OK either you have the world's worst imagination or you're being deliberately obtuse. Follow along with me here. Of you know your car can drive itself, will you be more likely to get in knowing you're loaded? My hypothesis is "yes". This is indeed a novel phenomenon. Was that so hard?
Huh? #1 it wasn't hysteria, they really did mean to overthrow our government. Just like they did so many other countries. #2 advocating the overthrow of our democratic government is NOT free speech. The constitution is not a suicide pact. Moreover it is beyond bizarre to see a far leftist, of all people, advocating for the First Amendment. WTF you people don't believe in freedom of speech! You censor all the time!
It's just Bizarro World to see Slashdot's resident far leftist engage in nativism, protectionism, and flag-waving bigotry that would make flyover country's heart swell with pride. What The Hell, Hero?
It's so easy to spot paid commenters these days. IP theft claim is exaggerated. Sure thing, Mr. Zhang. Your English sure is good. You went to school in America, didn't you?
Why?? The rest of the West has made it quite clear they despise America in general and Trump specifically. Why should we do anything for you ungrateful jerks? You've been very ugly about it, like an ex-wife trashing her former husband. Really hateful and nobody doubts that you were dead serious.
Make your own deals; stand on your own two feet. Daddy Trump is kicking you out of the basement and into the real world. It's for your own good. Learn to do things on your own.
If they're such idiots, how'd they get China to back down? You think maybe for once you could cheer for a victory for America instead of partisan viciousness? You're dividing us and making us fight with one another - exactly what Putin wants.
Are we in Bizarro World? The Left has spent the last few decades burning down civility as you consider it a tool of oppression. Now that you have power, suddenly we need to be civil? This makes zero sense.
Are you deliberately missing the point, or do you have an inability to see the other sides of issues. Would he have even gotten in the car if he didn't know people he had autopilot to fall back on? Sheesh.
The car didn't come to a complete stop. The cops had to stop it.
Would he have fallen asleep if the car didn't have "autopilot"? Sounds like he just got comfortable and drifted off. And why not? The car drives itself.
Sounds like with the climate emergency going on, that we're going to have to start bombing these coal plants. We already make war for energy, it's about time we started doing it for the climate.
Oh, look, Greenpeace is infuriated at something. How unusual.
Just checking, is this the same Greenpeace that slandered genetically modified foods? Why yes it is!
"More than 100 Nobel Prize winners in physics, chemistry, medicine and other sciences this week signed a blistering letter attacking Greenpeace's "fact-challenged propaganda campaign against innovations in agricultural biotechnology."
"Greenpeace and their allies have claimed falsely that GMOS are dangerous, untested and inadequately regulated," the letter states. "But the science telling us GM crops and foods are safe has been confirmed by vast experience."
The letter goes on to point out that "As we have shown elsewhere, we know that GMOS are at least as safe as crops produced with other breeding methods. The only time a safety difference has been found the GMOs have been safer."
Worse, the latest target of Greenpeace's anti-GMO campaign is a type of rice â" called Golden Rice â" that would "reduce or eliminate much of the death and disease caused by vitamin A deficiency, which has the greatest impact on the poorest people in Africa and Southeastern Asia."
Greenpeace, mind you, is the same organization that thinks "climate change denial" is a crime worth prosecuting.
To show just how truly muddle-headed Greenpeace is, a recent study published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature found that the use of GMOs can help fight climate change by cutting methane emissions. Which means Greenpeace's anti-science GMO stance trumps its allegedly pro-science climate-change fanaticism.
Greenpeace isn't alone on the left-wing fringes here.
A Pew Research Center survey found, for example, that just over a third of Democrats think GMOs are safe to eat. Translation: two-thirds of Democrats are anti-science."
OK, I'll bite: who were some of the people who were accused who were innocent?
We aren't talking about people going to jail here. You just can't serve in the US government when your goal is to overthrow said government. That's all.
Communism isn't an "entire population" thing, it's an ideology. Nice job throwing genocide in there, though. Not even everyone in Russia was Communist. Only a few percent of their population were Communists, and they nonetheless dominated over a hundred million of their countrymen. They invented the GULAG.
