I would just question the underlying assumption that improvements in technology will always makes our lives better. That's traditionally been that case in the past, but it doesn't necessarily follow that it will always be the case in the future. We could be reaching a point of either diminishing returns or even a point when technology actually could have a detrimental effect on our lives.
The internet is a good example. It's improved our lives in many ways, but it's also created a whole new class of problems, headaches, and information overload. Are we really quantifiably happier today than we were 30 years ago? Well, we certainly have much easier access to much more information and benefit from its convenience. But has it made our overall lives that much BETTER?
Thank you! Surveillance isn't a Republican or Democrat thing, it's a power thing. And EVERY President wants more power, no matter what they say on the campaign trail.
I had a friend who used to run a BBS back in the mid/late-80's that specialized in doc files for game manuals, back when Commodore 64 and other computer games adopted a primitive form of DRM by asking you questions from the game user manual. You would pirate the game from a friend, then go download a manual for it from the BBS.
Bully? Remind me who were the ones screaming people down with accusations of "racist, misogynist, nazi, hitler", etc to anyone who dared to disagree with them?
The funny thing is that that bullying is what may have led to the polls being so wrong about this election. Many Trump supporters were so scared of being labeled racist, sexist, homophobe, blah, blah for merely supporting Trump that they kept their support secret and avoided pollsters. Just another way that all the SJW bullying backfired. There has been a Thermidorian Reaction building for some time against an SJW movement that has become increasingly radical in recent years. And it has caught the left completely off-guard.
Every time an SJW tells someone in Iowa that they're a transphobe for wanting male and female bathrooms, a lifelong Republican gets his wings.
Liberals want something convenient to blame because they can't accept the fact that there is a huge core of this country between NYC and LA that's not on-board with their SJW agenda. These are the states that got left out of the economic boom, populated by people who the Democrats don't seem to give a shit about anymore (unless they're minorities or women). And people in those "flyover" states are sick of smug liberals calling them stupid and racist when they complain about how free trade and immigration are fucking them over and how they've lost good jobs.
Trump capitalized on this, and while Hillary was partying with Beyonce and other celebs, he was out there campaigning in those flyover states that Democrats ignored. And he was telling them how he was going to fight free trade, curtail immigration, and do other stuff to help bring good jobs back to middle America and keep them here.
But you just keep telling yourself that it was all Facebook's fault.
The question of whether states have the right to secede from the United States was settled conclusively in 1865. If every dipshit state could leave the Union any time it wanted to because it gets butthurt over some election that doesn't go the way they wanted then this country would have fallen apart a long time ago.
Again... bullshit. Call yourself whatever you want, but you're clearly not some liberal at all.
Hey, whatever helps you sleep at night. You just keep telling yourself that there are no disaffected liberals out there who switched to Trump because he's the only candidate even CLAIMING that he'll stand up for the working class (aside from Bernie Sanders, who Dems unceremoniously tossed aside in the primaries).
And by all means, just continue to ignore the fact Democratic Party has become so completely out-of-touch with the working-class that they've turned to a pompous billionaire Wall Street tycoon as the closest thing to hope they can get.
Will Trump actually stand up for them when he gets into office? Pretty unlikely. But the odds of it are better than the 0% chance that Clinton ever would.
But at this point the SJWs are a tolerated, crazy but vocal minority. I see them pop up constantly, and nobody questions them for fear of being labeled a racist. I saw one SJW lady on PBS last night cry racism when a Republican was talking basic political strategy of democrats appealing to minorities. (She claimed some horseshit about how he didn't think minority voters had agency). It sounded like something she repeated out of her racial studies 101 class. This kind of shit needs to fucking stop.
I had the same reaction when Black Lives Matter activists started charging the stage at Bernie Sanders rallies. The sad thing is that I think Sanders could have beaten Trump. But now we'll never know. The SJW's really sabotaged the whole campaign.
Voting from Trump does NOTHING to stop the SJWs, and what I'm calling libero-facism.
Fair enough. Believe me, I would love nothing better than for the Democratic Party to get back to its classical liberal roots. Running Hillary Clinton was a huge mistake. She's pretty much the symbol of everything wrong with the party. She's thoroughly corrupt, politically pandering, in bed with Wall Street, smug, and elitist. She's despised even by many classic liberals. And her supporters seemed to bend over backwards to confirm almost every negative stereotype the right has heralded about SJW radicals and how out-of-touch they are with mainstream America. The SJW's played right into the right's hands during the whole election.
