Once again, we are reminded: why the hell is Europe allied with such deplorable people as the Americans? Europeans can easily deploy the money necessary to build a credible military deterrent. Afterwards, why would anyone need to kiss the Americans' asses? Tell them to fuck off once and for all, and get their bases off your territory. It's just not suitable for a civilized place like Europe to be allied with such backwards morons. European rage and frustration is readily evident on a daily basis, and the shitty situation is easily remedied.
Bureaucrats are villifed because they are villains. They manipulate the levers of government to benefit themselves, not the people they are charged to serve.
It's more a commentary on how the Nobel Prizes could be doing more to help developing countries instead of just giving the awards out to people from jerk countries who are already plenty wealthy.
Sure, that North Korean market is going to make a mint for anyone involved! It's not like the North Koreans have a track record of totally screwing over their business partners in South Korea or China. That's got to be it, Der Trumpenfuhrer is getting TEH ROOSHINS fantastically wealthy by all this new trade. Keep checking under your beds for TEH ROOSHINS, and tell all your patriotic American friends to do the same!
This is just the Left's dolchstoss-legende being solidified. Trump didn't win, it was a stab in the back by TEH ROOSHINS. (Seriously, "blame the foreigner"? It's like the oldest trick in the book) In years to come, this will become a bedrock belief of the Left, that all these bad things happened because dirty foreigners made them happen. I can understand why! Having to come to terms with the fact that ordinary Americans are hurting would be emotionally devastating. It would be having a heel realization, and having to completely rethink things, and humans will do anything to avoid that.
Being forced to realize that Americans, having not benefited at all from the government policies of the last 30 years, voted for the only change they could see would mean that they were wrong all along. So, the stab-in-the-back legend, right alongside blame-the-foreigners, is being embraced by a lot of educated people who tell us they know better than to fall for such fallacies.
Ah, yes, so you get to set the terms of the debate before it even starts. Agree with me, or I judge you lose before it starts.
I usually describe this as: "Do as I say, not as I do." It invariably creates a blind spot for the "invisible" activity, but also undermines the ability of the mind to see the truth in general because the mind has become used to lying to itself so it won't see the things it is not supposed to see. Obviously, at this point, the mind itself cannot detect truth and falsity, because the mind would have to see itself lying. That's almost as much fun as the Who's: "Pinball Wizard" who became deaf, dumb, and blind to hide a family secret.
A problem with highly intelligent people like this, is that they assume that their opinions are facts.
Typically, the narrative would be about evil white male scientists, paving over the sacred native lands to install their phallic, oppressive astronomy instruments. But the last few times it's been on Slashdot, the general idea is "screw those indigenous assholes, I don't feel sorry for them so that makes them The Other, they may be safely oppressed because I like astronomy."
I mean, typically any outcome where white male scientists win would be loudly contested. Even if the badwhites did win in the end, poo-flinging and shitting in the punchbowl tactics would be engaged in, making them unable to enjoy their victory. But here it's precisely the opposite: the narrative is that the ignorant savages are obstructing the march of science and they must be crushed in the name of progress. Forward!
Has it been tried, though? Perhaps work for an employer with a strong commitment to social justice, like Google. Oh wait they're getting sued for paying women less, too. Oops. Maybe the world you wish existed is an unworkable utopia. Try measuring things against how they are in the real world, instead of measuring them against a dream.
Jobs don't have anything to do with Communism. Communism is government control of the means of production. It has nothing to do with equality of salary. Who told you it did? Your whole ideology is based on a fallacy.
The problem is calling every viewpoint to the right of Mao Zedong a nazi racist crazy person. It's a real problem of the Left these days, and they refuse to take seriously the very real concerns of most Americans. When your idea of "rational" is "agrees with my ideas in principle" you're not going to have any kind of discussion, you're going to plug your ears and ignore the dissenters. After all, who listens to nazis except bad people? It's a self-sealing hermetic opinion reinforcer.
The Right has the levers of power we're allowed to vote on. The rest of society we don't vote on, and they're hard left dominated. As a Leftist told me recently:
You still live in our world. We own the media, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, the television you consume, the music you listen to. The schools your children are reared in. And we'll always be better at government than you, no matter how many fits you throw in impotent outrage as you did in November 16. Trump will pass, but you will always be on the wrong side of power in the very country you live in, knowing that you are held in utter contempt by your intellectual betters.
