>Rationally, you cannot be anti-abortion (sanctity of life) and pro capital punishment but the Republicans manage it, because it's against one of the Democratic planks.
Sure you can. It's not even that much of a logical leap...you are leaving out a word. Sanctity of unborn life, where that life is presumed innocent of sin (note: I'm an atheist, just borrowing terms here). Whereas, capital punishment is applied to people who, at least in the United States, murder with special circumstances - basically establishing themselves as the worst of the sinners.
>I'd disagree with this statement.
I wouldn't - team identification comes along with demonizing the other team and viewing them as evil. Ideologically speaking, there is a whole lot less disagreement between the American left and the American right, than there is the American left and say, radical Islam. But the American left will ascribe all sorts of negative attributes to the American right while ascribing all sorts of positive attributes to radical Islam (e.g., they are fighting American 'imperialism' and 'capitalist exploitation') despite radical Islam (and not so radical Islam) being categorically much, much worse that the right on just about every single policy disagreement between American right and left. That's only possible because the American left has convinced itself that the American right is evil*.
* - Gross generalization doesn't apply to everyone or even a majority, but does apply to many thought leaders and people driving the respective movements.
Not defending Russia here...but, you act like the US doesn't undermine every other country's elections (including Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Italy) whenever it suits us.
The vast majority of people aren't rational in their political beliefs. They belong to a team, and whatever the team believes is what they believe. That's why Democrats were able to go from being against gay marriage and DATA to being strong advocates for gay marriage and having the military pay for transexuals to have transition surgery, all in about one generation.
30 years ago, the teams were more or less amicable. Now, it's pretty much hatred all around. People are no longer friends because one is a Republican and the other is a Democrat, people are getting divorces, and shooting each other. All because of blue team / green team bullshit. You can't believe different things from me because you have different experiences and values, it's because you are evil.
>I've never had anybody actually explain what crime was committed by Trump or his Campaign here.
Collusion, duh. Not that you'll find any sort of US Code violation for "collusion," but that doesn't stop the left. See, in their world, it's not about rule of law, it's about rule by outcome. They know Trump is guilty of...something...which is why they keep throwing anything and everything, hoping something sticks in the minds of the (R) Congress members they would need to lock in an impeachment.
>LOL.. I think you are nuts..
That's the general problem here. The left is operating like a cult, with all the features inherent, including dissociation from reality.
That's why I have insurance that I pay for by myself.
I don't qualify for subsidies, and in fact, my rate went up from $900/month to $1200/month after ACA. So apparently I'm paying for one or two indigents out there.
And, in any event, I watched my dad die from pancreatic cancer. The no treatment option is probably the better option.
>That's the kind of problem we get when crybabies keep asking for antibiotics for being sad.
It might be kind of problem, but this specific problem isn't caused by antibiotics being overprescribed. Yeast are eukaryotes, antibiotics don't really work to begin with against them.
No, it has a lot to do with the fact that only 18% of computer science students are female. The only way to overcome that is to pay better than market wages for the equivalent male skill set, or to augment hiring by recruiting women from non-traditional fields and training them up to be engineers. It should be noted that much more patriarchal and discriminatory societies have much better women engineering ratios in school, so it's not simply a situation of American women being discriminated against in tech.
I think the hypocrisy comes from progressives pretending they don't want to control everything around them, they they are somehow the paragons of choice.
I don't want to BAN your healthcare. I just don't to have to pay for your poor decision making. You are not my brother, and I am not your keeper. Learn to fucking take care of yourself instead of trying to be generous with other people's money.
How about you follow your own advice and shut the fuck up? No one wants to hear your echo of an echo of the SJW party line. You should go to r/antifa where the audience would be more receptive to your brand of bullshit.
So, right or not, almost no one can challenge prevailing dogma and get away with it, even someone like Larry Summers at Harvard. Damore's mistake was being young and actually believing that Google fostered an open environment of discussion and free exchange of thought the way they claim that they do. It's something any white male with a decade of work experience at a white collar corporation would know not to touch with a 10 foot pole.
Not disagreeing with what you wrote. Just a comment. We don't really have a justice system, we have a legal system where the output is law, not justice.
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>Rationally, you cannot be anti-abortion (sanctity of life) and pro capital punishment but the Republicans manage it, because it's against one of the Democratic planks.
Sure you can. It's not even that much of a logical leap...you are leaving out a word. Sanctity of unborn life, where that life is presumed innocent of sin (note: I'm an atheist, just borrowing terms here). Whereas, capital punishment is applied to people who, at least in the United States, murder with special circumstances - basically establishing themselves as the worst of the sinners.
>I'd disagree with this statement.
