Actually no a white man confronted by cops is more likely to get shot than a black man confronted by cops, because you can kill the white guy and an angry mob isn't going to burn down your city, assassinate your character and ruin your career.
Or maybe it's because the left changed the definitions of racism and fascism to suit themselves? When I was a kid I was taught to judge a man by the content of his character and not the color of skin. So, when a black man is shot by a white cop, I observe that in this instance the black man happened to be a violent criminal who was attacking the officer and the officer was defending himself, so I judge the content of this particular black guy's character as "dirtbag" and so I don't care about the shooting. Good for the officer. The left insists that no, I must judge the white cop by the color of his skin as white (and therefore bad and in the wrong) and the dirtbag by the color of skin as black (and therefore good and oppressed) and demand the head of the cop.
This isn't what racism used to be. You fuckers on the left changed the definition so you can call your political opponents racist. Doesn't make it so. The right didn't go insane. The left went off the goddamn deep end with their 47 genders and race riots for thugs and white privilege bullshit.
I call them "corporate left" in the same way Fox News is "corporate right." Just like the DNC and the GOP establishment, they'll "fight" for years and years over tranny bathrooms or gay marriage, but gosh the Republicans and Democrats have absolutely no problem getting together to pass expanded surveillance powers or TPP fast track with no opposition. It's all distraction. The six corporate conglomerates that own all the media in the country basically agree on everything and just use the media to propagandize the public into supporting their economic agenda (or ignoring economic issues entirely) while fanning constant outrage over race/sex/religion/etc. None of these things actually matter to the elite, of course. If you've got enough money, no one cares what color you are or where you stick your dick.
What you're calling "traditional conservatism" is actually neoconservatism, which was started by ex-trotskyites who wanted a more aggressive and pro-Israel foreign policy (see Bill Kristol's dad). What you're calling "alt right" is more like paleoconservatism (see Pat Buchanan) which used to just be called "conservatism" before the neocons declared victory and dropped the "neo."
"Alt right" itself was basically a labeling trap. Spencer coined the phrase "alt right" as a rebranding of white nationalism (which is not paleoconservatism, which is a civic/economic nationalism that may be racially aware but is not racially exclusive). Then other toy ideologies that rejected neoconservatism but were still opposed to the left like neo-reaction or monarchism adopted the term. By the time Trump came around and started attracting everyone who recognized the left has gone moonbat insane with their 47 genders and white privilege and BLM race riots it simply meant "everyone opposed to the left who isn't a neocon." This is how Milo described it in his Breitbart article and is the context for Bannon's statement that Breitbart gave the alt right a platform...paleocons, libertarians, ancaps, and yes a few white nationalists and even people LARPing as Nazis.
However by the left's "One Drop Rule of Nazism," if there's a single Nazi among 63 million people who aren't Nazis, ALL 63 MILLION TRUMP VOTERS ARE NAZIS WHO MUST BE BEATEN TO DEATH. And then Spencer who has absolutely no audience or influence outside of his immediate circle showed up and said "hail Trump" conveniently in front of cameras for every major news organization and "alt right = nazi" forever and ever. Which is fine. There's no reason to self-identify as "alt right" when the term is ambiguous and we have more descriptive words like "paleocon" or "ancap."
No, reality doesn't conform to anyone's politics. Reality has a fascist bias. Your ideology doesn't mean shit when Achmed is sawing your head off.
That said, a political ideology that at least tries to take reality and human nature into account is going to do better than one that tries to force its preferences onto reality. There are not 47 genders, men and women are different, human evolution is real and did not magically stop in everything but skin color when man stepped out of Africa meaning racial differences are more than skin deep. This is reality, but neither left-wing politics nor your corporate media pals on CNN or MSNBC acknowledge this reality.
To say reality has a left-wing bias is to top ignorance with hubris. Now add in belligerence and you're right at home with your antifa friends.
Fuck off with your pretentious idiocy. The press tone hasn't changed, it's just that the republicans have moved from conservative to fascist.
How do you know it's not the left that's changed from being "liberal" to basically Stalinist? My politics haven't really changed since the mid 90s and nobody ever called me a racist or a fascist until about two years ago.
Huh. It's almost as if this is just about the political indoctrination of children, and not education at all!
