No, I'm reminding you that the vast majority of the media is highly biased to the left and strongly support one party. You're calling Fox "biased" because they aren't following along.
Then you try to claim F"N"C is popular with a small number of dumbasses who need to be told what to think.
Quote where I said that. You have terrible reading comprehension skills.
You cry about a liberal agenda in the media, and then you turn around and watch F"N"C?
You have no idea what I watch. But please, continue to sling around your usual lazy, childish ad hominem in a lame attempt to avoid the subject matter. Thanks for being so consistent about it.
So what you're saying is that the people in the Communist Party in the US (you know, the ones who ACTUALLY CALL THEMSELVES communists) are center-right?
Oh, please. Just like YOU and everyone else, the Russians thought that the Clintons would be returning to power. Their entire motivation was to stir the pot and create an angry cultural/media landscape to diminish the effectiveness of the incoming Hillary administration. This is their playbook in countries all around the world, and has been since Soviet days. They didn't start spending a handful of cash more seriously until AFTER the election was over, when they did some immediate hard changes in their tone and direction... because they were just as shocked that the Clintons they actually wanted (weakly) in power lost despite all of the structural, financial, and media advantages they assumed - just like you and everyone else - would be unstoppable. Your TDS is preventing you from any sort of rational processing of events.
you keep referring to the "mainstream media" as some left biased thing completely ignoring Fox News as a right biased on and the most popular news channel
And YOU are carefully using a BS metric (comparing one cable outlet to other cable outlets and seeing that only a couple of them periodically get better ratings or larger audiences than FNC... but pretending you're not aware that the number of cable outlets and broadcast outlets and print outlets and web properties that ALL passionately work for the other team wildly outnumber FNC and collectively have an enormously larger audience and impact). FNC is popular with the small portion of the overall media audience that it has because it is essentially the only outlet that bothers to in any way push back against the non-stop Dem-powered agenda and talking points of essentially the entire rest (and huge majority) of the media outlets. The mystery here is why you think anyone reading this is too dumb to understand that, or why you think that you'll score rhetorical points by pretending that you're so dumb you don't understand it. Who is YOUR audience that you think they're that dumb, or that you think you'll persuade them in to agreeing with you by pretending that you're that dumb? Baffling.
It was only without proof if you shut your eyes, put your fingers in your ears and started singing "la la la la" as loudly as possible.
And here you are, like clockwork, making sure that you toss out some lazy ad hominem at the person who said that, and providing exactly zero evidence. Because there is none.
Is the GOP really so incompetent that they would have elections stolen in a State they control the Governor's office the Secretary of State and Florida’s Chief Election Officer posts?
Spoken like someone who is, oddly, pretending not to know that such things are - in almost every practical way that impacts the way elections are conducted - run at the county level. And in the FL counties that are the recurring problems, we have Democrats to blame. And they HAVE been blamed, and caught, multiple times. But the local Democrats like the results of their corruption, so keep putting the same people or their ilk right back in charge. That's exactly what's going on in Broward, right now. It's only being scrutinized BECAUSE the GOP is making sure it all gets sunlight on it, but the Dems are still trying desperately to foot-drag and obfuscate.
A sentiment that the US's lefties LOVE to repeat, in a routine attempt to make their far lefty ideas sound somehow more reasonable. "Sure, we think there should be a $32 trillion government takeover of all health care, but that's a reasonable, center-right position, because there is no left here in the US." Or, "We think there should be no borders, and that the law enforcement agency tasked with capturing felons illegally present in the country should be abolished - but that's not some nonsensical far-lefty notion, because there is no left in the US!" Or maybe, "Obviously the people who risk everything they have to start a business and hire people shouldn't be allowed to earn more than a certain amount of money, no matter how successful their company becomes. Because if they grow a business large enough, it's obvious that they are evil corporatists and making more than twice what their entry-level loading dock worker makes should be illegal. This, though, isn't some lefty notion meant to punish entrepreneurs for daring to think that taking successful risks might result in rewards, because there is no left in this country."
