I think that anyone, regardless of race, creed, religion, etc, will always have a job publicly supporting the existing power structure.

Isn't that an amazing step forward in egalitarianism? Such a short time ago, someone like her would never have been accepted, no matter what her political views. Pretty cool, eh? Nah, just kidding. Let's keep blaming everything on "white men" LOLZ

So, the problem seems to be that Americans are doing it. And America is wrong to try to seek advantage for itself by denying others. Moral relativism at its finest.

Almost. You've got that backwards, though.

They spy on those who declare themselves enemies of the US government. A lot of "human rights" groups use their status as a shield. Fun fact: did you know that Amnesty International started life as a group whose mission in life was to give aid and comfort to the Soviet Union, and to cause trouble for America whenever possible? Totally true.

In fact, a lot of what both nations did was illegal under their own laws. People had to be told quietly to break the laws, and these orders were never written down. Of course, the two regimes were different - The New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for covering up the left-wing regime's genocide.

"Responding to criticisms that he and Khrushchev did not do enough to expose Stalin's crimes, former first deputy premier Anastas Mikoyan reportedly said: "We couldn't do that because then everyone would have known what scoundrels we were."

That, too, is the difference between Communism and Nazism: the Communist scoundrels understood who they were because they realised the gulf separating them from the ideals they revered; the Nazis liked being scoundrels - that was their ideal."
-- Alexander Mekhanik, Rossiyskaya Gazeta

It's taking over the brains of those who participate 24/7 in, for lack of a better word, might be called the Twittersphere. I'm not condemning Twitter in general, but the entire weltanschauung of the situation that people like Maryanne Wolfe live in. Anyone who doesn't exist in this false world (i.e. most of humanity) doesn't have this experience at all. They're able to read deep texts, and you bet your ass they'll be ready to supplant these feeble minds in the future.

The really scary part is that these Twitter minds lack the ability to see outside themselves. If it happens to me, then it happens to all of humanity. After all, all the people I know are in the Twittersphere, and that's the whole world...or at least the world worth knowing. Because if Maryanne Wolfe can't do it, that means the human brain is changing. Sad...but then again I find myself understanding why civilizations that have everything fall. It comes from taking it all for granted and neglecting the first principles that got us here...like realizing the world has an independent existence outside of you and your little buddies.

"One of the things I have always found troubling about Westerners doing business in emerging market countries is that they sometimes take an almost perverse pride in discussing payoffs to government officials. It is as though their having paid a bribe is a symbol of their international sophistication and insider knowledge. Yet, countless times when I am told of the bribe, I know the very same thing could almost certainly have been accomplished without a bribe."
--Dan Harris, chinalawblog.com

If journalists were not so reliably despicable, I might have some sympathy with this position.

But no, I've just checked, and...nothing. Fuck them.

Correlation does not equal causation. Repeat this until you understand it. Darwin weeps to see science misused in this way - although as a Texan, you dumbasses have never understood science anyway.

Nah, it was a branding change. Global Warming got too much bad press and was in danger of being discredited, so it was rebranded to Climate Change. Sort of like how Arthur Andersen changed its name to Accenture after being convicted in the Enron scandal, or Liberals changed their name to Progressives to avoid the whole "destruction of the African-American family" guilt.

Isn't it funny how left-wing regimes get excuses? The moment they begin abusing their people, they're magically no longer left-wing. Strange, eh? It's a remarkably reproducible result. It's almost as if people want to make excuses for tyranny in order to not discredit left-wing thought...the same thought that inevitably leads to tyranny wherever it is tried.

First of all, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a left-wing regime, not a totalitarian regime, so let's just set that straight right off.

Second, DPRK doesn't listen to China. Their officials have been down for talks, which basically amounted to "Dude, you totally have to ditch the whole Marxism thing, it's bullshit and doesn't work. Do the free market thing! Seriously, you'll get filthy rich! We all did, come on and follow us!"

The DPRK was not into that at all. They'll keep their left-wing government, thankyouverymuch. They prefer self-destruction to abandoning their beliefs. One should admire such dedication - this is what has kept Cuba the success story it's been since 1959.

How did it take until version FOUR to do something as mind-blastingly obvious as take a screenshot? Even Windows has been able to do this as far as I can remember.

...except when science disagrees with Progressive fixed ideas. Then, suddenly, science is subjective and depends on the biased ideals the scientists don't realize they have. Just look at research on intelligence and culture. A lot of studies simply aren't taking place because the results will be politically unacceptable. But still, progressives tell themselves they're on the side of science. Sad, really.

It would have been great had Batista been replaced with a democratic government. Instead, Cuba got worse. At least Batista was an idealogical blank. Look up what Cuba did to black Africans. It ain't pretty.

If you're the same kind of "UI expert" that screwed up Google Maps on Android, I can safely say we don't need any of that crap and that OSS is doing fine. The problem is that you have a flawed metric for evaluating what's "right" and "wrong".