Mite vs Mote. Speck vs. Plank. Democrats only offering is a dictatorship of the proletariat - the Lenin/Stalin thing.
Democrats tend to be better educated than Republicans [theatlantic.com] so your characterization of a "dictatorship of the proletariat" seems pretty far off base.
Republicans are a coalition of the extremely wealthy, white trash, and evangelical Christians. Two of those groups are being played by the other.
It's really strange that you accuse Democrats of seeking a dictatorship when our current president openly fawns over dictators and doesn't understand checks and balances on executive power.
The nationalist socialist party culturally misappropriated that symbol from the Navajos and others. The Navajos were on the winning side of WW2. When will the Judeo-Christian traditional symbol the rainbow be won back.
Now that's the type of mental gymnastics I would expect from someone with an Ayn Rand donate URL in their sig. I do find it delightfully ironic that the Ayn Rand Institute asks for donations rather than raising funds by selling goods or services on the free market. I don't think Howard Roark or John Galt would approve of accepting charity. I also think it's weird that Objectivists don't see eerie parallels between Trump and James Taggart.
But what do I know? I'm apparently brainwashed because I went to grad
Better educated (aka went to college) does not equate to being smarter.
Not in all cases, no. But in many cases it does. Most importantly, it demonstrates a willingness to learn and become better. Something that most Americans once used to value, but now many seem to devalue instead. As if not educating oneself is somehow a good thing. No wonder an idiot like Trump can become "president". It is disgraceful.
It is very true from my (admittedly) large anecdotal evidence that Democrats are more highly educated. I work in a professional, scientific field dominated by people who both have degrees and align with Democrats. This however, does not mean they are smarter. Lately, I actually am seeing that educational factor as a huge negative among those Democrats; it gives them an over-confidence in their knowledge and understanding of a situation and context. They're the group who repeatedly says "listen to the sc
You mean the "splinter faction" that was pretty-well represented between Warren and Sanders?
You picked some odd candidates to support your point. Those two are primarily concerned with economic issues. In fact, the faction on the left you are vocally complaining about largely disliked Sanders because he thinks that inequality can be solved through economic initiatives.
If I had to guess, you're one of those people who says Trump is alt-right, despite his habit of being pro-Jew, pro-Israel and sympathetic to the black community's concerns.
Being pro-Jew and pro-Israel are entirely different things. I know a lot of Jews and none of them support the apartheid theocracy Israel has erected. I have yet to see Trump demonstrate that he's sympathetic to the black community's
Unfortunately that splinter faction has the rest of the party leadership by the balls and their crazy is more damaging to the most fundamental bonds of society. They even explicitly say they want to deconstruct Western civilization.
No dude. This nonobservant Jew with an interracial daughter is going to get in bed with the bible thumpers and the climate deniers over the gender weirdos, the "writing is white supremacy" education theorists, and the "astronomy is colonial science" brigade any day of the week.
Have you read a Scientific American lately? They're publishing _poetry_ these days.
Isaac Newton wrote some of his most important work in poetry.
Mathematical principles of philosophy
Isaac Newton
We consider chiefly those things Which relate to gravity, Levity, elastic force, The resistance of fluids, And the like forces, Whether attractive or impulsive; And therefore, We offer this work as the Mathematical principles of philosophy; For all the difficulty of philosophy Seems to consist of this– From the phenomena O
Whoosh. First, SA isn't publishing any important science via poetry. Second, even if he wrote poetry, Newton didn't write "some of his most important work in poetry", as you claim, although he may have tried to popularize/market them thus. Exactly what was added to science/mathematics by what you quoted? It's nothing but fluff. Dr. Suess did it better and more succinctly:
One fish, Two fish, Red fish, Blue fish, / Black fish, Blue fish, Old fish, New fish.
If you brand everyone slightly left of center as being just as kooky as the furthest left fringes, then why do you get so upset when those slightly right of center get accused of being just as kooky as the extreme right fringe?
You know what, I have a tran coworker. All the original parts are still there though. So what? She does a damn good job, she's polite to everyone, so why should I care? It ain't my business. Certainly far better to be hiding the dicks than to wave them around like the alpha male
You clearly do not comprehend just how far "the left" has gone to the Left, and that you are trapped within an Overton Window.