Thanks for the detailed, specific examples of how voter roles were purged based on skin color, and how people of specific skin color weren't allowed to cast provisional ballots.
Fighting back against what? Every jurisdiction in the country routinely purges voter roles. Because voter roles end up filled with relocated people, dead people, convicts, etc. It has to be done, and should be done more often. The earlier and more often the better. And it's up to the voter to confirm that they're current. Everywhere in the country, legitimate voters are mailed sample ballots. Didn't get one? Check in. Waited to long? Submit a provisional ballot anyway, as you straighten it out. This comes up every year, all across the country. Purging bad entries from the roles IS FIGHTING BACK. It helps to mitigate fraudulent voting. The people who scream the loudest about the databases being kept current are the ones shilling on behalf of they party with the long history of making the most of dead voters. Which you know. Your theatrical hand-wringing isn't earnest, and your concerns are plainly phony.
Let me guess. You couldn't wait to watch him lose to Hillary Clinton, either, right? You probably also couldn't wait to see a last minute fictional smear job prevent him from seating his second staunchly originalist SCOTUS nominee, right? To say nothing of how all of those new circuit and appellate judges were going to be slavish liberal activists, yeah? And you were probably just drooling at the prospect of the economy tanking and minorities furious with him for continuing the sort of job erosion they experienced under Obama, right? I'll bet you were especially anxious for a war to break out on the Korean peninsula - you'd have just had a little Hillarygasm over that one, I'm sure. Bet you couldn't WAIT for Trump's promise to ditch NAFTA and renegotiate a better Canada/Mexico/US trade deal to completely fall apart, right? And needless to say, you were probably one of those people absolutely convinced that Mueller would have long since had him locked up over his obvious RUSSIA! collusion. How's all of that working out for you? Never mind, I'm sure you're mostly just excited about the Blue Tsunami that's going to take over the senate so that Trump doesn't get to put yet another justice or two in place. That's looking like a sure thing for you right?
Meh. I'm not going to trouble myself with the usual substance-free juvenile babbling of someone who thinks "Your's" is a thing. Have fun getting your legislative agenda, phony impeachments, and judicial preferences through the senate, Shillary, with Schumer still having to fetch McConnells's coffee.
There appears to be a strong positive correlation between people who vote for Trump and people who have their heads up their ass.
Just sayin'.
Have also noticed over the last decade or so that there's a strong correlation between parties adopting smug, condescending, holier-than-though opinions of the superiority of themselves and their party... and losing nearly a thousand legislative seats, most of the governorships, both houses of congress, the White House, the Supreme Court, and the good will of millions of two-time Obama voters who turned their backs on their former default party exactly, specifically because of people like you. Ever noticed that?
Really, a wikipedia article as evidence of water on Mars? No, as far as I know, water has not been discovered on Mars.
While some caution about Wkipedia is always healthy... have you bothered to notice (let alone follow, and read) any of the HUNDREDS of references provided on that page? No? I suppose that if you deliberately avoid knowing things, it gives "as far as I know" some strange sort of truthiness.
Yes, it IS legally considered a gun, but you're prevented from transferring it to anyone else. You can only have it for your own use. In some places, if you're going to take if off of your own property, you'd need to serialize it (silly, but there it is). Some places may also bar you from possessing it if it has a lightweight barrel, or too many of the wrong features (because features are scary). If you want to sell it, you have to go through the federal paperwork of becoming a manufacturer - and that's a big cliff from which to jump.
their advocacy against background checks and advocacy for firearms in the hands of mentally ill
Speaking of the mentally ill, what do you get - personally, I mean - out of being such an easily debunked liar? Who is it, really, that you think you're somehow persuading? Low information fools? That's your audience? Or do you just like to hear your own trolling?
No 3D plastic printed gun that won't blow up in your face is smaller or more suitable to CC than is a brick. Because... plastic. Hardware store parts include things like... actual metal. A reliable, lethal one can be home-brewed and still remain much smaller and easier to conceal. Or, the criminally minded person who clearly doesn't mind breaking laws anyway could just you know, buy a gun. Legally or otherwise, as both are readily available to criminals who are willing to lie or otherwise do illegal things.
