Japan did indeed do a tremendous amount of damage to the American working class. Japanese products were free to sell into the American market, but they were allowed by the US government to set tariffs and trade barriers to American goods. It wasn't an equal playing field.
Saying China must take the same path as Japan just because they're both Asian? That's racist. Moreover a lot of people would applaud the downfall of American civilization so be careful what you ask for. The entire world hates America for its warmongering and interference in elections.
If I had to define "tolerance" it would be something like "respect and kindness toward members of an outgroup".
The Emperor summons before him Bodhidharma and asks: "Master, I have been tolerant of innumerable gays, lesbians, bisexuals, asexuals, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, transgender people, and Jews. How many Virtue Points have I earned for my meritorious deeds?"
Bodhidharma answers: "None at all".
The Emperor, somewhat put out, demands to know why.
Bodhidharma asks: "Well, what do you think of gay people?"
The Emperor answers: "What do you think I am, some kind of homophobic bigot? Of course I have nothing against gay people!"
And Bodhidharma answers: "Thus do you gain no merit by tolerating them!"
LOL an argument against democracy. Don't let those people vote, they might choose wrong! I love how people go for fascism as soon as they don't get the "correct" result. That's democracy folks: you can't always get what you want.
The US government is a serial warmonger. China hasn't started even a single war in decades. You think people haven't noticed that? You think Libya or Syria enjoys being how it is? Or Iraq?
China is crippled by their lack of diversity. China does not allow immigration, and their country is 99% racially the same. This is poison for a knowledge economy, and the fact that they don't admit refugees virtually guarantees they're going down, sooner rather than later. Don't worry about China, they've already sealed their fate unless they somehow come to their senses and open the borders.
A lot of people believe in the China Model. There will never be a Trump in China, and that alone has a lot of endorsement. The Chinese government need not waste its time in friction when it can be turned into momentum. No endless chatter on news shows or fake news memos issued by political partisans in Congress. Instead, China makes a decision, and then *does* it. That has a lot of attraction as a way forward to the future. Heck, the New York Times itself publicly admired the China Model and did not retract or apologize for the story.
America never really was a "Global Force for Good" in my lifetime (born after 1945). I've experienced the US as being one of the most expansionist powers in modern history that refused to sign most human rights treaties, isn't a party to the International Criminal Court, all too willing to cozy up to dictators and in a state of perpetual war.
The faux "Pax Americana" brought us unprovoked wars, illegal coups, regime changes, shock and awe, ultra-right wing or jihadi proxy armies, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, agent orange, CIA backed mujahideen, death squads, torture, assassinations, extraordinary renditions, black sites, Guantanamo, drone wars, big brother and the surveillance state, etc.
Most "conservatives" today aren't really conservative by the classical definition. They are classical liberals. The Left usurped the term "liberal" when the label "progressive" got a bad reputation due to its association with socialism, fascism, eugenics, and racism in the early 20th century. They've worked really hard since then to push the worst of those associations onto the right, but originally everyone knew they were associated with the left, and "progressives" in particular.
Ironic that when conservatives speak to the Left the way the Left speaks to conservatives every day, The Left considers it a sign of mental instability.
The whole point of this article is Leftist authoritarianism putting itself in places it doesn't belong - and then the comment I replied to just trashes Rightists for being high in conscientiousness. It's textbook whataboutism. It's a dehumanizing tactic that needs to be called out whenever it appears.
Once identified as right-wing you are beyond the pale of argument; your views are irrelevant, your character discredited, your presence in the world a mistake. You are not an opponent to be argued with, but a disease to be shunned.
Jonathan Haidt's expiriments ask liberals and conservatives to fill out questionnaires about their values, then to predict how someone from the opposite tribe would fill out the questionnaire. He finds that conservatives are able to predict liberals' answers just fine and seem to have a pretty good understanding of their worldviews, but that liberals have *no idea* how conservatives think or what they value. http://www.aei.org/publication/liberals-or-conservatives-whos-really-close-minded/
but giving cover to supporters of white supremacy is about as racist as one can get.
Calling people racists is a powerful tool of dehumanization. It's not that other people have a different culture than you. It's not that other people have different values than you. It's not that other people have reasoned their way to different conclusions from you. And it's not even that other people are honestly misinformed or ignorant, in a way that implies *you* might ever be honestly misinformed or ignorant about something. *It's that people who disagree with you are motivated by pure hatred, by an irrational mind-virus that causes them to reject every normal human value in favor of just wanting to hurt people who look different from them.*
This frees you from any obligation to do the hard work of trying to understand other people, or the hard work of changing minds, or the hard work of questioning your own beliefs, or the hard work of compromise, or even the hard work of remembering that at the end of the day your enemies are still your countrymen. It frees you from any hard work at all. You are right about everything, your enemies are inhuman monsters who desire only hatred and death, and the only "work" you have to do is complain on Twitter about how racist everyone else is.
