they're bought off by corporate interests. Go look up Secular Talk and the Young Turks on YouTube.
MSM is doing the same thing that the right wing "Clintonian" Democrats & the GOP are doing: Using SJWism to distract you from the horrible things they're doing to you economically. Don't fall for it. It's a trap.
the pro-corporate right wing is. Specifically to distract you from economic issues with social issues.
The right wing Dems use SJWs to distract their base from things like Medicare for All, Jobs programs, tuition free college and other programs they and their wealthy donors don't want to be taxed to pay for. Right wing Dems abandoned the working class during Bill Clinton's presidency so they need something to distract from that.
As for the GOP (which is all right wing) they use it to rile up their base with a new enemy. Racism is pretty much going away and the Southern Strategy (google the phrase if you don't know it) is petering out. SJWs are the new boogie man to be scared of.
There's nothing there. SJWs have no real power except as boogiemen to distract from the same 'old crappy policies that screw the working class stiffs like you and me. Ignore them. Vote Bernie Sanders. He's the only politician I know who consistently brings the working class together around real issues.
Trying to get away with calling women "cunts" by calling men "cunts" too. I'm reminded of the phrase "Anyone can be a n***ger". Not saying your racists or sexist, just that your choice of rhetorical devices is questionable and you might not be aware just how questionable.
Anyway, here's an intelligent rebuttal to Alessandro Strumia's presentation. It's way better than anything I can come up with here, and it's worth a read for anyone who wants to have an honest discussion about gender in science.
And there I go using a questionable rhetorical device (implying you're not wholly honest). It's surprisingly tough not to do that. Almost like words have unintended consequences in nuanced discussions...
My family's full of them, and they all have to do heavy lifting for the first 5 years. After they put in their dues most move up to desk jobs handing out pills or backing up doctors.
The point of this is to drive more workers into the industry so the last few making good money get their wages dropped down.
In any case the Gender pay gap will take care of itself as more women graduate college than men. At this point it's just a distraction by the right wing on both sides (right win Dems like to use it to avoid talking about real solutions to working class problems and the GOP likes to use it to rile up their base).
is that there's not a lot to keep your users coming back. All it takes is for them and their immediate circle to switch to anther networking site or method. Something hipper and cooler. Once you lose the young 'uns you become uncool real fast. It's only a matter of time before you're associated with... email (*hurk*).
and you fell for it by clicking. The reason you're seeing so much SJW crap is that it gets clicks and comments. You got a +5, meaning at least 3 other folks looked at your comment and moderated it, meaning community engagement which in turn means more content generation for/. (which is the point of/.).
Go find the/. thread about Captain Marvel. I complained about the same thing there. It hit 800+ comments. YouTube is awash in anti-SJW sentiment because those videos get clicks.
If you want to make this stop start ignoring it. SJWs aren't like the White Supremacists. They're poorly organized and fight among themselves. They're mostly a few angry college chicks who grow out of it after graduation.
Left alone the SJW crowd is mostly harmless. Yes, there are exceptions, there are exceptions to everything in this wide world, but the harm from obsessing over them is far, far greater. While you're focusing on this the wealthy are packing the courts with pro-corporate judges and doing things like forced arbitration, letting companies get away with putting lead in your air and water and stripping you of access to education and healthcare.
There's a massive SJW backlash on the Internet right now. It's generating a ton of advert revenue. This is just more false controversy drummed up for clicks. Like the Captain Marvel/Rotten Tomatoes story. They're winding us up and sending us off to make money off our eyeballs.
The same thing's been going on with the YouTube skeptic community. A bunch of skeptic channels I rather liked became 24/7 rants about SJWs and feminism because the anti-Homeopath and pro-vaccine stuff they were running wasn't paying the bills...
and we'll finally have single payer via Medicare for All. Seriously, not everything deserves a market solution. Paying for Healthcare is one of those things that doesn't work at a small scale. You just end up fighting with insurance companies for needed care and paying insane prices for meds.
Medicare for All? The rest of the world does it. Ending the 8 wars? They're pushing 20 years. Green New Deal? It's a jobs program, like we did in the 30s when wealth income equality got as bad as it is today.
It won't help the Dems chances. It pisses off wealthy donors. They'd do better to keep their heads low. They're taking a stand for something. Much like Bernie does with all his policy. That's what leaders are supposed to do.
now I know you're trolling. Joe Rogan? And what do pronouns have to do with literally _anything_. Come on, I expect better bait.
