So, let me get this straight. Either I agree with you, or I'm a racist. Is that right? That seems to me to be the conclusion. Homework: is this wrong when you do it, or was it wrong when Bu$hitler did it? Compare and contrast. Look up 'hypocrite' in the dictionary and be sure to use the word at least three times in your work.
I've lived in Tokyo. You're single. That's why you think Tokyo is so great. Moreover, in any giant urbanity of the world except Tokyo, there is rampant crime. I didn't hear you mention Tokyo's horrible pollution, either.
Yeah, they call the rest of us "bitterly clinging to guns and religion". Scary, isn't it? Wait, that's an Obama quote. Who do you think people from Apple support? Agree or disagree that ordinary Americans are bad people?
Look, the executives are lazy. They wouldn't move production offshore unless there was a good reason to do so. You think anyone can start a new factory in America? If you do, you're nuts. There is an entire entrenched lobby that does nothing but obstruct business. Why? Because they're firmly of the opinion that business is the root of all evil, and moreover business is what conservatives like so it is therefore wrong. Don't believe me? Ask any environmentalist or OWS'er what they think about a new factory opening.
I just hate American hero-building. It leads to unpleasant circumstances. Americans think of themselves as Superman, and we can all agree that Americans need to be taken down a notch.
Anti-Sully? How's that work? There's a fundamental difference between the two. The airline captain saved his own life; he had no way of escaping. That he saved the lives of others was a happy coincidence. The ship captain saved his own life and left his passengers...because he could. The airline captain didn't have that choice. Choosing to endanger yourself when you could clearly escape is heroism.
Sorry to be the one to puncture the image of well-loved heroes, but we all know 100% All-American heroes are frauds anyhow. I love how you advocate for execution, how typically American of you.
Ever had the thought that the contempt that intellectuals hold the rest of us in might be the cause of some of the bad feelings? How many intellectuals do you know who consider ordinary Americans to be 'dumbfucks'? What would you think about someone who considered you to be a dumbfuck?
The argument has been suppressed. That's why you don't hear about it. Sample quote:
Coates - who readily admitted that he barely knows what "standard deviation" is, which implies that his critique of Sullivan is anything but scientifically-based - questioned Sullivan's desire to explore the debate by suggesting that since the science behind racial IQ differences was once embraced by racists, slaveholders, and eugenicists that he can't help but project similar characteristics on anyone, today, who broaches the topic.
"Why are our minds and their capabilities among the most taboo topics in 21st-century academia? "I believe there are a number of factors involved," says Dennis Garlick, a postdoctoral researcher in psychology at UCLA and the author of Intelligence and the Brain: Solving the Mystery of Why People Differ in IQ and How a Child Can Be a Genius (Aesop, 2010). "Certainly a major factor is the race issue. Arguing that the races differ in IQ has tainted the whole field, and many researchers and commentators would prefer to just avoid the area for fear of being labeled racists."
It's like how people who read the New York Times are woefully uninformed on the Gunwalker scandal. It's been suppressed as it's an inconvenient truth. If you have no idea what the Gunwalker scandal is...well, you just proved the point, didn't you?
The Geneva convention only applies if BOTH sides agree. In addition, both sides must be nation-states. How does a non-state actor ratify the convention? Answer: they can't. Moreover, under the Geneva convention, what is the proper treatment for a captured terrorist? If you said anything but "immediate battlefield execution", you really need to read the Geneva convention before running your mouth off about it.
I saw this on Weibo, the Chinese twitter, a few weeks ago. Loosely translating from memory:
The first time I went to Los Angeles in the mid 90s, while we were lining up to land in the airliner, I was dazzled by the lit-up sky. Thousands of lights, all sparkling in the darkness. Nothing like what we had in China. I recently went to America again, and commented to my colleague that the sky looked rather plain and dark. My colleague didn't understand what I meant. Upon reflection, the meaning was not that America was dark...but that China was so bright.
The post had thousands of replies, mostly consisting of "China is strong now". I put my reply in about light pollution laws in America, but you know nobody would listen. I couldn't even find "light pollution" in my online dictionary to translate, it's possible the concept does not exist in the Chinese language.
Does anyone reading this think that 1700% profit is obscene? What the hell? In which sort of Bizarro World is this sort of thing acceptable? Why is the perpetrator not in prison?
We have a deep mistrust of our government. It is one thing to force the uneducated into censorship. But those of us who use the internet have at least a basic education, and we don't like the government meddling in any of our affairs. especially if we can't see a justification in it.
What irks many of us, is the fact that the government spends too little of our tax money in the right places.
So, in other words, in America you would be Teabaggers. Excuse me if I totally ignore your viewpoint. You're a rightwing nutbag and your views have no place in civilized society./i
Who, other than me, thinks that this would be a non-story if it weren't able to be blamed on THOSE EVIL FOREIGNERS. This story would be buried otherwise.
