Alright I'll bite, let's look at your 'cold hard' facts and numbers
An analysis of data from Georgetown University’s Free Speech Project by the project’s director, Sanford Ungar, published on Medium.
Given that there are 4,583 colleges and universities in the United States (the bulk of which are four-year institutions), dozens of incidents is... not a lot. When you limit it to just conservative targets, the number becomes even smaller. Now, some might consider a few dozen incidents a year in a country of 4,583 higher education institutions a national crisis; I would consider it perhaps unfortunate, but not a crisis.
Basically, it looks like some guy makes this online tool to look at free speech, that appears to focus mostly on (Administrative) Actions, repeatedly says its not comprehensive and then analyzes a subset of this dataset. The Vox author takes this and somehow comes to the conclusion that this disproves the entire phenomenon that colleges are biased against conservatives. That...is pretty much the crux of the entire article. So...is this the best you can do? Lol....
Obamacare wasn't part of the status quo whats your point?
Shutting down the government because it won't fund your pet project is not the same thing as vetoing bills trying to affect previously passed legislation by de-funding it. This isn't rocket science here.
Theres no real technical difference. Its basically President vs Congress each time thats all that matters. Don't pretend that you'd believe in this new moral patina of 'passed legislation' you've just invented if you were on the other side.
Everything bad in the world is because of it and there is absolutely no positive aspect to it at all to the point where its bad simultaneously in mutually exclusive ways.
Its less reporting the news and more attempting to craft a narrative if you're flipping page by page through a dictionary in one hand and google search in the other trying to find random things to tie to the shutdown like the media has been doing with these dumb little stories over the past few weeks.
Before Trump: Slashdot and Media: We're worried about China, they don't play fair , steal our tech, and they have horrible human rights and they destroy our jobs in exchange for cheap trinkets. We should restrict ties with them.
After Trump: Slashdot and Media: I LOVE CHINA: UNLIMITED OPENNESS OF ALL OUR SECRETS AND EXCHANGE OF EVERYTHING 4EVA!
The only thing you can rely on Google for is starting and dropping the majority of their projects according to whats trending on the hype train in tech media, vacuuming up your pi on a massive scale, and bleating about social justice.
The only source that insinuates that there is no demand is from antiwhaling propaganda. Japan for its part says its not profitable simply because they by definition don't allow a profit since its supposed to be scientific. Why not let them whale? They only hunt common species. If theres no demand like you say they'll eventually get bored of it as the old people die off and problem solved. On the other hand high demand means the Japanese will have an incentive to pour billions more into research and funding than whiny envirowackos are willing to do to save and increase whale populations of those they hunt and those they want to hunt bringing more delicious tastes and delectable food options into the world cuisine.
No, get real, if a shoe company or box company started losing money permanently do you think they'd stay open for giggles, especially if nobody liked these shoes or boxes? No companies going to keep whaling if theres no money in it. Crazy activists on the other hand will stick with their causes no matter what. Thats why they ban mammoth ivory even though it could save the elephants.
than logically, undermining a sitting president that has done nothing that is proven beyond attacking Russian interests and allies once they assumed office is playing right in Russia's hands. Even if you dislike the President, having so little that you have to resort to linking him banging an American hooker to your Russian collusion investigation is pretty thin as far as evidence goes and precisely the type of chaos a foreign agent would love. The media obviously knows this, but they don't care, because in truth they couldn't give two toots about Russia, and wouldn't mind if Hillary turned out to be a Kremlin designed cyborg.
Maybe just maybe some group you hate can do something good once in awhile. You may hate Trump but if he breathes oxygen would you avoid breathing oxygen because since he does it that must be bad? As a probable leftwinger that prides themselves on nuance and judging things rationally and individually maybe you should keep that in mind.
Just curious, San Jose is 28% White and 32% asian and 30% Hispanic. Santa Ana alone is 78% Hispanic. Under what definition is San Jose one of the "brownest cities in America"?
Voters tend to oppose immigration most vehemently where it is rare, and see it as no big deal where it is common.
I guess everybody is hallucinating all the populist parties rising in Europe.
The media keeps telling me that poor girls are forced by society and culture to starve themselves to be thin but I look around and see the opposite. If such influence does exist, it doesn't seem very effective.
Middle class and working class people are net moving out of California, middle class and working class people are moving out of places like San Francisco or is this fake news? Pretty strange thing to do if they're paradise compared to the more conservative places they're going to.
Its bad for middle class and working class folk. Rich folk who have the money and connections to be isolated from the politics still have a place there as well as their very poor slaves. Its rapidly becoming tiny wealthy enclaves surrounded by a sea of poverty like most liberal places.
Progressives have control over virtually every major institution in the western world. The bureaucracy, the 'education' system, the media, the cultural and entertainment spheres, the tech sphere, the labor unions, Corporate America, the military brass, half of the Churches, direct control over half the politicians, and most of the other half living in daily terror over being labelled a heretic or "racist/sexist/homophobe etc" in modern parlance and ostracised from society. So yeah, they're much more the Powers that Be rather than any sort of 'Resistance'. Regardless of whatever opposition the other side is having tenuous control over a few key positions in the federal government.
Only Approved Conspiracy theories, like Hillary clinton would have won 100% of the vote if the Russians behind the tree didn't stuff the ballot box or that differences between men and women have nothing to do with differing interests or biology but are 100% because an evil cabal of men are holding women down at every instance are allowed on Youtube, Twitter, and other platforms. The Powers that Be do not want any competition for their narratives.
