Free speech is not a blank check, and private organizations are not bound by the same restrictions as the State. Milo can say what he likes, and maybe he can even buy a website to say it, but he crosses that redline too many times and he might very well find himself in front of a judge defending himself against libel.
Yes, Leslie Jones, the women Milo and his legions decided they needed to bully the shit out of because, gasp, she was in a Ghostbusters reboot. Leslie Jones, the woman that Milo himself was caught fabricating racist tweets of.
And you don't think his fabricated Leslie Jones tweets show an underlying racist worldview? I mean, why did he even start that war? What was the intent?
Shkreli is likely to end up in jail in the not so different future, so I don't really consider him to be very powerful or much of a threat at all. At the moment he's just an impotent little weasel that for some strange reason still garners some publicity, but none it good.
At every turn Trump's supporters keep saying "After this point, he'll start behaving properly," and every time that point is reached, he continues behaving erratically, obnoxiously, and ultimately in a self-defeating way. Even his commitment to throw Clinton in jail tonight is absurd, almost as if he doesn't actually understand how the justice system works. He clearly seems to think the Oval Office is some sort of throne from which an Emperor shall reign.
Exactly, and I think Trump is going to do one thing for the Republicans and finally force it into the 21st century. I think the days when anti-gay, anti-feminist rhetoric play a significant role in Republican politics are going to fade away. It may mean abandoning Nixon's Southern strategy at long last, but the fact is that the culture war is now a battle being waged by a shrinking demographic, meanwhile the Democrats are continually hoovering up the growing demographics.
Whatever Putin is, he is Machiavellian. Russia's actual military and economic position in incredibly weak. It has a GDP less than the UK's, and the long period of low energy prices has wreaked havoc with its economy. So he's playing the West against itself. Whether it's inciting disunity within the EU (like Brexit), or encouraging a dangerous and delusional figure like Trump, it doesn't even have to be any kind of direct relationship, but simply using timed releases of information, Internet astroturfing and the like to create at least some level of chaos among his enemies.
It's almost certain to fail in the United States, where other than Trump's most dedicated supporters, there's little doubt Clinton will win, and it might even see enough downticket Republican Senate races get screwed by Trump's collapsing campaign. But the EU is in trouble, with Britain leaving and countries like Hungary and Poland becoming increasingly right-wing authoritarian.
The real object is, of course, NATO, and with Turkey becoming an increasingly erratic and and unreliable member, he may at the very least cost NATO one member before he's done. I don't think Putin will succeed in the long run, and I think Russia's long-term decline is inevitable, but he's done a pretty admirable job with the limited tools at his disposal.
It's speculative, involves a nuclear war and widespread infertility because of it. As I said, speculative fiction has usually been lumped in with science fiction, or at least viewed as a sort of sibling genre.
But Trump does make a difference, because if his antics start badly effecting downticket Senate races (and there is at least some evidence that this is starting to happen), that could mean that Clinton will have fewer obstacles to her various appointments. This is why the GOP is in foment right now. They had pretty much written off Trump months ago, but they needed him to behave like a rational human being and, god forbid, an actual politician, so as to not do damage to the party itself.
Trump has benefited enormously from the media. He wouldn't likely be where he was if CNN hadn't been following him around for the last fifteen months. If anything, the media is guilty of giving the impression that he had a chance, because drama sells copy. But considering the guy's long known behavior, why would anyone be shocked by any of this. For chrissakes, he played a bullying misogynist on TV. The Republican leadership knew a year ago that if he actually got the nomination, his campaign would, one way or the other, go down in flames.
As to Wikileaks, Assange's one-sided attacks on Clinton devalue the organization, and I suspect, once this election is done, if there's anyone left who isn't an Assange cultist, I have a feeling they're going to make a bid to seize the organization from him. The whole point of Wikileaks is to be an alternative to the media, to publish the stories that the big outlets won't (whatever the reason, which in my view, usually has more to do with legal concerns than some vast corporate-fascist conspiracy). Now that it has literally become Assange's personal weapon to try to beat his enemies (real and perceived) with. Even worse for Assange, the leaks are of such a minor nature that not only do they not serve their stated purpose of destroying Clinton, they only further devalue the organization itself. Sooner or later, the media will stop paying attention to Assange.
