Twitter flags Trump's 'racist baby' tweet with manipulated media label

[Bp968]

#1 Corporations swiftly and viciously punish racism, sexism, homophobia and anything else that hurts their bottom line.

#2 Corporations are more aligned with globalism than nationalism which is the reason why so many companies can declare "Black Lives Matter" without worrying about boycotts from Nationalists. Those people are a minority on a global scale.


#3 The Free Market is Free only when you can keep government out.

#4 The Holocaust was only a conspiracy theory to anti-semites. For everyone else with an IQ higher than 6 - it was a fact.


#5 I'm always wary of anyone who attempts to downplay the existence of racism or White nationalism when there are White NAtionalist/ racist groups who absolutely show up for protests, carrying signs and pamphlets to absolutely say that they do exist, recruit others, claiming they stand for White Nationalism and they are absolutely arming themselves for a race war.

It's like someone trying to tell me the Loch Ness Monster doesn't exist, only for the Loch Ness Monster to show up and say "yes I do".

Globalism is turning out to not be what we thought it was. Without at least some government intervention in the free market we get highly nationalistic countries like China who blatantly manipulate the system by funding private companies to run at a loss, ignoring environmental costs or risks, stealing IP, and just plain playing "unfair". And its a problem when that unfair play risks entire US industries (or EU, or whomever).

#5, I'm pretty sure he isn't implying that "white nationalists" don't exist, just that they are a tiny fraction of the population and in no way do they represent the views of even a minority of the country. He's responding to the current mentality of "agree with 100% of what I say or prepare to face the consequences!". Ive seen so many instances of nice people saying nice things that simply were not "woke enough" and then being attacked and tracked down on social media with SJW attempting to destory their businesses and careers. That sort of digital stalking and digital mob justice needs to be criminalized at this point. I think people just hoped it would eventually go away and instead the opposite seems to have happened.

And he's right. The right has never been the bastion of free speech and its general ideals were usually well described with the "conservative" label. Most of the voting base was happy with the way things were or thought change needed to be carefully considered, and often prefer the "rule of law" even to an excessive level (ie, war on drugs etc).

While traditionally the left or "liberal" side was more about free speech and often about personal freedom (though not in all situations, but that's another post). Yet the modern "liberal" or left/democratic party is decidedly anti-liberal or illiberal. The new left wants to censor any speech, thought or activity that doesn't perfectly align with their current ideology. And that should scare people.

Im a conservative that believes the US can afford and should implement nationalized healthcare, that we can afford a stronger social safety net, and that the war on drugs is a terrible failure and that a private prison system and the "plea bargain" system of "justice" is broken. But I also strongly support an *individual* right to firearms and a strong 2nd amendment. So where do voters like me go? Since both parties are so polarized all candidates are expected to vote with the party so no one is willing to be anything but in lock step with the party. That means that even in a rural conservative state if I vote for a Democrat im also voting for laws cooked up in san Francisco or LA or NYC that don't work in rural life. We need to be able to vote for candidates that fit our region again and get out of this left/right nonsense. Until then a huge swath of the country is going to be totally unrepresented and forced to vote for candidates who are simply "less bad".

Polarization doesn't benefit us peons down at the bottom. We think it makes us stronger because it feeds into the base tribal instincts of humanity, but its really just the cage owners tossing garbage into the pen so they can laugh and watch the dirty animals tear each other apart over the scraps.

 

[Evernessince]

Try to remove the electoral college and you'd immediately start a civil war, a brutal bloody war that the left would loose but the loss of life would be dramatic. The president elected after the college is gone would be illegitimate period the end, no red blooded American would support such a move. The college's purpose is to prevent mob rule, and to give smaller rural states just as much significance. Without it all that matters is the big cities and then laws will be changed that harm rural America to benefit the city dweller. You don't want country folks laying seige, they'd obliterate city people.

The Troubling Reason the Electoral College Exists

The Founding Fathers had something particular in mind when they set up the U.S. presidential election system: slavery

time.com

The electoral college was put in place because of slavery, plain and simple.

You seem to be forgetting that the senate still exists. Every state gets an equal 2 senators. That's with the fact that the senate wields a tremendous amount of power.

Look at american history and the quality of the presidents who won the electoral college but lost the popular vote. It ain't a pretty picture.

