...and ridiculous beliefs like this are why the Right will be in power for the next 50 years. It's not the facts of the situation, it's the fact that to you, they are The Other. And you'd rather do anything than tolerate The Other.
The conservatives I know have a realistic understanding of human nature (i.e., it is fundamentally flawed) and set expectations accordingly; i.e., there will never be a Utopia.
It is the leftists who believe that human nature is basically good, and that people do bad things because of external forces (e.g., their living conditions); Therefore the goal of arranging those external forces so they no longer cause people to do bad things becomes the greatest moral imperative.
So, on one hand we have people who believe that Utopia is impossible, and on the other we have people who believe that creating Utopia is the highest (perhaps only) moral priority. The first group believes the second group is deluded in their belief that Utopia is possible; the second group believes the first group is immoral for opposing their efforts to create one at any cost.
This is such a ridiculous baizuo way of looking at China. So many wrong assumptions.
"Totalitarianism results in incompetence, nepotism and corruption." China isn't totalitarian, they don't control every facet of your life. They're authoritarian, because they don't allow the people a voice. Hey, nothing wrong with that, lots of Americans don't think we should allow the people a voice either, after their disgraceful performance in the 2016 election.
"If Xi et. al. push back, there will eventually be trouble." Total balderdash. Xi has been pushing back already: against incompetence, nepotism and corruption. It's been the theme of his reign so far. How do you not know that? Have you been watching fake news? Tons of CPC members have been thrown out or sent to prison. The old days of corruption are over, Xi is restoring the mandate of heaven for the CPC.
"The US fears them because the US owes China too much money." Again ridiculous baizuo thinking. America has got China by the balls over this, we can just print money to pay debts. China doesn't invest in America because they want control, they do it because it's a solid investment. Where else they going to put all their money? In China? Eww.
"The Europeans are incapable of any action at all without the US leading the way." God, Europe sucks. A millstone around our necks. Can't defend themselves, they're pussies. Always criticize us for everything we do, never a word of thanks. I'm struggling to remember the last time I thought "Well, good thing we have Europe on our side!" And they're baizuo to the max.
1. Immediately accuses other people of being shills
2. Launches into a long defense of megamillion dollar corporation
3. Assumes anyone listens to Slashdot any more, and thus will spend money on shills
4. Too late, realizes that people who buy Teslas do still populate Slashdot and thus this is a good place to spend a few brand management dollars posting positive comments
5. Psychological projection: always look at what people accuse others of doing, to see what they're thinking about themselves.
The basic problem is, when you're so far left in SJW, everything to the right of Mao Zedong looks like a nazi to you. Just label ordinary, non-controversial opinions as politically extreme, this way you don't have to think about them or consider that real people are really hurting in America. Just keep speaking truth to the powerless and bash the shit out of them, because it's fun and anyway the end goal is the destruction of America and the Constitution. Life is easier when all you have to do is criticize and set things on fire. Building is hard, you need STEM people and I read eww they're creepy and sexist.
"I'm taking the liberty of asking you, a citizen of a country built upon the principles of democracy but whose very might is in danger of disenfranchising the rest of the world, to use your right to vote, and to vote with all your heart and your mind, in your own name but also in the name of all those millions of people who will be looking to your decision in two weeks' time."
Translation: Think of us first, and the needs of your own country last. F off foreigners, stop trying to influence our votes. Oh, but it was OK when they did it.
We're certainly paying attention to them here. Which of the following is a smarter career move at Google, in a CNN newsroom, or in the Yale faculty lounge: to admit to voting for Donald Trump, or to proudly proclaim you are a member of the Resistance?
Today things are worse than ever. There is a Nazi in the White House and the world is falling apart at the seams. Pollution, global warming, climate change are all desperate issues that need fixing immediately without any debate. Our problems with police, race and gender inequality, healthcare, income inequality, disregard for the environment, woefully inadequate education system, warmongering and recently insane politics with a president who continues to publically call for his detractors to lose their livelihood totally don't count.
Legal scholar Juan Cole describes Trumpâ(TM)s election this way: "How the U.S. went fascist." Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns terms Trumpâ(TM)s presidency "Hitleresque." Historian Ron Rosenbaum, author of "Explaining Hitler," insists that Trumpâ(TM)s tenure so far is based on a "playbook written in German. That playbook is 'Mein Kampf.'"
Keep it up! These are the sorts of tactics that are going to keep the Right in power for the next 50 years. Gratuitous insults and dehumanizing other people because they disagree with your far-left political opinions.
SJWs are real, as one of them recently said to me: "Someone please explain to me why I wouldnâ(TM)t want to be a Social Justice Warrior? It sounds badass and amazing."
