It's a brave new world where everyone's a nazi if they maintain any adherence to traditional values or facts above feelings... Sad times. Your code doesn't suck because you're a woman or because you're gay or transgendered or white or black, it sucked because you wrote shit code and hiding behind your gender or some other facet of modern identity politics to escape criticism is a cop out. I, for one, miss the good old days where you could tell someone who didn't know what they were talking about that they didn't know what the fuck they were talking about, you could discuss it, and then go grab a beer and have a good time. Now, anyone telling someone else they're wrong or full of shit turns into an identity issue and a virtue signalling standoff.
Climate change has become like a bad "as seen on tv" product where some coked up asshat just keeps adding on to the pile of worthless nonsense with another "but wait, there's more". Next they'll tell us climate change is responsible for Bill Cosby raping women.
It's almost as though gender doesn't dictate intelligence... and that the discrepancy in gender representation has more to do with individual pursuits than ability. Shocking.
Facebook is more of a threat to American democracy than Russia ever has been. Facebook has no business monitoring or censoring anything and we know damn well they're the last area you can expect to find any sort of objective moderation. This is nothing but facebook ensuring that their own political agenda is served and it represents a dangerous precedent if we allow them to dictate what speech should be allowed and what should be censored.
I thought it was Russia trying to influence public opinion..?
So sick of tech companies like Google and Facebook using their muscle to suppress political opposition.
Honestly, I can relate to this on a personal level and many other intelligent people I know struggle to some degree with the same issue. It's not that any of us wants to be an asshole but emotions, least of all those of other people, simply aren't a real part of our thought processes. It takes a concerted effort to consider how the way in which details are presented may affect others which doesn't come naturally to some more analytical minds. I've struggled, for most of my life, with coming across like an asshole because I don't consider peoples' feelings. Props to him for recognizing it and trying to do something about.
Workplace culture is far more important than scheduling, imo... I left a job that was six figures with a schedule of 1000-1500, a 25 hour work week in favor of a position with similar pay but 0800-1600, a 40 hour work week. 60% more hours for about 2% more pay, but I'm exponentially happier in the new position. Bottom line, the old company was absolute shit... disrespectful, unappreciative, amoral executives without any sense of integrity or honesty and a generally poor atmosphere all around. The new company is just staffed by better people, top to bottom, who care about what they're doing and it's reflected in the atmosphere every minute of the day. The actual job is the same, IT doesn't change too much from one spot to the next, but everything else about work is so much better that I have no qualms at all about being here longer. Folks bring their dogs to work and generally enjoy being at work here whereas the old company was a life sucking, soulless grind regardless of how few hours I was there or how easy the work was.
It doesn't take a book to figure that out... it's all down to a decade of people like Obama telling us we're supposed to be ashamed to be white Americans and berating us about our non-existent privileges, it's just the inevitable result of leftist identify politics.
Spend two terms bemoaning whiteness and, invariably, you're going to get lots of white folks who become sick and tired of hearing about how awful they are just cause of their skin color... toss in two terms of people taking a knee over non-existent issues, celebrating scumbags because they've got sufficient melanin, and complaining about America not being great... and boom, white nationalism is on the rise. In this country, it's ok to be proud of your skin color unless you happen to be white. A proud black man is a proud black man, a proud hispanic man is a proud hispanic man, but a proud white man... well, he's a racist. There's your answer, I just saved you a couple hundred pages.
At the moment, I'm rereading One Second After by William Forstchen, which is an excellent read, and I recently learned that there were two sequels to it.
Just finished Invasion by Jay Allan, part of a campy military sci fi series that's entertain if a bit lacking in in the sci portion of sci fi.
Would recommend The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein and A Life in Letters by John Steinbeck, wrapped up both of those this month and both were exceptional in their own right.
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch was a solid read as well.
How cute... you're triggered. Aww... No, I'm sure you're right. He's a billionaire because he doesn't ever think. Folks win the lotto and go broke in two years but Trump took a small fortune and turned it into a huge one by not thinking.
