Ah, I had wondered what happened. All the media coverage has been focused on the riots, not why the riots happened, nor who was rioting. I assumed it was a minority group because the media was studiously avoiding any mention of the characteristics of the rioters.
This move had zero to do with economics, and everything to do with getting revenge on the teabaggers. Gonna block Obama? We're going to downgrade your credit rating, math be damned. These fuckwits have to be taught that their actions have consequences. Government is here to help, not harm. Taxes are good, not bad. Hopefully the FBI will move in soon and start busting teabaggers for terrorism - we can only hope.
Nice shitty little ad hominem attack there. SETI was defunded by the US government a long time ago because they're a bunch of slackjaws who couldn't write a decent grant proposal. Their amateur hour effort got laughed out of Congress.
It's all the Tea party's fault? Come on, you've got the wrong narrative here. The "flash mobs" are African-Americans, and this new enforcement is just racism. Philadelphia is a highly liberal area. Of course, the idea that liberals are using the thug police to oppress African-Americans is bound to cause some cognitive dissonance, but it's nothing that reading some Marx won't cure.
The Constitution is a living document, each generation interprets it differently. Maybe you skipped that class in law school? It's not some sort of idiot ironclad piece of paper. Lemme guess, you're a neocon, right?
Funny, schools were once considered a place where students would exercise body and mind, as they are two parts of one whole. I guess that's over, who needs exercise when the chee-tos are right there?
Now, the wildlife biologist is on administrative leave and facing accusations of scientific misconduct.
Come on. We're all adults here. We all are fully aware that global warming climate change activism is just misusing science to obtain good political results. What does it matter about the facts, so long as the narrative is correct? If climate change is "scientifically" true, then it follows that a lot of desirable political changes need to be made. Remember the Kyoto treaty? The entire idea was to destroy the evil capitalist economies of the West, while excluding the economies of Brazil, China, and India, all of whom are huge polluters. Why can't we get competent scientists who can make their results ironclad, so that we don't have this conflict between the truth and the narrative? I just don't get it. The changes they desire are good, there can be no question. Was climate change the appropriate vehicle to attach their political aspirations? After all, if a political point can be proven by science then anyone opposing it is not a noble dissenter, but a denialist. It brings to mind the old Soviet Union, when people were imprisoned for denying the scientific proof of Marxism. Why can't we imprison climate change denialists? What the fuck is wrong with these people who won't recognize scientific facts?
As if Americans are the only people on the planet to think themselves special. Pfffff...gimme a break! Hint: every country thinks that they're special and different, and stand out from all others. The Chinese certainly do. Their country's name means "the center of the world" rather than the more literal "middle kingdom" translation that gets thrown around. Pick a culture, they'll tell you why they're special. And yet it's a mortal sin for any American to think so.
OH, you're one of THOSE. Pfft. Shanghai foreigners. Pudong, no less. You're either a teacher or a multinat, and in either case a total douchebag. Please don't confuse Shanghai with China, and please don't offer me translation hints in the future.
they don't air what you call "inconvenient truths"--if they are actually falsehoods
So why do they air global warming propaganda? Falsehoods, from beginning to end. Yet, this topic somehow makes the cut, day after day. An inconvenient truth, eh?
I'm sorry, but Chinese people as a whole totally lack imagination. It comes from their culture. They are static, all the wisdom worth knowing was perfected hundreds of years ago by much wiser and sober men than live today. Lots of good parts to their culture, the family bonds for one. Families stick together, for better or for worse. It really saddens me to view America from afar and see how badly families with children are regarded among the overeducated classes. But the lack of creativity is real. Individual Chinese may display magnificent qualities. I've known a few who were just outstanding. But as a whole, they always go back to that "someone else already did this, and better, so let's copy them" attitude inherited from the past.
I've actually known people who wanted to open a business, but despaired as they couldn't find anything worthy of copying. My attitude of "do what you know, whatever it is, and do it better than anyone else" is apparently Western in origin, and too foreign to understand.