Making things worse for straight white men is a major goal of feminism. It's not that feminism creates misandry. Feminism promotes, endorses, reinforces, organizes and aggrandizes misandry, but it does not generate it outright. A woman who is not antipathetic towards men will not become so upon exposure to feminist thought. More likely, she will recoil at its odious philosophy. Feminism simply provides a space for women and men who were already misandrically-inclined to congregate and make plans. And those plans harm men - regret is now rape.
In my opinion, feminism is actually not a bad thing but it already has done its job in many Western countries. In the western world, it's not needed anymore. Women and men are equal on many terms. If they're not, then the "inequality" is due to biological reasons. Men cannot deliver babies, even if they wanted to. And women cannot get anyone else pregnant because they don't produce sperms. Sportive men are usually stronger and faster than women. That's why a female boxer was almost killed by her transgender opponent. The transgender woman could easily beat the shit out of her because "she" is actually man. You can deny his biological sex as often as you want to but nothing in this world can change the fact that all transgender women are fake women, or as I like calling them, they are just dudes in dresses.ï
But feminism is needed in many Muslim, African, and Asian countries (especially Burma). So, if you want to preach feminism, then go to those countries.ï There is much more good to be done in the advance of equality there. Here, the job is basically finished. It's kind of sad that over here in the West we're beating each other over the head over who's the most oppressed special snowflake, while elsewhere in the world many of the civil rights issues that are long since done away with here are still very much relevant. This is why modern feminism is toxic and detrimental to the rest of us. Its followers tend to prioritize their own interests and hate toward those with a different opinion over what's actually important in the broad scope of social and civil issues worldwide.ï
Whataboutism is a propaganda technique first used by the Soviet Union, in its dealings with the Western world.[1] When Cold War criticisms were levelled at the Soviet Union, the response would be "What about..." followed by the naming of an event in the Western world.[2][3] It represents a case of tu quoque (appeal to hypocrisy),[4] a logical fallacy that attempts to discredit the opponent's position by asserting the opponent's failure to act consistently in accordance with that position, without directly refuting or disproving the opponent's initial argument.
the national liberal party in the US (the Democratic party) hasn't been caught up in the craziness of the left
"My job is to shut other white people down when they want to interrupt" - a candidate to lead the Democratic Party. But hey no problem, the deputy director openly supports violent antifa and has been caught red-handed endorsing anti-Semites like Louis Farrakhan and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Many times, I've had to ask myself: Has our world gone completely mad? Consider the people who called us racist simply for wanting to enforce our borders. Or the media that tried to convince us that Michelle Fields was actually assaulted. Or the special needs kid who was tortured on Facebook live and made to drink toilet water because he was a white Trump supporter. Or the protesters who planned an acid attack to stop a party and threw batteries and smoke bombs at the attendees. Who are the fascists again?
Steele was fired in September 2016 for being unreliable, his information was used in October 2016 to get a FISA warrant without the judge being told the source was fired for being unreliable.
What's it called when you use fake information and lie to a judge to get a warrant? List who committed the crime this instance:
James Comey
Loretta Lynch
Rosenstein
Sally Yeats
Andrew McCabe
Bruce Ohr
OK I'm going to stop now. Obviously, socialism is all about spending other people's money. When it's YOUR wealth being transferred, suddenly it's serious and tremendously unfair, particularly when the recipients are ungrateful. Isn't it grand to finally understand conservative arguments from the inside out? You finally understand why people oppose welfare. We all learned something today.
You didn't notice that the DNC rigged the primary to put up literally the only person in the US who could lose against Donald Trump? Because the primary was rigged. But we're talking about the *other* very large Democratic political scandal, 50 times bigger than Watergate.
The Obama Administration spied on the Trump campaign without any evidence to do so.
The information used to justify spying was from a dossier and the dossier came from the Russians and the Clinton campaign.
There was no basis for a legitimate investigation into alleged collusion between Donald Trump and the Russians. The only basis was a smear job created by Hillary Clinton political operatives.
Why's this a surprise? What media have you been watching? Have you been spoonfed fake news? This video highlights the key points surrounding how the DOJ and FBI put together a FISA Court application to conduct surveillance on political opposition: Where are they? Where are the Woodwards and Bernsteins? Where is Seymour Hersh on the current scandal? See here for a comparison with Watergate. The investigative reporters are nowhere, and their general attitude seems to be that they need to defend governmental wrongdoing, not uncover it. Liberal and progressive voices are excusing, not airing, the excesses of Obama's DOJ and FBI.
