The problem is that even a stopped clock is right twice a day, but it takes a working clock to know when that time is. Conspiracy theories are worthless, what we need is relevant evidence.
Part of the problem is that conspiracy theories are dismissed just because they are "conspiracy theories", despite of the evidence.
It's in fact not deterministic because it has been shown that how we react can be modified with a great deal of effort.
Then why are you advocating a eugenics solutions to this "problem"?
This has nothing to do with intellect and everything to do with 25% of the population being cowards when threatened.
People of lower IQ tend to be more violent and commit more crime. If you're going to open the door that genetics play a significant role (not the "100% determinism" strawman) for one area, then you have to admit it for other areas too.
Down that path lies the third rail of discussions about IQ - Douglas Murray tried that and got electrocuted.
You're probably thinking of Charles Murray. Douglas Murray is strong on topics of Islam and immigration, but has stayed away from IQ questions.
It's a shame, because it really matters when it comes to things like immigration. If you're going to mass import people with lower IQs, at the same time society is moving towards more and more automation, with a less need for manual labor, then you're just setting up your country for disaster.
The United States is a perfect example -- blacks will always blame racism, historical or imagined, for not doing as well as whites, despite the strong evidence for the link to IQ, success, and races. That Asians do better than whites in "racist" America, so much so that they are discriminated against in college applications, is telling.
Quit shitting on Black, Transgender, etc. and they will just be Americans too.
Eight years after Americans elected a black President (twice), race relations between blacks and whites were at there lowest levels in decades. Was that because America became that much more racist in decades? No. There is no end to the grievance culture of identity politics.
There is no straw man - see all the poutrage directed at Black Lives Matter protestors.
You mean the leftist hate group that was founded by leftists that idolized a cop-killing, black supremacist that fled to Cuba? A group that drummed up a phony narrative that there was an epidemic of blacks being killed by police? A group more concerned about a tiny number of controversial police killings versus the vast majority of black-on-black murders?
The only conservative site you listed was National Review. Everything else has a leftist tilt, some more extreme than others. They used to be more moderate, but in the Trump they all veered left.
Which means you probably saw the line that says "The move got Trump some laughs, and a smile from Abe, who actually appeared to dump out his box of food ahead of Trump."
Yes, I saw it. Burying the truth halfway through the article doesn't absolve the article.
There's a difference between spin and falsehoods. Spin has always been a thing, but as long as they aren't lying, I would argue they can be trusted for the most part.
It was not foolish, it was the right thing to do, are you an asshole or what?
Pathological altruism. No, it was the wrong thing to do for Germany and Europe. If you want to help them, help them in their own lands. Help them in countries where they are already safe. Instead, you encourage them to flood into your countries, including not only "refugees", but economic migrants.
I live in Europe, not in a third world country. Obviously we have space, room, food for refugees.
So it doesn't matter if you displace your own people, seize their wealth, compromise their security, and risk their civilization by a supremacist and foreign ideology with a deep-seated hatred towards the West?
You did not read the link, did you?
Did you? They only took away his allowance 13 years after they rejected his asylum claim. He should have been deported 13 years ago, but instead was receiving an allowance the whole time.
Nice try, but it just isn't possible to write Satire anymore. This sounds just like Fox News.
That's funny, because it's CNN and MSNBC that peddle the Trump/Russia conspiracy theory 24/7. When it reality, it was the DNC and Clinton campaign that funded the foreign agent to talk to Russians in order to conduct a phony dossier on Trump.
Merkel foolishly or traitorously opened the door to "refugees" after the outbreak of war in Syria. What ensued was a flood of migrants pouring in from countries that had nothing to do with Syria. She and the EU then chastised Europe about how all the countries had to share the burden for her foolish actions, while wise countries with a backbone refused and enforced their border.
Unless you count a room and food and no money welfare.
Yes, free room and board is welfare. What planet are you on that these magically fall from the sky? And you're wrong about not getting money, too. And then there's healthcare.
Actually the "world situation" is the problem, the (islamic) violence in Europe would not happen if their countries would not be war tourn, for what ever reason.
False. Most of the "refugees" mass migrating into Europe are economic migrants, taking advantage of foolish immigration policies and a generous welfare state.
