Logo. Even though I don't really count that as "true programming".
My first language was really two languages, C and x86 assembler. I took a C programming course on a whim when I was in college and discovered I had a natural knack for it. I wanted to know more so at the same time got a bunch of books on assembler. By the end of the semester I had written an anti-virus program.
The next semester I took a course on OpenGL and ended it with a 2D-3D graphing calculator.
Ah memories...late night coding sessions in the old college computer lab. Those were the days.:)
Exactly. All these fucks bitching every time Obama ordered a god damn sandwich aren't saying jack shit about the millions of dollars that's being blown for hist weekend golf trips and making sure Rapunzel stays in her tower in NY.
...Surfacing just outside or in the harbor, and suicidally popping that nuke would devastate Los Angeles even if it fizzled....
Popping a nuke of NK type at ground level wouldn't do much. If it fizzled even less so. They've yet to demonstrate that can reliably launch without exploding, let alone one capable of carrying a "Little Boy" type of payload.
Regardless, whatever joy little Kimmy got from nuking LA would be extremely short lived. A pre-emptive nuclear strike on one of the largest and key shipping ports in the world? That's basically giving the US a "I can do whatever the fuck I want to you now, bitch!" badge. That won't end well, especially with our own little tinpot in charge here.
Unlike 2016, where clearly logic was the primary driver? Riiiiiiiight.
People, in general, are ignorant. But Duning-Kruger and various other "I R DA SMART" complexes prevent people from accepting that they're ignorant. A large part of that is due to the fact that ignorance is equated with stupidity and weakness in our society. No one likes to be considered stupid and weak, and it is far easier to stick with your uninformed beliefs than to actively challenge them. Add this to the large inertial mass of apathy in this country and you get what we have now: A failing democracy.
Democracy fails when the people can't be bothered to educate themselves on important subjects, willfully choose ignorance, and/or let apathy take over. Trump wasn't a surprise or a fluke to anyone paying attention over the past couple of decades. It was an inevitability.
The EPA can use "Common Science", reports from private parties, and medical research, but only if sufficient data is provided that the conclusions of the reports can be independently verified...
*facepalm*
Reading comprehension isn't your strong suit I take it. The bill is a not-so-clever way to effectively destroy the EPA. You see, "independently verified" is not spelled out, but the subtext (given the jackass who's pushing this pile of shit) means that any and all science would have to verified by the EPA. In order to verify said science, you would need subject matter experts who would have the time and funding to replicate the research. The EPA didn't have those kind of resources BEFORE Trump and Pruitt, and it certainly doesn't have those resources now.
This bill says "peer reviewed science is not good enough". Combined with the gutting of the EPA and earth science programs in general, this bill basically guarantees that there will be no new regulations or policies ever and current policies and regulations would be rolled back.
Now can you think of anyone who might want that to happen? Anyone at all?
Precisely. Hadoop was marketed as a big data panacea and everyone tried to apply it to everything only to discover that it really wasn't a panacea and really wasn't a good solution to the problems they were throwing at it. In addition, it's not particularly easy to use and you can spend a considerable amount of time just in configuring, tweaking, and maintaining the system.
Hadoop, like any other tool, has it's uses. But like any other tool if you try to apply it outside of what it was really intended to be used for your going to run into problems.
I know that basic math is taught in schools, but when I read something like your post it makes me wonder how many actually manage to pass basic math.
First, almost all of that debt is owed to ourselves. No, I'm not making that up. Read up on the debt, where it comes from, and who is owed. We're borrowing against ourselves in our own currency.
Second, and this is where the basic math comes in, there's no fiscal responsibility in this budget. It's cutting from domestic and science programs and dumping it into military spending. That's like saying you're being fiscally responsible with your credit card because now your out buying guns and ammo instead of food and clothes. This bag of crap called a budget does zero-zip-nada in regards to fiscal responsibility.
And why should it? Republicans have been responsible for some of the largest debt increases in history. But instead of paying for all their crap, they want to cut taxes on the rich to "broaden the tax base" (even though 10% of the population control almost all the wealth) and want to throw millions of poor and old people in the gutter just so they can deal out massive tax breaks to their CEO friends (that was a tasty treat in their so-called "health care act").
Democracy is what allows stupidity to survive, thrive, and through the inevitable apathy, take over. It sacrifices what's best for what's popular, and what's popular is rarely what's best.
