Heck, I just saw a guy I went to High School with on FB, he was the smartest guy in his year and he bought the Nunes memo hook, line, and sinker. His intellect didn't do squat to stop him from being taken in by a smear job.
Funny how you talk about intelligence but dismiss the Nunes memo as a smear job because you don't believe it, and that's very likely because you politically align with the Democrats.
At a basic level the right celebrates authority (everyone in the tribe works together) while the left embraces individuality (everybody free to be themselves). This means the right tends to believe their authorities without question, while the left tends to question everything.
The right celebrates freedom of the individual and individual responsibility. Smaller government, not bigger government. The authoritarians tend to be the socialists, who want to force their beliefs on everyone else.
That alone doesn't advantage the left or right with finding the truth. But mainstream religion is a thing that really hates being questioned, so religion and the political right eventually merged. And religions' antipathy to intellectual authorities spread to the right as a whole. You don't even need to be religious, if you're on the right you're taught to accept your authorities without question and reject opposing authorities outright.
This is nonsense. Religion tends to align with the right because the left tends to use anti-religious issues as a wedge, such as abortion, gay marriage, lax drug enforcement, and moral relativism. Nobody on the right gets "taught to accept your authorites without question". And what the hell is an opposing authority?
And once the right declared intellectually rigorous authorities to be part of the left then the left started to embrace them. Hence the right became prone to conspiracy theories as they rejected intellectual authorities and the left became resistant as they embraced them.
More nonsense. Nobody declared intellectually rigorous authorities to be part of the left. It's simply a fact that university and college faculty have been shifting more and more to the political left of the spectrum over the past 40 years. Why? Perhaps it's got to do with hiring practices and groupthink. Perhaps it's the massive expansion of the arts and social studies programs leading to an influx of leftists. But there was no declaration. And regarding conspiracy theories, the left is just as prone to them as the right. Anti-vaxxers are left-wing hipsters. Chemtrails is a left-wing conspiracy. GMO foods. The moon landings were faked is big in left-wing circles. The "vast right-wing conspiracy" that was trying to smear the Clintons. AIDS was created by the CIA to kill gays. 9/11 was an inside job, or an Israeli job.
Sorry, but you're completely wrong. Carter Page was not under US law enforcement surveillance. That's fake news. He worked for the FBI undercover in the case brought against Evgeny Buryakov. As late as March of 2016 he was in court testifying against him.
The FISA warrant was against Carter Page, and was signed by Assistant AG John P Carlin. The same John P Carlin that a few months ago was prosecuting a case against Evgeny Buryakov in which Carter Page was the undercover FBI employee who gathered the evidence. John P Carlin KNEW Carter Page wasn't a Russian spy. He LIED to the court.
The FISA warrant was against Carter Page, and was signed by Assistant AG John P Carlin. The same John P Carlin that a few months ago was prosecuting a case against Evgeny Buryakov in which Carter Page was the undercover FBI employee who gathered the evidence. John P Carlin KNEW Carter Page wasn't a Russian spy. He LIED to the court.
During the course of the investigation, the FBI recorded Sporyshev and Podobnyy speaking inside the SVR’s offices in New York, known as the “Residentura.”
The FBI obtained the recordings after Sporyshev attempted to recruit an FBI undercover employee (“UCE-1”), who was posing as an analyst from a New York-based energy company.
That undercover employee ("UCE-1") was Carter Page. He was the primary witness and worked for the FBI up to May of 2016.
But then, suddenly, in October of 2016, the FBI applies for a Title 1 FISA application against Carter Page. What is a Title 1 FISA? It says the target "is working on behalf of a foreign government". Why???
Let me tell you why! A Title 1 FISA allows the FBI to retroactively monitor all communications of not just the target, but ANYONE he communicated with as well!
The FISA warrant was an excuse that allowed the Obama WH to spy on Donald Trump's entire team.
Playstation controller was way better than Nintendo 64 controller. The grip was more ergonomic, and the buttons had nice round smooth edges so you could slide your finger from one to the other easily, which made combos a hell of a lot easier to execute in fighting games on PS2 vs N64.
Nintendo 64: 93.75MHz CPU, 62.5MHz GPU 100MFLOPS, 4.5MB RDRAM, upgradeable to 8MB
Playstation 2: 294MHz CPU, dual 147MHz VPU's, a 32bit FPU and a Graphics Synthesizer, 32MB RDRAM
So what's inferior about the PS2?
