changed is your masters have now decided unilaterally that they need to destroy the ancient tradition of marriage and the family as the building block of society. This has been a project the Left (eg. the Cultural Marxists of the Frankfurt School with people like Antonio Gramsci) has been working on for a century.
"Liberal" used to mean tolerant. Now we see the self-styled liberals running around destroying anyone who does not slavishly follow the zig-zags of the ideological decisions. Even worse, the illiberal, totalitarians of the Left spew out propaganda at a rate that otherwise intelligent individuals (that would be you) buy into their Matrix and enforce it. They have trained you to hate any idea that doesn't match their own. They use Orwellian methods, so their "liberal" methods are completely illiberal and they advance Big State totalitarian intolerance in the name of "tolerance".
You will have to choose. Do you support the Big State making all decisions for you and smashing all Diversity of Opinion, or will you stand for Individual Liberty and choice?
At the moment you are advancing the Cultural Marxist meme that the Left cares about individuals (it doesn't, which is why it savages anyone who disagrees with it, as well as murdering one hundred million of its OWN citizens in the last century) and the Right does not care (which is total bs, it is just called "charity" rather than coercive and immoral socialism).
Leftism is not "liberal". Obama is a Leftist, which means he (and his political Party) feel they can regulate *every* aspect of your life - including who you donate to. They feel they can regulate how much soda you have have in one sitting, what kind of car you may drive, how much electricity you can use and where it is sourced from, what is "Politically Correct" for you to say on any subject (they dictate what you can say, or they'll shred your life and drive your name into the mud), whether you can agree or disagree with the unilateral redefinition of marriage, whether you agree or disagree that someone's 'privilege' is based on events from two hundred years ago, and their skin color.
Leftism brought you National Socialism. Leftism brought you communism is dozens of flavors and the murder of hundreds of millions of citizens at the hands of their own government as they tried to enact their Leftist utopia.
The Left is is no way "liberal". There are Classic Liberals, but they are slandered for opposing Big Government and promoting Individualism. The media do not want you to understand the Classic Liberals who are the equivalent of the Rebel Alliance. The small groups of moms and pops who rose up against government cronyism and started the "TEA" Parties around the US to restore the Constitution to legal primacy (and the Constitution was designed to protect citizens from Government - but the Big Government types and their media allies don't want you to think about this).
Government is not your friend. It never has been, and it never will be. President Obama represents a political ideology that wants to expand Government into every aspect of your life - how come people don't get this. This fascism from Obama is exactly what one would expect from Statist Collectivists (which the Democratic Party unabashedly is, and the Establishment Republicans are moving that way too).
If you want the Government to:
Leave you alone
Not to take your stuff, and
in return you promise not to be a jerk
The you citizens need to stand up for Indiviidualism. Now. Time is running out quickly as the Statist Collectivists shred the remaining tatters of your Constitution, while their propagandists in the media spin it as being for you own good.
If you don't stand for Individual Liberty now, then it will be gone before you know it - and Obama is working his hardest to take a flamethrower to your rights (except for pseudo-rights he gives you, which he can just as easily take away too).
You know the really wonderful thing about Iran getting nuclear weapons is that their plan is to launch an EMP attack over the US. According to the US Government studies this will result in zero deaths right away, and a 95% death rate within a year. The indoctrinated loons of the political Left will all be dead, and the only people left will be those that prepared for natural and man-made disasters - including this idiocy with Iran, which has stated daily for 36 years that it wants to destroy you, but somehow you Lefties are so retarded you can't ever get the message (because you are implicit racists who think everyone only acts in reaction to what you did or did not do, and all non-Europeans are 'noble savages' of one sort or another). Goodbye lefty loons. You won't be missed by the rest of the World.
I am not a 'reactionary' (a term only use by the Marxists of the Extreme Left). I am a Classic Liberal, and I follow the dictum commonly attributed to Voltaire:
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
I may or may not agree with the Christians that the unilateral and Orwellian redefinition of 'marriage' by the Far Left is right or wrong - but they are certainly well within their rights to express their desire to resist this tyrannical change.
one of your obnoxious right wing opinions.
