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Cuomo loves himself more than anything in the world. No way he doesn't try to become president.
This is the same man who wrote a book about 'leadership during Covid' with Covid ongoing, despite knowing himself that he was leading the elderly to their death in nursing homes. This book is also shockingly high rated, what the hell.
On a related note he also stood on live TV for days, weeks, months on end proclaiming himself Captain Covid himself despite knowing what he was doing.
I'm sure there's more, but this is all I could remember. He is so in love with himself.
I’m a Section 230 stan. I think the internet is the best thing humanity has done recently, and it wouldn’t have been possible in anything like its current form without 230. What’s more, I think most of the folks who want to reform or repeal it are sorely mistaken about what the results of that repeal would be and how much they would enjoy them. For more on this, always read Elizabeth Nolan Brown and also Robby Soave (who has a new book coming out about this very topic.
I generally like Tuccile (It Usually Begins With Ayn Rand is a quick read and hilarious history lesson on the evolution of the libright)... but I think he missed the bigger point.
Yes, Democrats are the party of Big Government who want to control much of your life. Republicans are the party of Big Government who want to do the same thing. They just are different in what they want to control.
But that should be obvious to anyone. People want power. Then power corrupts and all that... Democrats in California want to impose their way of life on Republicans in Alabama, and vice versa.
The founders understood this aspect of human nature. They warned about the dangers of factions. They tried to design a system that balanced democracy with states rights and the rights of individuals. The Constitution itself was written more as a limit on what the government could do, rather than what it couldn't do. Unfortunately, they failed.
State parties have closed primaries where only the craziest (erm, "most engaged") partisans participate. National parties ensure that party leaders bring a singular platform rather than one tailored to the people they represent. SCOTUS decisions have ensured that the general welfare, interstate commerce, and necessary and proper clauses mean "literally anything the government wants to do is ok".
It's done. The experiment is over. The only question is what the balkanization looks like.
Did you know that people of French Canadian ancestry have approximately the same level of generational poverty as African-Americans? I'm not sure the state's compelling interest should be limited to racial categories alone.
And what's going to make this time different than when Verizon, AT&T and CenturyLink were paid billions to lay fiber and ended up doing nothing but still pocketed the money?
if anybody wants to read about these kinds of less regulated "free market" grids (do note that they pop up in both conservative and liberal states), than I recommend reading Shorting the Grid, by Meredith Angwin. good read, and will hopefully bring more awareness to stuff such as grid stability .
https://www.amazon.com/Shorting-Grid-Hidden-Fragility-Electric-ebook/dp/B08KZ51SDP
Did you fail to actually read the article you linked in your OP (emphasis is mine)?
> Trump stands accused of using the office of the presidency to advance political aims, in particular pressuring Ukraine to investigate potential campaign rival Joe Biden. He’s guilty, but the issue is how guilty, in comparison to his accusers.
Or are you just cherry-picking "deep-state coup" to fit your partisan bias and ignoring the fact that Taibbi (author of <em>Insane Clown President</em>) isn't exactly apologizing for Trump in this article?
The lack of a solution, especially one with a swaying narrative (e.g. are jobs are being taken away because the opposing party doesn't care about you), seems to have a large part in why it's uncommon to see political debates about automation.
This article from The New York Times delves into advances in artificial intelligence and provides a fascinating look into the entire situation.
I think you're missing some very important details here. That police patch can be obtained online by anyone. (https://www.amazon.com/Bullet-Ballistic-Tactical-ENFORCEMENT-patches/dp/B07TS9M8G1)
It doesnt say who their commanding federal agency is. While they are sworn officers (theoretically - there is word some are just deputized non-officers from other agencies) for federal jurisdiction, there is literally a legal requirement for the state Oregon to certify ANY federal officer that seeks to enforce local law - which is the only legal way they can detain people a great distance from the court house (its technical but its where the literal letter, otherwise their jurisdiction ends w/in sight of the federal buildings. There is a good legal review of this). The fact that the officers are not identifying themselves means there is no way to ascertain if they are certified and it means they are breaking the law.
They are infringing on state sovereignty. You cant argue that as the gov, mayor, and AG have all formally requested that they cease these operations.
There was great article on the legal structure around all of this and how very very terrifyingly unconstitutional this behavior is. I'll see if I can find it.
EDIT: Ugg, I cant find it, there is SOOO much garbage out there right now about this and this was a particular high credential legal review (which isnt the most popular of reads - so google isnt finding it). I'll keep trying later.
And its still super dangerous. 19k people have died from it so far and thats our population which has higher standards of living. https://weather.com/health/cold-flu/news/2019-02-15-flu-season-vaccine-illnesses-deaths
I still think using other processing centers temporarily is the right course of action.
It took place right after the debate at the same table.
Here is a hulu link which is in better quality but with ads:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/288187/charlie-rose-live-analysis-of-the-republican-presidential-debate
You can’t compare COVID-19 to WWII.
We destroyed our competitors supply chains.
We as a nation sacrificed 405K men who would have returned to the workforce, to the meat grinder of war.
Globally none of our competitors factories have been destroyed and globally we’ve only, so far, lost 133K.
Yes, we’ve seen the importance of Instacart, Healthcare workers and other seemingly non-essential-essential workers. But what happens to the perceived importance of these professions when everyone returns to work?
In my estimation everything returns to normal. If they expect a labor movement, they better strike now while everyone’s quarantined.