You probably think yourself a sane moderate, but you have a male coworker who thinks he's a she, and cross dresses as a woman, and insists everybody else refer to him as a her.... and you automatically comply with this total falsehood. Science (the hard sciences like biology, not the soft quasi social sciences) says this person is MALE and if this person was blasted to bits in a plan
The earlier poster was the one to bring up the transgender issue. I only pointed it out as an indicator of how far the window of what's accepted as normal had been moved and how fast. I did not choose the subject. And, yes, the direction has been to the left. Did I make THAT up, or are you willing to admit that yes, as a basic factual matter, the political left advanced that position of accepting transgenderism more than the political right?
where on Earth did you get that "God hates queers" garbage from any
What does this person being trans have to do with left or right in politics? What sort of crazy mixed up political world is that? Because we believe in a sane budget but must therefore insist that everyone wear clothes appropriate to their own sex?
I take the position I do on this particular topic. As I pointed out in another post, this transgender stuff is not my particular "thing", it was introduced by the previous poster and I merely addressed it as an indicator of a shift in politically-attached politics. Since it was brought up and you have decided to fixate on it, I'll address your point, and without insulting you as you childishly tried to insult me:
Human beings have a sex. Male or Female. Determined by Chromosomes. Yeah, there are a tiny numb
Human beings have a sex. Male or Female. Determined by Chromosomes. Yeah, there are a tiny number of people with defective genetics, but as with all genetic defects, these are not classed as normal.... Where is the genetic, hormonal, or other totally objective, falsifiable and calibrated medical test for "gender expression"? Is there some blood, urine, or saliva test for it? Does it show up on X-Rays? I thought we here on Slashdot loved science... oh, and those of us who ACTUALLY love science and discussion are open to discussing anything without going hostile.
One man's defect is another man's variation.:-) You can define left-handedness as a defect [rd.com] and force children to be right-handed, too, but all you're going to do is create misery, so why bother?
Many of the things you're talking about are equally true of homosexuality and transgenderism, and looking at the history of the science around homosexuality is instructive.
Homosexuality was classed as a defect for a while because most of the homosexuals that doctors knew about happened to all be mentally ill, a
You're entire focus is on a handful of Transgender individuals. You're completely ignoring economics. There is no viable economic left, and money is always what matters. The Transgender folks are just trying to avoid being stoned to death or given lobotomies.
Economically you won't find a single communist or actual post-capitalism socialist in American politics. There's a handful of them on Breadtube with subscriber numbers in the thousands.
Meanwhile Joe Biden, the defacto head of the Democratic party is basically a mid-1980s Republican. What passes for "The Left" in America detests him and is only voting for him because our First Past the Post, Winner Take All voting system means the alternative is fascism.
Science (the hard sciences like biology, not the soft quasi social sciences) says this person is MALE and if this person was blasted to bits in a plane crash and had to have his remains identified SCIENTIFICALLY by DNA testing, that would produce the result of MALE (as in "he" "him" "his") but left wing politics has dragged the country so far to the left that even biological scientific facts must be discarded in favor of liberal identity politics.
The hard science of sex is fascinating - much more interesting than just "male" and "female". You've got three parts: Chromosomes, genitals, and brain/behaviour. Most of the time all three match up, but there are more interesting variations. You probably know someone who, without you knowing it and without them knowing it until they get a DNA test, has XY chromosomes but developed into a woman.
It's less likely, but you may also know someone who is a chimera of opposite-sex fraternal twins who fused in
The Republicans, for all of their faults, aren't the people who are calling for laws and culture mores that unperson people for acknowledging basic biology.
The gay rights movement just called, they'd like to have a word with you. Also,
No go ahead, Tolerance Zealots, mod me into oblivion for Felony Noticing and having too much to think.
There is nothing more hilarious than someone implicitly complaining, at least in part, about those who whine they are victimized by society because their opinions are criticized, then finishing off that complaint by whining that they are victimized by society because their opinions are criticized. It's like an ouroboros of navel-gazing.
but since you're bringing up my crazies Imma gonna bring up yours.
