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@voodoochild1806 Neither were Republicans. Not a single firearm in this so-called "insurrection." After a year of non-stop "mostly peaceful protests" across the country by LEFTISTS that legacy media called "mostly peaceful," while cities burned (including federal buildings), but the INSTANT it was a mostly peaceful protest where some idiots got out of hand (with the assistance of DC police), well THAT'S an insurrection.
It's an old story. They bully you for YEARS and the ONE TIME you lose YOUR cool, YOU'RE the one who needs anger-management training. It's duplicitous, underhanded and malicious.
It's the result of the FACT that over 90% of journalists working for legacy media are left-of-center Democrats with absolutely ZERO ethics about telling the full story. No. Legacy media in the USA are the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party. Seeing it any other way is delusion. FOX is, at best, controlled opposition. It avoids stories that make their corporate advertisers uncomfortable.
But not to worry. MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX and CNN are lucky to bring in 10 million viewers out of a nation of 320 million. Nobody pays attention to them, except politicians, who pretend those obsolete networks actually represent what the American people are thinking. For decades, they manufactured consent. Now they just pretend we consent. For decades, if all the networks said the same thing, it DID represent what Americans were thinking. But NOW? Now, most people who DO watch are gnashing their teeth and changing the channel because of all the lies, smears, and downright IGNORANCE.
I don't know how it is in the Australia, but my experience in the USA is that the journalists are typically the least talented and least inquisitive students in college, today. I dealt with them as a student and as a teacher. Bare minimum to get a passing grade, and grumble the whole time about how "hard" everything is. Then a metamorphosis occurs. They get their teeth fixed, their hair done, a little nip here and tuck there, maybe some speech therapy, and there they are in front of a camera, acting like they know more than anybody else about EVERYthing.
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@winnieblews Pretty much. FOX will let slip some things the other networks won't, as will SKY News. Both have their own 3rd rails. FOX is also pro-vax, while acting skeptical about vax mandates, sometimes.
FOX and SKY are about the only legacy media I'll touch. But they're still only a small fraction of the news I consume from other, more independent outlets. If I want an honest lefty, I'll check out Greenwald, Taibbi, or Jimmy Dore. For conservative take, EPOCH, JustTheNews, or Heritage Foundation. I love Tony Heller on Climate Change. I'm prob'ly fringe libertarian/constitutionalist.
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Unless the power is solar, hydro or nuclear, EVs simply shift the consumption of fossil fuels to big power plants. Given energy losses converting fuel to electricity and/or transmission losses bringing that power to your vehicle, you would be burning more fuel to power your EV than if you'd simply used fossil fuel to power the vehicle, directly.
And that's not accounting in any way for the environmental and monetary cost of making the batteries and disposing them.
There's a place for EVs, but everyone using them, exclusively, is currently a pipe dream. People always want the quick fix, and there are no quick fixes. But the closest thing to a quick fix will be found by free markets. Government bureaucrats and politicians should stay the hell out of it. Their main impact is to steal resources from OTHER good ideas, without ever having to COMPETE wiith those other ideas. The only people guaranteed to make out on EVs are the bureaucrats, politicians and cronies lining up for government subsidies.
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You can still die of it if you don't have a doctor who has HCQ, Ivermectin or ?fluvoxin? I can't remember that third medicine.
All we needed to do was take cold symptoms more seriously, get checked out by a doctor, and enter a commonsense COVID treatment regimen, if we tested positive. The medical and epidemiological establishment got everything wrong, and the political establishment leaped at the chance to test its authoritarian wings. The really scary thing was how many sheeple became totally unhinged and unquestioning.
We knew by March, 2020, that it was treatable with treatments that clinicians could tailor to their patients, as they always have, for over a century. We've never given government agencies as much power as they have, now, and we're paying a heavy price for their fecklessness, incompetence, and ZERO connection to or concern for the interests of the people.
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Such people have ALWAYS pursued positions of power. But in the early days of democratic republics, we gave public officials less power. THEN some of us realized that currying favor with such people could translate into Free Stuff, and now those public officials have WAY more power than they had 50 or 100 years ago. Nobody seems to understand that anything the state does for you is something else the state can do TO you, later. How's that state-run medical going? How're those state-run schools doing? How's that state-affiliated news serving you?
It all seems so marvelous that you're getting something for nothing, even though you end up paying double, in the end, and wind up with absolutely no authority or agency over your own life.
Anyway, this character has all the attitudes of entitled elites. The trick is to quit asking them to do everything for us, and manage our OWN damn affairs. But I think Western Society is 90% socialist-indoctrinated, so we're seeing all the old forms of monarchy and aristocracy rear their heads. They use different terms/words for it, but "all good comes from the King, and all must bend the knee to the king, because we need the king to protect us from this scary world." The original hook was protection against foreign invaders, but now it's extended into every aspect of our HELPLESS LIVES.
I remember when "liberal" meant you just wanted to be free to make your own life. Now it means "take care of poor little helpless me."
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@blueskygal255 He did everything in his power to divert attention from his own culpability, expressing his deep regard for how well the Chinese were handling it, when all evidence was to the contrary. When he sought to dispel the "Wuhan lab-leak" hypothesis, I was already smelling a rat. Now that we know what they've finally allowed us to know, thanks to FOIA and an uncharacteristic and abrupt end to total-lockdown censorship on the hypothesis, it's plain as day that Fauci KNEW the lab-leak hypothesis was by far the most likely scenario for the outbreak.
What makes it worse is that the Chinese did everything possible to cause maximum harm to other nations once the outbreak occurred. I get that their incompetence wasn't intentional BEFORE the outbreak, but they systematically did everything they could to mislead and cover up, and all their proxies in the USA sang the same tune. After this, it is plain as the nose on your face who the traitors are in MSM news.