It's clear our schools have simply becomes tools for right-wing nazi indoctrination. We need to purge the last remaining 3 school teachers who aren't democrats so our education system can get back to what it was meant to do: turn out highly educated Gender Studies and Transafrican Demieskimo Theory majors ready to enter the workforce.
No, the manner in which people were living in apartments was long-term rentals or ownership. Then people started renting the apartments out for short term rentals, which reduced the quality of life of the other occupants. They went from quiet or at least consistent neighbors to a different set of partiers every weekend who had no incentive to respect the peace of the community because fuck it we'll be gone on Monday. Now the government is putting in rules and punishments for people who disrupt the way people were living already. That's descriptive, not prescriptive.
So, start with culture where no one is throwing parties every weekend (no pool shit culture) because who could keep up that pace without being confronted (no need for a "don't shit in the pool" sign) to assholes showing up to rent out a place for the weekend and party (pool shitters show up) and now government enforcing rules to protect the original community standards ("No Shitting In Pool" sign and enforcement). The laws were enacted after people fucked up the culture, not beforehand (prescriptive). My description is accurate.
every country in the world would put up infinite tariffs
The extreme absolute is a good tell for cognitive dissonance. "If shoplifting is bad, why doesn't every store in the world brutally torture and publicly execute every shoplifter?"
You sanction them in whatever ways the homeowner's association can or call the police if they're in violation of some type of city noise ordinance. Do that enough times and they'll get the picture and either shape up or ship out. The problem with short-term rentals is it's a different set of scumbags every weekend, and they're more inclined to be partying since they're renting the place for some kind of special reason. Even the scummiest of neighbors don't throw raves every weekend.
Trump is a cheerleader for economic growth. If you make jobs, he's going to give you good publicity. If you make jobs leave, he's going to give you bad publicity. This encourages companies to do business in the US, which grows the economy. Doesn't matter if it had anything to do with Trump's policies or not.
The short version here is that we're being fed something. I hesitate to call it bullshit, because nobody said anything weird - but it certainly looks like people are trying to play some kind of game here.
Yes, this is PR, and Trump has said that one of the jobs of President is "chief cheerleader." So if you make jobs in the country, Trump is going to give you an bouquet. If you make jobs leave the country, he's going to give you a brickbat. Whether the decisions had anything to do with him or not are irrelevant.
Economies are self-fulfilling prophecies. If people believe the economy is going to get better, they go out and spend money. This makes the economy better. If people believe the economy is going to get worse, they stop spending money. This makes the economy worse.
But it's really just a harsher enforcement of regular zoning laws. You can't run a commercial hotel in a residential neighborhood, and you shouldn't be able to get around those laws by saying "no it's different because it's on the internet." When there's such a pattern of behavior of disruption coming from apartments being rented out, isn't it okay to ban the underlying bad behavior? Drunks are so likely to cause accidents, injuries and deaths on the roads that we just ban drunk driving all together. We don't say "well, you can drive hammered and we'll only punish you if you run somebody over."
The 9th Circuit is the most politicized court in the US and the most overturned. Any given year the 9th circuit gets overturned 70%, 80%. Was 86% overturned in 2012. And they are frequently overturned by unanimous decision, so it's not like it's 5-4 decisions on controversial partisan issues. It's Ruth Bader Ginsberg saying "WTF are you people doing? Can you fucking read?" Can you imagine that? Would you keep your job if you were wrong 86% of the damn time?
So to answer your question as to why "the courts disagree," it's because the 9th Circuit is doing what they always do: playing completely retarded moonbat leftist politics. I would not be shocked if they stay the lower court's decision and then it has to go to SCOTUS who will once again smack them down, because the law is clear as day and there's piles of precedent. Obama blocked visas from Iraq, Carter blocked travel from Iran, nobody cared.
If that happens, though, and we have to wait for SCOTUS, liberals better pray to the God they don't believe in that not a single hair on an American's head is harmed by anyone let in from one of those 7 countries, because the right will politicize the hell out of it. This is why it's important to pick one's battles, but the left is so completely deranged by Trump they're incapable of anything resembling rational thought.
The only reason it's illegal is because big government Cuomo says it is and that's because he's been bribed by the hotel lobbyists.