Before that,/. is still, nominally, a science and technology forum. In the case of Biological Gender the science is settled, it's non binary. There are not only two biological genders. Gender insomuch as it's an trait expressed by a combination of genes and hormones varies wildly. The most obvious example is hermaphrodites. Less obvious are women with very high levels of male hormones and men with high levels of female ones.
That's what made Hugh Hefner rich. He's praised for the sexual revolution. He's praised.. I don't understand. He served-up underage girls to Bill Cosby. Not sexual revolution but sexual revulsion.
The most extreme stuff you can talk about is stupid shit said by people who vote Democrat is that they have a stupid phrase while respecting transpeople. Meanwhile, actual elected Republicans are cosigning on QAnon. Check your damn self and your party.
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
- Henry Spencer, University of Toronto Unix hack
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Pointing to a small splinter faction on the other side does not remove the exceptionally large stain on the Republican's honor, integrity and decency.
Re: As opposed to the activist wing of the Democra (Score:5, Insightful)
Mite vs Mote. Speck vs. Plank.
Democrats only offering is a dictatorship of the proletariat - the Lenin/Stalin thing.
Democrats tend to be better educated than Republicans [theatlantic.com] so your characterization of a "dictatorship of the proletariat" seems pretty far off base.
Republicans are a coalition of the extremely wealthy, white trash, and evangelical Christians. Two of those groups are being played by the other.
It's really strange that you accuse Democrats of seeking a dictatorship when our current president openly fawns over dictators and doesn't understand checks and balances on executive power.
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The nationalist socialist party culturally misappropriated that symbol from the Navajos and others. The Navajos were on the winning side of WW2. When will the Judeo-Christian traditional symbol the rainbow be won back.
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Now that's the type of mental gymnastics I would expect from someone with an Ayn Rand donate URL in their sig. I do find it delightfully ironic that the Ayn Rand Institute asks for donations rather than raising funds by selling goods or services on the free market. I don't think Howard Roark or John Galt would approve of accepting charity. I also think it's weird that Objectivists don't see eerie parallels between Trump and James Taggart.
But what do I know? I'm apparently brainwashed because I went to grad
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Better educated (aka went to college) does not equate to being smarter.
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Better educated (aka went to college) does not equate to being smarter.
Not in all cases, no. But in many cases it does. Most importantly, it demonstrates a willingness to learn and become better. Something that most Americans once used to value, but now many seem to devalue instead. As if not educating oneself is somehow a good thing. No wonder an idiot like Trump can become "president". It is disgraceful.
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You mean the "splinter faction" that was pretty-well represented between Warren and Sanders?
You picked some odd candidates to support your point. Those two are primarily concerned with economic issues. In fact, the faction on the left you are vocally complaining about largely disliked Sanders because he thinks that inequality can be solved through economic initiatives.
If I had to guess, you're one of those people who says Trump is alt-right, despite his habit of being pro-Jew, pro-Israel and sympathetic to the black community's concerns.
Being pro-Jew and pro-Israel are entirely different things. I know a lot of Jews and none of them support the apartheid theocracy Israel has erected. I have yet to see Trump demonstrate that he's sympathetic to the black community's
Re: As opposed to the activist wing of the Democra (Score:1)
No dude. This nonobservant Jew with an interracial daughter is going to get in bed with the bible thumpers and the climate deniers over the gender weirdos, the "writing is white supremacy" education theorists, and the "astronomy is colonial science" brigade any day of the week.
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Isaac Newton wrote some of his most important work in poetry.
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If you brand everyone slightly left of center as being just as kooky as the furthest left fringes, then why do you get so upset when those slightly right of center get accused of being just as kooky as the extreme right fringe?
You know what, I have a tran coworker. All the original parts are still there though. So what? She does a damn good job, she's polite to everyone, so why should I care? It ain't my business. Certainly far better to be hiding the dicks than to wave them around like the alpha male
Wow... just... wow (Score:1, Troll)
You clearly do not comprehend just how far "the left" has gone to the Left, and that you are trapped within an Overton Window.
