If the Nazis won, there would be genocide. If Black Lives Matter won, police officers would be killed and lawlessness would prevail. BLM and Antifa are staged marxist movements, and a very big problem. Nazis are a problem, but there are very few of them.
My position is based on facts, see the dozens of innocent police officers shot and killed (some execution style) by people believing the blm/antifa rhetoric. See the attacks against police dogs, horses, families, homes, etc... if innocent police officers. I can't fix your delusions, only point them out.
Let me see your citations mister "hahaha", because you obviously have different information than is available to us normal people. Or perhaps you have no such information, but need to maintain your delusional belief that Nazis are running rampant across the US despite any actual facts.
This is a PUBLIC SCHOOL teacher, according to TFA. The whole point of Federalizing "Public" education was to provide uniform access to a uniform education for all. This came with a legal mandate that all children must attend schools, in addition to massive amounts of tax dollars.
Trump-U, like most Universities, was a Private school. Nobody was forced to go, and tax payers were not forced to fund it. If those kinds of schools fail, people don't pay to attend and they end up out of business. Hence, what happened with Trump-U was expected and normal market place business.
I'm all for making improvements, but isn't this the flat out rich vs. poor bias that people are claiming to be trying to stop? We can get to whether or not this is successful after we see some long term grades.
By the numbers, there are less than 100,000 people belonging to any group listed as a "White Supremacist" group in the US. Or less than.03% of the population. Many of those are not "actual Nazis", but even assuming they are it's not a very big or dangerous group and has not grown by any stretch of the imagination. Yes, they have a Constitutional right to voice their opinions and people believing that we all have Constitutional rights is correct and legal, not incorrect.
Conversely, there are approximately 500,000-1,000,000 members of antifa and blm (hard to get actual numbers from any source but these seem realistic based on activity). This group has been growing because people on the left don't call them out. They are not voicing an opinion, they are a violent group who breaks the law regularly. I, and people on the "Right" (which is strangely anything right of Trotsky today) support their right to speech but denounce calls to action of violence which is illegal. They are marxist thugs, who's primary position and purpose is destruction.
In your own words, you and people on the left are at a minimum less-brave marxist thugs. We could say however, that your silence about this group which hovers on the terrorist watch list is being supported in many ways by the left. At least the white supremacist groups get negative media coverage and denounced by every politician ever asked about these groups.
You mean like the zealots on the left who believe that anyone that disagrees with them is a nazi, homophobe, xenophobe, Islamophobe, racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic misogynist right? That is what I was thinking too! Those people have an ideological belief which is rather dangerous. They should be exposed!
My reading is just fine, perhaps your writing and ideas are the issue. Example: Your claim that the right is anti-science. This is exactly why we need debate and a free exchange of ideas, because the left eat least just as guilty. If you don't know it, then you are living in a bubble devoid of facts that harm your beliefs. If you do know it and still want to stifle debate, you are an authoritarian who believes that you should be able to control what people think.
You then go off into the weeds bringing up points about teaching which have nothing to do with my post. Can't use your noggin? Mkay..
People disliked Obama for facts. The left dislikes Trump for hyperbole and any allegation one of them thought could carry water for a half step or more. Obama _DID_ associate and meet with domestic terrorists, known communists, and dictatorships which hate America. That is quite different from some claim "Trump is KKK because 'dog whistle'" which the left is using today. (dog whistle today means anything to today's left, and no longer has a relationship to code words. Code words like those coined by the Left's KKK party from the early to mid 1960s, or the Left's Jim Crow laws, etc...)
A huge part in learning and discovery is to see what is wrong. We learn by trial and error from birth. When we want attention, we make lots of noise. When we want a different type of attention, we smile. We learn that if nobody is looking, they can't see the smile so we learn to make vocal sounds to get their attention and then smile. We learn that 2 apples and 2 pears is not 89 pieces of fruit, it's 4. And no matter what types of fruits we count, addition always works. Seeing right and wrong, or correct and incorrect, is how we not only learn, but learn to inquire.
Has a couple thousand years of Religious doctrine and wars not shown you that silencing dissenting opinions is not just a bad idea, but a hopeless endeavor? Ideas, both right and wrong, always make it to inspection. The fastest way to kill off bad ideas is by exposing them for review, because this is how humans learn and grow. The fastest way to propagate bad ideas is by making it taboo. Companies that make money selling information do a disservice by censoring. The fact that they may be "legal" to do so is quite beside the point.