In some cases it's harmless. In others, it's destructive. But generally it is the lesser of two evils. A system where everyone has an equal voice doesn't deteriorate nearly as quickly as one where some voices are more equal than others (regardless of how benevolent and intelligent those voices are), though all systems are eventually doomed to fail as it's just human nature.
You have a very naive view of what defense companies do.
While some parts of these companies manufacture weapons of war, that is only one part of what they do. Take a company like, say, Northrop Grumman. Yeah, they develop drones. But they also develop things like the Webb telescope, emergency response systems for police/fire/etc., so on and so forth. Raytheon develops weather monitoring systems used by NWS. Lockheed has been pouring money into fusion research.
Classifying defense industries as nothing but merchants of death is like classifying Walmart as baby killers because they sell things that can (and have) killed babies (rat poison, bleach, etc.). There are very few companies that do nothing but defense work these days. Most are diversified across many sectors.
If you want manufacturers of death and misery, try gun and tobacco manufacturers.
I don't think he's going to deliver, but let's be serious, it's been less than 2 months.
And in that time period he's managed to have more scandals, conflicts of interests, ethics violations, flat out lies, etc. than any president in recent memory. Alternative facts, CONway promoting Ivanka's product line, senior level cabinet members having, at best, questionable ties to Russia. This is the type of shit I used to read in in political intrigue novels.
Someone else was in office 8 years and didn't close Guantanamo.
You can't be that stupid. That wouldn't have anything to do with the assholes in Congress who did nothing but work to undermine and block Obama in every conceivable way, would it? The republo-fascists would not approve any of the closure measures, therefore no funding and support to actually close Gitmo and deal with the people held there.
Back to H1-B's, you're smoking some good shit if you think for one moment Trump cares about "the little people". This is a narcissistic sociopath who has a long history of fucking people over whenever and however he can. From throwing African Americans off his property to making the IRS develop special rules just to deal with the BS he pulled to avoid paying taxes, Trump is all about Trump.
Developing technology to turn the web into a platform for applications is a bit like developing the technology to turn books into a platform for building rockets.
He laughed his ass off. Got an offer the following day but decided to take a different job instead.
Having been in the industry for a couple of decades now, I don't care where you got your degree, what algorithm you can pull out of your ass, or how many lines of code it takes you to write an octree in C++. None of that tells me if your capable of utilizing available resources effectively to get the job done, how well you work with others, etc.
I'll take experience over degree credentials any day of the week.
You're just noticing this now? The neo-fascist movement has been gaining ground for at least the past decade, with countries like Russia helping it along in an effort to destabilize western democracies. Over the past few years it's gotten really bad as FUD has pushed populism to new heights. And now, we get a front row seat.
Trump is just another President, Bannon is irrelevant.
Unlike Hitler and Mussolini Trump faces an insurmountable obstacle to becoming a true tyrant and dictator. The Constitution and the designed in Checks and Balances. Hitler was able to achieve his position of power due to great flaws in the design of the government of the Weimar republic. There was nothing to stop him when as Chancellor the President died and he just took over the office. Further He came into office with his own private military/police force that engaged in the more dubious acts of his government.
That's incorrect. Hitler was elected on a platform of populism, then the population and his supporters slowly eroded away the protections in place until he could successfully be granted unilateral power.
The Constitution is only as powerful as the people willing to stand for it's principles. When you have a majority willing to piss on the Constitution, putting power and ideology before the good of the nation, then the Constitution just becomes a piece of inconvenient paper. Soon you'll be hearing how the Constitution is too limiting to deal with the challenges of today's world.
There is no means for Trump to seize more power in our government. And he does not have a private military/police force to enforce his will.
Oh yes there is. And you don't need a private military force when you have cult following who thinks your the second coming of Christ.
Additionally Trump is not beloved of the GOP establishment. That means neither side of the aisle in the legislative branch really trusts him. So far he is just fulfilling campaign promises so he mostly has their support. But should he start straying he will lose that support in a hurry. Neither party trusts him. (That's actually good, it means he will have to negotiate to get the stuff he's promising that require laws to be passed.) Neither party will stand for it if he were to try to exceed his constitutional authorities and limits.
That's irrelevant. The GOP is more than happy to use and abuse Trumps ham-fisted methods to further their own agenda and ramrod what they want through Congress, including expansion of powers. And just like Hitler did to his supporters when they started thinking he was going too far, Trump would have no qualms doing the same.
The ends do not justify the means. Making deals with the devil, even with the best intentions, never ends well.
