Even modern airline pilots don't like the idea of not having overrides on their planes. No one likes the idea of surrendering all human autonomy to a machine. We've seen too many software glitches.
Yes, everyone is a whiny bitch. But the important distinction is between those whiny bitches who just want to bitch too and those whiny bitches who want to silence their opposition by intimidation, threat of legal action, and censorship. I'm fine with the bitchfest. But the second one side decides they have the moral authority to take away the other side's right to speak--then they've crossed the line.
but never seriously called for Colbert to be cancelled
That's her REVISED story. And it runs contrary to any number of additional tweets and videos she made around the time of cancelcolbert that made it clear that she was quite serious about it at the time.
Am supposed to find the anti-vaxxers, environmentalist wackjobs, and SJW victimhood peddlers on the left "rational"?
Don't kid yourself. No political party has a lock on reason, civility, or moderation. It's only a difference of what they're being irrational reactionaries ABOUT. Does it really matter at the end of the day if the guy holding the "THE END IS NIGH!!!" placard and screaming that we're all gonna die is a bible-thumper fanatic or a global warming alarmist? I guess with one I could pointlessly argue with him that Jeebus ain't coming back and the other I could pointlessly argue that a sea level rise of even the worst case GW scenario isn't going to even come close to "wiping out humanity." But neither one is going to listen.
I'm talking about damaged reputations and that is very powerful no matter how you feel about it. People absolutely depend upon their reputations to conduct business. To deliberately and unjustly take someone's reputation away is no different from torching a tractor on a farm or a lithography machine at a semiconductor plant.
Agreed. That's what makes SJW efforts to silence their opposition by destroying their reputations and livelihoods so insidious. It's become the norm now for SJW's to not only allege that their opposition is engaged in criminal harassment, but also to publicly doxx them, write to their employers demanding that they be fired from their jobs, try to get them expelled from college (if they're a student), get them banned from any speaking outlet, etc.--in short to do anything they can to destroy the lives of anyone who dares disagree with them (and use this to send a message to anyone else who might disagree with them to stay silent OR ELSE).
In the end, the routine practice of trying silence your opposition by force is not only unhealthy for the society as a whole, but it's also almost certainly destined to backfire on anyone doing it at some point in the future. A Jacobin calling for the heads of his opponents to be guillotined today is very likely to find his own head on the block tomorrow.
freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences
It always cracks me up to hear anti-free-speech SJW's use that old chestnut. First of all, ironically, that same phrase used to be used by racists to justify silencing hippies (not that SJW's can appreciate irony, or can imagine how this justification could easily be used to silence THEM as well). And secondly, SJW's are the FIRST people to scream HARASSMENT!! anytime someone criticizes them for the shit they say.
Sorry Suey Park, freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences, you know.
Better remember that the same justification that you use to silence your opposition today will be used against you tomorrow.
No, it's the future that both Republicans AND Democrats are going to both claim they don't want, but will give us anyway because they're both addicted to sucking corporate dick now.
You could always go over to Twitter. Once their new Ministry of Truth is up and running, with Anita Sarkessian at its head, you'll get all the liberal hugs you want and will never have to hear from anyone who disagrees with you ever again.
We could also start a massive nuclear war, which would have the benefits of greatly reducing the population and offsetting global warming with nuclear winter. It's a win-win.
White males don't need to hear about it on some crazy AM radio broadcast anymore to know the discrimination is there. It's happening in the open now, especially in government and at universities. Being a white heterosexual male makes you almost a second-class citizen in public service or education now, and increasingly in many liberal areas too (like Silicon Valley).
It's the SJW version of "equality." If a group discriminated against you in the past, then it's okay for you to discriminate against them now. Of course, that means it will eventually come back around and make it okay for white males to discriminate again against minorities and women, but we won't worry about that.
I see the SJW mods are already out in full force, clutching their pearls at anyone pointing out the obvious and modding down anyone who dare challenges their delusions of reality.
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Even modern airline pilots don't like the idea of not having overrides on their planes. No one likes the idea of surrendering all human autonomy to a machine. We've seen too many software glitches.
Yes, everyone is a whiny bitch. But the important distinction is between those whiny bitches who just want to bitch too and those whiny bitches who want to silence their opposition by intimidation, threat of legal action, and censorship. I'm fine with the bitchfest. But the second one side decides they have the moral authority to take away the other side's right to speak--then they've crossed the line.
but never seriously called for Colbert to be cancelled
That's her REVISED story. And it runs contrary to any number of additional tweets and videos she made around the time of cancelcolbert that made it clear that she was quite serious about it at the time.