Basically, ALL of them. ZERO curiosity about the truth. Slavish publishing of government and corporate press releases. No time for fact-checking. No interest in fact-checking. Worthless. Worse than useless. They actually cause HARM. And the whole time they pose as the wisest and most concerned of all of us. They're the WORST of us. People who should know better, but behave badly, anyway.
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@chasbodaniels1744 You refuse to acknowledge cooling trends from the 1930s to late 1970s that had us worrying about a new ice age. Now that you and others want us to worry about global warming, you conveniently ignore that, or memory-hole this inconvenient truth, and focus on global temps since the late 1970s, which was basically the low point of the century.
Maybe you're too young to remember all the scientific articles about the new ice age that were coming out in the 1950s-1970s. Maybe you're just ignorant. Maybe you're just stupid. Not sure which.
There's no question that we do harm by polluting so much. The question is what we do about it, and carbon credits are a typical bureaucratic solution that solves nothing, gives bureaucrats lots of power and a new, permanent niche, and the excuse to order us around and bully us. The fact is that Westerners are voluntarily reducing their footprint with voluntary life choices, including getting off the global supply chain, which is very harmful to the environment, and growing their own food, close to home.
MEANwhile, the SAME politicians who browbeat us about OUR carbon footprint, fly around in private jets to attend more meetings about what NEW means they might use to take more control over our lives, while at the same time, exporting our jobs to high-polluting China and other 3rd-World countries who have NO regard for the environment. Their actions and their words do not coincide. Also, these same people have been buying up beachfront property for years, including pseudo-scientist Al Gore, the tip of the grifter spear.
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@chuckdawg2799 The Internet caused a glitch in their matrix. For 70 or 80 years, the handful of legacy t.v. networks were captured by government agencies, without our even realizing it. It was indirect control, but all it takes to suppress or promote a story is 4 or 5 phone calls, and all the networks and major print media fall in line. It all got started to fight fascism, and has been the custom for generations.
They're trying to do the same with social-media platforms. They would prefer it be beneath our level of perception, like it is in traditional media. But they're so powerful, now, they've become quite arrogant about it, getting caught saying the quiet bits out loud, more and more frequently and blatantly. People worried about the take-over of the nation by a small, super-rich minority need worry no more. It's already happened.
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By all means, let's focus on the effects, and ignore the causes. I'm sick of people hating one side or the other, when the real mover and shaker is the USA, who, on the advice of the UK, carved the state of Israel out of Palestine, by force. It's been an open wound on the Middle East that we just can not and will not allow to heal. We just throw more money at it, ensuring that there is perpetual enmity and hatred on a regional scale.
In the American West, there was ethnic conflict, but all people talked about at the time was the atrocities of "the other side." Mostly it was renegades sparking it off, but good people on both sides were righteously angry, and felt that there was no punishment too severe or atrocity too grotesque to inflict on "the other side," because of how BAD "the other side" was. Murray, Shapiro, and every politician in Washington, DC are hell bent (I don't use the term lightly) on keeping the wound open and bleeding, without ever addressing root causes of the ethnic conflict in the region, let alone whether it is moral to continue throwing our treasure and our (and others') lives away, endlessly doubling down on "stupid."
Say something productive, Douglas. Don't just clutch your pearls in indignation and horror.
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@kelleymcbride4633 Oh it's been devised. It's called the U.S. Constitution, where the powers of the central government are carefully enumerated and explicitly RESTRICTED and all else is left up to the PEOPLE. We, the people, have given up responsibility for our own lives and now we cast about wondering how to free ourselves, when all it takes is to cut central government's role and scope by about 90%. If they stick to the basics, it's easier to discern the corruption that inevitably sets in, AND they can't mess up what they don't control!
But even the U.S. Constitution is no guarantee, if the people, out of greed, fear, and insecurity, vote to EXPAND the scope and role of the national government. They can't screw up what they don't control.
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@jamespyke6764 : As if Wikipedia is ever going to allow anything but the establishment narrative to grace its pages. You lot have failed to predict global temperatures every time you've tried. And you've overshot every bleeding time by a very large amount. Get back to me when your models actually work and ONE of your predictions comes true. Until then, I'm pretty sure the science is on my side.
You guys' say the science is settled, and then you unselfconsciously move the goalposts from Global Warming to Climate Change to Extreme Weather. And if you want to reduce negative human impact on the ecology, you should support prosperity and liberty, which are the only things that seem to get people to give a damn about anything beyond where the next meal's coming from.
I think time will prove me right, and AGW is a bunch of bullshit made up by people who want to herd sheeple this way and that, for their own ends, quite apart from fake messianic missions to Save The Planet! People will choose to live green when they have the option. And they'll get there a helluva lot quicker than government bureaucrats will, and with far less harm to the weakest members of society, whose backs you leftists piss down every bloody day, while telling them it's raining. You're the worst kind of people.
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@questioneverything3026 "Free press" and government have been hand in hand since at least World War II. We didn't fight Nazis just to end fascism. We also fought the Nazis to perfect our OWN fascist controls of the hearts and minds of the public. All in a good cause, at first, but that cozy relationship has only strengthened over time.
Barack Obama did us all a favor by abolishing the "Fairness Doctrine," which meant to distinguish between opinion and objective news. What the fairness doctrine actually did was create a Washington Beltway consensus on reality that was then promulgated as "objective truth" to the masses. This back-door censorship was much more insidious, pervasive, and difficult to oppose than the BLATANT partisanship, de-platforming, shadow-banning and outright censorship that is now on full display.
I think Obama thought this would put the media on total Democrat lock-down. Gloves off. Push the socialist/globalist project through the home stretch to Democrat Party hegemony. All he really accomplished was short-term success and long-term disaffection, as the lies are not NEARLY as well-hidden. Throw in the proliferation of smart phones, and suddenly every citizen has the potential to scoop even the biggest network, and expose truths that conflict with what's on the ABC/NBC/CBS (The American equivalent of BBC, only less obviously creatures run by the government).
