I tend to be pretty dead-set against big government (I mean really, the government screws up just about everything)
Only when it's been bought off by capitalist interests. Government provides better services for less money, and is the only thing standing between you and abusive monopolies and products that kill you.
The whole post was just more of the same Randian gibberish.
Giving power to the government is always evil, because we are governed by humans, not angels, and any power will eventually be used against the people. You must justify that evil with some good that balances it.
Completely ignoring the fact that monied interests are more than happy to use their power to exploit you for profit. The worst bureaucrat at the worst Soviet agency did not have a personal, vested interest in screwing you over for financial gain. As opposed to capitalist companies, which may get you killed in the process - see GM ignitions alone.
Whats the only institution that can stand up to car companies that don't care if you die in a fire? Railroad barons that build lines across public lands and then charge you a kidney for transportation? Force companies to stop making insulation made form asbestos and using lead paint on your kids toys? Government.
You make as much sense as a communist ranting that anyone who starts their own business is going to sexually harass his secretary while defrauding investors and cheating customers - because what one business does, all businesses will do. Except communists have more sense than that.
Behold the power of the American Exceptionalist Distortion field, where basic chronology and cause-and-effect may be dismissed out of hand, because you are a unique snowflake and your shit doesn't stink.
Super delegates has been a standard feature of Democratic conventions since 1968.
And the Electoral College has been around far longer than that, but it doesn't stop it from being an elitist idea that never should have been implemented in the first place*.
*No, I'm not trashing the EC because 'zomg Hillz should be prez cuz she got more votes', as it would have been a different race entirely if entirely different rules had been in play. Trump would have campaigned in California, and Hillary would have campaigned in Texas.
Of course they are. Anything that makes the government more powerful is inherently evil.
Looney Tunes. Well, maybe you got that way after you old man stubbornly used lead paint on your crib when you were a baby. Had to stick it to those big librul science types, the Fairy Rand Grandmother told him so...
Climate change makes for more powerful storms, that can kill thousands. Climate change makes for more droughts and floods, which can kill thousands more. A hundred million here, a hundred million there through famine and resource wars - probably wont affect you so no big whoop.
We know what a warm Earth looks like, and it's far more dense with life
Willful ignorance does not become you. Every mass extinction has come from rapid climate change that occurs too fast for most life to adapt. Even without climate change, humans are already a mass extinction event on a geological scale.
How so. Her foreign policy work in Honduras, Egypt, Syria, Libya and Ukraine was a complete and utter disaster. Competent people don't praise the Reagan's for their work on AIDS - might as well tell people about your fond memories of David Duke's civil rights activism. Competent people don't make up stories about being shot at in Bosnia that are easy to debunk. Competent people don't run private email servers a mere two years after savaging the Bush Administration for...using private mail severs.
In reality, not only did he not start a nuclear war but he ultimately ushered in the age of Perestroika and an end to the Cold War.
As has already been pointed out, that was Gorbachev, not Reagan. In fact, all Reagan's saber-rattling accomplished was delaying the fall of the Soviet Union, as it's easy to whip up popular, patriotic support in your country when another is openly threatening it.
We are now in more danger of all-out nuclear war than during Cuban Missile Crisis?
Turkish Missile Crisis. The only reason Russia wanted missiles in Cuba was to counter the missiles the U.S. had placed in Turkey. That fact usually gets left out of the American storyline, though....
Yes, the sanctions were working..... because the was the purpose of the sanctions
The purpose of the sanctions was to crush Iran's economy and bully them into surrendering their sovereignty for the next 30 years. Because, as the CIA and even Mossad will tell you....Iran had no nuclear weapons program. Of the two countries, only the USA was actually in violation of the NPT - for ignoring the disarmament provisions of the treaty. But you wont see Iraqi weapons inspectors searching Los Alamos any time soon to ensure compliance.
Putin is invading numerous areas for controlling them
Putin, unlike the United States, hasn't invaded shit. If Russia illegally overthrew the government of Canada, can you say with a straight face that the American response would have been so restrained as to accept southern Ontario - if it overwhelming voted to join the U.S.?
Yes, conservatives love to complain about Gore's proposal for carbon credit trading. Except....that's a conservative, market-based solution to mitigate climate change. If Gore were the leftist you guys seem to think he his, he would have instead proposed a complete ban on coal and nuclear power within three years, to bring back 91% tax rates and slash the military down to the various Guards: Army, Air and Coast.
If they're former staff, then by definition it's not poaching, no? Yes, I'm too lazy to read the article, but I doubt Tesla is suing over people who used to work at Tesla now being recruited to work at other companies.