You'll have minor pyrrhic victories along the way. But they will never amount to squat. Because we have been building this for decades while you haven't even entered the battlefield yet. Conservatives create NOTHING, they put down no roots because they have no consistent principles as we all saw in November 16 when they voted for a morally-bankrupt, two-bit, former limousine-liberal conman as their "standard-bearer".
We will always have the upper hand. Even when we lose, we win, as you're learning now with the catastrophe that is Trump.
And as for "settling in ancient ways". Are you talking about Civil War? Were you poorly-educated deplorable redstate rubes never schooled in how that ended for you last time? Don't make me laugh.
You're kidding, right? The Left wanted to ally with the Soviet Union. They were the good guys in the Cold War. The containment doctrine was pushed through by the hard right and they were willing to start a nuclear war to see it through. The Left was horrified by the entire idea of nuclear war and urged immediate disarmament, even to the point of the West giving up its nukes to be left helpless before the Soviets. This happened.
You're seeing TEH ROOSHINS under your bed, boy. Here, with zero evidence, pure conjecture, nothing but confirmation bias in play, a person finds it must have been TEH ROOSHINS despite the existence of Catalan separatism for centuries. I used to think intelligent people couldn't be duped by such obvious canards, but the last 10 months of mass media attention proves you really can implant ideas in people's heads. The dolchstoss-legende planted by Podesta the day after the election has taken root and borne fruit. It's here to stay.
...and this stinging criticism, this look-down-the-nose sneering is why America is drawing back from the world. Why bother to help a bunch of ungrateful assholes? Better to take care of our own people for a couple of generations, let the world take care of itself for a while.
Yes, but think of all the designers that will be out of a job if they have nothing to do. They HAVE to change things for no reason, otherwise why do they even exist? Moreover in order to advance in their careers, designers need a portfolio they can show, of what they did and exciting new designs they innovated. Who cares if the users hated it, the designers have to get promoted! This is not optional, it is mandatory!
AGAIN with the No True Scotsman fallacy? At this point I'm convinced you're just screwing with us. Every time, this argument is used to say, "nope, wasn't us" and it long ago passed the point of ridiculousness. Anarchists aren't left-wing, well shiver me timbers. We have always been at war with Eurasia.
Gosh, I wonder what it's like when anyone to the left of Mao looks like a right-winger to you. You have to be pretty seriously gone for Reddit to look like a nest of conservative snakes. But here we are.
Okay, well, just start your own internet. It can have all the hate speech protections you want, AfD won't be heard at all. It's like that other evil American invention GPS, that threatened to cut off Europe from its service. The service that America offered for free, just so Europe would get hooked. Like a heroin dealer. So Europe designed and launched Galileo and removed the threat.
Get on it! Oh, it's going to be expensive? Don't worry, you don't have to spend on defense because you have a sucker to do it. Get it done and then get back to us, you can have your great network without the deplorable Americans.
Wow, I love how you assume these new immigrants will be horrific and destructive to their host cultures. We know for a fact that diversity increases a country's vivacity as well as provides badly-needed low skill workers to keep costs down. It's win-win all the way around, and saying that's some kind of dystopia future is really deplorable.
It only took big data science and social media to deliver the most hideous election in U.S. history
Yeah, that and Facebook didn't cause Hillary to lose Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. You know what did? Ignoring the plight of real Americans who are really hurting. Telling them off and letting them know you absolutely refuse to represent their interests in the government. But continue smashing powerless people in the face with the whole "UR WHYTE SUPREMCST" thing. It feels good to speak truth to powerless, right?
Dumbocracy elected Donald Trump. Dumbocracy produced Brexit. Sorry, the system doesn't work and needs to be discarded in favor of a more modern, educated system based less on what morons think and more on what smart people think. The New York Times praised the Chinese system and wondered why we can't have it in America. As time goes on and it outperforms the American system, more and more people around the world take note. Look at China's highspeed rail: completely impossible in America because all the private landowners would scream about it. In China, the government just confiscated the land. There can be no doubt about which system is more effective in achieving positive outcomes.
"Referenda are pure gambling. There is no guarantee of a positive outcome, unfortunately."
-- Danish EU advocate Charlotte Antonsen
The outcome was by no means inevitable. Last winter Yeltsin's approval ratings were in the single digits. There are many reasons for his change in fortune, but a crucial one has remained a secret. For four months, a group of American political consultants clandestinely participated in guiding Yeltsin's campaign.
For two days the supersecretive Yeltsin high command avoided Dresner, and none of the team ever actually met the President. "There are too many factions and too many leaks to risk your dealing with him directly," Braynin explained to Dresner. "You are our biggest secret."
