Both Peter Thiel and Donald Trump are thin-skinned rich white guys who bully anyone that they think insults their thin-skinned specialness.
Both have shown clearly they are FOR free speech when that speech is FOR them, and AGAINST free speech when that speech is against them. That means they are neither pro free speech, the first amendment, or basic human rights.
It is not surprising that a narcissistic misogynist xenophobic racist bully would enlist others like him to a transition team.
Trump's history is full of contracts where he refuses to pay and unilaterally changes how much he'll pay after he gets the product. If this sounds familiar it's the same as what Darth Vader did with Lando Calrissian when he took Han Solo's carbomite-frozen body to Jabba the Hutt.
Those who voted for Trump for President are in for a few nasty surprises when he does the same things to our allies, to our treaties, to his own campaign promises, and to the people of this land. Unfortunately, so are the rest of us.
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Relax everyone. This is just the echoes of the Clinton campaign dying down.
Clinton ran a campaign of spite and malice, she created a tidal wave of hatred and loathing, the waves of which are still sloshing around the tub.
It'll take about two weeks (from the election). People will see Trump acting presidential, that he isn't a monster, and that his plans are sensible and good for the country.
In the mean time, just let them work it out of their system.
Good. I want the Republicans to go all in: have Roe v. Wade overturned, ban abortion, eliminate the fillibuster, repeal the ACA, lower taxes on the top earners while shifting the tax burdern to the lower and middle classes, have gay marriage overturned, everything. Make things as painful as possible for as many people as possible. Most people, it seems, only respond to pain; make them feel it.
Gah! Is there nothing more important to liberals than winning?
Is getting your way more important than burning everything to the ground and salting the Earth?
There are people out there who have different opinions than yours. They want to live peacefully in this world, and deep down you do as well.
Photosynthesis by plants is another: carbon dioxide is converted, with the help of water and light energy from the sun, into sugars, which are used to make more plant matter, locking the carbon away in wood and leaves.
... until the plant dies, and wood/leaves either burn or rot, at which point the CO2 is released into the atmosphere again.
We'll also need some way of getting the plant material back under the ground if we want to keep the CO2 permanently out of the atmosphere. (yes, I realize that does happen, as that's where all the coal deposits came from, etc, but I do wonder what percentage of the new plants will end up that way)
I've wondered whether we should start putting carbon back into the ground, and whether this is feasible.
For example, suppose we harvested unused plant products (wood, silage, whatever), ground them into a slurry, and pumped them back into old oil wells.
This presupposes that we have transitioned to renewable energy, and that extra energy for such endeavourers is available. It looks like we're on the road to doing that - a theoretical factory getting its power from solar panels could make more panels than it needs for replacement, and there's a lot of opportunity for rooftop solar and panels in other places.
Assuming we can afford some extra solar panels and that we have reasonable automation, could pumping excess plant matter back into the ground help?
(Or perhaps compress the plant matter and drop it into the deep ocean, where it would be stored indefinitely.)
This is what happens when close to 50% of eligible voters don't bother to go to the polls.
We get a leader who tries to calm and reassure a potential dangerous adversary?
This partisanship is blinding you to reality. Clinton and Obama were steadily ratcheting up the fear and blame on Russia. They were building moral cover to justify a prolonged campaign of sanctions and possibly war.
It got so bad that Julian Assange publicly stated that Russia was *not* the source of the Podesta E-mails. He *never* gives out information about his sources, that he would do this indicates that he felt there was some danger.
This was all happening over the past two months, and you can't remember it?
Contacting Russia and saying "relax, if I get elected we can work out our problems through diplomacy" is a good thing.
Yeah, there were people on twitter reporting on the protests from the beginning, but it's been pushed down the list and now I can't find it.
(There's a *lot* of activity on twitter right now!)
Look at some of the images, you'll see a lot of pre-printed signs (and a lot of hand-drawn ones).
We'll have to wait for tomorrow to see if the MSM reports people ginning up the crowd, or whether there are paid instigators, or whether they were alerted ahead of time and told what to look for.