I found myself at a personal low tide a few weeks ago. A friend commissioned me to create a website for his trading company. I'm sitting there, trying to make this new website look just like the one he likes on the net. I'm freaking copying the product descriptions and dimensions straight out of his competitor's catalogue, posting the photos which he somehow obtained (exactly the same as said catalogue), and wondering what sort of path led me to this point. *sigh* I've been here too long.
It's nice to hear that you hate people who think differently from you. Tolerance? Understanding? F that, eh? That's only for them to use when dealing with us.
And what's with the "for God's sake" bullshit there? Christian, are you?
Yeah, guess what: when you declare yourself an enemy of the United States government, and then take steps towards that goal, the US government tends to take you at your word. Torture? Gimme a F-in break. Torture is having bamboo splinters forced up your fingernails. Torture is not the European confinement model, with weekends off. What happened to social disobedience of the Ghandi style, where it is assumed that you will spend time in jail? Manning should be proud to serve his time, as it makes him a greater martyr when his fellow travelers put pressure on the government and force him to be released in violation of US sentencing guidelines.
Sorry to be the one to break the news to you, but the second world ceased to exist when the Soviet Bloc disintegrated in 1991. That was twenty years ago. Please stop misusing this obsolete term.
And good riddance to it. Maybe now we can spend money on actual worthwhile things instead of playtoys for eggheads. Seriously...the space shuttle? It should have been cancelled back in the 80s when it became clear that it sucked and would never do what we wanted it to do (go up and down faster than a two dollar whore).
If it makes the America Firsters cry, more's the better. USians need another dozen or so such public humiliations until they begin to start to perceive the faint belief that other countries are better than them.
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Ah, I had wondered what happened. All the media coverage has been focused on the riots, not why the riots happened, nor who was rioting. I assumed it was a minority group because the media was studiously avoiding any mention of the characteristics of the rioters.
This move had zero to do with economics, and everything to do with getting revenge on the teabaggers. Gonna block Obama? We're going to downgrade your credit rating, math be damned. These fuckwits have to be taught that their actions have consequences. Government is here to help, not harm. Taxes are good, not bad. Hopefully the FBI will move in soon and start busting teabaggers for terrorism - we can only hope.
Nice shitty little ad hominem attack there. SETI was defunded by the US government a long time ago because they're a bunch of slackjaws who couldn't write a decent grant proposal. Their amateur hour effort got laughed out of Congress.
It's all the Tea party's fault? Come on, you've got the wrong narrative here. The "flash mobs" are African-Americans, and this new enforcement is just racism. Philadelphia is a highly liberal area. Of course, the idea that liberals are using the thug police to oppress African-Americans is bound to cause some cognitive dissonance, but it's nothing that reading some Marx won't cure.
So, the No True Scotsman fallacy to the rescue! My, isn't that useful! Where would Marxist thought be without it?
"the positives of actual Marxist ideals"? What, like jailing anyone who doesn't agree with Marxist thought?
The Constitution is a living document, each generation interprets it differently. Maybe you skipped that class in law school? It's not some sort of idiot ironclad piece of paper. Lemme guess, you're a neocon, right?
Funny, schools were once considered a place where students would exercise body and mind, as they are two parts of one whole. I guess that's over, who needs exercise when the chee-tos are right there?
Sigh. Another teabagger. DC is a majority African-American area, putting a waste dump there would be racist. Why am I not surprised here?
Just five years ago, Charles Monnett was one of the scientists whose observation that several polar bears had drowned in the Arctic Ocean helped galvanize the global warming movement.
Now, the wildlife biologist is on administrative leave and facing accusations of scientific misconduct.
Come on. We're all adults here. We all are fully aware that global warming climate change activism is just misusing science to obtain good political results. What does it matter about the facts, so long as the narrative is correct? If climate change is "scientifically" true, then it follows that a lot of desirable political changes need to be made. Remember the Kyoto treaty? The entire idea was to destroy the evil capitalist economies of the West, while excluding the economies of Brazil, China, and India, all of whom are huge polluters. Why can't we get competent scientists who can make their results ironclad, so that we don't have this conflict between the truth and the narrative? I just don't get it. The changes they desire are good, there can be no question. Was climate change the appropriate vehicle to attach their political aspirations? After all, if a political point can be proven by science then anyone opposing it is not a noble dissenter, but a denialist. It brings to mind the old Soviet Union, when people were imprisoned for denying the scientific proof of Marxism. Why can't we imprison climate change denialists? What the fuck is wrong with these people who won't recognize scientific facts?