Oh, to be young and naive again. Do you think Hillary isn't owned by the corporations too?
Did you believe Obama would really bring "hope and change" too?
Campaign donations. Lots and lots of campaign donations.
Am supposed to find the anti-vaxxers, environmentalist wackjobs, and SJW victimhood peddlers on the left "rational"?
Don't kid yourself. No political party has a lock on reason, civility, or moderation. It's only a difference of what they're being irrational reactionaries ABOUT. Does it really matter at the end of the day if the guy holding the "THE END IS NIGH!!!" placard and screaming that we're all gonna die is a bible-thumper fanatic or a global warming alarmist? I guess with one I could pointlessly argue with him that Jeebus ain't coming back and the other I could pointlessly argue that a sea level rise of even the worst case GW scenario isn't going to even come close to "wiping out humanity." But neither one is going to listen.
I'm talking about damaged reputations and that is very powerful no matter how you feel about it. People absolutely depend upon their reputations to conduct business. To deliberately and unjustly take someone's reputation away is no different from torching a tractor on a farm or a lithography machine at a semiconductor plant.
Agreed. That's what makes SJW efforts to silence their opposition by destroying their reputations and livelihoods so insidious. It's become the norm now for SJW's to not only allege that their opposition is engaged in criminal harassment, but also to publicly doxx them, write to their employers demanding that they be fired from their jobs, try to get them expelled from college (if they're a student), get them banned from any speaking outlet, etc.--in short to do anything they can to destroy the lives of anyone who dares disagree with them (and use this to send a message to anyone else who might disagree with them to stay silent OR ELSE).
In the end, the routine practice of trying silence your opposition by force is not only unhealthy for the society as a whole, but it's also almost certainly destined to backfire on anyone doing it at some point in the future. A Jacobin calling for the heads of his opponents to be guillotined today is very likely to find his own head on the block tomorrow.
freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences
It always cracks me up to hear anti-free-speech SJW's use that old chestnut. First of all, ironically, that same phrase used to be used by racists to justify silencing hippies (not that SJW's can appreciate irony, or can imagine how this justification could easily be used to silence THEM as well). And secondly, SJW's are the FIRST people to scream HARASSMENT!! anytime someone criticizes them for the shit they say.
Sorry Suey Park, freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences, you know.
Better remember that the same justification that you use to silence your opposition today will be used against you tomorrow.
The constitution obligates them to do their job and approve a nomination.
This guy might be able to correct you on that mistaken assumption.
You mean just like the Democratic Congress respected Ronald Reagan's nominee, Robert Bork?
I mean, at least make the code available.
It's not like they're the ones coming to *US* asking for help, or that they're populated with at least some potential terrorists, or anything.
Silicon Valley lives in such an SJW bullshit dreamworld now that she would have to kill the Pope for anyone to criticize a female CEO.
Show those evil men what a woman can do!!
No, it's the future that both Republicans AND Democrats are going to both claim they don't want, but will give us anyway because they're both addicted to sucking corporate dick now.
You could always go over to Twitter. Once their new Ministry of Truth is up and running, with Anita Sarkessian at its head, you'll get all the liberal hugs you want and will never have to hear from anyone who disagrees with you ever again.
Everyone loves those.
We could also start a massive nuclear war, which would have the benefits of greatly reducing the population and offsetting global warming with nuclear winter. It's a win-win.
Just send all the Muslim refugees to college for free. Enrollment will spike. Problem solved.
You're welcome!
It all makes a lot more sense if you consider that almost all of Mozilla's income comes from Google and Yahoo.
"Whiney man-babies" aren't the ones demanding preferential treatment. We just want REAL equality.
The fact that white guys got it good for most of history is cold comfort if you're one being shit on today.
White males don't need to hear about it on some crazy AM radio broadcast anymore to know the discrimination is there. It's happening in the open now, especially in government and at universities. Being a white heterosexual male makes you almost a second-class citizen in public service or education now, and increasingly in many liberal areas too (like Silicon Valley).
It's the SJW version of "equality." If a group discriminated against you in the past, then it's okay for you to discriminate against them now. Of course, that means it will eventually come back around and make it okay for white males to discriminate again against minorities and women, but we won't worry about that.
I see the SJW mods are already out in full force, clutching their pearls at anyone pointing out the obvious and modding down anyone who dare challenges their delusions of reality.
So it's "whining" to complain about open, pervasive, and unfair discrimination? I guess that makes Martin Luther King, Jr. a black-whiner.