Actually, I find your support for Collectivist totalitarian enforcement of ideological conformity utterly repulsive, and an affront to all the gains of the Enlightenment. But we say nothing because we Classic Liberals **actually** practice Free Speech, instead of you hypocritical oppressive totalitarians.
You are free to say what you like, and I am free to criticise what you say. Being open minded doesn't mean not having an opinion on anything.
Your statement is true. However you attacked the person as 'sad' for merely different in opinion with the new (Nationalist) Socialist orthodoxy. I bet you don't even get how you are the bad guy here. You think you are being 'tolerant' for homosexuals with your enforcement of intolerance of others. That's how the fascism of the Left always works (and Fascism is a Leftist ideology because it is Statist and Collectivist).
Why do otherwise intelligent people get sucked into the anti-Individualism of the Left? Why do you become fasicsts in your enforcement of Leftist orthodoxy, even ones as stupid as the unilateral redefinition of 'marriage' and the need to cram it down every else throats? you guys are INSANE.
Those are the observations. However AGW says this cannot happen (CO2 rise must result in temperature rise, yet this is not observed). This we must conclude that the AGW hypothesis is falsified. We need better models - because it appears CO2 emitted by humans is not the dominating factor in climate variability.
Here is a better model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This guy wrote a graduate textbook on atmospheric physics. He knows his stuff.
Note: the IPCC doesn't care about the climate. Those IPCC members who are non-scientists have stated many times that the goal is global wealth redistribution. That is why they don't care what the data say, they are still going to proceed with their goal of immediate socialist wealth confiscation (and since even the poorest Slashdotter is relatively rich compared to the bulk of the World, they intend taking from you).
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Sorry, but that is a highly anti-scientific approach. You must point out specific facts that Loudon has wrong. Otherwise you are engaging in mere ad-hominem, which should be beneath all Slashdotters. Slashdotters should be using the Scientific Method to discover truth. Loudon disagreeing with what I can guess would be Leftist political views is insufficient to discredit the facts he has presented. I hope you reconsider your approach and instead adopt the Scientific Method.
Here's Trevor Loudon's book, "Barack Obama and the Enemies Within"
http://www.amazon.com/Trevor-L...
He also researched and wrote "The Enemies Within: Communists, Socialists and Progressives in the U.S. Congress"
http://www.amazon.com/THE-ENEM...
Here's Trevor Loudon talking about his research.
"Marxists in Congress and the Democratic Party"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Now, the Scientific Method requires me to look at Loudon's evidence, and also look for counter-evidence that is objectively true (not mere pooh-poohing of Loudon based on 'gut instinct' or emotion). I'd be very interested if you know of flaws in Loudon's massive works. At the moment it seems that those that worked towards making the US more Marxist not only still there, they have more power than ever before: eg. see Hillary Clinton's relationship to Marxist Saul Alinsky, for example. Surprisingly, Harry Reid is not a Marxist. Corrupt for sure, but no Marxist according to Loudon.
Anyway, I hoped this piqued your interest and you look at it with an open mind. The Matrix is lying in plain sight :) And I welcome any objective facts you have to disprove Loudon's conclusions. Thanks.
How come Soulskill always posts Identity Politics on Slashdot. He/she/it is kinda like those fake journalists that Gamergate exposed as pushing their political agenda on the wrong crowd.
Soulskill, please push your articles at Huffpost, they'll be appreciated there. We want News for Nerds, not the Neo-Marxist Narrative for Nerds.
ps. as someone who has submitted scientific papers they can be rejected for many reasons. Two women writing pseudo-science being rejected by a reviewer is not sexism - it shows the submitted article needed more work. Only a true sexist thinks otherwise (and only a sexist cares that the editor was a man). Think about it this way: if two men submitted a paper about the increasing misandry but their paper was rejected by a woman editor would that be evidence of sexism? or perhaps just they needed to do more work on their paper? or the current issue was full? etc.