1) Trump is a left-of-center conservative who until recently was actually a Democrat. He's not Hitler. He's not going to eat your babies or throw you out of the country because your grandmother was Mexican.
2) Trump is a sane human being who has no intention of starting any wars or launching any nukes.
3) Trump may be inexperienced as a political leader but he's also smart enough to delegate to people who do have experience.
4) Canada has its own problems. They just elected their own dumb himbo as leader and their economy isn't exactly booming. They also are trying to enact some pretty repressive anti-free-speech laws and continue to be plagued by division between French separatists in Quebec and the English in the rest of the country. Paradise it ain't. If you go there, you're probably in for some harsh awakenings.
Are you kidding? As a classical liberal I hate SJW's even more than the right. SJW's have co-opted my Democratic party and turned a party of inclusiveness, reason, and freedom into a party of white-male hatred, "safe spaces," and exclusion. For that, I despise them way more than any Republican ever will.
But you just keep digging your heals in and embracing a more-and-more radical fringe SJW ideology, and see what happens in the next election when even more states turn red in backlash.
Yes, heaven forbid we have a President who MIGHT actually stand up for American workers. Much better to elect a corporate whore who will let Wall Street write its own policies and continue the export of U.S. jobs that have turned the entire center of the country red on CNN's little electoral map.
This COULD be a learning moment for the left. It COULD be a chance for them to reconsider their recent SJW shift towards villianizing working-class white males, who already feel left behind by an economic boom that only seems to have benefited Silicon Valley and Wall Street. It COULD be a chance for them to realize that there is an entire core of this country that wants to be heard and stood up for, not mocked and villified. It COULD be a chance to go back to a classical liberal movement of inclusiveness that also represents the "little guy" and the traditional union working-class, not an SJW liberal movement that only seems to care about black nationalists and feminists.
Sadly, I suspect it will only cause the SJW left to dig in deeper and become even more fringe and radical in pushing their unfortunate "white males are responsible for all the evil in the world" ideology. And when the next election roles around, they'll take an even bigger ass-whipping, even as their mainstream media pundits scratch their heads and wonder why even more of the map is turning red.
Clinton, on the other hand, is a sexist with an agenda. She'd be "bringing gender balance to the government" by replacing men with women on key positions - even with a shortage of adequately competent female candidates. Skill be damned, gender matters - she'd actively discriminate against male candidates, with disregard for actual qualification levels. She'd allow female supremacists to push their laws through, and obstruct their opponents.
As a classic liberal, that's what really scares me about the new SJW left. I was on the left when they supported true equality and civil rights (and I still support those things). But the modern SJW's are just racists and sexists themselves. They villianize white males the same way that Klan members used to villianize blacks. The only thing that separates them from Dixiecrats is which race/sex they want to disenfranchise and discriminate against. It's sickening that they've been able to take over the left like a cancer and turn a party that used to stand up for equality and freedom into a party of black nationalism, misandry, and opposition to free speech.
So congrats snowflakes, you actually got this old-school liberal to vote for Donald Trump. And the more "hate speech" laws you advocate for and the more you push an agenda of open hatred and discrimination against white males, the stronger the backlash against you will grow. Even many women are starting to think about what kind of world their sons will have to grow up in if your ideology wins the day.
The only reason that Musk wants a UBI is because he's probably thinking about what will happen when all those angry unemployed people start picking up pitchforks and torches and looking towards his mansion.
Musk can afford to be an idealistic dreamer, because he knows that neither he nor his children (or grandchildren) will ever have to suffer from any lack of wealth. For the rest of us, we're forced to live in the real world, where the rich get richer and everyone else gets fucked.
The fact that so many of these guys from the early days of Marvel are still alive is amazing, really. I doubt Stan Lee or Ditko could have imagined that they would still be kicking around and being venerated over 50 years after their seminal works.
Yeah, the same CEO who is laying off American IT workers today will be crying in front of Congress tomorrow saying they can't find enough American IT workers to hire.
This is an interesting moment for the UK, where any pretense of "democracy" gets put to the REAL test. The people have spoken and they've gone counter to the powers-that-be. So, will the powers-that-be respect that decision, or will they merely find some sleazy way to subvert it? I would say the odds are about 8-2 for the latter. But I would love to be proven wrong.
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I would just question the underlying assumption that improvements in technology will always makes our lives better. That's traditionally been that case in the past, but it doesn't necessarily follow that it will always be the case in the future. We could be reaching a point of either diminishing returns or even a point when technology actually could have a detrimental effect on our lives.