When will you delicate little snowflakes start to comprehend that just because he isn't ruled by emotion the way you are, that doesn't mean he's thoughtless. I've know plenty of men like Trump and still know plenty to this day and yes, that's where his comments come from. To him, the highest compliment he can bestow upon a woman is his own interest.
Meanwhile, the left is overrun by deviants and sheep but you actually think Trump is the issue. Now that's thoughtlessness...
Nearly everything about CA "poses a risk to the rest of the country"... Cali is where freedom goes to die. Unless your idea of freedom is illegal immigration and folks shitting in the streets, in which case, it'd be your unique kind of utopia.
Zero cherry picking and, no... Trump definitely hasn't made similar comments. Trump thinks the highest praise he can give a woman is saying he'd date her... discussing his amazing daughter and saying "if she wasn't my daughter, I'd probably be dating her" isn't remotely incestuous or pedophiliac... it's a self-absorbed man heaping the highest praise he can imagine on an amazing woman. The whole attempt to paint that comment as something insidious only highlights how disgustingly common the idea of pedophilia is to the left; that that's the first place they went with his comments. In reality, every man on earth has at some point made a similar comment about a woman... "if I wasn't marrried.." or "boy, if I was ten years younger..." It was nothing but a compliment, and that he offered it so willingly only underscores how far from his mind any of the disgusting insinuations you leftists want to make were...
Totally agree with that... I have consistently said that growing up poor, understanding real struggle, is the largest factor in the success I've had in life. I think the reality that hard times breed strong people is partly why things have escalated so much with this generation. We've reached a point where technology has elevated the quality of life for all bust the most destitute to such a level that even the folks that are legitimately struggling are living lives that are on par with blue collar middle class 50 years ago. My grandfather left school and worked in a coal mine at 13 to help feed the family, then as a sharecropper later in life... nobody in the developed world outside of maybe China, Taiwan, etc is living those lows these days. We've so effectively exempted ourselves from true struggle that it's led to what seems to be an exponential increase in softness. But I do wonder if that's how the cycle has always gone or if we have created a new peak... and will that peak come with an even lower valley when the inevitable finally comes to pass? Morally, I wish everyone could have happy and fulfilling lives without ever needing to struggle... but shit, intellectually I can't help but recognize that that just breeds terrible, shitty, porcelain delicate people.
Rant incoming - "remind some people of America's peculiar institution" - Is that a joke? Nothing about slavery is special or exclusive to America and, in reality, slavery as a whole was a practice for a shorter period of time in the US than in nearly any other nation. Beyond that, no one alive today in this country has been a slave or was born to a slave... no one in this country today owned a slave or was born to a slave owner. You're getting your snowflakey panties in a knot over some shit that, at best, might have applied to your grandparents but which, more likely, has no bearing on you whatsoever. My great grandmother was LYNCHED in Mississippi... strung up on a tree and hung until dead by democrats in white hoods because she was black woman who dared to speak her mind. Today, my best friend's last name is Lynch... and that produces ZERO emotion in me because the two are not remotely related. I'm too busy trying to make tomorrow better than yesterday and working to build a future for my children to spend energy crying about how bad things were four generations ago. My ancestors didn't cast off their chains so that their descendants could spend their lives as victims, slaves to a political culture bent upon convincing us that our skin is holding us back... and my grand parents didn't risk their lives in protest, fighting for equality so that their descendants could be nothing but pawns for a politically motivated culture of dependence. I was raised with the clear understanding that, for generations, the men and women of my family fought to be AMERICANS not to be given something for their color or their ancestors hardships. Like the white colonists who fought to free themselves from the chains of England, my family fought to free themselves from the chains of our color... not to be viewed as "african" Americans... to be Americans, period. My color will never be my crutch... Words are not your enemy, "whitey" is not the enemy... The enemy is the people who've gained and maintain power through telling us all the the things we can't be or can't do because of our color. The people who tell us we need handouts because we're not capable of getting out of the ghetto on our own. I'm here to tell you, as a black man who was raised in one of the poorest and most violent projects this country has ever know... YOU