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Comment selective bias (Score 1) 162

By the numbers, there are less than 100,000 people belonging to any group listed as a "White Supremacist" group in the US. Or less than .03% of the population. Many of those are not "actual Nazis", but even assuming they are it's not a very big or dangerous group and has not grown by any stretch of the imagination. Yes, they have a Constitutional right to voice their opinions and people believing that we all have Constitutional rights is correct and legal, not incorrect.

Conversely, there are approximately 500,000-1,000,000 members of antifa and blm (hard to get actual numbers from any source but these seem realistic based on activity). This group has been growing because people on the left don't call them out. They are not voicing an opinion, they are a violent group who breaks the law regularly. I, and people on the "Right" (which is strangely anything right of Trotsky today) support their right to speech but denounce calls to action of violence which is illegal. They are marxist thugs, who's primary position and purpose is destruction.

In your own words, you and people on the left are at a minimum less-brave marxist thugs. We could say however, that your silence about this group which hovers on the terrorist watch list is being supported in many ways by the left. At least the white supremacist groups get negative media coverage and denounced by every politician ever asked about these groups.

Comment Re:Good grief! (Score 1) 162

You mean like the zealots on the left who believe that anyone that disagrees with them is a nazi, homophobe, xenophobe, Islamophobe, racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic misogynist right? That is what I was thinking too! Those people have an ideological belief which is rather dangerous. They should be exposed!

Comment Re:Good grief! (Score 1) 162

My reading is just fine, perhaps your writing and ideas are the issue. Example: Your claim that the right is anti-science. This is exactly why we need debate and a free exchange of ideas, because the left eat least just as guilty. If you don't know it, then you are living in a bubble devoid of facts that harm your beliefs. If you do know it and still want to stifle debate, you are an authoritarian who believes that you should be able to control what people think.

You then go off into the weeds bringing up points about teaching which have nothing to do with my post. Can't use your noggin? Mkay..

Comment Re:translation.... (Score 1) 501

People disliked Obama for facts. The left dislikes Trump for hyperbole and any allegation one of them thought could carry water for a half step or more. Obama _DID_ associate and meet with domestic terrorists, known communists, and dictatorships which hate America. That is quite different from some claim "Trump is KKK because 'dog whistle'" which the left is using today. (dog whistle today means anything to today's left, and no longer has a relationship to code words. Code words like those coined by the Left's KKK party from the early to mid 1960s, or the Left's Jim Crow laws, etc...)

Comment Good grief! (Score 1) 162

A huge part in learning and discovery is to see what is wrong. We learn by trial and error from birth. When we want attention, we make lots of noise. When we want a different type of attention, we smile. We learn that if nobody is looking, they can't see the smile so we learn to make vocal sounds to get their attention and then smile. We learn that 2 apples and 2 pears is not 89 pieces of fruit, it's 4. And no matter what types of fruits we count, addition always works. Seeing right and wrong, or correct and incorrect, is how we not only learn, but learn to inquire.

Has a couple thousand years of Religious doctrine and wars not shown you that silencing dissenting opinions is not just a bad idea, but a hopeless endeavor? Ideas, both right and wrong, always make it to inspection. The fastest way to kill off bad ideas is by exposing them for review, because this is how humans learn and grow. The fastest way to propagate bad ideas is by making it taboo. Companies that make money selling information do a disservice by censoring. The fact that they may be "legal" to do so is quite beside the point.

Do you see now why people like you, and with similar mindsets to you, have created a generation of kids all f&$ked up in schools? Do you see why we are regressing instead of progressing in education? Probably not, but I have to try.

Comment almost (Score 1) 247

There are plenty of jobs outside of being an IT Engineer, many of those remain technical. If it is not your career choice, do like you did and move into something else. Sure, there are 10 engineers for every manager. Architecture probably has 50-100 engineers under them, program development maybe the same, etc... If you grow and continue to provide value to a company, you probably will have a job regardless of your age.

As with _any_ job you won't be able to make a career doing 1 thing. You being a Dentist have to adapt to every customer, and if you want to run your own Dentistry and grow your company you need to learn marketing and branding in addition to new procedures, new equipment, understand staffing issues, understand training issues for staff, etc... So if you are working toward your own independent practice, you want into marketing and management whether you like it or not. Just not in IT.