Correction: YOU actually think Trump actually thinks that cleanliness is a property of the fuel. You're assuming you know what he thinks.
And by the way, CO2 is not a pollutant, it's a necessary gas for the existence of life on our planet.
Exactly. How many of these "russian bots" were actually controlled by Kremlin, and not just bots some company leased to spread advertising that happened to be created by a Russian programmer...
dead last in nearly every metric? Okay, I'll bite...please list all the metrics that you think count, and which ones the US is now in dead last in. I'll wait....
While the "National-Socialist German Workers' Party" was very cagey about "not being left or right at all"
This is an outright lie. They took every opportunity to promote themselves as socialists. You can refer to Albert Speer's "Inside the Third Reich" for plenty of references, including his observation that the SA were used to suppress the communists and right wing voters in the 1933 election.
modern scholarship plants them firmly in the "far-right" of the political spectrum.
Modern scholarship, made up of left-wing socialists, like to denounce Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and Zedong as "not left-wing" after the fact. They all rose to power on the promises of socialism.
It's self-evident if you study them at all, that their primary ideology was nationalistic, not socialistic.
No, it's self-evident that their primary ideology was anti-semitic nationalistic socialism. It promoted all Germans as equal, all Germans above non-Germans, and Jews as unwelcome in Germany. Stop with the revisionist history. 1920's Germany was rife with unemployment following WWI. The National Social German Workers Party appealed to these disaffected Germans with promises of anti-capitalistic changes and nationalizing of German industries. See "national and social bases of the German state" by Gottfried Feder. Feder was a key early shaper of NASDP policy.
Not only the workers but also the middle classes were badly hit by the serious economic consequences of the war, by the shortage of goods, price increases and unemployment. The 'breaking of interest slavery' here offered itself as a good campaign slogan for a middle way to a 'German Socialism' between capitalism and Marxism. It did in fact quickly gain a degree of popularity in volkisch-nationalist circles outside Feder's immediate sphere of influence.
-The Shaping of the Nazi State by Peter D. Stachura
Truth is we can't demonize the "right" or the "left" since virtually all ideologies have at one time or another been used to justify atrocities.
While that is true, it is also true that the NASDP offered the many promises of socialism in building their popularity, and presented themselves as left-wing socialists. To look at their actions/atrocities and say "right-wing" after the fact is revisionism. It doesn't matter if they didn't follow through on most of their promises. They gained power because of them, and those socialist beliefs were espoused by the senior leadership of the party.
reichwinger? You do know the Nazi party was a socialist left-wing party, don't you? Some of their demands that won them votes and power:
"Since every war imposes on the people fearful sacrifices in blood and treasure, all personal profit arising from the war must be regarded as treason to the people. We therefore demand the total confiscation of all war profits. "
"We demand the nationalization of all trusts. "
"We demand profit-sharing in large industries. "
"We demand a generous increase in old-age pensions. "
"We demand the creation and maintenance of a sound middle-class, the immediate communalization of large stores which will be rented cheaply to small tradespeople, and the strongest consideration must be given to ensure that small traders shall deliver the supplies needed by the State, the provinces and municipalities. "
"We demand an agrarian reform in accordance with our national requirements, and the enactment of a law to expropriate the owners without compensation of any land needed for the common purpose. The abolition of ground rents, and the prohibition of all speculation in land. "
"We demand that ruthless war be waged against those who work to the injury of the common welfare. Traitors, usurers, profiteers, etc., are to be punished with death, regardless of creed or race. "
"In order to make it possible for every capable and industrious German to obtain higher education, and thus the opportunity to reach into positions of leadership, the State must assume the responsibility of organizing thoroughly the entire cultural system of the people. The curricula of all educational establishments shall be adapted to practical life. The conception of the State Idea (science of citizenship) must be taught in the schools from the very beginning. We demand that specially talented children of poor parents, whatever their station or occupation, be educated at the expense of the State. "
"The State has the duty to help raise the standard of national health by providing maternity welfare centers, by prohibiting juvenile labor, by increasing physical fitness through the introduction of compulsory games and gymnastics, and by the greatest possible encouragement of associations concerned with the physical education of the young. "
" We demand that there be a legal campaign against those who propagate deliberate political lies and disseminate them through the press."