The issue is "the area." The area that a typical drone strike hits can be as small as a single home or even a single vehicle in a convoy. Every other method (traditional bombs, shelling, or sending in a column of troops on the ground with their huge attending supply chain) to get the same person/people in that one vehicle or structure) makes "the area" far, far larger and gets a lot more people caught up in it. Yes, that's what happens when murderous operations like ISIS shack up in villages around other people. If those people haven't been able to fight them off so they'll move on, they can end up caught up in the fight that DOES take those terrorists out. The alternatives are all worse: let them alone to grow their footprint, use far more destructive conventional weapons, or fight it out on the ground. Surgical drone strikes are the least bad of the bad choices forced by the nature of who's being fought. All of which you and the GP know.
No. Tools like drones have allowed us to stop using vastly less precise and far more deadly (to non-combatants) weapons like dumb bombs, artillery, and the horror show of columns of ground forces rolling through a region to accomplish the same ends in much, much bloodier ways. Your cartoon vision of someone using drones to randomly kill people in regions where we think everyone is bad is... junior high school drama divorced from reality. A terrifying, lethal military superiority in the hands of a constitutional republic like ours is the single greatest life SAVER in a world that also contains countries like Iran and North Korea, and a large swath of humanity than can be troubled to read history and keeps trotting out collectivist statism as if it weren't the reason a hundred million people died at its hands in the last century. Modern tools like ours provide the capacity to prevent enormous numbers of deaths and years of misery, compared to every other approach in the history of the world. No, "terrorist" is not another word for "random people." Grow up.
No, the natives of Norway and Sweden have, baked into their culture, a work ethic that would be intolerable to a typical US liberal arts graduate. "Socialism" in those Scandinavian countries has worked because they've still had a productive market-based economy under the hood generating the actual prosperity that is taxed so heavily to pay for it all. Norway and Sweden are traditional capitalist economies with socialist millstones around their necks. And now that they've got huge influxes of unskilled, non-assimilating, non-local-language-speaking people slurping up the stuff everyone else is getting taxed to provide, the energetic market-driven businesses in those countries are going to fail to bear the burden for all of that government generosity. Their rules will have to change, or it will all collapse. Productive people and businesses will flee those countries in the same way they're fleeing California.
that's a very small part. History and Literature are the vast majority. We could do with people that knew history better, given what's happened in the last few elections or the pointless wars we keep getting dragged into for no good reason...
The problem is that even if a student DOES elect (or is forced to) take more than just a casual program of history at that level, they are exposed - through contemporary collegiate liberal arts political monoculture - to a thoroughly left-spun re-imagining or filtering of events deprived of almost all meaning. It's precisely BECAUSE of contemporary liberal arts education that we have lots of young people screaming in the streets and demanding that the US be turned into some disastrous spawn of China and Venezuela.
The fact that you are so profoundly ignorant of these issues demonstrates the need for people with an understanding of them.
He's NOT ignorant of them. He's pointing out how any observant person can see that marinating people in what has become the toxic absurdity of what now passes for a collegiate liberal arts program makes students, in fact, far less productive, civil, constructive and prosperous.
Not as long as the ammo holds out. These things are incredibly fragile. A fully-armored version that could withstand the sort of ammo that people use to, say, hunt elk - would be very heavy.
I wonder what "more than real" means. Is it surreal? Is it hyper-real? Wait, this is 2018. The only thing that can be more than something is is when it's Literally Real. Like, "that hack is literally better than my soy chai latte." The data was so much more than real that it was as much data as 10 real Libraries of Congress.
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So you admit Faux "News" is biased.
No, I'm reminding you that the vast majority of the media is highly biased to the left and strongly support one party. You're calling Fox "biased" because they aren't following along.
Then you try to claim F"N"C is popular with a small number of dumbasses who need to be told what to think.
Quote where I said that. You have terrible reading comprehension skills.
You cry about a liberal agenda in the media, and then you turn around and watch F"N"C?