Trump is not Hitler. He can't be. Hitler couldn't have been Hitler under our form of government. At most he could have been FDR and Interned citizens (but not exterminated them).
You really don't understand how this works, do you? Populism is a cult. No piece of paper or set of laws matter. Get enough followers and they'll be cheering as you burn the Constitution.
Sure, "White Supremacists" can be blocked from Reddit, but what about the leftist nutjobs who believe that you should destroy other people's property and physically assault people with a different political viewpoint?
I've seen crazies, but attributing them to any political affiliation (except for those espousing actual violence) is pretty damn stupid, don't you think? This is the same type of thinking that groups all Muslims into suicide bombing America hating crazies. Should I lump together all Christians as violent terrorist extremists because of Timothy McVeigh and all those whackos who bomb clinics and send death threats to doctors who perform abortions?
I don't look at reddit as a rule, but I'd be willing to bet that extremist left wing groups exist on reddit and will not receive the same treatment as the "alt-right". That is true with Facebook and Twitter, so I assume it true on Reddit. Feel free to prove me wrong on that, I'll be happy to read about Reddit banning left wing nut jobs.
No, the onus is on you to provide evidence that there are forums full of violent threats and doxing coming from supposed leftist groups. If YOU have evidence, then YOU can submit it and get them banned. Enough of the liberal media "legenpresse" conspiracy bullshit.
Frankly, if I had to look at who is worse right now I'd say it's the extremist progressive leftists who see no issues using violence against people simply because they have a different political view. In the last couple years, I have seen no valid reports of white supremacists out beating people.
What do watch? Fox news? Is Breitbart you man source of info? Hate crimes, including against African Americans, are quite regular fair. It's just not enough to make headlines. Well, that is, until someone dies or actually looks at the statistics.
We have seen dozens of faked claims, and many of those have resulted in charges, but the "Right" has not been rioting and beating anyone.
Alternative facts in an alternative reality.
I have seen countless instances of leftists doing just that, and worse. Last night you have a young lady being interviewed on ABC punched in the face and pepper sprayed by one of these "oppressed" liberals. You have another pulled out of a car and beaten for no reason.
You're right of course. Liberals are way to soft. They stop with just beatings and pepper spray. The alt-right just kills people. Much more efficient, and then you don't have to worry about them voting either. For example, like that old white guy that shot and killed a teenage African American kid. Or the alt-crazy who massacred a black church.
Crazy people are just that. Trying to attribute their behavior to a political motive is just stupid.
When you have a Government not prosecuting, or even arresting people, who are terrorizing people and preventing their free speech you will end up with a whole lot of violence from the other side. Hence you have a Trump supporter shooting an agitator at a separate rally after protesters started throwing bricks and rocks at people supporting the speaker showed up to counter protest.
Goebells would have loved you. Which political party just recently told the press to shut up and froze out a major news network? Which political party is trying to implement the Ministry of Truth to prevent information the administration doesn't like from reaching the public? Which administration has fostered conspiracy theories, exaggerations, threatened to lock up political rivals, and has flat out lied repeatedly to the public?
People need to pay close attention to the rhetoric being used by the left right now. Sadly, the useful idiots really can't see the irony and hypocrisy in shutting down other people's free speech by committing physical violence while carrying signs and chanting slogans claiming th
"Alt right" doesn't mean "far right", it means increasingly-blatant racism coupled with delusions of importance, while you metaphorically fellate a bunch of billionaire fascists who manipulate your dumb ass.
Or, more succinctly, neo-fascism. Fascism 2.0. And people WANT it to happen.
They're going for the trifecta here. They want to combine business, religion, and state for the ultimate power structure. We're just getting a little taste of what's to come.
The group think is simple. Fascism is ok as long as it gives me a job.
The pathetic thing here is people thinking that this is actually going to help them. It won't. Trump could give a shit less about you or your job. It's populist bullshit. One only needs to examine his pick for the department of labor to see what he thinks of "the working man".
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Logo. Even though I don't really count that as "true programming".
My first language was really two languages, C and x86 assembler. I took a C programming course on a whim when I was in college and discovered I had a natural knack for it. I wanted to know more so at the same time got a bunch of books on assembler. By the end of the semester I had written an anti-virus program.
The next semester I took a course on OpenGL and ended it with a 2D-3D graphing calculator.
Ah memories...late night coding sessions in the old college computer lab. Those were the days. :)
Exactly. All these fucks bitching every time Obama ordered a god damn sandwich aren't saying jack shit about the millions of dollars that's being blown for hist weekend golf trips and making sure Rapunzel stays in her tower in NY.