>who submitted a four page summary that deliberately left out much of Mueller's findings
Well... DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
The summary is intended to give a SUMERIZATION of the RESULTS of the investigation. it was never intended to be the be all end all report and the Muller report is released. So what are you whining about? That the 4 page summary he released didnt have the information YOU were specifically seeking? Probably because it wasnt intented to confirm your bias. It was intended to summarize the investigations ultimate findings and give the country the short hand version as quick as possible. Why are you pretending like hes currently sitting back there in his AG office clutching the rest of the Muller report as if I cant LITERALLY buy it on Amazon RIGHT NOW and have it delivered to my house, same day.
https://www.amazon.com/Mueller-Report-Special-Counsel-Collusion/dp/1510750169
Bro, you gotta grammar check your writing, I'm having a real hard time following what you're saying. Use the Hemmingway App if you have to.
Your main argument is: "Politically motivated pressure" is completely different from "political motive." Therefore, politically motivated people might have changed the outcome of the investigation.
That's a level of conspiracy theory I'm not willing to go.
Except almost everyone has seen this on the news. But here you go: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-ivanka-hillary-clinton-email_n_5bf39915e4b0d9e7283c7a63. Took me less than a second/
That's the Alt-Right playbook, right? - Make false claims. - Challenge even basic facts. Make your victims spend their time trying to support even things that are irrefutable. - Ignore what they say and troll some more. - Declare victory.
You've made 150 false accusations or statements just today, and supported none of them. You're bringing a metagame to this story about hypocrisy of epic proportions.
Letter from Comey to Congress members and another article possibly not behind a paywall
Comey was between a rock and a hard place, but this only confirms how overblown this whole thing was by the Republicans.
I do wish there was more detailed information, like the amount of emails that were duplicates and the number of non-work related emails from Clinton. It would help give a better sense of how much was originally divulged.
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
-oft-repeated, semi-mangled sentiment from John Steinbeck
Indeed. In the grand scheme of things, forced population movements (like the partition of India, and pop. exchanges between Greece and Turkey) are bad things (TM) and should be avoided if possible.
I mention it mostly because The More You Know (TM), because it's interesting, and because it wasn't a genocide.
For anybody passing through, I highly recommend The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation. Simply fascinating history.
Putin had Magnitsky, a young Moscow lawyer for an ex ex-pat investor named Bill Browder, tortured and murdered after he uncovered large scale tax fraud/corruption by the Kremlin. Pretty chilling stuff.
https://player.fm/series/series-2249929/seeking-justice-for-sergei-magnitsky-with-bill-browder
They weren't "shut down" by Amazon. They had to move to a different host, and are currently up and running (https://parler.com). They started up, generated a network, and are still running. The reason there was a gap in hosting was two-fold:
1) After 6 months of documented requests from AWS to bring their site into alignment with the hosting agreement, they refused to do so, in writing. Had they continued to be willing to work in good faith, it would not have been terminated, but saying that you will not attempt to live up to the agreement you signed is, in fact, grounds for termination.
2) They built a site that was heavily based on proprietary AWS technology, so was not easily portable to a new host. That was a shitty decision on their part, given that they were flagrantly breaking their hosting agreement.
So no, Amazon didn't "shut down" Parler. They upheld their hosting agreement, and Parler transitioned to a new host. Parler would have been far better off self-hosting, but apparently couldn't scrape together the IT personnel to do so.
A lawsuit filed by Parler also failed when AWS was able to clearly document in court the long history of clear communication to Parler about how exactly they were breaking their contract.
I get it. Your point is well taken. Causation is hard. Even the fancy pants techniques can go wrong (looking at you Granger Causality. Sometimes the acedemics can have fun with it. This paper is a good example: Chickens, Eggs, and Causality, or Which Came First? From the conclusion:
>The structural implications of our results are not yet clear. To draw them out fully will require collaboration between economists and poultry scientists. The potential here is great. As to other questions of temporal ordering, the chicken and egg question is only the most obvious application of causality testing. Other fruitful areas of research include the testing of "He who laughs last laughs best" and the multivariate "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall."
This is an incredibly insightful comment. Thanks for sharing.
I've never thought to phrase it that way, but in that sense, allowing wealth to continue to aggregate in the hands of a vast minority (to the point where about 400 families control most of the nation's wealth) can only beget greater inequity.
If most (or even a large fraction) of the nation's wealth / political power is passed along generational lines, it seems like it would inevitably lead to a plutocracy.
It's especially troubling given that class mobility in the United States is somewhat lower than other Western nations.
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Unfortunately, it doesn't matter. The party has been bitten by the fascism bug. By fascism I simply mean the idea that morality is determined by the extent to which an action empowers the tribe to which one belongs. If you are familiar with The Brothers Karamazov, you can think of this as the Smerdyakov fallacy: everything is permitted.
George Orwell referred to this as nationalism in an essay I believe everyone ought to read:
>By ‘nationalism’ I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labelled ‘good’ or ‘bad’. But secondly – and this is much more important – I mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognizing no other duty than that of advancing its interests.
What people fail to understand, and this is the only thing people need to understand about Trumpism, is that Trump offered a vast group of depressed and lonely people the role of soldiers fighting for a greater cause. What he offered them was a sense of purpose and meaning to their existence, a vacuum which had been begging to be filled.
Read The Cult at the End of the World for a terrifying lesson on the thing that Trumpism represents. Some of the brightest scientists in Japan joined a doomsday cult because it offered them that which mainstream society did not: purpose.
The function of the Republican party is now to feed the beast which they have created. Historically, this has never ended well.
> Dude what is this article? This is ignorant as hell man good lord.
Check out the author's book on Amazon.
"...one of Washington's best political writers..." ~ Ann Coulter
> I think you're missing some very important details here. That police patch can be obtained online by anyone. (https://www.amazon.com/Bullet-Ballistic-Tactical-ENFORCEMENT-patches/dp/B07TS9M8G1)
So? It is pretty easy to obtain a realistic looking officers badge online for just about any law enforcement organization in the US.