Jesus Christ, calling for fucking war? With less proof than Iraq. What is wrong with you? You're seeing Russians under the bed. Fun fact: you know who wrote the infamous WMD memo that was used as a false flag to start the Iraq War? Robert Mueller. Yup, the same one.
Socialism has no problems and you are very likely a fascist sympathizer. Fuck you if you think wealth transfer from the rich to the poor is a bad idea.
Those who have more should enhance in wealth transfer to those who have less. This is basic leftism. What a grand chance to show the world your virtue. Oh, you don't like it? Why???
Nope! The Republican Party did not pay for the Steele dossier. That is fake news. They paid for opposition research which did not involve Steele in any way. Fun fact: Steele was fired by Obama's FBI for being an unreliable source.
"The people" ARE the government. Having an external body make decisions for them without reference to their opinions is...what's the word? Oh right: fascist. You're a fascist. The entire idea of "my ideas are right and yours are wrong" is anti-democratic to the core. How the fuck do you end up with an idea like "the EU is an unmitigated good which must never be opposed"? It's just one idea, with which reasonable people may disagree. To say otherwise is fascist.
If you think Slashdot these days has any "reach" and is thus worth the efforts of paid shills, you're kidding yourself. Stories struggle to get 100 comments, something common years ago. Maybe, just maybe, there are people out there with opinions you disagree with. This doesn't make them "dirty foreigners". We have met the enemy, and he is us.
LOL as if the USA hasn't meddled in so many countries' elections. It's really rich to hear you complain. The 1996 Russian election was decided by collusion with the Americans. And many elections since. Hell, even in Brexit Obama interfered by saying Britain would be at the back of the queue for trade negotiations. Isn't it a wonderful triumph of democracy when the people act against the wishes of elites? Let's all take a moment to cheer.
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Japan did indeed do a tremendous amount of damage to the American working class. Japanese products were free to sell into the American market, but they were allowed by the US government to set tariffs and trade barriers to American goods. It wasn't an equal playing field.
Saying China must take the same path as Japan just because they're both Asian? That's racist. Moreover a lot of people would applaud the downfall of American civilization so be careful what you ask for. The entire world hates America for its warmongering and interference in elections.
If I had to define "tolerance" it would be something like "respect and kindness toward members of an outgroup".
The Emperor summons before him Bodhidharma and asks: "Master, I have been tolerant of innumerable gays, lesbians, bisexuals, asexuals, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, transgender people, and Jews. How many Virtue Points have I earned for my meritorious deeds?"
Bodhidharma answers: "None at all".
The Emperor, somewhat put out, demands to know why.
Bodhidharma asks: "Well, what do you think of gay people?"
The Emperor answers: "What do you think I am, some kind of homophobic bigot? Of course I have nothing against gay people!"
And Bodhidharma answers: "Thus do you gain no merit by tolerating them!"
-- I can tolerate anything except the outgroup
LOL an argument against democracy. Don't let those people vote, they might choose wrong! I love how people go for fascism as soon as they don't get the "correct" result. That's democracy folks: you can't always get what you want.
The US government is a serial warmonger. China hasn't started even a single war in decades. You think people haven't noticed that? You think Libya or Syria enjoys being how it is? Or Iraq?
China is crippled by their lack of diversity. China does not allow immigration, and their country is 99% racially the same. This is poison for a knowledge economy, and the fact that they don't admit refugees virtually guarantees they're going down, sooner rather than later. Don't worry about China, they've already sealed their fate unless they somehow come to their senses and open the borders.
A lot of people believe in the China Model. There will never be a Trump in China, and that alone has a lot of endorsement. The Chinese government need not waste its time in friction when it can be turned into momentum. No endless chatter on news shows or fake news memos issued by political partisans in Congress. Instead, China makes a decision, and then *does* it. That has a lot of attraction as a way forward to the future. Heck, the New York Times itself publicly admired the China Model and did not retract or apologize for the story.
America never really was a "Global Force for Good" in my lifetime (born after 1945). I've experienced the US as being one of the most expansionist powers in modern history that refused to sign most human rights treaties, isn't a party to the International Criminal Court, all too willing to cozy up to dictators and in a state of perpetual war.
The faux "Pax Americana" brought us unprovoked wars, illegal coups, regime changes, shock and awe, ultra-right wing or jihadi proxy armies, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, agent orange, CIA backed mujahideen, death squads, torture, assassinations, extraordinary renditions, black sites, Guantanamo, drone wars, big brother and the surveillance state, etc.