You have no idea what I watch. But please, continue to sling around your usual lazy, childish ad hominem in a lame attempt to avoid the subject matter. Thanks for being so consistent about it.
So what you're saying is that the people in the Communist Party in the US (you know, the ones who ACTUALLY CALL THEMSELVES communists) are center-right?
Oh, please. Just like YOU and everyone else, the Russians thought that the Clintons would be returning to power. Their entire motivation was to stir the pot and create an angry cultural/media landscape to diminish the effectiveness of the incoming Hillary administration. This is their playbook in countries all around the world, and has been since Soviet days. They didn't start spending a handful of cash more seriously until AFTER the election was over, when they did some immediate hard changes in their tone and direction ... because they were just as shocked that the Clintons they actually wanted (weakly) in power lost despite all of the structural, financial, and media advantages they assumed - just like you and everyone else - would be unstoppable. Your TDS is preventing you from any sort of rational processing of events.
you keep referring to the "mainstream media" as some left biased thing completely ignoring Fox News as a right biased on and the most popular news channel
And YOU are carefully using a BS metric (comparing one cable outlet to other cable outlets and seeing that only a couple of them periodically get better ratings or larger audiences than FNC ... but pretending you're not aware that the number of cable outlets and broadcast outlets and print outlets and web properties that ALL passionately work for the other team wildly outnumber FNC and collectively have an enormously larger audience and impact). FNC is popular with the small portion of the overall media audience that it has because it is essentially the only outlet that bothers to in any way push back against the non-stop Dem-powered agenda and talking points of essentially the entire rest (and huge majority) of the media outlets. The mystery here is why you think anyone reading this is too dumb to understand that, or why you think that you'll score rhetorical points by pretending that you're so dumb you don't understand it. Who is YOUR audience that you think they're that dumb, or that you think you'll persuade them in to agreeing with you by pretending that you're that dumb? Baffling.
It was only without proof if you shut your eyes, put your fingers in your ears and started singing "la la la la" as loudly as possible.
And here you are, like clockwork, making sure that you toss out some lazy ad hominem at the person who said that, and providing exactly zero evidence. Because there is none.
Is the GOP really so incompetent that they would have elections stolen in a State they control the Governor's office the Secretary of State and Florida’s Chief Election Officer posts?
Spoken like someone who is, oddly, pretending not to know that such things are - in almost every practical way that impacts the way elections are conducted - run at the county level. And in the FL counties that are the recurring problems, we have Democrats to blame. And they HAVE been blamed, and caught, multiple times. But the local Democrats like the results of their corruption, so keep putting the same people or their ilk right back in charge. That's exactly what's going on in Broward, right now. It's only being scrutinized BECAUSE the GOP is making sure it all gets sunlight on it, but the Dems are still trying desperately to foot-drag and obfuscate.
The US has no left.
A sentiment that the US's lefties LOVE to repeat, in a routine attempt to make their far lefty ideas sound somehow more reasonable. "Sure, we think there should be a $32 trillion government takeover of all health care, but that's a reasonable, center-right position, because there is no left here in the US." Or, "We think there should be no borders, and that the law enforcement agency tasked with capturing felons illegally present in the country should be abolished - but that's not some nonsensical far-lefty notion, because there is no left in the US!" Or maybe, "Obviously the people who risk everything they have to start a business and hire people shouldn't be allowed to earn more than a certain amount of money, no matter how successful their company becomes. Because if they grow a business large enough, it's obvious that they are evil corporatists and making more than twice what their entry-level loading dock worker makes should be illegal. This, though, isn't some lefty notion meant to punish entrepreneurs for daring to think that taking successful risks might result in rewards, because there is no left in this country."
Thanks for the detailed, specific examples of how voter roles were purged based on skin color, and how people of specific skin color weren't allowed to cast provisional ballots.
Yeah, but nobody's fighting back.
