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Why are all the articles about Beto about how cool and antiestablishment he is? Just absolutely nothing about what he really intends to do, how he intends to do it, and most importantly, how do we reconcile his conservative voting record with this contrary image he presents?
He's nice and all, but can we go back to electing Presidents who have had lots of executive and political experience ?
What, was being an elected congressman not enough?
Whether the software/services for he founded in 1998 and ran until...sometime before March 2017 is lots of executive experience is debatable, but it's certainly not particularly large scale executive experience for a Presidential candidate.
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Though some Presidents have served as house representatives in their past, none of them made the Presidency without doing something else in between their house service and winning the presidency. https://history.house.gov/People/Other-Office/Member-Preside...
Still satisfies the stated refrain of "having political experience", but an interesting historical factoid nonetheless.
The request was for candidates with “lots of political and executive experience”, not merely some political experience.
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If /ˈbɛ.toʊ oʊ.rɔːrk/ was R he would be buried on "TacoLand" alone.
What's with the strange serialization? Does that mean something I'm not aware of?
What ? I didn't think Beto could be more cool after his punk band and skateboarding "scandals". I really really hope he wins the nomination.
He named his BBS "TacoLand". He should definitely play up this angle...maybe campaign on a taco cart on every corner. I know people who will vote for him for that alone. This piece is a disaster. It's an excerpt from a soon to be released book, it's light on facts about O'Rourke and is at least equally about Cult of the Dead Cow, it's trying to make things sound more nefarious than they were, and it's playing the gui…
I think "TacoLand" has a meaning that could be awkward. The food can be a metaphor for genitalia or for the attached humans. For example a tacofest, much like a sausagefest, is a gathering in which one sex is greatly overrepresented compared to the other. Meat goes in a taco. So, one can guess what was featured on his BBS.
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> ~80/90s hackers aren't really the same thing as most post 00 hackers. Yeah, no hackers from the 80s and 90s ever had any bad intents. /sarcasm
The meaning of the word has changed somewhat; it was mostly about curiosity and exploration in the 80s/90s. Less of the economy was reliant on computers so there wasn't much crime to commit beyond mere unauthorized access. Heck, "2600: The Hacker Quarterly" could be found on the magazine rack at Barnes & Noble back then.
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The government can't exactly ban chemistry textbooks, can it? Anyway, for this type of censorship to be effective to prevent dissemination of knowledge, it would need to happen before distribution, and prior restraint is generally considered unconstitutional in the US, except in matters of national security. National security could likely include planned troop movements and nuclear weapons manufacturing procedures (a…
There's a pretty big difference between a chemistry textbook on the one hand, and a step by step layman's guide on how to make a bomb, avoid detection and so on on the other. And then of course beyond that you can go into progressively more dangerous weapons. Would a guide to building IED's with shaped explosives fall under the protections, for instance? I was just watching a documentary yesterday about Iran taught t…
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Exactly; this is why we frequently get such lousy candidates winning in the primaries, who then go to the general election for everyone to vote on.
I tend to credit the two party system for there being a general lack of good candidates who make it into the general election with only two having more than a remote chance of winning.
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A single sentence in an otherwise glamorizing and embellishing article does not a anti-Beto piece make. That sentence doesn't even read as not pro-Beto to me, either. It's more of a neutral "this guy is really cool, but is he cool enough?" rhetorical.
"wrote a murder fantasy in which the narrator drives over children on the street" doesn't sound particularly pro-Beto to me?
In this case, it seems the best way to play it was to just cut to the chase. Summarize it as brutally as Trump could and just be the first to say it. Get it out there so that an opponent can't ride it's energy.