When you create new levers of federal power, who do you think is going to be most interested and able to manipulate them?
Classic libertarian fallacy: blaming the institution of government for the effects of capitalism. Also nonsense when you look at countries like Norway, which has much more expansive government services but doesn't have a capitalist cult. Like you do.
Hand waiving. Of course you'd judge a jealous spouse more harshly if they'd spent months planning on killing their SO, as opposed to coming home early and finding them in bed with someone else.
To borrow Clinton's line about the economy, it's the intent, stupid. And bigotry that leads one towards violence is a form of intent.
Obama was treated worse than an president in history by the press,
Carter and Clinton both had it worse than Obama. Far worse. No one breathlessly accused Obama of running drugs through Hawaii, or having his close aids murdered.
I walked away from Apple in 2000 over a similar kind of thing. The elimination of SCSI, ADB and traditional serial ports meant that if I wanted a new Mac, I was going to have to replace all of my peripherals and that was just a bridge too far.
With the exception of SCSI, going to PC would have meant getting all new peripherals anyway. Peripherals that at the time might have been using USB. The same USB ports that had been shipping with Macs for three years by that point.
After they've changed the 30pin connection for the smaller connection, I decided that I would never, ever buy another Apple product.
Because you're the most petulant thinned skinned wanker to have ever existed in the human race?
My micro-USB
You mean the micro-USB that broke compatibility with all of the manufacturers previous accessories and chargers? My old Samsung flip phone couldn't use micro-USB. But that was okay, because it wasn't Apple.
Don't you mean against the law? Marrying someone of a different race was once against the law, too. Snowden, like Manning, first tried the "appropriate channels" to bring attention to illegal actions from the government - and like Manning was blown off. Leaving the only recourse to be blowing the whistle and telling the public about said illegal actions.
*Authoritarianism*, whether the flavor be Leftist or Rightist, creates the police state.
Uh huh. Except almost all authoritarian countries are "Rightist", as you can count the number of "Leftist" authoritarian countries on one hand. A hand that's missing a couple of fingers after a butcher shop accident.
And even then all "Leftist" authoritarianism is the direct result of elitist and capitalist shitbags who oppressed the proles until the proles revolted and broke out the guillotines. Without the Tzars in Russia, you never would have had Lenin. Without the brutal Batista dictatorship, you never would have had Castro. Without the 600+ assassination attempts on Castro's life, you wouldn't have had decades of "human rights violations" to whine about (before opening your own torture camp in Cuba).
collectivists take from those who produce and give it to those who do not.
You're describing Capitalism. Socialism gives the people who do the work ownership of the means of production, not the leisure class shitbags who exploit people to death, with their only qualification being how much money their daddy was able to swindle from consumers and workers. Why do you hate workers?
Do they have satellite or spy plane/drone footage? It wasn't a hard question.
Like for the whole Crimea thing?
What about it - the fact that Russia had an existing agreement for a base, or that the people of Crimea overwhelmingly voted to secede after neo-Nazis made up a sizable portion of the post-coup junta?
Uh, no. That's not tu quoque. That's your pathetic attempt at avoiding cause and effect, Western Exceptionalist. The United States overthrew a government on Russia's border, gave weapons to the junta, sent the most troops to Eastern Europe since WWII, and wants to bring the junta into NATO, an anti-Russian alliance. This is on top of a "missile shield" encircling Russia, and a trillion-dollar upgrade program to the U.S. nuclear arsenal intended to win a nuclear war with that country.
So feel free to stop defending dumbfuckery with....more dumbfuckery at any time.
Yes and the pentagon would complain if the russians bombed us despite the pentagon bombing brown skinned people all over the world for decades.
So maybe you should stop fucking with other countries before you whine about your own (alleged) fucking, least it be pointed out you're a hard charging tough guy.....who pissed himself when he heard a loud noise. Six blocks away.
It really is phenomenal how people didn't learn a goddamned thing about the Iraq war. I bet the Bushco neocons are kicking themselves for wasting all that time (and Powell's reputation) presenting all that fake evidence of Iraqi WMD's to the UN. When all they had to do was make a few unsourced claims to the (eventually) CIA-funded WaPo and even liberal democrats would eat that shit up with a spoon.