Fighting back against what? Every jurisdiction in the country routinely purges voter roles. Because voter roles end up filled with relocated people, dead people, convicts, etc. It has to be done, and should be done more often. The earlier and more often the better. And it's up to the voter to confirm that they're current. Everywhere in the country, legitimate voters are mailed sample ballots. Didn't get one? Check in. Waited to long? Submit a provisional ballot anyway, as you straighten it out. This comes up every year, all across the country. Purging bad entries from the roles IS FIGHTING BACK. It helps to mitigate fraudulent voting. The people who scream the loudest about the databases being kept current are the ones shilling on behalf of they party with the long history of making the most of dead voters. Which you know. Your theatrical hand-wringing isn't earnest, and your concerns are plainly phony.
Can't wait to rip your shitgibbon out of office
Let me guess. You couldn't wait to watch him lose to Hillary Clinton, either, right? You probably also couldn't wait to see a last minute fictional smear job prevent him from seating his second staunchly originalist SCOTUS nominee, right? To say nothing of how all of those new circuit and appellate judges were going to be slavish liberal activists, yeah? And you were probably just drooling at the prospect of the economy tanking and minorities furious with him for continuing the sort of job erosion they experienced under Obama, right? I'll bet you were especially anxious for a war to break out on the Korean peninsula - you'd have just had a little Hillarygasm over that one, I'm sure. Bet you couldn't WAIT for Trump's promise to ditch NAFTA and renegotiate a better Canada/Mexico/US trade deal to completely fall apart, right? And needless to say, you were probably one of those people absolutely convinced that Mueller would have long since had him locked up over his obvious RUSSIA! collusion. How's all of that working out for you? Never mind, I'm sure you're mostly just excited about the Blue Tsunami that's going to take over the senate so that Trump doesn't get to put yet another justice or two in place. That's looking like a sure thing for you right?
Meh. I'm not going to trouble myself with the usual substance-free juvenile babbling of someone who thinks "Your's" is a thing. Have fun getting your legislative agenda, phony impeachments, and judicial preferences through the senate, Shillary, with Schumer still having to fetch McConnells's coffee.
There appears to be a strong positive correlation between people who vote for Trump and people who have their heads up their ass.
Just sayin'.
Have also noticed over the last decade or so that there's a strong correlation between parties adopting smug, condescending, holier-than-though opinions of the superiority of themselves and their party ... and losing nearly a thousand legislative seats, most of the governorships, both houses of congress, the White House, the Supreme Court, and the good will of millions of two-time Obama voters who turned their backs on their former default party exactly, specifically because of people like you. Ever noticed that?
A hypothetical example would be, oh, say the President of the United States and a White House intern.
Nope. Hillary Clinton - the most intelligent person in the world - says that's not true, because Lewinsky was "an adult." So, that settles that.
Really, a wikipedia article as evidence of water on Mars? No, as far as I know, water has not been discovered on Mars.
While some caution about Wkipedia is always healthy ... have you bothered to notice (let alone follow, and read) any of the HUNDREDS of references provided on that page? No? I suppose that if you deliberately avoid knowing things, it gives "as far as I know" some strange sort of truthiness.
Yes, it IS legally considered a gun, but you're prevented from transferring it to anyone else. You can only have it for your own use. In some places, if you're going to take if off of your own property, you'd need to serialize it (silly, but there it is). Some places may also bar you from possessing it if it has a lightweight barrel, or too many of the wrong features (because features are scary). If you want to sell it, you have to go through the federal paperwork of becoming a manufacturer - and that's a big cliff from which to jump.
their advocacy against background checks and advocacy for firearms in the hands of mentally ill
Speaking of the mentally ill, what do you get - personally, I mean - out of being such an easily debunked liar? Who is it, really, that you think you're somehow persuading? Low information fools? That's your audience? Or do you just like to hear your own trolling?
Try to concealed carry it though.
No 3D plastic printed gun that won't blow up in your face is smaller or more suitable to CC than is a brick. Because ... plastic. Hardware store parts include things like ... actual metal. A reliable, lethal one can be home-brewed and still remain much smaller and easier to conceal. Or, the criminally minded person who clearly doesn't mind breaking laws anyway could just you know, buy a gun. Legally or otherwise, as both are readily available to criminals who are willing to lie or otherwise do illegal things.