 

[p51d007]

How does one ignore their own hands?



I don't think you know what the words Marxist or communist mean. There is nothing about the BLM movement that fits either of those tags. It appears you are simply throwing around buzz words used by right-wing extremists to dehumanize those of opposing viewpoints.

It is amazing to me how disconnected from reality the internet makes people.

BLM founder Patrisse Cullors, reassures an old communist that she understands that the goal is to destroy freedom in the United States — “we’re trained Marxists.”
Really important to understand what he’s asking and how she answers. He wants to know, are you guys actually committed to the issues you discuss — or are you committed to total revolution?
She answers pretty clearly the latter — “Black Lives” are merely the issue of the moment.
It’s long been the key question for communists. If you’re just in this for higher wages, reform, etc., you’re no better than a trade unionist. You’re not committed to toppling the system, and you’re not to be trusted.
Her answer “we’re trained Marxists” is meant to reassure.

 

[candle_86]

The Troubling Reason the Electoral College Exists

The Founding Fathers had something particular in mind when they set up the U.S. presidential election system: slavery

time.com

The electoral college was put in place because of slavery, plain and simple.

You seem to be forgetting that the senate still exists. Every state gets an equal 2 senators. That's with the fact that the senate wields a tremendous amount of power.

Look at american history and the quality of the presidents who won the electoral college but lost the popular vote. It ain't a pretty picture.

That's revisionist history your spouting, it was implemented because smaller states refused to join without that clause. At least for them to remove it would require 3/4 of all states to ratify a change to the Constitution which will not happen so I guess the left can keep dreaming. Face it killery lost, California and New York should not be who picks the president. America is not, and never will be a democracy, you where lied to in school, we are a federal republic.

 

[Evernessince]

That's revisionist history your spouting, it was implemented because smaller states refused to join without that clause.

You do realize the two are not mutually exclusive right?

 

[treetops]

Try to remove the electoral college and you'd immediately start a civil war, a brutal bloody war that the left would loose but the loss of life would be dramatic. The president elected after the college is gone would be illegitimate period the end, no red blooded American would support such a move. The college's purpose is to prevent mob rule, and to give smaller rural states just as much significance. Without it all that matters is the big cities and then laws will be changed that harm rural America to benefit the city dweller. You don't want country folks laying seige, they'd obliterate city people.

I'd guess most people would rather use the popular vote. And do not understand how it currently works. Most states get heavy right or left ads but not both. The money is really spent on battleground states. So half the pop will always be pissed. City populations are vast and have SOME crazed psycho killer looking homeless. Not to mention the junkies. Wouldn't that be a fun game city vs country. Different junky powers, retard strength for inbred units. Lol bears vs hungry homeless. Homeless decimating crops. Homeless traps baited with malt liquor. Or a sandwich. Lumber jack units that randomly get picked and dropped off by UFOs. Sometimes with upgrades. Sometimes missing a leg, old etc. Bigfoots horn, a horn made out of a bigfoots skull, summons big foot to fight your enemies until he dies or runs away can only be used once per round.

 

[candle_86]

I'd guess most people would rather use the popular vote. And do not understand how it currently works. Most states get heavy right or left ads but not both. The money is really spent on battleground states. So half the pop will always be pissed. City populations are vast and have SOME crazed psycho killer looking homeless. Not to mention the junkies. Wouldn't that be a fun game city vs country. Different junky powers, retard strength for inbred units. Lol bears vs hungry homeless. Homeless decimating crops. Homeless traps baited with malt liquor. Or a sandwich. Lumber jack units that randomly get picked and dropped off by UFOs. Sometimes with upgrades. Sometimes missing a leg, old etc. Bigfoots horn, a horn made out of a bigfoots skull, summons big foot to fight your enemies until he dies or runs away can only be used once per round.

I think your confused, first thing country folks would do is share food among their neighbors while upcharging cities and food companies, instead of say 50 cents per ear of corn think 500 bucks per ear. Rural folks aren't stupid despite what morons in a city think. First they'd cut off the food supply, then they'd likely start knocking out power delivery lines and posioning the water supplies feeding big cities. I've heard plenty the people I grew up with in the small town I'm from say excatly how to subdue a city. Starve them, turn off their power, posion their water, setup check points 20-30 miles outside of big cities and seize shipments of fuel or food being trucked in. These are the average rural Americans, they spend their free time hunting and trapping.