And here's an article on why the entire Russiagate nonsense is hysterical neocon propaganda, including the Cloudstrike "report". Some highlights:
DNC wouldn't let the FBI examine their servers Crowdstrike has direct ties to the Russiaphobic organization, Atlantic Council Crowdstrike invented the terms Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear Crowdstrike got key details wrong in report according to their own sources
More seriously - it's been true, for a lot of years, that whenever Slashdot has run a story which casts a bad light on Putin... an awful lot of anonymous pro-Putin posts appear.
Yeah, just like establishment types sneered at anyone who questioned the invasion of Iraq, calling them Saddam lovers. Establishment types were dumbfuckers back then, too.
We saw it when he had his country invade the Ukraine
While on the subject of dumbfuckery, got any evidence yet of a Russian invasion that wasn't collected from a Ukrainian neo-nazi Facebook page or twitter feed? It's been years now and not a single U.S. satellite photo or drone footage to be had of Russian forces moving across the border.
Then, of course, even if Russia had invaded Ukraine, it would only be a million times more justified than any U.S. intervention you can name, given the fact that the U.S. overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine. It's not like the U.S. would just sit by with its thumb up its ass if the KGB overthrew the elected government of Mexico and started making moves to bring the country into the Warsaw Pact.
we saw it when he rigged the 2012 Russian election
It will be more interesting when the amount of evidence against Putin exceeds the amount of evidence that Obama's mom knew 45 years in advance that her son could be president, and got him a fake birth certificate with a fake birth announcement in an Hawaiian newspaper.
It would be interesting to examine Slashdot's web logs.
I would say not as interesting as when the Russiaphobes finally have to admit they were full of it the entire time, but I know you'll just move on to the next conspiracy fed to you by an anonymous source to the CIA-funded Washington Post. The CT that Russia hacked the DNC emails has turned out to be crap, so then you had to settle for "meddling" in the election which has turned out to be crap - a phishing email sent to election officials does jack to change election results - so now it's OMG someone in the Trump camp talked to some Russian official. Call me when you do the same when it comes out that the same campaign talked to the ambassador from India, or from Ireland.
Now, this is the part where you accuse me of being a Saddam lover, for asking for actual evidence of a nuclear weapons program or being involved in 911, and not trusting the word of professional liars and propagandists.
Listen buddy: IDGAF about Hillary; I didn't vote for the old bat and I didn't vote for Cheeto-head either, but I do give a good god-fucking-damnit about whether some Russian military assholes, on the orders of the head Russian asshole, HACKED OUR GODS-BE-DAMNED ELECTION PROCESS AND GOT AWAY WITH IT! Is that so fucking hard for you and EVERYONE LIKE YOU to understand!?
Uh huh. Then I trust you want every living president prosecuted for interfering in other countries elections, yes? When you add up the list of countries who have had their governments outright overthrown by the United States since WWII to the list of those merely "meddled" with (giving cash to astroturf groups in Venezuela for example) you're approaching 200 governments.
Americans are the worst tough buy bed shitters the world has ever known. Outright ordering the rest of the world around but then shitting the bed when you hear a bump in the night. You're the equivalent of Biff Tannen whining about that Hawking guy over there in the wheelchair, because you think he made a funny face at you. While at the same time you're got another kid in a headlock and are scooping his eyeball out with a spoon, while simultaneously kicking another kids ribcage into his lungs, in front of the girl you just set on fire with kerosene. But you want the teacher to suspend Hawking over there because he (may or may not) have made a funny face at you.
In other words...check that beam in your eye before complaining about motes.
You're probably thinking of a provision that a Republican Congress put in one for a Democratic President.
No. I'm not. Which I'm sure you knew already. It's because "signing an NDAA which allows the Army to throw you in prison without charge or hearing, indefinitely" is long to put in a subject line. But I'm sure you knew that already, too.
We didn't promise you jack shit. Nothing was written.