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@Pho8os It starts with BAD SCHOLARSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES and it spreads like a cancer, through use of false authority and untenable theories presented as proven fact. I think it's sweet irony to see Christian cultists going toe-to-toe with collectivist cultists. The collectivists are masters of sophistry. The Christians have the courage of their convictions.
But a lot of atheists are against CRT, too. I'm a superstitious agnostic, myself. I'm fine with Christians when they don't get too oppressive. They're generally more tolerant and definitely more honest overall than the collectivist cultists who want all MY money, which they will count in their mansions, and have no compunctions about using any available form of coercion necessary. Shaming, smearing, character assassination, intimidation, silencing, ... These are all on full display by the collectivist/statist side. I'm not seeing it from the Christians, at present. They're in good-behavior mode when they're out of power.
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@JIMDEZWAV "Misinformation" is whatever the establishment deems it to be. Last year's conspiracy theory is this year's "Well, of course that's what's happening!" Lab-leak hypothesis? Censored. Why? To keep Dr. Fauci's cabal out of jail and above suspicion, while they engineer the stupidest response to an epidemic in history, while we worship political appointees as the only scientists we're allowed to listen to.
"Don't deny the science!" But I remember when the tobacco companies had a line of scientists stretching clear out the door swearing on the Bible that nicotine wasn't addictive and smoking didn't cause cancer. COVID can ONLY be treated by Big Pharma vaccine. Shut up about any other treatment you kook! Don't talk about survival rates for COVID for people who aren't over 65 with co-morbidities. Let's just quarantine everybody. It'll be fine.
Scientists don't suddenly become 100% wise and truthful when they get their diplomas. As a scientist/mathematician, I can make things look any way you want them, and I can make it stick, too, if you silence everyone who questions my data manipulations. In multivariate settings, you can crank out whatever result you want, just by tweaking one or two coefficients in your model or throwing out "problematic" data. That's at the root of climate-change hysteria. No, I'm not a "denier." I just have a difference of opinion with the power-grabbers as to how significant our impact is and DEFINITELY part from the establishment when it comes to their self-enriching, fascistic "solutions," which even the experts admit will do little to solve the problem, while costing the poor and middle class ENORMOUSLY.
"Sorry, Mrs. Jones. You're going to have to freeze to death this winter because we're going to raise the cost of energy beyond your ability to keep your home heated. It's for your own good. I'm saving you, don't you see? YOU are destroying the planet. Not us, with our private jets and military consumption (Biggest consumer of fossil fuels), which comes before the planet's needs (apparently). China can keep on polluting as much as it wants, of course. We don't need to crush THEIR people. They're already crushed."
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@Lili5833 Americans are protesting less because the government's been a lot more hesitant to impose draconian measures like other countries without constitutional protections guaranteeing Natural Rights of Humans. UK, France, Germany, ... They don't have individual rights guaranteed like Americans do. Of course, the American establishment does everything it can to subvert and circumvent the U.S. Constitution, but in MOST places, you don't see mask mandates or vaccine mandates.
Western democracies' "freedoms" are cultural, and not really codified in law.
USA isn't much better, because its Constitution is in tatters, but its Constitution still exists, and MILLIONS of Americans understand what's at stake. But we won't go guerrilla until we're pushed too far, and we haven't been pushed HALF as far as citizens in Europe, UK, and elsewhere.
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@bobegan2865 With few exceptions, the apparatchiks of BOTH parties are big-government interventionists, at home and abroad. There are some differences in how they go about it, but philosophically, the bipartisanship in our government runs very deep. The Democrats will create and maintain high tensions. The Republicans will do the same, and are more likely to see things boil over into boots-on-the-ground war.
Trump's one of few presidents who stood up to the apparatchiks and started taking one pan after another off the fire. This was INFURIATING to foreign-policy and defense wonks (and their war-industry cronies), and they're the ones the whole RussiaGate hoax came from. It got so Trump was afraid to do much of anything, for fear of being accused of being 'literally Hitler.' And even when he was very specific about troop drawdowns, his own administration defied him and kept our people deployed behind his back. One ambassador was caught joking about it, quite openly. They KNEW the fix was in.
If Trump had had another 4 years, back-to-back, we'd have a smaller footprint abroad AND peace, and we wouldn't be dependent on the communist Chinese for ANYthing. It was urgent for the "ruling class" in the USA that he be removed. No surprise, every Democrat-run institution was out to get him, and that includes virtually ALL government agencies, including the military, which Obama did his best to fill with party hacks and woke. It spread to all government contractors and of course much of it started in the education system, which is 99% Democrat.
I love the way the establishment calls taking out a dissenter as "speaking truth to power." smh
Anyway, I'm struggling to get to the point I wanted to make about Biden. Yes, he's obviously not up to snuff, but when you vote a guy in over another guy, you're really voting for their STAFF. It's the staff who run everything. You think Obama's a nuclear engineer? Presidents are only as good as the people they have around them. A lot of those people serve multiple presidents. They can expedite orders or slow-walk orders. There's all kinds of ways to thwart a president, without seeming to. This has been done for inbred royalty for centuries.
When I complain about what the admin's doing, it's really a complaint against the DNC establishment who engineered his nomination and eventual election. Some say the engineering of the election was fortified by a lot of cheating, but again, that goes to the people HANDLING Biden.
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They were all going to "enjoy unusually heavy snow fall." Sounds like rich people on ski holiday.
That would explain why so many died. Rich people tend not to take the gear with them. It would be inconvenient to do all that packing and hauling baggage around. It's easier to just buy the gear after they get there. I can see rich people and/or lowlands/city people getting themselves in trouble. I doubt anybody from the area died.
I used to live in Gunnison, Colorado, and I saw a lot of that. Rich people fly in, buy the gear they need, and then sell it before they leave (actually dump it at 2nd-hand shop on consignment). It's like renting, only they never have to use anything that's tainted by somebody else.