>It doesnt say who their commanding federal agency is. While they are sworn officers (theoretically - there is word some are just deputized non-officers from other agencies) for federal jurisdiction, there is literally a legal requirement for the state Oregon to certify ANY federal officer that seeks to enforce local law - which is the only legal way they can detain people a great distance from the court house (its technical but its where the literal letter, otherwise their jurisdiction ends w/in sight of the federal buildings. There is a good legal review of this). The fact that the officers are not identifying themselves means there is no way to ascertain if they are certified and it means they are breaking the law.
The Supremacy Clause means Oregon State Law cannot prevent Federal Officers from enforcing Federal Law. And Federal Officers can pursue individuals that they believe have violated Federal law anywhere in the US.
>They are infringing on state sovereignty. You cant argue that as the gov, mayor, and AG have all formally requested that they cease these operations.
No they aren't.
Kevin Slavin's TED talk about trading algorithms determining a variety of behaviors, implying a secret life of algorithms and so forth.
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Your idea that this doesn't belong here seems odd to me. What claims do you think are unproven? That enrollment dates start after the election? Or that wall street journal report that he links to in the article discussing the confidentiality agreement?
You don’t need conspiracy theories to get to Putin blackmailing Trump and the GOP. There is plenty of well documented evidence in plain sight.
- where did the funding come from for Trump’s golf course in Scotland when he was bankrupt? (hint: Eric accidentally told us)
- the Russians hacked both DNC and RNC emails, but only released DNC; why?
- who paid off Kavanaugh’s debts?
- why did Justice Kennedy abruptly retire while in perfect health? (Note that Kennedy’s son was an executive at Deutsche Bank)
- why did 8 Senate Republicans travel to Moscow in July 4th 2018?
- what did Trump say to Graham during a golf game that caused the later to flip from John McCain Jr to Trump’s fiercest apologist over night?
Check out books like Dark Towers and Seth Abramson’s books.
FSB and Russian oligarchs (basically same thing) laundered dirty money through DeutcheBank into US political campaign donors including the NRA. Trump + associates got GOP politicians to drink from the dirty stream, and now they’re ensnared. Some are in deeper than others.
An alternative way to deal with it instead of taking just the no medication approach is to ask someone qualified to offer alternative behavioral techniques that can be used at home to help your brother.
They will likely be time intensive and take a while, but if your mom is very serious about helping your brother, she will like the fact she can do something. Alternatively, if it is an over-reaction to your brother's grades, she may not want to pursue a solution that will take a lot of her time and energy. Sometimes the magic bullet of a pill seems alluring where long-term changes do not.
Anyways, good luck.
It isn't a book, merely a short essay on socialism by Albert Einstein...
http://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/
Of course The Communist Manifesto, Animal Farm or A Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisivich all come to mind as well.
Then You Tube any Milton Friedman "Pencil Allegory"
Short version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Gppi-O3a8
Free To Choose I think is his book that goes with it, maybe. Also Capitalism and Freedom
Great question!
Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky's research showing how bad our brain's are at thinking rationally and without bias is still relatively new. I think as more time goes on, the more people will realize how dead-on they were. <em>Thinking, Fast and Slow</em> should be required reading in high school.
Yes, by raising taxes we could pay off the debt because we would take in more than we spend. We wouldn't even need to raise taxes by that much.
>Regardless of what revenue the government takes in, even at confiscatory levels, we still spend more, and the debt increases.
This is simply not true.
This is the only news article I can find on it. You can check the actual precinct-by-precinct breakdown that was reported and see Romney edging out Gingrich 35.6% - 34.3% in CD1.
> Or they can stop being such an echo chamber and embrace some ideological diversity - they are, after all, the ones constantly advocating for diversity.
There are many, many, many different kinds of diversity. For example, this academic presentation breaks down the "Diversity of Sex Offenders" - not every idea is worth incorporating members who espouse that idea. Additionally, advocating for diversity in a number of areas does not imply that they literally want every kind of idea of diversity.
Freedom of speech protects the right to voice your opinions. It has never protected defamation.
The 1A does protect your right to assembly even in a pandemic which is why its happening. There are occasions where your civil liberties can be side stepped such as marshal law and i believe the surgeon general or the CDC have the ability to do so too but it has to be done officially.
As far as i know you can say you support whatever group you want now doing something is completely different. In other countries there is prison time attached to saying anything in support of terrorists groups.
A third party source for you crazy kids.
https://www.fool.com/taxes/2017/12/06/how-much-income-tax-will-i-pay-if-i-make-50000.aspx
According to they article, they would have payed $232.50 in taxes. Maybe less since it was four children and the article calculates for two.
Brostradamnus's claim seems to check out as legit.
Does the NRA need to be reformed?
I would argue that since the 90s the NRA has been very effective as a lobbying and influencing group in the USA.
Current issues with the organization are putting that role in jeopardy because they have the potential to change the legitimacy of the organization in the minds of the public and they take executive attention off of the work of continuing to maintain influence.
Do you think that Wayne LaPierre should leave or be forced out?
Are the reforms that some of the other members suggesting legitimate?
How would you fix the board rules and structure to maintain the integrity of the organization?
Is this whole thing just a media hit job against a incredibly influential lobbying organization or have the years of success led to greed and corruption at the NRA?
A couple other articles:
This is much better for comparing apples to apples, although I think in includes books, which I think shouldn’t be included because they aren’t peer reviewed, but I accept the argument that reasonable people would include them.
Let’s compare Sowell to a well respected conservative economists. I choose Brian Caplan initially because he wrote a fairly well known criticism of Sowells work, but he is at GMU which is a heterodox university and as such his work will naturally be more insular.
We can start with Greg Mankiw. He was on Bush’s CEA.
https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/N.-Mankiw/113786525
Mankiw has the type of CV you would expect from a well known, respectable economist. If you can think of any other conservative economists, I welcome you to suggest them and we can compare.