I wouldn't - team identification comes along with demonizing the other team and viewing them as evil. Ideologically speaking, there is a whole lot less disagreement between the American left and the American right, than there is the American left and say, radical Islam. But the American left will ascribe all sorts of negative attributes to the American right while ascribing all sorts of positive attributes to radical Islam (e.g., they are fighting American 'imperialism' and 'capitalist exploitation') despite radical Islam (and not so radical Islam) being categorically much, much worse that the right on just about every single policy disagreement between American right and left. That's only possible because the American left has convinced itself that the American right is evil*.
* - Gross generalization doesn't apply to everyone or even a majority, but does apply to many thought leaders and people driving the respective movements.
Not defending Russia here...but, you act like the US doesn't undermine every other country's elections (including Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Italy) whenever it suits us.
You are arguing with a troll.
The vast majority of people aren't rational in their political beliefs. They belong to a team, and whatever the team believes is what they believe. That's why Democrats were able to go from being against gay marriage and DATA to being strong advocates for gay marriage and having the military pay for transexuals to have transition surgery, all in about one generation.
30 years ago, the teams were more or less amicable. Now, it's pretty much hatred all around. People are no longer friends because one is a Republican and the other is a Democrat, people are getting divorces, and shooting each other. All because of blue team / green team bullshit. You can't believe different things from me because you have different experiences and values, it's because you are evil.
The money or thing of value is something of tangible monetary value, not something of generic use like information.
>This article cites some of the applicable laws:
The cases there are really, really weak.
And none of the them rise to the level of treason.
>I've never had anybody actually explain what crime was committed by Trump or his Campaign here.
Collusion, duh. Not that you'll find any sort of US Code violation for "collusion," but that doesn't stop the left. See, in their world, it's not about rule of law, it's about rule by outcome. They know Trump is guilty of...something...which is why they keep throwing anything and everything, hoping something sticks in the minds of the (R) Congress members they would need to lock in an impeachment.
>LOL.. I think you are nuts..
That's the general problem here. The left is operating like a cult, with all the features inherent, including dissociation from reality.
I didn't realize we were at war with Russia.
That's why I have insurance that I pay for by myself.
I don't qualify for subsidies, and in fact, my rate went up from $900/month to $1200/month after ACA. So apparently I'm paying for one or two indigents out there.
And, in any event, I watched my dad die from pancreatic cancer. The no treatment option is probably the better option.
>That's the kind of problem we get when crybabies keep asking for antibiotics for being sad.
It might be kind of problem, but this specific problem isn't caused by antibiotics being overprescribed. Yeast are eukaryotes, antibiotics don't really work to begin with against them.
I don't smoke, bike, or hunt, and I'm atheist.
No, it has a lot to do with the fact that only 18% of computer science students are female. The only way to overcome that is to pay better than market wages for the equivalent male skill set, or to augment hiring by recruiting women from non-traditional fields and training them up to be engineers. It should be noted that much more patriarchal and discriminatory societies have much better women engineering ratios in school, so it's not simply a situation of American women being discriminated against in tech.
I think the hypocrisy comes from progressives pretending they don't want to control everything around them, they they are somehow the paragons of choice.
>Stop trying to ban our healthcare
I don't want to BAN your healthcare. I just don't to have to pay for your poor decision making. You are not my brother, and I am not your keeper. Learn to fucking take care of yourself instead of trying to be generous with other people's money.
The problem is, with AGI, the transition is:
human norm IQ => above human norm IQ => genius level IQ => super genius level IQ => smarter than all humanity put together
At some point between super genius IQ and smarter than all humanity put together, the AI will become an incomprehensible, alien entity.
The Bell Curve - that racist claptrap of a book, had something like 40 chapters - only 1 of which dealt with race.
If not writing about something you know nothing was operative you would have stopped writing years ago.
Your posts are much more of the "screed" variety than anything that Damore wrote...
How about you follow your own advice and shut the fuck up? No one wants to hear your echo of an echo of the SJW party line. You should go to r/antifa where the audience would be more receptive to your brand of bullshit.
Maybe an engineering company that wants to hire the best and brightest engineers cares what engineers think?
^^^ someone clearly didn't read what Damore wrote.
>He was provably not right, by the very papers he used to back up his claims.
He was right about Google being an intolerant echo chamber that punishes non-orthodox views.
So, right or not, almost no one can challenge prevailing dogma and get away with it, even someone like Larry Summers at Harvard. Damore's mistake was being young and actually believing that Google fostered an open environment of discussion and free exchange of thought the way they claim that they do. It's something any white male with a decade of work experience at a white collar corporation would know not to touch with a 10 foot pole.
Not disagreeing with what you wrote. Just a comment. We don't really have a justice system, we have a legal system where the output is law, not justice.
is not the same thing as Damore being responsible for sexism or writing a sexist screed. He's being punished for the collective sins of the industry.