So because it wasn't nailed down in a treaty, it's no big deal that Gorbachev stood by and let the Warsaw Pact disintegrate only for NATO to dramatically increase in size. Your defense of underhanded sophistry is noted.
and the West because they were sick of Russia's imperialism, exploitation and corruption.
Still putting the D in Dumfuck I see - and then some.
It's not Russia that's bombing a dozen countries far away from it for bullshit reasons. It's not Russia that had a worldwide kidnapping & torture program. It's not Russia that's overthrown two democracies (just during the Obama years) ...and tried to overthrow another in Venezuela It's not Russia deploying troops to over 100 countries around the world.
I could go on all day, dumbfucking American Exceptionalist.
The "encirclement" narrative is bullshit.
Did we talk about your dumbfuckery? Aside from the existing NATO bases we've continued to operate even after the collapse of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact, there's also the "missile shield" which has been deployed to eastern europe and bases in Asia like South Korea. Have you spoken to a doctor about your affliction with dumbfucerieze?
Russia likes to pretend it's a great power, equal to the United States. It's actually a corrupt, hollow shell of a country with an economy smaller than Italy's. Putin's vain, arrogant demand that Russia be treated as an "equal" to the United States is riscible garbage, which is rightly regarded with distain and ridicule in Western policy circles.
More dumbfuckery. Russia's defense budget is a fraction of NATO's, which is a fraction of the U.S. imperial budget, which is greater than the rest of the world combined. Russia isn't the arrogant imperialist threat. YOU are.
Sometimes trying to take over a political party to get a nomination just doesn't work out (especially in a country that unfortunately gives people only two party options).
You mean when the party organization and the media collude to coronate another candidate ahead of the actual voting.
Bernie was not a Democrat until he ran for President. Why is it that the Party is supposed to get behind someone like that?
Why is it Democrats insist on ratfucking Sanders on this when he gave you dumb bastards control of the Senate for two years of the Bush Administration?
Of what...a victim of capitalist imperialism and market manipulation? Chavez lifted millions of people out of abject poverty. Rich and bourgeois shitbags naturally took offense, as they are used to all economic gains flowing to their coffers, at the expense of the vast majority of the population.
The West wouldn't be "containing" Russia if they didn't think that Russian revanishism and imperialism weren't a threat. Russia started this, the West will finish it. Again.
So not only do you have the ass in dumbass, you've got the d in dumbfuck! Russia's military spending is a fraction of NATO's, and they just cut it by 30%. NATO has dramatically expanded after the fall of the Warsaw Pact - breaking a promise Bush made to Gorbachev. It's not Russia spending a trillion dollars to upgrade its nuclear arsenal while encircling the U.S. with anti-missile systems. And it's not Russia that's deployed the largest amounts of troops to eastern europe since WWII, practicing "war games".
As is usually the case, you take the American Exceptionalist storyline, invert it, and you have reality. It's not the EU defending itself from Russian aggression. It's Russia defending itself from NATO and U.S. aggression.
Slashdot Mirror
Classic libertarian fallacy: blaming the institution of government for the effects of capitalism. Also nonsense when you look at countries like Norway, which has much more expansive government services but doesn't have a capitalist cult. Like you do.
I wonder if that's like the pseudoscience behind bite mark "experts".
Hand waiving. Of course you'd judge a jealous spouse more harshly if they'd spent months planning on killing their SO, as opposed to coming home early and finding them in bed with someone else.
To borrow Clinton's line about the economy, it's the intent, stupid. And bigotry that leads one towards violence is a form of intent.
Because their victims were selected because of bigoted prejudices, but you knew that already, which makes you willfully obtuse.
Carter and Clinton both had it worse than Obama. Far worse. No one breathlessly accused Obama of running drugs through Hawaii, or having his close aids murdered.
With the exception of SCSI, going to PC would have meant getting all new peripherals anyway. Peripherals that at the time might have been using USB. The same USB ports that had been shipping with Macs for three years by that point.
Ooooookaaaay.
Because you're the most petulant thinned skinned wanker to have ever existed in the human race?
You mean the micro-USB that broke compatibility with all of the manufacturers previous accessories and chargers? My old Samsung flip phone couldn't use micro-USB. But that was okay, because it wasn't Apple.