Still not as bad as how the Germans had to full on disband a company of KSK because of the disturbingly high number of nazis/people willing to tolerate nazis. Also, I found the nebor slideshow because I am bored. Someone put a huge amount of work into the thing and had better be working for Gibbs or some shit at this point. https://www.docdroid.net/9eh7IpV/potential-insider-threat-opt-copy-pptx
Haha, it's a reference to Dwarf Fortress. No doubt Trump is dumb (or does dumb things, if you will). Certainly, he has no subtlety or thought in the statements he makes off the cuff.
But he did say this could last through the summer, which we know to be extremely likely. That's near absurd given his vanity, his love of making himself and his deeds sound amazing, and his oafish confidence. It's directly admitting the government can not quickly deal with this, which is a breath of fresh air in the context of so many people on all sides trying to turn this into a conversation on politics, liberties, profit margins, and so on, all the while ignoring the truth of how horrible the situation truly is.
Deadly Choices at Memorial - New York Times Magazine
This Pulitzer Prize-winning article was even expanded into a book.
Well, he is a Nobel Prize winning economist, known for his contributions on things like liquidity traps and New Trade Theory. I assume that to be a respected individual in the field, there has to be some resemblance to reality. However, I personally know very little of how published articles are geared in economics. It may be that he merely made some elegant models or connected ideas together well. Then again, I can't believe the field of economics would give so little a shit about actually having data to match a Nobel Prize winner's ideas. Nobel Prizes in the sciences, for example, are regularly given out for theoretical predictions of thing that were later proven to be correct by experiment.
If you'd like more satisfying answers than my ignorant speculation, here are Krugman's most cited works to read through yourself.
Perhaps you should learn how to cook?
The first month will be more expensive than the second and third if you are approaching this from an empty kitchen. But pick up one of these
That puts you at about 95$ after tax. Toss in potatoes (vary in price by area, 5lbs for 2$ here.) A few pounds of pork shoulder and a whole chicken. Cut them up and freeze.
All of my seasonings are nearly free (grew them inside the house in the window). Eggs are $.89 a dozen I'll buy 3 throughout the month. Cooking my own bagels costs me about 1~1.50$ for 12$. For an entire month my breakfast (egg on bagel with cinnamon) costs me less than 5~6$. After that heavy rice / bean meals with a little meat throw into the mix makes for a nice cheap meal plan =)
Edit: Soups are also your friend. Make your own chicken broth! I rotate month to month on what type of meat I'm getting. Sometimes I'll go with beef for variety. I like to also try and squeeze omega into my diet by getting cans of tuna when they are on sale ($.60 a can). The key is really learning how to make your own bread products.
I'd highly recommend Power Failure too.
> And what is the legitimate claim of Israel exactly?
Read this book and you will have your answer: What Justice Demands.
The Jews purchased swamp and arid wasteland from Arab landholders and then terraformed it into productive land. When you improve land, especially worthless land, you cement your claim on its ownership. Additionally, the civilization and government the Israelis offered people living in the area was objectively far superior to whatever the Palestinians and Muslims would have had in its place, offering a government that could offer freedom, liberty, and individual rights on a scale completely foreign to the rest of the Muslim and Arab World in 1948.
In that way, settlers can acquire a legitimate claim to land. Also, after the Arabs and Palestinians tried to genocidally eradicate the Jews in the 1940s and 1960s (as opposed to accepting the two state solution offered in 1948), the Israelis more than acquired a moral claim to all of the land. That is to say, when you start a war with the intention of trying to genocidally exterminate a country or a group of people, you lose all moral claim to the land you attacked and the land you lost when your victims were forced to defend themselves.
Not OP, but some works that brought me away from (Right) Libertarianism to a more moderate/Liberal position are:
Political Philosophy: John Rawls starting with "A Theory of Justice."
Economics: "The Great Transformation" by Karl Polyani, "Bad Samaritans" by Ha-Joon Chang, "The Entrepreneurial State" by Mariana Mazzucato (read after my shift, but still influential), "Predictably Irrational" by Dan Airley, actually reading Keynes instead of what others wrote about him, and reading more on Alexander Hamilton's ideas.
Other: Lots of news articles from sites I'm sure you're familiar with such as The Atlantic and Slate. Also I think as a History student just finding out more about History and historical theories contributed greatly to my development and understanding of the world, but I don't know any particular sources to recommend. Perhaps Eric Foner?
It's sad, but some people only view the world through a lens of racial identity, and it may not even be their fault. Some people were just raised and taught that way.
Individualism is both an abstract concept and an ostensive concept (you experience it and feel it to know it) and some people simply will not develop it (a person born blind will never fully visualize and inherently understand the difference between red and blue).
If you'd like to acquire a better understanding of what individualism is and what it means to have your own distinct consciousness, and to explore a different worldview that might be different from anything you've ever been exposed to before, reading the novel The Fountainhead might be a good place to start.
It was a rhetorical question.
Studies have been very clear that anti-abortion protests have a significant impact on abortion access. Here's a detailed study from Victoria, Australia, for example. Whether this is a 'good' or 'bad' thing depends on your politics, but the facts are pretty clear.
I like Emily Oster a lot for her pregnancy-related books (Shot out to Expecting Better for any who are interested).
I think my main takeaway from that book is that everyone's personal risk calculation is different (and I don't mean, if you are 45+ with a heart condition, but literally - how do you look at a situation and decide how much risk you want to take).
With this, COVID gave us a perfect storm of:
- An actively changing understanding of the illness, its transmission, optimal public health policies, etc.
- Early politicization of everything related to the disease/prevention/etc.
- Diverse perspectives on how much risk we should assume as individuals, and as a society.