Exactly. I hear about these "new tricks" all the time, and then it will twig something in my memory; either I did it, or I read an article about how IBM prototyped it int he 1960s or something along those lines.
The only thing the media is guilty of is perpetrating the pretense that Trump had a chance, mainly because daily headlines that read "Trump still doomed" wouldn't sell papers. The GOP knew he couldn't win, many state Republicans knew he couldn't win, and yet he had this core of supporters that carried him through.
Well now it's to the point where incumbent Republican senators need to save their own asses, so the time has come to cut him loose.
He's so popular that 538 now has down below 20% chance of winning. He had a brief period of near parity, but the DNC bump and then the fact that he can't hold it together for a 90 minute debate saw his support fall, and now, of course, even those that bit their tongues to offer him support are walking away. McCain is abandoning him, Pence appears to want to pretend he doesn't even know the guy.
Trump is doomed, and hopefully, after this sorry episode, the Republicans can find a way to never let such a awful buffoon into the top rung again.
There was no rigging. Sanders never really had a chance, and a bit of badmouthing by the Clinton camp, well, that's what Primaries are about, or did you not watch the Republican primaries?
Because of course only SJWs find the idea that some guy thinks because he's rich and famous, it's just fine to, how did Mr. Trump put it, ah yes, grab women's genitals.
Face it, asshole, you're chosen anti-SJW warrior has lost the election. He's shedding so much GOP support now you can keep track of it by the minute hand on a watch. Your type have spent a year defending his every vulgarity, accusing anyone who finds his clear contempt for woment to be noxious of being a "Social Justice Warrior."
Well, the American electorate is, in about one month's time, going to give that piece of shit who you have aligned yourself a nice solid kick in the ass, and not even his fellow hater of women, Julian Assange, is going to be able to stop it.
How tiny, insignificant and impotent you are. You're not a man at all. Real men stand up for women and don't let some rich fuck with fake hair and a fake tan talk like having a vagine makes a person a whore and a target.
Oh, and if I didn't say it already, fuck you and your cowardly, ignorant, awful ilk. The rock you came out from under awaits you.
Except much of what is going on right now has to do with the amount of CO2 released over the last three hundred years. Trying to talk about global climate over hundreds of millions of years and referring to certain periods as if they represented the norm is absurd. It's almost as if you're cherry picking epochs of higher global temperatures, and because it suits your underlying argument that we should just merely adapt, to declare those are normal.
You understand, I hope, that what we call civilization, with urban living and agriculture, can only exist within certain parameters. Where you try to use less arable land, like, say, southern California, you need to find water from somewhere else, and then you need to fertilize the hell out of the soil, creating a vicious cycle of salinization of soil, more nitrates, and so forth, not to mention creating massive algal blooms off the coast.
The real bread baskets of the world. not just the tomato and almond farms, but the actual parts of the world where staple grain crops are growing, rely heavily on precipitation, either in the form of rain belts, or in places like India, on snow fall and glaciation in the mountains. When those rain belts start to shift, and that's what is happening now, areas now currently arable will become ever less so, which means more areas will end up in the vicious cycle southern California is in. It could also lead to new water wars as regions with plentiful water basically have it stolen as was done to farmers in the 1920s and 1930s to provide water to farms on what amounted to semi-arid and arid zones (desert). And what happens if the rain belts shift even further. What happens if all that precipitation that feeds the US's breadbasket in the Midwest suddenly moves northward, and ends up in Canada? Now you're talking about fucking with the single most important aspect of any civilization; its food supply, a food supply suddenly under a foreign nation's control.
And spare me the desalination line. It's incredibly energy intensive, which makes it only really useful for human consumption, and far too expensive for the kind of large scale agriculture that is typical North America and Europe, not to mention you have to get rid of the salt, which can, in large concentrations, prove as toxic as any industrial chemical.
Exactly. There's only so much carbon plants can fix. The idea that photosynthesizing organisms just magically fix unlimited amounts of CO2 emissions is absurd, but it's the sort of mindless Heartland Institute-created meme that the pseudo-skeptics throw around, because it saves them from having to ever actually understand the science.
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Really, like who?
So you just conveniently cherry pick dates. It's called moving the goalpost.
Free speech is not a blank check, and private organizations are not bound by the same restrictions as the State. Milo can say what he likes, and maybe he can even buy a website to say it, but he crosses that redline too many times and he might very well find himself in front of a judge defending himself against libel.