As if Americans are the only people on the planet to think themselves special. Pfffff...gimme a break! Hint: every country thinks that they're special and different, and stand out from all others. The Chinese certainly do. Their country's name means "the center of the world" rather than the more literal "middle kingdom" translation that gets thrown around. Pick a culture, they'll tell you why they're special. And yet it's a mortal sin for any American to think so.
OH, you're one of THOSE. Pfft. Shanghai foreigners. Pudong, no less. You're either a teacher or a multinat, and in either case a total douchebag. Please don't confuse Shanghai with China, and please don't offer me translation hints in the future.
You seem to have your definitions confused. The whole world doesn't use your arbitrary distinctions. I have never ever heard the Shanghai maglev called anything but the maglev. Bullet train, by contrast, is in wide use to describe the dongche.
Typical journalist bullshit lack-of-fact-checking. The D trains go to 251kph, I've seen it on the in-car display.
BZZT wrong, the one in Shanghai is a maglev. I use bullet trains as a translation of dongche all the time.
Here it is, bigotry and hatred, right out on display in public and modded funny. Disgraceful.
they don't air what you call "inconvenient truths"--if they are actually falsehoods
So why do they air global warming propaganda? Falsehoods, from beginning to end. Yet, this topic somehow makes the cut, day after day. An inconvenient truth, eh?
I know we've been repeating this to each other for years, but it's nice to see it backed up every now and then.
This is what NPR does with convenient truths. What do you think NPR does with inconvenient truths? Hint: they don't get broadcast time.
Take your Western prejudice and stick it where the sun don't shine, fuckwit.
I'm sorry, but Chinese people as a whole totally lack imagination. It comes from their culture. They are static, all the wisdom worth knowing was perfected hundreds of years ago by much wiser and sober men than live today. Lots of good parts to their culture, the family bonds for one. Families stick together, for better or for worse. It really saddens me to view America from afar and see how badly families with children are regarded among the overeducated classes. But the lack of creativity is real. Individual Chinese may display magnificent qualities. I've known a few who were just outstanding. But as a whole, they always go back to that "someone else already did this, and better, so let's copy them" attitude inherited from the past.
I've actually known people who wanted to open a business, but despaired as they couldn't find anything worthy of copying. My attitude of "do what you know, whatever it is, and do it better than anyone else" is apparently Western in origin, and too foreign to understand.
I found myself at a personal low tide a few weeks ago. A friend commissioned me to create a website for his trading company. I'm sitting there, trying to make this new website look just like the one he likes on the net. I'm freaking copying the product descriptions and dimensions straight out of his competitor's catalogue, posting the photos which he somehow obtained (exactly the same as said catalogue), and wondering what sort of path led me to this point. *sigh* I've been here too long.
And what's with the "for God's sake" bullshit there? Christian, are you?
Yeah, guess what: when you declare yourself an enemy of the United States government, and then take steps towards that goal, the US government tends to take you at your word. Torture? Gimme a F-in break. Torture is having bamboo splinters forced up your fingernails. Torture is not the European confinement model, with weekends off. What happened to social disobedience of the Ghandi style, where it is assumed that you will spend time in jail? Manning should be proud to serve his time, as it makes him a greater martyr when his fellow travelers put pressure on the government and force him to be released in violation of US sentencing guidelines.
Sorry to be the one to break the news to you, but the second world ceased to exist when the Soviet Bloc disintegrated in 1991. That was twenty years ago. Please stop misusing this obsolete term.
If it makes the America Firsters cry, more's the better. USians need another dozen or so such public humiliations until they begin to start to perceive the faint belief that other countries are better than them.
And yet we still somehow end up in the same city when the plane lands. Imagine that.
By the way London to Amsterdam should be by public transit, thanks for killing the planet with carbon emissions, asshole.