Do you see now why people like you, and with similar mindsets to you, have created a generation of kids all f&$ked up in schools? Do you see why we are regressing instead of progressing in education? Probably not, but I have to try.
There are plenty of jobs outside of being an IT Engineer, many of those remain technical. If it is not your career choice, do like you did and move into something else. Sure, there are 10 engineers for every manager. Architecture probably has 50-100 engineers under them, program development maybe the same, etc... If you grow and continue to provide value to a company, you probably will have a job regardless of your age.
As with _any_ job you won't be able to make a career doing 1 thing. You being a Dentist have to adapt to every customer, and if you want to run your own Dentistry and grow your company you need to learn marketing and branding in addition to new procedures, new equipment, understand staffing issues, understand training issues for staff, etc... So if you are working toward your own independent practice, you want into marketing and management whether you like it or not. Just not in IT.
The list of countries where people actually get to vote is pretty small. And I mean where they actually have any influence. For example, people in the DPRK vote for their leader. The people in Cuba "vote", Russian's "vote", Indian's "vote", etc...
Trump being President, whether you like him or not, shows that American's have far more influence over their system than even they thought. He won every State needed to become President, and then some. Even with all the cheating and shenanigans he pulled off a win against an entrenched career politician.
or maybe selective reading? The fact that Windows gets pirated does not mean that there is no legal recourse for Microsoft when they catch people pirating. In fact MS does have legal recourse, almost exclusively in "the West". MS does not have open legal access to sites in China to inspect, they get the access they are given by the Chinese Government and pay the fines agreed to by the Chinese Government instead of the penalized fees seen in "the West."
I think you are vastly underestimating the value of Windows Source code. There are plenty of things I don't use, don't like, and don't recommend (including Windows) that have value to other people. Hell. I don't find value in designer clothes, pedigreed pets, or fad foods. Enough people do though, so there are plenty of businesses making money from them.
I'm betting that same statement would be true of you as well, though you may not admit as much.
Don't accuse others of your own crime. You are cherry picking pieces of a Religion I did not mention, as well as cherry picking bits of a Religion (Judaism) which are not followed even by Orthodox Jews. Go back to my original premise and your flawed logic is very clear. Not only do you fail at basic Philosophy, you fail at basic logic. Grats on being a double moron I guess.
Cherry pick and ignore reality much? There are very small sects of Religions that hold those beliefs among Christians, and even in the Jewish religion those are held by mostly Orthodox Jews.
Back in the day those were parts of reality. A huge number of the populace was hungry and didn't know you had to cook stuff, leading to massive amounts of disease and illness. Most Religions have updated beliefs accordingly.
Which _IS_ seeking Truth. Read the history of the Scientific Method, which came from Socrates. Socrates stated that Philosophy is the love of wisdom and truth. Not "disproving Sophists". Disproving Sophists was necessary, but not the goal.
Religious moral codes are completely arbitrary. They are based on the pronouncements of one person or a small group of people, but they have no causal relation to what actually promotes human lives.
Really? Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bang thy neighbors wife have no benefit to human lives? Are you high, or delusional?
Most religious moralities conspicuously ignore the needs of human beings and proclaim that the purpose of man is to glorify God: if stupidity and hatred of mankind could be solidified into one sentence, that is it: "The purpose of man is to glorify God."
Basic psychology, did you fail or skip the course? If you honor and respect the rule makers, you tend to respect the rules. If you honor and respect the "one" rule maker and see him as infallible, you don't tend to question the rules. Contrarily, if you disrespect the rule makers the rule of law collapses (see History).
A proper morality starts by identifying the nature of human beings, and from that organizes a set of principles of behavior which will result in an objectively observable high quality of life for people. Science plays a role in helping to identify what humans are and what's good for them. Fictional creatures play no such role, and people who claim that fictional creatures play such a role often make life worse.
Yeah yeah, good luck convincing the people with low IQs of your science. I guess you skipped Intro to Philosophy too and have no frigging clue what the "Noble Lie" is. (Hearing a phrase does not mean you have any wisdom of the meaning.) Also note that you ignore the premise I gave regarding the Religion as a starting point. *yawn*
Attributing to lack of religion the mess that was 20th century Russia and China reveals a superficial and biased reading of history.
China is still an atheistic mess, and Russia has actually been improving since allowing some level of Christianity. Ignoring that squashing religions is a basic tenet of Communism is blatant bias to promote an ideology despite history showing how damaging that ideology is. (Not past tense, check the world map).
Your first claim is false, so I won't bother. Go back and read my statement again.