Um, California doesnt really get water from outside the state to any great degree. It's the California part of the Rockies that provides the snow pack that feeds the water needs of Southern California and the Valley. The rest of the state makes due with its own reservoirs.
If you supported Trump kindly go fuck yourself, and I'll take the moderation results of this post. If not then I apologize to you, but not the man who decided to run a campaign based on sowing as much hatred as absolutely possible.
This is what happens when you run that kind of campaign.
We didn't protest when Barack Obama was elected. Twice.
This image from Anonymous was pretty funny, with the caption: "Guess whats going to happen tomorrow #TrumpProtest DONALD J TRUMP will still be President Elect!
The devs at reddit had a special algorithm running that artifically suppressed the trump discussion page from appearing on the front "most active" page list.
This came to light about a week ago, when the algorithm had a bug and stopped working, and the trump pages started showing up.
Dr. Carson is smart and has first-hand knowledge of the healthcare system. He's not a career politician, and would make a good HHS secretary or surgeon general.
Check out the comments to that 2nd article, and see what people are saying about Carson.
(*) He doesn't say how he will determine whether something is unconstitutional, but in my view any reasonable method would work. Such as getting a consensus from a panel of legal scholars, or simply cancelling anything that orders the government to do something. We'll have to wait and see.
Oh noooeess over sampling!!! It's Fraud! No, idiots, it's math.
I'm fuzzy on the whole math/oversampling thing.
It might help if you could walk me through an example.
The ABC poll showing Clinton ahead by 12 points when every other poll had her at about +3 points would be a good example. That poll sampled Dems+9 to come up with Clinton+12, and it was highly cited by MSM for about a week. Recently, too.
I don't understand how sampling D+9 makes for a better poll, but I am a math major.
If you take the time to explain it, I'm sure I would understand.
The operators of/. are unhappy about the results of the election, so the system is broken.
Indeed.
The Democrats moved $60 mil from down-ballot elections to Hillary to torpedo Bernie(*), gave the media questions to grill trump, got debate questions ahead of time, got to vet media articles before they were published, hired protestors to shut down a rally and start fights, colluded with PACs, published oversampled and biased polls, tried to frame Julian Assange.
The electoral college is unfair!!
(*) Are the democrats bemoaning that R's control both houses? Now we know why!
GM would be moving low-profit cars to Mexico, not Cadillacs.
And Trump won't be saving these jobs. Car companies will not be keeping production in Michigan and Ohio, they'll move to Southern states where there is no UAW. Even if Trump keeps them from crossing the Southern border he isn't going to force them to stick with unions.
No other course of action will succeed, and in this particular case it won't matter anyway.
We understand. Your rationalization is pretty clear. We got it.
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Both Peter Thiel and Donald Trump are thin-skinned rich white guys who bully anyone that they think insults their thin-skinned specialness.
Both have shown clearly they are FOR free speech when that speech is FOR them, and AGAINST free speech when that speech is against them.
That means they are neither pro free speech, the first amendment, or basic human rights.
It is not surprising that a narcissistic misogynist xenophobic racist bully would enlist others like him to a transition team.
Trump's history is full of contracts where he refuses to pay and unilaterally changes how much he'll pay after he gets the product. If this sounds familiar it's the same as what Darth Vader did with Lando Calrissian when he took Han Solo's carbomite-frozen body to Jabba the Hutt.
Those who voted for Trump for President are in for a few nasty surprises when he does the same things to our allies, to our treaties, to his own campaign promises, and to the people of this land. Unfortunately, so are the rest of us.
E
Relax everyone. This is just the echoes of the Clinton campaign dying down.
Clinton ran a campaign of spite and malice, she created a tidal wave of hatred and loathing, the waves of which are still sloshing around the tub.
It'll take about two weeks (from the election). People will see Trump acting presidential, that he isn't a monster, and that his plans are sensible and good for the country.
In the mean time, just let them work it out of their system.
Maybe it'll make their transition quicker.