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An analysis of data from Georgetown University’s Free Speech Project by the project’s director, Sanford Ungar, published on Medium. Given that there are 4,583 colleges and universities in the United States (the bulk of which are four-year institutions), dozens of incidents is ... not a lot. When you limit it to just conservative targets, the number becomes even smaller. Now, some might consider a few dozen incidents a year in a country of 4,583 higher education institutions a national crisis; I would consider it perhaps unfortunate, but not a crisis.
Basically, it looks like some guy makes this online tool to look at free speech, that appears to focus mostly on (Administrative) Actions, repeatedly says its not comprehensive and then analyzes a subset of this dataset. The Vox author takes this and somehow comes to the conclusion that this disproves the entire phenomenon that colleges are biased against conservatives. That...is pretty much the crux of the entire article. So...is this the best you can do? Lol....
can't have that. String up the mfer
it is not the status quo. .
Obamacare wasn't part of the status quo whats your point?
Shutting down the government because it won't fund your pet project is not the same thing as vetoing bills trying to affect previously passed legislation by de-funding it. This isn't rocket science here.
Theres no real technical difference. Its basically President vs Congress each time thats all that matters. Don't pretend that you'd believe in this new moral patina of 'passed legislation' you've just invented if you were on the other side.
Congress is free to keep the border wall in the legislation.
It was Congresses fault then. Its Trump's fault now because reasons..,.
Everything bad in the world is because of it and there is absolutely no positive aspect to it at all to the point where its bad simultaneously in mutually exclusive ways.
Its less reporting the news and more attempting to craft a narrative if you're flipping page by page through a dictionary in one hand and google search in the other trying to find random things to tie to the shutdown like the media has been doing with these dumb little stories over the past few weeks.
Before Trump: Slashdot and Media: We're worried about China, they don't play fair , steal our tech, and they have horrible human rights and they destroy our jobs in exchange for cheap trinkets. We should restrict ties with them. After Trump: Slashdot and Media: I LOVE CHINA: UNLIMITED OPENNESS OF ALL OUR SECRETS AND EXCHANGE OF EVERYTHING 4EVA!
The only thing you can rely on Google for is starting and dropping the majority of their projects according to whats trending on the hype train in tech media, vacuuming up your pi on a massive scale, and bleating about social justice.
The only source that insinuates that there is no demand is from antiwhaling propaganda. Japan for its part says its not profitable simply because they by definition don't allow a profit since its supposed to be scientific. Why not let them whale? They only hunt common species. If theres no demand like you say they'll eventually get bored of it as the old people die off and problem solved. On the other hand high demand means the Japanese will have an incentive to pour billions more into research and funding than whiny envirowackos are willing to do to save and increase whale populations of those they hunt and those they want to hunt bringing more delicious tastes and delectable food options into the world cuisine.
No, get real, if a shoe company or box company started losing money permanently do you think they'd stay open for giggles, especially if nobody liked these shoes or boxes? No companies going to keep whaling if theres no money in it. Crazy activists on the other hand will stick with their causes no matter what. Thats why they ban mammoth ivory even though it could save the elephants.
Well if theres not much of a market for it less whales get killed. Win win problem solved.
Do the 280 characters or less reach out and pull their hair and choke them?
for the Puritans of yesteryear. The more things change I guess.
than logically, undermining a sitting president that has done nothing that is proven beyond attacking Russian interests and allies once they assumed office is playing right in Russia's hands. Even if you dislike the President, having so little that you have to resort to linking him banging an American hooker to your Russian collusion investigation is pretty thin as far as evidence goes and precisely the type of chaos a foreign agent would love. The media obviously knows this, but they don't care, because in truth they couldn't give two toots about Russia, and wouldn't mind if Hillary turned out to be a Kremlin designed cyborg.
Maybe just maybe some group you hate can do something good once in awhile. You may hate Trump but if he breathes oxygen would you avoid breathing oxygen because since he does it that must be bad? As a probable leftwinger that prides themselves on nuance and judging things rationally and individually maybe you should keep that in mind.
Voters tend to oppose immigration most vehemently where it is rare, and see it as no big deal where it is common.
I guess everybody is hallucinating all the populist parties rising in Europe.
Yeah, theres definitely some anorexics but there are far more heifers that need to put down that extra large burger.
The media keeps telling me that poor girls are forced by society and culture to starve themselves to be thin but I look around and see the opposite. If such influence does exist, it doesn't seem very effective.
Middle class and working class people are net moving out of California, middle class and working class people are moving out of places like San Francisco or is this fake news? Pretty strange thing to do if they're paradise compared to the more conservative places they're going to.
Its bad for middle class and working class folk. Rich folk who have the money and connections to be isolated from the politics still have a place there as well as their very poor slaves. Its rapidly becoming tiny wealthy enclaves surrounded by a sea of poverty like most liberal places.
Do you support Net Neutrality?
Progressives have control over virtually every major institution in the western world. The bureaucracy, the 'education' system, the media, the cultural and entertainment spheres, the tech sphere, the labor unions, Corporate America, the military brass, half of the Churches, direct control over half the politicians, and most of the other half living in daily terror over being labelled a heretic or "racist/sexist/homophobe etc" in modern parlance and ostracised from society. So yeah, they're much more the Powers that Be rather than any sort of 'Resistance'. Regardless of whatever opposition the other side is having tenuous control over a few key positions in the federal government.
Only Approved Conspiracy theories, like Hillary clinton would have won 100% of the vote if the Russians behind the tree didn't stuff the ballot box or that differences between men and women have nothing to do with differing interests or biology but are 100% because an evil cabal of men are holding women down at every instance are allowed on Youtube, Twitter, and other platforms. The Powers that Be do not want any competition for their narratives.
Programs are not people. You can't be reprehensible to ones and zeros, get a hold of yourself.