CAN DO IT. Stop letting politicians tell you who hates you and how many things you can't do and get the fuck out of your ghetto and go do those things, never stop trying. Stop letting people appeal to your blackness to tell you you're a victim... fuck nike and kneeling, fuck Roseanna getting fired for making monkey jokes, fuck race baiting so called community leaders buying your loyalty through shared outrage... stop celebrating the worst of us like the Trayvon's and Mike Browns and telling your kids they were victims of their race when they were victims of nothing but the consequences of bad life choices. Celebrate the Daniel Hale Williams and the Ben Carsons of our people, celebrate the mechanic down the road who's raising his kids working hard instead of drinking on the block with the boys... lace up your boots, go to work, and live your life to make your kids' lives better and I promise you're gonna find that there's not nearly as much racism and hate out there as the news wants to tell you there is. And to all my young brothers out there, black white or otherwise, if you're in a bad situation... THINK your way out of it. If you have no other options, don't become another ghetto casualty fighting over nothing... go join the Marine's and fight for something worth dying for, the green weenie fucks every color equally and when the bullets start flying I promise you won't be thinking about whether the man watching your six is white or black, only that he's your brother and you know he'd die for you as you'd die for him. THAT'S how we build a better tomorrow... not by crying over words../endrant
Idiotic quote... political correctness has absolutely nothing to do with respect and you'd have to be an idiot to think it does. Furthermore, the terms master and slave are in absolutely no manner disrespectful to someone, unless of course you're whipping someone telling them they're a slave and you're their master.
How can anyone be remotely surprised by this? If the predominant connections you have in your life are based around chasing money or superficial engagement with glorified strangers, then you're obviously going to have an empty and meaningless existence that eventually weighs upon you.
This is the problem with modern keeping up with the kardashians culture... all these kids see money as the key to happiness and have no idea what life is about. They'd rather text people than see them and they spend the majority of their time doing things because they think other people will think they're cool rather than because it's what they truly dreamed of doing. This poor girl crying about being so unhappy after achieving her "dream" is completely missing fulfillment because all she dreamed of was having the followers and being a youtube star. That kid didn't grow up dreaming about creating content and acting and engaging, she dreamt about the celebrity of it and assumed that with that celebrity would come happiness. We've raised a generation, going on two generations now, of kids who don't know who they are because they're so obsessed with who they think they're supposed to be. While that's undoubtedly been a component of teenage angst as long as teens have been around, the presence and extent of social media has elevated it as much as anything else. We need to start teaching these kids to dream about what they love doing, not what they want to be... if you dream of flying, then you naturally gravitate towards becoming a pilot... but if you just get bombarded with media showing how cool pilots are, you grow up thinking you want to be a pilot then one day you just might realize you don't even like flying.
I'm extremely curious how your mind twisted this around to him trying to hide something... You whackos have spent two years claiming that the he only one because of Russian tampering, so he's done more than any other president in the history of this nation to combat foreign interference in US elections and, to you, that means he's hiding something??? Seriously?
And do you have any idea of the number of laws and various forms of penalties already in place governing the manner in which and the extent to which US companies can engage in political activities?... and PS - If you're not willing to fight for it, it was never your country.
The problem with foreign election interference isn't ever going to go away... the bigger issue in this country is that every moron can vote. It's past time we put some sort of filter on the intellectual capacity and awareness of voters. Toss a quick 20 question test on civics and current policy issues into the beginning of every ballot, if you can't answer 17 of the questions right, you don't get to vote. Problem solved. Right wing or left wing, that'll filter out all the mindless propaganda puppets.
Let's all just take a moment and appreciate the irony that 6 years, to the day, after both Hillary and Obama lied to us about a "spontaneous protest" and left American's to die... Team TDS is bent out of shape that Trump's a liar and they're having a tantrum over him signing an EO to fix what they've spent two years pretending to be upset about.
You lefties are too much... Trump could cure cancer and y'all would get out and protest about cancer's right to life.