And nobody who lives in apartments adjacent to AirBnB apartments were happy about this? My parents live in a condo community and their homeowners' association was absolutely taking action against people who were trying to rent out their units because they didn't want to put up with the noise, the parties, and the scumbags. The community was set up for owners, not renters. If you don't want to play by those rules, don't buy one of those condos. But you don't get to ignore the rules and get on some high horse about "how dare you tell me what I can do." If you wanted to run a hotel, you should have opened a hotel, not bought a condo in a living community.
I live in a comfy suburb and in my neighborhood we use a Facebook group to keep in touch, set up Easter egg hunts for the kids, fireworks for 4th of July (one guy has a drone and he flies it over the crowd and through the fireworks and posts the videos later, it's really neat), board game nights, cook outs, somebody has an outdoor movie projector he sets up for family movies, talk about neighborhood issues, and catch the thieving kids who were going into people's unlocked cars at 3am that one time. Not everyone is a misanthrope.
Because the old law didn't really have penalties that discouraged people from the practice. So the penalties were increased and enforcement made easier.
The US legal system is based on English Common Law, where we have descriptive laws that protect the way people are already living (their culture) rather than prescriptive laws like the Napoleonic code where the government decrees "here's how we want people to live and we're going to force you to do so." This is nice because it keeps government small when a common culture is shared. When people have a common culture that shitting in the pool is wrong, you don't need a sign up that says "no shitting in the pool" because who the fuck would do that? Then some assholes show up and start shitting in the pool, and now you need a sign that says "no shitting in the pool." But then they keep doing it, so now you need fines for pool shitting, and a Department of Pool Shitting enforcement, etc.
This is one of the many reasons why multiculturalism is bad. When no one shares a common culture anymore there is no point to descriptive laws since they don't describe the reality of how people want to live. It's great though if you're in the pool shit monitoring business.
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Actually no a white man confronted by cops is more likely to get shot than a black man confronted by cops, because you can kill the white guy and an angry mob isn't going to burn down your city, assassinate your character and ruin your career.
Ever think maybe the norms of society grew out of the ways in which men and women are biologically different?
What do any of those people have to do with hating Jews?
hate speech
Eat twelve hundred dicks and die.
Or maybe it's because the left changed the definitions of racism and fascism to suit themselves? When I was a kid I was taught to judge a man by the content of his character and not the color of skin. So, when a black man is shot by a white cop, I observe that in this instance the black man happened to be a violent criminal who was attacking the officer and the officer was defending himself, so I judge the content of this particular black guy's character as "dirtbag" and so I don't care about the shooting. Good for the officer. The left insists that no, I must judge the white cop by the color of his skin as white (and therefore bad and in the wrong) and the dirtbag by the color of skin as black (and therefore good and oppressed) and demand the head of the cop.
This isn't what racism used to be. You fuckers on the left changed the definition so you can call your political opponents racist. Doesn't make it so. The right didn't go insane. The left went off the goddamn deep end with their 47 genders and race riots for thugs and white privilege bullshit.
The problem is it's impossible to defend CNN when they do shit like this. When Trump calls CNN "fake news," he's not wrong.
for want of a better term, Left-of-Center
I call them "corporate left" in the same way Fox News is "corporate right." Just like the DNC and the GOP establishment, they'll "fight" for years and years over tranny bathrooms or gay marriage, but gosh the Republicans and Democrats have absolutely no problem getting together to pass expanded surveillance powers or TPP fast track with no opposition. It's all distraction. The six corporate conglomerates that own all the media in the country basically agree on everything and just use the media to propagandize the public into supporting their economic agenda (or ignoring economic issues entirely) while fanning constant outrage over race/sex/religion/etc. None of these things actually matter to the elite, of course. If you've got enough money, no one cares what color you are or where you stick your dick.
What you're calling "traditional conservatism" is actually neoconservatism, which was started by ex-trotskyites who wanted a more aggressive and pro-Israel foreign policy (see Bill Kristol's dad). What you're calling "alt right" is more like paleoconservatism (see Pat Buchanan) which used to just be called "conservatism" before the neocons declared victory and dropped the "neo."
