Yes, he is, for the ruling party, both factions, which are absolutely interchangeable, because that is what they do, one keeps the seat warm for the other.
That's what I said. Frum can't be a True Scotsman because he opposed Donald Trump, who is the King of Scotland.
Reagan was a mixed bag, but everyone since him as been a neocon or neolib, which are basically people who think the purpose of government is to exercise their morality and reshape the world to match their ideals (while enriching themselves, natch), rather than simply serving the interests of the people.
I hate to break it to you, but a) Ronald Reagan was a textbook neoconservative and did not serve the interests of the people.
No, there really isn't any difference between those things. For people who aren't Nazis, there's no more difference than between a German Shepherd and an Alsatian.
You will hear all sorts of explanations from White Nationalists as to why they're not the same as White Supremacists or alt-Right or neo-Nazis, but trust me, the differences are trivial compared to the similarities. You scratch the surface and you find a goose-stepper. None of them should be allowed anywhere near civil society.
That's just a label that people like you apply to others in order to deny them a forum.
No, that's how he self-identifies. When you're throwing up heil Hitler salutes and screaming Heil Trump, and you're a white supremacist and anti-semite, it's a pretty good indication that you're a Nazi.
What "evidence" would that be? You mean you have ONE observation?
One observation where they killed millions upon millions in ovens using poison gas. Yeah, that's pretty compelling evidence.
All of the murderous authoritarian regimes have another thing in common as well. They always stifle free speech and political dissent.
Twitter is not a government regime. The nazi guy can go over to Gab and march around all day long. He's got Reddit. He's got 4chan. He's got voat. All the places where he can feel safe among other white nationalists are open to him. But he can't come into my house. And if they so decide, he can't come into Twitter's house either.
That's fine, except you can up the price to $120k and have it replace three people them, and theatch still works out.
Now you're making a different, but related, mistake. You assume that the price of a robot is based on how many people it replaces.
It's possible that a $20,000 machine replaces 10 people. The point is that there is no floor for wages above which workers' jobs are safe. Machines get cheaper and easier to maintain. People's lives don't get cheaper and easier to maintain. It's a one-way street and humans can't compete.
You can either accept a greatly expanded welfare state or fire up the ovens. There really isn't any other choice.
Yeah, may year for both machines are possible, but also, maybe I want the $40k machine that replaces 2 people in half the space, so I can't also have extra throughput.
If that machine comes out at year three, I've lost money buying the first version.
The mistake you're making is thinking that there is a 1:1 ratio between machines and the workers they replace. No machine only replaces one worker, because we still have those pesky limits on how long we can force people to work. Machines are meant to run 24/7.
They'd tell you "n*ggers sit in the back of the bus."
They were also the generation that gave us the Civil Rights movement. For a lot of the people who fought in WWII, it was something of a wakeup call regarding racism. Now, of course there were still a lot of Southern racists who were probably 4-F and started up Klans and such.
But yeah, the people who fought in WWII and their kids made some big changes.
No, you can convince them [thedailybeast.com] to be less racist. Yes, if the neo-Nazis gain a lot of power, then - and only then - is violence the best way to deal with them.
According to Richard Spencer, they've just won the White House. Does that meet your standard of gaining a "lot of power"?
Me, I take them at their word. When someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time. I actually knew people who fought Nazis in Europe last century. If they could have crushed Nazism when it was just 3000 guys in a beer hall, they wouldn't have hesitated. It was that bad. I take them at their word, too.
If you want to spend time changing Nazis minds, be my guest, and I wish you luck. You can start with the incoming President's Chief Strategist. It's up to the rest of us to have a contingency if you fail.
Germany was the perfect safe space to make something like nazism grow, because they could literally cut out any opposition and make people only hear their side of the story. Yes, your approach did work well back then because there was no such thing as the internet, so you could just round up everyone with the wrong opinion and toss some nukes at their heads.
Sometimes, the stupid comes at you fast. Let me take these things one at a time.
Germany was the perfect safe space to make something like nazism grow, because they could literally cut out any opposition and make people only hear their side of the story.
You need to read history some day. The Weimar Republican was not a period during which speech was suppressed, nor was it a "safe space". I mean, shit. Have you ever read one single thing about Germany in the time before 1930?
Yes, your approach did work well back then because there was no such thing as the internet, so you could just round up everyone with the wrong opinion and toss some nukes at their heads.
