Interestingly enough the deniers seem to have taken the high ground. Perhaps they are craftier than you think.

I agree with just about everything you have to say about Trump, especially the lying part. He's the type of person to piss on you and tell you it's raining. I'm honestly not sure if he even knows he's lying, or if he's just a master of doublethink. Of course, most of that applies to Hillary as well

Acting like a six year old doesn't solve this problem, it just makes it that much worse. It also has the side effect of making many reasonable people dismiss your arguments out of hand.

I've gotta ask, what's up with the Trump misspellings? At least "Shrub" had some humor to it when applied to Bush, but "Drumpf" makes you sound like a six year old. (If you're going to fall back on "that was his family name once upon a time," I wonder if you still refer to the Windsors as the Saxe-Coburgs?)

Grow up. Maybe if we can start having political discourse as adults, we can do something about the absolutely toxic environment we have today.

You seem to think I'm a Trump supporter or otherwise a "wingnut." I am, in fact, neither. I'm just irritated by hypocrisy, and Clinton supporters have that in spades (to be fair, so do most Trump supporters).

But hey, in the post above, you've called me dishonest, implied I am a racist, and used the words "chicken-fucker" just because I made a pointed joke. Might want to look in the mirror next time you're thinking about how fucked up American politics are.

Remember, when someone like David Duke endorses Donald Trump and Trump says, "Who is David Duke, and why should I care?" this proves Trump is a racist. When Hillary Clinton talks about how Robert Byrd was her "friend and mentor" this also proves that Trump is a racist. See how easy that is?

What, as opposed to the Democrat families that raise the price of drugs into the stratosphere?

Blaming political parties for greed is ignoring the entirety of human history. Crawl back under your bridge.

If you can't answer this yourself, there's no helping you.

We should have known that something was up with the Cos when he asked TI to implement a ROHYPNOL command in their BASIC. After they turned him down, they took out POKE just to be safe.

Actually, Apple didn't violate the law, Ireland did. Apple is just being punished for Ireland's violation of its treaty obligations, and the punishment is giving Ireland a bunch of money. That'll teach those guys!

EU law was written by the EU. Article 50 is a mess, there was an interview with the guy who wrote it where he said he didn't bother doing it properly because he thought it'd never be used.

SETI's cost is minimal. Not minimal in the governmental "a billion here, a billion there" sense, but in the "operating budget of a moderately successful mcdonalds" sense. We spend tens of billions on all the other things on your list, so saying "that SETI money could be better used over here" is simply not a credible statement.

My company opened another office in the Houston metro, and when we were looking for locations, one of our candidates was in a new industrial park that was literally across the street from a group of multi-million dollar homes (and not in the California sense where an 800sqft shithole sells for half a mil, but in the rural US sense of a 5k sqft mcmansion on 5 acres). I had someone explain the zoning laws (or lack thereof) to me and had my mind blown. NIMBY definitely does NOT seem to be a thing down there.

It's rather mind boggling to me, but it seems to work for them.

Manhattan has three basic divisions, "uptown," "midtown," and "downtown." The financial district is contained within the geographic area of "downtown" (which starts at the Battery and has a nebulous northern border somewhere between the Village and 34th St).

You're essentially claiming that "Times Square" is not located in midtown, it's in the theater district, or that Harlem is not "uptown."

You're making a fundamental error, here.

You can't simply offset those billions of dollars against the number of jobs. You need to look at what would have happened had Ireland not made this deal to begin with. It's fair to say that Apple would never have funneled their profits through the Irish tax haven had this deal not been in place, so the question is really "Are the 6500 jobs, plus however much actual tax revenue was collected, a greater return for Ireland than not having Apple's money in the country at all?"

I don't know the answer to that question, and I won't speculate on the matter, but that's the calculation in play here. Claiming otherwise is either ignorance or bias.