Communist spies, not Russian. None of them were Russian, as far as I know. Homegrown traitors.
McCarthy pushing his own agenda? What was that, exactly? Getting people who advocate the overthrow of democracy out of government? That's a pretty sound agenda.
I know rather a lot about the period, in fact. Yes, the Nationalist government was absolutely chock full of secret Communists who not only sabotaged important tasks but turned over whole cities and provinces. Why? Because their loyalty wasn't to their country - that's nationalism! The UN just told us that nationalism is bad, remember? They had a higher goal: internationalism. All countries should unite under Communism so the government can fairly proportion out all resources.
It turned out rather badly for them. Rather badly indeed. And by rather badly I mean TENS OF MILLIONS OF HUMAN BEINGS DIED.
And if not for Bush's screw-up, Saddam would have never gotten the idea into his head and the entire disaster would never have happened. It's not a conspiracy theory but thanks for using a term popularized by the CIA (yes!) to discredit people. How's it feel, being on their side? I hope it pays well. And if you're not being paid, you should be. You're a sucker to defend them in public for free.
It's not nuttery. Far from it. After the Soviet Union fell, we got to see just how many communist sympathizers and traitors there really were. There were a lot. Many people we think of today as unjustly accused were in fact justly accused.
Why would the communists NOT want to run a campaign of subversion and undermining? It's how they operated. After WWII communism was *on a roll*. They overthrew government after government with these tactics. China was the big one. The legitimate Chinese government was full of secret communists who abused their positions of trust to aid the communists to take over. This is established historical fact and not under debate.
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OK either you have the world's worst imagination or you're being deliberately obtuse. Follow along with me here. Of you know your car can drive itself, will you be more likely to get in knowing you're loaded? My hypothesis is "yes". This is indeed a novel phenomenon. Was that so hard?
Huh? #1 it wasn't hysteria, they really did mean to overthrow our government. Just like they did so many other countries. #2 advocating the overthrow of our democratic government is NOT free speech. The constitution is not a suicide pact. Moreover it is beyond bizarre to see a far leftist, of all people, advocating for the First Amendment. WTF you people don't believe in freedom of speech! You censor all the time!
It's just Bizarro World to see Slashdot's resident far leftist engage in nativism, protectionism, and flag-waving bigotry that would make flyover country's heart swell with pride. What The Hell, Hero?
It's so easy to spot paid commenters these days. IP theft claim is exaggerated. Sure thing, Mr. Zhang. Your English sure is good. You went to school in America, didn't you?
Why?? The rest of the West has made it quite clear they despise America in general and Trump specifically. Why should we do anything for you ungrateful jerks? You've been very ugly about it, like an ex-wife trashing her former husband. Really hateful and nobody doubts that you were dead serious.
Make your own deals; stand on your own two feet. Daddy Trump is kicking you out of the basement and into the real world. It's for your own good. Learn to do things on your own.
If they're such idiots, how'd they get China to back down? You think maybe for once you could cheer for a victory for America instead of partisan viciousness? You're dividing us and making us fight with one another - exactly what Putin wants.
You just praised Trump, the man who has been frequently non-ironically compared to Adolf Hitler by serious, sober journalists.
Are we in Bizarro World? The Left has spent the last few decades burning down civility as you consider it a tool of oppression. Now that you have power, suddenly we need to be civil? This makes zero sense.
Are you deliberately missing the point, or do you have an inability to see the other sides of issues. Would he have even gotten in the car if he didn't know people he had autopilot to fall back on? Sheesh.
Ah, but without the "autopilot", would he even have gotten behind the wheel in the first place? After all, it drives for you.
The car didn't come to a complete stop. The cops had to stop it.
Would he have fallen asleep if the car didn't have "autopilot"? Sounds like he just got comfortable and drifted off. And why not? The car drives itself.
So using the word fuck is being an asshole now? Wow, you people really are fragile snowflakes.
The intent of controlling other people's speech is pretty fucking bad.