Lots of 2nd-hand gear that's just been used once in places like that. Gunnison is just down the road from Crested Butte, where there's some world class powder (snow. not cocaine). I bought some high-quality gear at bargain prices by living there. $300 GoreTex jacket for $80. Not a thing wrong with it. Good-as-new Sorels for $30.
I'm more like you. I've traveled all over the American Rocky Mountain West and NorthWest, following my trade around the region, with lots of trips back home and to various places I wanted to see. And I lived on the road pretty much the same as I lived at the house, right down to the dishes and cookware I used in the kitchen. I'm a lot older, now and can afford separate camp kitchen, but I still go on the road the same way I always did. Raiding the kitchen the day before you leave is just automatic! LOL!
Getting trapped in a snow storm would just be a chance to camp where they'd ordinarily chase you off!
All that being said, perishing of the cold and/or dehydration is an unexpected and unpleasant end for ANYbody. My heart goes out.
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@iggy5347 Yes, the people in Hong Kong were more free under Great Britain than they will be under China. But the British had no right to even BE there to HAVE a Hong Kong, in the first place, and what they did in the Opium Wars is a blot on British history.
That being said, I consider Hong Kong to BE China, at this point, and I don't want Mainland products passed off as made by free people in free Hong Kong, when they aren't. Any special privileges enjoyed by Hong Kong should cease as soon as possible, because it's 100% China, now, no matter how they dress it up. And I don't want cheaper products at the price of propping up tyranny. If it's not obvious that China is an oppressive and tyrannical totalitarian state under CCP, then you need to catch up on your China Uncensored.
I think China becomes a backwater if we hold it accountable and insist on fair and transparent trade. They don't meet the transparency or fairness criteria. They're rogue traders we did a favor to allow into the world trade community, on the assumption that they would behave better if we treated them nice. We know beyond a doubt that they just kept up with their same old ways. We don't need to fight them. But we don't need to do business with them, either.
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It depends on who's in charge. Under Bush's, Clinton and Obama, it was non-stop de-stabilization and regime change, functionally identical to colonial empires of the 17th - 20th Centuries, only with better tech and more sophisticated media.
There's a mind-set in the foreign-policy establishment that insists that we not abandon x, y or z because we made promises to freedom fighters. If we abandon the Kurds, it will make it harder for us to recruit freedom fighters in the future! That was Bolton's thinking. I think Trump foolishly let himself get talked into protecting those oil fields in NE Syria, on behalf of the Kurds.
There's all this bad policy that was justified during the Cold War and now there's a "sunk-cost fallacy" embedded in all their thinking. Rather than cut their losses and admit that meddling extra-legally, abroad, is just non-stop blowback, they talk about all the years and money investing in "developing assets abroad." Well, maybe the American people don't want U.S.-funded paramilitary all over the planet. Today's freedom fighter is tomorrow's terrorist. Our foreign-policy wonks set us up for this, time and time again, and are never held accountable. Their main skill is in smearing those who dare challenge them or call them to account.
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@sypher0101 : You got it right except for the "far right" piece. But everybody gets the left-right thing wrong, especially now, after decades of the left being on top, becoming the establishment, and as such, becoming the new "conservative."
Meh. None of it matters. A critical mass, a super-majority of Westerners, now basically believe in a fascist setup, with government running education and health care, just like Bismarck taught Hitler. We see how the Nazis brainwashed entire generations and then we turn right around and defend public schools under centralized control.
AFAIC, government programs were invented to maintain the ascendancy of the existing political class. Industrialization had us common folk getting mighty independent, creative, and uppity, so the ruling elites had to do something to put the focus back on them. The people finally weaned themselves off the Jünkers, and immediately hopped in Der Fuehrer's lap. Nobody learned from WW II. We became what we said we were fighting.
We're absolute dumb-asses, when you get right down to it. Staring us in the face. And nobody sees it.
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As a descendant of Druids and a closet tree-hugger, I believe humans can and should be a positive force in the ecosystem.
That doesn't mean I think authoritarian use of force by misguided and under-educated politicians, bureaucrats, and self-interested robber barons (who ALWAYS feast when government intervenes) will get us to a better place.
Look. People care about the environment more than ever before in human history. Environmental friendliness is a deeply inculcated value in our culture (USA). You want a greener planet? De-regulate and cut taxes. Compensate for the de-regulation by putting 10% of the money wasted on government agencies into the TORT SYSTEM. Make it quick and easy for the common man to sue anyone - including a mega-corporation - for ANY harm caused by that company.
You think companies wouldn't clean up their act? All of a sudden, a $10,000 check to the regional rep for the EPA does you no good. You just better not dump that stuff in the river, because of the millions of little guys downstream who can take a $10,000 swipe at you in, say, small claims. Don't need more laws and regs. Just need a tort system that's robust enough to handle a gazillion LITTLE cases, expeditiously.
As a libertarian, I think if you removed government barriers to competition, every home with a yard and a tree or trees would have a rocket stove mass heater that you could always heat your house and make hot water and cook with, no matter what happened to the grid, plus you'd have a really clean and efficient backup heat system. But due to regulations, I don't think there're more than one or two companies who make rocket mass heaters that are UL listed and be covered by homeowner's insurance.
What there SHOULD be is 1,000 or 10,000 guys out there, all making rocket mass heaters (RMHs), in competition with each other for performance, safety, ease of use and durability. We don't have that. Why? Because government insists on "helping" us with everything. How did things ever improve before government stepped in with regulations? Regular customers and the rewards of treating people right. There'll always be fly-by-nighters, but in an unregulated market, you just go by the company's REPUTATION, and it's hard for anybody without a reputation to break in. They have to offer really good deals just so people will try them out. None of that requires a government overseer...
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The education establishment defines passing as "success." The easiest way to get more "success" is to lower standards. They put all kinds of edu-babble around it, but speaking as a teacher, the downward pressure on standards is always there, no matter how they dress it up.