Wanker.
Don't you mean against the law? Marrying someone of a different race was once against the law, too. Snowden, like Manning, first tried the "appropriate channels" to bring attention to illegal actions from the government - and like Manning was blown off. Leaving the only recourse to be blowing the whistle and telling the public about said illegal actions.
Uh huh. Except almost all authoritarian countries are "Rightist", as you can count the number of "Leftist" authoritarian countries on one hand. A hand that's missing a couple of fingers after a butcher shop accident.
And even then all "Leftist" authoritarianism is the direct result of elitist and capitalist shitbags who oppressed the proles until the proles revolted and broke out the guillotines. Without the Tzars in Russia, you never would have had Lenin. Without the brutal Batista dictatorship, you never would have had Castro. Without the 600+ assassination attempts on Castro's life, you wouldn't have had decades of "human rights violations" to whine about (before opening your own torture camp in Cuba).
You're describing Capitalism. Socialism gives the people who do the work ownership of the means of production, not the leisure class shitbags who exploit people to death, with their only qualification being how much money their daddy was able to swindle from consumers and workers. Why do you hate workers?
That's what the Birthers said for years about Obama, and for the same butthurt partisan reasons. And they had just as much evidence as you do.
Do they have satellite or spy plane/drone footage? It wasn't a hard question.
What about it - the fact that Russia had an existing agreement for a base, or that the people of Crimea overwhelmingly voted to secede after neo-Nazis made up a sizable portion of the post-coup junta?
Uh, no. That's not tu quoque. That's your pathetic attempt at avoiding cause and effect, Western Exceptionalist. The United States overthrew a government on Russia's border, gave weapons to the junta, sent the most troops to Eastern Europe since WWII, and wants to bring the junta into NATO, an anti-Russian alliance. This is on top of a "missile shield" encircling Russia, and a trillion-dollar upgrade program to the U.S. nuclear arsenal intended to win a nuclear war with that country.
So feel free to stop defending dumbfuckery with....more dumbfuckery at any time.
So maybe you should stop fucking with other countries before you whine about your own (alleged) fucking, least it be pointed out you're a hard charging tough guy.....who pissed himself when he heard a loud noise. Six blocks away.
It really is phenomenal how people didn't learn a goddamned thing about the Iraq war. I bet the Bushco neocons are kicking themselves for wasting all that time (and Powell's reputation) presenting all that fake evidence of Iraqi WMD's to the UN. When all they had to do was make a few unsourced claims to the (eventually) CIA-funded WaPo and even liberal democrats would eat that shit up with a spoon.
And here's an article on why the entire Russiagate nonsense is hysterical neocon propaganda, including the Cloudstrike "report". Some highlights:
DNC wouldn't let the FBI examine their servers
Crowdstrike has direct ties to the Russiaphobic organization, Atlantic Council
Crowdstrike invented the terms Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear
Crowdstrike got key details wrong in report according to their own sources
Yeah, just like establishment types sneered at anyone who questioned the invasion of Iraq, calling them Saddam lovers. Establishment types were dumbfuckers back then, too.
While on the subject of dumbfuckery, got any evidence yet of a Russian invasion that wasn't collected from a Ukrainian neo-nazi Facebook page or twitter feed? It's been years now and not a single U.S. satellite photo or drone footage to be had of Russian forces moving across the border.
Then, of course, even if Russia had invaded Ukraine, it would only be a million times more justified than any U.S. intervention you can name, given the fact that the U.S. overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine. It's not like the U.S. would just sit by with its thumb up its ass if the KGB overthrew the elected government of Mexico and started making moves to bring the country into the Warsaw Pact.
It will be more interesting when the amount of evidence against Putin exceeds the amount of evidence that Obama's mom knew 45 years in advance that her son could be president, and got him a fake birth certificate with a fake birth announcement in an Hawaiian newspaper.