Information changed over time, but everyone was too tribal to either change behavior, or adapt behavior when new information was presented. Mistrust was (and is) rampant. And on top of all of this, there are different policies and approaches that may be best for different individuals, communities, states, etc.
It just created an entrenched shit storm that continues to leave lasting wounds today.
Or that he wrote a book about having Dissociative Identity Disorder! Wonder which personality we're gonna get today from our Senator? He doesn't even know himself! Might as well roll the dice.
I mean, I feel bad for him, but my god, I don't want him in charge of me.
https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Free-Dissociative-Identity-Disorder/dp/1416537503
Why would other Senators need to hook up to anything? There's plenty of realtime captioning technologies that just need a microphone.
I think this would pose a problem for Fetterman if this were a decade or two ago, but there's plenty of solutions nowadays.
Unfortunately I can't tell these are the paywall but what are the books that consistently comes up is named Gender Queer. https://www.amazon.com/Gender-Queer-Memoir-Maia-Kobabe/dp/1549304003
Amazon reads this book for ages 18 and up for graphic depictions. Namely there is a scenario in which the underage main character has sex with their male teacher, then there is another scenario where the main character has sex with their family dog.
It's very odd that the very same people who demanded the Bible be removed from school curriculum are getting mad over a book being removed from elementary libraries. Playboy isn't allowed in an elementary library, I'm willing to bet that I'm subscribed to a few gun hobbyist magazines which people will get mad at if they were available in elementary schools.
Any person who believes minors need access to 18 and up books needs to realize that as long as they have guardianship of said minor fear more than welcome to go and buy the book for them if they feel that it's so important.
Noam Chomsky lays out in Manufacturing Consent how the major media entities have acted as an arm of the US intelligence agencies since the start of the Cold War, AP in particular. Also be aware the CIA uses "anonymous sources" to pick winners and losers in journalism, feeding the story to those who "play ball".
I'm not sure what to take from your first link, mostly because I can't get past the paywall, but you yourself claim the president of the Pilot's Association confirms it's not a strike.
Your second link shows weather for Miami, but the supposed walkout happened in Florida. There is evidence of high winds and precipitation starting on Friday and through the weekend. Link 1 Link 2
> Really? So a thing can't happen quicker than normal, and still take awhile?
No. You do a good job of illustrating how both could be true. Do you also see how it can indicate a faster conclusion than normal if his pace is faster than normal?
>So unsourced claims give you enough evidence to not only know what's happening in a sealed grand jury case, but draw a final conclusion?
>Intelligence Official: Transcripts Of Flynn's Calls Don't Show Criminal Wrongdoing
>February 15, 20174:01 PM ET
>National security adviser Flynn discussed sanctions with Russian ambassador, despite denials, officials say
>February 9
Just these two news articles from February alone explain what happened to Flynn last Friday.
You can insist that they don't if you like... and that I am coming up with convenient bullshit... That's cool.
I'm telling you that these two articles alone, from 10 months ago, are a great example of why everyone on earth knew this shoe was going to Drop.
If there are some other articles out there about a new shoe - like these articles for example - I'd love to see them.
> It's simple to say "don't allow speech that is illegal", but what is illegal has not been defined, at least in the US...
Some content is defined as illegal in the United States.
> ...changes from country to country, and will likely change state by state...
It is possible to allow some content in one market, but not in others. For example, to comply with Germany's anti-Nazi laws, Twitter and Facebook flag by algorithm posts with Nazi imagery for review by staff. Posts that are illegal in Germany aren't removed; they're just hidden from users who indicate they are in Germany.
You can verify this yourself by changing your 'Country' to 'Germany' in 'Settings and privacy' on Twitter. This flagging-over-removal based method of compliance with German law demonstrates that difference countries can have different legal standards for speech, without allowing one nation's legal prerequisites to curtail speech on global platforms.
> and ideology to ideology.
Legality isn't a question of ideology.
> I said they were both two different sides of the same coin.
that expression literally means they're very similar?
I truly do not understand why no one is running attack ads based solely on the fact that he is severely mentally ill, with dozens of personalities, who tried to kill his wife, and which he wrote an entire book about.
Why are we even talking about an abortion, or jokes about trans teens, when he is literally mentally ill.
Too much. Here's an example. Do you have any? Andrew McCarthy from National Review:
>More problematic, however, is the judge’s rationale for exercising equitable jurisdiction. Cannon concedes that her authority to intercede on that basis is “reserved for ‘exceptional’ circumstances.” Her conclusion that there are such circumstances here is based some dubious assumptions.
And before you claim he's anti-Trump he literally wrote a book with the description of:
>The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.
>The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.
https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252
The SIGAR studies (reported on by the Washington Post and then published in book form, with analysis) clearly show that the Pentagon knew for almost twenty years that the ANA wouldn't and couldn't fight, that the entire war was a waste of lives and money, and that the Taliban would move right back in the second the US stopped propping up the government.
But in public they continued to tell us that things were basically fine and the ANA was doing a great job and that they just needed a little more time and a little more money to complete the mission. They lied to the Congress and the American public.
Every single person who was in a position of responsibility during the entire Afghanistan debacle deserves to be in jail, generals and politicians both.
I guess we can forgive incompetence (although we should probably fire incompetent generals and spies). We cannot forgive lies.
Absolutely this is normal procedure.
That the classified documents were mixed in with Trumps personal papers is proof that he knew he had classified documents.
If I decide to keep my passport in a giant bag of cocaine, when the police raid me, they take the passport. My passport being located in the giant bag of cocaine is evidence the cocaine belongs to me.
Anyway, the alternative is for the FBI to sift through all the evidence while at Mar-a-lago — which would take days and be extremely intrusive. The normal practice is of contraband is found in a container, you take the whole container.