Where I work, they now push "co-requisites" for college algebra, because students are so poorly prepared for it. So we spend hundreds of thousands of dollars per pupil in k-12, and none of it matters. The college is force-feeding high-school (intermediate) algebra to students on a "just in time" basis, so now college algebra is college algebra plus all the stuff you were supposed to learn, but we know you didn't, because we know k-12 sucks. It's a horrific waste of taxpayer money. It's a HUGE duplication of effort, if you count k-12 as "effort."
It increases the cost of a college education, waters down college education, and never gets at the root of the problem, which is social promotion in k-12.
But at least we're brimming over with "success!"
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The American public has gone through 16 years of "extreme technocracy" and we're rejecting the corrupt and inept so-called "experts," who've gotten everything wrong, from economics to war & peace to nutrition and health care. We've seen how those we pay to do science end up doing politics, instead, and silencing the actual scientists.
I hope that Russell Brand's message of de-centralization gets through. We can't let one dingbat official in Washington impose bad policy on all 50 states. Let us make our own mistakes. Without federal "guidance" having the functional force of law, for all 50 states, there would have been 20 states get COVID right within 2 weeks, with 30 falling in line within one month, and all but maybe California and New York getting on with their lives within 2 months.
Early treatment. Preventive measures we've known for over a century. Off-the-shelf medicines that treated severe respiratory distress (HCQ). Sure, throw in the "right to try" an experimental drug if you're in a high-risk group, but mandating it for all? In the middle of a pandemic? Wrong and wrong.
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Everyone wants to go back to the '90s, when the partisanship of the press was better-disguised and even more pernicious than now, when their "soft censorship" is now right out in the open. Every time there's a new media breakthrough, conservatives hop on it, and the establishment does its best to weed them out. They're now trying to do the same thing to the Internet that they did to cable in the '70s and '80s, and what they did to radio in the '30s, which transferred seamlessly to television as the big radio networks dominated television.
Government censorship in the USA has been around for a long time. It's just harder to hide, and they don't even TRY to hide it, any more. Now they use "hate speech" and "misinformation" mislabeling to justify their heavy-handedness, but people who think - people who know their history - see right through this end-run around the 1st Amendment, which has ALWAYS been a threat to unchecked abuse of power by the state.
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It's not just the Chinese disinformation. It's the authoritarian suppression of anything that varied in any way from the Chinese disinformation. "Our" media chose to believe the one guy who had something to lose from word getting out, Peter Daszak. And Daszak worked in close cooperation with Fauci to "fortify" the coverup, with the full cooperation of corporate media who showed no inclination to do any real fact-checking, unless it was to ask Peter Daszak or Anthony Fauci what THEY thought.
These blunders by once-trusted (foolishly, in hindsight) corporate media, of which FOX is also a part, have lost them all trust and confidence by the half of the country that's open to competing ideas and judging them on their merits, rather than being spoon-fed by self-appointed arbiters of truth. Even now, YouTube has a banner at the top of the comments directing users to Google-approved propaganda on COVID.
FOX gets more of the big stories right than MSM, but FOX is still corporate, and still helps present an MSM united front on numerous topics. We don't even know what stories THEY leave out because it might piss somebody off in their hierarchy, which overlaps those of other legacy networks.
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She's wrong on American culture. The fear never went away. Those kids in school in the '80s still believe all the nuclear-freeze propaganda, and now they're politicians and administrators. In their younger days, it was the Spotted Owl and Snail-Darter on the enviro front. Now it's CO2-driven global warming. Same people. Same fears. Same confirmation bias. Same mix of half-truths that add up to lies.
At the same time, it has been revealed that estimates by hawkish conservatives during the '80s over-estimated Soviet capabilities by a factor of 10, in order to justify a military big enough to police the entire planet (poorly, arbitrarily, brutally and often greedily).
But otherwise, she's spot on about how the global warming crowd, who pretend they're champions of the disadvantaged and dispossessed, are systematically attacking access to clean, cheap energy, which ALWAYS hurts the disadvantaged and dispossessed the most. No regard. And yes, if you make all other forms of energy prohibitively expensive, people WILL go back to burning wood! Unintended consequences that are so predictable that I'm going to stop calling them "unintended," because if these policies come from leaders who know better than we mere serfs, then they KNOW these consequences are around the corner, so it's willful ignorance, stupidity, greed, or sheer malevolence driving it.
Now for the nuance: Rocket-stove mass heating systems burn wood all the way down to NOTHING, using an insulated burn chamber that gets up to refractory temperatures, so that the only exhaust is CO, CO2, H2O. Take that super-hot exhaust gas and run it through an earth mass, heat up that earth mass, and you only have to burn wood for 1/10 the amount of time, and there's zero particulates coming out. It's quite clean and up to 90% more efficient than the most efficient, government-approved wood-heat systems on the market. But you kind of have to build it, yourself, because the establishment doesn't know what to make of ACTUAL green tech that doesn't involve billions of dollars in subsidies and millions of dollars in kickbacks.
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I'll keep an eye on her personal-growth trajectory. She's obviously bright, but she's still pretty young and spends a lot of time talking and being a personality. She needs to keep reading. Same with Ben Shapiro. Very bright, young people, who are very well-read for their age - Ben more than anybody - but still kind of green. Check back when they're 50, and how they talk and write about things.
Another one to watch is Tomi Lahren. She slurps up knowledge like a sponge, but she's pretty young to get as much exposure as she does on the subjects she speaks about. Definitely very advanced for her age in some ways. But probably a little stunted, socially, and with another few or several years of scholarship before she'll have real gravitas.
Compared to their counterparts on the left, they're all way ahead of the game, but I'd want to see a list of accomplishments and some silver in their hair. Shapiro's editor-in-chief of Breitbart, which is good administrative experience. Personally, I kind of like seeing governors who administered their state governments ably and put them on a sound financial footing as presidents. I think senators make good vice presidents, because they kind of know how Washington works, and know where the bodies are buried.