Well, it seems the most harmful, divisive acts that a malevolent foreign power could come up with were the same ones so enthusiastically engaged in for free by the Left. It seems this evil foreign country thinks that sowing racial discord with Black Lives Matter is a good idea. Well, this is certainly inconvenient. I have complete faith in our media to tell the truth: by completely overlooking this niggling detail and trying to discredit anyone who points it out.
And there has got to be the burn of doing for free what the Kremlin would have paid you for. Doing work and not getting paid for it? I thought that was for suckers. All you had to do was show up and collect your rubles. In fact you'd have been more valuable than any KGB spy, as an established American your material would be worth far more to them and qualified for a high rate of pay. That has to sting.
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Once again, we are reminded: why the hell is Europe allied with such deplorable people as the Americans? Europeans can easily deploy the money necessary to build a credible military deterrent. Afterwards, why would anyone need to kiss the Americans' asses? Tell them to fuck off once and for all, and get their bases off your territory. It's just not suitable for a civilized place like Europe to be allied with such backwards morons. European rage and frustration is readily evident on a daily basis, and the shitty situation is easily remedied.
Bureaucrats are villifed because they are villains. They manipulate the levers of government to benefit themselves, not the people they are charged to serve.
It's more a commentary on how the Nobel Prizes could be doing more to help developing countries instead of just giving the awards out to people from jerk countries who are already plenty wealthy.
Sure, that North Korean market is going to make a mint for anyone involved! It's not like the North Koreans have a track record of totally screwing over their business partners in South Korea or China. That's got to be it, Der Trumpenfuhrer is getting TEH ROOSHINS fantastically wealthy by all this new trade. Keep checking under your beds for TEH ROOSHINS, and tell all your patriotic American friends to do the same!
This is just the Left's dolchstoss-legende being solidified. Trump didn't win, it was a stab in the back by TEH ROOSHINS. (Seriously, "blame the foreigner"? It's like the oldest trick in the book) In years to come, this will become a bedrock belief of the Left, that all these bad things happened because dirty foreigners made them happen. I can understand why! Having to come to terms with the fact that ordinary Americans are hurting would be emotionally devastating. It would be having a heel realization, and having to completely rethink things, and humans will do anything to avoid that.
Being forced to realize that Americans, having not benefited at all from the government policies of the last 30 years, voted for the only change they could see would mean that they were wrong all along. So, the stab-in-the-back legend, right alongside blame-the-foreigners, is being embraced by a lot of educated people who tell us they know better than to fall for such fallacies.
It is simply your own points being reiterated back to you. If it sounds negative to you, then maybe you're the problem...
Ah, yes, so you get to set the terms of the debate before it even starts. Agree with me, or I judge you lose before it starts.
I usually describe this as: "Do as I say, not as I do." It invariably creates a blind spot for the "invisible" activity, but also undermines the ability of the mind to see the truth in general because the mind has become used to lying to itself so it won't see the things it is not supposed to see. Obviously, at this point, the mind itself cannot detect truth and falsity, because the mind would have to see itself lying. That's almost as much fun as the Who's: "Pinball Wizard" who became deaf, dumb, and blind to hide a family secret.
A problem with highly intelligent people like this, is that they assume that their opinions are facts.
Pretending things are horrid when they're not is a hallmark of Leftist bullshit for decades.
Typically, the narrative would be about evil white male scientists, paving over the sacred native lands to install their phallic, oppressive astronomy instruments. But the last few times it's been on Slashdot, the general idea is "screw those indigenous assholes, I don't feel sorry for them so that makes them The Other, they may be safely oppressed because I like astronomy."
I mean, typically any outcome where white male scientists win would be loudly contested. Even if the badwhites did win in the end, poo-flinging and shitting in the punchbowl tactics would be engaged in, making them unable to enjoy their victory. But here it's precisely the opposite: the narrative is that the ignorant savages are obstructing the march of science and they must be crushed in the name of progress. Forward!
Has it been tried, though? Perhaps work for an employer with a strong commitment to social justice, like Google. Oh wait they're getting sued for paying women less, too. Oops. Maybe the world you wish existed is an unworkable utopia. Try measuring things against how they are in the real world, instead of measuring them against a dream.
Jobs don't have anything to do with Communism. Communism is government control of the means of production. It has nothing to do with equality of salary. Who told you it did? Your whole ideology is based on a fallacy.
The problem is calling every viewpoint to the right of Mao Zedong a nazi racist crazy person. It's a real problem of the Left these days, and they refuse to take seriously the very real concerns of most Americans. When your idea of "rational" is "agrees with my ideas in principle" you're not going to have any kind of discussion, you're going to plug your ears and ignore the dissenters. After all, who listens to nazis except bad people? It's a self-sealing hermetic opinion reinforcer.