The internet is a good example. It's improved our lives in many ways, but it's also created a whole new class of problems, headaches, and information overload. Are we really quantifiably happier today than we were 30 years ago? Well, we certainly have much easier access to much more information and benefit from its convenience. But has it made our overall lives that much BETTER?
Yes he will
But so would have Clinton.
Thank you! Surveillance isn't a Republican or Democrat thing, it's a power thing. And EVERY President wants more power, no matter what they say on the campaign trail.
calling man-made climate change an "undisputed" fact.
I wasn't aware that there was such a thing in empirical science as "undisputed."
I had a friend who used to run a BBS back in the mid/late-80's that specialized in doc files for game manuals, back when Commodore 64 and other computer games adopted a primitive form of DRM by asking you questions from the game user manual. You would pirate the game from a friend, then go download a manual for it from the BBS.
Make sure to keep that smug attitude in 2020.
Bully? Remind me who were the ones screaming people down with accusations of "racist, misogynist, nazi, hitler", etc to anyone who dared to disagree with them?
The funny thing is that that bullying is what may have led to the polls being so wrong about this election. Many Trump supporters were so scared of being labeled racist, sexist, homophobe, blah, blah for merely supporting Trump that they kept their support secret and avoided pollsters. Just another way that all the SJW bullying backfired. There has been a Thermidorian Reaction building for some time against an SJW movement that has become increasingly radical in recent years. And it has caught the left completely off-guard.
Every time an SJW tells someone in Iowa that they're a transphobe for wanting male and female bathrooms, a lifelong Republican gets his wings.
Liberals want something convenient to blame because they can't accept the fact that there is a huge core of this country between NYC and LA that's not on-board with their SJW agenda. These are the states that got left out of the economic boom, populated by people who the Democrats don't seem to give a shit about anymore (unless they're minorities or women). And people in those "flyover" states are sick of smug liberals calling them stupid and racist when they complain about how free trade and immigration are fucking them over and how they've lost good jobs.
Trump capitalized on this, and while Hillary was partying with Beyonce and other celebs, he was out there campaigning in those flyover states that Democrats ignored. And he was telling them how he was going to fight free trade, curtail immigration, and do other stuff to help bring good jobs back to middle America and keep them here.
But you just keep telling yourself that it was all Facebook's fault.
The question of whether states have the right to secede from the United States was settled conclusively in 1865. If every dipshit state could leave the Union any time it wanted to because it gets butthurt over some election that doesn't go the way they wanted then this country would have fallen apart a long time ago.
It's like my grandpa used to say "Kid, nobody wants to jack off to condom porn except germaphobes."
Secession never ends well. Just ask any South Carolinian in 1865.
Again... bullshit. Call yourself whatever you want, but you're clearly not some liberal at all.
Hey, whatever helps you sleep at night. You just keep telling yourself that there are no disaffected liberals out there who switched to Trump because he's the only candidate even CLAIMING that he'll stand up for the working class (aside from Bernie Sanders, who Dems unceremoniously tossed aside in the primaries).
And by all means, just continue to ignore the fact Democratic Party has become so completely out-of-touch with the working-class that they've turned to a pompous billionaire Wall Street tycoon as the closest thing to hope they can get.
Will Trump actually stand up for them when he gets into office? Pretty unlikely. But the odds of it are better than the 0% chance that Clinton ever would.
But at this point the SJWs are a tolerated, crazy but vocal minority. I see them pop up constantly, and nobody questions them for fear of being labeled a racist. I saw one SJW lady on PBS last night cry racism when a Republican was talking basic political strategy of democrats appealing to minorities. (She claimed some horseshit about how he didn't think minority voters had agency). It sounded like something she repeated out of her racial studies 101 class. This kind of shit needs to fucking stop.
I had the same reaction when Black Lives Matter activists started charging the stage at Bernie Sanders rallies. The sad thing is that I think Sanders could have beaten Trump. But now we'll never know. The SJW's really sabotaged the whole campaign.
Voting from Trump does NOTHING to stop the SJWs, and what I'm calling libero-facism.
Fair enough. Believe me, I would love nothing better than for the Democratic Party to get back to its classical liberal roots. Running Hillary Clinton was a huge mistake. She's pretty much the symbol of everything wrong with the party. She's thoroughly corrupt, politically pandering, in bed with Wall Street, smug, and elitist. She's despised even by many classic liberals. And her supporters seemed to bend over backwards to confirm almost every negative stereotype the right has heralded about SJW radicals and how out-of-touch they are with mainstream America. The SJW's played right into the right's hands during the whole election.