Throwing in the part about being a former Bernie bro was a smart move though. It'll throw some of the progressives off your scent. Again though, you really need to step up your game if you're shooting for even a +3 around here. That shit might fly on reddit but/.? We're old men. We saw this crap on Usenet.
Intentionally I think. It took me a second to realize you were conflating Net Neutrality with Google (YouTube) & Facebook kicking right wing pundits off their platforms for questionable (and let's face it, violent) rhetoric and commentary.
Honestly if you left it at that I think you coulda got a +5 out of your troll post, but that bit about the UN ties in with all sorts of off the rails conspiracy theories. The key to a good shit post is knowing when to stop. It helps to have some honest belief in what you're posting. And you're not gonna convince me or anyone else that you believe that malarkey.
by bringing light to an issue that's being ignored. The hope is you'll see this and turn out in the next election and give them a Democratic Congress (House & Senate) and President so we can pass it in 2 years.
The only question is, what will you do? Me? I'll be there at the primaries voting for Bernie.
or does support for Anti-Vaxxers seem to come mostly from the right? When I see votes on vaccine legislation the anti-vaxxer stuff is normally coming from the GOP and the pro-vaccine laws from the Democrats (with some moderate GOPers crossing party lines).
I _think_ this is because the GOP has been willing to exploit the subculture around anti-vaccination to win some close races while the Dems and the left in general have not. I'd like to say the the left wing is also more pro-science, but I know anti-vaxxers who are otherwise left wing. That said, I know left wing anti-vaxxers who'll vote GOP on that one issue alone, and again, in a tight race they might turn elections...
So after examining the power of untestable beliefs, what have we learned about dealing with human psychology? We have learned that bias is a disease and to fight it we need a healthy treatment of facts and education. We find that when facts are injected into the conversation, the symptoms of bias become less severe. But, unfortunately, we have also learned that facts can only do so much. To avoid coming to undesirable conclusions, people can fly from the facts and use other tools in their deep, belief-protecting toolbox.
With the disease of bias, then, societal immunity is better achieved when we encourage people to accept ambiguity, engage in critical thinking and reject strict ideology.
Facts are still a good thing, but they're only one arrow in the quiver so to speak. You need to also engage people and get them thinking critically. Facts by themselves don't change people's minds because they have built up mental tools to work around them and preserve their world view.
Like most things, changing the minds of people who are wrong is complicated.
with anti-vaxxers. There is real, definite harm. The FCC should step in and treat it as a false advertising issue. Cut it off at the head. Facebook is profiting from the anti-vaxxer movement by serving up adverts themselves.
Basically, through their algorithms spreading false information that is itself a product for Facebook. It should be regulated as such.
My mom, rest her soul, was an anti-vaxxer (and a research Nurse no less). Facebook would let her spread that nonsense. It would give her a safe space to discuss it and get it reinforced.
Reinforcement's the big thing. My bro and I were just talking about the Dem primary. Based on his news feeds Kamala Harris is the front runner. Based on mine it's Bernie and Harris is dead in the water. The two of us had to do a mess of googling to get out of our bubbles.
That's because services like YouTube and Facebook are built to keep funneling content to you that your receptive of so they can get more "engagement" (e.g. eye on glass) and more ad impressions. It's real time and designed around sessions. Click a Bernie video and your feed blows up with Bernie. Click a gaming video and suddenly it's gaming. Whatever it takes to keep you clicking one more video.
True story, YouTube decided a buddy was trans. Apparently several of the Warhammer 40k players and painters he subscribed to were, and they'd done videos about the Trans issues they were facing on their 40k channels. I guess that's one way to get out of the Bubble. But baring that you really have to try to step out of it.
we've got talented people researching nonsense like this where the answer is already well known because we figured that out in the clinical trials before the vaccine went into use.
My mom, God rest her, was an anti-vaxxer and a nurse. A well trained Research Nurse for Pete's sake. This isn't anything new.
I'd like to figure out why the anti-vaxxer crowd believes this crap. Not the ones selling books and movies, those guys are in it for the money. I mean the rank and file. They're not just stupid. Heck, a lot of them have college degrees. If anything that's what we need to research, how do you get so many people to believe something so wrong?
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they're bought off by corporate interests. Go look up Secular Talk and the Young Turks on YouTube.