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It's a brave new world where everyone's a nazi if they maintain any adherence to traditional values or facts above feelings... Sad times. Your code doesn't suck because you're a woman or because you're gay or transgendered or white or black, it sucked because you wrote shit code and hiding behind your gender or some other facet of modern identity politics to escape criticism is a cop out. I, for one, miss the good old days where you could tell someone who didn't know what they were talking about that they didn't know what the fuck they were talking about, you could discuss it, and then go grab a beer and have a good time. Now, anyone telling someone else they're wrong or full of shit turns into an identity issue and a virtue signalling standoff.
Climate change has become like a bad "as seen on tv" product where some coked up asshat just keeps adding on to the pile of worthless nonsense with another "but wait, there's more". Next they'll tell us climate change is responsible for Bill Cosby raping women.
It's almost as though gender doesn't dictate intelligence... and that the discrepancy in gender representation has more to do with individual pursuits than ability. Shocking.
Lol.. There it is, you cracked the case!!!
Facebook is more of a threat to American democracy than Russia ever has been. Facebook has no business monitoring or censoring anything and we know damn well they're the last area you can expect to find any sort of objective moderation. This is nothing but facebook ensuring that their own political agenda is served and it represents a dangerous precedent if we allow them to dictate what speech should be allowed and what should be censored.
I thought it was Russia trying to influence public opinion..? So sick of tech companies like Google and Facebook using their muscle to suppress political opposition.
Honestly, I can relate to this on a personal level and many other intelligent people I know struggle to some degree with the same issue. It's not that any of us wants to be an asshole but emotions, least of all those of other people, simply aren't a real part of our thought processes. It takes a concerted effort to consider how the way in which details are presented may affect others which doesn't come naturally to some more analytical minds. I've struggled, for most of my life, with coming across like an asshole because I don't consider peoples' feelings. Props to him for recognizing it and trying to do something about.
Workplace culture is far more important than scheduling, imo... I left a job that was six figures with a schedule of 1000-1500, a 25 hour work week in favor of a position with similar pay but 0800-1600, a 40 hour work week. 60% more hours for about 2% more pay, but I'm exponentially happier in the new position. Bottom line, the old company was absolute shit... disrespectful, unappreciative, amoral executives without any sense of integrity or honesty and a generally poor atmosphere all around. The new company is just staffed by better people, top to bottom, who care about what they're doing and it's reflected in the atmosphere every minute of the day. The actual job is the same, IT doesn't change too much from one spot to the next, but everything else about work is so much better that I have no qualms at all about being here longer. Folks bring their dogs to work and generally enjoy being at work here whereas the old company was a life sucking, soulless grind regardless of how few hours I was there or how easy the work was.
It doesn't take a book to figure that out... it's all down to a decade of people like Obama telling us we're supposed to be ashamed to be white Americans and berating us about our non-existent privileges, it's just the inevitable result of leftist identify politics. Spend two terms bemoaning whiteness and, invariably, you're going to get lots of white folks who become sick and tired of hearing about how awful they are just cause of their skin color... toss in two terms of people taking a knee over non-existent issues, celebrating scumbags because they've got sufficient melanin, and complaining about America not being great... and boom, white nationalism is on the rise. In this country, it's ok to be proud of your skin color unless you happen to be white. A proud black man is a proud black man, a proud hispanic man is a proud hispanic man, but a proud white man... well, he's a racist. There's your answer, I just saved you a couple hundred pages.
At the moment, I'm rereading One Second After by William Forstchen, which is an excellent read, and I recently learned that there were two sequels to it. Just finished Invasion by Jay Allan, part of a campy military sci fi series that's entertain if a bit lacking in in the sci portion of sci fi. Would recommend The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein and A Life in Letters by John Steinbeck, wrapped up both of those this month and both were exceptional in their own right. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch was a solid read as well.
How cute... you're triggered. Aww... No, I'm sure you're right. He's a billionaire because he doesn't ever think. Folks win the lotto and go broke in two years but Trump took a small fortune and turned it into a huge one by not thinking. When will you delicate little snowflakes start to comprehend that just because he isn't ruled by emotion the way you are, that doesn't mean he's thoughtless. I've know plenty of men like Trump and still know plenty to this day and yes, that's where his comments come from. To him, the highest compliment he can bestow upon a woman is his own interest. Meanwhile, the left is overrun by deviants and sheep but you actually think Trump is the issue. Now that's thoughtlessness...