But it is the fact that 'progressives' such despicable tactics is precisely the issue, despite informing us that they are the good guys on every issue and only deplorable people would do otherwise.
Incredible to think that the ACLU once sued for the rights of nazis to march in the streets. They were in favor of the First Amendment back then. How times have changed!
And the ACLU *used to* fight legal battles on their behalf, arguing that they had a right to march just as much as anyone else. How times have changed, eh?
See, for example, a statement made by a protester at UC Berkeley in January 2017 at a protest event that turned into a violent riot:
"Your free speech is raping and killing us."
This is why it's good that America is withdrawing from the world. Problems with police, race and gender inequality, healthcare, income inequality, disregard for the environment, woefully inadequate education system, warmongering and recently insane politics with a president who continues to publicly call for his detractors to lose their livelihood. Nobody wants to be the friend of such an awful country that engages in social Darwinism. Good riddance and the world won't miss them.
One country, two systems. There is a border check just like any into a foreign country. How do you think they stopped him? It's not like going from Texas to Louisana. PRC citizens can't even enter Hong Kong unless they have a special permit.
Share Blue was caught red-handed with hard proof that they were paying people to post. Yaknow, when you see opposition, it doesn't mean that they're being paid, too. The shill's punishment is not in the least that she is not believed but that she cannot believe anyone else.
Wow, this is a parody, right? I said shitting all over people and ridiculously exaggerating what they say was the problem, and you post a comment doing exactly that?
You still don't get why Trump won. The sheer level of insufferable arrogance from upper-middle class liberals that dominate internet discussion is a massive reason why. A huge part of why nationalism (whether it's Trump or Brexit or populist parties Swedish Democrats in Sweden, Front Nationale in France, and others throughout Europe) is seeing such a surge in support is in opposition to the CONSTANT liberal circlejerking in the media and refusal to even consider that the working class isn't a bunch of idiotic, evil racists, but bases its vote on real world experiences that they go through and rational self interest.
They are sick and tired of sneering upper middle class liberals scaremongering about anybody who isn't part of the political establishment and being called racists for wanting to maintain a national sovereignty and set of values.People are sick and tired of ad hominems being the dominant form of discourse from the left whenever issues relating to protecting our national borders and culture come up. They are sick and tired of their acquaintances screaming on Facebook UNFRIEND ME IF YOU SUPPORT TRUMP YOU RACIST BIGOT.
The hilarious part is you think Slashdot has enough influence to bother spending on. It doesn't. Comments barely reach into the triple digits any more, and single digits aren't uncommon.
The real tragedy is that by Podesta creating the dolchstoss-legende blaming the foreigners, now any contradictory opinions look like propaganda. Considering we have hard proof that Share Blue did in fact astroturf a bunch of websites with paid commenters, that just makes it worse as far as confirmation bias goes. The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
You completely missed the point, didn't you? And called other people racist instead of thinking outside your bubble, which is par for the course. This is the result of our universities producing too many word thinkers. Yes I've worked with Taiwanese companies. Taiwanese value work results first, while Google values hard left culture first. Thus they are headed for a big culture clash, and Google being the owner is going to win. I'd guess more than 30% will quit (or more likely be fired) by Google.
Well, Google is in for some mass firings soon. There's going to be a huge culture clash between Google's far left SJW culture and Taiwan's meh don't care culture. If you think James Damore was bad (and he wasn't, the man was super reasonable, he was trying to help when Google's diversity classes told him they couldn't figure out why the company wasn't more diverse) then all these new Taiwanese employees are going to be a nightmare. You think these Taiwanese are going to go to the gay pride parade? People have been fired from Google for declining to attend. I bet Google learned from the Googlegate fiasco, and instead of highly public firings, will do quiet ones instead. Still, they're going to lose capable people due to the fact that the SJW culture sounds insane to people raised outside the bubble.
Like America? Have you even seen the approval ratings? Holy shit. ISIS is more popular worldwide. Americans are the least educated and knowledgeable of foreign affairs, languages, and disparate cultures, societies, and social norms amongst all Westernized countries and the least exposed universally.
Slashdot Mirror
...and ridiculous beliefs like this are why the Right will be in power for the next 50 years. It's not the facts of the situation, it's the fact that to you, they are The Other. And you'd rather do anything than tolerate The Other.
The conservatives I know have a realistic understanding of human nature (i.e., it is fundamentally flawed) and set expectations accordingly; i.e., there will never be a Utopia.
It is the leftists who believe that human nature is basically good, and that people do bad things because of external forces (e.g., their living conditions); Therefore the goal of arranging those external forces so they no longer cause people to do bad things becomes the greatest moral imperative.