Of course, along with all these socialist left-wing proclamations were a bunch of anti-semitic demands as well, which the left-wingers in Germany had no problem supporting at the time.
So now the potential of a couple of degrees of warming over the next half century is equivalent to mutually assured destruction at the hands of two antagonistic nuclear superpowers? Keep sipping that kool-aid...
So the post I replied to claimed the state had 70% of the population registered as Democrats compared to 30% Republicans. I pointed out that the 70% claim was wrong, it was only 38.7% Democrat. Thank you for also correcting the fact that he had the republican percentage wrong as well. 30.2% registered instead of the claimed 30%.
I think your numbers are off. North Carolina registered voters:
Democrat: 2,647,917
Republican: 2,065,507
Libertarian: 34,396
Unaffiliated: 2,093,436
North Carolina has 38.7% of the voters registered as Democrat.
The Dixiecrats formed their own party for the 1948 elections. They WENT BACK TO THE DEMOCRAT PARTY for the 1952 election after agreeing to pledge loyalty to the party. Nice try liar
Wrong. Democrats switched their strategy from suppressing the black vote to winning the black vote by buying them with welfare and food stamps. Robert Byrd, a sitting Democrat Senator well into the 21st century, was a known KKK member. The declassified JFK Assassination files finger Lyndon B Johnson as a KKK member. No Democrats switched to the Republican party, and no Republicans switched to the Democrat party. So how exactly did the hoods and crosses switch party ownership? If you want to see what the Democrats have done for black people in America, look no further than Detroit, Baltimore, and Chicago. These three cities have been dominated by Democrats for over four decades, they lead the US in blacks being murdered and have a black unemployment rate that is triple the unemployment rate of the white population of those cities. Planned Parenthood sets up their abortion shops in predominantly black communities and abort black babies at much higher rate than any other race. And then they sell those aborted fetus organs to rich white people. Who supports Planned Parenthood? The Democrats.
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Heck, I just saw a guy I went to High School with on FB, he was the smartest guy in his year and he bought the Nunes memo hook, line, and sinker. His intellect didn't do squat to stop him from being taken in by a smear job.
Funny how you talk about intelligence but dismiss the Nunes memo as a smear job because you don't believe it, and that's very likely because you politically align with the Democrats.
At a basic level the right celebrates authority (everyone in the tribe works together) while the left embraces individuality (everybody free to be themselves). This means the right tends to believe their authorities without question, while the left tends to question everything.
The right celebrates freedom of the individual and individual responsibility. Smaller government, not bigger government. The authoritarians tend to be the socialists, who want to force their beliefs on everyone else.
That alone doesn't advantage the left or right with finding the truth. But mainstream religion is a thing that really hates being questioned, so religion and the political right eventually merged. And religions' antipathy to intellectual authorities spread to the right as a whole. You don't even need to be religious, if you're on the right you're taught to accept your authorities without question and reject opposing authorities outright.
This is nonsense. Religion tends to align with the right because the left tends to use anti-religious issues as a wedge, such as abortion, gay marriage, lax drug enforcement, and moral relativism. Nobody on the right gets "taught to accept your authorites without question". And what the hell is an opposing authority?
And once the right declared intellectually rigorous authorities to be part of the left then the left started to embrace them. Hence the right became prone to conspiracy theories as they rejected intellectual authorities and the left became resistant as they embraced them.
More nonsense. Nobody declared intellectually rigorous authorities to be part of the left. It's simply a fact that university and college faculty have been shifting more and more to the political left of the spectrum over the past 40 years. Why? Perhaps it's got to do with hiring practices and groupthink. Perhaps it's the massive expansion of the arts and social studies programs leading to an influx of leftists. But there was no declaration. And regarding conspiracy theories, the left is just as prone to them as the right. Anti-vaxxers are left-wing hipsters. Chemtrails is a left-wing conspiracy. GMO foods. The moon landings were faked is big in left-wing circles. The "vast right-wing conspiracy" that was trying to smear the Clintons. AIDS was created by the CIA to kill gays. 9/11 was an inside job, or an Israeli job.
Sorry, but you're completely wrong. Carter Page was not under US law enforcement surveillance. That's fake news. He worked for the FBI undercover in the case brought against Evgeny Buryakov. As late as March of 2016 he was in court testifying against him.