"Alt right" itself was basically a labeling trap. Spencer coined the phrase "alt right" as a rebranding of white nationalism (which is not paleoconservatism, which is a civic/economic nationalism that may be racially aware but is not racially exclusive). Then other toy ideologies that rejected neoconservatism but were still opposed to the left like neo-reaction or monarchism adopted the term. By the time Trump came around and started attracting everyone who recognized the left has gone moonbat insane with their 47 genders and white privilege and BLM race riots it simply meant "everyone opposed to the left who isn't a neocon." This is how Milo described it in his Breitbart article and is the context for Bannon's statement that Breitbart gave the alt right a platform...paleocons, libertarians, ancaps, and yes a few white nationalists and even people LARPing as Nazis.
However by the left's "One Drop Rule of Nazism," if there's a single Nazi among 63 million people who aren't Nazis, ALL 63 MILLION TRUMP VOTERS ARE NAZIS WHO MUST BE BEATEN TO DEATH. And then Spencer who has absolutely no audience or influence outside of his immediate circle showed up and said "hail Trump" conveniently in front of cameras for every major news organization and "alt right = nazi" forever and ever. Which is fine. There's no reason to self-identify as "alt right" when the term is ambiguous and we have more descriptive words like "paleocon" or "ancap."
Reality has a well known left-wing bias.
People unironically believe this.
No, reality doesn't conform to anyone's politics. Reality has a fascist bias. Your ideology doesn't mean shit when Achmed is sawing your head off.
That said, a political ideology that at least tries to take reality and human nature into account is going to do better than one that tries to force its preferences onto reality. There are not 47 genders, men and women are different, human evolution is real and did not magically stop in everything but skin color when man stepped out of Africa meaning racial differences are more than skin deep. This is reality, but neither left-wing politics nor your corporate media pals on CNN or MSNBC acknowledge this reality.
To say reality has a left-wing bias is to top ignorance with hubris. Now add in belligerence and you're right at home with your antifa friends.
Fuck off with your pretentious idiocy. The press tone hasn't changed, it's just that the republicans have moved from conservative to fascist.
How do you know it's not the left that's changed from being "liberal" to basically Stalinist? My politics haven't really changed since the mid 90s and nobody ever called me a racist or a fascist until about two years ago.
Huh. It's almost as if this is just about the political indoctrination of children, and not education at all!
It's clear our schools have simply becomes tools for right-wing nazi indoctrination. We need to purge the last remaining 3 school teachers who aren't democrats so our education system can get back to what it was meant to do: turn out highly educated Gender Studies and Transafrican Demieskimo Theory majors ready to enter the workforce.
No, you are the one who is the fucktard.
I won the argument! On the internet!
No, the manner in which people were living in apartments was long-term rentals or ownership. Then people started renting the apartments out for short term rentals, which reduced the quality of life of the other occupants. They went from quiet or at least consistent neighbors to a different set of partiers every weekend who had no incentive to respect the peace of the community because fuck it we'll be gone on Monday. Now the government is putting in rules and punishments for people who disrupt the way people were living already. That's descriptive, not prescriptive.
So, start with culture where no one is throwing parties every weekend (no pool shit culture) because who could keep up that pace without being confronted (no need for a "don't shit in the pool" sign) to assholes showing up to rent out a place for the weekend and party (pool shitters show up) and now government enforcing rules to protect the original community standards ("No Shitting In Pool" sign and enforcement). The laws were enacted after people fucked up the culture, not beforehand (prescriptive). My description is accurate.
every country in the world would put up infinite tariffs
The extreme absolute is a good tell for cognitive dissonance. "If shoplifting is bad, why doesn't every store in the world brutally torture and publicly execute every shoplifter?"
blur the lines between government and business.
That line was wiped out a long, long time ago, friend.
You sanction them in whatever ways the homeowner's association can or call the police if they're in violation of some type of city noise ordinance. Do that enough times and they'll get the picture and either shape up or ship out. The problem with short-term rentals is it's a different set of scumbags every weekend, and they're more inclined to be partying since they're renting the place for some kind of special reason. Even the scummiest of neighbors don't throw raves every weekend.
Trump is a cheerleader for economic growth. If you make jobs, he's going to give you good publicity. If you make jobs leave, he's going to give you bad publicity. This encourages companies to do business in the US, which grows the economy. Doesn't matter if it had anything to do with Trump's policies or not.