There were no nukes in 1930, but if there were, you probably wouldn't round people up before nuking them.
now you can basically get people in germany and defuse nazism before it even have the chance to exist instead of letting they grow, organize, kill millions etc etc etc... But on the same token you can create it the same way.
That is such spectacular babbling nonsense that I don't know how to respond. You're basically saying, "The same thing that prevents Nazism will cause it
Can someone who is a native English speaker please translate for me?
Did you think that an act has to be a First Amendment violation in order to be censorship?
When your mom tells you to keep it down when you're recording your GamerGate podcast, is that sensor sheep too?
Is it sensor sheep when a librarian asks you to be quiet in the reading room? Don't be a knucklehead. Is it sensor sheep that a church won't let me take over the lectern during the reading of the gospel so I can sing Highway Star by Deep Purple:?
2) it is far better to know what this WT is up to. And the only way is to have him record it on a freely available medium, such as twitter.
You can know what he is up to from his posts on Gab and other social media designed for Nazis. I'm sure you don't believe that Twitter should be forced by law to let this guy have an account.
but Obama has decided that Iran should really have nuclear weapons and proceeded to make sure they have enough money and a nuclear program to make it happen.
Unlike Ronald Reagan, who just gave them the fucking weapons they wanted so they could use them against us.
Bad ideas can only be killed by convincing arguments, rather than screaming "racist bigots!" until it magically disappear.
Racist bigots never magically disappear. Unfortunately, almost all of the people who fought in WWII are gone now, or they'd tell you the most appropriate way to deal with Nazis: You blow their shit up until you get their attention, then you give them a choice of being good citizens. Maybe the process has to be repeated every so often, like spraying for cockroaches.
In the meantime, the one thing you do NOT do is normalize them in any way. You don't try to engage them in reasonable conversation, you don't pretend that they have a valid point of view and you don't pretend that "both sides do it". You simply point and scream, "Nazi over here" and then chase them back into a hole or punch them in the face. Nazism, White Supremacy, White Nationalism or alt-Right - whatever you want to call it, it's not just another ideology. It's not normal.
Technically speaking it is not their right. Under the constitution, no law, I repeat NO LAW, can be written which conflicts with freedom of speech and contract law, the law around which contracts is based, is a law and it can not be written in such a way as to infringe upon freedom of speech. To claim corporation have the right of censorship under contract law, is a lie, NO LAW, shall be written that infringes upon freedom of speech and that fucking includes contract law.
Were you in a fraternity when you studied law at Trump University? Because you just embarrassed all your brothers with that legal opinion which bears no relationship to reality.
If I demand to read my poetry at Carnegie Hall, it is not censorship for them to say, "Get the fuck out or we'll call the cops". It is not censorship if my Great American Novel is rejected by Simon & Schuster for being badly written.
Because the return on investment is less than half as much.
But the ROI is more than zero, and increases over time.
When you figure in all the hassles of having humans working for you, automation that can do the job will be a better investment even if you could get the human to work for nothing.
And this is really the end-game of late-stage capitalism. It's always about exploitation. You don't have to fuck people over to make a profit, but it helps.
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Law enforcement needs to start treating people who hack into medical facilities the way they currently treat unarmed black men.
Yes, you're right.
Not if they sell puts.
Thank you for saying what needs to be said.
Also, there is no such thing as someone being "bias". The word is "biased" (something you are) rather than "bias" (something you have).
But the one good thing about Reddit & 4chan neologisms and bad usage is that it makes it easier to know whom to ignore.
That's what I said. Frum can't be a True Scotsman because he opposed Donald Trump, who is the King of Scotland.
OK, we can agree on that.
But can we also agree that automation inevitably leads to a situation where it's more profitable than even a $1/hr wage?
I hate to break it to you, but a) Ronald Reagan was a textbook neoconservative and did not serve the interests of the people.
No, there really isn't any difference between those things. For people who aren't Nazis, there's no more difference than between a German Shepherd and an Alsatian.
You will hear all sorts of explanations from White Nationalists as to why they're not the same as White Supremacists or alt-Right or neo-Nazis, but trust me, the differences are trivial compared to the similarities. You scratch the surface and you find a goose-stepper. None of them should be allowed anywhere near civil society.
No, that's how he self-identifies. When you're throwing up heil Hitler salutes and screaming Heil Trump, and you're a white supremacist and anti-semite, it's a pretty good indication that you're a Nazi.
One observation where they killed millions upon millions in ovens using poison gas. Yeah, that's pretty compelling evidence.