When did Europe start needing "diversity" barriers to protect their Christmas markets? When did London overtake New York City in murders per capita, despite having a gun ban? When did New Year's Eve in Cologne have over a 1,000 women sexually assaulted by gangs of men?
Seems certain people are the problem, not the guns.
If you think the Trump/Russia collusion is an insane conspiracy theory, tell me what this means, straight from Don Jr's own Twitter feed: "This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump" The Russian lawyer they met with was described as a "Russian government lawyer".
Funny how you completely ignore the entire thread, from my initial post on, about how it was the DNC/Clinton lawyers who met with the Russian lawyer both before and after the Don Jr. meeting. The meeting was set up as bait. Any campaign would have accepted dirt on their opposition candidate if it was offered. The collusion was by the DNC and Clinton campaign! It was also the Obama administration that gave her a special exemption to remain in the country.
Yeah, insane conspiracy theory
Yes, the conspiracy theory that was initiated and peddled by the DNC and Clinton campaign. The theory they generated and promulgated by paying an ex foreign agent to talk to Russian spies to produce a "salacious and unverified" dossier on their main opposition candidate, which they then fed to the media and back into the FBI via the DOJ by a high up official whose wife was being paid by the very same DNC/Clinton campaign lawyers that produced the document.
That's the real conspiracy, which you are doing your best to ignore. Fail.
Shadow banned means nobody sees your tweets. So why would they get removed for going against groupthink?
He said he's shadowbanned on Twitter and had posts removed on Facebook. Different platforms, different actions. I can confirm my account on Twitter was shadowbanned months ago. I noticed the views my Tweets would get dropped overnight from dozens or hundreds down to 1 or 2.
Of course, Twitter denies they are shadowbanning, they are just "behavioral ranking". Ho hum.
Yeah, but bots and fake accounts are REALLY important to the right.
Calling every right-leaning user a bot is REALLY important to the left. It's the narrative they cling to after Trump got elected. Meanwhile, the left uses bots and propaganda too:
If it was actually people being silenced by the millions instead of just astroturf bots, he would have a point.
Huh, so I guess when Republican congressmen got shadowbanned, they were astroturf bots? When even lefty Vice points out your political censorship, you know you've gone to extremes.
Keep up them Dem talking points. Everybody you disagree with is a neo-Nazi or a bot.
I choose not to worry about such, since I can't do anything about it (like vote against it).
Yet you decided to spend your time weighing in on the topic, in ignorant fashion. Make up your mind: Either you don't care, so kindly buzz off, or you do, but you want to justify your lack of concern with a myriad of shallow appeals: Your national rights, terms of service, not "really" censored, or some other excuse that completely ignores how politicized the censorship has become and the impact this has on the midterm elections.
I'm sure if your favorite political party was being censored by dominant social media in your country right before an election you would suddenly find out how much you do care about the concept of free speech.
Sure. Mueller, a Republican, military veteran, who served under a Republican administration, deliberately filled his staff with Democrats because he wanted to go after Republicans (Trump).
What part of "establishment" do you not get? Trump's nomination was a hostile takeover of the Republican party. To this day, there are still "never Trump" Republicans.
If this administration felt the need to investigate Podesta or Clinton, they have the power and votes to do so. But they haven't.
You keep forgetting that establishment. Rosenstein was the one who appointed Mueller, and set him after Trump. Do you think he's going to investigate himself?
Everything I stated above is fact
Actually, it's a lot of opinion and disregard for the anti-Trump establishment.
unless you want to start with insane conspiracy theories
*snort* Trump/Russia collusion is an insane conspiracy theory. The DNC and Clinton campaign involvement in initiating and peddling this conspiracy theory is a proven fact. That the FBI agent in charge of both the Clinton email scandal and Trump/Russian collusion was pro-Clinton and anti-Trump is fact. That said agent talked about an "insurance policy" in case Trump got elected is also fact. That the DNC/Clinton lawyer met with the Russian lawyer before and after meeting with Don Jr. is fact. That high-level DOJ employee Bruce Ohr fed info from the Steele dossier into the FBI is fact. That Bruce Ohr's wife was paid by Fusion GPS is also fact. Need I go on? Because I can.
t's impossible to discuss something with a person who doesn't believe basic facts.