Sounds like with the climate emergency going on, that we're going to have to start bombing these coal plants. We already make war for energy, it's about time we started doing it for the climate.
Oh, look, Greenpeace is infuriated at something. How unusual.
Just checking, is this the same Greenpeace that slandered genetically modified foods? Why yes it is!
"More than 100 Nobel Prize winners in physics, chemistry, medicine and other sciences this week signed a blistering letter attacking Greenpeace's "fact-challenged propaganda campaign against innovations in agricultural biotechnology."
"Greenpeace and their allies have claimed falsely that GMOS are dangerous, untested and inadequately regulated," the letter states. "But the science telling us GM crops and foods are safe has been confirmed by vast experience."
The letter goes on to point out that "As we have shown elsewhere, we know that GMOS are at least as safe as crops produced with other breeding methods. The only time a safety difference has been found the GMOs have been safer."
Worse, the latest target of Greenpeace's anti-GMO campaign is a type of rice â" called Golden Rice â" that would "reduce or eliminate much of the death and disease caused by vitamin A deficiency, which has the greatest impact on the poorest people in Africa and Southeastern Asia."
Greenpeace, mind you, is the same organization that thinks "climate change denial" is a crime worth prosecuting.
To show just how truly muddle-headed Greenpeace is, a recent study published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature found that the use of GMOs can help fight climate change by cutting methane emissions. Which means Greenpeace's anti-science GMO stance trumps its allegedly pro-science climate-change fanaticism.
Greenpeace isn't alone on the left-wing fringes here.
A Pew Research Center survey found, for example, that just over a third of Democrats think GMOs are safe to eat. Translation: two-thirds of Democrats are anti-science."
OK, I'll bite: who were some of the people who were accused who were innocent?
We aren't talking about people going to jail here. You just can't serve in the US government when your goal is to overthrow said government. That's all.
Communism isn't an "entire population" thing, it's an ideology. Nice job throwing genocide in there, though. Not even everyone in Russia was Communist. Only a few percent of their population were Communists, and they nonetheless dominated over a hundred million of their countrymen. They invented the GULAG.
Communist spies, not Russian. None of them were Russian, as far as I know. Homegrown traitors.
McCarthy pushing his own agenda? What was that, exactly? Getting people who advocate the overthrow of democracy out of government? That's a pretty sound agenda.
The US backed Saddam during the Iran-Iraq war, genius.
I know rather a lot about the period, in fact. Yes, the Nationalist government was absolutely chock full of secret Communists who not only sabotaged important tasks but turned over whole cities and provinces. Why? Because their loyalty wasn't to their country - that's nationalism! The UN just told us that nationalism is bad, remember? They had a higher goal: internationalism. All countries should unite under Communism so the government can fairly proportion out all resources.
It turned out rather badly for them. Rather badly indeed. And by rather badly I mean TENS OF MILLIONS OF HUMAN BEINGS DIED.
ORANGE MAN BAD? Wow, seriously? Damn I've been talking to an NPC. Wow, I didn't realize it .
I think maybe you don't know what Pastoralism is. Hint: it's not what you think.
And if not for Bush's screw-up, Saddam would have never gotten the idea into his head and the entire disaster would never have happened. It's not a conspiracy theory but thanks for using a term popularized by the CIA (yes!) to discredit people. How's it feel, being on their side? I hope it pays well. And if you're not being paid, you should be. You're a sucker to defend them in public for free.
It's not nuttery. Far from it. After the Soviet Union fell, we got to see just how many communist sympathizers and traitors there really were. There were a lot. Many people we think of today as unjustly accused were in fact justly accused.
Why would the communists NOT want to run a campaign of subversion and undermining? It's how they operated. After WWII communism was *on a roll*. They overthrew government after government with these tactics. China was the big one. The legitimate Chinese government was full of secret communists who abused their positions of trust to aid the communists to take over. This is established historical fact and not under debate.
Fun fact: guess what Obama's approval rating was at the same time in his presidency? No, lower...
So did we miss the part where Bush's State Department mandarins sent a message to Saddam that he interpreted as being the green light to invade?