Surely no one's buying the claim of naive ignorance. They've seen the research - they're busy deleting it. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/28/arctic-researcher-donald-trump-deleting-my-citations#comment-95664630
One of my favourite Nicky Hager quotes: "A government that needs dirty politics is a government with something to hide."
Maybe publishing a weekly list of crimes by immigrants would help push things along. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-speech-voice-immigrants-crimes-list-agency-donald-joint-address-congress-a7604836.html A bit like ...
There's no rationality here John G. Our drug laws and attitudes are based on cultural norms and decades of propaganda from corporate and political self-interest. Reality and evidence about dangers and harm not so much. As I said on the other thread, smoke ...
I wasn't suggesting alcohol should be banned. Just commenting on the double standard. Smoke a joint last week and you be rejected for employment. Get pissed af on Friday night and you're a good sort.
He's just following Trump's post-fact lead. Just make shit up, others can contradict you with facts later, but the dogs he's whistling won't care. They'll just nod their heads and believe it anyway since it fits with the bigotry they've been given by ...
Meanwhile a drug called alcohol kills ~15 kiwis per week. That's just the social price of the freedom to booze apparently. Accidents, a kaleidoscope of diseases, violence and rape - all the scary things that weed was supposed to cause but doesn't, alcohol ...
A few days ago National was getting savaged for their stupid unswimmable swimmable rivers policy. Low and behold, English starts droning on about the damn druggies based on what he's 'heard'. It's all so boringly familiar.
Huxley himself argued that his dystopia was more likely than Orwell's.
Whoring himself out to the promotion of the corporate projects of the super rich and loving it. Key is himself rich by any normal standard, but still can't resist a tummy rubbing from a billionaire. Back in 2008 he said he would help the "underclass", now ...
I also think about how the US public can be awoken to the realization that they've been taken for a ride by two faces of the same neo-liberal coin since Reagan. That left vs right differences have been blown out of proportion for the purposes of power and ...
I'll go on the last question. "Why not take the declared views of Trump over the duplicitousness and corruption (while calling others deplorable) of Hillary Clinton?" Because a) I find his declared views to be regressive, ridiculous, childlike dog-whistles...
I also saw Trump's EOs as largely a continuation of dog-whistling. I have some faith though that large chunks of his popular support are not alt-right brietbart readers for whom 'liberal tears' are their primary goal. Plenty thought he could bring positive...
Both sides howling to the moon about the other's lies, hypocrisy, ruthlessness, subversion, warmongering, and general sociopathic behaviour. Both sides not quite psychologically ready to accept that they are both right.
Bannon has been telling his listeners for years that the entirety of Islam is at war with the West, and we need to hurry up and war them back. Plus we'll need to war China within a few years - just inevitable apparently. But the sooner we start the warring...
Cheers for the tips. I'm not a big commenter, maybe 4-5 comments over the past couple of weeks. Not sure. Will try a different browser.
Thanks weka, my comments have been filtered for a while now.
I'm still in auto-moderation? [as far as I can see you just were just randomly caught in the filter. Happens to various people from time to time, it's not intentional - weka]
Yes. For quite some time now Dunne has shifted his standard line from 'over my dead body' to 'this is a medical issue'. I've heard numerous interviews where he has clearly and very deliberately been repeating it. I only clicked why a while back. Over my ...
Thanks r0b.
Am I in auto-moderation? [r0b: not intentionally. Sometimes the collective algorithms seem to pick on certain users for a while, for no reason that I can see. Sorry!]
What to do on a Sunday after you've won an election on a promise to take govt away from the elites and give it back to the people? Headline a Versailles themed ball for European royalty of course! Photos. "The event “From Vienna to Versailles,” took place ...
Not implausible at all. "So who is this Australia guy?" "Mr Turnbull is the leader of the Australian Liberal Party Mr President." "I see. Give me the phone..."
Of course he didn't write it. "Schwartz was the subject of a July 2016 article in The New Yorker in which Schwartz describes Donald Trump unfavorably and relates how he came to regret writing The Art of the Deal. He also stated that if it were to be ...
I think the Democrats thinking they were too cool to care about the red states and their problems might have a bit more to do with it. 'It wuz the Green party voters what made Trump president' I think not.
Same paranoids urged each other to buy guns to protect themselves from the government. Lots and lots of guns.
It's already done. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnM-zVwUM20
... a bus and commence the Mike Pence show.
I saw an article on a US website pointing out that the seven 'countries of concern' referenced in Trump's order, (only Syria is actually named), were decided by the Obama administration last year.
He's not keeping America safe, he's keeping it afraid.
Both, plus gross self-interest. As far as Trump is concerned he's just breaking eggs to make an omelette. He's a 'snap-my-fingers-I-want-it-done-now' manager, subordinates can figure out the how and if they fail, he'll blame then fire them. Plus what AB ...
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