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This isn't Reddit.
That's too bad that you lack a sense of humor. Try looking in lost-and-found.
No, what you are saying is simply unfunny.
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> He has given no indication of encroaching on civil liberties You mean, except for that part where he mentioned that he wants to strengthen the [non-existent] libel laws, so that "press can't get away with lies about me"? Or his early remarks on Muslims? Surveillance etc? > A 'mild' social conservative totalitarian might roll back laws on gay marriage, abortion etc. - but Trump hasn't mentioned it at all. Now we're…
1) " he wants to strengthen the [non-existent] libel laws, so that "press can't get away with lies about me"?" The press has called him out for his lies - but they have also blatantly lied about him - and others. There is nothing 'totalitarian' about being able to sue someone for printing lies. 2) You're blaming me for having 'alternative facts' when you're inventing them? The video indicates that 'campaign trail' Tr…
> I'd argue you're making up facts if you think Trump has any plans to press the abortion issue in any meaningful way. There will be zero legislation.
He literally already has signed an executive order about it.
'Donald Trump has signed an executive order to ban federal money going to international groups which perform or provide information on abortions.
'The US president's order shows he "wants to stand up for all Americans, including the unborn," his press secretary Sean Spicer said.'
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#313While I love 1984, I think Fahrenheit 451 has become more true than Orwell's novel. People have willingly given into an information bonanza that is the internet, with headphones always in (seashells). We don't need the TV walls, as our cellphone has taken that role, altogether with the hyperactive delivery of such content. A collectivist state has not become the dominating power, but wealthy individuals and corporati…
Indeed. In addition to your points, Orwell has to do with both an overreaching left (thought crime) and right (surveillance state). The government even associates itself with socialism. That being said, it's not a stretch to imagine that it takes two successive and opposed politicians to set up and orwellian state. Trump would set up the surveillance state (as he threatens to do), and some future authoritative Democr…
> Trump would set up the surveillance state
I'm puzzled by this comment.
The US surveillance state was set up prior to Trump.
Is anyone still doubting the complete slurping of everything the TLAs (Three Letter Agencies) can get?
It wouldn't matter who the President was right now, this thing will march on.
Maybe it's convenient we get to lay some of the blame on DJ Trump. That's all.
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his team is very much making many of the small policy decisions while Trump gets to strut out as the figurehead. Which is pretty much exactly how you would expect a "I have no idea what I'm doing but I don't want to fuck it up so I'll fill my cabinet with people who know what they're doing and let them do their thing" administration to work. >Not to mention his poor demeanor, his lack of likeability, his unpopularity…
>>Which is pretty much exactly how you would expect a "I have no idea what I'm doing but I don't want to fuck it up so I'll fill my cabinet with people who know what they're doing and let them do their thing" administration to work. Sorry, but have to actually seen his cabinet? Ben Carson heading Housing and Urban Development. Betsy Davis heading Department of Education. Rick Perry, a guy with a bachelors degree in a…
So many people in positions of authority are the least qualified.
Trump, and his advisers, picked people whom he could manipulate.
I do believe in a lot of what Trump promised though. A lot of us felt left out of this new economy, or taken advantage of? Yes--the better health care insurance was fine, but if your close to being homeless, it doesn't matter.
That said, if the appointment of Rick Perry doesn't prove that wealthy, lucky kids will eventually be the boss; I don't know what will? (He supposedly didn't understand the basic concept of a simple centerfuge? He didn't understand the concept of the spinning machine, and what it could be used for?)
I grew up with wealthy kids. I grew up in Marin County. A lot of you will recognize the county. It's the county your boss might be eying on their short list.
All those kids, even the kids who ruined their minds in college ingesting too many drugs, are doing well right now. That generational money got to them.
Hacker News doesn't like to bring up just how much money, and inside guidance helps a person, but in my world it's a law.
What are qualification anyways? I'm sure all these appointees have glorious looking resumes.
I think everyone of you has looked at that inept boss, and wondered, "How on earth did he/she get there?"
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Yeah I guess to you breaking the Foreign Emoluments Clause in the Constitution is nothing. And its funny you say that when that is exactly why they impeached Clinton.
The argument that Trump is breaking the emoluments clause by (for instance) having foreign governments paying market rents as tenants in his building is ridiculously thin. Here's the real trouble with these ridiculously exaggerated criticisms of everything Trump: there's nowhere to go from here. By the time Trump actually does something bad, everyone will be totally immune to the constant wailing, it will be impossib…
Well said. I wish others would stop typing the same things over and over to read some informed comments such as this instead.
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#316Kind of ironic given Bush and Obama were the ones to expand the surveillance state, Hillary demonised the shit out of Russia to try create an enemy/scapegoat, and here Trump is, only a few days in power, not having done anything particularly bad. Also, I should add - for Democrats out there who keep trying to compare Trump to Hitler, say he's fascist, etc... That weak rhetoric is what gave you guys your worst electio…
If you think Trump did nothing bad then you missed the last 24 hour news cycle. Hillary is a little old lady who ran for president a long time ago so I'm not sure why you brought her up. And also an outsider here, but I've seen Republicans call Obama a lot worse things then Hitler. So apparently weak rhetoric works well on the right.
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#317Kind of ironic given Bush and Obama were the ones to expand the surveillance state, Hillary demonised the shit out of Russia to try create an enemy/scapegoat, and here Trump is, only a few days in power, not having done anything particularly bad. Also, I should add - for Democrats out there who keep trying to compare Trump to Hitler, say he's fascist, etc... That weak rhetoric is what gave you guys your worst electio…
If you think Trump did nothing bad then you missed the last 24 hour news cycle. Hillary is a little old lady who ran for president a long time ago so I'm not sure why you brought her up. And also an outsider here, but I've seen Republicans call Obama a lot worse things then Hitler. So apparently weak rhetoric works well on the right.
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#318Orwell was an optimist.
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No, "Despite its members being appointed by parliament, the committee is a private body tasked with awarding a private prize" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Nobel_Committee
Yea, I know that's the official line. But it would be fairly easy for a lawyer to argue otherwise.
That is what lawyers get paid for, but no attempt to impeach Obama was made for accepting the Nobel peace prize which indicates any such argument would have no chance of succeeding, would not be valid.
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Do people really want him to get impeached and convicted, with Pence being the successor? Seems like a terrible idea...
Yes Pence is at least a sane conservative theocrat Trump is a lying corrupt racist who is extremely unpredictable and may or may not blow up markets, start wars, abandon our allies, or deport millions of people
>Trump is a lying corrupt racist
Whenever I read something like this, I always wonder whether people posting it legitimately think this kind of rhetoric will advance their argument, or is it all just about social signalling.
If I was to criticize someone with the intent of changing others opinions about the person in question, the last thing I would do is interject my criticism with a bunch of derogatory and emotional labels. It would simply make me sound biased, irrational or extremely partisan/dogmatic.
And yet, this is exactly what people do, even in the media, who has all kinds of incentives to project a rational and detached image. Extreme social signaling is the only explanation I can come up with.