Nothing but a bunch of fucking hypocrites.
...Surfacing just outside or in the harbor, and suicidally popping that nuke would devastate Los Angeles even if it fizzled....
Popping a nuke of NK type at ground level wouldn't do much. If it fizzled even less so. They've yet to demonstrate that can reliably launch without exploding, let alone one capable of carrying a "Little Boy" type of payload.
Regardless, whatever joy little Kimmy got from nuking LA would be extremely short lived. A pre-emptive nuclear strike on one of the largest and key shipping ports in the world? That's basically giving the US a "I can do whatever the fuck I want to you now, bitch!" badge. That won't end well, especially with our own little tinpot in charge here.
Unlike 2016, where clearly logic was the primary driver? Riiiiiiiight.
People, in general, are ignorant. But Duning-Kruger and various other "I R DA SMART" complexes prevent people from accepting that they're ignorant. A large part of that is due to the fact that ignorance is equated with stupidity and weakness in our society. No one likes to be considered stupid and weak, and it is far easier to stick with your uninformed beliefs than to actively challenge them. Add this to the large inertial mass of apathy in this country and you get what we have now: A failing democracy.
Democracy fails when the people can't be bothered to educate themselves on important subjects, willfully choose ignorance, and/or let apathy take over. Trump wasn't a surprise or a fluke to anyone paying attention over the past couple of decades. It was an inevitability.
The EPA can use "Common Science", reports from private parties, and medical research, but only if sufficient data is provided that the conclusions of the reports can be independently verified...
*facepalm*
Reading comprehension isn't your strong suit I take it. The bill is a not-so-clever way to effectively destroy the EPA. You see, "independently verified" is not spelled out, but the subtext (given the jackass who's pushing this pile of shit) means that any and all science would have to verified by the EPA. In order to verify said science, you would need subject matter experts who would have the time and funding to replicate the research. The EPA didn't have those kind of resources BEFORE Trump and Pruitt, and it certainly doesn't have those resources now.
This bill says "peer reviewed science is not good enough". Combined with the gutting of the EPA and earth science programs in general, this bill basically guarantees that there will be no new regulations or policies ever and current policies and regulations would be rolled back.
Now can you think of anyone who might want that to happen? Anyone at all?
Precisely. Hadoop was marketed as a big data panacea and everyone tried to apply it to everything only to discover that it really wasn't a panacea and really wasn't a good solution to the problems they were throwing at it. In addition, it's not particularly easy to use and you can spend a considerable amount of time just in configuring, tweaking, and maintaining the system.
Hadoop, like any other tool, has it's uses. But like any other tool if you try to apply it outside of what it was really intended to be used for your going to run into problems.
I know that basic math is taught in schools, but when I read something like your post it makes me wonder how many actually manage to pass basic math.
First, almost all of that debt is owed to ourselves. No, I'm not making that up. Read up on the debt, where it comes from, and who is owed. We're borrowing against ourselves in our own currency.
Second, and this is where the basic math comes in, there's no fiscal responsibility in this budget. It's cutting from domestic and science programs and dumping it into military spending. That's like saying you're being fiscally responsible with your credit card because now your out buying guns and ammo instead of food and clothes. This bag of crap called a budget does zero-zip-nada in regards to fiscal responsibility.
And why should it? Republicans have been responsible for some of the largest debt increases in history. But instead of paying for all their crap, they want to cut taxes on the rich to "broaden the tax base" (even though 10% of the population control almost all the wealth) and want to throw millions of poor and old people in the gutter just so they can deal out massive tax breaks to their CEO friends (that was a tasty treat in their so-called "health care act").
Democracy is what allows stupidity to survive, thrive, and through the inevitable apathy, take over. It sacrifices what's best for what's popular, and what's popular is rarely what's best.
In some cases it's harmless. In others, it's destructive. But generally it is the lesser of two evils. A system where everyone has an equal voice doesn't deteriorate nearly as quickly as one where some voices are more equal than others (regardless of how benevolent and intelligent those voices are), though all systems are eventually doomed to fail as it's just human nature.
You have a very naive view of what defense companies do.
While some parts of these companies manufacture weapons of war, that is only one part of what they do. Take a company like, say, Northrop Grumman. Yeah, they develop drones. But they also develop things like the Webb telescope, emergency response systems for police/fire/etc., so on and so forth. Raytheon develops weather monitoring systems used by NWS. Lockheed has been pouring money into fusion research.
