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Because America is a much more benevolent dictator than China, Putin or any other country.
Putin is not a country.
He is now. Putin is Russia, and Russia is Putin.
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#262Terry Tao recently did a post on the trump situation: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2016/06/04/it-ought-to-be-com... It is time to get serious.
I think Terry should stick with math.
Re: Trump
#263It's funny how candidates can just state problems to get people excited (e.g. Bring jobs back to America, We're getting screwed by the system, Break up the banks, etc.), and yet most people care so little about the solutions.
Even if provided a plan to address an issue, it's very debatable whether the plan would work. There's no winning, the goal post can always be moved because there are no fool-proof plans.
Having someone say "This is broken, I will do my best to fix it" is leaps and bounds better than 99% of politicians who pretend there is no problem. I will take someone who attempts and fails to fix a problem over the person saying there is no problem.
Re: Trump
#264>we're drowning in political correctness I'm always curious when people say this, what do they actually mean? Is there a specific thing happening that I'm not aware of here? In all seriousness, what is Sam referring to here?
Silencing other points of view. Safe spaces. Refusing to call radical Islam what it is.
Just a few examples.
Re: Trump
#265I'm a little shocked at how many Trump supporters are in this thread. Is Trump popular in the startup scene?
I'm going to say this - I think Trump supporters are definitely more vocal/outspoken. Kind of skews the response.
If you could see upvotes on comments here, I think you'd see a more accurate picture of support strength.
Re: Trump
#266I feel like Sam really misrepresented Trump's views, but that's expected from someone who's opposed to him.
At this point, nothing will convince me to not vote for Trump. I'm too concerned about national security and my fellow (legal) Americans losing their jobs.
Re: Trump
#267This certainly doesn't match what I've seen. All the people who think Trump is unfit seem perfectly willing to say so. All of the people who support him seem to be completely sincere in their belief that Trump would make a good president. I don't see anyone giving any indication that they think Trump shouldn't be president, but that they're afraid to say so. There is no "charade," as the author puts it. It's possible…
> and those who endorse him mostly seem to be sincere about it I really don't think that's true. Do you think John McCain actually supports Trump? I think the healthy majority of GOP politicians are unhappy with Trump, but saying that is politically dangerous.
Being happy about something and supporting something is not the same thing. It is entirely possible that McCain is not happy about Trump but prefers him to the alternative - e.g. splitting the party, losing the election, etc. The world is imperfect, and you don't always get what you're happy about - sometimes you just choose how much of the unhappy you're going to have.
Re: Trump
#268This certainly doesn't match what I've seen. All the people who think Trump is unfit seem perfectly willing to say so. All of the people who support him seem to be completely sincere in their belief that Trump would make a good president. I don't see anyone giving any indication that they think Trump shouldn't be president, but that they're afraid to say so. There is no "charade," as the author puts it. It's possible…
> Trump is the most visible and frightening symptom of a massive wave of ignorance and insecurity among the American electorate. The issue is not the massive wave of ignorance and insecurity, the issue is that those people will procreate more ignorant and insecure people and the issue will never end. We have a system where the well-thought vote of an educated person has the same value than the sensationalism-based vo…
The problem is also a lot of people think they and everybody they agree with belong to one of these camps while all people that disagree with them belong to the other, and in truth it's nothing like it :)
Re: Trump
#269Earlier quoted context omitted.
> He said that a judge of Mexican descent isn't treating him fairly, and that it is probably because of his heritage. The judge is an _American_ of Mexican ethnicity. Trump said that the judge gave unfair rulings because of the judge's ethnicity. Trump is advocating that ethnicity "trumps" citizenship, judicial duty, or any other personal and professional virtues. As Paul Ryan correctly noted this kind of essentialis…
When a judge joins a group called LaRaza "the race", a violent mexican affiliated group that burns american flags and wants to return California to Mexico then maybe, just maybe race does have something to do with the ideas that this judge espouses and hence why that judge's race SEEMINGLY influences his decisions. Surely not even you think that Trump is an actual racist, as in: he thinks mexicans are worth less as h…
You are mixing up the National Council of La Raza (a political group) with the La Raza Lawyer's Association (a professional association).
Re: Trump
#270Earlier quoted context omitted.
the issue is that those people will procreate more ignorant and insecure people and the issue will never end. Highly procreative undereducated underclasses have long been a staple of American life. Give people enough resources and opportunities, and they will often better themselves. What you are seeing is what happens when you economically squeeze people.
> Give people enough resources and opportunities, and they will often better themselves. The paradox is that giving people resources and opportunities is the wisdom behind left-wing politics, the opposite of what Trump and the Republican party represent...
The government does not create resources. Giving people resources means taking resources from people, passing it through enormously vast, complex and ever expanding bureaucracy and then giving whatever is left to the those that the bureaucracy deemed worthy. This is the wisdom behind left-wing politics, and I think it is only natural it does not look particularly wise to some. Adding to that huge amount of regulations, red tape, prohibitions and compliance demands, which drain resources and foreclose opportunities for many while benefitting few or nobody at all - and the wisdom becomes even more elusive.