Well, what we have here is a troll by the editors. Obviously, the end-result is preordained. USA=bad. Can there be any other acceptable outcome? Can you imagine, for example, a Slashdot story that ends with "USA soldiers good, enemy bad"? Of course not, it doesn't fit "the narrative". Moreover, such a story would help "all the wrong people".
Ohmygod, the people who were trying to kill our soldiers, got killed themselves, in poetic justice. And, most damning of all, USA soldiers were revealed as people who take pleasure in defeating the enemy. We MUST MUST MUST invalidate this, in any way possible. USA soldiers are bloodthirsty thugs of a fascist regime - pretty much the same as depicted in Soviet propaganda circa 1962.
Interesting that Abu Ghraib was mentioned. It's an atrocity, to be sure. Men were made to wear panties on their heads. Just a point of curiosity and intellectual honesty here: can any of you name an atrocity committed by the enemy? Serious question. (1) I bet you can't. (2) If you worked for the New York Times, would your editor allow you to publish the facts of such atrocities? (3) What would be her justification for suppressing such news? (4) Why would you agree with her justification? (5) You disagree with the entire concept of 'enemy', unless it's defined as a fellow American.
If there's one thing I learned from playing Railroad Baron in DOS, it's rail tunnels are horrendously expensive and should be avoided whenever possible. Now, they're building tunnels just so someone doesn't have to see the train?
That's great that you, you know, live in London. As in, you can afford the outrageous cost of living there, and take what must be an exquisite pleasure to lecture the rest of us on transportation. I love how you recommend thieves' dens of stolen merchandise (you called them 'museums' I believe, an interesting bowdlerism if there ever was one) with a straight face.
Surely, being a well-heeled Londoner, you must be acquainted with the idea that if something is free, then it must be worthless. Otherwise, the Great Unwashed will be all over it.
Please stop bashing the educated. They know better than you. If there's some problem, it's that the professor needs a technician to cover the technical details of his lesson. Being educated is about being educated, it's how to learn, not how to operate this year's version of newfangled machines. How about having a conversation about Proust with the projector-turner-on'er? Yeah, that's about what I thought.
Stop insulting the educated. Just stop doing it. You're a Sarah Palin supporter, aren't you?
So, why don't the good guys raise some cash and start bribing politicians? This sort of thing goes both ways, you know. Evil is bribing Neutral...surely Neutral, being neutral, is equally amenable to Good's money as well? At the very least it drives the price up for Evil.
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So, let me get this straight. Either I agree with you, or I'm a racist. Is that right? That seems to me to be the conclusion. Homework: is this wrong when you do it, or was it wrong when Bu$hitler did it? Compare and contrast. Look up 'hypocrite' in the dictionary and be sure to use the word at least three times in your work.
So, you voted purely based on sex? How does that make you any better than Samuel L. Jackson?
I wonder who the first person to say 'shit' was?
I've lived in Tokyo. You're single. That's why you think Tokyo is so great. Moreover, in any giant urbanity of the world except Tokyo, there is rampant crime. I didn't hear you mention Tokyo's horrible pollution, either.
Yeah, they call the rest of us "bitterly clinging to guns and religion". Scary, isn't it? Wait, that's an Obama quote. Who do you think people from Apple support? Agree or disagree that ordinary Americans are bad people?
Look, the executives are lazy. They wouldn't move production offshore unless there was a good reason to do so. You think anyone can start a new factory in America? If you do, you're nuts. There is an entire entrenched lobby that does nothing but obstruct business. Why? Because they're firmly of the opinion that business is the root of all evil, and moreover business is what conservatives like so it is therefore wrong. Don't believe me? Ask any environmentalist or OWS'er what they think about a new factory opening.
I just hate American hero-building. It leads to unpleasant circumstances. Americans think of themselves as Superman, and we can all agree that Americans need to be taken down a notch.
Sorry to be the one to puncture the image of well-loved heroes, but we all know 100% All-American heroes are frauds anyhow. I love how you advocate for execution, how typically American of you.
Ever had the thought that the contempt that intellectuals hold the rest of us in might be the cause of some of the bad feelings? How many intellectuals do you know who consider ordinary Americans to be 'dumbfucks'? What would you think about someone who considered you to be a dumbfuck?
The argument has been suppressed. That's why you don't hear about it. Sample quote:
Coates - who readily admitted that he barely knows what "standard deviation" is, which implies that his critique of Sullivan is anything but scientifically-based - questioned Sullivan's desire to explore the debate by suggesting that since the science behind racial IQ differences was once embraced by racists, slaveholders, and eugenicists that he can't help but project similar characteristics on anyone, today, who broaches the topic.