You probably think yourself a sane moderate, but you have a male coworker who thinks he's a she, and cross dresses as a woman, and insists everybody else refer to him as a her.... and you automatically comply with this total falsehood. Science (the hard sciences like biology, not the soft quasi social sciences) says this person is MALE and if this person was blasted to bits in a plan
where'd you get THAT? (Score:2)
The earlier poster was the one to bring up the transgender issue. I only pointed it out as an indicator of how far the window of what's accepted as normal had been moved and how fast. I did not choose the subject. And, yes, the direction has been to the left. Did I make THAT up, or are you willing to admit that yes, as a basic factual matter, the political left advanced that position of accepting transgenderism more than the political right?
where on Earth did you get that "God hates queers" garbage from any
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What does this person being trans have to do with left or right in politics? What sort of crazy mixed up political world is that? Because we believe in a sane budget but must therefore insist that everyone wear clothes appropriate to their own sex?
I love actual hard sciences which is why (Score:2)
I take the position I do on this particular topic. As I pointed out in another post, this transgender stuff is not my particular "thing", it was introduced by the previous poster and I merely addressed it as an indicator of a shift in politically-attached politics. Since it was brought up and you have decided to fixate on it, I'll address your point, and without insulting you as you childishly tried to insult me:
Human beings have a sex. Male or Female. Determined by Chromosomes. Yeah, there are a tiny numb
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Human beings have a sex. Male or Female. Determined by Chromosomes. Yeah, there are a tiny number of people with defective genetics, but as with all genetic defects, these are not classed as normal. ... Where is the genetic, hormonal, or other totally objective, falsifiable and calibrated medical test for "gender expression"? Is there some blood, urine, or saliva test for it? Does it show up on X-Rays? I thought we here on Slashdot loved science... oh, and those of us who ACTUALLY love science and discussion are open to discussing anything without going hostile.
One man's defect is another man's variation. :-) You can define left-handedness as a defect [rd.com] and force children to be right-handed, too, but all you're going to do is create misery, so why bother?
Many of the things you're talking about are equally true of homosexuality and transgenderism, and looking at the history of the science around homosexuality is instructive.
Homosexuality was classed as a defect for a while because most of the homosexuals that doctors knew about happened to all be mentally ill, a
"The Left" isn't very left at all (Score:5, Insightful)
Economically you won't find a single communist or actual post-capitalism socialist in American politics. There's a handful of them on Breadtube with subscriber numbers in the thousands.
Meanwhile Joe Biden, the defacto head of the Democratic party is basically a mid-1980s Republican. What passes for "The Left" in America detests him and is only voting for him because our First Past the Post, Winner Take All voting system means the alternative is fascism.
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Science (the hard sciences like biology, not the soft quasi social sciences) says this person is MALE and if this person was blasted to bits in a plane crash and had to have his remains identified SCIENTIFICALLY by DNA testing, that would produce the result of MALE (as in "he" "him" "his") but left wing politics has dragged the country so far to the left that even biological scientific facts must be discarded in favor of liberal identity politics.
The hard science of sex is fascinating - much more interesting than just "male" and "female". You've got three parts: Chromosomes, genitals, and brain/behaviour. Most of the time all three match up, but there are more interesting variations. You probably know someone who, without you knowing it and without them knowing it until they get a DNA test, has XY chromosomes but developed into a woman.
It's less likely, but you may also know someone who is a chimera of opposite-sex fraternal twins who fused in
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The Republicans, for all of their faults, aren't the people who are calling for laws and culture mores that unperson people for acknowledging basic biology.
The gay rights movement just called, they'd like to have a word with you. Also,
No go ahead, Tolerance Zealots, mod me into oblivion for Felony Noticing and having too much to think.
There is nothing more hilarious than someone implicitly complaining, at least in part, about those who whine they are victimized by society because their opinions are criticized, then finishing off that complaint by whining that they are victimized by society because their opinions are criticized. It's like an ouroboros of navel-gazing.
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Ouroboros or Hoop Snake?
I know this is whataboutism (Score:2)
Before that,
And all t
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That's what made Hugh Hefner rich. He's praised for the sexual revolution. He's praised.. I don't understand. He served-up underage girls to Bill Cosby. Not sexual revolution but sexual revulsion.
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The most extreme stuff you can talk about is stupid shit said by people who vote Democrat is that they have a stupid phrase while respecting transpeople. Meanwhile, actual elected Republicans are cosigning on QAnon. Check your damn self and your party.