Reagan wasn't entirely convinced that CFCs were destroying the ozone layer, but he surrounded himself with competent advisors who understood the science.
His administration also cracked jokes about AIDS as it was killing tens of thousands of people, even ignoring the personal pleas of a dying family friend (Rock Hudson) in the process.
Again, no. Concern trolling is defined by the intent to disrupt the discourse by falsely representing one's motivations
Again, yes. Concern trolling is pretending to be supportive or sympathetic to a person or cause, but you just have these concerns about how they are doing it. The more baseless the concern, the bigger the concern troll.
And your failure to address the substance of a literally a single one of the points I made shows just how empty your argument is.
You haven't made a single point, just repeated the same old FUD and character assassination on Assange without bothering to back it up, while ignoring the central flaw in your premise:
Wikileaks is in the publishing business, not the hacking business. If you want them to publish something, go hack something.
Wikileaks is in the publishing business, not the hacking business. If you want them to publish something, go hack something.
Wikileaks is in the publishing business, not the hacking business. If you want them to publish something, go hack something.
Wikileaks is in the publishing business, not the hacking business. If you want them to publish something, go hack something.
Sunk in yet? Assange can only put out what he's been given, and they have published hundreds of thousands of documents on Russia in the past. If you have such a hard on for Pootie Poot's emails or Trump's tax records, go find a Starbucks with WiFi and get to work.
Red herring. You know every teacher has had education, yes? And through continuing education, will have far more throughout her or his lifetime than an investment banker.
A stupid woodcutter can work himself into an early grave, a smart one will go sharpen his ax to produce the same with half the effort.
The main problem is that the "Nukes = BOMBZ!" crowd has so poisoned this country's regulatory structure with regards to nuclear power, that you have to have more money than Gates just to talk with them. Let alone starting up a project.
The government DGAF about the environment or hippie protestors. DGAF about ruining groundwater and causing earthquakes with fracking, companies that ruin the Gulf of Mexico, pipelines that leak constantly, oil trains that blow up, slurry spills that ruin watersheds, a cities drinking water being poisoned by lead, or opening the arctic and eastern seaboard to drilling.
You don't have new nuclear power plants because their cost is unjustifiable. No nuclear power plant can be built without massive subsidization from the taxpayers, and not just during the initial, decade plus construction. There's the mining, refining, security, containment, disaster preparedness, decommissioning and of course dealing with the waste for hundreds to thousands of years. For less money and in far less time, you can build out a renewable energy grid, while creating more jobs in the process. The only loser here is the the most bloated pig in pork barrel spending - nuclear power.
Your pedantic projection is noted. Nixon's pardon is something that is covered in third grade civics - thus making you and your fellow wankers prattling on about convictions and accepting responsibility the pedants. Pedants who don't know what they are talking about, the best kind.
You clearly don't work in software development on the Left Coast.
You're clearly still hand waiving on the subject of human nature. If you and 99 of your co-workers are selected to help set up a London branch and spend 18 months there, some of you might date. But employees who decide to buy a flat (at several times the price of housing back home) and get married are going to be in the distinct minority, not the rule.
And if you'd rather compete with someone making under $30k in India rather than the same guy making over $80k here (typical for my industry), you're pretty bad at math.
You're pretty bad at reading comprehension, if you keep skipping the part where it's your own government going out of its way to bring in workers to compete with you, Joe Citizen, for your "market wages".
When Clinton did the same she probably thought she was telling the truth.
So, the she's-an-incompetent-moron defense used for the "smartest person in the room". Sounds like Catholic hospitals who suddenly start arguing that a fetus isn't a person the second they are sued for a preventable miscarriage.
She took bribes from Russia for selling them US uranium.
False
I trust you're calling bullshit when Democrats talk about Trump's business ties to Russia then, yes?
She failed to follow government guidelines for record retention.
True, but very common.
Very much horseshit, to be technical. She is the only SoS to use a private email server exclusively. And starting a mere two years after she publicly blasted the Bush Administration for their private servers. She also deleted tens of thousands of emails with the same authorization she had in setting up her server (none) which would have had her serving a few decades in prison for obstruction of justice, if her name was Hillary Smith.
That only refers to information you know you have, she didn't realized classified info was on the server.
Pure sophistry. Hillary knew full well that the information she was dealing in was born classified. Think about it for two seconds: if the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan sends an email about the state of nuclear tensions between that country and India, does it have to be marked classified before it is treated as such? You might not know the answer, but Hillary did as an Original Classification Authority, a high-level official who was given extensive training and responsibility over classified materials.
Hillary Clinton did not use Anthony Weiner's laptop, her aid Huma Abedin did, likely with her official State Dept email address.