The short version here is that we're being fed something. I hesitate to call it bullshit, because nobody said anything weird - but it certainly looks like people are trying to play some kind of game here.
Yes, this is PR, and Trump has said that one of the jobs of President is "chief cheerleader." So if you make jobs in the country, Trump is going to give you an bouquet. If you make jobs leave the country, he's going to give you a brickbat. Whether the decisions had anything to do with him or not are irrelevant.
Economies are self-fulfilling prophecies. If people believe the economy is going to get better, they go out and spend money. This makes the economy better. If people believe the economy is going to get worse, they stop spending money. This makes the economy worse.
Mostly because they're beholden to the teacher's unions.
But it's really just a harsher enforcement of regular zoning laws. You can't run a commercial hotel in a residential neighborhood, and you shouldn't be able to get around those laws by saying "no it's different because it's on the internet." When there's such a pattern of behavior of disruption coming from apartments being rented out, isn't it okay to ban the underlying bad behavior? Drunks are so likely to cause accidents, injuries and deaths on the roads that we just ban drunk driving all together. We don't say "well, you can drive hammered and we'll only punish you if you run somebody over."
The 9th Circuit is the most politicized court in the US and the most overturned. Any given year the 9th circuit gets overturned 70%, 80%. Was 86% overturned in 2012. And they are frequently overturned by unanimous decision, so it's not like it's 5-4 decisions on controversial partisan issues. It's Ruth Bader Ginsberg saying "WTF are you people doing? Can you fucking read?" Can you imagine that? Would you keep your job if you were wrong 86% of the damn time?
So to answer your question as to why "the courts disagree," it's because the 9th Circuit is doing what they always do: playing completely retarded moonbat leftist politics. I would not be shocked if they stay the lower court's decision and then it has to go to SCOTUS who will once again smack them down, because the law is clear as day and there's piles of precedent. Obama blocked visas from Iraq, Carter blocked travel from Iran, nobody cared.
If that happens, though, and we have to wait for SCOTUS, liberals better pray to the God they don't believe in that not a single hair on an American's head is harmed by anyone let in from one of those 7 countries, because the right will politicize the hell out of it. This is why it's important to pick one's battles, but the left is so completely deranged by Trump they're incapable of anything resembling rational thought.
The only reason it's illegal is because big government Cuomo says it is and that's because he's been bribed by the hotel lobbyists.
And nobody who lives in apartments adjacent to AirBnB apartments were happy about this? My parents live in a condo community and their homeowners' association was absolutely taking action against people who were trying to rent out their units because they didn't want to put up with the noise, the parties, and the scumbags. The community was set up for owners, not renters. If you don't want to play by those rules, don't buy one of those condos. But you don't get to ignore the rules and get on some high horse about "how dare you tell me what I can do." If you wanted to run a hotel, you should have opened a hotel, not bought a condo in a living community.
I live in a comfy suburb and in my neighborhood we use a Facebook group to keep in touch, set up Easter egg hunts for the kids, fireworks for 4th of July (one guy has a drone and he flies it over the crowd and through the fireworks and posts the videos later, it's really neat), board game nights, cook outs, somebody has an outdoor movie projector he sets up for family movies, talk about neighborhood issues, and catch the thieving kids who were going into people's unlocked cars at 3am that one time. Not everyone is a misanthrope.
Because the old law didn't really have penalties that discouraged people from the practice. So the penalties were increased and enforcement made easier.
The US legal system is based on English Common Law, where we have descriptive laws that protect the way people are already living (their culture) rather than prescriptive laws like the Napoleonic code where the government decrees "here's how we want people to live and we're going to force you to do so." This is nice because it keeps government small when a common culture is shared. When people have a common culture that shitting in the pool is wrong, you don't need a sign up that says "no shitting in the pool" because who the fuck would do that? Then some assholes show up and start shitting in the pool, and now you need a sign that says "no shitting in the pool." But then they keep doing it, so now you need fines for pool shitting, and a Department of Pool Shitting enforcement, etc.
This is one of the many reasons why multiculturalism is bad. When no one shares a common culture anymore there is no point to descriptive laws since they don't describe the reality of how people want to live. It's great though if you're in the pool shit monitoring business.
Perhaps with fines for renting out the apartment?