There are far too many people out there who shout "democracy is dead!" when what they really mean is "those people don't agree with my idea of how their society should go from here." It's hard to reconcile the two because they fundamentally do not understand that democracy means the will of the people. In places like Turkey or Egypt or Iran when the will of the people is honestly expressed and leaders are elected who they dislike, the immediate reaction is "that's not democracy!"
It's more about the abandoned coal workers than it is an energy source. But I wouldn't expect globalists to get it. Export all the jobs! Fuck the workers!
Wow, I have never seen anyone so stridently anti-Russian in my life. It reminds me of all the rants I've seen by far right-wingers against the (((bankers))). They are judged completely unworthy of life, and a continuing disaster to the world. You've gone to a dark place, friend, I hope one day you can find a ray of light in your cave of hate.
A democratic rule is precisely what led to Erdogan. WTF? He's legitimately popular. He won the election fair and square. I think maybe democracy means something different from what you think it means. It doesn't mean "agrees with my ideas for Turkey".
ZOMG TEH ROOSHINS! Grab your guns Ma, TEH ROOSHINS are coming! Blame the dirty foreigners! One of the themes that emerges from Shattered (a chronicle of the Clinton campaign) is that the Clinton operation didn't want to make a strong play for working-class white voters in swing states. The Clintonites thought these voters were disposable. That's why Trump is in the White House.
It *wasn't* Trump who gave the reset button to Russia.
It *wasn't* Trump who said "we'll have more flexibility in the second term."
It *was" a Republican named Mitt Romney who said Russia was our greatest threat and the Democrats *laughed* at him.
However, it was also achieved through countless personal conversations in which Gorbachev and other Soviet leaders were assured that the West would not take advantage of the Soviet Unionâ(TM)s weakness and willingness to withdraw militarily from Central and Eastern Europe.
It is these conversations that may have left some Soviet politicians with the impression that NATO enlargement, which started with the admission of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland in 1999, had been a breach of these Western commitments. Some statements of Western politicians â" particularly German Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher and his American counterpart James A. Baker â" can indeed be interpreted as a general rejection of any NATO enlargement beyond East Germany.
It's designers re-designing things for no other reason than to have work to point to on their resume. That's it. If everything is OK, and things are going great, what kind of work are designers going to do? How are they going to get their next jobs?
Note that I'm not joking or being sarcastic. Designers really do get judged like this and if they don't re-design things, then where will they be? They will kill project after project because this is their lifeblood. I don't see it getting any better anytime soon, at least until "had the good judgment not to mess with a good system" becomes a valid bullet point on a designer's resume.
The threat from the USSR is long over. NATO doesn't need to exist any more. What, France is going to invade Spain or something? Laughable.
Assuming NATO is going to exist, it is a MUTUAL defense pact. What does Old Europe contribute? Today, the nations of Old Europe are ungrateful freeloaders, refusing to contribute even the bare minimum to their own defense, while criticizing their American defenders for being militaristic baby-killers because they actually pay for a military. The Texas National Guard has about 30 times the rest of NATO's firepower....pitiful. If we have to pay to have allies, then fuck them.
The whole point of having Turkey in NATO is that it allowed us to flank the Soviet Union. Thus, in Operation Barbarossa Part II, we would be able to present the Communists with an invasion from two directions: West Germany and Turkey. Now that the evil empire of Soviet Union is long gone and the far less threatening Russia is in its place, for some reason NATO is still around despite the wealthy first world nations of Old Europe that are well able to defend themselves.
There was NEVER a "hack", the DNC emails were turned over by a DNC staffer named Seth Rich. The PODESTA emails were Phish'd over (Podesta turned over his password), neither are hacking.
If I was gunned down in the street in a "botched robbery", I reaalllllyyy doubt the FBI would be conducting a forensic analysis of my laptop within hours of my death.
You know why the FBI didn't seize the DNC servers? Because they weren't hacked and they knew from the start that Seth Rich was the source.
Donna Brazile said after Seth Rich was killed, she kept the blinds down to protect from snipers, possibly Russian. LOL. The Russians break every rule of engagement to start a possible WWIII with us to kill a man who...according to the DNC, didn't leak any emails.
Is it really a stretch to say that there are 120,000 Fethullah Gulen loyalists in Turkey? Gulenists in Turkey are millions strong. Here's a good writeup of the man and what he believes. Among other things, he ran off and America gave him shelter. CIA officers vouched for his green card (ouch!). He believes in segregating women. He's huge in the charter schools movement. His charter schools replaced qualified American workers with H1Bs and then paid them more than the Americans got. By befriending Gulen and giving him shelter, we infuriate Muslims in Turkey who hate terrorism but nonetheless loathe Gulen as a power-hungry opportunist. Is it any wonder why Turkey fears him? Let's not pretend he's the good guy here because the US government backs him - in fact, that's a pretty good indication that he's on the wrong side.