Her agency, her responsibility. Ask any military base commander that's been sacked after some grunt screws something up with security or nuclear weapons.
The reason why the GOP focused so much on the private email server is because it was a legit Clinton scandal, one they didn't have to invent
FTFY. Hillary Clinton ran her own unsecured, unauthorized server and deliberately deleted evidence before an investigation. Other people have been sent to prison for far less - just ask the Navy man serving time for taking a few selfies on an unsecured, unauthorized cell phone.
So you're one of those wankers who starts babbling on about something heard in the first year stats class he had to drop out of, when Bill Gates walks into a room.
Your continued hand waving, non-responses and doubling down on sexist stereotypes is also noted. You can stop prattling on about your study when the subject is medical doctors and cancer research. Really, feel free to stop beating that horse at any time, it's quite dead.
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Only when it's been bought off by capitalist interests. Government provides better services for less money, and is the only thing standing between you and abusive monopolies and products that kill you.
The whole post was just more of the same Randian gibberish.
Completely ignoring the fact that monied interests are more than happy to use their power to exploit you for profit. The worst bureaucrat at the worst Soviet agency did not have a personal, vested interest in screwing you over for financial gain. As opposed to capitalist companies, which may get you killed in the process - see GM ignitions alone.
Whats the only institution that can stand up to car companies that don't care if you die in a fire? Railroad barons that build lines across public lands and then charge you a kidney for transportation? Force companies to stop making insulation made form asbestos and using lead paint on your kids toys? Government.
You make as much sense as a communist ranting that anyone who starts their own business is going to sexually harass his secretary while defrauding investors and cheating customers - because what one business does, all businesses will do. Except communists have more sense than that.
Behold the power of the American Exceptionalist Distortion field, where basic chronology and cause-and-effect may be dismissed out of hand, because you are a unique snowflake and your shit doesn't stink.
And the Electoral College has been around far longer than that, but it doesn't stop it from being an elitist idea that never should have been implemented in the first place*.
*No, I'm not trashing the EC because 'zomg Hillz should be prez cuz she got more votes', as it would have been a different race entirely if entirely different rules had been in play. Trump would have campaigned in California, and Hillary would have campaigned in Texas.
Looney Tunes. Well, maybe you got that way after you old man stubbornly used lead paint on your crib when you were a baby. Had to stick it to those big librul science types, the Fairy Rand Grandmother told him so...
Climate change makes for more powerful storms, that can kill thousands. Climate change makes for more droughts and floods, which can kill thousands more. A hundred million here, a hundred million there through famine and resource wars - probably wont affect you so no big whoop.
Willful ignorance does not become you. Every mass extinction has come from rapid climate change that occurs too fast for most life to adapt. Even without climate change, humans are already a mass extinction event on a geological scale.
How so. Her foreign policy work in Honduras, Egypt, Syria, Libya and Ukraine was a complete and utter disaster. Competent people don't praise the Reagan's for their work on AIDS - might as well tell people about your fond memories of David Duke's civil rights activism. Competent people don't make up stories about being shot at in Bosnia that are easy to debunk. Competent people don't run private email servers a mere two years after savaging the Bush Administration for...using private mail severs.
Iran was already far from from weapon capabilities because the country had no interest in acquiring one. As even Israelis will tell you.
As has already been pointed out, that was Gorbachev, not Reagan. In fact, all Reagan's saber-rattling accomplished was delaying the fall of the Soviet Union, as it's easy to whip up popular, patriotic support in your country when another is openly threatening it.
Turkish Missile Crisis. The only reason Russia wanted missiles in Cuba was to counter the missiles the U.S. had placed in Turkey. That fact usually gets left out of the American storyline, though....
Iran's stance against nuclear weapons is why Iran isn't seeking a nuclear weapon, as even Israelis will admit.
The purpose of the sanctions was to crush Iran's economy and bully them into surrendering their sovereignty for the next 30 years. Because, as the CIA and even Mossad will tell you....Iran had no nuclear weapons program. Of the two countries, only the USA was actually in violation of the NPT - for ignoring the disarmament provisions of the treaty. But you wont see Iraqi weapons inspectors searching Los Alamos any time soon to ensure compliance.
Putin, unlike the United States, hasn't invaded shit. If Russia illegally overthrew the government of Canada, can you say with a straight face that the American response would have been so restrained as to accept southern Ontario - if it overwhelming voted to join the U.S.?
Yes, conservatives love to complain about Gore's proposal for carbon credit trading. Except....that's a conservative, market-based solution to mitigate climate change. If Gore were the leftist you guys seem to think he his, he would have instead proposed a complete ban on coal and nuclear power within three years, to bring back 91% tax rates and slash the military down to the various Guards: Army, Air and Coast.