Twitter is not a government regime. The nazi guy can go over to Gab and march around all day long. He's got Reddit. He's got 4chan. He's got voat. All the places where he can feel safe among other white nationalists are open to him. But he can't come into my house. And if they so decide, he can't come into Twitter's house either.
Now you're making a different, but related, mistake. You assume that the price of a robot is based on how many people it replaces.
It's possible that a $20,000 machine replaces 10 people. The point is that there is no floor for wages above which workers' jobs are safe. Machines get cheaper and easier to maintain. People's lives don't get cheaper and easier to maintain. It's a one-way street and humans can't compete.
You can either accept a greatly expanded welfare state or fire up the ovens. There really isn't any other choice.
I had no idea you guys broke the top 800 subs on reddit. That's a real accomplishment and you should be very proud.
So, you're saying he's not a true Scotsman?
The mistake you're making is thinking that there is a 1:1 ratio between machines and the workers they replace. No machine only replaces one worker, because we still have those pesky limits on how long we can force people to work. Machines are meant to run 24/7.
They were also the generation that gave us the Civil Rights movement. For a lot of the people who fought in WWII, it was something of a wakeup call regarding racism. Now, of course there were still a lot of Southern racists who were probably 4-F and started up Klans and such.
But yeah, the people who fought in WWII and their kids made some big changes.
According to Richard Spencer, they've just won the White House. Does that meet your standard of gaining a "lot of power"?
Me, I take them at their word. When someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time. I actually knew people who fought Nazis in Europe last century. If they could have crushed Nazism when it was just 3000 guys in a beer hall, they wouldn't have hesitated. It was that bad. I take them at their word, too.
If you want to spend time changing Nazis minds, be my guest, and I wish you luck. You can start with the incoming President's Chief Strategist. It's up to the rest of us to have a contingency if you fail.
Sometimes, the stupid comes at you fast. Let me take these things one at a time.
You need to read history some day. The Weimar Republican was not a period during which speech was suppressed, nor was it a "safe space". I mean, shit. Have you ever read one single thing about Germany in the time before 1930?
There were no nukes in 1930, but if there were, you probably wouldn't round people up before nuking them.
That is such spectacular babbling nonsense that I don't know how to respond. You're basically saying, "The same thing that prevents Nazism will cause it
Can someone who is a native English speaker please translate for me?
When your mom tells you to keep it down when you're recording your GamerGate podcast, is that sensor sheep too?
Is it sensor sheep when a librarian asks you to be quiet in the reading room? Don't be a knucklehead. Is it sensor sheep that a church won't let me take over the lectern during the reading of the gospel so I can sing Highway Star by Deep Purple:?
The guy is a Nazi. We have pretty good evidence that leaving Nazism unchecked leads to bad outcomes.
You can know what he is up to from his posts on Gab and other social media designed for Nazis. I'm sure you don't believe that Twitter should be forced by law to let this guy have an account.
David Frum is not a democrat. He was a writer for National Review and a speechwriter for George W Bush. He is a lifelong registered Republican.
That's for sure.
Unlike Ronald Reagan, who just gave them the fucking weapons they wanted so they could use them against us.
Racist bigots never magically disappear. Unfortunately, almost all of the people who fought in WWII are gone now, or they'd tell you the most appropriate way to deal with Nazis: You blow their shit up until you get their attention, then you give them a choice of being good citizens. Maybe the process has to be repeated every so often, like spraying for cockroaches.
In the meantime, the one thing you do NOT do is normalize them in any way. You don't try to engage them in reasonable conversation, you don't pretend that they have a valid point of view and you don't pretend that "both sides do it". You simply point and scream, "Nazi over here" and then chase them back into a hole or punch them in the face. Nazism, White Supremacy, White Nationalism or alt-Right - whatever you want to call it, it's not just another ideology. It's not normal.
Were you in a fraternity when you studied law at Trump University? Because you just embarrassed all your brothers with that legal opinion which bears no relationship to reality.
If I demand to read my poetry at Carnegie Hall, it is not censorship for them to say, "Get the fuck out or we'll call the cops". It is not censorship if my Great American Novel is rejected by Simon & Schuster for being badly written.
But the ROI is more than zero, and increases over time.
When you figure in all the hassles of having humans working for you, automation that can do the job will be a better investment even if you could get the human to work for nothing.
And this is really the end-game of late-stage capitalism. It's always about exploitation. You don't have to fuck people over to make a profit, but it helps.