1) Trump is a left-of-center conservative who until recently was actually a Democrat. He's not Hitler. He's not going to eat your babies or throw you out of the country because your grandmother was Mexican.
2) Trump is a sane human being who has no intention of starting any wars or launching any nukes.
3) Trump may be inexperienced as a political leader but he's also smart enough to delegate to people who do have experience.
4) Canada has its own problems. They just elected their own dumb himbo as leader and their economy isn't exactly booming. They also are trying to enact some pretty repressive anti-free-speech laws and continue to be plagued by division between French separatists in Quebec and the English in the rest of the country. Paradise it ain't. If you go there, you're probably in for some harsh awakenings.
Are you kidding? As a classical liberal I hate SJW's even more than the right. SJW's have co-opted my Democratic party and turned a party of inclusiveness, reason, and freedom into a party of white-male hatred, "safe spaces," and exclusion. For that, I despise them way more than any Republican ever will.
But you just keep digging your heals in and embracing a more-and-more radical fringe SJW ideology, and see what happens in the next election when even more states turn red in backlash.
Yes, heaven forbid we have a President who MIGHT actually stand up for American workers. Much better to elect a corporate whore who will let Wall Street write its own policies and continue the export of U.S. jobs that have turned the entire center of the country red on CNN's little electoral map.
This COULD be a learning moment for the left. It COULD be a chance for them to reconsider their recent SJW shift towards villianizing working-class white males, who already feel left behind by an economic boom that only seems to have benefited Silicon Valley and Wall Street. It COULD be a chance for them to realize that there is an entire core of this country that wants to be heard and stood up for, not mocked and villified. It COULD be a chance to go back to a classical liberal movement of inclusiveness that also represents the "little guy" and the traditional union working-class, not an SJW liberal movement that only seems to care about black nationalists and feminists.
Sadly, I suspect it will only cause the SJW left to dig in deeper and become even more fringe and radical in pushing their unfortunate "white males are responsible for all the evil in the world" ideology. And when the next election roles around, they'll take an even bigger ass-whipping, even as their mainstream media pundits scratch their heads and wonder why even more of the map is turning red.
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Clinton, on the other hand, is a sexist with an agenda. She'd be "bringing gender balance to the government" by replacing men with women on key positions - even with a shortage of adequately competent female candidates. Skill be damned, gender matters - she'd actively discriminate against male candidates, with disregard for actual qualification levels. She'd allow female supremacists to push their laws through, and obstruct their opponents.
As a classic liberal, that's what really scares me about the new SJW left. I was on the left when they supported true equality and civil rights (and I still support those things). But the modern SJW's are just racists and sexists themselves. They villianize white males the same way that Klan members used to villianize blacks. The only thing that separates them from Dixiecrats is which race/sex they want to disenfranchise and discriminate against. It's sickening that they've been able to take over the left like a cancer and turn a party that used to stand up for equality and freedom into a party of black nationalism, misandry, and opposition to free speech.
So congrats snowflakes, you actually got this old-school liberal to vote for Donald Trump. And the more "hate speech" laws you advocate for and the more you push an agenda of open hatred and discrimination against white males, the stronger the backlash against you will grow. Even many women are starting to think about what kind of world their sons will have to grow up in if your ideology wins the day.
The only reason that Musk wants a UBI is because he's probably thinking about what will happen when all those angry unemployed people start picking up pitchforks and torches and looking towards his mansion.
Egomaniacs are always geniuses. Just ask them.
Musk can afford to be an idealistic dreamer, because he knows that neither he nor his children (or grandchildren) will ever have to suffer from any lack of wealth. For the rest of us, we're forced to live in the real world, where the rich get richer and everyone else gets fucked.
Well we certainly won't have to worry about it in the U.S. We can't even get universal basic healthcare, much less a universal basic income.
The fact that so many of these guys from the early days of Marvel are still alive is amazing, really. I doubt Stan Lee or Ditko could have imagined that they would still be kicking around and being venerated over 50 years after their seminal works.
Yeah, the same CEO who is laying off American IT workers today will be crying in front of Congress tomorrow saying they can't find enough American IT workers to hire.
If the people's voice is just "advisory" then you've already failed the democracy test.
This is an interesting moment for the UK, where any pretense of "democracy" gets put to the REAL test. The people have spoken and they've gone counter to the powers-that-be. So, will the powers-that-be respect that decision, or will they merely find some sleazy way to subvert it? I would say the odds are about 8-2 for the latter. But I would love to be proven wrong.