If they're former staff, then by definition it's not poaching, no? Yes, I'm too lazy to read the article, but I doubt Tesla is suing over people who used to work at Tesla now being recruited to work at other companies.
His administration also cracked jokes about AIDS as it was killing tens of thousands of people, even ignoring the personal pleas of a dying family friend (Rock Hudson) in the process.
Again, yes. Concern trolling is pretending to be supportive or sympathetic to a person or cause, but you just have these concerns about how they are doing it. The more baseless the concern, the bigger the concern troll.
You haven't made a single point, just repeated the same old FUD and character assassination on Assange without bothering to back it up, while ignoring the central flaw in your premise:
Wikileaks is in the publishing business, not the hacking business. If you want them to publish something, go hack something.
Wikileaks is in the publishing business, not the hacking business. If you want them to publish something, go hack something.
Wikileaks is in the publishing business, not the hacking business. If you want them to publish something, go hack something.
Wikileaks is in the publishing business, not the hacking business. If you want them to publish something, go hack something.
Sunk in yet? Assange can only put out what he's been given, and they have published hundreds of thousands of documents on Russia in the past. If you have such a hard on for Pootie Poot's emails or Trump's tax records, go find a Starbucks with WiFi and get to work.
You wish. Either you're utterly incompetent, or you're a "liars figure" sophist. I'll leave you to your bubble now.
Red herring. You know every teacher has had education, yes? And through continuing education, will have far more throughout her or his lifetime than an investment banker.
Non sequitur. And elitist bootstrap bullshit.
The government DGAF about the environment or hippie protestors. DGAF about ruining groundwater and causing earthquakes with fracking, companies that ruin the Gulf of Mexico, pipelines that leak constantly, oil trains that blow up, slurry spills that ruin watersheds, a cities drinking water being poisoned by lead, or opening the arctic and eastern seaboard to drilling.
You don't have new nuclear power plants because their cost is unjustifiable. No nuclear power plant can be built without massive subsidization from the taxpayers, and not just during the initial, decade plus construction. There's the mining, refining, security, containment, disaster preparedness, decommissioning and of course dealing with the waste for hundreds to thousands of years. For less money and in far less time, you can build out a renewable energy grid, while creating more jobs in the process. The only loser here is the the most bloated pig in pork barrel spending - nuclear power.
Your pedantic projection is noted. Nixon's pardon is something that is covered in third grade civics - thus making you and your fellow wankers prattling on about convictions and accepting responsibility the pedants. Pedants who don't know what they are talking about, the best kind.
You're clearly still hand waiving on the subject of human nature. If you and 99 of your co-workers are selected to help set up a London branch and spend 18 months there, some of you might date. But employees who decide to buy a flat (at several times the price of housing back home) and get married are going to be in the distinct minority, not the rule.
You're pretty bad at reading comprehension, if you keep skipping the part where it's your own government going out of its way to bring in workers to compete with you, Joe Citizen, for your "market wages".
So, the she's-an-incompetent-moron defense used for the "smartest person in the room". Sounds like Catholic hospitals who suddenly start arguing that a fetus isn't a person the second they are sued for a preventable miscarriage.
I trust you're calling bullshit when Democrats talk about Trump's business ties to Russia then, yes?
Very much horseshit, to be technical. She is the only SoS to use a private email server exclusively. And starting a mere two years after she publicly blasted the Bush Administration for their private servers. She also deleted tens of thousands of emails with the same authorization she had in setting up her server (none) which would have had her serving a few decades in prison for obstruction of justice, if her name was Hillary Smith.
Pure sophistry. Hillary knew full well that the information she was dealing in was born classified. Think about it for two seconds: if the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan sends an email about the state of nuclear tensions between that country and India, does it have to be marked classified before it is treated as such? You might not know the answer, but Hillary did as an Original Classification Authority, a high-level official who was given extensive training and responsibility over classified materials.
Her agency, her responsibility. Ask any military base commander that's been sacked after some grunt screws something up with security or nuclear weapons.
FTFY. Hillary Clinton ran her own unsecured, unauthorized server and deliberately deleted evidence before an investigation. Other people have been sent to prison for far less - just ask the Navy man serving time for taking a few selfies on an unsecured, unauthorized cell phone.
So you're one of those wankers who starts babbling on about something heard in the first year stats class he had to drop out of, when Bill Gates walks into a room.
Your continued hand waving, non-responses and doubling down on sexist stereotypes is also noted. You can stop prattling on about your study when the subject is medical doctors and cancer research. Really, feel free to stop beating that horse at any time, it's quite dead.