I would say not as interesting as when the Russiaphobes finally have to admit they were full of it the entire time, but I know you'll just move on to the next conspiracy fed to you by an anonymous source to the CIA-funded Washington Post. The CT that Russia hacked the DNC emails has turned out to be crap, so then you had to settle for "meddling" in the election which has turned out to be crap - a phishing email sent to election officials does jack to change election results - so now it's OMG someone in the Trump camp talked to some Russian official. Call me when you do the same when it comes out that the same campaign talked to the ambassador from India, or from Ireland.
Now, this is the part where you accuse me of being a Saddam lover, for asking for actual evidence of a nuclear weapons program or being involved in 911, and not trusting the word of professional liars and propagandists.
Uh huh. Then I trust you want every living president prosecuted for interfering in other countries elections, yes? When you add up the list of countries who have had their governments outright overthrown by the United States since WWII to the list of those merely "meddled" with (giving cash to astroturf groups in Venezuela for example) you're approaching 200 governments.
Americans are the worst tough buy bed shitters the world has ever known. Outright ordering the rest of the world around but then shitting the bed when you hear a bump in the night. You're the equivalent of Biff Tannen whining about that Hawking guy over there in the wheelchair, because you think he made a funny face at you. While at the same time you're got another kid in a headlock and are scooping his eyeball out with a spoon, while simultaneously kicking another kids ribcage into his lungs, in front of the girl you just set on fire with kerosene. But you want the teacher to suspend Hawking over there because he (may or may not) have made a funny face at you.
In other words...check that beam in your eye before complaining about motes.
That's where you were going with this, yes? Because there is zero evidence that Russia hacked anything.
Pedantry is noted.
No. I'm not. Which I'm sure you knew already. It's because "signing an NDAA which allows the Army to throw you in prison without charge or hearing, indefinitely" is long to put in a subject line. But I'm sure you knew that already, too.
So because it wasn't nailed down in a treaty, it's no big deal that Gorbachev stood by and let the Warsaw Pact disintegrate only for NATO to dramatically increase in size. Your defense of underhanded sophistry is noted.
Still putting the D in Dumfuck I see - and then some.
It's not Russia that's bombing a dozen countries far away from it for bullshit reasons.
It's not Russia that had a worldwide kidnapping & torture program.
It's not Russia that's overthrown two democracies (just during the Obama years)
...and tried to overthrow another in Venezuela
It's not Russia deploying troops to over 100 countries around the world.
I could go on all day, dumbfucking American Exceptionalist.
Did we talk about your dumbfuckery? Aside from the existing NATO bases we've continued to operate even after the collapse of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact, there's also the "missile shield" which has been deployed to eastern europe and bases in Asia like South Korea. Have you spoken to a doctor about your affliction with dumbfucerieze?
More dumbfuckery. Russia's defense budget is a fraction of NATO's, which is a fraction of the U.S. imperial budget, which is greater than the rest of the world combined. Russia isn't the arrogant imperialist threat. YOU are.
You mean when the party organization and the media collude to coronate another candidate ahead of the actual voting.
Why is it Democrats insist on ratfucking Sanders on this when he gave you dumb bastards control of the Senate for two years of the Bush Administration?
Most of the worst policies of the last 30 years have been championed for and signed by Democratic presidents. Not Republicans.
Of what...a victim of capitalist imperialism and market manipulation? Chavez lifted millions of people out of abject poverty. Rich and bourgeois shitbags naturally took offense, as they are used to all economic gains flowing to their coffers, at the expense of the vast majority of the population.
Because he's a neocon. Duh. Being a Democrat no more prevents one from being a neocon than being pro-choice precludes one from being pro-choice.
So not only do you have the ass in dumbass, you've got the d in dumbfuck! Russia's military spending is a fraction of NATO's, and they just cut it by 30%. NATO has dramatically expanded after the fall of the Warsaw Pact - breaking a promise Bush made to Gorbachev. It's not Russia spending a trillion dollars to upgrade its nuclear arsenal while encircling the U.S. with anti-missile systems. And it's not Russia that's deployed the largest amounts of troops to eastern europe since WWII, practicing "war games".
As is usually the case, you take the American Exceptionalist storyline, invert it, and you have reality. It's not the EU defending itself from Russian aggression. It's Russia defending itself from NATO and U.S. aggression.