You're kidding, right? The Left wanted to ally with the Soviet Union. They were the good guys in the Cold War. The containment doctrine was pushed through by the hard right and they were willing to start a nuclear war to see it through. The Left was horrified by the entire idea of nuclear war and urged immediate disarmament, even to the point of the West giving up its nukes to be left helpless before the Soviets. This happened.
You're seeing TEH ROOSHINS under your bed, boy. Here, with zero evidence, pure conjecture, nothing but confirmation bias in play, a person finds it must have been TEH ROOSHINS despite the existence of Catalan separatism for centuries. I used to think intelligent people couldn't be duped by such obvious canards, but the last 10 months of mass media attention proves you really can implant ideas in people's heads. The dolchstoss-legende planted by Podesta the day after the election has taken root and borne fruit. It's here to stay.
...and this stinging criticism, this look-down-the-nose sneering is why America is drawing back from the world. Why bother to help a bunch of ungrateful assholes? Better to take care of our own people for a couple of generations, let the world take care of itself for a while.
Yes, but think of all the designers that will be out of a job if they have nothing to do. They HAVE to change things for no reason, otherwise why do they even exist? Moreover in order to advance in their careers, designers need a portfolio they can show, of what they did and exciting new designs they innovated. Who cares if the users hated it, the designers have to get promoted! This is not optional, it is mandatory!
AGAIN with the No True Scotsman fallacy? At this point I'm convinced you're just screwing with us. Every time, this argument is used to say, "nope, wasn't us" and it long ago passed the point of ridiculousness. Anarchists aren't left-wing, well shiver me timbers. We have always been at war with Eurasia.
Gosh, I wonder what it's like when anyone to the left of Mao looks like a right-winger to you. You have to be pretty seriously gone for Reddit to look like a nest of conservative snakes. But here we are.
Okay, well, just start your own internet. It can have all the hate speech protections you want, AfD won't be heard at all. It's like that other evil American invention GPS, that threatened to cut off Europe from its service. The service that America offered for free, just so Europe would get hooked. Like a heroin dealer. So Europe designed and launched Galileo and removed the threat.
Get on it! Oh, it's going to be expensive? Don't worry, you don't have to spend on defense because you have a sucker to do it. Get it done and then get back to us, you can have your great network without the deplorable Americans.
Wow, I love how you assume these new immigrants will be horrific and destructive to their host cultures. We know for a fact that diversity increases a country's vivacity as well as provides badly-needed low skill workers to keep costs down. It's win-win all the way around, and saying that's some kind of dystopia future is really deplorable.
It only took big data science and social media to deliver the most hideous election in U.S. history
Yeah, that and Facebook didn't cause Hillary to lose Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. You know what did? Ignoring the plight of real Americans who are really hurting. Telling them off and letting them know you absolutely refuse to represent their interests in the government. But continue smashing powerless people in the face with the whole "UR WHYTE SUPREMCST" thing. It feels good to speak truth to powerless, right?
Dumbocracy elected Donald Trump. Dumbocracy produced Brexit. Sorry, the system doesn't work and needs to be discarded in favor of a more modern, educated system based less on what morons think and more on what smart people think. The New York Times praised the Chinese system and wondered why we can't have it in America. As time goes on and it outperforms the American system, more and more people around the world take note. Look at China's highspeed rail: completely impossible in America because all the private landowners would scream about it. In China, the government just confiscated the land. There can be no doubt about which system is more effective in achieving positive outcomes.
"Referenda are pure gambling. There is no guarantee of a positive outcome, unfortunately."
-- Danish EU advocate Charlotte Antonsen
TIME magazine in 1996 bragging about how we interfered in the Russian election.
Well, it seems the most harmful, divisive acts that a malevolent foreign power could come up with were the same ones so enthusiastically engaged in for free by the Left. It seems this evil foreign country thinks that sowing racial discord with Black Lives Matter is a good idea. Well, this is certainly inconvenient. I have complete faith in our media to tell the truth: by completely overlooking this niggling detail and trying to discredit anyone who points it out.
And there has got to be the burn of doing for free what the Kremlin would have paid you for. Doing work and not getting paid for it? I thought that was for suckers. All you had to do was show up and collect your rubles. In fact you'd have been more valuable than any KGB spy, as an established American your material would be worth far more to them and qualified for a high rate of pay. That has to sting.