Classifying defense industries as nothing but merchants of death is like classifying Walmart as baby killers because they sell things that can (and have) killed babies (rat poison, bleach, etc.). There are very few companies that do nothing but defense work these days. Most are diversified across many sectors.
If you want manufacturers of death and misery, try gun and tobacco manufacturers.
I don't think he's going to deliver, but let's be serious, it's been less than 2 months.
And in that time period he's managed to have more scandals, conflicts of interests, ethics violations, flat out lies, etc. than any president in recent memory. Alternative facts, CONway promoting Ivanka's product line, senior level cabinet members having, at best, questionable ties to Russia. This is the type of shit I used to read in in political intrigue novels.
Someone else was in office 8 years and didn't close Guantanamo.
You can't be that stupid. That wouldn't have anything to do with the assholes in Congress who did nothing but work to undermine and block Obama in every conceivable way, would it? The republo-fascists would not approve any of the closure measures, therefore no funding and support to actually close Gitmo and deal with the people held there.
Back to H1-B's, you're smoking some good shit if you think for one moment Trump cares about "the little people". This is a narcissistic sociopath who has a long history of fucking people over whenever and however he can. From throwing African Americans off his property to making the IRS develop special rules just to deal with the BS he pulled to avoid paying taxes, Trump is all about Trump.
If the sun blows up, that would be terra-unforming. No points awarded.
Developing technology to turn the web into a platform for applications is a bit like developing the technology to turn books into a platform for building rockets.
But for someone who wants to run the country, it's perfectly fine even if you don't have a high school diploma!
Reminds me of a whiteboard response I wrote to interview question I had a long time ago.
The guy asked me to write a some binary tree related algorithm (don't remember which one) on the whiteboard. My response:
http://www.google.com/
He laughed his ass off. Got an offer the following day but decided to take a different job instead.
Having been in the industry for a couple of decades now, I don't care where you got your degree, what algorithm you can pull out of your ass, or how many lines of code it takes you to write an octree in C++. None of that tells me if your capable of utilizing available resources effectively to get the job done, how well you work with others, etc.
I'll take experience over degree credentials any day of the week.
If they're more of them, then they're just running the Outer Planets Mod
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The EPA may need to step in if...
Oh, sorry. That was the before time in the long long ago. The new Environmental Destruction Agency (EDA) will just dump them in somebody's river.
Voting for Trump because you wanted "good government" is like hitting yourself in the balls with a hammer to take your mind of your headache.
Seriously, this is the most moronic reason I've seen for voting for Trump. You could have written in just about anyone on you voting ticket.
Wow, am wondering if I should be doing a factory reset before the plane finishes taxiing.
Or will they then demand my Google/Apple password?
Nah, I'm white. I'll wait 'till they come for us.
Good plan. I heard it worked well in Germany.
You're just noticing this now? The neo-fascist movement has been gaining ground for at least the past decade, with countries like Russia helping it along in an effort to destabilize western democracies. Over the past few years it's gotten really bad as FUD has pushed populism to new heights. And now, we get a front row seat.
Trump is just another President, Bannon is irrelevant.
Unlike Hitler and Mussolini Trump faces an insurmountable obstacle to becoming a true tyrant and dictator. The Constitution and the designed in Checks and Balances. Hitler was able to achieve his position of power due to great flaws in the design of the government of the Weimar republic. There was nothing to stop him when as Chancellor the President died and he just took over the office. Further He came into office with his own private military/police force that engaged in the more dubious acts of his government.
That's incorrect. Hitler was elected on a platform of populism, then the population and his supporters slowly eroded away the protections in place until he could successfully be granted unilateral power.
The Constitution is only as powerful as the people willing to stand for it's principles. When you have a majority willing to piss on the Constitution, putting power and ideology before the good of the nation, then the Constitution just becomes a piece of inconvenient paper. Soon you'll be hearing how the Constitution is too limiting to deal with the challenges of today's world.
There is no means for Trump to seize more power in our government. And he does not have a private military/police force to enforce his will.
Oh yes there is. And you don't need a private military force when you have cult following who thinks your the second coming of Christ.
Additionally Trump is not beloved of the GOP establishment. That means neither side of the aisle in the legislative branch really trusts him. So far he is just fulfilling campaign promises so he mostly has their support. But should he start straying he will lose that support in a hurry. Neither party trusts him. (That's actually good, it means he will have to negotiate to get the stuff he's promising that require laws to be passed.) Neither party will stand for it if he were to try to exceed his constitutional authorities and limits.