 

[candle_86]

You do realize the two are not mutually exclusive right?

I realize that places like Wyoming or Oklahoma would be ignored if the mob got to elect the president. I've heard the mobs ideas for rural America, and it comes down to forcing rural Americans to bend to their will and supply them, one idea I read a few months ago was making those farmers have to grow food for city people and send it for free, arguing the farmer doesn't have a right to charge for food he grows. I've also heard them saying to end ranching ect. So no the only intent was for smaller states. What your thinking of is the 3/5 compromise, the slave states wanted more electorial collage pull and more representatives to counter the north, so they got each slave to be counted as 3/5 of a man for deciding votes, but that's not the electoral college, that's called the 3/5 compromise, and that was racist.

 

[Angga B]

Of course it's a manipulated media, because it's a satire, an irony, a parody, a meme.

This only prove Twitter , cnn, and every single people who cheer are one tracked mind npc who can't understand meme. And very proud of it.

 

[Adi6293]

ANTIFA is the real key to BLM.

It was always said that when poor whites and poor Blacks joined up they'd be unstoppable.

Well now I present you with Generation Y Millennials and Generaztion Z who are mostly unemployed/underemployed, lacking healthcare, deep in debt and generally "not doing well" do to the dual economic crises which not only have cleaned them out, but their parents as well.

America is ripe for political upheaval.

And it's not moving in Trump's direction. The Radical Left simply has to vote in November to oust Trump and then show up again to reclaim the House and Senate combined.

Obama won by an overwhelming 9,000,000 votes in 2008 which shrank to 5,000,000 against Romney. Hillary WON by 3,000,000 but lost to the technicality of the Electoral College. The first objective of the Democrat majority should be to eliminate the electoral college. No more Trump. No more trumps ever.

And then your country goes to ****, Democrats are a disease

 

[QuantumPhysics]

And then your country goes to ****, Democrats are a disease

After we oust Trump the butthurt will be Legendary.

 

[Adi6293]

After we oust Trump the butthurt will be Legendary.

I don't even live in the US of Israel anyway

 

[candle_86]

After we oust Trump the butthurt will be Legendary.

Except you won't, America doesn't want a pedophile for president, but remember you also thought killery would win.

 

[arrowflash]

Posting in this article just to remind myself to see how well some comments will have aged in a year.

 

[wiyosaya]

#1 The Free market is ALWAYS right.

I agree with you that money equates to power; IMO, it has surely been the predominant way for a long time now.

As I see it, that money equates to power is the crux of the problem, though. We will never know whether some starving individual somewhere in the world has or had the capability to become the next Einstein because they lack the ability to explore their own potential.

The way I see it, this also prevents people in general from exploring their own abilities, and as such, it hampers them from getting what they need in life to survive. In short, we have a situation where people pretend to be what they are not for survival because they have to.

Enter fakebook and other "social media". It gives some a voice; however, in doing so, it exploits them because it is entirely profit motivated. To me, fakebook and other social media outlets are a symptom of a deeper problem and that is, essentially, that everyone in the modern world is reduced to their personal value being dependent on the amount of money they have.

Part of this, as I see it, has lead the pursuit of excess. No matter how much some have, it is never enough. There are those out there who want more, more, more and do not care what or who is stepped on in the process. People over fish, hunt, cut lumber, etc., etc., no matter the effect on future generations. Food waste, that is food thrown in the garbage, in the US has reached something like $240 billion a year. https://www.usnews.com/news/healthi...aste-240-billion-in-food-each-year-study-says
IMO, that is yet another symptom of the pursuit of excess and is totally insane.

I am willing to bet that there are those out there that also pursue excess because they have no other choice but to do so to survive.

IMO, this need to change. Humanity needs to figure out how to be more equitable with each other.

 

[QuantumPhysics]

I agree with you that money equates to power; IMO, it has surely been the predominant way for a long time now.

As I see it, that money equates to power is the crux of the problem, though. We will never know whether some starving individual somewhere in the world has or had the capability to become the next Einstein because they lack the ability to explore their own potential.

The way I see it, this also prevents people in general from exploring their own abilities, and as such, it hampers them from getting what they need in life to survive. In short, we have a situation where people pretend to be what they are not for survival because they have to.