Trump was a decent choice, because of the business he was in and the projects he brought to completion. Knowing the in's and out's of Byzantine Manhattan was good training for dealing with the rats in Washington, and even knowing quite a few of them. He was still a babe in the woods when it came to how many rules career civil service were willing to break to go after him. He underestimated how far Dems in Congress and Obama appointees embedded in his administration would go to thwart his agenda. Most of all, he made the mistake of thinking characters from previous Republican administrations were in any way sympathetic to the cause of draining the swamp.
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I was spared ALL of this nonsense as a boy, for which I'm eternally grateful. Time enough for all that sex stuff when you're old enough to take responsibility for the consequences. That's something we forgot along the way. I'm no big religionist, but there are obvious survival mechanisms EMBEDDED in tradition, and we meddle with tradition at our peril.
That's why I'm such a Jordan Peterson fan. I end up treading dangerously close to being accused of social Darwinism, but the fact is, what works is what persists to be passed on to future generations. Things that don't work don't last. As an evolutionary psychologist/sociologist/biologist, you HAVE to account for the persistence of religion through the millennia. Peterson is one who tries to get to the heart of that. Not too much into the Jungian "collective unconscious" as a sort of mystical connection, but I DO believe there are explicit and also largely HIDDEN assumptions built into people on the day-to-day level that can lead to better or worse outcomes over time.
I just wish the Christians, who get so much RIGHT, didn't insist on superimposing "God Said" on top of everything. It's a paradox. Maybe an inescapable one, but probably not, if some schmuck like me can sort of abstract these notions and reason from them to some interesting conclusions that appear to hold up under scrutiny and tested in the laboratory of history.
These "liberals" can be as correct as they want to be. It's the Christians and the Muslims who are going to out-breed them and eventually start calling the shots again, as they have for millennia, with all the good and bad that entails. But I don't think the liberals are very "right." I think they throw out the baby with the bathwater and never ask themselves the right questions about how to proceed, having exposed another obsolete or regressive aspect of Bronze-Age traditions, little altered since Medieval times, when we KNOW a lot of THEIR culture - for good or ill - was embedded in our understanding of ancient texts.
For some reason, we just assume that the loudest person complaining about a wrong is more qualified than anyone else as to how to set things right. Slaves who overthrow their masters make terrible rulers. The American revolution was unique in that it was an aggrieved Middle Class who threw off the shackles of European imperialism, and set up something pretty cool that lasted for damn near 200 years, more or less as intended, for the vast majority of people.
The rot set in almost immediately, with rich dudes "having a word" with politicians, who were only too happy to exceed their writ to benefit their pal and themselves. Every time the CULTURE was undergoing a shift, somebody made it political, and the government got a little bigger, stronger, and farther removed from its intended purpose and scope.
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Dutch farmers NEED that fertilizer, because government pushed agriculture down a petro-chemical path that is destructive of soil biome. The government shouldn't've encouraged the chemical farming in the first place, but that doesn't mean it can turn on a dime and go to full-on permaculture without a MASSIVE drop-off in production and MASSIVE harm to farmers. It's just wrong. But these Climate Cultists are very absolutist in their views and their noble ends justify any and all means that will serve that one messianic goal of theirs.
I do think we need to view agriculture differently. Grow more, locally, both for quality and efficiency. Russ Finch growing oranges in Nebraska can get $3.50/pound, but a Florida grower only gets 40 cents per pound ($.40/pound), because of all the middlemen getting them from Florida to Nebraska (1500 miles? 2000 miles?). We DO need to get more decentralized, but not the way the alarmists who love wielding government power want to do it. Just make it a selling point in your products to be greener than the next guy, and customers will like you more.
Before the Mongols came through, ancient Persians were happily growing melons on the desert with first-rate irrigation and ag techniques, feeding a LOT of good people.
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Shortly after Trump took office in 2017, John Brennan, who HAD to know this was a hoax as early as Spring, 2016, but certainly by August, 2016, was making accusations that at the time left room for only 1 of 2 things: Either Trump was going to jail for collusion, or Brennan was going to jail for treason. Brennan INSISTED there was proof that HE knew about, but that he just couldn't share, yet, because of ongoing investigations.
Well, Brennan was lying the whole time, and he SABOTAGED American credibility, abroad, generally, and American security, in particular.
10s of millions of Americans - you know, the ones who READ - have been infuriated for WELL over 4 years at the unchecked lies and abuse of power by the Democrat machine that permeates career government officialdom. The law doesn't matter, when you've got the Dept of Justice and half the courts sewn up.
But we'll see how and when the pendulum swings. They're so used to running roughshod over everyone's rights with carefully crafted narratives that they're not even being very careful about their narratives! Maybe letting them have their way was the only way to truly expose the depths of their perfidy.
COVID and Climate Change are their latest effronteries. Next step to political control of everything that matters and a new world order that openly and blatantly favors the ruling class who are not giving up their private jets and limousine caravans and yachts and mansions any time soon, while telling us "You'll be happier living in a box, without all that messy freedom of movement, and without affordable energy. Not us. You."
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@dickjones9207 And you can't spell "quadratic." As a math professor, myself, I think a lot of kids are sent down a classical math pathway that really isn't very relevant. Techniques of college algebra, including the quadratic equation, are tools that underly calculus, higher analysis and engineering. If you're not following one of those career paths, it's a waste of time. I hate saying this because it does broaden you, some, to take on that discipline, and the theory is very beautiful. It's just not going to be of any use to you in real life (No matter how much they claim otherwise).
I'm all the time asking students "Why are you in college algebra? You're not going to use it in your career." Then I learn that it's required for their major. And in their major, it's not really something they NEED, but it's a good weeder course, to reduce the number of, for instance, nursing majors. They could learn all the proportions and percentages they will need for drug dosage, etc., with a short, 3- or 4-week course that covers those topics.