Ever heard of the Holocaust?
Yes, Leslie Jones, the women Milo and his legions decided they needed to bully the shit out of because, gasp, she was in a Ghostbusters reboot. Leslie Jones, the woman that Milo himself was caught fabricating racist tweets of.
Is fabricating tweets by an actress because you don't like a movie reboot a noble enterprise?
And you don't think his fabricated Leslie Jones tweets show an underlying racist worldview? I mean, why did he even start that war? What was the intent?
Shkreli is likely to end up in jail in the not so different future, so I don't really consider him to be very powerful or much of a threat at all. At the moment he's just an impotent little weasel that for some strange reason still garners some publicity, but none it good.
At every turn Trump's supporters keep saying "After this point, he'll start behaving properly," and every time that point is reached, he continues behaving erratically, obnoxiously, and ultimately in a self-defeating way. Even his commitment to throw Clinton in jail tonight is absurd, almost as if he doesn't actually understand how the justice system works. He clearly seems to think the Oval Office is some sort of throne from which an Emperor shall reign.
Exactly, and I think Trump is going to do one thing for the Republicans and finally force it into the 21st century. I think the days when anti-gay, anti-feminist rhetoric play a significant role in Republican politics are going to fade away. It may mean abandoning Nixon's Southern strategy at long last, but the fact is that the culture war is now a battle being waged by a shrinking demographic, meanwhile the Democrats are continually hoovering up the growing demographics.
Whatever Putin is, he is Machiavellian. Russia's actual military and economic position in incredibly weak. It has a GDP less than the UK's, and the long period of low energy prices has wreaked havoc with its economy. So he's playing the West against itself. Whether it's inciting disunity within the EU (like Brexit), or encouraging a dangerous and delusional figure like Trump, it doesn't even have to be any kind of direct relationship, but simply using timed releases of information, Internet astroturfing and the like to create at least some level of chaos among his enemies.
It's almost certain to fail in the United States, where other than Trump's most dedicated supporters, there's little doubt Clinton will win, and it might even see enough downticket Republican Senate races get screwed by Trump's collapsing campaign. But the EU is in trouble, with Britain leaving and countries like Hungary and Poland becoming increasingly right-wing authoritarian.
The real object is, of course, NATO, and with Turkey becoming an increasingly erratic and and unreliable member, he may at the very least cost NATO one member before he's done. I don't think Putin will succeed in the long run, and I think Russia's long-term decline is inevitable, but he's done a pretty admirable job with the limited tools at his disposal.
It's speculative, involves a nuclear war and widespread infertility because of it. As I said, speculative fiction has usually been lumped in with science fiction, or at least viewed as a sort of sibling genre.
And yet Atwood is no stranger to speculative fiction, which is generally lumped in with SF. How is Handmaiden's Tale not SF?
But Trump does make a difference, because if his antics start badly effecting downticket Senate races (and there is at least some evidence that this is starting to happen), that could mean that Clinton will have fewer obstacles to her various appointments. This is why the GOP is in foment right now. They had pretty much written off Trump months ago, but they needed him to behave like a rational human being and, god forbid, an actual politician, so as to not do damage to the party itself.
Trump has benefited enormously from the media. He wouldn't likely be where he was if CNN hadn't been following him around for the last fifteen months. If anything, the media is guilty of giving the impression that he had a chance, because drama sells copy. But considering the guy's long known behavior, why would anyone be shocked by any of this. For chrissakes, he played a bullying misogynist on TV. The Republican leadership knew a year ago that if he actually got the nomination, his campaign would, one way or the other, go down in flames.
As to Wikileaks, Assange's one-sided attacks on Clinton devalue the organization, and I suspect, once this election is done, if there's anyone left who isn't an Assange cultist, I have a feeling they're going to make a bid to seize the organization from him. The whole point of Wikileaks is to be an alternative to the media, to publish the stories that the big outlets won't (whatever the reason, which in my view, usually has more to do with legal concerns than some vast corporate-fascist conspiracy). Now that it has literally become Assange's personal weapon to try to beat his enemies (real and perceived) with. Even worse for Assange, the leaks are of such a minor nature that not only do they not serve their stated purpose of destroying Clinton, they only further devalue the organization itself. Sooner or later, the media will stop paying attention to Assange.