And it is normal procedure to take pictures of evidence you are seizing before removing it. You can see the photographic scale ruler at the bottom of the photograph. There’s a card saying 2A next to the evidence. The FBI listed where all the evidence came from. None of it came from the floor. 2A is what they found in one of many boxes.
> Barber said the homework assignment was based on chapter one of a state-approved textbook by McGraw Hill, “Discovering Our Past -- A History of the World Early Ages.”
> The book sells on Amazon for $83.85 in paperback. One customer review of the textbook is less than glowing. “This ‘text’ is so full of errors and mis-characterizations that I am astounded that supposedly educated people even tolerate it,” it says.
Here's the book in question: https://www.amazon.com/Discovering-Our-Past-History-World-Early/dp/0076647579
It has 4.5 stars, with ONE 1-star rating (which is the review being referenced). What were you saying again about bias and cherry-picking information to support your claims?
That has not been my experience. Any research into genetic influence on outcomes is immediately tarred as racist. The idea is to shutdown conversation as quickly as possible.
As an example, this review (from two professors, in NY Book Reviews) of this book. The review uses "eugenics", "racism" and "Galton" as many times as it can. Meanwhile the book is very tame -- and spends a significant number of pages explaining why none of what it says has anything to do with race. But it makes the mistake of talking about how genes seem to be related to outcomes, which is verboten in "polite society".
https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594035229
Someone wrote a book on it. Problem is without having broad laws then when someone does something everyone agrees in bad you might not have envisioned the very specific case.
Vindman? Fauci? Strozk? Page? Comey? McCabe? Brennan? Biden? Killiminik? Halper?
World Economic Forum, and Klaus Schwab? He wrote a book. You will own nothing, and be happy. These people are writing this stuff in the open and you all think it's some theory or a joke.
https://www.weforum.org/focus/the-great-reset
https://www.amazon.com/COVID-19-Great-Reset-Klaus-Schwab/dp/2940631123
November is coming, and real Americans know what liberty is, and we are well prepared.
I also mention bias here: Thinking about a counterfactual or playing devil's advocate against yourself is difficult. I would recommend taking a look at this book: The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone Hardcover
https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Illusion-Never-Think-Alone/dp/039918435X
I couldn’t say. It seems like that’s a lot less likely to happen because the statute requires a cop (I’m imagining it’s always a local cop familiar with the respondent) or a someone who lives in the same house as the respondent filing the petition. And such a person would have knowledge of the respondent having firearms.
But you ask a good question and I have to imagine that that will happen soon if it hasn’t already. I’m imagining that the respondent won’t be able to sue. Assuming the search warrant is valid, there likely isn’t a whole lot the respondent can do.
If you wanna read more on the issues this poses for Jersey courts, look up State v. Hemenway (https://www.njcourts.gov/attorneys/assets/opinions/webcast/a_19_18.pdf), and Greco v. Grewal (3rd Circuit acknowledged that the NJ red flag law was unconstitutional, as did the original District Judge; https://airtable.com/shrcrC5FsedZqIi3T).
Good read. Yep, it's surprising how many of our divisions can be traced to the different people who came from Europe. There's a thread on this sub from yesterday "Two fundamentally irreconcilable constitutional visions" which is a good example of the historic splits.
Here's a book that picks up more than just the British
An easy read and enlightening.
Honestly, to make yourself feel better you should pick up a few books on the political violence that happened in the late '60s and early '70s - specifically anything that includes the Weather Underground.
It was a lot worse then than it has ever been, even during Trump. "Days of Rage" is a good book, and it 100% made me feel better about present day America.
I posted this somewhere else in the comments, but here's my general theory. There's this meme floating around the woke left that children default to homophobic, racist, xenophobic views unless parents take great pains to pre-emptively exercise them of hate. It's the opposite of what previous generations believed, which is that you have to be taught to hate and it's not an innate "original sin."
But now the theory, however bogus it might be, is that you have to teach kids not to hate. That's how you get cash grabs like the anti-racist baby.
So there was someone who suggested that the goal of pride should be to "normalize queer" (never mind that being a contradiction in terms). So someone had the bright idea of normalizing queer by teaching kids about drag queens, and hence was born the "drag your kids to pride" idea. Right now no one wants to be labeled as homophobic or anti-queer, so people went along with it against their best judgment.
As cringe as all of this is, I think after the woke moral panic wears off, we'll see it as flawed. It's far from the only time we've done cringe things in the face of a moral panic. Remember the Satanic Panic of the 1990s and how everyone needed to teach their kids to be on the lookout for Satan-worshippers?
I agree it's inappropriate. Don't drag your kids to pride. Or if you do, don't drag them to a baudy, lewd event. Let adult spaces be adult spaces. But also don't freak out about this. Level heads usually prevail, eventually, and the best way to respond to a moral panic is not with another moral panic.
Here's a book recommendation for anyone who wants a deep dive into Weather Underground and other 1970s-era political violence.
This blog post provides a good overview of the above book. To answer OP's question, I don't know about "active members of the Democratic Party," but it's true that the former Weather Underground members weren't really punished for their violence, and went on to have pretty nice careers as part of the establishment.
> In the end, the Weather’s fugitives turned themselves in with little trouble. To give you an idea: Bill Ayers was scott-free. Cathy Wilkerson did a year. Bernardine Dohrn got three years probation and a $1500 fine. The radical lawyers, accessories to Weather’s bombings? Nada. Zip. Zero. > > They did pretty well afterwards. Bernardine Dohrn was a clinical associate professor of law at Northwestern University for more than twenty years. Another Weatherman, Eleanor Stein, was arrested on the run in 1981; she got a law degree in 1986 and became an administrative law judge. Radical attorney Michael Kennedy, who did more than any to keep Weather alive, has been special advisor to President of the UN General Assembly. And, of course, Barack Obama, twice President of the United States, started his political career in Bill Ayers’s living room. > > This is the difference between the hard Left & hard Right: you can be a violent leftist radical and go on to live a pretty kickass life. This is especially true if you’re a leftist of the credentialed class: Ph.D. or J.D.