Most "conservatives" today aren't really conservative by the classical definition. They are classical liberals. The Left usurped the term "liberal" when the label "progressive" got a bad reputation due to its association with socialism, fascism, eugenics, and racism in the early 20th century. They've worked really hard since then to push the worst of those associations onto the right, but originally everyone knew they were associated with the left, and "progressives" in particular.
Ironic that when conservatives speak to the Left the way the Left speaks to conservatives every day, The Left considers it a sign of mental instability.
The whole point of this article is Leftist authoritarianism putting itself in places it doesn't belong - and then the comment I replied to just trashes Rightists for being high in conscientiousness. It's textbook whataboutism. It's a dehumanizing tactic that needs to be called out whenever it appears.
Once identified as right-wing you are beyond the pale of argument; your views are irrelevant, your character discredited, your presence in the world a mistake. You are not an opponent to be argued with, but a disease to be shunned.
Jonathan Haidt's expiriments ask liberals and conservatives to fill out questionnaires about their values, then to predict how someone from the opposite tribe would fill out the questionnaire. He finds that conservatives are able to predict liberals' answers just fine and seem to have a pretty good understanding of their worldviews, but that liberals have *no idea* how conservatives think or what they value. http://www.aei.org/publication/liberals-or-conservatives-whos-really-close-minded/
but giving cover to supporters of white supremacy is about as racist as one can get.
Calling people racists is a powerful tool of dehumanization. It's not that other people have a different culture than you. It's not that other people have different values than you. It's not that other people have reasoned their way to different conclusions from you. And it's not even that other people are honestly misinformed or ignorant, in a way that implies *you* might ever be honestly misinformed or ignorant about something. *It's that people who disagree with you are motivated by pure hatred, by an irrational mind-virus that causes them to reject every normal human value in favor of just wanting to hurt people who look different from them.*
This frees you from any obligation to do the hard work of trying to understand other people, or the hard work of changing minds, or the hard work of questioning your own beliefs, or the hard work of compromise, or even the hard work of remembering that at the end of the day your enemies are still your countrymen. It frees you from any hard work at all. You are right about everything, your enemies are inhuman monsters who desire only hatred and death, and the only "work" you have to do is complain on Twitter about how racist everyone else is.
And the Republicans were unable to stop Trump from ascending to the top of their party.
They should have rigged their primary like the Democrats did. They didn't; democracy won and the establishment GOP had an apoplectic fit afterwards.
The organization that fervently opposes checking ID to vote in elections did just that during its election for party chairman. "We have to make sure that we can not just count the ballots but verify every name and signature," Brazile said as party members began applauding. Voter ID suppresses minority turnout and is racist on its face.
Making things worse for straight white men is a major goal of feminism. It's not that feminism creates misandry. Feminism promotes, endorses, reinforces, organizes and aggrandizes misandry, but it does not generate it outright. A woman who is not antipathetic towards men will not become so upon exposure to feminist thought. More likely, she will recoil at its odious philosophy. Feminism simply provides a space for women and men who were already misandrically-inclined to congregate and make plans. And those plans harm men - regret is now rape.
In my opinion, feminism is actually not a bad thing but it already has done its job in many Western countries. In the western world, it's not needed anymore. Women and men are equal on many terms. If they're not, then the "inequality" is due to biological reasons. Men cannot deliver babies, even if they wanted to. And women cannot get anyone else pregnant because they don't produce sperms. Sportive men are usually stronger and faster than women. That's why a female boxer was almost killed by her transgender opponent. The transgender woman could easily beat the shit out of her because "she" is actually man. You can deny his biological sex as often as you want to but nothing in this world can change the fact that all transgender women are fake women, or as I like calling them, they are just dudes in dresses.ï
But feminism is needed in many Muslim, African, and Asian countries (especially Burma). So, if you want to preach feminism, then go to those countries.ï There is much more good to be done in the advance of equality there. Here, the job is basically finished. It's kind of sad that over here in the West we're beating each other over the head over who's the most oppressed special snowflake, while elsewhere in the world many of the civil rights issues that are long since done away with here are still very much relevant. This is why modern feminism is toxic and detrimental to the rest of us. Its followers tend to prioritize their own interests and hate toward those with a different opinion over what's actually important in the broad scope of social and civil issues worldwide.ï
Whataboutism is a propaganda technique first used by the Soviet Union, in its dealings with the Western world.[1] When Cold War criticisms were levelled at the Soviet Union, the response would be "What about..." followed by the naming of an event in the Western world.[2][3] It represents a case of tu quoque (appeal to hypocrisy),[4] a logical fallacy that attempts to discredit the opponent's position by asserting the opponent's failure to act consistently in accordance with that position, without directly refuting or disproving the opponent's initial argument.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
the national liberal party in the US (the Democratic party) hasn't been caught up in the craziness of the left
"My job is to shut other white people down when they want to interrupt" - a candidate to lead the Democratic Party. But hey no problem, the deputy director openly supports violent antifa and has been caught red-handed endorsing anti-Semites like Louis Farrakhan and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Many times, I've had to ask myself: Has our world gone completely mad? Consider the people who called us racist simply for wanting to enforce our borders. Or the media that tried to convince us that Michelle Fields was actually assaulted. Or the special needs kid who was tortured on Facebook live and made to drink toilet water because he was a white Trump supporter. Or the protesters who planned an acid attack to stop a party and threw batteries and smoke bombs at the attendees. Who are the fascists again?