Exactly. I hear about these "new tricks" all the time, and then it will twig something in my memory; either I did it, or I read an article about how IBM prototyped it int he 1960s or something along those lines.
If your uncle starts recommending you sexually assault women, then he's not a nice guy.
The funniest sitcoms are the ones where the crackpots don't realize just how insane they are.
The only thing the media is guilty of is perpetrating the pretense that Trump had a chance, mainly because daily headlines that read "Trump still doomed" wouldn't sell papers. The GOP knew he couldn't win, many state Republicans knew he couldn't win, and yet he had this core of supporters that carried him through.
Well now it's to the point where incumbent Republican senators need to save their own asses, so the time has come to cut him loose.
He's so popular that 538 now has down below 20% chance of winning. He had a brief period of near parity, but the DNC bump and then the fact that he can't hold it together for a 90 minute debate saw his support fall, and now, of course, even those that bit their tongues to offer him support are walking away. McCain is abandoning him, Pence appears to want to pretend he doesn't even know the guy.
Trump is doomed, and hopefully, after this sorry episode, the Republicans can find a way to never let such a awful buffoon into the top rung again.
There was no rigging. Sanders never really had a chance, and a bit of badmouthing by the Clinton camp, well, that's what Primaries are about, or did you not watch the Republican primaries?
I'm sorry, so now you're going to blame the Democrats for the fact that he's a vulgar sexist pig who advocates sexual assault of women?
Because of course only SJWs find the idea that some guy thinks because he's rich and famous, it's just fine to, how did Mr. Trump put it, ah yes, grab women's genitals.
Face it, asshole, you're chosen anti-SJW warrior has lost the election. He's shedding so much GOP support now you can keep track of it by the minute hand on a watch. Your type have spent a year defending his every vulgarity, accusing anyone who finds his clear contempt for woment to be noxious of being a "Social Justice Warrior."
Well, the American electorate is, in about one month's time, going to give that piece of shit who you have aligned yourself a nice solid kick in the ass, and not even his fellow hater of women, Julian Assange, is going to be able to stop it.
How tiny, insignificant and impotent you are. You're not a man at all. Real men stand up for women and don't let some rich fuck with fake hair and a fake tan talk like having a vagine makes a person a whore and a target.
Oh, and if I didn't say it already, fuck you and your cowardly, ignorant, awful ilk. The rock you came out from under awaits you.
Except much of what is going on right now has to do with the amount of CO2 released over the last three hundred years. Trying to talk about global climate over hundreds of millions of years and referring to certain periods as if they represented the norm is absurd. It's almost as if you're cherry picking epochs of higher global temperatures, and because it suits your underlying argument that we should just merely adapt, to declare those are normal.
You understand, I hope, that what we call civilization, with urban living and agriculture, can only exist within certain parameters. Where you try to use less arable land, like, say, southern California, you need to find water from somewhere else, and then you need to fertilize the hell out of the soil, creating a vicious cycle of salinization of soil, more nitrates, and so forth, not to mention creating massive algal blooms off the coast.
The real bread baskets of the world. not just the tomato and almond farms, but the actual parts of the world where staple grain crops are growing, rely heavily on precipitation, either in the form of rain belts, or in places like India, on snow fall and glaciation in the mountains. When those rain belts start to shift, and that's what is happening now, areas now currently arable will become ever less so, which means more areas will end up in the vicious cycle southern California is in. It could also lead to new water wars as regions with plentiful water basically have it stolen as was done to farmers in the 1920s and 1930s to provide water to farms on what amounted to semi-arid and arid zones (desert). And what happens if the rain belts shift even further. What happens if all that precipitation that feeds the US's breadbasket in the Midwest suddenly moves northward, and ends up in Canada? Now you're talking about fucking with the single most important aspect of any civilization; its food supply, a food supply suddenly under a foreign nation's control.
And spare me the desalination line. It's incredibly energy intensive, which makes it only really useful for human consumption, and far too expensive for the kind of large scale agriculture that is typical North America and Europe, not to mention you have to get rid of the salt, which can, in large concentrations, prove as toxic as any industrial chemical.
Exactly. There's only so much carbon plants can fix. The idea that photosynthesizing organisms just magically fix unlimited amounts of CO2 emissions is absurd, but it's the sort of mindless Heartland Institute-created meme that the pseudo-skeptics throw around, because it saves them from having to ever actually understand the science.