The issue is "the area." The area that a typical drone strike hits can be as small as a single home or even a single vehicle in a convoy. Every other method (traditional bombs, shelling, or sending in a column of troops on the ground with their huge attending supply chain) to get the same person/people in that one vehicle or structure) makes "the area" far, far larger and gets a lot more people caught up in it. Yes, that's what happens when murderous operations like ISIS shack up in villages around other people. If those people haven't been able to fight them off so they'll move on, they can end up caught up in the fight that DOES take those terrorists out. The alternatives are all worse: let them alone to grow their footprint, use far more destructive conventional weapons, or fight it out on the ground. Surgical drone strikes are the least bad of the bad choices forced by the nature of who's being fought. All of which you and the GP know.
Yep, you get all your news from memes. You'd obviously prefer carpet bombing. Why? Why would you prefer to kill innocent people?
No. Tools like drones have allowed us to stop using vastly less precise and far more deadly (to non-combatants) weapons like dumb bombs, artillery, and the horror show of columns of ground forces rolling through a region to accomplish the same ends in much, much bloodier ways. Your cartoon vision of someone using drones to randomly kill people in regions where we think everyone is bad is ... junior high school drama divorced from reality. A terrifying, lethal military superiority in the hands of a constitutional republic like ours is the single greatest life SAVER in a world that also contains countries like Iran and North Korea, and a large swath of humanity than can be troubled to read history and keeps trotting out collectivist statism as if it weren't the reason a hundred million people died at its hands in the last century. Modern tools like ours provide the capacity to prevent enormous numbers of deaths and years of misery, compared to every other approach in the history of the world. No, "terrorist" is not another word for "random people." Grow up.
Or even worse, Norway and Sweden!
No, the natives of Norway and Sweden have, baked into their culture, a work ethic that would be intolerable to a typical US liberal arts graduate. "Socialism" in those Scandinavian countries has worked because they've still had a productive market-based economy under the hood generating the actual prosperity that is taxed so heavily to pay for it all. Norway and Sweden are traditional capitalist economies with socialist millstones around their necks. And now that they've got huge influxes of unskilled, non-assimilating, non-local-language-speaking people slurping up the stuff everyone else is getting taxed to provide, the energetic market-driven businesses in those countries are going to fail to bear the burden for all of that government generosity. Their rules will have to change, or it will all collapse. Productive people and businesses will flee those countries in the same way they're fleeing California.
that's a very small part. History and Literature are the vast majority. We could do with people that knew history better, given what's happened in the last few elections or the pointless wars we keep getting dragged into for no good reason...
The problem is that even if a student DOES elect (or is forced to) take more than just a casual program of history at that level, they are exposed - through contemporary collegiate liberal arts political monoculture - to a thoroughly left-spun re-imagining or filtering of events deprived of almost all meaning. It's precisely BECAUSE of contemporary liberal arts education that we have lots of young people screaming in the streets and demanding that the US be turned into some disastrous spawn of China and Venezuela.
The fact that you are so profoundly ignorant of these issues demonstrates the need for people with an understanding of them.
He's NOT ignorant of them. He's pointing out how any observant person can see that marinating people in what has become the toxic absurdity of what now passes for a collegiate liberal arts program makes students, in fact, far less productive, civil, constructive and prosperous.
but now I guess hiding is your only chance
Not as long as the ammo holds out. These things are incredibly fragile. A fully-armored version that could withstand the sort of ammo that people use to, say, hunt elk - would be very heavy.
I wonder what "more than real" means. Is it surreal? Is it hyper-real? Wait, this is 2018. The only thing that can be more than something is is when it's Literally Real. Like, "that hack is literally better than my soy chai latte." The data was so much more than real that it was as much data as 10 real Libraries of Congress.
with the unsafe and perverted nonsense going on in my neighborhood because of punks with drones, some testing and regulation might be a good thing
And this would stop stupid people willing to do illegal things ... how?