They're not socialist. Duh. The government doesn't own the means of production. They're market economies. Why do you think they're doing so well? Plus, they don't have to pay the crippling cost of their own defense. They have suckers to do it for them. And they repay this amazing free defense with protests that the Americans doing the defense are warmongering racists who need to get out of their countries. What ungrateful jerks.
America starts most of the world's wars. You're not one of those right wing patriots, are you? Because American patriots are the cause of most of the world's problems. Without America, who would be around to start all the wars?
LOL someone's never seen a factory start up before. I love these oh-so-wise internet commenters who come in with harsh rhetoric for other people, with zero knowledge of the topic at hand or how things usually work. I mean, seriously, "Musk and his band of semiskilled dimwits"? This is some kind of emotional release going on here.
Yup, right up until the 2016 election, when the Democrats turned their noses up to the white working class and refused to try to get their votes. They were going to win without them, and after the ascension of Hillary, the Democrats were going to drown the white working class and be done with them forever. People called it a mistake when she called them deplorable, on the contrary it was a strategic move. Failing to campaign to them was also described as a critical error, but it was a deliberate nose-thumbing.
> "They stopped being journalists and began being *cheerleaders*, and became people who had a conclusion that they reached, and then searched for facts to show that Hillary Clinton was an 92, 93, 99 point 9999 chance winner, of winning this campaign."
You think maybe times have changed? At one time, unskilled laborers were in demand. Today, they are not. We need highly educated workers, not illiterate peasants. Add to this the anti-progressive attitudes of new immigrants and it's a cultural nightmare. They treat women and gays horribly and do not feel any compunction to assimilate into American society. And why should they, when multiculturalism tells them that's the worst thing they could do?
Pfff, you mean writers recycle crappy old ideas because they don't want to do work? No wonder it's so hard to read a book these days. "Oh, look, it's the hero's journey AGAIN, never heard that one before."
As always, socialist ideas sound good to people who haven't lived under them. The problem is always the actual implementation - once the repression and arrests start, people deeply regret choosing socialism. Just ask Venezuela if you need a modern example, and history provides many more.
Twitter is absolutely partisan. It's far left and has no problem with banning conservatives. They were even exposed as attacking them with AI algorithms to shadowban. Twitter is a total shitshow.
Slashdot Mirror
Hitler was appointed by von Hindenburg.
There are far too many people out there who shout "democracy is dead!" when what they really mean is "those people don't agree with my idea of how their society should go from here." It's hard to reconcile the two because they fundamentally do not understand that democracy means the will of the people. In places like Turkey or Egypt or Iran when the will of the people is honestly expressed and leaders are elected who they dislike, the immediate reaction is "that's not democracy!"
It's more about the abandoned coal workers than it is an energy source. But I wouldn't expect globalists to get it. Export all the jobs! Fuck the workers!
Wow, I have never seen anyone so stridently anti-Russian in my life. It reminds me of all the rants I've seen by far right-wingers against the (((bankers))). They are judged completely unworthy of life, and a continuing disaster to the world. You've gone to a dark place, friend, I hope one day you can find a ray of light in your cave of hate.
A democratic rule is precisely what led to Erdogan. WTF? He's legitimately popular. He won the election fair and square. I think maybe democracy means something different from what you think it means. It doesn't mean "agrees with my ideas for Turkey".
Yeah it's a technicality. Nonetheless you can see how it could come off as a gigantic lie if you were on the other side of it.
In other news, it is reported that he has converted to Islam, so naturally Sweden has dropped the rape charges.
ZOMG TEH ROOSHINS! Grab your guns Ma, TEH ROOSHINS are coming! Blame the dirty foreigners! One of the themes that emerges from Shattered (a chronicle of the Clinton campaign) is that the Clinton operation didn't want to make a strong play for working-class white voters in swing states. The Clintonites thought these voters were disposable. That's why Trump is in the White House.
It *wasn't* Trump who gave the reset button to Russia.
It *wasn't* Trump who said "we'll have more flexibility in the second term."
It *was" a Republican named Mitt Romney who said Russia was our greatest threat and the Democrats *laughed* at him.
Numbers mean nothing. I said firepower, not useless untrained soldiers. The French greatly leaned on USA during their overthrow of the Libyan government.
Well, here's the citation so you can shut up about it now. In 1990, German ex-foreign minister promised the Russians than NATO would not expand into Eastern Europe. He lied.
NATO: yeah, we lied. https://www.nato.int/docu/revi...
It's designers re-designing things for no other reason than to have work to point to on their resume. That's it. If everything is OK, and things are going great, what kind of work are designers going to do? How are they going to get their next jobs?
Note that I'm not joking or being sarcastic. Designers really do get judged like this and if they don't re-design things, then where will they be? They will kill project after project because this is their lifeblood. I don't see it getting any better anytime soon, at least until "had the good judgment not to mess with a good system" becomes a valid bullet point on a designer's resume.
The threat from the USSR is long over. NATO doesn't need to exist any more. What, France is going to invade Spain or something? Laughable.