Your second statement is false. Read a History book, look at China who banned religion. Look at countries with no Religion, or Religions which lack moral principles.
Your last claim is another false assertion, followed by utter bullocks. I never stated that Religion created Utopias. I stated that societies with a strong religion containing high moral codes are better. The Law in the US (including the Constitution) is based on Natural Law which aligns very well with Christianity.
Yeah yeah, the Westboro Baptists are the "normal" for Christians. I know the propaganda routine.
What will your next set of false statements be I wonder...
Some issues? Really? The USSR does not exist any longer, but you can still pack up and move to Russia. Go live in China today. You have no rights under either system, and are subject to a corrupt bureaucracy who decides what you get and when. You pack up and move, and after a generation you can try to tell us how great it is. I'd suggest that you start immediately voicing complaints about the Government on/. once you have residency.
BS. If what you said is true then China, the USSR, etc.. would not have happened or been put in check by the same moral code you claim can be adopted from nothing. Yet without a decent set of taught Religious morality, we simply don't see that happen. Not one time in history has a society simply become utopian. Though a whole shitload have been wiped out by delusional views of utopians inside of them.
Scientific facts: Not everyone is moral, not everyone has the same values, and not everyone has the desire or capacity to learn.
See Socrates' Noble Lie.
You vehemently dispute science AC, then make a completely false claim. Pretty funny that you attempt to belittle others for believing in fairies, when you believe in a tale of them.
Using facts and models are tools used in searching for truth. I can point to thousands of people claiming to be "Scientists" who do exactly what you claim Faith holders are doing. In fact, models which ignore facts are extremely common.
Other litigation from "payees" which will hopefully put one (of unfortunately many) patent troll out of business. I would also hope that the people bringing fraudulent litigation against companies see at least the threat of criminal charges for fraud.
My comment was not simply ad hominem, I pointed you to the facts. The same set of facts several times. Are you apologizing for cherry picking and arguing from ignorance? No, I thought not. It's much easier to claim "victim" instead of "sorry for being wrong and arguing my wrongness". Why resort to the same exact fallacy logic in 3 sequential posts if you are right and I am wrong?
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If the Nazis won, there would be genocide. If Black Lives Matter won, police officers would be killed and lawlessness would prevail. BLM and Antifa are staged marxist movements, and a very big problem. Nazis are a problem, but there are very few of them.
My position is based on facts, see the dozens of innocent police officers shot and killed (some execution style) by people believing the blm/antifa rhetoric. See the attacks against police dogs, horses, families, homes, etc... if innocent police officers. I can't fix your delusions, only point them out.
and agree with you. "So fucking what."
Lets also note that you completely ignore my point and claim, "less-brave" marxist.
Let me see your citations mister "hahaha", because you obviously have different information than is available to us normal people. Or perhaps you have no such information, but need to maintain your delusional belief that Nazis are running rampant across the US despite any actual facts.
This is a PUBLIC SCHOOL teacher, according to TFA. The whole point of Federalizing "Public" education was to provide uniform access to a uniform education for all. This came with a legal mandate that all children must attend schools, in addition to massive amounts of tax dollars.
Trump-U, like most Universities, was a Private school. Nobody was forced to go, and tax payers were not forced to fund it. If those kinds of schools fail, people don't pay to attend and they end up out of business. Hence, what happened with Trump-U was expected and normal market place business.
I'm all for making improvements, but isn't this the flat out rich vs. poor bias that people are claiming to be trying to stop? We can get to whether or not this is successful after we see some long term grades.
By the numbers, there are less than 100,000 people belonging to any group listed as a "White Supremacist" group in the US. Or less than .03% of the population. Many of those are not "actual Nazis", but even assuming they are it's not a very big or dangerous group and has not grown by any stretch of the imagination. Yes, they have a Constitutional right to voice their opinions and people believing that we all have Constitutional rights is correct and legal, not incorrect.
Conversely, there are approximately 500,000-1,000,000 members of antifa and blm (hard to get actual numbers from any source but these seem realistic based on activity). This group has been growing because people on the left don't call them out. They are not voicing an opinion, they are a violent group who breaks the law regularly. I, and people on the "Right" (which is strangely anything right of Trotsky today) support their right to speech but denounce calls to action of violence which is illegal. They are marxist thugs, who's primary position and purpose is destruction.
In your own words, you and people on the left are at a minimum less-brave marxist thugs. We could say however, that your silence about this group which hovers on the terrorist watch list is being supported in many ways by the left. At least the white supremacist groups get negative media coverage and denounced by every politician ever asked about these groups.