Pushing articles that match the Leftist Narrative is a form of confirmation bias, intended to indoctrinate Slashdotters. It is very subtle. if enough articles push the Narrative from enough sources then people start to believe that the meme has some merit, despite the objective facts stating otherwise (which very few people bother to research or push back on, unlike the heroes of Gamergate).
This is a brilliant book how how this modern, subtle form of indoctrination is done. It's very cheap through Kindle:
"Disinformation" by Lt Gen Ion Mihai Pacepa (he is the highest-ranking Marxist defector to the West that explained how it was done):
http://www.amazon.com/Disinfor...
pps: I'm gonna be burnt with bad karma from the zombies that have swallowed the disinformation and now wage their Cultural Marxist Political Correctness war on others. But all I can do is say the truth as I understand it, and warn my fellow Slashdotters. Slashdot has become a sad place where Free Speech is pounded away by mod trolls.
How can they be worse when they have vastly less power than the Federal Government? Surely the most powerful Government has the ability to do most harm (and, in fact, is currently doing the most harm)?
How come this is not an issue? do you believe Government cannot be bad? do you believe more Government brings more Liberty for citizens?
Nonsense. Governments are corrupt, but not every Govenrment is influenced by the same entities. Do you believe your down hall is controlled by corporations? LOL. Why not just come out and say you are a Marxist and want HUGE Government and advocate destroying the Free Market.
Ah, the usual sanctimony of a neo-Marxist. It never occurs to you to examine your own pro-Government indoctrination. I understand the other point of view. Really. However, the problem is not the corporations, it is the Government. Shrink the Government and the corporations won't bribe politicians because the politicians won't have the monopoly-granting power they have now.
Fascism is a Statist Collectivist ideology. Libertarianism is an Individualist ideology, and is thus anti-fascist. I bet you think that National ***Socialism** is somehow "Right Wing", amirite? When it is Statist Collectivist and thus Far Left. The Libertarians are Far Right and promote extreme individualism and the massive shrinking of State Power. Most Marxists don't understand this, which is why they think they are fighting for freedom when, in fact, they assist the fascist tyranny of the State Collectivism. Perhaps you could consider your own advice and "ake a step back from your preconceptions and firmly held beliefs and realize that there is a possibility of a point of view different than your own that could be valid,". You could, if you weren't an anonymous neo-Marxist troll.
Yeah. It'll be great to get Hillary Clinton's crooked billions out of politics - like her selling US Uranium rights to the Russians in return for donations to her foundation (which she donates only 6% to charitable causes and keeps the 94% for herself. It'd also be nice to get all that Marxist union money out of politics too, and all the sanctimonious billionaires.
Don't torture jihadis (although they practice widespread barbaric torture and slavery, and have been doing so for 14 centuries) - shoot them!
Then when we are done shooting jihadis. we should shoot all those that are enabling the jihadis. Because if we don't, then 21st Century Enlightenment Civilization will be replaced by global 7th Century Sharia barbarism (which Koran 9:29 mandates). I wish it were not a "us or them" situation, but unfortunately it is - and the fact that even smart Slashdotters don't grok this shows how badly we are losing the all important war of ideas: Enlightenment vs Totalitarian Theocracy.
Cool. So you agree that Federal government is terrible, and State governments aren't much better? is that a correct reading of your post?
if so, then what is the solution? I propose less and less government with more and more self-organization of citizens. Uber is just the start of what is possible by citizens working together. In Uber's case for profit (although that is required for any sustainable business), but citizens can and do also self-organize for charitable reasons and solving local problems. Don't we need more of that, and less of the self-selecting sociopathic politicians (at all levels)?
Bravo for Representative Lieu, but he misses the whole point. The encryption doesn't matter if a Government is so big will harm you even when it is trying to do good. The problem is not the backdoors, it is the elephant in the room - a Government that is just to big and increasingly centralized. More Government power **necessarily** means citizens lose liberty. And the Democrats and Establishment Republicans are both bad at growing Government (and the associated debt).