Yes he is. He stacked his team with Democrats. He's gone further and further afield from what he was initially supposed to investigate. He's gone hard after Trump associates, while soft on Clinton associates like Tony Podesta. He referred Trump's personal lawyer for a criminal investigation, which resulted in his office being raided. He's on a witch hunt.
There's lots of people who wanted Obama out of office for various reasons and he didn't always have a same-party Congress like Trump has.....and yet it was never a debacle to this level.
Indeed, because there was no independent counsel. You have to go back to the Bill Clinton era for a similar level of ridiculousness. Monica Lewinsky = Stormy Daniels.
The simple fact of the matter is Trump is causing this.
Yes, Trump Derangement Syndrome. The establishment hates Trump. A lot of people collectively flipped their shit when Trump got elected.
He's shady, hung around shady people
Just like all other politicians? Do you realize who he ran against? Even Saint Obama has skeletons in his closet (sidenote: that's akin to Trump taking a smiling photo with David Duke).
You can't blame the media
Sure I can. Why the incessant focus on Trump, when the facts show it was the DNC and Clinton campaign engaged in a Watergate scandal combined with McCarthyism? You just can't make this stuff up. We live in bizarro world.
He basically goes through long bursts with little sleep up until specific deadlines, then gets away for a couple days, a couple times per year.
Maybe he should stop stretching himself so thin. Projects like Hyperloop and his Boring company are big wastes of time when he's already in charge of an electric car company and a space company.
Slashdot Mirror
When all you've got is the tired and frayed "racist" card in response to referenced arguments...
[ And when you don't want C, but want fast and you know what you're doing, use Perl. ]
Uh, what? Perl is a slow, dynamic language. If you want fastish, use Java.
The problem is that even a stopped clock is right twice a day, but it takes a working clock to know when that time is. Conspiracy theories are worthless, what we need is relevant evidence.
Part of the problem is that conspiracy theories are dismissed just because they are "conspiracy theories", despite of the evidence.
It's in fact not deterministic because it has been shown that how we react can be modified with a great deal of effort.
Then why are you advocating a eugenics solutions to this "problem"?
This has nothing to do with intellect and everything to do with 25% of the population being cowards when threatened.
People of lower IQ tend to be more violent and commit more crime. If you're going to open the door that genetics play a significant role (not the "100% determinism" strawman) for one area, then you have to admit it for other areas too.
Down that path lies the third rail of discussions about IQ - Douglas Murray tried that and got electrocuted.
You're probably thinking of Charles Murray. Douglas Murray is strong on topics of Islam and immigration, but has stayed away from IQ questions.
It's a shame, because it really matters when it comes to things like immigration. If you're going to mass import people with lower IQs, at the same time society is moving towards more and more automation, with a less need for manual labor, then you're just setting up your country for disaster.
The United States is a perfect example -- blacks will always blame racism, historical or imagined, for not doing as well as whites, despite the strong evidence for the link to IQ, success, and races. That Asians do better than whites in "racist" America, so much so that they are discriminated against in college applications, is telling.
Quit shitting on Black, Transgender, etc. and they will just be Americans too.
Eight years after Americans elected a black President (twice), race relations between blacks and whites were at there lowest levels in decades. Was that because America became that much more racist in decades? No. There is no end to the grievance culture of identity politics.
There is no straw man - see all the poutrage directed at Black Lives Matter protestors.
You mean the leftist hate group that was founded by leftists that idolized a cop-killing, black supremacist that fled to Cuba? A group that drummed up a phony narrative that there was an epidemic of blacks being killed by police? A group more concerned about a tiny number of controversial police killings versus the vast majority of black-on-black murders?
The only conservative site you listed was National Review. Everything else has a leftist tilt, some more extreme than others. They used to be more moderate, but in the Trump they all veered left.
Which means you probably saw the line that says "The move got Trump some laughs, and a smile from Abe, who actually appeared to dump out his box of food ahead of Trump."
Yes, I saw it. Burying the truth halfway through the article doesn't absolve the article.