You mean like the zealots on the left who believe that anyone that disagrees with them is a nazi, homophobe, xenophobe, Islamophobe, racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic misogynist right? That is what I was thinking too! Those people have an ideological belief which is rather dangerous. They should be exposed!
My reading is just fine, perhaps your writing and ideas are the issue. Example: Your claim that the right is anti-science. This is exactly why we need debate and a free exchange of ideas, because the left eat least just as guilty. If you don't know it, then you are living in a bubble devoid of facts that harm your beliefs. If you do know it and still want to stifle debate, you are an authoritarian who believes that you should be able to control what people think.
You then go off into the weeds bringing up points about teaching which have nothing to do with my post. Can't use your noggin? Mkay..
People disliked Obama for facts. The left dislikes Trump for hyperbole and any allegation one of them thought could carry water for a half step or more. Obama _DID_ associate and meet with domestic terrorists, known communists, and dictatorships which hate America. That is quite different from some claim "Trump is KKK because 'dog whistle'" which the left is using today. (dog whistle today means anything to today's left, and no longer has a relationship to code words. Code words like those coined by the Left's KKK party from the early to mid 1960s, or the Left's Jim Crow laws, etc...)
Hillary and Bernie again, duh!
A huge part in learning and discovery is to see what is wrong. We learn by trial and error from birth. When we want attention, we make lots of noise. When we want a different type of attention, we smile. We learn that if nobody is looking, they can't see the smile so we learn to make vocal sounds to get their attention and then smile. We learn that 2 apples and 2 pears is not 89 pieces of fruit, it's 4. And no matter what types of fruits we count, addition always works. Seeing right and wrong, or correct and incorrect, is how we not only learn, but learn to inquire.
Has a couple thousand years of Religious doctrine and wars not shown you that silencing dissenting opinions is not just a bad idea, but a hopeless endeavor? Ideas, both right and wrong, always make it to inspection. The fastest way to kill off bad ideas is by exposing them for review, because this is how humans learn and grow. The fastest way to propagate bad ideas is by making it taboo. Companies that make money selling information do a disservice by censoring. The fact that they may be "legal" to do so is quite beside the point.
Do you see now why people like you, and with similar mindsets to you, have created a generation of kids all f&$ked up in schools? Do you see why we are regressing instead of progressing in education? Probably not, but I have to try.
There are plenty of jobs outside of being an IT Engineer, many of those remain technical. If it is not your career choice, do like you did and move into something else. Sure, there are 10 engineers for every manager. Architecture probably has 50-100 engineers under them, program development maybe the same, etc... If you grow and continue to provide value to a company, you probably will have a job regardless of your age.
As with _any_ job you won't be able to make a career doing 1 thing. You being a Dentist have to adapt to every customer, and if you want to run your own Dentistry and grow your company you need to learn marketing and branding in addition to new procedures, new equipment, understand staffing issues, understand training issues for staff, etc... So if you are working toward your own independent practice, you want into marketing and management whether you like it or not. Just not in IT.
The list of countries where people actually get to vote is pretty small. And I mean where they actually have any influence. For example, people in the DPRK vote for their leader. The people in Cuba "vote", Russian's "vote", Indian's "vote", etc...
Trump being President, whether you like him or not, shows that American's have far more influence over their system than even they thought. He won every State needed to become President, and then some. Even with all the cheating and shenanigans he pulled off a win against an entrenched career politician.
or maybe selective reading? The fact that Windows gets pirated does not mean that there is no legal recourse for Microsoft when they catch people pirating. In fact MS does have legal recourse, almost exclusively in "the West". MS does not have open legal access to sites in China to inspect, they get the access they are given by the Chinese Government and pay the fines agreed to by the Chinese Government instead of the penalized fees seen in "the West."
I think you are vastly underestimating the value of Windows Source code. There are plenty of things I don't use, don't like, and don't recommend (including Windows) that have value to other people. Hell. I don't find value in designer clothes, pedigreed pets, or fad foods. Enough people do though, so there are plenty of businesses making money from them.
I'm betting that same statement would be true of you as well, though you may not admit as much.
Don't accuse others of your own crime. You are cherry picking pieces of a Religion I did not mention, as well as cherry picking bits of a Religion (Judaism) which are not followed even by Orthodox Jews. Go back to my original premise and your flawed logic is very clear. Not only do you fail at basic Philosophy, you fail at basic logic. Grats on being a double moron I guess.