Power needs to be devolved back to States, municipalities and citizens. The Internet makes this possible. We don't need a centralized government that is appropriate for 20th Century industrialism when a 21st Century de-centralized system acts more responsively and less wastefully to local needs (and local Government is small enough it cannot harm you to the same degree the Feds can).
... this madness is coming to the West - brought in politicians in the political Left who see the demographic decline of the West and need fresh bodies to prop up the Ponzi scheme of the socialist welfare state, as well as reliably voting for more benefits from the native-born citizens.
It is a sad day on Slashdot when there is wailing and gnashing of teeth by (alleged) Slashdotters when funding for Computer Science is INCREASED and funding for pseudo-science is decreased to cover the boost for Computer Science.
A sad, sad day indeed.
Islamic jihad has been waged against non-Muslims *continuously* for 1400 years. Many Slashdotters don't seem to know this. Sometimes the jihad is violent, but sometime it is not and is just about slowly changing the culture in which Muslims are embedded so it gradually adopts Sharia (Islamic Law) tenets, such as never criticizing Islam nor Mohammed (the most evil man that ever lived), giving special treatment to Muslims, making non-Muslims adopt segregation of women. banning alcohol around mosques, and Sharia courts in Western countries (the UK has 87 operating Sharia courts - and these all discriminate against women, because Islamic Law does).
Since 9/11 (2001) there have been 25555 lethal jihad attacks. Most of the victims are fellow Muslims of a different sect, but plenty of Buddhist Thais, Chinese, Burmese, Iraqi Assyrians, Egyptian Copts, Jews of all nationalities, Nigerian Christians, etc are being persecuted and slaughtered on a daily basis. Here are the data
http://www.thereligionofpeace....
http://www.thereligionofpeace....
This is all part of the global jihad to fulfil Quran verse 9:5 and 9:29 (the last non-abrogated verses of the Quran, which mean they replace everything else in the Quran). These are commandments to take over the World. Here's a YouTube clip with some of the 1400 years of jihad laid out on a map of Europe:
"Why We Are Afraid, A 1400 Year Secret, by Dr Bill Warner" [45 mins]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Muslims (people) can be peaceful (but the more pious they are, the more violent they are to non-Muslims, gays, women etc) but Islam (the political ideology) never is peaceful. A recent analysis shows that the Islamic scriptures (Quran, hadith and Sira) have a higher proportion of hate-speech than Hitler's Mein Kampf does!
Fortunately Islam can be defeated without violence. How? because all it takes is for enough non-Muslims to understand that Islam is completely man-made and fictional, and (most importantly) we have archeological evidence and scholarship to prove it. There will be no more Islamic violence once enough non-Muslims understand that Islam is completely fake - and the Islamic narrative about Mohammed is not true. Islam is a political ideology invented by Caliph Abd al-Malik for political reasons (to cement his claim to the Arab Empire, and to counter the Christianity of the Byzantines, Zoroastrianism of the Persians, and Judaism of the Jews). Here is a discussion about the satellite evidence that shows the claims of Islam's origins cannot be true:
"An Historical Critique of Islam's Beginnings - Jay Smith" [72 mins]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This would all be theoretical but unfortunately there are political forces in the West that are importing Muslims in massive numbers as they form a fast-breeding and reliable voting bloc for propping up socialist states that are in demographic decline. Since the doctrine of 'multiculturalism' (rather than the sane 'multiethnicism') means Muslims never have to assimilate into 21st Century Enlightenment Culture there are many Muslims who feel that it is their duty to fundamentally transform the society in which they live - and they doing so. The alliance between the political Far Left and Islam is causing devastation across the globe - and everyone can see it, no matter how hard the Left-leaning media now try to hide it.
We truly are in for a real World War, a fight to the death between 21st Century Enlightenment Civilization and Islamic totalitarianism. Fortunately we have the truth on our side, Islam is man-made. Unfortunately we have many corrupt and ideological Collectivist politicians and their media lapdogs against us. We're going to have to struggle to remain Free Societies in the coming century.