Nearly everything about CA "poses a risk to the rest of the country"... Cali is where freedom goes to die. Unless your idea of freedom is illegal immigration and folks shitting in the streets, in which case, it'd be your unique kind of utopia.
Zero cherry picking and, no... Trump definitely hasn't made similar comments. Trump thinks the highest praise he can give a woman is saying he'd date her... discussing his amazing daughter and saying "if she wasn't my daughter, I'd probably be dating her" isn't remotely incestuous or pedophiliac... it's a self-absorbed man heaping the highest praise he can imagine on an amazing woman. The whole attempt to paint that comment as something insidious only highlights how disgustingly common the idea of pedophilia is to the left; that that's the first place they went with his comments. In reality, every man on earth has at some point made a similar comment about a woman... "if I wasn't marrried.." or "boy, if I was ten years younger..." It was nothing but a compliment, and that he offered it so willingly only underscores how far from his mind any of the disgusting insinuations you leftists want to make were...
WTF does any of this have to do with Bill Clinton?
Totally agree with that... I have consistently said that growing up poor, understanding real struggle, is the largest factor in the success I've had in life. I think the reality that hard times breed strong people is partly why things have escalated so much with this generation. We've reached a point where technology has elevated the quality of life for all bust the most destitute to such a level that even the folks that are legitimately struggling are living lives that are on par with blue collar middle class 50 years ago. My grandfather left school and worked in a coal mine at 13 to help feed the family, then as a sharecropper later in life... nobody in the developed world outside of maybe China, Taiwan, etc is living those lows these days. We've so effectively exempted ourselves from true struggle that it's led to what seems to be an exponential increase in softness. But I do wonder if that's how the cycle has always gone or if we have created a new peak... and will that peak come with an even lower valley when the inevitable finally comes to pass? Morally, I wish everyone could have happy and fulfilling lives without ever needing to struggle... but shit, intellectually I can't help but recognize that that just breeds terrible, shitty, porcelain delicate people.
Rant incoming - "remind some people of America's peculiar institution" - Is that a joke? Nothing about slavery is special or exclusive to America and, in reality, slavery as a whole was a practice for a shorter period of time in the US than in nearly any other nation. Beyond that, no one alive today in this country has been a slave or was born to a slave... no one in this country today owned a slave or was born to a slave owner. You're getting your snowflakey panties in a knot over some shit that, at best, might have applied to your grandparents but which, more likely, has no bearing on you whatsoever. My great grandmother was LYNCHED in Mississippi... strung up on a tree and hung until dead by democrats in white hoods because she was black woman who dared to speak her mind. Today, my best friend's last name is Lynch... and that produces ZERO emotion in me because the two are not remotely related. I'm too busy trying to make tomorrow better than yesterday and working to build a future for my children to spend energy crying about how bad things were four generations ago. My ancestors didn't cast off their chains so that their descendants could spend their lives as victims, slaves to a political culture bent upon convincing us that our skin is holding us back... and my grand parents didn't risk their lives in protest, fighting for equality so that their descendants could be nothing but pawns for a politically motivated culture of dependence. I was raised with the clear understanding that, for generations, the men and women of my family fought to be AMERICANS not to be given something for their color or their ancestors hardships. Like the white colonists who fought to free themselves from the chains of England, my family fought to free themselves from the chains of our color... not to be viewed as "african" Americans... to be Americans, period. My color will never be my crutch... Words are not your enemy, "whitey" is not the enemy... The enemy is the people who've gained and maintain power through telling us all the the things we can't be or can't do because of our color. The people who tell us we need handouts because we're not capable of getting out of the ghetto on our own. I'm here to tell you, as a black man who was raised in one of the poorest and most violent projects this country has ever know... YOU CAN DO IT. Stop letting politicians tell you who hates you and how many things you can't do and get the fuck out of your ghetto and go do those things, never stop trying. Stop letting people appeal to your blackness to tell you you're a victim... fuck nike and kneeling, fuck Roseanna getting fired for making monkey jokes, fuck race baiting so called community leaders buying your loyalty through shared outrage... stop celebrating the worst of us like the Trayvon's