So, on one hand we have people who believe that Utopia is impossible, and on the other we have people who believe that creating Utopia is the highest (perhaps only) moral priority. The first group believes the second group is deluded in their belief that Utopia is possible; the second group believes the first group is immoral for opposing their efforts to create one at any cost.
Remember when Obama tried to alter the result of the Brexit vote? What retaliation should Britain be pursuing for that blatant foreign meddling?
"Totalitarianism results in incompetence, nepotism and corruption." China isn't totalitarian, they don't control every facet of your life. They're authoritarian, because they don't allow the people a voice. Hey, nothing wrong with that, lots of Americans don't think we should allow the people a voice either, after their disgraceful performance in the 2016 election.
"If Xi et. al. push back, there will eventually be trouble." Total balderdash. Xi has been pushing back already: against incompetence, nepotism and corruption. It's been the theme of his reign so far. How do you not know that? Have you been watching fake news? Tons of CPC members have been thrown out or sent to prison. The old days of corruption are over, Xi is restoring the mandate of heaven for the CPC.
"The US fears them because the US owes China too much money." Again ridiculous baizuo thinking. America has got China by the balls over this, we can just print money to pay debts. China doesn't invest in America because they want control, they do it because it's a solid investment. Where else they going to put all their money? In China? Eww.
"The Europeans are incapable of any action at all without the US leading the way." God, Europe sucks. A millstone around our necks. Can't defend themselves, they're pussies. Always criticize us for everything we do, never a word of thanks. I'm struggling to remember the last time I thought "Well, good thing we have Europe on our side!" And they're baizuo to the max.
1. Immediately accuses other people of being shills
2. Launches into a long defense of megamillion dollar corporation
3. Assumes anyone listens to Slashdot any more, and thus will spend money on shills
4. Too late, realizes that people who buy Teslas do still populate Slashdot and thus this is a good place to spend a few brand management dollars posting positive comments
5. Psychological projection: always look at what people accuse others of doing, to see what they're thinking about themselves.
The basic problem is, when you're so far left in SJW, everything to the right of Mao Zedong looks like a nazi to you. Just label ordinary, non-controversial opinions as politically extreme, this way you don't have to think about them or consider that real people are really hurting in America. Just keep speaking truth to the powerless and bash the shit out of them, because it's fun and anyway the end goal is the destruction of America and the Constitution. Life is easier when all you have to do is criticize and set things on fire. Building is hard, you need STEM people and I read eww they're creepy and sexist.
Guardian proudly sponsors a campaign for foreigners to interfere in the 2004 election
Translation: Think of us first, and the needs of your own country last. F off foreigners, stop trying to influence our votes. Oh, but it was OK when they did it.
We're certainly paying attention to them here. Which of the following is a smarter career move at Google, in a CNN newsroom, or in the Yale faculty lounge: to admit to voting for Donald Trump, or to proudly proclaim you are a member of the Resistance?
Today things are worse than ever. There is a Nazi in the White House and the world is falling apart at the seams. Pollution, global warming, climate change are all desperate issues that need fixing immediately without any debate. Our problems with police, race and gender inequality, healthcare, income inequality, disregard for the environment, woefully inadequate education system, warmongering and recently insane politics with a president who continues to publically call for his detractors to lose their livelihood totally don't count.
Legal scholar Juan Cole describes Trumpâ(TM)s election this way: "How the U.S. went fascist." Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns terms Trumpâ(TM)s presidency "Hitleresque." Historian Ron Rosenbaum, author of "Explaining Hitler," insists that Trumpâ(TM)s tenure so far is based on a "playbook written in German. That playbook is 'Mein Kampf.'"
Keep it up! These are the sorts of tactics that are going to keep the Right in power for the next 50 years. Gratuitous insults and dehumanizing other people because they disagree with your far-left political opinions.
SJWs are real, as one of them recently said to me: "Someone please explain to me why I wouldnâ(TM)t want to be a Social Justice Warrior? It sounds badass and amazing."
Typical doublethink, can't even form a coherent thought. We want it but we don't want it. So sick of this crap.
Here it is again: "BACK OFF, AMERICA!"
America backs off
"Jesus Christ you're abandoning us, get back here! Isolationist!"
But it is the fact that 'progressives' such despicable tactics is precisely the issue, despite informing us that they are the good guys on every issue and only deplorable people would do otherwise.
Incredible to think that the ACLU once sued for the rights of nazis to march in the streets. They were in favor of the First Amendment back then. How times have changed!