LOL. You are saying that the founder of Nationalist Socialism did not know what he was talking about, and you know better than he does. I've heard some silly things on the Internet, but this really takes the cake. So are so indoctrinated by socialism that you simply must deny the reality: National Socialism IS a form of socialism.
Ah, you see to think that the only kind of socialism is Communism (eg. Soviet Socialism). This is completely untrue. While a Communist economic system is defined as "The Means of Production are controlled by the State, while the Fruits of Production are also controlled by the State", a Fascist/National Socialist economic system is defined as "The Means of Production are in Private Hands while the Fruits of Production are controlled by the State". This is the same system that the Democrats which to impose on America - where companies create wealth but the political class controls what is done with the wealth (eg. how it is distributed).
I never said that. Please stop inventing false strawmen. While it is true there are other forms of totalitarianism that are not socialist (eg. Islam is totalitarian, but not socialist in the Western sense), it is true that all socialist systems tend toward totalitarianism over time (even Sweden is trending that way - dissent and diversity of opinion is crushed by their political class and media).
Communism is merely the political Extreme Left - the State has all the power and the Individual has none. National Socialism and fill-blown Socialism are Far Left - the Collectivist State has nearly all the power and individuals have little. In contrast, the political Right is defined as the State having decreasing power and the individual gaining more and more - you pass through the Mid Right Conservatism/Classic Liberalism (a great deal of Individual Liberty and Limit Government), to far Right Libertarianism (more Individual Liberty and very minimal Government), and then to the Extreme Right of Anarchy (Individuals have all the power and the Government has none).
The following political spectrum shows the continuum between State Power and Individual Liberty (one grows at the expense of the other; the political Left favors the State and the Collective, while the political Right eschews the State in favor of the Individual):
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TI8b... From:
http://chowanriver.blogspot.co...
The various flavors of Socialism (eg. National Socialism, Soviet Socialism, Chinese Socialism, East German Socialism, Cuban Socialism, Vietnamese Socialism, etc etc) collectively slaughtered 100 million of their own citizens last century, and started nearly all the major conflicts.
The fundamental problems with socialism are two-fold:
The iMac 5k has an underpowered GPU for it 5k display.
I brought a Mac Pro upgraded with two D700 GPUs and the performance is surprisingly lousy on Mac OS X. I read a test where someone put on Windows on the Mac Pro and found drivers that would work, and not only was the per-GPU OpenGL performance twice that under Mac OS X, but the Windows drivers supported automated SLI whereas the Apple drivers do not (each application has to program it specially under Mac OS X).
I was very disappointed that my shiny Mac Pro could not beat my Windows box with its GTX 780.
Apple working on 8k while still having crappy GPU drivers is not going to be a good experience for those working with OpenGL/3D (as I am). It'll be fine for photo and video work, just not very good for 3D rendering. I really wish Apple would get their shizzle together in this department, the Mac Pro is supposed to be their flagship product and its not cheap. Mac OS X is a pleasure to use for 3D development (compared to Windows), but the performance blows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
The Nazi policies were all SOCIALIST policies. You are a denier, because you don't want to admit the truth.
The Communist policies were also another variant of socialism.
The various flavors of socialism killed 100 Million of THEIR OWN citizens in the 20th Century. This is the second-most dangerous ideology on the planet behind Islam. However Islam has slaughtered its 270 million innocent victims in 1400 years of continuous jihad against the hated kaffir (non-Muslims). Socialism did their killing in less than a century, which gives socialists the crown for mass-murder per-unit-time.
Every self-styled socialist has to deny what socialism is and the terrible crimes it INEVITABLY commits once the State increases its power so that the Individual has no way to resist the socialist sociopaths.
As a denier of socialism's crimes, you are part of the problem, David. Individuals matter, not the Collective.
