An opinion based on facts, one if which is laid out in the very first sentence. Reading is fundamental and all that. Those same politics, and much more are in US Colleges and Universities today. Which is why I said you can search for thousands of articles and reports on such.
On Wednesday, the Daily Mail reported that a school in Oxford has become the first to introduce “Good Lad” workshops, in which boys are singled out for sessions that teach them about “the scale of sexual harassment and violence aimed at female students” and how they must stand up for women's rights.
Of course you most likely won't read because cognitive dissonance is harmful and most people are cowards.
Obviously anecdotes differ since I doubt our kids go to the same schools. That said, this isn't just a "Fox" thing, or even a MSNBC thing. There is ample evidence to back my anecdote as "normal" especially in CA's system. They are incredibly easy to find. I know that the Telegraph is a notoriously right wing site (sarcasm should be obvious), but here is one of literally thousands of articles that come up with a simple Google search. In addition to mandatory classes being forced on men, we have curriculum injecting ideology and leftism. A Marine biology course last semester spend 2 lectures talking about the 70 genders and was part of the finals. Not psychology, sociology, or a course where it may make more sense, but _marine_biology.
If your kids don't experience the same, that's great for them. Lets not deny that it exists when example after example can be seen and found.
I was in college in the 80s, so a bit after you. We had groups like you mentioned, but we didn't have nearly 100% of our Professors teaching/preaching their leftist ideology during lectures. I am paying for my kid to go to college today so get to read assignments, lectures, and material. It's quite a different animal.
When every single course is lecturing not so much the subject matter, but leftist ideology, we have problems with our education system. Biology courses are filled with anti-American rhetoric and promotion of 3rd wave feminism. Even Math and Physics lectures are filled with anti-American rhetoric.
The ideology is not new, but the pervasiveness certainly is more recent and having impact. The normalization of punishing people who question the narratives is also more recent.
The stock is probably slightly over valued and the major holders want to do what investors do, and move out of a stagnant market and find new places with higher returns. People like the services, but there is market saturation. We see the same exact scenario with other tech companies, like Facebook and LinkedIn. There are only so many people in the world, so many people that can use (or have interest in using) a service, or ads that can be displayed at any given time.
Once you are all linked up electronically without cash, they can simply take all of your assets. To a large extent they can do that today, but a lack of cash leaves you no other options.
I don't think cash is dangerous at all. I don't carry a bit wad around, but always have some handy. Cash IMHO is as important as guns in terms of personal liberty.
Oh come now. This "survey" is based on people's claims and feelings. The same exact way that they can claim fake crimes to gin up hostility everywhere else in society. It's propaganda, plain as day to anyone who cares to look.
Yes, SJWs are pretty common. People who don't care about actual justice, but what they feel should be done to other people based on injustice portrayed as "right" to them. Justice has a pure meaning, and is correctly symbolized by the empty scale.
Now stop stalking me you criminal! You need to turn yourself in and be jailed for harassing me!
Oh, so you are saying I should have added other non-harassment items to my list? Like "wow, you are pretty" which today's SJWs claim is sexual harassment. Things like "you need to get beat" which is what we call an idle, albeit immature, threat. Of course we can't forget the people that may not actually follow you, but when they see you try to get a rise out of you, which can be perceived as "stalking". Like you just did to me, you creepy stalker who regularly comments on my posts!
The funny thing is, that all of this is not a real threat. It is impossible to grope someone virtually, it is impossible to cause physical harm virtually. If someone is following you around and posting comments you dislike, report the person if they are violating some TOS, stop going to that site, or ultimately turn off the damn computer. Problem solved!
Conflating terms is marxist tool to promote marxist agendas. Nothing at all new here, same crap we have seen for the last century of people promoting marxist ideology. The only thing different is the people gullible enough to believe the crap that gets spewed.
Saying "no", "you are wrong|irrational|delusional|ignorant|etc..." is not "harassment" but can be perceived as such by the recipient. If you receive some form of criticism and take it as harassment, perhaps you should check to see if the person criticizing is right!
When people say I'm ignorant, I ask for references so that I can be a better person and educate myself. When I am told my opinion is wrong, I ask for facts so that I can challenge my opinion. Sometimes I am irrational and delusional. That is all part of being a normal, breathing, thinking human who also has emotions.
But hey, keep promoting that victim culture. It's worked so well as a tool to educate the masses and make people accountable responsible members of society.
I know far more people who drive 2 hours to work to have their own house, than I do people who could not change jobs because of where they live. This is true not just in CA, but Michigan, Texas, Kentucky, and VA where I have worked and lived. Having your own house is an investment, paying rent is disposable income. When the money is close, people want the investment.
There is a big difference between "Guy does something he's ashamed of," and "Guy does something that can be portrayed as such by multi-billion dollar Media outlet with international reach.