I tend to agree it's cringy. When you say "grooming" though, understand that means an intent to victimize a minor. I don't see any such conspiracy here.
Here's my theory that explains this: There's a concern, somewhat legitimate, on the left that young children will somehow default into being homophobic and racist and xenophobic if they aren't proactively taught not to be those things. I think that theory is probably bullshit, but it certainly exists, which is how you get cash-grabs like The Antiracist Baby (yes, that's a real book).
So ahead of Pride, some people considered, "How can we make sure kids aren't raised to be homophobic?" Someone else said, "Make sure they understand that queer people are normal. Normalize queer," and someone else said, "show them drag queens" and someone else said, "drag your kids to pride."
It went on from there. Given the climate we are in, no one on the progressive left wants to be seen as regressive, so it went ahead against, probably, a lot of people's judgment. And probably a few progressive parents were eager to demonstrate how progressive they were by taking their kids to the drag show. Someone said, "here tip the dancer," and this kid handed an adult man a $1 while he danced around to Ariana Grande.
Overall, I find the woke left tiresome. And I agree that, in particular, the text behind the danger was not appropriate for children. But to my mind, there's nothing scarring here. There's nothing to sit back in a therapist's chair and confess. It's far, far less troubling than what I've seen people on the right do in films like Jesus Camp.
Ultimately this is a mountain out of a mole hill. Inappropriate? Definitely. This just in, child goes to inappropriate show.
huh, how much meat is in your average deer anyway?
like, never really thought about it, but if you bag a 200 lbs deer... that's like 100 lbs of meat?
and a 100 pounds of meat is a lot of meat, now that i think about it.
sidenote: everytime i think about deer I end up think about this little doodad and i get squeamish.
This book: https://www.amazon.com/Emerging-Democratic-Majority-John-Judis/dp/0743254783 popularized the racist theory long before.
These sort of "let's use a news event to slander our opponents" silliness doesn't contribute anything to the discussion.
Both sides have talked about the changing demographics of the nation and what its impacts will be. Merely discussing this phenomenon does not make you a racist - whether you regard it in a positive or negative light.
If you want a real answer to the question, you might want to check out The Commanding Heights. It's a really well written, thorough, and big book that gives a broad overview of the history of market vs. state relations in the 20th and early 21st centuries, and there is a section specifically detailing how Labour/Democratic-type parties came to embrace free trade.
It's not splitting hairs. They are separate topics. Most frequently when these topics are discussed, they are discussed separately.
It's 100% legal under the Florida bill to teach a very explicit sex education class in kindergarten with full discussion of genitalia and sexual acts (at least under that act, might be illegal elsewhere I guess).
And the vast vast majority of the gender identity / sexual orientation lesson plans that are now banned under the Florida act don't reference sex activities or genitals at all.
You can just look at the websites of LGBT advocacy organizations and see what material they are trying to encourage teachers to promote.
https://usercontent.one/wp/www.educateandcelebrate.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/KS1_Geography_Lesson-Plan.pdf is one of their suggested lesson plans, focusing on https://www.amazon.com/Tango-Makes-Three-Classic-Board/dp/1481446959
If your goal is to not expose kids to sexual activities or genitalia at a young age, the Florida bill is an absurd failure. It both fails to ban the material you want to ban while simultaneously banning a bunch of non-sexual material.
> I finished say ~~anything~~ Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe recently, which goes into great detail on the conflict.
Seconding recommendation of this book. Even if you're not particularly interested or know nothing about the Troubles, this is a really well written narrative that covers multiple perspectives, centering around the kidnapping and murder of a mother in Belfast.
First of all, the benefits now are different from the general discussion, because if the jobs aren't there - due to lock-downs etc. - then the "trust" debate is entirely moot.
As for the general discussion, you can make a poll and ask people what they would do with a billion dollars and if they would continue working. If you had to place a bet on the result, what would you bet on? There you have your extreme data point and the question remaining is only how the curve to that data point looks like.
Furthermore, most Republicans (and even Democrats) seem to think in terms of the TABS model, Taxes And Borrowing comes before Spending. Additionally they can be quite panicky with respect to the debt.
Unemployment benefits are a form of spending. Borrowing is off the table, because everyone is freaking out about the debt. That leaves taxes to cover the spending, which means that the total benefit of working goes down as well.
If you want to look further into it, the term to search would be welfare trap. A related concept that goes beyond unemployment benefits would be the welfare cliff (slide 8).
There seem to be multiple books with the title Homecoming, one is a YA book for age 10 and up with some mixed reviews. Most criticism seems to be that it is boring
There is also what seems to be a self-published homo-erotic novel on Amazon.
I wonder if there has been a mixup
(note: I only spent like 3 minutes looking this up. I didn't even watch the video, so I dont what she said)
This is a dense, pretty dry, and kind of difficult to read but extremely informative book on this general topic: how ideologues of both left and right define the commonalities of human history away in pursuit of their narrow worldviews. It really is a very academic book but, if you're the type to be able to slog through that kind of thing, I can't recommend it enough.
There are certain things that have been around in human society pretty much since we have records. They come in different shapes and go by different names but they're ultimately recognizably antecedents or close cousins of modern social institutions.
The pre-2008 run-up was also due to lack of supply, just in specific areas.
The foreclosures and serious recession after 2008 were a monetary policy problem, though.
Well you are familiar with World War 2 and the lend lease act and the Communists in Roosevelts admin and the splitting of Europe after the war along favorable lines to the Soviets, yes? And you're familiar with how much of a basketcase they were their whole existence right?