MSM is doing the same thing that the right wing "Clintonian" Democrats & the GOP are doing: Using SJWism to distract you from the horrible things they're doing to you economically. Don't fall for it. It's a trap.
the pro-corporate right wing is. Specifically to distract you from economic issues with social issues.
The right wing Dems use SJWs to distract their base from things like Medicare for All, Jobs programs, tuition free college and other programs they and their wealthy donors don't want to be taxed to pay for. Right wing Dems abandoned the working class during Bill Clinton's presidency so they need something to distract from that.
As for the GOP (which is all right wing) they use it to rile up their base with a new enemy. Racism is pretty much going away and the Southern Strategy (google the phrase if you don't know it) is petering out. SJWs are the new boogie man to be scared of.
There's nothing there. SJWs have no real power except as boogiemen to distract from the same 'old crappy policies that screw the working class stiffs like you and me. Ignore them. Vote Bernie Sanders. He's the only politician I know who consistently brings the working class together around real issues.
Trying to get away with calling women "cunts" by calling men "cunts" too. I'm reminded of the phrase "Anyone can be a n***ger". Not saying your racists or sexist, just that your choice of rhetorical devices is questionable and you might not be aware just how questionable.
Anyway, here's an intelligent rebuttal to Alessandro Strumia's presentation. It's way better than anything I can come up with here, and it's worth a read for anyone who wants to have an honest discussion about gender in science.
And there I go using a questionable rhetorical device (implying you're not wholly honest). It's surprisingly tough not to do that. Almost like words have unintended consequences in nuanced discussions...
My family's full of them, and they all have to do heavy lifting for the first 5 years. After they put in their dues most move up to desk jobs handing out pills or backing up doctors.
The point of this is to drive more workers into the industry so the last few making good money get their wages dropped down.
In any case the Gender pay gap will take care of itself as more women graduate college than men. At this point it's just a distraction by the right wing on both sides (right win Dems like to use it to avoid talking about real solutions to working class problems and the GOP likes to use it to rile up their base).
is that there's not a lot to keep your users coming back. All it takes is for them and their immediate circle to switch to anther networking site or method. Something hipper and cooler. Once you lose the young 'uns you become uncool real fast. It's only a matter of time before you're associated with... email (*hurk*).
As John Kelly said, spend on diplomacy or spend on bullets.
and you fell for it by clicking. The reason you're seeing so much SJW crap is that it gets clicks and comments. You got a +5, meaning at least 3 other folks looked at your comment and moderated it, meaning community engagement which in turn means more content generation for /. (which is the point of /.).
/. thread about Captain Marvel. I complained about the same thing there. It hit 800+ comments. YouTube is awash in anti-SJW sentiment because those videos get clicks.
Go find the
If you want to make this stop start ignoring it. SJWs aren't like the White Supremacists. They're poorly organized and fight among themselves. They're mostly a few angry college chicks who grow out of it after graduation.
Left alone the SJW crowd is mostly harmless. Yes, there are exceptions, there are exceptions to everything in this wide world, but the harm from obsessing over them is far, far greater. While you're focusing on this the wealthy are packing the courts with pro-corporate judges and doing things like forced arbitration, letting companies get away with putting lead in your air and water and stripping you of access to education and healthcare.
There's a massive SJW backlash on the Internet right now. It's generating a ton of advert revenue. This is just more false controversy drummed up for clicks. Like the Captain Marvel/Rotten Tomatoes story. They're winding us up and sending us off to make money off our eyeballs.
The same thing's been going on with the YouTube skeptic community. A bunch of skeptic channels I rather liked became 24/7 rants about SJWs and feminism because the anti-Homeopath and pro-vaccine stuff they were running wasn't paying the bills...
but somehow their cameras are always off when the shooting starts.
and we'll finally have single payer via Medicare for All. Seriously, not everything deserves a market solution. Paying for Healthcare is one of those things that doesn't work at a small scale. You just end up fighting with insurance companies for needed care and paying insane prices for meds.
Whew, that's a load off my mind
Seriously, can we just end the endless war already. We don't need to always be at war with Eurasia. Stop voting for war hawks already.
but what am I?
Sanders has changed the discourse of an entire nation. We're seriously talking about universal healthcare for the first time since the mid 90s.
"crazy" being the operative word.
Medicare for All? The rest of the world does it. Ending the 8 wars? They're pushing 20 years. Green New Deal? It's a jobs program, like we did in the 30s when wealth income equality got as bad as it is today.