Enter fakebook and other "social media". It gives some a voice; however, in doing so, it exploits them because it is entirely profit motivated. To me, fakebook and other social media outlets are a symptom of a deeper problem and that is, essentially, that everyone in the modern world is reduced to their personal value being dependent on the amount of money they have.

Part of this, as I see it, has lead the pursuit of excess. No matter how much some have, it is never enough. There are those out there who want more, more, more and do not care what or who is stepped on in the process. People over fish, hunt, cut lumber, etc., etc., no matter the effect on future generations. Food waste, that is food thrown in the garbage, in the US has reached something like $240 billion a year. https://www.usnews.com/news/healthi...aste-240-billion-in-food-each-year-study-says
IMO, that is yet another symptom of the pursuit of excess and is totally insane.

I am willing to bet that there are those out there that also pursue excess because they have no other choice but to do so to survive.

IMO, this need to change. Humanity needs to figure out how to be more equitable with each other.

You point out “food waste“ so I will use that as an example.

The free market has ways of punishing wastefulness. If a grocery store orders too much of a specific type of food and it starts to go to waste them the grocery store is going to lose profit.

What will happen is a “correction” where the grocery store will decide to order less of a specific type of food because they know it is going to waste. That will allow them to be less wasteful and it will also allow them to earn more profit as they sell their food. It will also allow the grocery store to become more efficient because they will use their space more wisely to stock food that doesn’t go to waste. Grocery stores may decide to have more fruits then vegetables or more vegetables then fruit depending upon what kind of population they cater to.

The free market is not wasteful. The free market is highly efficient and the free market is also highly profitable. What is not highly efficient, profitable or tends to be quite wasteful is government.

I’ve said this before: if the free market did not like Facebook or did not like Twitter then the free market would abandon them and go on to something else just like we did with myspace.

The problem is that there is no competitor right now and when a competitor does arise the larger companies buy out the smaller companies.

The only way to avoid this from happening is for the smaller company to resist a buyout. The other issue that I have is that social media services are really “data mining operations” and the people themselves are so stupid that they are willing to give their personal, private and sensitive information to these companies with little thought about how they could possibly suffer a consequence.



What ultimately needs to happen In order for there to be a “correction“ is that Facebook has to make a huge mistake and hurt a lot of its users in order for them to finally decide to abandon it. The same goes for Twitter and other social media services.

It’s also important to remember that when you’re dealing with almost 8,000,000,000 people that there is a market for just about everything. There are still people on myspace. They are still people who eat shark fin soup. There are still people out there who eat beets and other vegetables or fruits that I would never touch.

 

[candle_86]

I agree with you that money equates to power; IMO, it has surely been the predominant way for a long time now.

As I see it, that money equates to power is the crux of the problem, though. We will never know whether some starving individual somewhere in the world has or had the capability to become the next Einstein because they lack the ability to explore their own potential.

The way I see it, this also prevents people in general from exploring their own abilities, and as such, it hampers them from getting what they need in life to survive. In short, we have a situation where people pretend to be what they are not for survival because they have to.

Enter fakebook and other "social media". It gives some a voice; however, in doing so, it exploits them because it is entirely profit motivated. To me, fakebook and other social media outlets are a symptom of a deeper problem and that is, essentially, that everyone in the modern world is reduced to their personal value being dependent on the amount of money they have.

Part of this, as I see it, has lead the pursuit of excess. No matter how much some have, it is never enough. There are those out there who want more, more, more and do not care what or who is stepped on in the process. People over fish, hunt, cut lumber, etc., etc., no matter the effect on future generations. Food waste, that is food thrown in the garbage, in the US has reached something like $240 billion a year. https://www.usnews.com/news/healthi...aste-240-billion-in-food-each-year-study-says
IMO, that is yet another symptom of the pursuit of excess and is totally insane.

I am willing to bet that there are those out there that also pursue excess because they have no other choice but to do so to survive.

IMO, this need to change. Humanity needs to figure out how to be more equitable with each other.

Your forgetting a key point, motivation. Under an everyone gets equal chance and equal share why should I then put forward my best effort. Under socialism I have no reason to give any effort, my paycheck is what motivates me to give 110%, knowing I'm making myself valuable, but if everyone gets the same money and items I do I have no reason to continue to give 110%, I could be unemployed and still be fine under your world view. That's why a free market matters, the industrial revolution happened because one guy wanted to undercut another guy and make more money at the same time. The computer revolution happened for the same reason. If those are taken away as motivators there is no more reason to innovate.