Not recognizing that difference is well beyond insane, and it is surprising that I need to point out that difference. Further, not recognizing that CNN spending money and resources to track this guy down is in and of itself an act of intimidation is insane. Then, they publicly post that "if this person does something we dislike, we will DOX him, is not blackmail, nothing can be blackmail in your eyes.
If CNN contacted you about your last comment and asked why you promote bullying, would you start to worry about any other post you have ever made and how it could be spun to make you look a particular way. Especially if they contact you outside of your/. name, you will know that they have spent money and resources to track you down.
Citations: Read most of Milton Friedman's work. Read anything by Mark Levin. I'm in the middle of Mark's latest, but from there you can find references to countless other sources (he provides hundreds of citations and resources). MSM is controlled media where you won't hear anything they don't want you to hear. This has become a gross propaganda platform. When I was young pro Constitutionalists, such as Milton Friedman, were on TV. Today you hear only what the leftists want you to hear. Even on Fox, you rarely hear a pro Constitutionalist speaking.
Pushing to re-establish the Constitution is what the majority of people (read Not Politicians) want. The USA is pretty far off of our Constitutional founding. How about checking economic mobility up until about 1960, where the US led the world by large margins. As the US adopted more and more socialist policies we have become just like them in terms of economic mobility. That should be an easy bit of rational thought, unless you have an agenda/bias against such thought.
Because the sure fire way to up your standard of living is under Socialism right? If you had not noticed, that only works in rare cases with certain people in power. Didn't work out well for most of the world, and sure as hell keeps people wanting to move out of even the best of the socialist countries. Talk to a Fin, German, or Swede about their great economic mobility opportunities. (real people, not fabricated media reports).
Notice that there is no mention of "local" Government in our founding documents or our Constitution. Pushing to re-establish the Constitution is what the majority of people (read Not Politicians) want. This does put more power back into the State, where it was meant to be concentrated. It is much easier for the populace to have control over their State Government. The State is supposed to be a higher authority than a city/local Government.
If your State does not address the issue, it's not magically a Federal issue. It remains a local/city issue. When the majority of people in that income range move and the city loses all that magical revenue they spent, you can vote them out and put in fiscally responsible politicians.
Oh I agree with you, _today_ there is nothing in the laws which says such. In the past things were quite different. Up until we had a massive amount of welfare, if you came to the US and could not offer anything you went home. Many people came into Ellis Island and were turned back. Many more people made it in and attempted to make it, and went back after failure.
This is why immigration reform has been an issue since I was a kid in the late 60s early 70s. The fact that these issues were not addressed is why we still need immigration reform and are having discussions about this needed reform. Not that even most politicians care or will take action...
China does not allow access to that huge portion of the internet. That is the whole point of their great firewall. Not protecting citizens from bad memes and crude jokes, but protecting themselves from dissenting views being visible to their people.
This is how authoritarian regimes work, and nobody should be surprised. It's a great reminder for the rest of us, for when our whackadoodle politicians start claiming they want control.
Sorry, it does not create jobs. This is exactly what immigration is supposed to be about. Have something good to offer, become a citizen. Most other countries have this same model for immigration, even those in the West.
Nothing like using biased sources. You see nothing wrong with using a cnn site as a source of truth about cnn? Seriously? Fox doubles CNN, and CNN gets bogus bonus numbers due to license agreements to be in airports, bus stations, etc... http://variety.com/2017/tv/new...
Yes there are different needs, but those who can afford a house, condo, duplex, or even a mobile home purchase because they want something of their own. You may have heard the phrase "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness". Part of "Happiness" is property, and the right to protect that property. (See Adams, Madison, Monroe, etc... and the Constitutions drafted for States).
In SF, homes are priced beyond single family median income. Costs are artificially driven up by property conglomerates who purchase everything possible. Apartment costs are similarly artificially high due to monopolization. Ask 10 of your neighbors if the could buy a house would they, and the _majority_ would say "yes".
Your personal anecdote does not change the problem with property in the SF Bay area, and in fact much of the Country. Your personal anecdote doesn't address the point I made either. Apartments are a money sink, not an investment. I don't care if your apartment has a gym or not, you don't have anything for your payments after your lease is up. If you are paying "economical" rates you suffer from poor neighborhood conditions (higher crime, less services including public transit). This makes it difficult to save for a house if you wanted to have those kids.
There are very few apartments outside of NYC which are investments. If you want vertical growth you need to give people other than the land owner reason to put up money. As is, pay 5K a month in SF for a couple years and what do you have to show for 120K? Nothing!
People don't want apartments for this reason. Apartments are seen as a necessary evil until you can afford something which is actually yours.
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An opinion based on facts, one if which is laid out in the very first sentence. Reading is fundamental and all that. Those same politics, and much more are in US Colleges and Universities today. Which is why I said you can search for thousands of articles and reports on such.