Good. I want the Republicans to go all in: have Roe v. Wade overturned, ban abortion, eliminate the fillibuster, repeal the ACA, lower taxes on the top earners while shifting the tax burdern to the lower and middle classes, have gay marriage overturned, everything. Make things as painful as possible for as many people as possible. Most people, it seems, only respond to pain; make them feel it.
Gah! Is there nothing more important to liberals than winning?
Is getting your way more important than burning everything to the ground and salting the Earth?
There are people out there who have different opinions than yours. They want to live peacefully in this world, and deep down you do as well.
GET OVER YOURSELF AND START ACTING LIKE AN ADULT!
Photosynthesis by plants is another: carbon dioxide is converted, with the help of water and light energy from the sun, into sugars, which are used to make more plant matter, locking the carbon away in wood and leaves.
... until the plant dies, and wood/leaves either burn or rot, at which point the CO2 is released into the atmosphere again.
We'll also need some way of getting the plant material back under the ground if we want to keep the CO2 permanently out of the atmosphere. (yes, I realize that does happen, as that's where all the coal deposits came from, etc, but I do wonder what percentage of the new plants will end up that way)
I've wondered whether we should start putting carbon back into the ground, and whether this is feasible.
For example, suppose we harvested unused plant products (wood, silage, whatever), ground them into a slurry, and pumped them back into old oil wells.
This presupposes that we have transitioned to renewable energy, and that extra energy for such endeavourers is available. It looks like we're on the road to doing that - a theoretical factory getting its power from solar panels could make more panels than it needs for replacement, and there's a lot of opportunity for rooftop solar and panels in other places.
Assuming we can afford some extra solar panels and that we have reasonable automation, could pumping excess plant matter back into the ground help?
(Or perhaps compress the plant matter and drop it into the deep ocean, where it would be stored indefinitely.)
Perhaps a headline rewrite will put things in perspective:
Russian Hackers Launch Targeted Cyberattacks Hours After Clinton's loss
Emphasis mine.
See the difference?
This is what happens when close to 50% of eligible voters don't bother to go to the polls.
We get a leader who tries to calm and reassure a potential dangerous adversary?
This partisanship is blinding you to reality. Clinton and Obama were steadily ratcheting up the fear and blame on Russia. They were building moral cover to justify a prolonged campaign of sanctions and possibly war.
It got so bad that Julian Assange publicly stated that Russia was *not* the source of the Podesta E-mails. He *never* gives out information about his sources, that he would do this indicates that he felt there was some danger.
This was all happening over the past two months, and you can't remember it?
Contacting Russia and saying "relax, if I get elected we can work out our problems through diplomacy" is a good thing.
Just because your middle class ass is OK with the status quo doesn't mean those who are trampled upon should just suck it up.
You entitled fucking twat.
Here's what he was talking about.
And yes, I'm an entitled fucking twat for thinking that immigrants shouldn't change our culture.
Here's the start of the one in West Seattle.
These protests aren't spontaneous - they're being organized and funded.
Yeah, there were people on twitter reporting on the protests from the beginning, but it's been pushed down the list and now I can't find it.
(There's a *lot* of activity on twitter right now!)
Look at some of the images, you'll see a lot of pre-printed signs (and a lot of hand-drawn ones).
We'll have to wait for tomorrow to see if the MSM reports people ginning up the crowd, or whether there are paid instigators, or whether they were alerted ahead of time and told what to look for.
Just like they did during the Trump rallies.
Um, California doesnt really get water from outside the state to any great degree. It's the California part of the Rockies that provides the snow pack that feeds the water needs of Southern California and the Valley. The rest of the state makes due with its own reservoirs.
Thanks - point taken.
The ones I see here in Portland are hand written on poster board. Not a preprinted sign in sight.
I agree there are lots of hand-painted signs, but look around at the images on twitter. lots of pre-printed ones.
Reports of mass arrests at the Trump hotel in NYC.
Also... looking at the images people are tweeting during the riots is pretty interesting.