Steele was fired in September 2016 for being unreliable, his information was used in October 2016 to get a FISA warrant without the judge being told the source was fired for being unreliable.
What's it called when you use fake information and lie to a judge to get a warrant? List who committed the crime this instance:
James Comey
Loretta Lynch
Rosenstein
Sally Yeats
Andrew McCabe
Bruce Ohr
OK I'm going to stop now. Obviously, socialism is all about spending other people's money. When it's YOUR wealth being transferred, suddenly it's serious and tremendously unfair, particularly when the recipients are ungrateful. Isn't it grand to finally understand conservative arguments from the inside out? You finally understand why people oppose welfare. We all learned something today.
You didn't notice that the DNC rigged the primary to put up literally the only person in the US who could lose against Donald Trump? Because the primary was rigged. But we're talking about the *other* very large Democratic political scandal, 50 times bigger than Watergate.
The Obama Administration spied on the Trump campaign without any evidence to do so.
The information used to justify spying was from a dossier and the dossier came from the Russians and the Clinton campaign.
There was no basis for a legitimate investigation into alleged collusion between Donald Trump and the Russians. The only basis was a smear job created by Hillary Clinton political operatives.
Why's this a surprise? What media have you been watching? Have you been spoonfed fake news? This video highlights the key points surrounding how the DOJ and FBI put together a FISA Court application to conduct surveillance on political opposition: Where are they? Where are the Woodwards and Bernsteins? Where is Seymour Hersh on the current scandal? See here for a comparison with Watergate. The investigative reporters are nowhere, and their general attitude seems to be that they need to defend governmental wrongdoing, not uncover it. Liberal and progressive voices are excusing, not airing, the excesses of Obama's DOJ and FBI.
Jesus Christ, calling for fucking war? With less proof than Iraq. What is wrong with you? You're seeing Russians under the bed. Fun fact: you know who wrote the infamous WMD memo that was used as a false flag to start the Iraq War? Robert Mueller. Yup, the same one.
Socialism has no problems and you are very likely a fascist sympathizer. Fuck you if you think wealth transfer from the rich to the poor is a bad idea.
Those who have more should enhance in wealth transfer to those who have less. This is basic leftism. What a grand chance to show the world your virtue. Oh, you don't like it? Why???
That's it? That's the best argument you've got? The Queen is a fascist dictator? Seriously? LOL.
Nope! The Republican Party did not pay for the Steele dossier. That is fake news. They paid for opposition research which did not involve Steele in any way. Fun fact: Steele was fired by Obama's FBI for being an unreliable source.
"The people" ARE the government. Having an external body make decisions for them without reference to their opinions is...what's the word? Oh right: fascist. You're a fascist. The entire idea of "my ideas are right and yours are wrong" is anti-democratic to the core. How the fuck do you end up with an idea like "the EU is an unmitigated good which must never be opposed"? It's just one idea, with which reasonable people may disagree. To say otherwise is fascist.
If you think Slashdot these days has any "reach" and is thus worth the efforts of paid shills, you're kidding yourself. Stories struggle to get 100 comments, something common years ago. Maybe, just maybe, there are people out there with opinions you disagree with. This doesn't make them "dirty foreigners". We have met the enemy, and he is us.
LOL as if the USA hasn't meddled in so many countries' elections. It's really rich to hear you complain. The 1996 Russian election was decided by collusion with the Americans. And many elections since. Hell, even in Brexit Obama interfered by saying Britain would be at the back of the queue for trade negotiations. Isn't it a wonderful triumph of democracy when the people act against the wishes of elites? Let's all take a moment to cheer.