There's a difference between spin and falsehoods. Spin has always been a thing, but as long as they aren't lying, I would argue they can be trusted for the most part.
Spin is just an insidious way to lie.
It was not foolish, it was the right thing to do, are you an asshole or what?
Pathological altruism. No, it was the wrong thing to do for Germany and Europe. If you want to help them, help them in their own lands. Help them in countries where they are already safe. Instead, you encourage them to flood into your countries, including not only "refugees", but economic migrants.
I live in Europe, not in a third world country. Obviously we have space, room, food for refugees.
So it doesn't matter if you displace your own people, seize their wealth, compromise their security, and risk their civilization by a supremacist and foreign ideology with a deep-seated hatred towards the West?
You did not read the link, did you?
Did you? They only took away his allowance 13 years after they rejected his asylum claim. He should have been deported 13 years ago, but instead was receiving an allowance the whole time.
by prioritizing results from trusted news outlets
Who are these "trusted" news outlets? Does it include CNN, which tried to spin a story about Trump acting like a buffoon on a foreign trip?
Blaring headline:
"Trump feeds fish, winds up pouring entire box of food into koi pond"
Truth: "President Trump was following Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe's lead when he dumped his fish food into the koi pond."
Nice try, but it just isn't possible to write Satire anymore. This sounds just like Fox News.
That's funny, because it's CNN and MSNBC that peddle the Trump/Russia conspiracy theory 24/7. When it reality, it was the DNC and Clinton campaign that funded the foreign agent to talk to Russians in order to conduct a phony dossier on Trump.
No they aren't.
Yes they are.
We have no real "immigration policies".
Merkel foolishly or traitorously opened the door to "refugees" after the outbreak of war in Syria. What ensued was a flood of migrants pouring in from countries that had nothing to do with Syria. She and the EU then chastised Europe about how all the countries had to share the burden for her foolish actions, while wise countries with a backbone refused and enforced their border.
Unless you count a room and food and no money welfare.
Yes, free room and board is welfare. What planet are you on that these magically fall from the sky? And you're wrong about not getting money, too. And then there's healthcare.
Actually the "world situation" is the problem, the (islamic) violence in Europe would not happen if their countries would not be war tourn, for what ever reason.
False. Most of the "refugees" mass migrating into Europe are economic migrants, taking advantage of foolish immigration policies and a generous welfare state.
Hahaha, this is the first time I've seen my fake news site linked on Slashdot!
? I didn't like to Media Matters.
When did Europe start needing "diversity" barriers to protect their Christmas markets? When did London overtake New York City in murders per capita, despite having a gun ban? When did New Year's Eve in Cologne have over a 1,000 women sexually assaulted by gangs of men?
Seems certain people are the problem, not the guns.
If you think the Trump/Russia collusion is an insane conspiracy theory, tell me what this means, straight from Don Jr's own Twitter feed: "This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump" The Russian lawyer they met with was described as a "Russian government lawyer".
Funny how you completely ignore the entire thread, from my initial post on, about how it was the DNC/Clinton lawyers who met with the Russian lawyer both before and after the Don Jr. meeting. The meeting was set up as bait. Any campaign would have accepted dirt on their opposition candidate if it was offered. The collusion was by the DNC and Clinton campaign! It was also the Obama administration that gave her a special exemption to remain in the country.
Yeah, insane conspiracy theory
Yes, the conspiracy theory that was initiated and peddled by the DNC and Clinton campaign. The theory they generated and promulgated by paying an ex foreign agent to talk to Russian spies to produce a "salacious and unverified" dossier on their main opposition candidate, which they then fed to the media and back into the FBI via the DOJ by a high up official whose wife was being paid by the very same DNC/Clinton campaign lawyers that produced the document.
That's the real conspiracy, which you are doing your best to ignore. Fail.
Shadow banned means nobody sees your tweets. So why would they get removed for going against groupthink?
He said he's shadowbanned on Twitter and had posts removed on Facebook. Different platforms, different actions. I can confirm my account on Twitter was shadowbanned months ago. I noticed the views my Tweets would get dropped overnight from dozens or hundreds down to 1 or 2.
Of course, Twitter denies they are shadowbanning, they are just "behavioral ranking". Ho hum.