Need any more citations? They're out there. Here's another from alternet:
"Why are our minds and their capabilities among the most taboo topics in 21st-century academia? "I believe there are a number of factors involved," says Dennis Garlick, a postdoctoral researcher in psychology at UCLA and the author of Intelligence and the Brain: Solving the Mystery of Why People Differ in IQ and How a Child Can Be a Genius (Aesop, 2010). "Certainly a major factor is the race issue. Arguing that the races differ in IQ has tainted the whole field, and many researchers and commentators would prefer to just avoid the area for fear of being labeled racists."
It's like how people who read the New York Times are woefully uninformed on the Gunwalker scandal. It's been suppressed as it's an inconvenient truth. If you have no idea what the Gunwalker scandal is...well, you just proved the point, didn't you?
The nuclear hand grenade. The blast radius was far, far greater than any distance you could throw the thing. You didn't test it? Traitor!
Bu$hitler, you mean. Remember kids, no matter how far-fetched the connection is, you can always blame it on Bush. It's the national sport!
The Geneva convention only applies if BOTH sides agree. In addition, both sides must be nation-states. How does a non-state actor ratify the convention? Answer: they can't. Moreover, under the Geneva convention, what is the proper treatment for a captured terrorist? If you said anything but "immediate battlefield execution", you really need to read the Geneva convention before running your mouth off about it.
I saw this on Weibo, the Chinese twitter, a few weeks ago. Loosely translating from memory:
The first time I went to Los Angeles in the mid 90s, while we were lining up to land in the airliner, I was dazzled by the lit-up sky. Thousands of lights, all sparkling in the darkness. Nothing like what we had in China. I recently went to America again, and commented to my colleague that the sky looked rather plain and dark. My colleague didn't understand what I meant. Upon reflection, the meaning was not that America was dark...but that China was so bright.
The post had thousands of replies, mostly consisting of "China is strong now". I put my reply in about light pollution laws in America, but you know nobody would listen. I couldn't even find "light pollution" in my online dictionary to translate, it's possible the concept does not exist in the Chinese language.
Does anyone reading this think that 1700% profit is obscene? What the hell? In which sort of Bizarro World is this sort of thing acceptable? Why is the perpetrator not in prison?
What irks many of us, is the fact that the government spends too little of our tax money in the right places.
So, in other words, in America you would be Teabaggers. Excuse me if I totally ignore your viewpoint. You're a rightwing nutbag and your views have no place in civilized society./i
Who, other than me, thinks that this would be a non-story if it weren't able to be blamed on THOSE EVIL FOREIGNERS. This story would be buried otherwise.
Well, what we have here is a troll by the editors. Obviously, the end-result is preordained. USA=bad. Can there be any other acceptable outcome? Can you imagine, for example, a Slashdot story that ends with "USA soldiers good, enemy bad"? Of course not, it doesn't fit "the narrative". Moreover, such a story would help "all the wrong people".
Ohmygod, the people who were trying to kill our soldiers, got killed themselves, in poetic justice. And, most damning of all, USA soldiers were revealed as people who take pleasure in defeating the enemy. We MUST MUST MUST invalidate this, in any way possible. USA soldiers are bloodthirsty thugs of a fascist regime - pretty much the same as depicted in Soviet propaganda circa 1962.
Interesting that Abu Ghraib was mentioned. It's an atrocity, to be sure. Men were made to wear panties on their heads. Just a point of curiosity and intellectual honesty here: can any of you name an atrocity committed by the enemy? Serious question. (1) I bet you can't. (2) If you worked for the New York Times, would your editor allow you to publish the facts of such atrocities? (3) What would be her justification for suppressing such news? (4) Why would you agree with her justification? (5) You disagree with the entire concept of 'enemy', unless it's defined as a fellow American.
What, they shouldn't? Just imagine how much better America would be if the smart people were in charge.
If there's one thing I learned from playing Railroad Baron in DOS, it's rail tunnels are horrendously expensive and should be avoided whenever possible. Now, they're building tunnels just so someone doesn't have to see the train?
That's great that you, you know, live in London. As in, you can afford the outrageous cost of living there, and take what must be an exquisite pleasure to lecture the rest of us on transportation. I love how you recommend thieves' dens of stolen merchandise (you called them 'museums' I believe, an interesting bowdlerism if there ever was one) with a straight face.
Surely, being a well-heeled Londoner, you must be acquainted with the idea that if something is free, then it must be worthless. Otherwise, the Great Unwashed will be all over it.
You might as well tell people to stop calling it a "DNS Server". It'll have about the same effect.
Stop insulting the educated. Just stop doing it. You're a Sarah Palin supporter, aren't you?
So, why don't the good guys raise some cash and start bribing politicians? This sort of thing goes both ways, you know. Evil is bribing Neutral...surely Neutral, being neutral, is equally amenable to Good's money as well? At the very least it drives the price up for Evil.
Yeah, you just got trolled. Good job replying, fool. Sheep. Moron.