Actually, this idea is acknowledged by all NON-LEFTIST political scientists across the globe. Just because you do not understand this, does not make you Leftist interpretation so. But let is get this straight. You disagree with a diagram that asserts that as Government Power grows bigger that Inidividual Liberty must necessarily be reduced, right? you think the diagram is counter-factual merely because people you have been indoctrinated to hate happen to consider this view of the world to be significant? is this an accurate assessment? you think that as Government Power becomes more and more absolute that Individual Liberty can somehow be preserved? ROFL !!! I suggest you get yourself a clue and read "Disinformation" by Lt Gen Ion Mihai Pacepa. You know when you watch The Matrix and you can never understand how people are so blind they cannot see the tricks that the control freak sociopaths are pulling over the eyes of the people? and cannot understand how some people actually defend the very system of control that enslaves them? well, that's you ya big muppet, You are just not smart enough to understand it yet. Some poeple are so dumb they never do. It is absolutely hilarious you think the Government gives a flying fsck about you, and you work to make the Government Bigger and Bigger.
Thank you for re-iterating my earlier point. Both the Democrats and **Establishment** Republicans are Statists (although of differing degrees, with the Democrats being worse). The only people who want to increase Individual Liberty, which necessitates reducing State Power, are the Tea Party branch of the Republicans - and this follows the designed intent of the Founding Fathers of the USA (which is why the Tea Party look like such dorks in their Tricorn hats and ancient duds - because they are the only ones who grok what the USA was meant to be).
"Nazi" is a shortened version of the German Nationalist SOCIALIST Workers Party. If you ever care to read the policies of the Nazis you will see things like the minimum wage etc. Here are their SOCIALIST policies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N... Do you think fasicsts win elections by saying "We're gonna wage war on the entire World, and put all of ou political opponents in death camps?". NO! They start with a socialist agenda. And when socialism starts failing (as it must, because it cannot succeed as it fails to understand the greatest principle of economics: Wealth is Created). The Nazis were socialists. The Italian fascists were socialists. Their policies are all socialist and are echoed today around the West.
Are you really that stupid. The reason the Tea Party doesn't protest against "State-imposed Christianity" is because there is no State-imposed Christianity you muppet. Which US law mandates citizens practice Christianity? name it. You are making bs up. The First Amendment prohibits the establishment of a state religion. Bec
You're the idiot. You have conflated Anarchy (the Extreme Right) with Individualism (which is the continuum of the political Right spectrum). I gave you link, which you clearly did not follow. So you are basing your strawman argument on your ignorant assumptions, rather than the data I supplied. This is an epic fail on your part. No wonder you zombies are so easy for sociopaths to manipulate.
Man, your indoctrination is really complete, isn't it. And your use of slanders of insults betrays the fact you are unable of critical thinking or reasoned debate. So sad that you choose to deny reality, and you help to advance the fascist agenda of the Statist Collectivists who necessarily must crush individual liberty.
Please study the following diagram:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TI8b...
In economics terms a Fascist system is one where: The Means of Production remains in private hands, but the Fruits of Production are controlled by the State.
This is exactly the system that the Democratic Party of the USA is trying to implement. They chose Barack Obama to help advance this agenda (which he agrees with, if you listen carefully) because of his skin color. This US is so racist it judges people by their skin color, and Barack Obama is immune from criticisms that a white President would have been impeached for. The Left knows this and used it against the population of the US that it seeks to subjugate and control ("for their own good") as it takes a flamethrower to citizen protections in the Constitution.
Do you not understand that Far Left Fascism and Extreme Left Communism were rivals in World War II? It is only disinformation from the communists against their rivals (starting in the schism of the Left in the Spanish Civil War) that calls the Far Left National Socialists "right wing" (which everyone is from the perspective of the Communists of the Extreme Left).
Do you not understand that by repeating the propaganda you are HELPING the fascists come to power? can you not spot Statist Collectivists (Communists and Fascists) unless they were snazzy Hugo Boss uniforms or call each other "comrade" in front of you?
Smarten up, amigo. Any time the State gets more power it means that citizens MUST necessarily lose some Individual Liberty. This entire article is another perfect demonstration of Barack Obama advancing the fascist anti-citizen agenda of the Far Left, and he has done many such measures.
yes, the "Establishment" Republicans are also Statist Collectivists but are less to the Left. That is why the TEA Party opposes them (because the TEA Party stands for Individual Citizens against the Big State, no matter what they call themselves).