On Wednesday, the Daily Mail reported that a school in Oxford has become the first to introduce “Good Lad” workshops, in which boys are singled out for sessions that teach them about “the scale of sexual harassment and violence aimed at female students” and how they must stand up for women's rights.
Of course you most likely won't read because cognitive dissonance is harmful and most people are cowards.
Obviously anecdotes differ since I doubt our kids go to the same schools. That said, this isn't just a "Fox" thing, or even a MSNBC thing. There is ample evidence to back my anecdote as "normal" especially in CA's system. They are incredibly easy to find. I know that the Telegraph is a notoriously right wing site (sarcasm should be obvious), but here is one of literally thousands of articles that come up with a simple Google search. In addition to mandatory classes being forced on men, we have curriculum injecting ideology and leftism. A Marine biology course last semester spend 2 lectures talking about the 70 genders and was part of the finals. Not psychology, sociology, or a course where it may make more sense, but _marine_biology.
If your kids don't experience the same, that's great for them. Lets not deny that it exists when example after example can be seen and found.
I was in college in the 80s, so a bit after you. We had groups like you mentioned, but we didn't have nearly 100% of our Professors teaching/preaching their leftist ideology during lectures. I am paying for my kid to go to college today so get to read assignments, lectures, and material. It's quite a different animal.
When every single course is lecturing not so much the subject matter, but leftist ideology, we have problems with our education system. Biology courses are filled with anti-American rhetoric and promotion of 3rd wave feminism. Even Math and Physics lectures are filled with anti-American rhetoric.
The ideology is not new, but the pervasiveness certainly is more recent and having impact. The normalization of punishing people who question the narratives is also more recent.
The stock is probably slightly over valued and the major holders want to do what investors do, and move out of a stagnant market and find new places with higher returns. People like the services, but there is market saturation. We see the same exact scenario with other tech companies, like Facebook and LinkedIn. There are only so many people in the world, so many people that can use (or have interest in using) a service, or ads that can be displayed at any given time.
Once you are all linked up electronically without cash, they can simply take all of your assets. To a large extent they can do that today, but a lack of cash leaves you no other options.
I don't think cash is dangerous at all. I don't carry a bit wad around, but always have some handy. Cash IMHO is as important as guns in terms of personal liberty.
The volume knobs go to 11!
Oh come now. This "survey" is based on people's claims and feelings. The same exact way that they can claim fake crimes to gin up hostility everywhere else in society. It's propaganda, plain as day to anyone who cares to look.
Yes, SJWs are pretty common. People who don't care about actual justice, but what they feel should be done to other people based on injustice portrayed as "right" to them. Justice has a pure meaning, and is correctly symbolized by the empty scale.
Now stop stalking me you criminal! You need to turn yourself in and be jailed for harassing me!
Oh, so you are saying I should have added other non-harassment items to my list? Like "wow, you are pretty" which today's SJWs claim is sexual harassment. Things like "you need to get beat" which is what we call an idle, albeit immature, threat. Of course we can't forget the people that may not actually follow you, but when they see you try to get a rise out of you, which can be perceived as "stalking". Like you just did to me, you creepy stalker who regularly comments on my posts!
The funny thing is, that all of this is not a real threat. It is impossible to grope someone virtually, it is impossible to cause physical harm virtually. If someone is following you around and posting comments you dislike, report the person if they are violating some TOS, stop going to that site, or ultimately turn off the damn computer. Problem solved!
Conflating terms is marxist tool to promote marxist agendas. Nothing at all new here, same crap we have seen for the last century of people promoting marxist ideology. The only thing different is the people gullible enough to believe the crap that gets spewed.
Saying "no", "you are wrong|irrational|delusional|ignorant|etc..." is not "harassment" but can be perceived as such by the recipient. If you receive some form of criticism and take it as harassment, perhaps you should check to see if the person criticizing is right!
When people say I'm ignorant, I ask for references so that I can be a better person and educate myself. When I am told my opinion is wrong, I ask for facts so that I can challenge my opinion. Sometimes I am irrational and delusional. That is all part of being a normal, breathing, thinking human who also has emotions.
But hey, keep promoting that victim culture. It's worked so well as a tool to educate the masses and make people accountable responsible members of society.
I know far more people who drive 2 hours to work to have their own house, than I do people who could not change jobs because of where they live. This is true not just in CA, but Michigan, Texas, Kentucky, and VA where I have worked and lived. Having your own house is an investment, paying rent is disposable income. When the money is close, people want the investment.
There is a big difference between "Guy does something he's ashamed of," and "Guy does something that can be portrayed as such by multi-billion dollar Media outlet with international reach.