I didn't know there was such a thing as a Trump sex doll.
TIL
If you supported Trump kindly go fuck yourself, and I'll take the moderation results of this post. If not then I apologize to you, but not the man who decided to run a campaign based on sowing as much hatred as absolutely possible.
This is what happens when you run that kind of campaign.
We didn't protest when Barack Obama was elected. Twice.
Here's some observations about the protests:
You're being manipulated.
This image from Anonymous was pretty funny, with the caption:
"Guess whats going to happen tomorrow #TrumpProtest DONALD J TRUMP will still be President Elect!
5 People Shot At Anti-Trump ProtestAll Are In Critical Condition (video)
And reports of teargas being used on protesters in Oakland!
It's going to be a long night.
(After weeks of being told to accept the election outcome, anything else is an attack on democracy. Sheesh!)
Wow.
The protest in NYC is pretty big.
Regarding California, after it seceeds, where will they get water?
You, sir, win the internets.
That was the funniest thing I've read in awhile.
Great post!
The devs at reddit had a special algorithm running that artifically suppressed the trump discussion page from appearing on the front "most active" page list.
This came to light about a week ago, when the algorithm had a bug and stopped working, and the trump pages started showing up.
It was quickly corrected, though...
Here's a list of the things Trump has promised to do in the first 100 days.
Of particular note is this item in the 3rd grouping:
Additionally, on the first day, I will take the following five actions to restore security and the constitutional rule of law:
* FIRST, cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama(*)
That is something the president can do on his own, without getting permission from congress. That alone is probably worth the price of admission.
Additionally, Ben Carson said he's willing to help Trump find a replacement for Obamacare.
Dr. Carson is smart and has first-hand knowledge of the healthcare system. He's not a career politician, and would make a good HHS secretary or surgeon general.
Check out the comments to that 2nd article, and see what people are saying about Carson.
(*) He doesn't say how he will determine whether something is unconstitutional, but in my view any reasonable method would work. Such as getting a consensus from a panel of legal scholars, or simply cancelling anything that orders the government to do something. We'll have to wait and see.
that's why. it couldn't be the candidate or the policies that lost.
Trump won because of facebook?
I've lost track of the rationalizations, the reasons why Trump won.
Anyone have a list?
Republicans would be screaming the same thing if Clinton won the election but lost the popular vote.
In the imaginary universe where that happened.
Oh noooeess over sampling!!! It's Fraud! No, idiots, it's math.
I'm fuzzy on the whole math/oversampling thing.
It might help if you could walk me through an example.
The ABC poll showing Clinton ahead by 12 points when every other poll had her at about +3 points would be a good example. That poll sampled Dems+9 to come up with Clinton+12, and it was highly cited by MSM for about a week. Recently, too.
I don't understand how sampling D+9 makes for a better poll, but I am a math major.
If you take the time to explain it, I'm sure I would understand.
The operators of /. are unhappy about the results of the election, so the system is broken.
Indeed.
The Democrats moved $60 mil from down-ballot elections to Hillary to torpedo Bernie(*), gave the media questions to grill trump, got debate questions ahead of time, got to vet media articles before they were published, hired protestors to shut down a rally and start fights, colluded with PACs, published oversampled and biased polls, tried to frame Julian Assange.
The electoral college is unfair!!
(*) Are the democrats bemoaning that R's control both houses? Now we know why!
You're the one who wanted to collect my bitter tears of regret, right?
The campaign is no more, you're no longer getting paid for her opinions.
Go ahead and get it out of your system, but I cannot imagine how spending time like this is of any benefit.
Not that I care.
GM would be moving low-profit cars to Mexico, not Cadillacs.
And Trump won't be saving these jobs. Car companies will not be keeping production in Michigan and Ohio, they'll move to Southern states where there is no UAW. Even if Trump keeps them from crossing the Southern border he isn't going to force them to stick with unions.
No other course of action will succeed, and in this particular case it won't matter anyway.
We understand. Your rationalization is pretty clear. We got it.