One school I taught at used trigonometry as their weeder course. They knew you had to be able to think to pass trig, and it was a very easy way for them to weed out the pretenders in their biology program. It also was a way to torture math teachers, with a bunch of low-performing students who had zero motivation to understand the material.
Students would be much better served, in the main, by taking statistics, because so much of our scientific and political discussions revolve around statistics. It's easy to fool the American public with cherry-picked data, or to make claims that the data seem to support but actually don't (correlation versus causation).
Teach them how to use a spreadsheet, and figure things out with simple models and recursions. You don't have to understand annuities to build an amortization schedule for a loan. You just have to know how compound interest works for one compounding period and drag down! BOOM! There's all your payments and the running balance!
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Not quite, Tucker. Our "leaders" never trusted society, and now they're freaking out because their control systems are fraying at the edges. They still get plenty of sheeple to "support the latest thing," but BLM's done the same song and dance every 4 years for a long time, and this is the FIRST time I've seen any scrutiny. COVID madness lasted about 2 years, before society grew immune to that fear, And the Ukraine fetish is wearing thin after just a few months.
There are still the knee-jerk, "latest thing" types in great number, but they're not getting the unquestioned affirmation and approbation they once did. The "likes" for adding a Ukrainian flag to your signature have waned very quickly.
I've always been the contrary voice on matters of liberty (I want moar) and war (I want less), while others argue over HOW government should meddle, not how much. And on the war front, we argue over how MUCH force to use, how MANY to kill, when to me, the answer is simple:
No force. No killing.
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Whether he is or not, the act will suffice in getting him out of jail as mentally incompetent. While I do think he's senile, I don't think it matters one bit. He was never running the show to begin with. He's been a liar and a faker his entire career, and is LIVING PROOF of how corrupt our system is.
Dwelling on his incompetence misses the point that he was INSTALLED to do the Democrats' dirty work. They can disavow him, now that he's done all their hatchet work for them, and he gets off scot free because he's senile.
It's a brilliant strategy by the Dems, who will almost certainly field a fresh, new candidate in the next few months, who will be "Not Joe" and definitely "Not Trump," and they hope and expect to sweep to the White House on another fake "Hope and Change" candidate, like Obummer was.
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The 1st Amendment died in 1934 with the Communications Act and the creation of the Federal Communications Commission (right around the same time Hitler was perfecting control of media). Media have supported every expansion of government and government control ever since. The Communications Decency Act put it on steroids. Obama put the finishing touches on it by executive order. Nobody noticed. Now, censorship of political speech is out in the open, and nobody except people who question authority seem to notice or care.
It's high time we finally realized we serve the government and not the other way around! Brave new world, baby!
The only time American media EVER questioned war-making by our government was during Vietnam, which is understandable, since why would they want us to kill communists? Arabs? Muslims? No problem. American media has NEVER questioned the unending expansion of the welfare state. Nobody remembers or cares that what the government does FOR you, today, is what government can do TO you, tomorrow. We are such sheep.
The American principle is that PEOPLE will handle their affairs better than aristocrats who never heard of us and never cared about us. But we've learned our lesson. Now, we accept our serfdom, because Uncle Sam knows best.
No. Uncle Sam is the guy you don't leave alone with your kids!
The Bill of Rights was quietly repealed over 80 years ago in the name of protecting our children from profanity (and adults from harassment by telephone). America's "free media" has been a propaganda arm for the U.S. Government since before most of us were born. Thank goodness the government stepped in, because now children can watch free porn and lonely Americans get friendly phone calls from scammers on a daily basis. I've been on no-call list for 15 years, but luckily, they know I really wanted to talk to that guy from Bangladesh announcing the wonderful news that I've just won $70,000! All I need to do to get it is send them $700! I'll be rich! It's wonderful, isn't it? Thank God the FCC is protecting me from stuff like that.
It's about power and control. It's ALWAYS been about power and control. And both are extracted from us by making us afraid of something. COVID is just the latest. We've been groomed for lock-downs for most of a century.
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Bias in "the press" isn't the problem. Legacy media's longstanding capture by ONE form of bias, and Big Tech platforms' capture by ONE form of bias is the problem. It's not "free speech" if they can use top-down power to control the public square.
This is something that a free market would handle, just fine, only the market isn't really free. Big Tech got all kinds of advantages to get established in the first place, and any push, now, to "regulate" them will just cement them in dominant positions for many years.
In the USA, I think they should abolish the Communications Decency Act, and Section 230, in particular. Let it be a free-for-all. It SHOULD be a free-for-all on "platforms." The phone company has no say in what I discuss over the phone. Let the CUSTOMERS decide how to filter their information. Rather than having Big-Tech drones decide what to filter OUT, let parents and ordinary customers decide what to allow IN.
Everyone should have their own private version of "hosts deny" and "hosts allow." Parents should deny: ALL, and then ALLOW the channels/content they approve. There should be a plethora of filtering software companies competing for customer services.
Part of the problem is all the free content and the corporate-advertiser strings that are attached, often below the level of perception of the customers. If your content is free, you're not the customer. You're the PRODUCT. It's all in the fine print when you sign up for these "free" platforms.
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Trump represents the middle. Reaches out to the middle. He appeals to the middle, because we've been gettin' squeezed from above and - in many cities - from below (because of what the people above are doing). Against the middle are arrayed the super-rich, government employees (including educators), and the non-working poor. The lower- and middle-class workers are a pretty unbeatable coalition.
It's agonizingly slow, if you're trapped by the daily news cycle and the wish for all things to be known and all conflicts resolved NOW, but my sense of the ebb and flow of things is that there's a MASSIVE, almost unprecedented paradigm shift taking place around the world, and it's taking place very rapidly. There's a revival in parochialism, and it's actually a GOOD thing! Good starts in the individual's heart and spreads outward. It is NOT dispensed from On High. People have been looking outside themselves for someone to solve or someone to blame for their problems, when it all starts at home.