Here's more on the Rand Corp.
https://www.amazon.com/Soldiers-Reason-Corporation-American-Empire/dp/0151010811
You aren't gonna find one source, but if you use critical thinking and read between the lines you'll see how inflated the whole thing was.
I will direct you to a book by James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose which I found quite horrifying and enlightening about this social phenomenon.
It’s not that hot of a take, and starting to become much more popular of an opinion these days. It’s discussed as part of the solution in San Fransicko, which is a current bestseller and getting pushed at the local level:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0063093626/
https://www.californiapeacecoalition.org/whatwewant
The title is a mashup of two great books!
It's interesting how from the getgo the article wants to act as if only Rush Limbaugh and Conservatives want democrats to fail... when it so easily could have pointed to any number of Democrats saying they wanted George Bush to fail.
even here:
>At the very heart of democratic civil society is the idea that we don’t stop talking to one another, even when—perhaps especially when—the conversation is frustrating and seems futile.
It's funny that the author can't bring him or herself to just say "Disagree" but instead brings it to "futile".
Perhaps the author of OP should read Stephen Covey’s follow up book The 8th Habit!
>The second source of inspiration is the seven virtues of classical Christianity.
Huh? Don't you mean "How To Win Friends And Influence People"...
I'd say i agree with most of the article, but from the outset it decided to be an example of the depolarizing nature it decries by obviously slanting to democrats and trying to frame republicans as being singularly the problem.
Yeah Amazon designs some ARM chips for their data centers. The point to deliver better price-performance for AWS customers basically. The line of chips is called Graviton. They only started doing this within the last couple of years.
Here's another point. You said HRC used a private server for the purpose of "attempting to circumvent the oversight built into government systems." That makes NO SENSE. A private server can't hide. Emails obviously come from, and go to, OTHER email servers which keep logs. That's how the FBI tracked down many of her emails. They were on State Department computers!
HRC was incompetent. But we can't prove criminal intent.
Read, or listen to, The Threat by Andrew McCabe.
I've had three shots and am fine if shots are a yearly occurrence from now on, but why are we taking scientific advice from the Pfizer CEO? The man is worth $37.5 million dollars, and he holds a degree in veterinary sciences.
Chas and John do what Trump couldn't: explain Obamagate.
This was the first coherent explanation I've found on exactly what happened, why it was controversial, what the conspiracy theory was that came of it, and what the implications could mean.
(There was also a follow up conversation on the Planet Extra Podcast that was very interesting.)
They also covered the latest Covid19 stats and talked about voting rights, voter ID and voting by mail.
Google Scholar isn't the only metric aggregator.
Sowell's number of publications, citations, and h-index are higher than Caplans:
> There is no denying that a connection was being investigated between Russian funds and the Trump campaign.
That's odd. It seems like people are pretty insistent that Trump wasn't having his transmissions "tapped" in any way.
>Maybe it's what you would call semantics, but I don't think Trump was the one that would have received the monies or handled those aspects.
I call it semantics because we both know, as does anyone involved, that Trump is the target.
I call it semantics using this definition of the word semantics: 3) a : the meaning or relationship of meanings of a sign or set of signs; especially : connotative meaning b : the language used (as in advertising or political propaganda ) to achieve a desired effect on an audience especially through the use of words with novel or dual meanings.
>But I am much more inclined to believe any investigation would be to root out the persons directly involved.
... so you are trying to say that the investigation would stop short of Trump?
30 years old and none of them even have a tape deck?
I was burning through audiobooks on my commute with one of those for almost a decade, before I had to replace it (the car, not the adapter).
But that's boring and just pigeon holes people in the same 2 sides. How about this:
The Groningen Protocol — Euthanasia in Severely Ill Newborns
After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?
Now that, is being pro-choice.
What do you say to this person—other than scoffing and saying they're crazy, because I know you want to?
You're normal person in favor of abortion will be logically inconsistent trying to answer you. Me on the other hand—I'm the real pro-choice advocate:
The Groningen Protocol — Euthanasia in Severely Ill Newborns
I still find many of the reviews helpful though. It's usually just simple items like this though. Just as long as you steer clear of brand names. Like this tee shirt. Super helpful!
Hard to believe when they won't even stop idolizing this man:
> Though Harvey quickly came to love the more laid-back pace of San Francisco, his relationship with McKinley deteriorated steadily. One night, McKinley stormed out of a performance of the campy Cockettes when he saw Harvey flirting with another young man. Milk ended up taking that man home, only to be awakened by a soggy, mud-covered McKinley who claimed he had thrown himself off a pier near Fisherman’s Wharf. Rather than falling to a lover’s death, Jack landed in four feet of water and the oozy floor of San Francisco Bay. Frustrated, Jack started wildly throwing punches at Milk and could only be restrained when Harvey literally tied him up and threw him in a closet.
> The next morning, Harvey unbound Jack. McKinley marched to the kitchen table where his competition was munching on a piece of toast. “You’ve been fucked and fed,” McKinley shouted. “Now leave.”
> By then, Harvey had had enough. Though Jack had little formal education, his quick wit and easy charm had earned him success as a Broadway stage manager. He was no longer a helpless sixteen-year-old who needed a protector.
The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
> "On Harvey Milk Day, Americans in San Francisco, across California and around the nation celebrate a courageous, visionary and trailblazing leader, who dared to dream of a world where all could live with pride. On what would have been Harvey’s 91st birthday, we remember his courage to live authentically and his fierce voice for justice, which has inspired generations of loud and proud activists to carry on his causes."
The average temperature on December 1 in BC is 45°F (7°C). This year, the temperature was 71°F (22°C). Yes, it's logical that Dec. 1 would be the warmest day of the month, but not by this magnitude.
I’m having a hard time believing a country with over a billion people only had 4,500 die while NYCs death toll is at 11,000
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