Comment Re:translation.... (Score 1) 501

The list of countries where people actually get to vote is pretty small. And I mean where they actually have any influence. For example, people in the DPRK vote for their leader. The people in Cuba "vote", Russian's "vote", Indian's "vote", etc...

Trump being President, whether you like him or not, shows that American's have far more influence over their system than even they thought. He won every State needed to become President, and then some. Even with all the cheating and shenanigans he pulled off a win against an entrenched career politician.

Comment Cherry picking? (Score 1) 62

or maybe selective reading? The fact that Windows gets pirated does not mean that there is no legal recourse for Microsoft when they catch people pirating. In fact MS does have legal recourse, almost exclusively in "the West". MS does not have open legal access to sites in China to inspect, they get the access they are given by the Chinese Government and pay the fines agreed to by the Chinese Government instead of the penalized fees seen in "the West."

I think you are vastly underestimating the value of Windows Source code. There are plenty of things I don't use, don't like, and don't recommend (including Windows) that have value to other people. Hell. I don't find value in designer clothes, pedigreed pets, or fad foods. Enough people do though, so there are plenty of businesses making money from them.

I'm betting that same statement would be true of you as well, though you may not admit as much.

Comment Re:That's what's good about critical thinkers (Score 1) 234

Don't accuse others of your own crime. You are cherry picking pieces of a Religion I did not mention, as well as cherry picking bits of a Religion (Judaism) which are not followed even by Orthodox Jews. Go back to my original premise and your flawed logic is very clear. Not only do you fail at basic Philosophy, you fail at basic logic. Grats on being a double moron I guess.

Comment Re:That's what's good about critical thinkers (Score 1) 234

Cherry pick and ignore reality much? There are very small sects of Religions that hold those beliefs among Christians, and even in the Jewish religion those are held by mostly Orthodox Jews.

Back in the day those were parts of reality. A huge number of the populace was hungry and didn't know you had to cook stuff, leading to massive amounts of disease and illness. Most Religions have updated beliefs accordingly.

Comment Re:That's what's good about critical thinkers (Score 1) 234

Religious moral codes are completely arbitrary. They are based on the pronouncements of one person or a small group of people, but they have no causal relation to what actually promotes human lives.

Really? Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bang thy neighbors wife have no benefit to human lives? Are you high, or delusional?

Most religious moralities conspicuously ignore the needs of human beings and proclaim that the purpose of man is to glorify God: if stupidity and hatred of mankind could be solidified into one sentence, that is it: "The purpose of man is to glorify God."

Basic psychology, did you fail or skip the course? If you honor and respect the rule makers, you tend to respect the rules. If you honor and respect the "one" rule maker and see him as infallible, you don't tend to question the rules. Contrarily, if you disrespect the rule makers the rule of law collapses (see History).

A proper morality starts by identifying the nature of human beings, and from that organizes a set of principles of behavior which will result in an objectively observable high quality of life for people. Science plays a role in helping to identify what humans are and what's good for them. Fictional creatures play no such role, and people who claim that fictional creatures play such a role often make life worse.

Yeah yeah, good luck convincing the people with low IQs of your science. I guess you skipped Intro to Philosophy too and have no frigging clue what the "Noble Lie" is. (Hearing a phrase does not mean you have any wisdom of the meaning.) Also note that you ignore the premise I gave regarding the Religion as a starting point. *yawn*

Attributing to lack of religion the mess that was 20th century Russia and China reveals a superficial and biased reading of history.

China is still an atheistic mess, and Russia has actually been improving since allowing some level of Christianity. Ignoring that squashing religions is a basic tenet of Communism is blatant bias to promote an ideology despite history showing how damaging that ideology is. (Not past tense, check the world map).

Comment Re:That's what's good about critical thinkers (Score 1) 234

Your first claim is false, so I won't bother. Go back and read my statement again.

Your second statement is false. Read a History book, look at China who banned religion. Look at countries with no Religion, or Religions which lack moral principles.

Your last claim is another false assertion, followed by utter bullocks. I never stated that Religion created Utopias. I stated that societies with a strong religion containing high moral codes are better. The Law in the US (including the Constitution) is based on Natural Law which aligns very well with Christianity.

Yeah yeah, the Westboro Baptists are the "normal" for Christians. I know the propaganda routine.

What will your next set of false statements be I wonder...

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