Fascism is a form of socialism. It advances the Big State and decreases Individual Liberty. It is a Leftists ideology. Technically, it is the far Left of the Government-Power verses Individual Liberty Spectrum.
National SOCIALISM is a form of socialiism. It is also Far Left. yes, you've heard it repeated endlessly that the Nazis were somehow "right wing". This is completely false and comes from the Communists of the Extreme Left. From their perspective everyone is to the Right of them.
Since the media and many academics are also Extreme Left or Far Left they repeat the falsehood that National Socialism is somehow not socialism and somehow on the Right. This disinformation has been wildly successful and has allowed fascism to re-emerge around the World with the increase in Statist Collectivism which suppresses individual liberty and empowers the State over its citizens.
If you want to understand the actual political spectrum that shows State Power verses Individual Liberty (an increase on one necessarily detracts from the other) then please study the following diagram:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TI8b...> From
http://chowanriver.blogspot.co...
In order for the Collectivists to "win", it means Individuals must lose. This Slashdot article is a perfect example of this, and you can see it everywhere if you look. But the Left will never tell your their secret, that they are not liberal at all, they just use the word as camouflage for their actual agenda - increasing the power of the State over every aspect of your life ("for your own good"). This is evil and deceptive.
Actually, the well-off already do massive good for others. The concept is called "charity". The great thing about charity is it is VOLUNTARY, in contrast to the INVOLUNTARY forced wealth confiscation called "socialism". And because charity is voluntary it is moral. Because socialism is involuntary it is immoral. It's the same difference between romance and rape, one is voluntary and one is not.
Furthermore, charity is also 250% more effective per dollar than socialism. This is because you don't get 60% of the aid going to inefficient bureaucracy, and thus bloating up the Government that will then regulate your life to death.
Of course you don't know this. The Government and media won't tell you these concepts, or that the Individualist on the political Right give *much* more in charity that the self-styled "socialists" on the Left (who give very little, and want the Government to take stuff through threat of force; which is immoral).
Words change. "Christian", for example, used to refer to people who were tolerant and put the needs of others before their own.
They only change when you listen to the Statist Collectivist propaganda coming from the neo-Marxist Left. "Christian" simply means follower of Christ. They have not changed. What has changed is your masters have now decided unilaterally that they need to destroy the ancient tradition of marriage and the family as the building block of society. This has been a project the Left (eg. the Cultural Marxists of the Frankfurt School with people like Antonio Gramsci) has been working on for a century.
"Liberal" used to mean tolerant. Now we see the self-styled liberals running around destroying anyone who does not slavishly follow the zig-zags of the ideological decisions. Even worse, the illiberal, totalitarians of the Left spew out propaganda at a rate that otherwise intelligent individuals (that would be you) buy into their Matrix and enforce it. They have trained you to hate any idea that doesn't match their own. They use Orwellian methods, so their "liberal" methods are completely illiberal and they advance Big State totalitarian intolerance in the name of "tolerance".
You will have to choose. Do you support the Big State making all decisions for you and smashing all Diversity of Opinion, or will you stand for Individual Liberty and choice?
At the moment you are advancing the Cultural Marxist meme that the Left cares about individuals (it doesn't, which is why it savages anyone who disagrees with it, as well as murdering one hundred million of its OWN citizens in the last century) and the Right does not care (which is total bs, it is just called "charity" rather than coercive and immoral socialism).
Leftism is not "liberal". Obama is a Leftist, which means he (and his political Party) feel they can regulate *every* aspect of your life - including who you donate to. They feel they can regulate how much soda you have have in one sitting, what kind of car you may drive, how much electricity you can use and where it is sourced from, what is "Politically Correct" for you to say on any subject (they dictate what you can say, or they'll shred your life and drive your name into the mud), whether you can agree or disagree with the unilateral redefinition of marriage, whether you agree or disagree that someone's 'privilege' is based on events from two hundred years ago, and their skin color.