 

[PEnnn]

Under socialism I have no reason to give any effort, my paycheck is what motivates me to give 110%, knowing I'm making myself valuable, but if everyone gets the same money and items I do I have no reason to continue to give 110%, I

And you know that for a fact? Have you lived in those countries??
You really have no idea what Socialism is.

And I bet you don't have a clue to the difference between Socialism and Communism (hint, they are not identical or exchangeable!).

Are you really sating that all workers in Germany, Britain, Sweden, France or Norway (surprise, they are socialist countries!) ALL earn the same salary, whether they work hard or just hang around the coffee machine?? Go ahead and ask around.

I strongly suggest doing your research before stating patently wrong opinions and fabricated misconceptions on public forums. Ignorance is very embarrassing.

 

[candle_86]

And you know that for a fact? Have you lived in those countries??
You really have no idea what Socialism is.

And I bet you don't have a clue to the difference between Socialism and Communism (hint, they are not identical or exchangeable!).

Are you really sating that all workers in Germany, Britain, Sweden, France or Norway (surprise, they are socialist countries!) ALL earn the same salary, whether they work hard or just hang around the coffee machine?? Go ahead and ask around.

I strongly suggest doing your research before stating patently wrong opinions and fabricated misconceptions on public forums. Ignorance is very embarrassing.

None of those countries are socialist, they even asked Americans to stop using them as an example of socialism, they are a capitalist society, and the programs they do have are being downsized because cost are higher than they are gaining from taxes. A socialist country would be Venezuela.

 

[PEnnn]

None of those countries are socialist, they even asked Americans to stop using them as an example of socialism

Like I said, do your homework and stop embarrassing yourself.
And feel free to provide some verifiable facts to your ludicrous statements.

PS: Fox News entertainment info for simple minds does not qualify, in case you want to provide supporting evidence.

 

[candle_86]

Like I said, do your homework and stop embarrassing yourself.
And feel free to provide some verifiable facts to your ludicrous statements.

PS: Fox News entertainment info for simple minds does not qualify, in case you want to provide supporting evidence.

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Sorry Bernie Bros But Nordic Countries Are Not Socialist

As much as liberals like to use Nordic countries as examples that socialism and successful societies can co-exist, the reality is that these countries are not socialist, or even farther along the spectrum toward socialism than most other developed countries.

www.forbes.com

Do your homework next time please.

 

[PEnnn]

Do your homework next time please.

You discovered Google, congratulations!

This does NOT sound like Socialism to you??

From Wikipedia:
The Nordic model comprises the economic and social policies as well as typical cultural practices common to the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden).[1] This includes a comprehensive welfare state and multi-level collective bargaining based on the economic foundations of free-market capitalism,[2] with a high percentage of the workforce unionised and a large percentage of the population employed by the public sector (roughly 30% of the work force).

Does the above resemble anything like here in the US??

 

[candle_86]

You discovered Google, congratulations!

This does NOT sound like Socialism to you??

From Wikipedia:
The Nordic model comprises the economic and social policies as well as typical cultural practices common to the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden).[1] This includes a comprehensive welfare state and multi-level collective bargaining based on the economic foundations of free-market capitalism,[2] with a high percentage of the workforce unionised and a large percentage of the population employed by the public sector (roughly 30% of the work force).

Does the above resemble anything like here in the US??

Your forgetting they are rolling back some programs as costs are to high vs tax dollars, your also forgetting they pay 45-70% of their income as tax. It won't work here, the reason they are rolling back is the immigrant crisis in Europe, we already have a much larger crisis here, it would require taxing everyone at 70-80% which is unacceptable. At that point your basically working to pay the government to take care of your lazy neighbor. I find that entire notion offensive, what I earn is mine, I don't appreciate the 20% tax I already pay out of my paycheck. I would rather work for cash under the table than increase my taxes and pay for non citizens to have assistance. I'd also prefer if we ended welfare assistance for those that can work but choose not to.

It is not my responsibility to provide my neighbors a decent wage, health care, transportation, or food. If they want these things let them earn it just like I do. This goes double for immigrants.