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Trump's voters are at the stage of the con where they start to wonder, "Odd, I thought that nice man would be back with my watch by now."

Better still would be to beat the deniers in the next election and save our civilization.

Chances are, Trump's administration is going to be a complete shitshow and people are going to screaming for change in 4 years. It tends to happen when fanatics get unchecked power.

If the Democrats can find their spine, fight gerrymandering at the Supreme Court, and rub everyone's nose in the mess made by Trump and the Republicans, the true majority of people who care about the future can get back power and get us off carbon fuels.

You might be surprised at how easily the conservatives could win in Ontario, especially given how bad things have gone at that level. I voted for the Liberals last time, in Ontario and federally, and I know alot of other people in Ottawa and Toronto who would vote Ontario PC given the chance. The margins were very small last time, so a small shift could do it. This would be my two point plan:

- Stop the right-wing identity politics crap (gay marriage, shutting down the CBC, etc). This is unnerving and loathsome to the average voter, and the fanatics will vote conservative anyways. What else are they gonna do, vote Christian Heritage and let Wynne get in again?
- Come up with a detailed and carefully considered plan that will actually improve the economy for average people. Just saying tax cuts will do it is not enough, but if you really do make things better for everyone people will keep voting you in.

I actually think feminism is more important for our society then ever. In the US people looked at an overqualified woman and a complete buffoon of a man and thought it was a tough choice. Implicit bias was a part of this failed decision making.

You can't get over your personal biases without a correction, and the Liberal cabinet is a great example of that. People claim that having a quota would lead to picking mediocre women over qualified men, because they don't see their own biases actually give mediocre men a leg up. The result is the most professionally qualified* cabinet we've had, and certainly head and shoulders above the previous cabinet.

* Not necessarily going to lead to results, but we'll see.

This is probably the most professionally experienced and accomplished cabinet we've ever had. We have a doctor as health minister, a climate change researcher as environment minster, a former Olympian as minister of sport (granted its a BS ministry, but a good example of this pattern). This isn't to say they'll do a good job, but saying they're unskilled is nonsense.

Its even more striking to compare this bunch to the Harper gang. His ministers were chosen for being toadies and yes men. What was Joe Oliver's particular expertise? Chris Alexander? Paul Calandra? Maxime Bernier? The current leadership race is such a farce as no one knew what they were doing with Boss Harper gone.

The evening of the election I had a chance to speak to a middle aged blue-collar looking guy, who told me he had worked in paper mills.

Before any results were in he predicted a Trump victory. He mentioned specifically visiting the Rust Belt states and the abject poverty and decay he had seen in these areas (I'm in Canada, but in a major city close to the great lakes area). He seemed uneasy and not necessarily happy with the idea of President Trump.

I actually feel this is the most tragic part of the results. The people who helped swing the vote to Trump are going to bear the brunt of the damage.

Liberals aren't going to be feeling the pain. The type of white-collar professionals and well-off people who hate Trump the most are also the ones who will be most insulated from the damage. They have wealth, private health insurance, the ability to change jobs and move to a new country if things get really bad. The idea of Trump and the hard right Republican cronies he has picked up making things better for the working class or the Rust Belt beggars belief. I'd love to be wrong, but this election will have severe consequences for many of his lower income supporters.

I've been thinking along similar lines. This election is proof that the internet has made us dumber in a collective sense. Its a case of more communication leading to more disinformation and a worse decision.

Trump supporters like to claim that the media is biased, but they're consumers of the severely biased online media (Breitbart, certain places on reddit, certain blogs).

The old media has a bias, as everyone does, but they still believe in the quaint notion of true and false. Trump doesn't believe in an objective reality greater then himself. You can see in the debate where he would not miss a beat before answering with a blatant lie, because he doesn't think about his statements as being true or false. His statements are authoritarian proclamations.

I think you're onto something with the generational shift, but alot of the worst deplorables online (like 4chan) are young people, so I'm not so sure this will get better over time.

Thanks for the sane comment. I just opened this week's popular stories to catch up, and they're totally polluted by angry and paranoid Trump fans.

I'll be back when Dr. McCoy revives Kirk.

This is the last straw for me, and I fundamentally don't trust Microsoft anymore.

I wasn't crazy about Windows 10 when it first came out. Its the first Windows with monetization and spyware baked in. I also find it much buggier then previous versions, as if they have cut their testing.

The big change is they now seem to view 7 and 8 users as freeloaders and are willing to damage their experience to get them to 10. I think in Microsoft's view if you have a Windows install that isn't using their app store and seeing their ads in the start menu, you don't matter. This change is part of a broader pattern of screwing their users that started with the hard sell on Windows 10 updates.

They have altered the deal, and anyone who runs Windows now needs to pray that they don't alter it any further.

I like it as well.

Thanks!

What's your take on the comments in this thread?

Slashdot has more scientifically literate people than alot of other sites, but its been dominated by American right-wing grievance politics for a awhile now, and its only getting more extreme.

These global warming threads have been a bell weather for the site's decline. If you read one for each year going back, you see would see more intelligent comments and less denial the further back you go.

This place used to be for college-age computer geeks and STEM majors, now its for middle-aged Trump voters.