Your simplistic analysis ignores the "online public square" aspect.
Yeah, but bots and fake accounts are REALLY important to the right.
Calling every right-leaning user a bot is REALLY important to the left. It's the narrative they cling to after Trump got elected. Meanwhile, the left uses bots and propaganda too:
https://www.nytimes.com/intera...
https://www.americanthinker.co...
If it was actually people being silenced by the millions instead of just astroturf bots, he would have a point.
Huh, so I guess when Republican congressmen got shadowbanned, they were astroturf bots? When even lefty Vice points out your political censorship, you know you've gone to extremes.
Keep up them Dem talking points. Everybody you disagree with is a neo-Nazi or a bot.
I choose not to worry about such, since I can't do anything about it (like vote against it).
Yet you decided to spend your time weighing in on the topic, in ignorant fashion. Make up your mind: Either you don't care, so kindly buzz off, or you do, but you want to justify your lack of concern with a myriad of shallow appeals: Your national rights, terms of service, not "really" censored, or some other excuse that completely ignores how politicized the censorship has become and the impact this has on the midterm elections.
I'm sure if your favorite political party was being censored by dominant social media in your country right before an election you would suddenly find out how much you do care about the concept of free speech.
Sure. Mueller, a Republican, military veteran, who served under a Republican administration, deliberately filled his staff with Democrats because he wanted to go after Republicans (Trump).
What part of "establishment" do you not get? Trump's nomination was a hostile takeover of the Republican party. To this day, there are still "never Trump" Republicans.
If this administration felt the need to investigate Podesta or Clinton, they have the power and votes to do so. But they haven't.
You keep forgetting that establishment. Rosenstein was the one who appointed Mueller, and set him after Trump. Do you think he's going to investigate himself?
Everything I stated above is fact
Actually, it's a lot of opinion and disregard for the anti-Trump establishment.
unless you want to start with insane conspiracy theories
*snort* Trump/Russia collusion is an insane conspiracy theory. The DNC and Clinton campaign involvement in initiating and peddling this conspiracy theory is a proven fact. That the FBI agent in charge of both the Clinton email scandal and Trump/Russian collusion was pro-Clinton and anti-Trump is fact. That said agent talked about an "insurance policy" in case Trump got elected is also fact. That the DNC/Clinton lawyer met with the Russian lawyer before and after meeting with Don Jr. is fact. That high-level DOJ employee Bruce Ohr fed info from the Steele dossier into the FBI is fact. That Bruce Ohr's wife was paid by Fusion GPS is also fact. Need I go on? Because I can.
t's impossible to discuss something with a person who doesn't believe basic facts.
Start with yourself.
Mueller is not on a "witch hunt" for Trump.
Yes he is. He stacked his team with Democrats. He's gone further and further afield from what he was initially supposed to investigate. He's gone hard after Trump associates, while soft on Clinton associates like Tony Podesta. He referred Trump's personal lawyer for a criminal investigation, which resulted in his office being raided. He's on a witch hunt.
There's lots of people who wanted Obama out of office for various reasons and he didn't always have a same-party Congress like Trump has.....and yet it was never a debacle to this level.
Indeed, because there was no independent counsel. You have to go back to the Bill Clinton era for a similar level of ridiculousness. Monica Lewinsky = Stormy Daniels.
The simple fact of the matter is Trump is causing this.
Yes, Trump Derangement Syndrome. The establishment hates Trump. A lot of people collectively flipped their shit when Trump got elected.
He's shady, hung around shady people
Just like all other politicians? Do you realize who he ran against? Even Saint Obama has skeletons in his closet (sidenote: that's akin to Trump taking a smiling photo with David Duke).
You can't blame the media
Sure I can. Why the incessant focus on Trump, when the facts show it was the DNC and Clinton campaign engaged in a Watergate scandal combined with McCarthyism? You just can't make this stuff up. We live in bizarro world.
He basically goes through long bursts with little sleep up until specific deadlines, then gets away for a couple days, a couple times per year.
Maybe he should stop stretching himself so thin. Projects like Hyperloop and his Boring company are big wastes of time when he's already in charge of an electric car company and a space company.