And the ACLU *used to* fight legal battles on their behalf, arguing that they had a right to march just as much as anyone else. How times have changed, eh?
See, for example, a statement made by a protester at UC Berkeley in January 2017 at a protest event that turned into a violent riot: "Your free speech is raping and killing us."
This is why it's good that America is withdrawing from the world. Problems with police, race and gender inequality, healthcare, income inequality, disregard for the environment, woefully inadequate education system, warmongering and recently insane politics with a president who continues to publicly call for his detractors to lose their livelihood. Nobody wants to be the friend of such an awful country that engages in social Darwinism. Good riddance and the world won't miss them.
"as if every woman and minority is identical."
...but all white males are oppressors.
One country, two systems. There is a border check just like any into a foreign country. How do you think they stopped him? It's not like going from Texas to Louisana. PRC citizens can't even enter Hong Kong unless they have a special permit.
Share Blue was caught red-handed with hard proof that they were paying people to post. Yaknow, when you see opposition, it doesn't mean that they're being paid, too. The shill's punishment is not in the least that she is not believed but that she cannot believe anyone else.
Wow, this is a parody, right? I said shitting all over people and ridiculously exaggerating what they say was the problem, and you post a comment doing exactly that?
Damore actually comes across as a super reasonable guy who just wanted to help. Typical white male nerd. The diversity training he was forced to attend asked for ideas about why Google wasn't diverse enough, so Damore came up with some ideas like they asked. BOOM fired. Dude's not alt-right, but keep calling anyone you dislike a Nazi. He was a victim of a "hundred flowers campaign" style trick to get dissidents to expose themselves. Mao did the same thing to get hidden dissidents in the open and then nailed them to the wall just like Google did Damore.
Damore actually comes across as a super reasonable guy who just wanted to help. Typical white male nerd. The diversity training he was forced to attend asked for ideas about why Google wasn't diverse enough, so Damore came up with some ideas like they asked. BOOM fired. Dude's not alt-right, but keep calling anyone you dislike a Nazi.
You still don't get why Trump won. The sheer level of insufferable arrogance from upper-middle class liberals that dominate internet discussion is a massive reason why. A huge part of why nationalism (whether it's Trump or Brexit or populist parties Swedish Democrats in Sweden, Front Nationale in France, and others throughout Europe) is seeing such a surge in support is in opposition to the CONSTANT liberal circlejerking in the media and refusal to even consider that the working class isn't a bunch of idiotic, evil racists, but bases its vote on real world experiences that they go through and rational self interest.
They are sick and tired of sneering upper middle class liberals scaremongering about anybody who isn't part of the political establishment and being called racists for wanting to maintain a national sovereignty and set of values.People are sick and tired of ad hominems being the dominant form of discourse from the left whenever issues relating to protecting our national borders and culture come up. They are sick and tired of their acquaintances screaming on Facebook UNFRIEND ME IF YOU SUPPORT TRUMP YOU RACIST BIGOT.
The hilarious part is you think Slashdot has enough influence to bother spending on. It doesn't. Comments barely reach into the triple digits any more, and single digits aren't uncommon.
The real tragedy is that by Podesta creating the dolchstoss-legende blaming the foreigners, now any contradictory opinions look like propaganda. Considering we have hard proof that Share Blue did in fact astroturf a bunch of websites with paid commenters, that just makes it worse as far as confirmation bias goes. The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
You completely missed the point, didn't you? And called other people racist instead of thinking outside your bubble, which is par for the course. This is the result of our universities producing too many word thinkers. Yes I've worked with Taiwanese companies. Taiwanese value work results first, while Google values hard left culture first. Thus they are headed for a big culture clash, and Google being the owner is going to win. I'd guess more than 30% will quit (or more likely be fired) by Google.
Well, Google is in for some mass firings soon. There's going to be a huge culture clash between Google's far left SJW culture and Taiwan's meh don't care culture. If you think James Damore was bad (and he wasn't, the man was super reasonable, he was trying to help when Google's diversity classes told him they couldn't figure out why the company wasn't more diverse) then all these new Taiwanese employees are going to be a nightmare. You think these Taiwanese are going to go to the gay pride parade? People have been fired from Google for declining to attend. I bet Google learned from the Googlegate fiasco, and instead of highly public firings, will do quiet ones instead. Still, they're going to lose capable people due to the fact that the SJW culture sounds insane to people raised outside the bubble.
Like America? Have you even seen the approval ratings? Holy shit. ISIS is more popular worldwide. Americans are the least educated and knowledgeable of foreign affairs, languages, and disparate cultures, societies, and social norms amongst all Westernized countries and the least exposed universally.