Cherry pick and ignore reality much? There are very small sects of Religions that hold those beliefs among Christians, and even in the Jewish religion those are held by mostly Orthodox Jews.
Back in the day those were parts of reality. A huge number of the populace was hungry and didn't know you had to cook stuff, leading to massive amounts of disease and illness. Most Religions have updated beliefs accordingly.
and who did you get to vote for? Yeah.. I thought so
Which _IS_ seeking Truth. Read the history of the Scientific Method, which came from Socrates. Socrates stated that Philosophy is the love of wisdom and truth. Not "disproving Sophists". Disproving Sophists was necessary, but not the goal.
Religious moral codes are completely arbitrary. They are based on the pronouncements of one person or a small group of people, but they have no causal relation to what actually promotes human lives.
Really? Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bang thy neighbors wife have no benefit to human lives? Are you high, or delusional?
Most religious moralities conspicuously ignore the needs of human beings and proclaim that the purpose of man is to glorify God: if stupidity and hatred of mankind could be solidified into one sentence, that is it: "The purpose of man is to glorify God."
Basic psychology, did you fail or skip the course? If you honor and respect the rule makers, you tend to respect the rules. If you honor and respect the "one" rule maker and see him as infallible, you don't tend to question the rules. Contrarily, if you disrespect the rule makers the rule of law collapses (see History).
A proper morality starts by identifying the nature of human beings, and from that organizes a set of principles of behavior which will result in an objectively observable high quality of life for people. Science plays a role in helping to identify what humans are and what's good for them. Fictional creatures play no such role, and people who claim that fictional creatures play such a role often make life worse.
Yeah yeah, good luck convincing the people with low IQs of your science. I guess you skipped Intro to Philosophy too and have no frigging clue what the "Noble Lie" is. (Hearing a phrase does not mean you have any wisdom of the meaning.) Also note that you ignore the premise I gave regarding the Religion as a starting point. *yawn*
Attributing to lack of religion the mess that was 20th century Russia and China reveals a superficial and biased reading of history.
China is still an atheistic mess, and Russia has actually been improving since allowing some level of Christianity. Ignoring that squashing religions is a basic tenet of Communism is blatant bias to promote an ideology despite history showing how damaging that ideology is. (Not past tense, check the world map).
Your first claim is false, so I won't bother. Go back and read my statement again.
Your second statement is false. Read a History book, look at China who banned religion. Look at countries with no Religion, or Religions which lack moral principles.
Your last claim is another false assertion, followed by utter bullocks. I never stated that Religion created Utopias. I stated that societies with a strong religion containing high moral codes are better. The Law in the US (including the Constitution) is based on Natural Law which aligns very well with Christianity.
Yeah yeah, the Westboro Baptists are the "normal" for Christians. I know the propaganda routine.
What will your next set of false statements be I wonder...
Some issues ? Really? The USSR does not exist any longer, but you can still pack up and move to Russia. Go live in China today. You have no rights under either system, and are subject to a corrupt bureaucracy who decides what you get and when. You pack up and move, and after a generation you can try to tell us how great it is. I'd suggest that you start immediately voicing complaints about the Government on /. once you have residency.
BS. If what you said is true then China, the USSR, etc.. would not have happened or been put in check by the same moral code you claim can be adopted from nothing. Yet without a decent set of taught Religious morality, we simply don't see that happen. Not one time in history has a society simply become utopian. Though a whole shitload have been wiped out by delusional views of utopians inside of them.
Scientific facts: Not everyone is moral, not everyone has the same values, and not everyone has the desire or capacity to learn.
See Socrates' Noble Lie.
You vehemently dispute science AC, then make a completely false claim. Pretty funny that you attempt to belittle others for believing in fairies, when you believe in a tale of them.
The fundamental process in science is TRUTH.
Using facts and models are tools used in searching for truth. I can point to thousands of people claiming to be "Scientists" who do exactly what you claim Faith holders are doing. In fact, models which ignore facts are extremely common.
Other litigation from "payees" which will hopefully put one (of unfortunately many) patent troll out of business. I would also hope that the people bringing fraudulent litigation against companies see at least the threat of criminal charges for fraud.
My comment was not simply ad hominem, I pointed you to the facts. The same set of facts several times. Are you apologizing for cherry picking and arguing from ignorance? No, I thought not. It's much easier to claim "victim" instead of "sorry for being wrong and arguing my wrongness". Why resort to the same exact fallacy logic in 3 sequential posts if you are right and I am wrong?