Leftism brought you National Socialism. Leftism brought you communism is dozens of flavors and the murder of hundreds of millions of citizens at the hands of their own government as they tried to enact their Leftist utopia.
The Left is is no way "liberal". There are Classic Liberals, but they are slandered for opposing Big Government and promoting Individualism. The media do not want you to understand the Classic Liberals who are the equivalent of the Rebel Alliance. The small groups of moms and pops who rose up against government cronyism and started the "TEA" Parties around the US to restore the Constitution to legal primacy (and the Constitution was designed to protect citizens from Government - but the Big Government types and their media allies don't want you to think about this).
Government is not your friend. It never has been, and it never will be. President Obama represents a political ideology that wants to expand Government into every aspect of your life - how come people don't get this. This fascism from Obama is exactly what one would expect from Statist Collectivists (which the Democratic Party unabashedly is, and the Establishment Republicans are moving that way too).
If you want the Government to:
The you citizens need to stand up for Indiviidualism. Now. Time is running out quickly as the Statist Collectivists shred the remaining tatters of your Constitution, while their propagandists in the media spin it as being for you own good.
If you don't stand for Individual Liberty now, then it will be gone before you know it - and Obama is working his hardest to take a flamethrower to your rights (except for pseudo-rights he gives you, which he can just as easily take away too).
Is there no aspect of your life this President thinks he cannot control? Talk about overbearing!
You know the really wonderful thing about Iran getting nuclear weapons is that their plan is to launch an EMP attack over the US. According to the US Government studies this will result in zero deaths right away, and a 95% death rate within a year. The indoctrinated loons of the political Left will all be dead, and the only people left will be those that prepared for natural and man-made disasters - including this idiocy with Iran, which has stated daily for 36 years that it wants to destroy you, but somehow you Lefties are so retarded you can't ever get the message (because you are implicit racists who think everyone only acts in reaction to what you did or did not do, and all non-Europeans are 'noble savages' of one sort or another). Goodbye lefty loons. You won't be missed by the rest of the World.
I am not a 'reactionary' (a term only use by the Marxists of the Extreme Left). I am a Classic Liberal, and I follow the dictum commonly attributed to Voltaire:
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
I may or may not agree with the Christians that the unilateral and Orwellian redefinition of 'marriage' by the Far Left is right or wrong - but they are certainly well within their rights to express their desire to resist this tyrannical change.
one of your obnoxious right wing opinions.
Actually, I find your support for Collectivist totalitarian enforcement of ideological conformity utterly repulsive, and an affront to all the gains of the Enlightenment. But we say nothing because we Classic Liberals **actually** practice Free Speech, instead of you hypocritical oppressive totalitarians.
You are free to say what you like, and I am free to criticise what you say. Being open minded doesn't mean not having an opinion on anything.
Your statement is true. However you attacked the person as 'sad' for merely different in opinion with the new (Nationalist) Socialist orthodoxy. I bet you don't even get how you are the bad guy here. You think you are being 'tolerant' for homosexuals with your enforcement of intolerance of others. That's how the fascism of the Left always works (and Fascism is a Leftist ideology because it is Statist and Collectivist).
Why do otherwise intelligent people get sucked into the anti-Individualism of the Left? Why do you become fasicsts in your enforcement of Leftist orthodoxy, even ones as stupid as the unilateral redefinition of 'marriage' and the need to cram it down every else throats? you guys are INSANE.
Those are the observations. However AGW says this cannot happen (CO2 rise must result in temperature rise, yet this is not observed). This we must conclude that the AGW hypothesis is falsified. We need better models - because it appears CO2 emitted by humans is not the dominating factor in climate variability.
Here is a better model:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This guy wrote a graduate textbook on atmospheric physics. He knows his stuff.
Note: the IPCC doesn't care about the climate. Those IPCC members who are non-scientists have stated many times that the goal is global wealth redistribution. That is why they don't care what the data say, they are still going to proceed with their goal of immediate socialist wealth confiscation (and since even the poorest Slashdotter is relatively rich compared to the bulk of the World, they intend taking from you).