Assuming NATO is going to exist, it is a MUTUAL defense pact. What does Old Europe contribute? Today, the nations of Old Europe are ungrateful freeloaders, refusing to contribute even the bare minimum to their own defense, while criticizing their American defenders for being militaristic baby-killers because they actually pay for a military. The Texas National Guard has about 30 times the rest of NATO's firepower....pitiful. If we have to pay to have allies, then fuck them.
Another victim of Slashdot's failure to support the umlaut. https://tinyurl.com/yaxrgwek
The whole point of having Turkey in NATO is that it allowed us to flank the Soviet Union. Thus, in Operation Barbarossa Part II, we would be able to present the Communists with an invasion from two directions: West Germany and Turkey. Now that the evil empire of Soviet Union is long gone and the far less threatening Russia is in its place, for some reason NATO is still around despite the wealthy first world nations of Old Europe that are well able to defend themselves.
There was NEVER a "hack", the DNC emails were turned over by a DNC staffer named Seth Rich. The PODESTA emails were Phish'd over (Podesta turned over his password), neither are hacking.
If I was gunned down in the street in a "botched robbery", I reaalllllyyy doubt the FBI would be conducting a forensic analysis of my laptop within hours of my death.
You know why the FBI didn't seize the DNC servers? Because they weren't hacked and they knew from the start that Seth Rich was the source.
Donna Brazile said after Seth Rich was killed, she kept the blinds down to protect from snipers, possibly Russian. LOL. The Russians break every rule of engagement to start a possible WWIII with us to kill a man who...according to the DNC, didn't leak any emails.
Is it really a stretch to say that there are 120,000 Fethullah Gulen loyalists in Turkey? Gulenists in Turkey are millions strong. Here's a good writeup of the man and what he believes. Among other things, he ran off and America gave him shelter. CIA officers vouched for his green card (ouch!). He believes in segregating women. He's huge in the charter schools movement. His charter schools replaced qualified American workers with H1Bs and then paid them more than the Americans got. By befriending Gulen and giving him shelter, we infuriate Muslims in Turkey who hate terrorism but nonetheless loathe Gulen as a power-hungry opportunist. Is it any wonder why Turkey fears him? Let's not pretend he's the good guy here because the US government backs him - in fact, that's a pretty good indication that he's on the wrong side.
They're not socialist. Duh. The government doesn't own the means of production. They're market economies. Why do you think they're doing so well? Plus, they don't have to pay the crippling cost of their own defense. They have suckers to do it for them. And they repay this amazing free defense with protests that the Americans doing the defense are warmongering racists who need to get out of their countries. What ungrateful jerks.
America starts most of the world's wars. You're not one of those right wing patriots, are you? Because American patriots are the cause of most of the world's problems. Without America, who would be around to start all the wars?
LOL someone's never seen a factory start up before. I love these oh-so-wise internet commenters who come in with harsh rhetoric for other people, with zero knowledge of the topic at hand or how things usually work. I mean, seriously, "Musk and his band of semiskilled dimwits"? This is some kind of emotional release going on here.
Yup, right up until the 2016 election, when the Democrats turned their noses up to the white working class and refused to try to get their votes. They were going to win without them, and after the ascension of Hillary, the Democrats were going to drown the white working class and be done with them forever. People called it a mistake when she called them deplorable, on the contrary it was a strategic move. Failing to campaign to them was also described as a critical error, but it was a deliberate nose-thumbing.
Look at how many hits there are. Wow.
> "They stopped being journalists and began being *cheerleaders*, and became people who had a conclusion that they reached, and then searched for facts to show that Hillary Clinton was an 92, 93, 99 point 9999 chance winner, of winning this campaign."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2lWZ7CsXu0
Immune to olive branch? WTF? The USA totally screwed over Russia after the Cold War. Launched NATO expansion, ringed Russia with hostile bases, and interfered in the 1996 election, causing that drunk idiot Yeltsin to damage Russia even further. Here's TIME magazine in 1996 bragging about how we interfered in the Russian election.
You think maybe times have changed? At one time, unskilled laborers were in demand. Today, they are not. We need highly educated workers, not illiterate peasants. Add to this the anti-progressive attitudes of new immigrants and it's a cultural nightmare. They treat women and gays horribly and do not feel any compunction to assimilate into American society. And why should they, when multiculturalism tells them that's the worst thing they could do?
Pfff, you mean writers recycle crappy old ideas because they don't want to do work? No wonder it's so hard to read a book these days. "Oh, look, it's the hero's journey AGAIN, never heard that one before."
As always, socialist ideas sound good to people who haven't lived under them. The problem is always the actual implementation - once the repression and arrests start, people deeply regret choosing socialism. Just ask Venezuela if you need a modern example, and history provides many more.
Twitter is absolutely partisan. It's far left and has no problem with banning conservatives. They were even exposed as attacking them with AI algorithms to shadowban. Twitter is a total shitshow.