The FISA warrant was against Carter Page, and was signed by Assistant AG John P Carlin. The same John P Carlin that a few months ago was prosecuting a case against Evgeny Buryakov in which Carter Page was the undercover FBI employee who gathered the evidence. John P Carlin KNEW Carter Page wasn't a Russian spy. He LIED to the court.
The FISA warrant was against Carter Page, and was signed by Assistant AG John P Carlin. The same John P Carlin that a few months ago was prosecuting a case against Evgeny Buryakov in which Carter Page was the undercover FBI employee who gathered the evidence. John P Carlin KNEW Carter Page wasn't a Russian spy. He LIED to the court.
In 2013, the US Department of Justice announced an indictment against Evgeny Buryakov.
During the course of the investigation, the FBI recorded Sporyshev and Podobnyy speaking inside the SVR’s offices in New York, known as the “Residentura.” The FBI obtained the recordings after Sporyshev attempted to recruit an FBI undercover employee (“UCE-1”), who was posing as an analyst from a New York-based energy company.
That undercover employee ("UCE-1") was Carter Page. He was the primary witness and worked for the FBI up to May of 2016.
But then, suddenly, in October of 2016, the FBI applies for a Title 1 FISA application against Carter Page. What is a Title 1 FISA? It says the target "is working on behalf of a foreign government". Why???
Let me tell you why! A Title 1 FISA allows the FBI to retroactively monitor all communications of not just the target, but ANYONE he communicated with as well!
The FISA warrant was an excuse that allowed the Obama WH to spy on Donald Trump's entire team.
Playstation controller was way better than Nintendo 64 controller. The grip was more ergonomic, and the buttons had nice round smooth edges so you could slide your finger from one to the other easily, which made combos a hell of a lot easier to execute in fighting games on PS2 vs N64.
Nintendo 64: 93.75MHz CPU, 62.5MHz GPU 100MFLOPS, 4.5MB RDRAM, upgradeable to 8MB Playstation 2: 294MHz CPU, dual 147MHz VPU's, a 32bit FPU and a Graphics Synthesizer, 32MB RDRAM
So what's inferior about the PS2?
FYI, Chinese and Indian industries are currently the biggest polluters.
Correction: YOU actually think Trump actually thinks that cleanliness is a property of the fuel. You're assuming you know what he thinks.
And by the way, CO2 is not a pollutant, it's a necessary gas for the existence of life on our planet.
Exactly. How many of these "russian bots" were actually controlled by Kremlin, and not just bots some company leased to spread advertising that happened to be created by a Russian programmer...
dead last in nearly every metric? Okay, I'll bite...please list all the metrics that you think count, and which ones the US is now in dead last in. I'll wait....
While the "National-Socialist German Workers' Party" was very cagey about "not being left or right at all"
This is an outright lie. They took every opportunity to promote themselves as socialists. You can refer to Albert Speer's "Inside the Third Reich" for plenty of references, including his observation that the SA were used to suppress the communists and right wing voters in the 1933 election.
modern scholarship plants them firmly in the "far-right" of the political spectrum.
Modern scholarship, made up of left-wing socialists, like to denounce Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and Zedong as "not left-wing" after the fact. They all rose to power on the promises of socialism.
It's self-evident if you study them at all, that their primary ideology was nationalistic, not socialistic.
No, it's self-evident that their primary ideology was anti-semitic nationalistic socialism. It promoted all Germans as equal, all Germans above non-Germans, and Jews as unwelcome in Germany. Stop with the revisionist history. 1920's Germany was rife with unemployment following WWI. The National Social German Workers Party appealed to these disaffected Germans with promises of anti-capitalistic changes and nationalizing of German industries. See "national and social bases of the German state" by Gottfried Feder. Feder was a key early shaper of NASDP policy.
Not only the workers but also the middle classes were badly hit by the serious economic consequences of the war, by the shortage of goods, price increases and unemployment. The 'breaking of interest slavery' here offered itself as a good campaign slogan for a middle way to a 'German Socialism' between capitalism and Marxism. It did in fact quickly gain a degree of popularity in volkisch-nationalist circles outside Feder's immediate sphere of influence.
-The Shaping of the Nazi State by Peter D. Stachura
Truth is we can't demonize the "right" or the "left" since virtually all ideologies have at one time or another been used to justify atrocities.