It won't help the Dems chances. It pisses off wealthy donors. They'd do better to keep their heads low. They're taking a stand for something. Much like Bernie does with all his policy. That's what leaders are supposed to do.
now I know you're trolling. Joe Rogan? And what do pronouns have to do with literally _anything_. Come on, I expect better bait.
/.? We're old men. We saw this crap on Usenet.
Throwing in the part about being a former Bernie bro was a smart move though. It'll throw some of the progressives off your scent. Again though, you really need to step up your game if you're shooting for even a +3 around here. That shit might fly on reddit but
Intentionally I think. It took me a second to realize you were conflating Net Neutrality with Google (YouTube) & Facebook kicking right wing pundits off their platforms for questionable (and let's face it, violent) rhetoric and commentary.
Honestly if you left it at that I think you coulda got a +5 out of your troll post, but that bit about the UN ties in with all sorts of off the rails conspiracy theories. The key to a good shit post is knowing when to stop. It helps to have some honest belief in what you're posting. And you're not gonna convince me or anyone else that you believe that malarkey.
by bringing light to an issue that's being ignored. The hope is you'll see this and turn out in the next election and give them a Democratic Congress (House & Senate) and President so we can pass it in 2 years.
The only question is, what will you do? Me? I'll be there at the primaries voting for Bernie.
or does support for Anti-Vaxxers seem to come mostly from the right? When I see votes on vaccine legislation the anti-vaxxer stuff is normally coming from the GOP and the pro-vaccine laws from the Democrats (with some moderate GOPers crossing party lines).
I _think_ this is because the GOP has been willing to exploit the subculture around anti-vaccination to win some close races while the Dems and the left in general have not. I'd like to say the the left wing is also more pro-science, but I know anti-vaxxers who are otherwise left wing. That said, I know left wing anti-vaxxers who'll vote GOP on that one issue alone, and again, in a tight race they might turn elections...
Facts are still a good thing, but they're only one arrow in the quiver so to speak. You need to also engage people and get them thinking critically. Facts by themselves don't change people's minds because they have built up mental tools to work around them and preserve their world view.
Like most things, changing the minds of people who are wrong is complicated.
with anti-vaxxers. There is real, definite harm. The FCC should step in and treat it as a false advertising issue. Cut it off at the head. Facebook is profiting from the anti-vaxxer movement by serving up adverts themselves.
Basically, through their algorithms spreading false information that is itself a product for Facebook. It should be regulated as such.
My mom, rest her soul, was an anti-vaxxer (and a research Nurse no less). Facebook would let her spread that nonsense. It would give her a safe space to discuss it and get it reinforced.
Reinforcement's the big thing. My bro and I were just talking about the Dem primary. Based on his news feeds Kamala Harris is the front runner. Based on mine it's Bernie and Harris is dead in the water. The two of us had to do a mess of googling to get out of our bubbles.
That's because services like YouTube and Facebook are built to keep funneling content to you that your receptive of so they can get more "engagement" (e.g. eye on glass) and more ad impressions. It's real time and designed around sessions. Click a Bernie video and your feed blows up with Bernie. Click a gaming video and suddenly it's gaming. Whatever it takes to keep you clicking one more video.
True story, YouTube decided a buddy was trans. Apparently several of the Warhammer 40k players and painters he subscribed to were, and they'd done videos about the Trans issues they were facing on their 40k channels. I guess that's one way to get out of the Bubble. But baring that you really have to try to step out of it.
it's the same reason Nancy Pelosi is the House Speaker even though she's got a 14% approval rating. The alternatives were worse.
That said, if we'd stop electing these yahoos we could stop these kind of "lesser of two evils" choices in the first place.
we've got talented people researching nonsense like this where the answer is already well known because we figured that out in the clinical trials before the vaccine went into use.
My mom, God rest her, was an anti-vaxxer and a nurse. A well trained Research Nurse for Pete's sake. This isn't anything new.
I'd like to figure out why the anti-vaxxer crowd believes this crap. Not the ones selling books and movies, those guys are in it for the money. I mean the rank and file. They're not just stupid. Heck, a lot of them have college degrees. If anything that's what we need to research, how do you get so many people to believe something so wrong?
that Uber disabled safety features to make the ride smoother for a Demo to their CEO and then forgot to turn them back on. It was on Ars.
I'm not sure how that effects things, but it probably should have been investigated more.