and Mike Browns and telling your kids they were victims of their race when they were victims of nothing but the consequences of bad life choices. Celebrate the Daniel Hale Williams and the Ben Carsons of our people, celebrate the mechanic down the road who's raising his kids working hard instead of drinking on the block with the boys... lace up your boots, go to work, and live your life to make your kids' lives better and I promise you're gonna find that there's not nearly as much racism and hate out there as the news wants to tell you there is. And to all my young brothers out there, black white or otherwise, if you're in a bad situation... THINK your way out of it. If you have no other options, don't become another ghetto casualty fighting over nothing... go join the Marine's and fight for something worth dying for, the green weenie fucks every color equally and when the bullets start flying I promise you won't be thinking about whether the man watching your six is white or black, only that he's your brother and you know he'd die for you as you'd die for him. THAT'S how we build a better tomorrow... not by crying over words. ./endrant
Idiotic quote... political correctness has absolutely nothing to do with respect and you'd have to be an idiot to think it does. Furthermore, the terms master and slave are in absolutely no manner disrespectful to someone, unless of course you're whipping someone telling them they're a slave and you're their master.
In a general sense, I agree with you... but I think this current generation has taken it to new heights that represent a real issue.
Just when you thought the snowflake generation couldn't possibly get any softer... they pull some shit like this.
How can anyone be remotely surprised by this? If the predominant connections you have in your life are based around chasing money or superficial engagement with glorified strangers, then you're obviously going to have an empty and meaningless existence that eventually weighs upon you. This is the problem with modern keeping up with the kardashians culture... all these kids see money as the key to happiness and have no idea what life is about. They'd rather text people than see them and they spend the majority of their time doing things because they think other people will think they're cool rather than because it's what they truly dreamed of doing. This poor girl crying about being so unhappy after achieving her "dream" is completely missing fulfillment because all she dreamed of was having the followers and being a youtube star. That kid didn't grow up dreaming about creating content and acting and engaging, she dreamt about the celebrity of it and assumed that with that celebrity would come happiness. We've raised a generation, going on two generations now, of kids who don't know who they are because they're so obsessed with who they think they're supposed to be. While that's undoubtedly been a component of teenage angst as long as teens have been around, the presence and extent of social media has elevated it as much as anything else. We need to start teaching these kids to dream about what they love doing, not what they want to be... if you dream of flying, then you naturally gravitate towards becoming a pilot... but if you just get bombarded with media showing how cool pilots are, you grow up thinking you want to be a pilot then one day you just might realize you don't even like flying.
I'm extremely curious how your mind twisted this around to him trying to hide something... You whackos have spent two years claiming that the he only one because of Russian tampering, so he's done more than any other president in the history of this nation to combat foreign interference in US elections and, to you, that means he's hiding something??? Seriously? And do you have any idea of the number of laws and various forms of penalties already in place governing the manner in which and the extent to which US companies can engage in political activities? ... and PS - If you're not willing to fight for it, it was never your country.
Are you actually serious or were you being sarcastically hysterical? You do realize that having "an opinion" isn't interfering in the election, right?
The problem with foreign election interference isn't ever going to go away... the bigger issue in this country is that every moron can vote. It's past time we put some sort of filter on the intellectual capacity and awareness of voters. Toss a quick 20 question test on civics and current policy issues into the beginning of every ballot, if you can't answer 17 of the questions right, you don't get to vote. Problem solved. Right wing or left wing, that'll filter out all the mindless propaganda puppets.
Let's all just take a moment and appreciate the irony that 6 years, to the day, after both Hillary and Obama lied to us about a "spontaneous protest" and left American's to die... Team TDS is bent out of shape that Trump's a liar and they're having a tantrum over him signing an EO to fix what they've spent two years pretending to be upset about. You lefties are too much... Trump could cure cancer and y'all would get out and protest about cancer's right to life.
They won't say much... at least not until propagandist media tells them what to think, then they won't shut up.