That's irrelevant. The GOP is more than happy to use and abuse Trumps ham-fisted methods to further their own agenda and ramrod what they want through Congress, including expansion of powers. And just like Hitler did to his supporters when they started thinking he was going too far, Trump would have no qualms doing the same.
The ends do not justify the means. Making deals with the devil, even with the best intentions, never ends well.
Trump is not Hitler. He can't be. Hitler couldn't have been Hitler under our form of government. At most he could have been FDR and Interned citizens (but not exterminated them).
You really don't understand how this works, do you? Populism is a cult. No piece of paper or set of laws matter. Get enough followers and they'll be cheering as you burn the Constitution.
Sure, "White Supremacists" can be blocked from Reddit, but what about the leftist nutjobs who believe that you should destroy other people's property and physically assault people with a different political viewpoint?
I've seen crazies, but attributing them to any political affiliation (except for those espousing actual violence) is pretty damn stupid, don't you think? This is the same type of thinking that groups all Muslims into suicide bombing America hating crazies. Should I lump together all Christians as violent terrorist extremists because of Timothy McVeigh and all those whackos who bomb clinics and send death threats to doctors who perform abortions?
I don't look at reddit as a rule, but I'd be willing to bet that extremist left wing groups exist on reddit and will not receive the same treatment as the "alt-right". That is true with Facebook and Twitter, so I assume it true on Reddit. Feel free to prove me wrong on that, I'll be happy to read about Reddit banning left wing nut jobs.
No, the onus is on you to provide evidence that there are forums full of violent threats and doxing coming from supposed leftist groups. If YOU have evidence, then YOU can submit it and get them banned. Enough of the liberal media "legenpresse" conspiracy bullshit.
Frankly, if I had to look at who is worse right now I'd say it's the extremist progressive leftists who see no issues using violence against people simply because they have a different political view. In the last couple years, I have seen no valid reports of white supremacists out beating people.
What do watch? Fox news? Is Breitbart you man source of info? Hate crimes, including against African Americans, are quite regular fair. It's just not enough to make headlines. Well, that is, until someone dies or actually looks at the statistics.
We have seen dozens of faked claims, and many of those have resulted in charges, but the "Right" has not been rioting and beating anyone.
Alternative facts in an alternative reality.
I have seen countless instances of leftists doing just that, and worse. Last night you have a young lady being interviewed on ABC punched in the face and pepper sprayed by one of these "oppressed" liberals. You have another pulled out of a car and beaten for no reason.
You're right of course. Liberals are way to soft. They stop with just beatings and pepper spray. The alt-right just kills people. Much more efficient, and then you don't have to worry about them voting either. For example, like that old white guy that shot and killed a teenage African American kid. Or the alt-crazy who massacred a black church.
Crazy people are just that. Trying to attribute their behavior to a political motive is just stupid.
When you have a Government not prosecuting, or even arresting people, who are terrorizing people and preventing their free speech you will end up with a whole lot of violence from the other side. Hence you have a Trump supporter shooting an agitator at a separate rally after protesters started throwing bricks and rocks at people supporting the speaker showed up to counter protest.
Goebells would have loved you. Which political party just recently told the press to shut up and froze out a major news network? Which political party is trying to implement the Ministry of Truth to prevent information the administration doesn't like from reaching the public? Which administration has fostered conspiracy theories, exaggerations, threatened to lock up political rivals, and has flat out lied repeatedly to the public?
People need to pay close attention to the rhetoric being used by the left right now. Sadly, the useful idiots really can't see the irony and hypocrisy in shutting down other people's free speech by committing physical violence while carrying signs and chanting slogans claiming th
Libertarians are about as socially liberal as you can get falling just short of anarchy. I hardly qualify that as "conservative".
"Alt right" doesn't mean "far right", it means increasingly-blatant racism coupled with delusions of importance, while you metaphorically fellate a bunch of billionaire fascists who manipulate your dumb ass.
Or, more succinctly, neo-fascism. Fascism 2.0. And people WANT it to happen.
They're going for the trifecta here. They want to combine business, religion, and state for the ultimate power structure. We're just getting a little taste of what's to come.
The group think is simple. Fascism is ok as long as it gives me a job.
The pathetic thing here is people thinking that this is actually going to help them. It won't. Trump could give a shit less about you or your job. It's populist bullshit. One only needs to examine his pick for the department of labor to see what he thinks of "the working man".