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Comment Don't let them keep taking new symbols (Score 1) 495

The real, the biggest problem with this is letting the far right take new symbols and corrupt them. Drinking milk, pictures of Pepe the frog, the ok symbol, etc.

The swastika is basically beyond redemption today but it was one of the first stolen - thieved from the Romans along with the eagle and the imperial salute to the Emperor and a lot of other imagery and so on.
That salute became the nazi salute but it was once also a common pagan symbol used to greet the sun every morning. - Not many pagans doing the 'nazi' salute to the morning sun today.

Sometimes it does go the other way, the EU flag looks almost exactly like the circle of stars of the US nazi party flag. But then we could joke about the EU having dictatorial Hitlerian tendencies itself. (Imagines a line of children doing the nazi salute to the EU flag while the Ode To Joy plays in the background.)

Comment Re:ADL has a clue; many slashdotters not (Score 1) 495

They sold Kek and Kekistan to the right wingers.. Most of the far right are fundamentalist Christians, Kek is an ancient Egyptian god of chaos and war, a frog god.
Everything about Kekistan was effectively a spell - written by a Satanist - to summon Kek.

Just absorb that a moment. They sold about the most anti-Christian thing ever to a load of fundamentalist idiots.
Their campaign to support Trump was only because they thought he would end up starting world war three. (God of war and all)

Its all for the memes really.. The trolling and the lulz. (And no I'm not one of them, I just got too curious and looked at 4chan a little too closely. Jibber.)

Comment Re:prisons? dorms? mp3 players (Score 1) 309

Why not just torture one random inmate a week.

Stop using the toilet. Go poop in the corner like a beast.

If it's good enough for the White House, it's good enough for prison.

This whole presidency is a dirty protest. They will be hosing down the walls for months afterwards. America may never recover.

Comment Re:It's prison, not a spa (Score 1) 309

You don't even need to do time for that to happen in America today. The middle class is shrinking every year now. In another few decades a few thousand families will have 99% of the wealth in this country and the rest of us will be little more than modern day serfs.

But that's what the people voted for.

Comment Re:Pressured to proceed despite poor test results. (Score 1) 284

Real AI is hard, very hard, and when it gets things wrong it can kill people. The other problem with it is that simply throwing money or huge teams at it isn't enough, there is a serious shortage of competent experts - and that's even for ordinary weak AI. For strong AI (what cars ideally need) the number of even half competent experts is next to zero. We know this because there is not a single working true strong AI machine in the world. Yet. :)

Comment Re:Really getting old (Score 1) 389

"Nazism was a nationalistic belief in a master race and the belief that all other races must be eradicated."

Ironically your cartoon version of Nazism is something a Nazi propagandist would be proud of. As a generalization Nazism is a useful stereotype to label people who are indoctrinated to a belief system and show total intolerance for other modes of thought or belief systems. In that context the SJW feminists definitely are Nazis.

In truth the real problem is that so many is the SJW movement show signs of high levels of indoctrination. - They psych themselves up to high levels of anger and rage, exactly the same techniques the Nazis used to indoctrinate the Germans into loyalty to Hitler. I'm not speaking as an outsider I was once one of those people (an activist) to my shame, but I got older and more cynical and was lucky enough to escape the lie.

The right are wrong on most things - but so very often are the left.

And BTW saying that you believe in equality between men and women puts you closer to many of the modern anti-feminists than the Third Wave SJW feminists who don't want equality but female supremacy.. And 'female' BTW only includes women who agree with them.

Comment Explorer Needs this so Desperately.. (Score 1) 154

What an incredibly good idea. Explorer so desperately needs this. - I know I'm an idiot for using Explorer - couldn't even really say why I ended up then kept using it. Should switch to Chrome - seems much better now than when I last tried it.. Used Netscape for decades until a year after it finally closed - then used Sea Monkey for a while, then somehow found myself using Explorer - despite all its flaws.

Fixing the resource stealing by malware adds and poorly written web sites would fix most of Explorers worst flaws..

Comment Re:Bad assumption (Score 1) 297

As long as you ignore the FTL region that is true. Look above the speed of light and you have two theories in direct contradiction.
- Quantum mechanics forbids complete determinism - the equivalent of the Earth orbiting around the sun.
- General Relativity requires total determinism for the universe to exist - that Is more like the sun orbiting around the Earth.
Know what? there is tons of evidence for the quantum model, there is absolutely zero proof for the general relativity model. There is virtually nothing in the whole of pseudoscience that has less empirical proof than the FTL region general relativity. However millions of otherwise well educated people everywhere go on believing in dimensional time as if it was real.
How do I know this? well I figured out how to replace general relativity with an absolute frame model. I'm only an 'amateur' so no one was interested..

Comment Re: The U.S. government is planning bigger wars. (Score 1) 297

Oil and coal kill over 2 million a year, over the last 75 years that totals to well over 100 million. But that is nothing compared to climate change which is set to kill up to 5 billion people (out of 10 billion). Compared to those numbers every mass killing in modern history disappears as statistical noise.

The best way to reduce the numbers killed by climate change is pre-emptive population reduction - under that scenario even a global nuclear war net saves lives. (eg kill one billion save three billion)

Cheery stuff.

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