People have been looking to governments far away to run everything, and conditions are different, everywhere you go. The LOCALS need to handle their business and the FEDS need to butt out.
But what's driving it is not what you might think. It's more like the American Revolution in the sense that the British were paying way more than they could afford and charging way more than Americans could afford, to provide services (French and Indian War) to the colonies that the colonies needed to handle, themselves. It wasn't that the British were all that unreasonable, given that they were locked in a fight to the death with France in Europe.
The establishment elites have an entirely different world view than we masses, which they would rule. But the plain fact is, the establishment elites really aren't very elite, these days, and that's assuming they ever were. They're not in touch with our problems. A small increase in gas prices won't touch them. But it could mean the difference between being cold this winter or being able to buy your kid a new pair of shoes when he outgrows the last pair. What do they care if the guy making $30,000 a year (i.e. $15/hr) can no longer afford to take his family of 4 out for pizza once a week or once a month? They can point to the $15/hr minimum wage as something "good" they "accomplished," when all they really did was devalue the $15/hr guy from BEFORE they came along.
Your plumber has more worthwhile skills and understanding of how people interact with one another on a daily basis than ANY politician or stuffed-shirt technocrat. That highly skilled plumber is one of MANY Trump "uneducateds." Then there are the crotchety old conservatives who still frequent math and science departments, in the very heart of the liberal fortress. We are an unlikely, yet inevitable coalition of people who see history and human progress as a FREEING of people from government patronage, not a welcoming of the patronage and the oppression that always comes with it.
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Forget about how much they've dropped in one week. Focus instead on how miniscule their audiences were at their pre-election peak! "Down to 632,000" means they were only bringing in 1.2 million views at their peak. There are podcasters bringing in more views!
They were already dying before the election. The manufacture of consent by government/corporate oligopoly is failing. They had their way when mass media was first invented and for decades thereafter.
What our establishment learned from Hitler and Stalin wasn't that state-run (or state-manipulated) media was a bad thing. They learned how to obtain the same results by running their censorship and manipulation secretly, behind closed doors, and then bragging about our "free press," which was so much better. In a way, it WAS better, because in the USSR, China, or any other openly totalitarian state, everybody KNOWS what they see in print or on tv is 100% government propaganda.
By contrast, in the USA, I remember bragging about our free press compared to the obvious lies of TASS or PRAVDA back in the mid-70s (teen years). It wasn't until decades later that a little bit of research showed me how many lies and distortions I accepted at face value because I didn't realize that it was all establishment propaganda.
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They're the top 2 at this time. Trump didn't understand the workings of government, like DeSantis does. Career government employees ran rings around Trump. I'd rather Trump be #1 cheerleader, tweeting up a storm from Mar-A-Lago. I think Trump is damaged goods at this point. He has The Jab hanging around his neck, which splits the base. Democrats are now allowing you to say bad things about The Jab, so they've probably got Trump all set up to take a fall, right there.
I don't think Trump would've pushed mandates, and he left things to the states, as he should, but he let things get crazy without speaking out strongly against the crap his own agencies were spewing out. He took all 4 years to end CRT training in the military and federal agencies, which Biden reverses before they ever quit teaching it. Trump had the right idea a lot of the time, and he was less authoritarian than Obama and Biden. But he took the advice of a lot of the wrong people in high places. A lot of his top officials were either wrong, lying to him, or deliberately withholding information he had every right and all the authority to know.
For instance, Trump ordered U.S. military out of Syria. "We won, right? So why are we still there? Bring them home." They told him they did, but they didn't. That's TERRIBLE. The fact that Trump didn't know he'd been disobeyed (apparently) says maybe he doesn't know who his friends are and maybe he makes some bad appointments, but he sticks with them too long, out of reluctance to admit he made a mistake? I don't know. I know there was a lot of storm and fury, but not a ton of progress draining a swamp that's even bolder, now, than in 2016. They took on their boss and WON! They can get away with whatever they want, now.
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If they do it on their own initiative, they're within their rights. But the public needs to understand that they're getting a very sanitized world view from Democrat-run media: New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, Huffington Post, Twitter, FaceBook, YouTube, ... They're all in the same bubble. If you don't dig, you won't see anything Democrats don't want you to see.
When government agencies push censorship, it's a direct violation of the 1st Amendment.
Either way, half of the American people only see the uni-party narrative. I'm including Republicans who are just as deeply imbedded in the status quo, tax-and-spend, trammel individual rights permanent state. Multi-term senators and representatives all have that establishment taint to them.
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This is why building regulations and regulations of ALL kinds are garbage. You should be judged on the safety and durability of your construction. You should operate on your REPUTATION. But with government "regulators" in charge, it's a matter of bribing one or two people. One guy looking the other way. One phone call from a powerful person to another powerful person. Government agencies are weaponized for the corrupt against the honest. It all starts out with smiles and good intentions, but NObody has a STAKE in it.
I watched this kind of garbage from the USA side, as a huge C-SPAN addict way back in the 1980s. There wasn't a single committee hearing where they didn't start some new program, with new oversight, new funding, new bureaucrats. Everyone congratulated each other for "solving this major problem" and NObody talked about growth of government or spiraling cost of government. Every form you fill out, there were a bunch of legislators talking to some activist or lobbyist and garnering virtue points for spending our money to please that one constituency.
They none of 'em spendin' they own money. They none of them dealin' with the extra red tape. And oversight is a joke. They spawn new agencies, programs and "initiatives" every day, and can't spare 5 minutes over the next 10 years to actually oversee any of it. Just get they damn pictures taken with somebody with a sob story, for a headline and a "Look how concerned they are! Look how much they CARE!" They don't care. They never did and never will. There's just no penalty for saying "yes," and nothing but problems if they say "no."
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