While that is true, it is also true that the NASDP offered the many promises of socialism in building their popularity, and presented themselves as left-wing socialists. To look at their actions/atrocities and say "right-wing" after the fact is revisionism. It doesn't matter if they didn't follow through on most of their promises. They gained power because of them, and those socialist beliefs were espoused by the senior leadership of the party.
Oh, you need a citation, do you? Couldn't google it yourself? Here: http://alphahistory.com/nazige...
reichwinger? You do know the Nazi party was a socialist left-wing party, don't you? Some of their demands that won them votes and power:
"Since every war imposes on the people fearful sacrifices in blood and treasure, all personal profit arising from the war must be regarded as treason to the people. We therefore demand the total confiscation of all war profits. "
"We demand the nationalization of all trusts. "
"We demand profit-sharing in large industries. "
"We demand a generous increase in old-age pensions. "
"We demand the creation and maintenance of a sound middle-class, the immediate communalization of large stores which will be rented cheaply to small tradespeople, and the strongest consideration must be given to ensure that small traders shall deliver the supplies needed by the State, the provinces and municipalities. "
"We demand an agrarian reform in accordance with our national requirements, and the enactment of a law to expropriate the owners without compensation of any land needed for the common purpose. The abolition of ground rents, and the prohibition of all speculation in land. "
"We demand that ruthless war be waged against those who work to the injury of the common welfare. Traitors, usurers, profiteers, etc., are to be punished with death, regardless of creed or race. "
"In order to make it possible for every capable and industrious German to obtain higher education, and thus the opportunity to reach into positions of leadership, the State must assume the responsibility of organizing thoroughly the entire cultural system of the people. The curricula of all educational establishments shall be adapted to practical life. The conception of the State Idea (science of citizenship) must be taught in the schools from the very beginning. We demand that specially talented children of poor parents, whatever their station or occupation, be educated at the expense of the State. "
"The State has the duty to help raise the standard of national health by providing maternity welfare centers, by prohibiting juvenile labor, by increasing physical fitness through the introduction of compulsory games and gymnastics, and by the greatest possible encouragement of associations concerned with the physical education of the young. "
" We demand that there be a legal campaign against those who propagate deliberate political lies and disseminate them through the press."
Of course, along with all these socialist left-wing proclamations were a bunch of anti-semitic demands as well, which the left-wingers in Germany had no problem supporting at the time.
So you're saying we all should have run to the hills? Ran for our lives?
So now the potential of a couple of degrees of warming over the next half century is equivalent to mutually assured destruction at the hands of two antagonistic nuclear superpowers? Keep sipping that kool-aid...
funny, I haven't had those problems...
99% of all species died, adapted, or evolved. FTFY
Life does, in fact, adapt
Stupidest comment of the day. Ecosystems are not "balanced carefully over millions of years". Shit happens, and life adapts.
So the post I replied to claimed the state had 70% of the population registered as Democrats compared to 30% Republicans. I pointed out that the 70% claim was wrong, it was only 38.7% Democrat. Thank you for also correcting the fact that he had the republican percentage wrong as well. 30.2% registered instead of the claimed 30%.
I think your numbers are off. North Carolina registered voters:
Democrat: 2,647,917
Republican: 2,065,507
Libertarian: 34,396
Unaffiliated: 2,093,436
North Carolina has 38.7% of the voters registered as Democrat.
I'd rather need a case and then have a decent bezel
The Dixiecrats formed their own party for the 1948 elections. They WENT BACK TO THE DEMOCRAT PARTY for the 1952 election after agreeing to pledge loyalty to the party. Nice try liar
Wrong. Democrats switched their strategy from suppressing the black vote to winning the black vote by buying them with welfare and food stamps. Robert Byrd, a sitting Democrat Senator well into the 21st century, was a known KKK member. The declassified JFK Assassination files finger Lyndon B Johnson as a KKK member. No Democrats switched to the Republican party, and no Republicans switched to the Democrat party. So how exactly did the hoods and crosses switch party ownership? If you want to see what the Democrats have done for black people in America, look no further than Detroit, Baltimore, and Chicago. These three cities have been dominated by Democrats for over four decades, they lead the US in blacks being murdered and have a black unemployment rate that is triple the unemployment rate of the white population of those cities. Planned Parenthood sets up their abortion shops in predominantly black communities and abort black babies at much higher rate than any other race. And then they sell those aborted fetus organs to rich white people. Who supports Planned Parenthood? The Democrats.