Not recognizing that difference is well beyond insane, and it is surprising that I need to point out that difference. Further, not recognizing that CNN spending money and resources to track this guy down is in and of itself an act of intimidation is insane. Then, they publicly post that "if this person does something we dislike, we will DOX him, is not blackmail, nothing can be blackmail in your eyes.
If CNN contacted you about your last comment and asked why you promote bullying, would you start to worry about any other post you have ever made and how it could be spun to make you look a particular way. Especially if they contact you outside of your /. name, you will know that they have spent money and resources to track you down.
You have a low enough ID to know that there are countless named accounts which are shills/sock puppets.
Citations: Read most of Milton Friedman's work. Read anything by Mark Levin. I'm in the middle of Mark's latest, but from there you can find references to countless other sources (he provides hundreds of citations and resources). MSM is controlled media where you won't hear anything they don't want you to hear. This has become a gross propaganda platform. When I was young pro Constitutionalists, such as Milton Friedman, were on TV. Today you hear only what the leftists want you to hear. Even on Fox, you rarely hear a pro Constitutionalist speaking.
Pushing to re-establish the Constitution is what the majority of people (read Not Politicians) want. The USA is pretty far off of our Constitutional founding. How about checking economic mobility up until about 1960, where the US led the world by large margins. As the US adopted more and more socialist policies we have become just like them in terms of economic mobility. That should be an easy bit of rational thought, unless you have an agenda/bias against such thought.
Because the sure fire way to up your standard of living is under Socialism right? If you had not noticed, that only works in rare cases with certain people in power. Didn't work out well for most of the world, and sure as hell keeps people wanting to move out of even the best of the socialist countries. Talk to a Fin, German, or Swede about their great economic mobility opportunities. (real people, not fabricated media reports).
Notice that there is no mention of "local" Government in our founding documents or our Constitution. Pushing to re-establish the Constitution is what the majority of people (read Not Politicians) want. This does put more power back into the State, where it was meant to be concentrated. It is much easier for the populace to have control over their State Government. The State is supposed to be a higher authority than a city/local Government.
If your State does not address the issue, it's not magically a Federal issue. It remains a local/city issue. When the majority of people in that income range move and the city loses all that magical revenue they spent, you can vote them out and put in fiscally responsible politicians.
Double Sarcasm: HK is a big place, like your brain.
See "sarcasm". Jeesh!
Oh I agree with you, _today_ there is nothing in the laws which says such. In the past things were quite different. Up until we had a massive amount of welfare, if you came to the US and could not offer anything you went home. Many people came into Ellis Island and were turned back. Many more people made it in and attempted to make it, and went back after failure.
This is why immigration reform has been an issue since I was a kid in the late 60s early 70s. The fact that these issues were not addressed is why we still need immigration reform and are having discussions about this needed reform. Not that even most politicians care or will take action...
China does not allow access to that huge portion of the internet. That is the whole point of their great firewall. Not protecting citizens from bad memes and crude jokes, but protecting themselves from dissenting views being visible to their people.
This is how authoritarian regimes work, and nobody should be surprised. It's a great reminder for the rest of us, for when our whackadoodle politicians start claiming they want control.
Sorry, it does not create jobs. This is exactly what immigration is supposed to be about. Have something good to offer, become a citizen. Most other countries have this same model for immigration, even those in the West.
Nothing like using biased sources. You see nothing wrong with using a cnn site as a source of truth about cnn? Seriously? Fox doubles CNN, and CNN gets bogus bonus numbers due to license agreements to be in airports, bus stations, etc... http://variety.com/2017/tv/new...
Yes there are different needs, but those who can afford a house, condo, duplex, or even a mobile home purchase because they want something of their own. You may have heard the phrase "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness". Part of "Happiness" is property, and the right to protect that property. (See Adams, Madison, Monroe, etc... and the Constitutions drafted for States).
In SF, homes are priced beyond single family median income. Costs are artificially driven up by property conglomerates who purchase everything possible. Apartment costs are similarly artificially high due to monopolization. Ask 10 of your neighbors if the could buy a house would they, and the _majority_ would say "yes".
Your personal anecdote does not change the problem with property in the SF Bay area, and in fact much of the Country. Your personal anecdote doesn't address the point I made either. Apartments are a money sink, not an investment. I don't care if your apartment has a gym or not, you don't have anything for your payments after your lease is up. If you are paying "economical" rates you suffer from poor neighborhood conditions (higher crime, less services including public transit). This makes it difficult to save for a house if you wanted to have those kids.
There are very few apartments outside of NYC which are investments. If you want vertical growth you need to give people other than the land owner reason to put up money. As is, pay 5K a month in SF for a couple years and what do you have to show for 120K? Nothing!
People don't want apartments for this reason. Apartments are seen as a necessary evil until you can afford something which is actually yours.
Company towns? What? We're going back to 1917?
No you insensitive clod! This is novel and unique because Facebook is doing it. History Schmistory...